Posted on 03/09/2015 5:04:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Oh my goodness, the 2014 election victories didn’t end the war! You mean the progressives are still out there dreaming of a future full of hugs and goosestepping? You mean the GOP Establishment hasn’t just given up its power and knelt before us, begging to be forgiven for its craven crony corporatism? You mean the fight’s not over?
No, the fight’s not over. So stop whining that you can’t go back to sitting on your rear end – we have a long campaign ahead. I know you’re tired. I know you’re frustrated. And I don’t care.
Some people want to throw in the towel just as we are approaching the knockout. News flash: Our opponents punch back. Time to take the hit and drive on.
We’re winning, only we haven’t won yet. So pick up your (figurative) weapons and follow me. The fight’s up ahead, and we’re going to keep moving to the sound of the guns.
Writer Brian Cates has the right idea. Jolted into action by Andrew Breitbart, as so many of us were, he watched conservatives win in 2010 and things marginally improve. Then 2012 moved us backwards. Then 2014 moved us forward again as we retook Congress. Then, last week, he watched Team Boehner and McConnell roll over on immigration funding after utterly botching their strategy in a manner that would make the French Army proud.
So, like all of us, he had reached a decision point. His options: Give up or fight on. In a brilliant series of tweets, collected here, he chose to fight on. (Hat Tip: Glenn Reynolds)
Yeah, the GOP stinks. Yeah, there is a contingent within the GOP that prioritizes its own power and position over conservatism. Well, welcome to human nature – a certain percentage of human beings simply suck. You can cry about it like Nancy Pelosi at a Bibi speech or you can man-up and deal.
The only viable strategy is this – complete the seizure of the GOP’s infrastructure, turn it completely conservative, and then go and defeat the liberals. And that’s hard. And that won’t happen overnight. And we’re going to be disappointed – probably a lot. But the alternative is to cede the country to the liberal fascists who want to force us to live in carbon-free huts, steal our sacred Constitutional rights, and peer into our bedrooms lest we commit felony cisnormativism.
I’m not willing to let that happen. What about you?
Understand that if you quit now because your widdle feewings got hurt cuz you didn’t win a particular fight means you have quit on America. Suck it up and drive on – I don’t care if you’re sad, mad or frustrated. Your feelings mean nothing. Fight.
I didn’t title my book Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009 – 2041 because I thought we would have this all wrapped up last November.
I’m a military guy, so I deal with the facts as they are, whether I like them or not. And here are the facts:
1. We conservatives have made huge, undeniable strides since 2010. There are more conservatives at every level of government except the presidency than there have been in a century. That’s tangible progress we can’t just fritter away.
2. At this moment, the GOP controls Congress, not conservatives. But the GOP is more conservative than it was, and every election it gets more so. We have fired many RINOs. We will fired more. No, they aren’t all gone yet, and because they are the Old Guard they, by definition, hold positions of seniority. But the next stop for people with seniority is the pasture – they are going away, slowly but surely. In a decade, McCain, Hatch and a bunch of other pseudo-cons will be just a vaguely troubling memory – and the generation coming up behind them is decidedly unsquishy.
3. There isn’t going to be a third party. The GOP has an infrastructure that is powerful, that is effective, and that we need to take over to use to promote conservatism. We can’t build a third party from scratch without giving the liberals the country for a couple decades, at the end of which our third party is likely to be outlawed anyway.
4. We are outworking, outthinking and outbreeding our withered, hateful, failed opponents. They are defending the status quo, and who is happy with that? The trends go our way. Look at the loser they are wheeling out in 2016 – an elderly, hypocritical cryptolibfascist email-shredder reeking of corruption and decay, whose satyr of a husband will undermine her by nailing every tramp he can get his gnarled paws on from now until election day. Bring her on. Oh yeah, we’re ready for Hillary.
5. In 2016, we are likely to nominate a conservative. Establishment darling Jeb Bush’s innovative strategy of alienating the people who actually vote in the GOP primaries is failing. He’s a loser. The only people excited about his candidacy are squishes who can write million dollar checks, Democrats and their mainstream media catamites, and Jeb Bush himself.
Victory is in sight, yet the pouters have to come out every time we don’t slam dunk a win and start their defeatist muttering.
“Oh, I’m sick of being fooled by the GOP!” Well, if the GOP fooled you, then you’re a sucker and an idiot. What would possess you to trust people who are not as conservative as you to be as conservative as you? We’re using them because at this moment we need them. We can often compel them through fear of our votes to hold their nose and vote our way, but ultimately we need to replace them and that takes time and effort. Until then, we need to deal with GOP noodle-spines with our eyes open and with a whip and a chair in hand.
“I’m never voting Republican again!” You tool. You just promised to actively support the destruction of our country and Constitution. That’ll show ‘em! You know, after liberals hear that kind of loser talk they want to cuddle and have a cigarette.
“The Democrats and Republicans are exactly the same!” Don’t be stupid. Obama is on defense because we took the Congress. Yeah, he’s pushing the envelope of the Constitution, but at the margins. His hopes for new grand fiascos? Gone. Sure, President Failure can make an executive order here and there, but cutting funding for, say, the FCC or the IRS to stop noxious executive actions doesn’t have the horrendous optics of defunding the Department of Homeland Security. By the way, if Team Boehner and McConnell are so tactically inept that they thought it was going to work to threaten to defund the entire DHS, why would we imagine they are tactically savvy enough to beat us over the long run?
I don’t want to hear about how hard this fight is. I don’t want to hear how sad you are. I want to hear how you went out and replaced that time-serving hack on your local GOP central committee.
Stop whining. Our country is at stake. This is going to be hard. Too bad. Now ruck up and move out.
I don't buy this conclusion at all. In fact, I'd say the GOP is more liberal than at any time since Reagan was elected. That said, I do agree we should not give up the fight and the primaries is where the battle will be fought. However, if Jeb Bush is the nominee I have no intention of voting for him.
Calling me stupid is not the way to convince me.
Neither do I. He's trying to talk all hard-core SpecOps Ranger, but the truth is, he's delusional.
“I’m a military guy, so I deal with the facts as they are, whether I like them or not. And here are the facts:
1. We conservatives have made huge, undeniable strides since 2010. There are more conservatives at every level of government except the presidency than there have been in a century. That’s tangible progress we can’t just fritter away.”
One: The military, as the premier PC group of my life time and for most of my lifetime isn’t the most impressive citation for “seeing the facts as they are”
Two: “Fritter” is EXACTLY what the GOP has been doing since they racked up all of those impressive wins everyone is always talking about. They got what they wanted; they got into office. They haven’t “punched” anyone back.
Amen brother. Amen
You are telling like it is. Unfortunately many conservatives are of the mind set to ignore your wisdom and continue on a course of division that will elect Hillary
Good article.
“But the alternative is to cede the country to the liberal fascists who want to force us to live in carbon-free huts, steal our sacred Constitutional rights, and peer into our bedrooms lest we commit felony cisnormativism.”
So how do we fix it? Hey,here is an idea. Let’s nominate a liberal Republican who will be loved by the media until he gets the nomination and during the general will be labeled to the right of Ted Cruz.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Fact is, the RINO’s haven’t learned while the Conservatives warned them.
“Unfortunately many conservatives are of the mind set to ignore your wisdom and continue on a course of division that will elect Hillary”
Please clarify. Do you mean we shouldn’t hold our newly elected real conservatives’ feet to the fire—or that they should just suck it up and go along with bonehead and mcconnel?
The purely political fight is over, at least the traditional politics. The fight now, if it is still to be fought is in the States and for the Article 5 Convention. If enough states call for the Convention then the real fight begins because the FedGov will move to stop the convention and then the Constitution will be at least in hiatus as everything we have thought of as being Constitutional and Legal will be cast aside. Then we either fight or prostrate.
Regardless of how many conservatives are in the government, or even if the President will be conservative, if the balls cannot be mustered to eliminate most of the government agencies and briefly increase the unemployment rate by a couple of million government workers, we will have gained nothing but the concentrated power that exists now in the system. We will have merely changed the gang that rules albeit to a more friendly-to-our-side gang.
He means get up and get busy - really busy, not just peck, peck on the keyboard busy. If you don’t know how to work a campaign, find out. If your precinct chairs are worthless, run against one of them.
We haven't won every battle yet, but surely we've won enough to keep us on the field!
Yes. I liked the article, too.
Every time Boehner or McConnell or Roberts caves it's a little like deja vu. I can't help but wonder what the other side has on them.
Sorry but my opinion is that the best way to let the left have their way is to give blind allegiance to the Republican establishment.
And the fight will NEVER begin.
The GOP is dead, Jim.
This from a person (K.S.)who supports Homosexuality in the U.S. military.
The fact is we have a majority in both houses of congress, but our senate majority has enough quislings to make that point moot.
We HAVE to have a conservative POTUS in 2016 to undo the damage of the past 6 years. If we lose then it will be all over, because we would lose the senate at the same time.
The statement had more to do with the conservative masses than elected representatives.
The representatives will be encouraged to act to obtain the most conservative outcome possible. Politics is the art of the possible.
Regarding the national, the presidential race, there is tendency to demand a degree of conservative purity that is probably impossible to obtain in a national candidate. Ted Cruz is has wonderful conservative credentials but is lagging the field. There is a tendency to gut good conservatives like Scott Walker and Dr Ben Carson simply because they do not conform 100% with the idealized candidate.
Since there is not total conformance with the standard these candidates are bitterly attacked in attempt to promote the perfect candidate that is lagging.
Then, they abandon all because what is perceived as purity is lacking. Rather than play, they take their ball and go home sulking all the way
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