Divide and conquer.
OLD AS THE HILLS.
Dear Reince Priebus,
I swear and affirm that should Jeb Bush become the GOP nominee for President, I will sit home and will not come within 500 feet of any polling place on Election Day.
Sincerely,
I, for one, will never support Yeb.
I don’t believe this stuff. You can’t claim that the “GOPe” is a bunch of incompetent, bumbling fools in one breath, then claim that they are masters of cunning and deceit in another. That’s cognitive dissonance.
LOL! You’ve got the “splitter” strategy backward. Think 2008, when John McCain’s personal friend, Fred Thompson stole all the conservative oxygen from the air. Or 2012, when Ron Paul savaged the somewhat more conservative Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum while letting the socialist Romney skate.
This parade of ass-hats you mention aren’t going to steal any conservative votes!
Great link.
This all is really amazing that Jeb! is not anywhere near the front of the pack after he supposedly had it wrapped up and Hillary was looking forward to running against her "brother."
I can remember back when Nixon and Kennedy ran against each other, and I remember when Goldwater ran, but this that is happening right now is squirrelly, to say the least.
The GOPe is catatonic. We should all rejoice.
Jeb and Crispy are my line in the sand.
Those are Establishment candidates, though. How does that help Little Jebbie?
It appears that we are faced with the reality that the Republican Party is obeying O'Sullivan's First Law:All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.. . . the reason is . . . that people who staff such bodies tend to be the sort who don't like private profit, business, making money, the current organization of society, and, by extension, the Western world. At which point Michels’s Iron Law of Oligarchy takes over — and the rest follows.
IRON LAW OF OLIGARCHY:First defined by German sociologist Robert Michels (1876-1936), this refers to the inherent tendency of all complex organizations, including radical or socialist political parties and labour unions, to develop a ruling clique of leaders with interests in the organization itself rather than in its official aims. These leaders, Michels argued, came to desire leadership and its status and rewards more than any commitment to goals. Inevitably, their influence was conservative, seeking to preserve and enhance the organization and not to endanger it by any radical action. Michels based his argument on the simple observation that day-to-day running of a complex organization by its mass membership was impossible. Therefore, professional full-time leadership and direction was required. In theory the leaders of the organization were subject to control by the mass membership, through delegate conferences and membership voting, but, in reality, the leaders were in the dominant position. They possessed the experience and expertise in running the organization, they came to control the means of communication within the organization and they monopolized the public status of representing the organization. It became difficult for the mass membership to provide any effective counterweight to this professional, entrenched, leadership. Michels also argued that these inherent organizational tendencies were strengthened by a mass psychology of leadership dependency, he felt that people had a basic psychological need to be led.