Posted on 09/02/2015 8:02:24 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
For many years now grassroots conservatives have grumbled that the Republican establishment in Washington views them with contempt. Rarely has that contempt been displayed as brazenly as it was on this week’s episode of Fox News Sunday.
During the show’s panel discussion, columnist George Will and Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute in particular showed how GOP bigwigs view their base. Will started the banter by suggesting that the popularity of insurgent GOP candidates was tantamount to “primal scream” psychotherapy where voters are venting their frustrations by backing political newcomers over their more traditional rivals. Brooks seconded Will’s thesis and said,
“This is a low information, high entertainment, high protest moment…Republican voters always aggregate up towards this kind of mainstream person…Republicans always come back. They came back to Mitt Romney.”
Show moderator Chris Wallace, playing devil’s advocate, sounded like the only conservative in the room when he said that voters “aggregating” back to Romney and McCain was precisely the problem, that they were not the right candidates to support.
The message coming from these movers and shakers in Republican politics was quite clear: Go ahead, you unsophisticated rubes. Have your temper tantrum and spend your summer getting excited about these non-politicians. When the rubber meets the road and primary season starts for real, you’ll come to your senses and support a pragmatic, country club Republican who values compromise and “reaching across the aisle” to our esteemed Democrat colleagues. The result will be the continued growth of Big Government and furthering our once-great nation on the glide path to oblivion.
Perhaps there is a more accurate way to analyze the GOP’s Summer of Discontent. Namely, that the conservative base has seen their party’s presidential nominees offer up weak, centrist campaigns that only served to propel Bill Clinton and Barack Obama into the White House.
The GOP base took matters into their own hands during the last two mid-term elections by sending Democrats packing and replacing them with Republicans who promised to fight Obama’s transformational change. A few of these people refused to join the Beltway cabal in Washington, most notably Ted Cruz with his challenge to McConnell, but far too many succumbed, then gave endless excuses why they couldn’t keep their campaign promises.
The party elders who share the views on display on Fox News Sunday will not just give up control of the party to the fed-up masses in flyover country. Control must be taken by refusing to elect the same tired party apparatchiks.
One thing is certain: abandoning non-career politician outsiders and “aggregating” to the media-approved candidates is the surest way to keep America in decline. Voters should ignore the advice of the conventional wisdom that has led us directly to this point. Based on the poll numbers of the non-DC-insiders, the public is sending a stern message.
A useful result of the Trump campaign is more people getting a look at what the GOPeunuchs really think of them. Congress leaders Boozer and Bitch are classic examples of the “right kind” of GOPeunuch politicians.
They know we will hold our noses and vote RINO in 2016. Or will we....?
Your list is the list of outsider candidates.
GOPe gruntings does not interest me..
They know we will hold our noses and vote RINO in 2016. Or will we....?
You mean for TRUMP?..
“You mean for TRUMP?..”
I’m hoping Trump, Carson or Cruz make it to the top, I will cast my vote proudly then. I have my doubts that anyone but a RINO will be the nominee. I hope I’m wrong.
Overwhelmed by his own self importance
Hey GOPe we’re breaking up with you.
Quit crying and get on with your life.
I just found out, tonight, that Carson supports amnesty.
“I just found out, tonight, that Carson supports amnesty.”
Yes, and he says that “if only WE could make the Central and South American countries “better places,” that the people there would stay home!”
What a flucking Einstein! And so Ben, whose money are you going to use to create those “better places,” and how are you going to “convince” all their despotic leaders that they need to come to Jesus?
+1,000
BTW I still accept that Trump MAY be a fraud. But I know the GOPe IS a fraud.
Carson just came out for AMNESTY.
Trump has not fooled me once yet. The GOP long ago fooled me twice and now it is in the triple digits.
Nope.
Wow!
I will cast my vote proudly then. I have my doubts that anyone but a RINO will be the nominee. I hope I’m wrong.
My thoughts too.. BUT I’m whining like a love lorn feral cat..
Agreed. I’m not a Trump fan but sometimes the old structure cannot be saved by renovation and must be completely razed to build the new in it’s place. Maybe Trump can help with that process.
““This is a low information, high entertainment, high protest moment…Republican voters always aggregate up towards this kind of mainstream person…Republicans always come back. They came back to Mitt Romney.” “
Not this time, asshole.
George Will. He sure got a purty mouth.
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