Aide: Political Logic of Angering GOP Base Over Immigration So Close to Midterm Election "Baffling"

Reaganite Republican ^ | 25 January 2014 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

"Do we really want to just give up the midterms like this?"

If you thought the poorly-skippered GOP ship was already way, way out there -cast adrift far from what most anybody I know is calling for-  yet still expected them to at least 'play' conservative (and say stuff that actual conservatives like to hear) in the run-up to this year's 2014 midterms, you'd have been right on the first point... but wrong on the second.

See, the RINO-corporatists that run the Republican Party today have dropped all pretense of giving a rat's ass what you think... they've actually come right out and told us they and their crony-capitalist allies will spend million$ just to shut us the hell up. 

Not only do they not want to deal with -nor hear a peep- from the right anymore, Boehner/McConnell/Rove et. a. are making it abundantly clear through their actions and words that they don't even want Tea Party default votes (cast with a clothes pin on our nose)... because if they succeed in ramming-through the new RINObama pseudo-amnesty plan they and the Chamber of Commerce are all jazzed about, conservatives are going to shun this party in droves- staying home on Election Day just like they did(n't) for Romney, and then some.

But there are a few principled constitutional conservatives around these days, and they -along with anybody else in the House interested in maintaining the US of A as a viable concept- are quietly putting an alternative plan/defense in place that would stop John Boehner's threatened scheme for immigration reform -one reportedly far to the left of anything Republicans have proposed previously- and offer a sensible alternative -with nothing like amnesty- instead:

Breitbart- ...conservative critics of Speaker John Boehner's planned immigration push are working to issue their own rival immigration principles to vie with the document Boehner is drafting. “There is definitely a growing mood of confusion and aggravation among conservatives in the House over the immigration issue right now,” 

The building backlash could create for a tumultuous 3-day retreat next week as Republicans gather in Maryland to plan the party's future. Upping the pressure, a key outside conservative today requested access to the retreat to brief lawmakers on the issue. 

Top GOP officials, meanwhile, are becoming bolder in their embrace of immigration reform. House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) emerged Thursday to discuss how House GOP leadership plans to bring immigration legislation to the floor, while on House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)--the third highest House GOP leadership official--endorsed "legal status" for illegal aliens on Wednesday. 

At a recent Tea Party convention in S Carolina, conservative lawmakers expressed anger at Boehner's plan to push immigration reform after opponents seemed to stave off the effort last year.

 “I don't know why in the world House Republicans would move on immigration legislation in 2014,” said Representative Jeff Duncan of S Carolina. 

Representative Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma said securing the border is a far more urgent priority than discussing the citizenship of illegal aliens in the U.S. because of the savage violence at the border.

“We have on the border of the United States 100,000 dead bodies just south of our border,” Bridenstine said. “We focus on Syria because that’s where the president wants to focus, while we have a crisis on our own southern border. And it’s because we have an insecure border.”

Let's hope this madness from the Gee Oh Pee establishment can be stopped-dead in it's tracks... because with any substantial legalization of 

millions of 3rd-world immigrants, Republicans can kiss the Oval Office goodbye until the Sun goes supernova...

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[KGeorge]

Is it (baffling)? They know that most of us would never vote for the crazies & we’ll vote because we don’t dare not vote. They get to suck up all the perks & the corruption, either way. (They’ll just go to work for lobbyists if they get voted out. Or retire, handsomely)

We need new, *conservative* people if we have to drag them in off the street.

[Guenevere]

Bttt

[Guenevere]

Bttt

[tennmountainman]

Some of you have already walked away from the GOP. If these hacks pass
amnesty, that will be the last straw. Tens of millions of conservatives
will walk away from the GOP for good.

[VRWC For Truth]

Dialing for $$$.

[B4Ranch]

“Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” (David Rockefeller, p. 405

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.” — David Rockefeller - New World Order globalist

“Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective – a New World Order – can emerge. . . Now, we can see a New World Order coming into view. A world in which there is a very real prospect for a New World Order. . .A world where the United Nations, freed from a Cold War stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders.” — George H. W. Bush told the U.N. on September 11th 1990

[crusher]

The Rebuttlickin Party has never been, is not now, and never will be the natural home for conservatism. There had been odd moments, namely the Coolidge and Reagan Administrations, where they were congenial to conservatism, but not much any other time.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Tellin it like it is. I am sending my rep an email with similar sentiments that he needs to pass on to Boehner and his merry band of RINO sellouts at that retreat.

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[fr_freak]

Some of you have already walked away from the GOP. If these hacks pass amnesty, that will be the last straw.

The GOP as a party has already died. The parting of ways between conservatives/patriots and Republicans is all over but the crying. I live in California. When it comes to the war of ideas, I have taken a different tack in recent years: when I talk to Democrat voters, I tell them that Republican voters are abandoning the GOP at record rates because the GOP no longer represents the conservative base. Then I tell them (and none of this is BS - it's all true) that the Democrats have also abandoned their liberal base. None of the Democrat Party members are for greater freedom or defense of ANY values - they are for the power of the government, but the Democrat voters are lagging behind the conservative voters in figuring out that their party has betrayed them.

[VerySadAmerican]

When the republicans become such a minor party, what will Rove do for a living? His services will not be needed by either party.

[null and void]

Ahhhh the wonders of having a nice fat NSA file on one’s political enemies....

[fr_freak]

The [Republican, come on] Party has never been, is not now, and never will be the natural home for conservatism. There had been odd moments, namely the Coolidge and Reagan Administrations, where they were congenial to conservatism, but not much any other time.

I would agree, but only because I think that political parties, themselves, are antithetical to American conservatism. Somoe of the Founding Fathers warned against them from the beginning. Eventually, it always becomes about the power of the party rather than the people they serve.

[null and void]

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

[grania]

Even if you vote against amnesty, I will vote against you if it passes

I agree with you; that has to be our attitude. Why? It would've only taken 17 (or so) conservative votes to stop Boehner from being Speaker again. If the numbers of HOR reps that were elected to stop the invasion of the US couldn't do that, there are only two possilities. Either they have no leadership or they're frauds.

I wouldn't be astounded if the puppet masters who are trying to keep control of the Republican Party haven't decided that they'd rather lose control of the HOR than to support constitutional conservative principles.

[Nifster]

the GOP now a days seems to find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

[bmwcyle]

It does not matter. The payoffs are good and they still get retirement and health care.

[Mike Darancette]

I don’t think that they will do anything on immigration except maybe border security & e-verify as starting points (throw in Dream ACT).