Posted on 01/31/2012 9:45:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
At some country-club golf course recently, Speaker Boehner, Haley Barbour and the Bain Capital and banking wings of the GOP probably devised the plan that is now under way: Ron Paul, get on the program behind Mitt and stop talking down wars. Sarah Palin, stop referring to the GOP establishment as Stalinesque. Tea Party members: shut up and get behind the former liberal governor of Massachusetts. Conservative movement, cool it. So what if our nominee was the godfather of ObamaCare?
The French say, apres moi, le deluge. The white-shoe, country-club, establishment Republican leaders will be pressuring in unison after Florida, saying to the right, the Tea Party, Ron Paul and Sarah Palin: be good little boys and girls because we own this party, not you. The post-Florida deluge of pressure is coming, with the appropriate suspects in the media class chanting with the GOP establishment, for about the third time in this campaign: it is over, children, the Romney takeover of the conservative conscience and the Republican Party is done.
Mission accomplished.
Don't believe it.
To the Ron Paul people: they don't get you, because you actually believe in something.
To the Tea Party people: they just humor you, but regard you as nothing more than peasant soldiers for the big money in their house of lords. When they tell you they hate Obama as much as you do, they think they can fool you, condescend to you and ultimately pressure and force you to submit to the Romney takeover. Though Romney, in truth, is the antithesis of everything you believe the GOP should stand for.
To the conservative movement: they get you, in fact. They know you hunger for power, and you will accept actions from Republicans you would loathe and despise and even hate from liberal Democrats because in the end, you want your seat at the table of power.
The Ron Paul people, the Tea Party and the conservative movement are to Mitt Romney and the country-club wing of the Republican establishment what laid-off workers were to Mitt Romney and Bain Capital. You are property, to be used when you can be helpful, to be humored and condescended to when you become nervous, to be discarded when you are no longer useful, and to be crushed by big money if you show integrity to conviction policies which they deplore behind your backs.
Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, the conservative movement: you are no more to the white-shoe, country-club, insider GOP establishment than Mitt Romney's dog. You can ride on the top of Mitt's car, or on the back of Mitt's bus, but the GOP belongs to him, and people like him, and not you, or people like you. Always has. Always will.
After Florida some will say it is over, but it will not be over. Very few delegates will have been selected. A majority of national Republican voters does not play golf in the country club of the white-shoe Republican establishment that will soon be telling the majority of Republicans to shut up and be good little boys and girls.
JFK often said: if you have a man's job, find a woman.
Why do I suspect we may soon be hearing the distant drum of a very smart lady who knows exactly what is happening, who can do the math that I suggest here, who may soon emerge with fists flying from a town called Wasilla?
Well
I was-——disappointed in Palin
But someone needs to step up and fast
Revolution is in the air
I hope she can smell it
Ron Paul and his gaggle of surrender monkeys are indeed believers. They are true believers in a weak America, a castrated military, appeasing the evildoers and a triumphant Iran.
Thankfully Ron Paul is irrelevant. A resurgent Newt Gingrich knows how to deal with our enemies: KILL THEM!
Go Newt GO!
She’s a private citizen, the same as you and I. How did she “disappoint” you?
All I can say is the South needs to start negotiating its own contracts again, and tell the Northeast to FUMR.
I want out of this Union.
“Tea Party members: shut up and get behind the former liberal governor of Massachusetts. Conservative movement, cool it. So what if our nominee was the godfather of ObamaCare?”
Whew!
I love Sarah.
yes
I had to look up the French phrase in order to understand the article a little better.
This is a set phrase, attributed to King Louis XV or Madame Du Pompadour (aka Jeanne Antoinette Poisson), that is used to denigrate the attitude of someone who acts irresponsibly, without worrying on the consequences that his/her acts could have. Something like: “I don’t care what happens next, I’ll be gone”, “The world could collapse after I’m gone, no big deal”.
On the one hand, if we understand, “After me the deluge,” will come, the saying seems to imply, as an assertive affirmation: “After my reign, the nation will be plunged into chaos and destruction.”
Just to note that I think that’s the way it was meant, and that it had some prophetic quality about it, even though today people who use it usually mean “I don’t give a damn about what happens when I’m gone”.
Maybe it will be clearer with an example: Mr Filthy goes for a trip in the mountains and leaves all his garbage, empty cans and cigarette butts behind, disseminated amongst the lovely pine trees and frolicking chamois, because, well, why would he give a damn? He won’t be there to see the damage; besides, doesn’t everybody do that anyway?
Someone witnessing this could say that “Après moi le déluge” is Mr Filthy’s motto.
Maybe some native French-speaking FReepers can chime in?
I can’t be disappointed when I didn’t expect anything.
I think she is as big a windbag as any of the others.
I agree.
Damned if I want my taxes going to support these bastards.
They spit on me-I spit on them.
aoire rie viou .....
The last thing the RNC elites want is for Ron Paul to go away. He is very effectively splitting the “non-Romney” Tea Party vote and they know in the end he can’t win.
And Dr. Paul will tell them to go pee up a rope, he’s sure not getting any party money and lives for the opportunity to poke a stick in their eye.
Palin’s like the quarterback that showed great promise, but sustained an injury and is out for the season. Every time I see her I wish for what might have been, but is not.
We didn’t ask for this, and we can do a hell of a lot better alone than with these parasitic albatrosses.
We are not going to sit down and shut up.
We’ll go all the way to the Convention.
The limo liberals of the GOP can KMA
Knifed in the back by Romney and his surrogates...while the rest of the DC GOP sucked their own thumbs in fear of Obaama.
They didn't set out to help a damsel in distress, nor yet a fellow Republican who had star power; vermin though they be.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
"Why do I suspect we may soon be hearing the distant drum of a very smart lady who knows exactly what is happening, who can do the math that I suggest here, who may soon emerge with fists flying from a town called Wasilla?"
This writer is dreaming. What is she or anyone else going to do. We sit on our hands and let Obamma get reelected. Or, we hold our noses.
I do have one idea. We run a conservative against every Rino in their respective primaries. We can’t stop Rommney, but, we can go after his friends. Let’s start with that Gov from NJ.
vaudine
I see no discernible differences betwixt Mitt and Barry, so it matters not whit to me which one of them is elected.
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