GOP Establishment, RIP?

Human Events ^ | 9-20-10 | Gary Bauer

[Wolf13]

Imagine if an inside-the-Beltway consultant met with national Republican leaders and presented an innovative strategy to develop a new political movement that would add millions of voters to the Republican coalition. And what if that consultant assured those GOP leaders that their party would not have to alter its views in order to capture and retain those voters.

Presumably, Republicans would gladly pay that consultant a fat fee and wonder at their good fortune.

Or perhaps they wouldn’t.

The Tea Party movement has attracted millions of new voters (as well as millions of formerly disaffected Republican voters) to the GOP. And all that Tea Party members ask of the GOP is that it acts according to its own principles by supporting lower taxes, fiscal responsibility and less government.

So why are many in the Republican establishment recoiling in horror at the most powerful new force politics has seen in at least a decade? Perhaps it is because these self-appointed leaders are beginning to realize that a fundamental change to the party’s power structure may cause their own political demise.

The Republican establishment’s response to Christine O’Donnell’s surprise win in the Delaware Senate GOP primary was symptomatic of the change. Instead of embracing O’Donnell, the initial reaction of some Republican figures was to impugn her character and write off her chances of victory. This is a page from the same playbook that’s been used to marginalize social conservatives.

Mere hours after O’Donnell’s victory over Obama Republican Mike Castle, unnamed sources at the National Republican Senatorial Committee suggested that they wouldn’t spend any money on her general election campaign.

Politico reported, “Privately … senior Senate officials signaled that they were almost certainly finished with Delaware.” Karl Rove predicted on Fox News, “This is not a race we’re gonna be able to win,”

[LibFreeUSA]

What I (and many others like us) are starting to see rising to the surface, is that there is a more 'important' issue with these so-called "conservatives" that you still see fighting O'Donnell. It is something that (to them) is MORE IMPORTANT than their political "conservatism"....

- It is their STATUS in the 'Ruling Class'.
- It is "their" opinion.
- It is their "calling the shots".
- It is 'what/how' THEY think things should be.

It is the "Arrogance of Power".

Their is only ONE POTENTIAL CANDIDATE who has taken on that "Arrogance of Power" and WON a primary (in her own Party) and state-wide election !

It is for that reason that I hope that candidate soon declares her intention to run for President!

[Doogle]

they wish

[Candor7]

The GOP either goes with the sea change of the Tea Party,divesting itself of its country club blue bloods who do not really want a big tent full of copnservatives, they simply want minions who do what they are told. Those days are over, The GOP handed Congress and the presidency to a nationalistsocialist movement bent on the destruction of the United States. That means the GOP can't do the job.

They either change, get out of the way, or they will devolve to meaninglessness.If the GOP is successful in Tea Party movement, then they relegate the nation to violent civil war.Few country club Republicans ubderstand this. Obama does.

The country club GOP faction are NOT patriots. They are elitist running dogs every bit as extreme as the Obama crowd.

BIG TENT? Yeah, right, only on their terms.

Their big tent us nothing but an elitist circus.

Its time for Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint and others to mount up and go to war.

[kosciusko51]

From the article:

But if it was fair to ask conservatives to line-up behind the establishment Republican before the primary, why is it not also fair to ask establishment Republicans to line up behind the conservative nominee in the general election? Conservatives shouldn’t be the only ones who are asked to “take one for the team.”

It’s a long list of liberal Republicans who, when shown the exit by voters, choose self-preservation over the party. Those most recent examples include Arlen Specter, Charlie Crist and Lisa Murkowski. True to form, Castle is refusing to endorse O’Donnell. So much for acting in the best interests of the party.

This is what we get when we follow the "Buckley principle" with people who won't follow "Reagan's 11th Commandment".

[Old Teufel Hunden]

How long will it be before Mike Castle decides to mount an independent campaign to run for that seat? We have the press talking about O’Donnell being at a witches ceremony in highschool yet they would never talk about Barrack Obama’s association with Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers or Bernadine Dohrn unless they are dragged kicking and screaming to the story.

So since O’Donnell’s highschool life is fair game, does that mean that Chris Coons associations in Africa and as a bearded Marxist are fair game media? Probably not in your eyes...

All of these RINOs that Rush has been talking about for years (Specter, Crist, Murkowski, Castle) are on full display for all of us to see. Take note and do not forget...

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

We have the press talking about O’Donnell being at a witches ceremony in high school yet they would never talk about Barrack Obama’s association with Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers or Bernadine Dohrn unless they are dragged kicking and screaming to the story.

Excellent point. The response should be "Okay RINO establishment (or Dem) let's discuss the hidden past of the President of the United States FIRST. "

[Beowulf9]

Let’s remember that the tea party movement began after MSNBC;s Rick Santelli criticized the Federal Reserve for being in bed with Wall Street and Jim Kramer and not defending the dollar.

For all the hatred aimed at RINOs and “establishment” Republicans....at the end of the 1990s, the economy was so good that the Federal Reserve caused a recession and burst the NASDAQ “bubble” by raising the Fed Funds rate against a 3.8% unemployment rate and buget SURPLUS-—in an attempt to slow down the housing market to slow down demand for labor across the entire economy to leep the price of labor from going up-——by trying to raise the 30-year mortgage rate.

Greenspan failed to raise the 30 year mortgage rate, but tanked the economy trying to...thus

George W Bush inherited a recession and Democrat Senate and high spending levels....terrorst attacks...and his policies, however imperfect====and believe me, I am NO Bush lover, but his fiscal decisions
brought and end to the recession and took us to under “full employment” again and more ruin by the Federal Reserve by trying to control the economy through the housing market.....again bursting the housing bubble by raising the Fed Funds rate because the economy was TOO GOOD that the price of labor was rising because demand for labor was exceeeding supply at the given price...

Like Greenspan...Bernanke raised the Fed Funds rate drastically upward to slow a soaring economy.....he was trying to get the 30 year mortgage rate up to slow housing employment, thus overall hiring in the economy...buyt failed to get 30 year rates to rise and killed the economy by doing it...and also by reversing himself in 2008 and 2009.

So those RINOS and establishment Republicans got us to 3.8% and 4.4% “full employment” TWICE in ten years.......

and it was Fed caused recessions which really are to blame for the crashes and debt....

Wall Street was invested heavily in Triple A rated bonds tied to housing and insured by AIG-—a Triple A rated insurance company, the biggest in the world....

so these people did NOT think they were taking a big risk...

The PROOF that it was the Fed’s fault is
1) Their rate increases were MEANT to drive up the 30 year mortgage rate...but failed.
2) Neither Greenspan nor Bernanke predicted crashes or recessions after they raised the Fed Funds rate significantly trying in vain to drive up the 30 year mortgage rate to slow the economy......

This that neither Greenspan nor Bernanke understood the effect of their monetary actions...

[Realism]

“The Tea Party movement has attracted millions of new voters (as well as millions of formerly disaffected Republican voters) to the GOP.”

I don’t buy it. Basically what we’re seeing is a internal battle within the GOP between the right and the far right (Tea Party). I have my doubts that a far right platform will draw huge numbers of voters from the center right or left non-affiliated electorate.

[NeoCaveman]

I don’t buy it. Basically what we’re seeing is a internal battle within the GOP between the right and the far right (Tea Party). I have my doubts that a far right platform will draw huge numbers of voters from the center right or left non-affiliated electorate.

Nah, it's not about the left/right paradigm. It's about the "fail" the establishment has completely and utterly failed therefor it is time for change.

[mad_as_he$$]

great rant. Santelli is CNBC.

[mad_as_he$$]

great rant. Santelli is CNBC.

[Siegfried X]

“How long will it be before Mike Castle decides to mount an independent campaign to run for that seat?”

Mike Castle _IS_ running for that seat. But he’s doing it by political knives in the back. That’s why Castle’s agent, Karl Rove, was on television yesterday smearing O’Donnell and calling for investigations into her past. Castle hopes that those audits will find so much dirt on O’Donnell that the party asks her to step aside and Castle to take her place on the ballot. That’s why Castle and the Delaware party chairman haven’t endorsed her.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..This is a page from the same playbook that’s been used to marginalize social conservatives..."

That attitude is a Cancer that has to be cut out.

[The Duke]

The Tea Part brought more than just new voters - it brought NEW CANDIDATES!

[Siegfried X]

So true:

“The GOP has historically been a top-down party in which political bosses anointed candidates with little input from the grassroots and then instructed voters to fall in line on Election Day. (I still remember how hard that establishment tried to deny Ronald Reagan the GOP presidential nomination.)”