Posted on 10/13/2011 9:26:50 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
Step 1: The first rule of the establishment is: Do not admit you are part of the establishment! Step 2: Disarm them with praise Step 3: Moderate whoever they pick as the 2012 nominee. Step 4: Teach them about compromise. Step 5: Never forget reality
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They left out the part about “fragment their vote with fake populist Establishments candidates”.
Kristol told me just after Perry entered the race, a development that essentially ended [the more radical Michele] Bachmann’s brief ascent. Establishment Republicans may prefer Romney to Perry, but their assumption is that either man can be counted on to steer the party back toward the broad center next fall, effectively disarming the Tea Party mutiny.
I think these are actually Romney’s debate notes, no?
This is exactly why having Freepers blabbering about how they will vote for a RINO as a last resort is damaging our chances of ever having a decent candidate.
Last but most important step: complete and utter surrender of your positions, values and philosophy in the name of compromise is never surrender.
RINO compromise=be reasonable and do it my way.
The politicrats get embedded in state and local gubamints and ya can never get rid of them. Well, Huns and Barbarians could.. RINOs are on thin ice and they know it.. :-)
Rush’s entire opening monologue was based on this very thing, today.
And a crooked one.
"Weber retired from congress in 1992, two years before the "Republican revolution", after being caught up in the House banking scandal which revealed the bank had repeatedly paid overdrafts for 125 checks on his account"
You will want to read this. See what the GOP Establishment says about Perry. Basically he is one of them and they know it.
The problem is we lost our General Grant and the Tea party went with her.
And, Step 6, lose the election to the Democrats. Being in the minority works just as well for the GOP and its elected centrists as both can rake in contributions from corporations and fat cats needing juice in D.C.
If conservatives want to use the GOP as a path to power, we must get in the party and take over the wheel at all levels, county, state and national. Kick out the RINOS. Plus, when there is a good conservative candidate running as a Republican, back him or her with money, so the candidate has a chance of winning.
Nonsense. General Grant didn't win victories by not engaging in the battles. The Tea Party is not just doing well, it will elect one of them as the next President.
This is ecactly why they FEAR Herman Cain!
Herman Cain who truly was until recently a virtual unknown had faith enough in himself to decide to run for President of the United States on his own. There was no Media hype/pressure/build-up about a possible run, there was no urging by members of the Party, no words spoken into his ear by party players, elites, beltway boys or pundits, not even a word of encouragement from the Republican Party of his home state only faith in himself. Now after months of being treated as being a inconsequential candidate the curious sideshow of a conservative black Republican, he is now in the top tier along with people of great party pull, of men with experienced political machines and the dollars to power them. He did that on his own with no help from anyone accept by his own. Now think what a man with faith in himself like that could accomplish if given the chance.
Now many are saying Cain hasn’t a chance with his little formal organization and even less money.
Well let me remind all of you of what a recent movement did with no formal organization and even less money, The Tea Party.
The Tea Party manage with both those weakness to go on and seriously change the political landscape and in doing so caused the Leftist members of govenment, ellitist of both political parties and media types to quake in fear of them and their rath and all done with only a minimum of formal organization and on a ‘shoe string’ budget.
That’s what sucessful AMERICANS do, what they have always done! It’s what makes us WINNERS! They start out with what they have and they MAKE IT WORK! They make it work because what they don’t have in manpower or money they make-up with brains, sweat, blood and last but most important faith.
Which is why Sarah bailed out at exactly the wrong time. Just when she was needed most, she bailed out on us. I fear the tea party is now no longer reliant, the establishment wins again and the people lose again. Very sad, with Sarah we could have at least driven the dialog. Now there is very little that can be done to change the direction the nation is going. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Not surprised in the least. La Raza Rick was as big a fraud as I knew he was.
It is good that in this election the RNC/establishment are specifically being called-out as Left leaning organizations.
Terms like ‘steering back to the broad center’ are clear code words for ‘Leftist status quo’.
The ass-kicking we’re going to give them in 2012 will dwarf what we gave them in 2010. The Establishment is delusional if they think otherwise.
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