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
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlanticwire.com ...
Remember, one of the key objectives of the Republican establishment is to have power so they can have THEIR day at the trough.
Perry believes in crony capitalism -- using taxpayer money to invest in private businesses and pick winners and losers (the "Texas Emerging Technologies Fund") and rewarding financial backers with favorable positions such as killing e-verify in Texas to please those who use cheap illegal labor.
The DC RinoCracy all WANT another 4 years of Obama. He has accrued more power to DC in three years than occurred during all of the New Deal and the Great Society put together.
Obama...simply put...has been very, very good to the Federal political process and K ST lobbying industry.
THE ONLY way Obama is re-elected, however, is with a Romney Candidacy...because the conservatives WILL find a Third Party.
Sarah was told to get lost because she was the only threat to the DC legislative-lobbying party. Its hard to run a campaign if you’re constantly worrying about security.
The Leninists, favoring militant socialism as a means to eventual full-blown communism, control the Democrat party.
The Trotskyites, favoring democratic socialism and globalist nation-building as a means to eventual full-blown eventual communism, control the establishment wing (25% or less) of the Republican party.
That's your two main flavors of Political Science. All of them favor the Gramscian vision of cultural hegemony, wherein the self-anointed elitists of both parties play both sides against the middle, and engage in a sick power-sharing game to the detriment of the vast majority of citizens.
I've yet to meet the Poli-Sci grad who honestly favored the US Constitution; government of, for, and by the people; individual freedom; real free market capitalism (not the fake globalist Free Traitor stuff); smaller government; lower taxes; etc.; those basic founding principles of the USA.
Geez, what a hero.
Try me!
“Kristol told me “ - you call THAT proof?!
First of all there is no evidence that Kristol said any of this, second of all, since when is what Kristol says gospel?
And this author is basing it on the NYT, “The Republican establishment is no longer terrified of the Tea Party, The New York Times’ Matt Bai reports.” And it is Bai, who claims Kristol told him... blah, blah, blah — so if it’s in the NYT, it must be true.
You are becoming the MSM’s mouthpiece on FR and you have the nerve to attack other good conservatives who don’t agree with you and smear them. Pathetic!
LLS
The problem is not us. We are quite clear that we are with the majority of the American people. You are chosing the wrong target.
The divisive forces in the Republican party are the establishment elites who run it. They see Tea Party people as a threat to their control of the party. They have no firm beliefs and don’t really care about preverving America’s historical values. They will live large no matter who is in charge. Remember, unpopular programs like amnesty and big spending were Republican establishment programs (MCCAIN-Kennedy, Bush 43 deficit spending, Bush 41 tax increases).
This is a battle that has been going on since 1952 (Taft-Eisenhower, later Goldwater-Rockefeller). Conservatism will not triumph until it has total and permanent control of the Republican party. Until them, the ratchet of liberalism will prevail - big increments when the democrats are in charge, small increments when the establishment Republicans are in charge.
Don’t mess with Deb. Her water carrier job at the RNC is on the line. If Deb is forced out of work rounding up strays with a cattle prod, she would then be compelled to join the FLEA Party and no one wants that.
This article is based on an article by the NEW YORK TIMES, who is clearly pushing the Dem strategy of “divide and conquer” between conservatives and Republicans and conservatives are swallowing this hook, line, and sinker, doing the Dems work for them.
The NYT article is clearly from a far left liberal viewpoint and conservatives are eating it up like gospel.
How pathetic!
Does Anyone Have a Grip on the G.O.P.?
No, no... its "establishment elites"!!!! Run for your life!!!!
Everyone must think as you do or we're doomed! No one can think they know a better way to take back the country! If they don't agree with you America is headed for the crapper!
Don't argue. Don't persuade...run them out of the party!!! Purity, dammit!!! That's what will save us!!
I plan to live up to my idea of heroism -- and that is to be brave, to follow John Wayne's saying that "Courage is being afraid but saddling up anyway" -- and to take a desperate chance because these are desperate times.
If Romney is the GOP presidential nominee, my vote will go elsewhere; I have given it a LOT of thought over the past five years. Mine is not a knee-jerk emotional response. It's a carefully thought-out decision.
The way I see it, you are afraid not to vote for the Republican. I am, too -- but after too many decades (better late than never), I have finally figured out that a statist is a statist and just as damaging to the Republic if he's a Republican than if he's a Democrat. In fact, he's more damaging to liberty if he's a Republican because he poisons the Republican well, whereas the Democrat statist keeps the Republican well fresh.
In my opinion, the faint-hearted are going to be the ones who vote for Romney. If they win, that "victory" will be everything a coward's victory always is.
Who let you out of the toilet? (sniff) Ewwww...same old crap.
Who cares what you do? Obama loves it.
I said NO MORE RINOS!
Blah, blah, blah. The Democrats love these threads.
Amen.
If the only "choices" left to Amercians are Big Government state socialism or Big Government state capitalism, then We The People must insist on the necessity of restoring the government we once had, under the Constitution we once adhered to, by whatever means are necessary and proper to insure such an outcome.
And I use those words advisedly.
Obama loves you too, for making sure we never have a conservative candidate again.
I am sad to say that I'm realizing that Rush's supposed influence is as much a media illusion as the so-called popularity of liberals and Obama.
I love Rush, Levin, and Larry Elder. If I could vote for them, I would. I have, however, recently come to grips with the reality that volume and power are two decidedly different things. Rush, Levin, and Elder have volume. Pelosi, Reid, and Obama have POWER. Elected power. When Rush or Levin or Elder are voted in to office, then their influence as conservatives will be effective, just as Reagan was one of the most influential conservatives in American history because HE WAS ELECTED.
But until then, just because the left bitches that I listen to Rush ... well, I bitch that the left listens to CNN. It's a wash.
PS: John Wayne was reciting words on a page written by a screenwriter, usually Frank Nugent.
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