The problem is that establishment Republicans are in charge of the party at all levels, from national to local. No matter how much passion and heft the Tea Party conservatives have, they are not on the inside calling all the shots.
The establishment Republicans may be a numerical minority of the party demographic, but they control the necessary tools and devices to ensure one of their own (Romney, McCain, Dole, Bush) makes it to the top. They control local primaries and caucuses, local party organizations, state committees, and national party entities like the RNC, RCCC, RSCC, etc.
Why is this so? Because this relatively small handful are not tied up in life’s reality tasks, like holding a job or raising a family. They are the full time cadre who are parasitically fed by the political machine - the party apparatchiks, the politicians themselves, the consultants and strategists. At the state and local levels they are those with wealth and occupations that allow them the time to be a county chairman, a committeeman, a donor. Often at that level they are spouses of the same looking for something to do.
Look at your own local organization - how many Republican party functionaries are just average worker types? When you volunteer to help in a local campaign, who is the guy in charge? Not someone like you.
These elitists have political and social views far different from you, and they look upon you as useful rabble to do their dirty work and toe the line to support their preselected candidates. In that regard, they look upon you in the same way democrats look upon blacks and the poor - resources to exploit, but never to listen to.
For all his evil and destructiveness, Obama is a temporary phenomenon. America will not fail because of Obama’s disastrous term, no more so than it did after Carter or the Civil War. If it fails, it will be because Obama’s replacement, by political necessity and dearth of other options a Republican, will be a RINO who differs in degree, not in kind from Obama and his policies. The true conservative, the Reagan successor, will not be around to save America this time.
Republicans will probably win this election by default. The system is set up to rule out those who share Tea Party sentiments, the sentiments of the overwhelming majority of Americans.
But a Republican establishment President surrounded by like-minded Senators and appointees will be a temporary phenomenon also, quickly thorwn out of office because they once again failed the American people.
Think 2006 and 2008.
These elitists have political and social views far different from you, and they look upon you as useful rabble to do their dirty work and toe the line to support their preselected candidates. In that regard, they look upon you in the same way democrats look upon blacks and the poor - resources to exploit, but never to listen to.
For all his evil and destructiveness, Obama is a temporary phenomenon. America will not fail because of Obama’s disastrous term, no more so than it did after Carter or the Civil War. If it fails, it will be because Obama’s replacement, by political necessity and dearth of other options a Republican, will be a RINO who differs in degree, not in kind from Obama and his policies. The true conservative, the Reagan successor, will not be around to save America this time.