Our Trojan Horse president

The Washington Times ^ | 12/22/2011 | Robert Knight

[rogue yam]

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[Yosemitest]

I don't consider the Tea Party as a danger to the Republican Party.
The Republican Party IS the danger to the Republican Party.
The Republican Party IS failing to embrace conservatism, just as it did, during the rise of Ronald Reagan.
They had to be dragged into success, by Ronald Reagan himself.

"the apparatchiks of the Republican Party would have secretly preferred a loss to Democrats than a win by the Tea Party Movement."

They're not so secret about that preference. I'd say that they're screaming it from the roof tops.

Taxes, and raising taxes?
The Tea Party wouldn't raise taxes higher, not for ANY reason.
That's what TEA stands for "Taxed Enough Already".

"Do we tax the people more or cut grandma"'s Social Security and deny her end-of-life Medicare treatment? "

Typical liberal false choice, and the answer is "none of the above".
We don't raise taxes, we cut the size of government, we cut all these useless studies, and we cut all liberal programs, like education, EPA, and Arts.
We don't cut Social Security, but take it back to the way it was originally designed.
We don't deny end of life Medicare treatment.
Only a liberal would even propose this crap.

Race problems? Give me a break! The only race problem we have is the media pandering to liberals 'using race' to promote their liberal agenda, and daring us to call them on it.
Race only counts when liberals use it against conservatives.
How dense can you get!

"Now the tea party protesters are furious. They are indignant.
They sense they have been duped. They have been seduced and betrayed and they are mad as hell.
Curiously, they take a good portion of their wrath out against the Republicans whose sins in comparison to Obama's can only be described as venal."

I'd say, you're pretty closed to accurate there. "Venal" may be a little mild, but I'll accept it.

"A return to constitutional principles of our founding fathers" is exactly what we need.
It's a MUST! But you keep pushing false choices, a typical liberal tactic to "control the discussion".

"Independents who largely populate the tea party movement have virtually begged the politicians to lie to them about grandma."

Absolute garbage, we don't want anyone lying to us, and we DEMAND the truth.

"to those who would cavalierly abandon the Republican Party,
you will have an obligation to put in its place as good as you took."

Before I total blow my top, let me thank you for your time and your comments.
I must have really move you.

Now, I disagree on a lot of your comments.
We can grow our way out of this, as we did in the roaring 1920's.
'Glenn Beck': Calvin Coolidge Still Matters is a good start. Read it.
There is so much we can cut out of spending, like paying 99 weeks of unemployment.
We've got to cut regulation, to free up jobs. We've got to drill for oil everywhere we think there IS oil.
We've got to get rid of NPR.

But most of all, we've got to get rid of Establishment Republicans".
Now in the process, if the Republican Party goes into the ash heap of history, then so be it.
They destroyed themselves, by abandoning their principles. Good riddance!
But politics isn't all that's wrong. We've got to get back to our religious foundation.
The Bible is the best source of advice we can get. Read it, and learn from the mistakes of others.
Obey God!

[nathanbedford]

Here is a compilation of a couple of posts dealing with the peculiar role of political parties in the American system. Politicians who understand the system win, conservatives who do not, whine.

Those who win, are called "establishment politicians."

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Governing is about exercising power. Political parties are about appropriating that power to one's own purpose. The founding fathers created a government containing many checks and balances in an effort to frustrate human tendency to consolidate power in one tyrant or, on the other hand, to concede power to the mob. Political parties in America are designed to overcome the checks and balances put by the framers into the Constitution.

The peculiar architecture of the American federal system with its bicameral legislatures, tripartite "coequal" branches of government, staggered elections for various branches, Constitutional limitations of government power especially freedom of the press and speech, are designed to make government impotent in the absence of a general consensus. The purpose of political parties is to provide that consensus for its constituents' point of view, to provide a consensus about how power should be wielded across the various competing entities of government.

The peculiar architecture of the American federal political system with its checks and balances means that it functions properly as a two-party system. Any successful attempt to form a third political party invariably condemns the political party from which it shoots off and to which it is most closely ideologically aligned to oblivion. Since it is human nature to entertain incessant arguments over the proper application of political power, political parties in America have developed a survival mechanism, they co-opt the principle grievances of the splinter group and make the dissidents' platform their own. This has been the history of political parties in America since the beginning. When a new ideology becomes popular, one party or the other seeks to absorb it.

If the party misjudges the public mood and embraces a splinter ideology in an effort to co-opt when that ideology is too radical to be palatable to the general public, the party loses the next election because it moves out of the mainstream. If the party misjudges the other way and declines to co-opt a movement which happens to be of sufficient strength, the party loses the next election because it has fractured its base. If a party attempts to absorb views of the other party, or approaching that of the other party, it risks losing the next election by alienating its own base. If it fails to absorb views approaching the ideology of the other party, it risks losing the next election by isolating itself to its own base.

Political parties are eternally faced with the same dilemma: should the party dilute its core message to attract less ideologically motivated voters or should it confine itself to a pure message and energize its core constituents? In attempting to solve these tensions, political parties are like amoebas or yeasts, everlastingly dividing or growing.

Only the party can supply the infrastructure, the boots on the ground, the expertise for the air war, the proper exploitation of the Internet, the national visibility, the fund raising ability.

Our founding fathers were not naïve, but they entertained a skeptical view of the nature of man as a political creature. So they set up a system which anticipated unceasing tension. Although they deplored political parties, they made them virtually inevitable if society was to govern in a system in which the founders had placed so many obstacles to effective government. Political parties are designed to undo what the founders did, to bridge the gaps created by the founders as checks and balances. So, for longer than two centuries our society has been at eternal war with itself, always risking totalitarian government (such as today under Obama) by strong political parties on the one hand or risking ineffectual government such as we saw under The Articles Confederation or under the Southern Confederacy on the other hand.

Similarly, the parties themselves are under tension which is unceasing and in the long run very healthy for a political body. Every party is ever at war with itself. So it is with the Democrats and so it is with the Republicans. If we Conservatives win the battle this season, as surely as the tides return, we will be confronted with another Rino challenge in the next season. That is good because without the tension there is nothing to prevent a political party-or, worse, a governing party-to veer ever farther to the left or right and wreck the country as it commits suicide. The best example of this occurring in history is the inability of the Soviet Union Communist Party to correct itself. Why were there 70 years of bad weather affecting Soviet harvests? Because the Communist Party simply couldn't honestly look at its own policies.

And so it is that when we indulge our predilections, reject what objective reality we can put together, Parade know- nothing ism as a virtue, we risk veering off. Fortunately for our party and our government system there is a check, it is called elections, and those political parties which do not gauge reality accurately will soon be corrected. The job of the Karl Roves of the world is to obviate the need for the correction to occur.

Viva the tension.

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It is pointless to blame the very politicians who have successfully manipulated the system. You should manipulate the system your way. If Romney wins the nomination it means that he has manipulated the system successfully.

You can pick up your marbles in a fit of pique and go home or you can face reality and understand the system. If you don't like the makeup of the Republican Party work with the tools available to change it. Stop cursing the darkness and light a candle.

[itsahoot]

{you will have an obligation to put in its place as good as you took.}

Al Capone is dead so I guess he is out, but I am sure some of his crew have had followers that would be available, if all you want is equality.

[little jeremiah]

I bought a set this summer; sent a set to my County Sheriff’s office, and one to a relative. Plan to send a few more out.

[Yosemitest]

"Politicians who understand the system win,
conservatives who do not, whine.
Those who win, are called "establishment politicians." "

Duh, gee ... ya' think?!

"Establishment Republicans" Want to Redefine the Term "Conservative"

September 21, 2011

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RUSH: Folks, this is a little Inside Baseball, but it's important because
he who controls the language ends up winning the debate,
and it might seem like a small thing, but I have learned and I have been given to understand that the "establishment Republicans" hate the term.
They don't like being called "establishment Republicans,"
and they are trying to change the term to "establishment conservatives" and in the process co-opt the definition of "conservative" and conservatism.
It's not something that you'll notice if you watch cable news or even read.
You have to be able to see the stitches on the fastball, you have to be able to read between the lines,
and you have to know some stuff going on behind the scenes
(and, of course, I am in a position to know these kinds of things).

So don't doubt me on this. The establishment Republicans are the ,i>establishment Republicans.
The Republican leadership is the Republican establishment, meaning the elites.
They hate it and they are in the process of trying to redefine who conservatives are and what it is --
and if they succeed, the conservatism that you and I hold dear will no longer be the definition of conservatism.
If they succeed, the current thinking of the Republican establishment will be what is called modern day conservatism.
Don't doubt me on this.
It sounds like a small thing, but in a daily ebb and flow you'll not even see any news about this,
but it's in important because it's crucial who controls the language, who controls the way words are defined.

You and I know that the establishment Republicans don't like conservatives.
They didn't like Reagan.
They were embarrassed of Reagan.
They were embarrassed of us.
They didn't like the Moral Majority, they didn't like the Christian right, they don't like the pro-lifers.
They don't like the social conservatives at all.
They're embarrassed by us, in many ways, with their other buddies, the establishment Democrats --
which combined gives us the Washington establishment,
and they very much prefer to be members of that club than ours.
But they know that it doesn't help them to be called "establishment Republicans."
So they're trying to take the term "conservative" and co-opt it
and define it as they behave, write, speak, and even vote on matters of politics.

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"Establishment Republicans" are Lying to Us With Threats of a Dire Default

Do I have to remind you (?):

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

You talk about

"... Constitutional limitations of government power especially freedom of the press and speech, are designed to make government impotent in the absence of a general consensus ..."

But with the press not doing its job, and the LAME Stream Media trying to silence speech they don't agree with,
we're in a real mess and under attack by an evil force rarely seen in this country.
The Republicans and the God-Given freedoms this country has enjoyed so far, are descending into oblivion.
And the "Establishment Republicans" aren't doing a damned thing to stop it.
The "Establishment Republicans" aren't providing "the boots on the ground" to win.
They're trying to put the public back to sleep, lying to them, in order to keep their power, and "wreck the country as it commits suicide".
So now the "Establishment Republicans" have "fractured their base" and,
because they have taught us "that accepting short-term loss in exchange for long-term gain is the essence of compromise, the essence of politics",
they're going to lose, and lose big, if they don't swing to the hard right wing of what used to be their party.
How many conservatives have re-registered as "Conservative Party" or "Independent" because they're fed up with being lied to?
We've been "treated to one lecture after the other on the need for “compromise” and “patience” ", and we're sick of it.
We don't trust them any longer.

Look, Rush said it best....

Now, the fact that the Republican establishment cannot make that case and other arguments
tells me that they may have already surrendered,
and this is a big difference between us and the establishment.
They're in this defensive posture, I've told you,
I said on Greta how many times, a lot of people inside the Republican establishment secretly don't even believe Obama can be beaten.
And that's why they want Romney,
'cause they think at least Romney will help 'em take the Senate.
He'll lose less down the ballot than Gingrich or some conservative will.
But conservatives, you Tea Party activists, you don't want to give up
and you haven't given up,
and you don't want to accept this propaganda from the left.
We insist on challenging it, we insist on fighting it
'cause there's no other way to save the country,
and continually playing these games
letting the Democrats rewrite the language, change the definition of things,
get away with false accusations against us, never do anything about it,
constantly stay on defense.

So now, because of the Establishment Republicans" there's not just a candle lit, but a bonfire lit ...
in the very heart of the conservatives, and it will burn away the dead wood that is "Establishment Republicans."

Yes, it's time to curse the "Establishment Republicans" for every thing they've NOT DONE!
And CURSE THEM for most of the things they HAVE DONE!

"Attack, repeat, ATTACK!"