Posted on 07/09/2012 1:03:14 PM PDT by greyfoxx39
.............. Either the current, longstanding GOP establishment will finally cede control of the official banner of political conservatism, or the traditional two-party system, and with it the American republic, will dissolve.
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Under present circumstances, this means that the truest voice of constitutional republicanism .... is being choked out in favor of the "go along to get along" model of political survivalism that has typified the Washington GOP for several decades.
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This is where America's soul resides, all wishful thinking aside, after forty years on the present GOP establishment's watch. And in response to the laying of the last straw in this breaking of America's back, the GOP establishment has turned not against the left, but against the supposed extremism and instability of the Tea Party and its preferred electoral representatives. They are making an Ivy League plea for "sobriety," for avoiding "intemperate" characterizations of the left and its intentions, and for a stoic resignation in the face of national demise that masquerades as intransigent optimism. This in spite of the fact that it was precisely such GOP sobriety and temperance in 2008 that made possible the presidency of Barack Obama, with his well-creased Ivy League trousers.
And as the two-party system grants them the strategic advantage of a monopolistic hold on public conservatism, they can attempt to withstand the Tea Party threat to their privilege by challenging grassroots conservatives to a game of "king of the hill."
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Somehow, the current establishment must either accept its failure and seek to make amends through radical change, or be pulled off that hill atop which it has too long presided.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Next election cycle it will be the same thing. The Elite Republicans will team up with the media and Democrats to eliminate the Conservatives, then say it is either our guy or the Democrat. It worked on me in 2008. 2012? Nah.
SWEET!
And YES!
I know I’m damn tired of hearing how we can elect real conservatives next time. The people saying it have no intent of electing conservatives.
It’s ALWAYS the most important election in our lifetime!
I’ve heard that from the 50’s on.
Sometimes you have to lance the boil...
I am with you. The best way to accomplish our goals is to steer the GOP in the right direction. This election is a real chance to get a majority and reverse the damage of Obama. I am all in. After the election, if the GOP wins and does not respond, I am done. If they lose, I done...after forcing Romney, McConnell and Boehner on us after 2010, if they can’t win, the party is dead and we build a new one.
There’s this too:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/378482495538501/379515272101890/?notif_t=group_activity
But unless there is a miracle ....
What is there not to like?
And to the Romeny bots that usually respond with"obama thanks you", save it for the Republican Party. The guilt trip falls on deaf ears and when the Republicans start nominating Conservatives again, I will vote for them.
Primaries, not general elections, are the opportunities to steer the GOP in the right direction. Once a RINO (like those who as part of a congressional majority rubber-stamped Dubya's "compassionate" policies like the largest Medicare expansion in history) is nominated, casting a protest vote against him in the general election is the most one can do to accomplish our goals - and that's not much.
Is it just me, or are we starting to see a lot of these kinds of articles lately - from established pundits writing for established conservative opinion outlets, not just from the small fries?
One can hope that the Mittbots and the GOP-E start taking notice.
But they won’t.
They’d just rather screech about how criticising Romney and the GOP-E is “treason” and “helping Obama” and how the people doing so “need to go back to DU where they belong.”
Stupid fools. Romney is going to lose, and he’s going to destroy the Republican Party while doing so.
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It's time to put an end to this insanity. The GOP will never change unless we refuse to accept its inferior candidates.
Texas Freepers need to vote for Ted Cruz on July 31!
Notice how Cornyn's been a tad more aggressive lately? I think he got the memo that the Tea Party is still around.
Isn't it just splendid that Kevin Madden is back working for the Mittster! All they need to do now is hire Nicolle Wallace, and the deal will be done (as far as I'm concerned).
Maybe on this thread I can say I’m not voting for Romney and won’t get my head bashed in by Romney people.
In short, the Republican establishment has a monopoly on defining conservatism at the all-important levels of public policy and mainstream discourse. Thus, the hopes and concerns of non-establishment conservatives and libertarians are given, at best, a muted hearing in Washington, whether within government proper or among the professional conservative pundit class. Under present circumstances, this means that the truest voice of constitutional republicanism -- which ought to be the dominant concern on all sides of a proper American political establishment -- is being choked out in favor of the "go along to get along" model of political survivalism that has typified the Washington GOP for several decades.(snip) Constitutional conservatives will not win through a third-party challenge -- or at least not in the foreseeable future. This is not to defend the entrenched two-party system as such. The first president sounded the proper warning in his farewell address against precisely the form of party politics that has evolved.
Practically speaking, however, the danger of allowing Democrats to win elections in the short run -- given what the Democrats have become -- is simply too great to afford constitutionalists the slow gestation period that a viable third party would require.
The first excerpted paragraph above disproves the 2nd. The hold of the GOP-E makes it extremely unlikely that the GOP club will ever be changed from within.
They write the rules.
Better to start now crafting an entirely new party rather than continue in this one party tradition...one party with 2 heads.
The longer the delay in crafting a new party the longer until it comes online.
I’m tired of hearing this “is the most important election in our lifetime” every single time.
It reminds me of the old Duane Thomas quote, when a reporter asked him what it was like to win the ultimate game? “If the Super Bowl is the ultimate game, why are the playing it again next year?”
If a pro-life, pro-family, pro-small (constitutionally limited) government conservative of the stature of Gov Palin, Gov Walker, Gov Perry, Senator DeMint, et al, would step up to the plate and head up a tea party supported conservative second party, I’d be there in a heart beat.
McLame was the last nose holding vote I will ever make. And I only did so in the hopes that he'd go senile or have a heart attack while in office so that Sarah could take over.
Of course with mitt 'n' friends doing media hits on Sarah BEFORE the 2008 election...
At this late stage in the Republic it matters little whether the globalists pull their little drones in the sky - SWAT killings of a few Americans to terrorize them-FEMA camp roundup- coup under mitt or obie. They do underestimate the millions of Patriots who are ready, willing and able to pull off AR II.
YUP!
MEGA DITTOS!
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