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Caddell Unloads on 'Racketeering' GOP Consultants
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| March 14, 2013
| Michael Patrick Leahy
Posted on 03/15/2013 5:59:09 AM PDT by DManA
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To: EricT.
Furthermore, Caddell lays out what Ive been saying for quite some time.
You aren't alone. Rush Limbaugh, while faithful to the GOP will say what the GOP really thinks.
The Republican Party is trying to do something in this primary that is unprecedented. They're trying to split the conservative vote and win the primary with a moderate, with Romney. It's the other way around. You consolidate your base and then you move to the center in the general. The Republican establishment has decided they don't want any part of conservatism. And this is really not new. People are surprised to hear this, but the Republican Party formative event with conservatism is Goldwater's landslide defeat. That's what they think of when they think conservative. They don't think Reagan. They think Goldwater.
They believe what the inside-the-Beltway philosophy is about conservatives. They're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, Southern hayseed hicks. They're pro-lifers. They're embarrassing to have to go to the convention with them. And they're just embarrassed to have those kind of people in the party. They're dumb. They're not erudite. They're not educated in Ivy League schools. We'll take their votes on election day, but we really don't want to hang around with them. We don't want anybody in Washington thinking that we're really that close to them and aligned with them. So in the process -- you know, it's a very sophisticated electorate. The Republican primary voter can sense that the Republican Party really doesn't like them, really doesn't want them, thinks that they are the route to defeat. That's the problem in a nutshell. The Republican establishment thinks that a conservative nominee is the route to defeat because they think Goldwater landslides are going to happen because they believe what the popular misconception the left has created of conservatives -- they think everybody thinks that.
(Dec 2012) Rush Goes On the Record with Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren
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posted on
03/15/2013 6:32:33 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: DManA
Something's really in the air
After Republicans lost the White House as well as seats in the House and Senate in the 2012 elections, Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, wrote that the bad candidate selection and badly run campaigns reminded him of Eric Hoffer's remark that "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket." Kristol added "It may be that major parts of American conservatism have become such a racket that a kind of 're-founding' of the movement as a cause is necessary."
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/03/14/secret-reason-gop-is-divided/#ixzz2NcCnVjGE
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posted on
03/15/2013 6:36:19 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: EricT.
Furthermore, Caddell lays out what Ive been saying for quite some time. I dunno, this one kind of speaks to me......
P.S. careful you don't break your arm there patting yourself on the back.
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posted on
03/15/2013 6:41:49 AM PDT
by
onona
(Furthermore, Caddell lays out what IÂ’ve been saying for quite some time.)
To: Luke21
I maybe exaggerated when I said I know nothing about him. I am aware of his resume. But what makes him tick? Why was he up there on the panel last night.
Just another cynic with an angle, or has Diogenes finally found an honest man?
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posted on
03/15/2013 6:45:50 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: Bratch
Yes, someone bought of DeMint, now they have Ted Cruz to contend with. hee hee hee
Bring it on.
To: DManA
Sarah Palin told us this years ago. Once again, she was right.
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:05:21 AM PDT
by
SueRae
(It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
To: cripplecreek; Impy
You left out the biggie... when Willard’s mama, Lenore, ran for the Senate in 1970 against Dem incumbent Philip Hart. She holds the record for the WORST defeat by a Republican nominee for the Senate in the history of Michigan (less than 33% of the vote — even Jack Hoogendyk did better against Lenin in 2008).
That family is a cancer to the GOP.
To: EricT.
Indeed it is. I was going to ask permission to use it as such, but since you seem to have already claimed it I won’t. :)
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:08:58 AM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(I'll stop being a cynic when the world stops giving me reasons to be cynical.)
To: DManA
As far as I'm concerned, any “Republican” strategist, advisor, consultant, former-campaign whatever on scene today is a f@cking loser who is trying to parlay their miserable records and platform/candidate tripe to the next group of donor suckers who are desperately hoping to oust Obama’s ilk and what is likely to follow.
As far as I'm concerned, they should be treated like pariahs, shundt as the Quakers or Pennsylvania Dutch say. Ostracized and pilloried. They should be rounded up and incarcerated in political limbo jail. Screw them and their “strategery”.
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:17:15 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: DManA
There are a lot of excellent quotes on this thread.
‘Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket’
Thus the history of the ‘Liberal’ movement. It is well into the ‘racket’ stage now.
I am going to have to start reading Eric Hoffer again.
Caddell is resembling an old Testament prophet.
Er, pity that the old Testament prophets were ignored.
TWB
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:18:06 AM PDT
by
TWhiteBear
(Sarah Palin...The Flame of the North)
To: Bratch
Good ole Trent--ALWAYS on the wrong side of history. Why do people keep listening to has-beens with foot and mouth disease. He cannot open mouth without inserting foot,
vaudine
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:19:00 AM PDT
by
vaudine
To: Gaffer
“As far as I’m concerned, any Republican strategist, advisor, consultant, former-campaign whatever on scene today is a f@cking loser who is trying to parlay their miserable records and platform/candidate tripe to the next group of donor suckers who are desperately hoping to oust Obamas ilk and what is likely to follow.”
EXACTLY!
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:26:12 AM PDT
by
AuntB
(Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
To: cripplecreek
It has plain to see for some time that Pat Cadell is first an American and some distant second is a democrat, but a democrat from the old school before LBJ showed the lie/cheat/steal way to win in politics.
We all would do well to listen to what he is saying.
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:27:03 AM PDT
by
X-spurt
(Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Go ahead and use it, too. I won’t complain.
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:28:07 AM PDT
by
EricT.
(The Republican Party is a friend to conservatives the way Pakistan is an ally in the War On Terror.)
To: DManA
I have watched him on Fox News for while. He seems to call them like he sees them. I pay attention to him. He seems to actually care about the country.
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:29:50 AM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: EricT.
As a Southerner one could also call Mitch the Braxton Bragg of the GOP
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:33:05 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
To: Paladin2
Like too many freepers today with the exodus folks now back moderate as ever
These folks see no culture war, are not social conservatives and love to call anyone they can bigot or racist
They are as much the problem as the left
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:36:20 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
To: SueRae
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:41:10 AM PDT
by
onyx
(FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
To: wardaddy
Its a lack of moral courage.
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:43:31 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: DManA; NFHale; sickoflibs; cripplecreek; Dajjal; Conservativegreatgrandma; chris37; Travis McGee; ..
“”The Republican Party,” Caddell continued, “is in the grips of what I call the CLEC—the consultant, lobbyist, and establishment complex.” Caddell described CLEC as a self serving interconnected network of individuals and organizations interested in preserving their own power far more than they’re interested in winning elections.
Just follow the money,” Caddell told a rapt audience....
Financial corruption is a key component of the current process, according to Caddell. “There’s money passing under the table on both parties. Dont kid yourself...If you cant see racketeering in front of you, God save you.”
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Conservatives would be wise to listen to Caddell, and it’s nice that I’m not the only one screaming about this collusion/corruption/money laundering...YES, I said it...MONEY LAUNDERING. We’ve been talking about it for days here on FR. He’s pointing fingers at the same players I’ve been warning you about....
Al Cardenas, head of ACU
Grover Norquist and his pal in crime, Karl Rove & Islamic extremist CPAC player Suhail Kahn.
Their accomplices hijacking the tea party label..teaparty.net and TPNN (teapartynewsnetwork)
The money changing hands between Rove and Norquist alone should alarm you. One openly trying to destroy the tea party movement and the other one claiming it as his.
And ALL of them for the gang of 8 amnesty. Do you think all these people don’t know these aliens will vote democrat??? WAKE UP.
background: Tea party activists bomb email list of Crossroads donors
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2996879/posts
Why Has CPAC Banned All Panels About Islam?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2996506/posts
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:43:36 AM PDT
by
AuntB
(Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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