WASHINGTON, February 21, 2014 –
Posted on 02/22/2014 1:39:31 PM PST by onyx
WASHINGTON, February 21, 2014 –
Hang around Republican circles long enough and you will hear, “We have got to stop these circular firing squads.” The logic is simple; Republicans are killing themselves with internecine wars instead of going out and defeating liberals.
It is a great theory. Perhaps the best word for it is theory. As conservatives are discovering, though, what Republicans who complain about the circular firing squad really want is a semi-circular firing squad. These voices in the Republican Party want conservatives to stop shooting at them, while they try to take out insurgent conservatives.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is probably the poster child for the semi-circular firing squad right now. Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the left do not have to lift a finger to go after him. The Republicans are doing it for them.
Steve LaTourette is allegedly a Republican. He is a former representative from Ohio and his primary claim to fame is serving for eighteen years in Congress without any major accomplishments. He founded the badly misnamed “Defending Main Street” PAC after he retired from Congress to become a lobbyist. Defending Main Street PAC is allegedly a Republican PAC, but it’s mission is not to defeat Democrats; it is to stop the influence of the Tea Party. LaTourette’s PAC is mostly funded by big Wall Street firms and left wing unions.
And LaTourette has made it his mission to go after Ted Cruz. He was recently on MSNBC in full semi-circular firing squad mode. He claimed it was “reprehensible” that Ted Cruz forced Republicans to live up to what they claim to believe and said that Ted Cruz should be forced out of the GOP.
Famed Conservative William F. Buckley founded the National Review. Today that once conservative standard-bearer is little more than a mouthpiece for the “Republican Establishment.” Mona Charen, a National Review writer, this week went on the attack against Cruz: “Cruz Aims at His Own Side — Again. He may be doing more damage to the GOP than are the Democrats.”
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TEA Party, Freedom party or whatever its called. I’ll be there
NO $$$$$$$ ever again to any RINO or GOP-e. Never.
Yep, Gotta Protect Big Government! It’s Their Job!
To put an analogy to this (from Star Wars) I guess the GOPe want to carry out “Order 66”.
Thanks onyx.
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Posted on 2/22/2014 5:04:12 PM by onyx
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I made that decision almost exactly four years prior. I temporarily reconsidered when I got Sarah Palin to vote for. I'd consider it again if she ran for Preezy. She's a good 'un.
“Hang around Republican circles long enough and you will hear, “We have got to stop these circular firing squads.”
Forget firing squads. I’d be happy as a clam to see four conservatives show up at our county board meeting. Conservatives are the most apathetic, useless, Mammon-worshipping morons that I’ve ever met.
This is true.... once a ‘darling ‘ , I was ‘executed’ by the Hawaii Republican Party . Crime ? Becoming a Tea Party activist ( read : bomb thrower ). Orders from ? Karl Rove ( & minions ) true story.... So where to call ‘ home’ now?
John McCain has never hesitated to attack a conservative, and never failed to be polite to a liberal. So...why would attacking John McCain be bad?
Like the author says, this complaining is only meant to stop conservatives. Here in Arizona, I’ve watched the GOP-E campaign against conservatives in the primary, and then withhold funding when the conservative WON the primary. Consider the actions of Jim “I’m a Homo” Kolbe, who made it clear he preferred Gabby Giffords to a conservative Republican.
It seems the GOP is more aggressive in attacking conservatives than in attacking Democrats, and then it demands loyalty from the conservatives. Well, this conservative stuck with McCain and McFlake for US Senators feels no obligation to do anything other than piss in the direction of our two liberal-loving senators...and their GOP-E friends!
I’ve commented at Townhall and others where Sowell and Charen have posted articles. I commented that we conservatives actually LIKE Ted Cruz and appreciate the fact that SOMEONE is not afraid to stand on principles, even in a losing cause. I’m sick of Rand Paul talking one thing, then voting another with the excuse, “well, it was going to pass (or fail) anyway”, so I didn’t waste my vote sort of excuse. Sorry, but principles are just that. You live and die by them. They ARE the “hill” you are willing to die on. We KNOW that with a compromised House and not having a majority int he Senate, we’ll not win many things right now, but you STAND, anyway! We know where Ted stands. We know where MANY of the others stand, too, and we’re not happy with them. But then, that’s their problem with him, really! He is showing the world who the real republicans are and it’s not pretty! Go, TED!
“. . .We know he didn’t consider Obama a threat to the American culture. And the list goes on...”
We know he was owned by Charles Keating in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. We know the only reason he wasn’t tried and convicted by the Bush I Justice Department for doing Keating’s bidding was John Glenn. Glenn was one of the other Senators controlled by Keating and the federal government didn’t want to put the first American astronaut to orbit the earth on trial.
We know his “maverick” personality is all about sucking up to the media so he will be invited on the Sunday talk shows. We know he supports Muslim terrorists in Syria. We know he favors amnesty for illegals despite strong opposition of the citizens of the state he represents. We know he was not fit to be president and had he been elected in the midst of the financial crisis of 2008 his one term presidency would have been an even worse disaster than George W. Bush’s second term.
Precisely. A political party that does nothing to put an end to the rantings of John McCain or to remove an ineffective Speaker of the House from his job is not trustworthy or capable of doing their own laundry before they start cleaning that of their opposition.
I don’t call myself a republican anymore. If conservatives continue to be attacked by rinos, we will go third party and take base with us. That will be a problem for rinos.
PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Daily tracking thus far in 2010 finds 18% of Republicans describing their political views as very conservative and 53% as conservative while 29% are moderate or liberal.
There are few demographic differences between Republicans who call themselves “very conservative” and those identifying as simply “conservative.” However, both conservative groups differ significantly by religious identification and by age from moderate and liberal Republicans, more so than on any other demographic characteristic analyzed.
Seventy-three percent of very conservative Republicans are Protestant, as are 66% of conservative Republicans. In contrast, 59% of moderate/liberal Republicans are Protestant. Moderate/Liberal Republicans are also more likely than conservatives to have no religious affiliation.
Get rid of all RINOS and rebuild the party from within.
Amen!
GO TED!
What conservatives need to do is vote intelligently. Coalesce around a candidate earily. Replace dead wood with fire brands. Fight the best holding action you can when you don’t succeed.
They could sell a LOT of those!
Conservatives are not very bright.
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