2014 A.D. — Alexander the Barely Mediocre
Posted on 03/29/2014 4:32:07 PM PDT by don-o
Republican Congressional leaders, less than three hundred miles from Fort Sumter where the Confederates fired on the federal government and launched a horrific four-year American Civil War, are meeting to declare a civil war against conservatives who are the base of the Republican Party.
Since the purpose of the weekend meeting at the Ritz Carlton on Amelia Island in Florida is to raise money and strategizing as to how to defeat limited-government constitutional conservatives in Republican primaries, this meeting is an act of war by Eric Cantor and the Republican Congressional leadership.
By fighting conservatives, Republican congressional leaders are publicly acknowledging they do not share the core values of conservatives and Tea Partyers, including limited-government, fidelity to the constitution, lower taxes, balanced budget, significantly reducing the size, scope and reach of the federal government.
The Republican primary voters will now be able to clearly see who are the principled conservatives verses those candidates receiving support from the Ruling Class, Crony Capitalists such as Karl Rove, John Boehner, Eric Cantor and Mitch McConnell.
Grassroots conservatives wish Republican leaders could get as angry at the lawlessness of the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats as they do at conservatives.
This meeting is proof positive that the Republican Establishment thinks the Tea Party is alive, strong, and a major threat to their existence.
Go ahead, split the GOP party and guarantee a democrat victory. Play right into the democrats hands, Obama and friends are ROTFLTAO, so to speak. As the Republic sinks into the quagmire and perhaps a real civil war.
<spit>
If you vote for a liberal republican, you are a liberal.
/johnny
“moderate” GOP wants to be able to bend down and kiss obama and harry reid’s ass without any interference from those damn Bible-carryin and gun-totin conservatives.
“moderate” GOP wants to be able to bend down and kiss obama and harry reid’s ass without any interference from those damn Bible-carryin and gun-totin conservatives.
I assume you are addressing that to Rove and Cantor and Priebus and Bohner and all the inside the beltway snales - not to me. Right?
Snales - snakes;
though snails could work - ghastly slimy creatures
Yeah, let’s wait to see what they actually DO before getting all hot and bothered...
The crony-infested GOPe is pathetic.
And THAT is why the GOP will never take the Tea Party seriously. WAY too many of us will say, “it just gets the Dims elected” and go to the polls and pull the “hold the nose and vote” thing.
Until we show the courage of, indeed, splitting the GOP it is game over. Conservatism is dying. The demographics alone will kill us. Outside of the old white male, we are losing every demographic group and the gap grows bigger every year.
So. No. It is not playing into Dim hands. It is the only chance we have.
....the Great Circular Firing Squad has just gone to Lock and Load.....
The state and national Republicans have sent me repeated requests for cash, but I have been confining my support only to individual candidates. I have explained over and over that is what I am doing, but somehow, this is taken to mean that the party organizations should just keep on making even more appeals.
The paper thus generated does do nicely to fill the recycle bins.
It is coming soon enough. I do not see any other way out of this. Voting certainly hasn't solved anything.
If true they are not only wrong on their idealogy but quite stupid in attacking the base.
I think it would be much more accurate to declare that many of us recognize that the nomination of philosophical purists by the GOP--who are entirely unelectable in the general election, due to their very limited appeal to independents--is a very good way to lose future control of the Senate.
That is precisely what happened in 2010, when it appeared that the GOP was poised to take control of the upper body.
Then along came such purists as Christine ("I am not a witch") O'Donnell in Delaware--which should have been an easy pickup for the GOP.
Certainly, those sho see The Big Picture as being all about hand-to-hand combat for the heart and soul of the Republican Party, may not be especially disturbed at the prospect of "establishment" Republicans losing seats that seemed to be ripe for the picking, and the GOP's failing--again--to retake control of the Senate.
But the prospect of Harry Reid's remaining as Majority Leader--until at least 2019--is enormously disturbing to me...
They always find a way to turn a winning position into a loser.
They don’t want our votes. So let’s not give it to them
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.