How to Fight Back Against the GOP Establishment’s Worst Treachery Yet

Town Hall ^ | Jun 28, 2014 | Steve Deace

[lqcincinnatus]

What transpired in the Mississippi Senate run-off is a red line for many conservatives across the country, because the Republican Party establishment essentially took a civil war and escalated it to a war for independence.

[lqcincinnatus]

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[TomGuy]

Rather simplistic recommendations.

The easiest path to taking control of the GOP is to have a standard-bearer atop the hierarchy that empowers the grassroots.

We see nearly two-dozen wannabes, each professing to be conservatives, vying for the GOP presidential primaries. Many drop out due to overload. Some are in to make sure they split the conservative factions. The GOPelites already have their next selectee in mind and are grooming contributors.

Half of the wannabes are about as experienced as Obama was when he first ran. The list from 2012 was, sadly, laughable. But, most of them and a few from 2008 are already signally that they are going to try again.

And then we need to coalesce behind this person early enough to give them a chance to win the nomination.

And therein lies the problem -- how do you weed out from the nearly 2-dozen wannabes, some being real conservatives, some being faux conservatives, some being ill equipped to lead a nation because they have little or no political experience?

Some have advocated a 'conservative convention'. Sounds good, but you can take it to the bank that it would be infiltrated by the faux's and the establishment with the intent of destroying it before it could damage the status quo.

[elcid1970]

When the RNC telephonic begfest starts this fall, just reply to the semirobotic caller with two words enunciated slowly and clearly:

“Thad Cochran”

And then hang up.

[COBOL2Java]

When the RNC telephonic begfest starts this fall, just reply to the semirobotic caller with two words enunciated slowly and clearly:

“Thad Cochran”

And then hang up.

LOL! Love it!

[Colonel_Flagg]

Well, the first part of my two-word response would have four letters. The second word wouldn’t.

[elcid1970]

Does it rhyme with “luck shoe”?

;^)

[itssme]

Truer words were never spoken. And if it wasn’t for Mark Levin and his teachings, I wouldn’t know who Dietrich Bonhoeffer was. Thanks for the post.

[all the best]

I think I’ll tell them to contact Thad Cochran’s new best friends.

[Tupelo]

With their shenanigans in Colorado and especially Mississippi the Republicrat Party has fulfilled the prediction of many here. I think they have somehow manage to pull defeat from the jaws of sure victory in 2014.

[Carry_Okie]

With their shenanigans in Colorado and especially Mississippi the Republicrat Party has fulfilled the prediction of many here.

They've been doing it since the 1960s at least.

[Always A Marine]

This is one of the best columns I’ve read this year. Every word speaks for me.

[Always A Marine]

"Thus, the GOP is now a shaky coalition of corporatists and constitutionalists. A coalition that is growing shakier by the day, because these two sides aren’t having a mere debate about tactics and issue priorities. They have different values altogether. A point the establishment drives home every time they say and do worse things to us than they would ever say and do to Democrats. For they have more in common with Democrats than they do us." -Steve Deace, Townhall.com

Absolutely true.

[OneWingedShark]

"Thus, the GOP is now a shaky coalition of corporatists and constitutionalists. A coalition that is growing shakier by the day, because these two sides aren’t having a mere debate about tactics and issue priorities. They have different values altogether. A point the establishment drives home every time they say and do worse things to us than they would ever say and do to Democrats. For they have more in common with Democrats than they do us." -Steve Deace, Townhall.com

Absolutely true.

At this point, the view of Republican and Democrat are so sufficiently similar that there is no discernible difference between Republican and Democrat to Constitutionalists — both are embracing statist philosophies, ignore the Constitution to suit their own needs, and hold themselves to be above the law… in this sense it is entirely appropriate to call them The Uniparty and treat them whith the disgust/disdain that they so richly deserve.

IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FAR FUTURE THERE IS ONLY GOVERNMENT. [Direct Link]
The Tao of Republican Orthodoxy [Direct Link]	The Modern Democratic Party & You [Direct Link]

[Organic Panic]

The biggest treachery is that the republican party still uses the name “republican.”

[DanZ]

“how do you weed out from the nearly 2-dozen wannabes, some being real conservatives, some being faux conservatives,”

For me it is very simple - How many federal agencies will you close

Start with the Dept. of Education,

[DisorderOnBorder]

The conservative media needs to get behind any and all movements to defeat Thad Cochran. Not doing so is supporting the vote fraud, and, will embolden GOPLibs to do it again.

Cochran must be defeated...you either work to defeat him, or support him and vote fraud

[BlackElk]

Let me suggest a methodology rooted in the lived experience of Young Republicans from so long ago that YRs were run by dependably conservative Republicans.

Create a committee. Anyone accepting membership on the committee agrees to actively participate and to support the decisions and nominees chosen by the committee. Candidates appearing before the committee agree, in advance, to support the committee's decisions and nominees. Any candidate invited and refusing to appear before the committee and agree to those commitments is automatically opposed by conservatives NO MATTER WHO such a candidate might be.

Now, that leaves the committee membership as the indispensible factor that it should be. Virginia Republican National Committeeman Morton Blackwell should be chairman. He should be given five appointments to the committee. No candidate should be allowed to be a committee member. Assuming that Sarah Palin is not a candidate, she should be on the committee, given three appointments and charged with candidate recruitment and public relations. Ed Meese should be a member and should represent Reagan administration alumni. Give him three appointments. Professor Robert George of Princeton and Professor Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institute should represent the intellectual wing of the movement and each have three appointments. Former Senator Jim DeMint of Heritage and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli should be members with three appointments each. Likewise, if not candidates, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and soon to be Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse. That makes 42 members from a broad spectrum of backgrounds. Add Erick Erickson of Red State, John Gizzi of Newsmax and Andrey McCarthy of National Review. Others can be appointed but membership should not exceed 75 or so and membership must require a written commitment to actively participate.

The committee deliberations should occur no later than July 21, 2015, and must be preceded by candidate debates and deliberations of the sort conducted by Senator DeMint before the South Carolina primary of 2012: No lamestream media participation, actual limitation of questioning to the principles and commitments of the candidates. No "money" primary dominated by Wall Street and K Street. GOP Ruling Class candidates need not apply. If necessary, require a candidate signature, under oath, to a particular statement of principles and tactics.

Recruit conservative voters to pledge to support such a committee and its deliberations and decisions. Teach the GOP Ruling Class a lesson they will not soon forget.

REMEMBER MISSISSIPPI!!!

[mrsmel]

Me too, will do.

[BlackElk]

Add Angelo Codevilla and Jeffrey Lord of the American Spectator.

[Steelers6]

How about “Bad Cockrat” or “Mississippi Barbour Shop”