Slow bleeding the GOP Establishment

redstate.com ^ | 6/29/14 | streiff

[cotton1706]

Most of the 2014 primaries are behind us and the GOP establishment is crowing about its victory of conservatives. Lest you think it is unusual for a party establishment to celebrate winning the primary elections in its own party, you have to realize that the GOP establishment has become essentially the same as the Democrats: same goals, just different paymasters.

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Pause and consider that for a moment. The GOP Establishment and the Chamber of Commerce has spent $23 million to vanquish conservatives. That is $23 million that they decided was better spent trashing the people who man their phone banks and do GOTV work than in actually winning elections. In fact, the GOP Establishment is treating these primaries like a general election campaign.

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Erick pointed out a while back that the GOP Establishment and their paymasters have to win every battle in order to survive. We don’t. We only have to survive as an “army in being.” We will pick off incumbents (Cantor and Bennett) and prevent the elevation of establishment cronies (Dewhurst and Crist) and we will bleed them on a hundred battlefields in a war of attrition. The loss to senile adulterer Thad Cochran will be seen in retrospect as the time when the tide began to turn. The GOP establishment had to spend millions of dollars and they had to illegally recruit Democrat voters in order to haul Cochran’s moldering, putrescent near-corpse over the finish line. One has to wonder how many of their donors will pony up money in 2016 for another bloody round of primaries with the presidency in the balance.

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BOTTOM LINE:

Conservatives in 2014 have focused almost exclusively on beating GOP incumbents with little or no effort in open seats or democrat incumbents.

And then you guys expect GOPe to just hand over the incumbent seats without a fight.

NUTS TO YOU.

[cotton1706]

NEWSFLASH GENIUS!!! We have to nominate our candidates BEFORE we go after the democrat! That’s the order of things. And the best people to nominate are ACTUAL CONSERVATIVES WHO ACTUALLY GO AFTER DEMOCRATS, not nicey, nicey, go along types who will vote with them should they get elected or HAVE voted with them while in office.

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NEWSFLASH

YOU CAN GET NOMINATED IN 25 SENATE CONTESTS WHERE THE DEMOCRAT IS THE INCUMBENT OR THERE IS AN OPEN SEAT.

[cotton1706]

Golly gee, thanks for telling me that. Why, I didn’t know!

We have been doing that! And we can walk and chew gum at the same time, nominate the best people where there are democrats seats and open seats, while at the same time, working to deny the nomination to those that have voted poorly or have schemed against conservatives.

What we don’t do is just look at the “r” and say “blindly reelect”

That’s how we get worthless men like John Warner and Richard Lugar who have endorsed DEMOCRATS this year, an issue you NEVER address.

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“That’s how we get worthless men like John Warner and Richard Lugar who have endorsed DEMOCRATS this year, an issue you NEVER address.”

regarding Lugar, the new conservative senator from Indiana Richard Mourdock is so much better.

Regarding Warner, the teaparty senator from Virginia who replaced Warner is so much better.

Now a question for you. How about all the conservatives who want to destroy the republican party ?

I say if they want to try, It is a free country.

But if GOPe decides it does not want to be destroyed and fights back, well It is still a free country.

[cotton1706]

Yup, as expected, a non-answer. The republican senators who vote with the democrats, vote like democrats or support democrats are never to be berated. Nothing to see here!

But if conservatives challenge incumbent republicans, we’re accused of “working to prevent a republican majority.” But people like Warner, Lugar, Chafee, Specter, Crist, Murkowski, etc, are completely overlooked (or are given a nice attaboy pat on the back!).

Richard Mourdock was a great candidate. He was felled by snarky reporters, a stupid answer to a question, and a Mike Huckabee endorsed nominee in Missouri.

Do your research! There was no Tea Party in 2008 when Warner ran. His opponent was Jim Gilmore.

And conservatives do not want to “destroy the republican party.” We want to make it more conservative. That means electing conservatives to office and removing moderates or liberals, no matter what party they belong to.

[PapaBear3625]

It's amazing to see how ruthless and dirty the gop-e will fight when they are up against conservatives. They never fight like that against the democrats. That fact is very revealing.

The GOPe and the Dems are both arms of the permanent power structure. The job of the Dems is to implement socialism. The job of the GOPe is to prevent any real opposition to socialism.