Establishment GOP Surrender Grows the Conservative Movement

conservativehq.com ^ | 10/17/13

[cotton1706]

Right now establishment Republicans and their short-term allies in the media think they won and conservatives lost when Capitol Hill Republicans abandoned the fight to defund ObamaCare and obtain real spending reform as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling.

In fact history shows us that the exact opposite is true.

While the long knives of the establishment may be out for Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, and their cohorts in the House, from a strategic perspective this apparent defeat was a win for conservatives, and here’s why.

Millions of Tea Party and limited government constitutional conservatives, who were disheartened by the failures of the 2012 campaign, have been re-energized by the battle to defund ObamaCare – and now they understand that, as much or more than Obama and the Democrats, the enemy is the Republican establishment.

Their energy and anger means those Republicans who were on the surrender side of the ObamaCare battle are done as national leaders.

Sure, they may hang on to their present positions for a while, but in the eyes of the Republican grassroots they are all politically dead.

Just as the battle over the Panama Canal Treaty back in the 1970s grew the New Right – it also effectively ended the presidential prospects of establishment Republican Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, who backed it and assured its ratification; the same will be true of those Republicans who surrendered on ObamaCare and raising the debt ceiling.

And here’s the first evidence of the truth of our analysis – no one in the surrender caucus is heading for Iowa or New Hampshire today to tout their success in bringing the battle to a close.

[cotton1706]

The GOP Leadership's complicity with the democrats has certainly woke a lot of people up.

But they've protected themselves, McConnell and Cornyn were just reelected, and Boehner, McCarthy and McMorris-Hyphen are from states Obama won. Only Steve Scalise will catch hell from his constituents, and the jungle primary in LA will probably protect him.

[SMARTY]

“The GOP Leadership’s complicity with the democrats has certainly woke a lot of people up.”

The GOP has done this before, but NOW people feel especially betrayed!

NO Conservative wants to be ‘marooned’ over THERE!

[kevslisababy]

Just last night I received a letter begging for money from the RNC. Boy, did I have fun with that.

[Travis McGee]

A key part of the CRimenibus Bill, agreed to by both wings of the Uniparty, was raising corporate contribution limits to the sky.

This was done to squeeze out every candidate not favored by GlobalCorp Inc.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I’m beginning to think third-party nominee if a GOPe gets the nomination. I’m thinking a big name, like Ted Cruz. I think he could actually win as a third party candidate. Hell, Perot almost got 20%.

Jeb won’t win, anyway. And it would send a message to the GOPe.

[Rumplemeyer]

I’m beginning to think third-party nominee if a GOPe gets the nomination. I’m thinking a big name, like Ted Cruz. I think he could actually win as a third party candidate. Hell, Perot almost got 20%.

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That evil troll Perot gave us BJ Clinton and the present Democrat Party.
Yea, third party, that’s the ticket!

[Liz]

El Bushman Jeffo acts like Nov 2014 was a clarion call to him. (Snort) that's what he planned to say....except he would have been laughed off the political stage.

AS FREEPER TEXAS EAGLE INSIGHTFULLY POSTED: Enjoy your day in the sun, Jeb. The ground is shifting beneath you and it's going to swallow you up. RINOs are clueless WRT their looming demise---it's rising from below----the teeming grass roots.

"Statehouses and Governorships from coast to coast, border to border are being inundated with Tea Partiers or, at the very least, Republicans who espouse Tea Party beliefs and principles."

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FREEPER ACTION ALERT--Every time we contact Pubbies---include this winning list of OUR votes, as a sober reminder.

The treasure trove of "The Midterm Democrat Demolition Derby" and down-ticket state wins have yet to be fully- mined, but this we know:

<><> REPUBLICANS (NOT THE GOPE) WON STUNNING ELECTORAL HISTORY...

<><> midterms were a massive and awesome rejection of liberals;

<><> Landrieu's loss means Southern Democrats control not a single governorship, US senator or legislative chamber,

<><> Democrat losses stretch from the Carolinas westward to Texas,

<><> Of 140 Southern States election districts---110 went Republican.

<><> GOP's House majorities are so huge and solid NBC's Chuck Todd says Dems can't recapture losses until 2022.

<><> Some pundits say Republicans have a 100-year majority;

<><> when the next US Senate convenes, 30 lock-stepping Democrats who voted for Obamacare are gone.

<><> Ark and Ill (Clinton hometowns) have Repub governors---important in a prez race b/c guvs control party machinery.

<><> Unprecedented MINN 6th Congressional district---every single House and Senate district went Repub

<><>GOP now controls the MINN State House.

<><> Ohio's historic GOP statehouse takeover (Gun Control is toast)

<><> Ohio's Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, Secy of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer--all R---Sup/Ct - 6 R/1 D

<><> Britt Hume: "latino vote is zilch"---"over-50" is significant 30% voting segment.

<><> Republicans unified control: gov/legislature in 23 states (per Ntl Conference of State Legislatures factoid).

<><> Repub governorships: Florida, Tx, Ill, Ohio, Mich, MD, Wisconsin, NC, GA, Mass. .

<><> GOP has every congressional seat in Arkansas; first time in 141 years...

<><> Environmentalists fogged out---suffered huge losses.

<><> Gun Control Candidates blitzed.

<><> "War on Women" became a ntl joke.

<><> Clinton's politically useless---most candidates they flacked lost.

<><> Montana, So/Dakota and West/VA Dems were forced to retire; no hope of getting re-elected,

<><> Repubs hold 246 House seats (Dems 188), the largest GOP advantage since the Truman administration after World War II. An Arizona recount leaves one House race still outstanding.

<><> 73 percent of LA's white voters say told they "strongly disapproved" of the president.

<><> Arizona Republican McSally wins last open House seat after recount (Gaby Giffords seat)

<><> McSally's Arizona win gives GOP 5-4 advantage in the Arizona congressional delegation,

<><>Republican Congress holds largest House majority in 83 years...

[MrB]

“s u r r e n d e r”

Funny - that’s not how you spell “betrayal”...

[CyberAnt]

“... in the eyes of the Republican grassroots they are all politically dead.”

And .. the traitors think they got away with it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The road to ridding ourselves of this crowd is gonna be ugly.

IMHO it will require a third-party, and years of wandering in the desert while the most radical Democrats like Lizzie Warren run the show, as the GOPe runs a continual distant third until they become the Whigs.

At some point the nation will wretch and recoil against what the Socialists are doing. And the Chamber of Commerce will come crawling on it’s hands and knees, begging us to take this cup from them.

But it will be a long, hard slog.

[DaveA37]

“I’m beginning to think third-party nominee”.........

A lot of us have been thinking and wishing for that for a long while. The time is “ripe”, pick the fruit.

[bert]

You are delusional, dangerously delusional

There are only two independent congress critters and one of them is totally bonkers.

A third party presidential candidate is merely a pretender. Voting for the pretender is a cop out

[PoloSec]

Middle class Americans have no jobs, those who do; their wealth has been significantly degraded, the only thing they can afford to pay now is attention; the lies, deceit, and the complicity of the GOPe with progressive liberal democrat communists is becoming ever so obvious to those who previously were at best apathetic to political deception.

[VRWC For Truth]

Your GOP letter of the month club SUCKS. LMAO at a loser. Please go to the GOP kneepad forum.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I’m beginning to think third-party nominee if a GOPe gets the nomination. I’m thinking a big name, like Ted Cruz. I think he could actually win as a third party candidate. Hell, Perot almost got 20%.”

I would go with Paul, because he would siphon off more rat votes. This pot legalization movement is tailor made for him.

[Louis Foxwell]

Cruz, Palin, Lee and other conservative patriot politicians believe the Republican party can be taken over and returned to its roots. If it cannot the nation cannot.

[Gaffer]

I agree with the premise of the article. Establishment GOP is my enemy, perhaps worse than Democrats because of their treachery leading up to November’s election.

These conniving, appeasing cowards think they have the best of both worlds now, but the are sorely mistaken.

[lakecumberlandvet]

I’m starting to see a pattern here. /sarc

[lakecumberlandvet]

Sounds good on paper but the bloated, intrusive, out-of-control, huge, oppressive, unconstitutional federal government keeps right on trucking. Increasing republican numbers doesn’t necessarily mean decreasing the rampant growth of government.

[matthew fuller]

"and now they understand that, as much or more than Obama and the Democrats, the enemy is the Republican establishment. "

AMEN!