Originally published “elsewhere”, October 20, 2011:
God-Damned Idiots.
I cannot describe how angry I am at the clown-car Republican candidate debates, Chris Christie, Mitt Romney, the punditry, the establishment–yep, pretty much the whole lot of ’em.
I have always been hostile to a third-party gambit; I still am. But the GOP seems hell-bent to have one. Ever since the Tea Party behaved magnificently and returned the GOP to power in an historic crushing mid-term defeat of the Communists currently defiling our Capitol, the GOP has been absolutely set on destroying the morale of the organization which restored the spirit of the Republican Party. Well, it’s not going to work.
If the RINOs insist on sabotaging the work of the Tea Party *to elect Republicans*, they will harm only themselves. The Tea Party has never supported and will never support a Democrat, and of course will not accept spineless tax & spend Republicans.
After failing to defend Palin, which now is paying off in the string of candidates burning like a fuse down to Mitt Romney as the “inevitable” nominee, the #OWS crowds have presented the GOP with an opportunity to show solidarity with the Tea Party–to contrast the platforms, prescriptions, and conduct of the groups. Instead, we get sons-of-bitches like Chris Christie expressing their sympathy for the commie footsloggers of #Occupy, and drawing close comparisons between the groups!
I’m not even going to describe the differences–where would I stop? The only similarity is the most depressing thing I have realized since the election of Barack Obama:
The Republican establishment sees the Tea Party in the same way that we see #Occupy. They always have, and that is why they cannot now see a difference. It certainly clarifies their foot-dragging, defeat-mongering approach to every fight we’ve helped them to win. Hank jr. was right that the sickening spectacle of Boehner playing golf with Obama was a betrayal of the Tea Party. He consistently negotiates with his left while battling against the right, instead of the other way around.
In their defective, deficit-addled math, they cannot see the dozens of seats gained by the Tea Party, and focus instead on O’Donnell and Angle. “The Tea Party cost us those two seats!” they shout, and scheme to prevent us from bringing any more conservatives to bear.
Unless the GOP has declared war on the Tea Party, some of its leading lights need to man up and apologize. Otherwise, the GOP runs the risk of a split which could add nearly useless, tiny third party to our system–the Republican Party.
Does the bench look any deeper at all this time? (Pace, Trump.) Is *anybody* incorporating ideas from the “upstarts”? (Who seem to me to be a bit fractured, now, themselves.) Asking b/c I’m trying to corral the Jello that 16 ‘contenders’ seem intent on concocting…
Good to have you back, btw!
Thank ya! Heck, I don’t know. I’m kind of paying attention and kind of not. Much of what the campaigns will be about don;t matter much to me, not because it’s not interesting or important, but because I think it won’t actually matter.
Either we get an ass-kicker in there or we get our asses kicked again. beyond that, policy may be important or may not. It;s all so much blather without somebody to actually bell the cat.
I would submit that ANY organization that feels “threatened” reacts by trying to kill the threat. The Republican Party has a long, entrenched history of “working your way up”. Trouble is, those “working their way up” are mostly unacceptable to a lot of Americans, who are looking for a real change.
There are, as there always are, different factions pulling in different directions. It is the character of politicians that they need to address these divergent purposes so as to not alienate any. Thus you will note that the regular Republican Party has noted the overall anger about Obamacare, and so gives lip service to repealing it.
But it won’t. It doesn’t have the fortitude nor leadership to stand up to the president. There are any number of ways to take him on, but they won’t do any because “it’s not good for the country”. So defunding sections of the government is not good, but letting this yoyo run rampaant over the nation is.
Mitt Romney was a perfectly nice man. But he showed no fire to take on the bad guys. He had no arguments to defeat the other side. He had no leadership to set forth a course for the nation. He was not elected, and that was certainly because significant numbers of conservatives didn’t vote FOR him. They didn’t vote for BO; they just took a pass.
If Jeb Bush gets the nomination, I will join those ranks and take a pass on voting for a presidential candidate. I will not vote for another Bush. I voted for the last 2, and they were huge disappointments. No more. Don’t much care who gets into the White House. The Republicans have already demonstrated that they have no idea what to do with power, so giving them the WH is simply a waste of time.
Do you really want Hillery in the White House? Even The Donald would be better.
It is not clear that Hillary would be any worse than Obama. And he would seem probably survivable. People seem to be slowly awakening to all the damage he has done. Perhaps Hillary would simply solidify resistence to the left and their particularl brand of poison.
On rereading this I am reminded of a book I recently read called The Presidents War. At the outset of the Civil War there were 6 living present and former presidents. The book runs through what all Lincoln did, and how they reacted to his moves.
What is interesting is that they, too, were against Lincoln. They continuously argued basically for the status quo antebellum. But nothing was the same; they just didn’t realize it. Only Van Buren seemed to agree with Lincoln. Tyler, of course, was a traitor to the union and probably the primary cause for Virginia, and with it North Carolina, going to the Confederacy. Virginia’s initial position in the convention was 75% for staying in the union.
In many ways we see the same thing with the Republican party. They just don’t seem to have grasped there has been a paradigm shift.