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Grassroots Conservatives Stage GOP Intervention
Hey, GOP, what’s happening? I assume you’re wondering what we’re doing at your place. I understand you’ve been fearful that this Trump fellow will end up running a third-party campaign. But let’s talk turkey: Given that you’ve lost the popular vote in five of the last six national elections, it’s safe to say that Trump’s running a third-party campaign right now. So let me just cut to the chase: we’re worried about you and are staging an intervention.
Let’s face facts: you have been favoring your holy trinity of DC elites, Wall Street and the Chamber of Commerce at the expense of your principled-conservative base for too long. Somebody has to go and if it’s not going to be politically-connected elites then it’s going to be someone who can’t do without: working-class families. In other words, us.
The choice is yours. To be competitive you must resist the temptation to look back toward your old cronies who are only holding you down. You’re better than them anyway. They’ll always have the Democrats to turn to anyway — better supply line, etc.
It’s clear that you’ve been in denial. That’s okay. Understandable, even. You’ve been doing admirably well at winning nickel-and-dime governorships. Ensuring that the party wasn’t poisoned by the Affordable Care Act by denying it even a single Republican vote in Congress was a nice move. Something for people to talk about and so forth. But if you’re going to survive as a party you need to make changes — big changes.
So, what are the nuts and bolts of it? Well, the Import-Export Bank for example? Gone, as in John-Edwards gone. Waiting to repeal Obamacare’s medical device tax on behalf of your cronies before repealing the mandate on your real friends — individuals? History.
And another thing: it’s time you stopped trying to shift the blame onto Democrats for government shutdowns and started taking credit for them, at least until such a time that the government is sufficiently small that we can actually take pride in it. It’s a heavy lift, I know. To get through this you’ll need to look forward. Forward to a time when visiting our nation’s capital fills Americans with civic pride rather than symbolic dread of Leviathan. And we’re here to help you every step of the way.
Otherwise, we’re going to start hanging out with Switzerland.
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Dave ,are you the guy with the glasses and the bald spot in the shot?
Color me skeptical. I don’t think the GOP will be ready to sober up until it’s hit rock bottom.
Genius. Thank you.
PHCheese – I’m out of frame spiking the punch: it’s the sort of back-room deal I deplore.
“Okay. Last time.
This is government spending.
This is America on government spending.
Any questions?”
This is my fear also. The most baffling thing about the omnibus fiasco isn’t that it happened, but when it happened.
Every news site, poll, etc. has shown Trump leading and times where Cruz, Carson, and Fiorina plus Trump >60% of the support. Any sane person looks at that stops to think for 10 seconds:
Not this crew. Not Paul Ryan, Pete Sessions, Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn. They are sitting in their wing back leather chairs saying:
I think you are correct. It may have to get much worse before it gets better.
Mungo like spiked punch.
They won’t hit rock bottom until we raise the floor. They’re falling, they deny it. The sooner the collective GOPe face hits the deck, the better off we’ll all be.
The RINOs are going down.
Lois Lerner killed the tea party. That may have been our last chance. RINOs will go DEMOCRATIC before giving up power.
I’m not worried about a third party campaign. At this point, I just want to see a genuine second party campaign. But I’m not holding my breath. If you won’t see the light even after being hit with a tire iron, then you don’t want to change. So at this point I’m with Lenin: The worse, the better.
Tim
This assumes,of course,that it survives as a political party.
Looks like Governor Martinez isn’t ready to embrace sobriety quite yet. Maybe after the New Year’s party.
Based on her proclivity to getting her drink on I assume Governor Martinez serves as her own secret service detail.
Had a very depressing family reunion last night. My Acela Corridor relatives were in town for a Christmas get together, regaling me with stories on how they’re going to elect Jeb! the next president.
OK, I need to know, how much had they been drinking? No sober person could ever make such a statement.
And we have another person who’s so infatuated with their own revolutionary nonsense that they can’t read their own political side’s history.
The GOP is actively shunning it’s most loyal member of the base, in favor for sucking up to the special interest lobbyists, open borders crowd and Wall Street, all of which will gladly turn tail and support Democrats if it serves them. The GOP simply cannot out-crony, out-amnesty and out-liberal the liberals and foolish to try.
This x 1000.
Indeed. That hive of scum and villainy can’t disband soon enough.
Martinez seems intent on putting the “party” back into the Republican Party.
This is fantastic!
Exactly. Even an avid Jeb supporter (and I’ve never met one) can’t make that claim unless under the influence, if not of alcohol, of fever dreams.
David, Many thanks for crystallizing the sense of millions as we watch the never-ending disconnect between Republicans on the hustings and behavior once in office.
Well, the individual mandate has exactly 0% chance of being repealed with the current executive in office. Should they have waited to repeal the medical device tax (which is something that can actually get done) until the individual mandate can be repealed? That sounds silly to me.
What if rock bottom for the GOP coincides with rock bottom for the country?
Very enjoyable post, David. Thanks!
Wish only that you had added that the elite will now have to abandon their dream of endless cheap labor from across the border. But maybe that would have been trite.
Sometimes that is necessary in discovering the error of one’s way.
I’m glad you enjoyed it, Tommy.