Whether they realize it or not, the GOP establishment is sowing the seeds for the complete destruction of the Republican Party.
Read his lips
In 1980, they tried to get a moderate, pseudo-conservative nominated for President but had to settle for their man occupying the number two slot when Americans rallied around a real conservative in Ronald Reagan.
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In 1996, they selected their “next man in line” as the nominee only to see him trounced by Bill Clinton.
In 2000, a man who claimed the mantle of conservatism (though ended up a disappointment in many ways) stole the nomination from the Establishment’s beloved “maverick” and ended up with two terms.
Not a fighter
Then in 2008, they crowned yet another non-conservative as the nominee who ended up as cannon fodder for the Obama campaign.
After the McCain debacle and the Obama nightmare, millions of Americans stood up and formed the Tea Party movement. It is an underappreciated fact that Tea Partiers are almost as disgusted with non-conservative Republicans as we are with the Marxist policies of the Obama administration. If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem, and squishy Republicans like Chris Christie are mere placeholders in many respects, useless in terms of advancing a real conservative agenda.
The GOP has seen us. They have heard us. They know what we believe, how dedicated we are, and by now must know that we are not going away. We saw how well their preference for a moderate worked in 1996 and 2008. Yet they are trying once again, with the aid of former conservatives like Ann Coulter and others, to put their big government pseudo-conservative on the ticket.
They are going to kill the Republican Party.
I am a proud tea party activist. I am very well connected with scores of my fellow tea partiers. Up until now we have uniformly rejected talk of a third party because we know our history and are very familiar with the results of third party candidates in 1912, 1992, and 2000.
But if the GOP Establishment insists on putting another non-conservative up as our nominee, we may have no option other than to form a genuinely conservative third party.
Pseudo-Conservative
The GOP, in its perennial push to select another Big Government corporatist, is committing suicide by circling the wagons for the northeast liberal who is Mitt Romney.
Don’t say that we didn’t warn you.
Same thing happened to the Demo’s years ago, we just don’t learn from short history.
Ev
You don’t get it: You’re trying to destroy the GOP =for them=.
If it’s not gonna be about spreading money and having power, why would they care whether or not it exists at all?
This is exactly how I’ve been feeling!! Especially after what they did to us in Virginia! Our governor (a true disappointment that I still find so hard to believe that he would endorse someone who’s views differ so much from his own) posted a picture on facebook and a message that he was in Florida campaigning for Mittens. He was excoriated immediately by myself and my fellow Virginians!!
You’re exactly right. This is a conversation that is going on around the country in many households.
By the way, why DOES Romney have a Swiss bank account? Just one more of the many questions he won’t be asked by the mainstream media.
As a Marxist revolutionary I can’t say I’m gloating over your predicament here, since I don’t see an Obama victory as a good thing either, but it would be entertaining to see the Tea Party start up an actual third party.
If you are really into the whole Marxism thing – which is nothing more than slavery to the State – might I suggest that you relocate to a Marxist country so that you can get a real taste of the immoral system that you love. Living in California like you do – enjoying the fruits of capitalism while seeking its destruction – is quite hypocritical, comrade.
Hypocritical? Nope, comrade, I wouldn’t be able to work for a revolution here if I lived elsewhere. Sorry, but you’re just going to have to live with me here, or if you’d like there are lots of other capitalist countries you could move to.
Good luck with that. Your opponents are tougher and have the moral high ground over wannabe slave-masters like you.
As a left leaning anarchist (you could call me an anarcho-communist), I have to say, I’m reveling in much delight watching the GOP tear itself apart. The truth is, it is the TEA Party that killed the GOP with it’s insistence on trickle down economics, abortion/contraceptive bans, and hostility to gay rights. Yours is a party of the gilded age, the party of fearful little white men. Keep up with the social issues, and keep convincing yourself that going more to the right is the solution, Stay in your thought bubbles because if you decide to come out of them, then we might actually have to take you on on your own terms. It’s better If you guys just bury yourselves deeper whilst I munch on popcorn. I know you guys think we’re pure evil, but really, it’s the other way around, why else do you think the GOP is increasingly becoming a minority?