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Party Bashing
Conservatives turn their fire on the Republican Party. From our new March issue.
In his kiss-and-tell book about the second Bush administration, former White House speechwriter Matthew Latimer recounts drafting a presidential address to the largest gathering of conservative activists in the country. The president wasn’t happy with the frequent references to the conservative movement in the text. “Let me tell you something,” George W. Bush is quoted as saying. “I whupped Gary Bauer’s ass in 2000. So take out all this movement stuff. There is no movement.”
Even if the tale is apocryphal, it captures the often abusive relationship between the conservative movement and the Republican Party. Millions of self-described conservatives manned the trenches for George W. Bush and the GOP. By the end of his presidency, many of them felt whupped by their own party. Now some of them are fighting back.
Case in point is the Not One Penny to the National Republican Senatorial Committee campaign, a boycott launched by conservatives who believed the NRSC — an official party structure — was systematically favoring moderate candidates in GOP primaries. Whenever possible, conservatives feared, the national party was trying to coronate the moderates and avoid competitive primaries altogether.
The Not One Penny crusaders first took to the blogosphere and social networking websites after the NRSC decided to weigh into the Florida Senate race on behalf of Gov. Charlie Crist, who was running to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Mel Martinez. But a former state house speaker, Marco Rubio, was also a candidate. Both in Florida and across the country, many activists considered Rubio the better conservative. They resented what they saw as meddling by Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas Republican who chairs the NRSC.
At the time the NRSC began leaning toward Crist, Cornyn’s logic looked solid. Not only did polls show Crist with a commanding lead over Rubio (Mason-Dixon put Crist ahead 53 percent to 18 percent), but the Florida governor had a huge cash advantage and was up by as much as 34 points in head-to-head match-ups with likely Democratic candidates. Crist wouldn’t need much financial help from the national party. He would be a heavy favorite against almost any Democrat in November. And he even appeared to be the choice of Florida Republicans. So why not support him?
But early polls reflect little more than name recognition and are often subject to change. Exposed to a competitive campaign, Floridians who vote in the GOP primary might make a different decision. “When 2008 dawned the Democratic presidential nomination was Hillary Clinton’s to lose,” Larry Thornberry wrote on the TAS website. “But no one expected her to.” We all remember how that turned out.
Similarly, the Florida Republican primary no longer looks like a done deal for Charlie Crist. A late January Quinnipiac poll showed Rubio leading 47 percent to 44 percent, within the margin of error but still a huge turnaround from those early surveys predicting a Crist cakewalk. The same poll showed Rubio ahead of the major Democratic candidates in the general election, undermining any “electability” argument against the conservative’s candidacy.
This dramatic polling turnaround suggested the NRSC was premature in picking a horse in the Florida race. But to many conservative activists, it was also part of a pattern of official party support for moderates and hostility to conservatives. The Not One Penny group’s battle cry: “First they supported Chafee. Then they supported Specter. Now they support Crist.” This refers to the NRSC’s backing of liberal Republican Sens. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania against conservative primary challengers. Neither man is a Republican any longer; Specter’s party switch ushered in a (short-lived) filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the Senate. The folks at home may have noticed that Specter’s shifting allegiances also nearly led to a federal government takeover of the American health care system.
The NRSC’s mission is not to further conservative principles. Rather, it is to elect as many Republican senators as it can at the lowest possible cost. If this means supporting a moderate or liberal Republican over a lesser-known conservative, then this is precisely what the NRSC can be expected to do. This is true of virtually every official arm of the national GOP: all other things being equal, candidates with lots of money and impressive early poll numbers are generally going to be preferred over candidates without these qualifying attributes. Whether a candidate agrees with the Republican platform or is to the left of Che Guevara is much lower on the party’s list of priorities.
Conservatives are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that furthering their principles will sometimes actually require conflict with official party organs. Heated intraparty fights between moderates and conservatives are nothing new, predating even the battles between Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller. Neither is there anything new about the sense that party leaders stack the deck against conservatives. The right denounced the deal-making that denied Robert Taft the Republican presidential nomination, handing it instead to the Eastern establishment choices Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower.
WHAT IS NEW IS THE GROWING sense among conservatives that explicit or even implicit support from the Republican establishment is itself evidence of a candidate’s moderation. Erick Erickson of the activist-centered conservative blog RedState.com has repeatedly highlighted NRSC involvement in Republican primary campaigns, since the committee often eschews direct endorsements and instead collaborates with candidates on fundraising. Erickson denounced the party’s favored candidates as moderates.
“I realize we’re playing adolescent word games with the NRSC when it comes to Carly Fiorina,” Erickson wrote in December. “Just last week, John Cornyn said the NRSC would not be endorsing anyone, including Carly Fiorina. Reconciling that with the fact that the NRSC is entering into a joint fundraising venture with Fiorina is impossible.” The post’s subhead read, “Fiorina, Ayotte, and Grayson become establishment candidates. That means they must all three be beaten.” Carly Fiorina (CA), Kelly Ayotte (NH), and Trey Grayson (KY) are all preferred by party leaders though they face credible primary opponents.
Even before the anger at the NRSC reached full boil, conservatives were coping by building their own competing structures inside and outside the party to promote their own favored candidates. Sen. Jim DeMint, the South Carolina conservative who chairs the Senate Republican Steering Committee, set up the Senate Conservatives Fund to raise money for conservative GOP candidates. In some races, this mission has put it in direction competition with the national party. DeMint’s group has gone against the NRSC grain by endorsing Rubio in Florida and Chuck DeVore in California. Possible endorsements of Rand Paul in Kentucky and Ovide Lamontagne in New Hampshire could follow.
Asked about this apparent conflict after weighing into the California GOP primary, DeMint told the Hill he had a somewhat different strategy than the NRSC. “John Cornyn has picked a candidate he thinks can win and I picked one that I believe can not only win the primary but the general [election] and when he gets here, he’s going to help us turn this Congress around,” DeMint said last year. The Senate Conservatives Fund has also endorsed two other candidates, Michael Williams in Texas and Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania. But the available resources won’t be equal: The Conservatives Fund raised $1.2 million through last November, compared to the NRSC’s imposing $37 million.
Some conservative groups operate outside the party structure. The Club for Growth has been a bête noire of moderate Republicans since 1999. Despite its focus on fiscal policy — tax cuts, spending restraint, free trade — the Club’s efforts have pulled Republicans to the right on issues across the board. But it does not limit its endorsements to Republicans, has gotten involved in Democratic primaries, and has even been criticized for pushing its policy agenda to the detriment of GOP electoral interests. After the 2006 and 2008 elections, even some conservatives blamed the Club for costing Republicans a handful of congressional seats by helping weaker but ideologically congenial candidates win their primaries.
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W. James Antle, III, author of the new book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?, is editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation and a senior editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jimantle.
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NVA PAtriot| 3.3.10 @ 6:44AM
Mr. Antle,
What your seeing is in somes ways simpler and more sophisticated than the political class has yet acknowledged. Up until recently, Conservatives and libertarians knew there were problems but we could not clearly identify the issue. It was the reason people said, "both parties are the same."
Thanks to Glenn Beck and others, we have crystalized what our problem is and identified the progressive movement and it's outcomes as the cancer attacking our society. The Tea Party and most libertaians who are active in politics now get it. We know what the problem is and we are identifying the problem in both parties. As the elections take place over the next few cycles watch as the "progressiveness" of a candidate is evaluated. When there is a viable (no truther/birther/ethics challenged) 'less progressive candidate' than the other, the less progressive candidate will win. Sometimes it will be a Republican liberal in MA. Sometimes it will be a Paulite in KY. Sometimes it will be a real conservative in FL. But we are identifying and attacking the progressives and we are going to root them out. It's just easier to start with the Republican party at this time.
Stiopping health care is crucial to that strategy so that they do not control so much of our lives that they cannot be defeated. That is their objective over the next 100years is total control ofsociety through environmental law (no true property rights), Government education (progressive indoctrination) and last through healthcare (no medicine unless you support teh progressive, right ideas). With that strategy, 2010 midterms mean nothing to them - hence the need for political sucide votes we're now likely to see by today's progressives, giving their all to the cause. One thing I hope to see is that the inherent greed for power of today's progressives makes them less likely to take those suicide votes because they want their power NOW and will not sacrifice for the greater progressive future.
Copyleft| 3.3.10 @ 9:55AM
You may not realize it, but you've just made the "lesser of two evils" argument that the GOP leadership relies on. As long as they know you'll vote AGAINST whoever the Democrats nominate, they can safely ignore the tea parties and small-government protestors, because they still own your votes.
I don't agree with your agenda, but I'm 100% behind those that acknowledge the problem with a two-party stranglehold on American politics.
Alan Brooks| 3.23.10 @ 12:30AM
Copyleft,
Aye, but you have no agenda yourself, because you hold no core values that are constant.
Your outmoded 20th century progressivism is finished-- yet you are the last to know.
Alan Brooks| 3.23.10 @ 12:33AM
... but at least Obama is no fool, unlike YOU, Copyleft.
Obama is a winner, like the proverbial guy who laughs all the way to the bank.
Franklin| 3.3.10 @ 12:50PM
NVA Patriot, thank you for this post.
In looking for candidates that are less progressive also means looking for candidates for smaller government. Until they are elected, we have no voting record to evaluate so we must judge the character - something that is near impossible with politicians.
Currently we need to replace any Democrat with a Republican to stop Obama's agenda. Then after a couple election cycles we can focus on the politician (no matter their letter after the name) that is progressive/big government.
I think a third party will be necessary in the future. Uber Left: Progressive, Center: Republicrat or Demolican, Right: Conservative. Or something like that.
Alan Brooks| 3.5.10 @ 10:26AM
The GOP has been clueless since the moment the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.
The GOP will go the way of the Whigs.
Cris Worth| 3.3.10 @ 7:27AM
W. Bush was an ungrateful man....conservatives like Jerry Falwell bent over backwards to help re-elect him in 2004 but now the entire liberal GOP establishment is on notice,...NO MAS! Paul's victory in the CPAC straw poll is a good start. All conservatives/libertarians/tea partiers must unite and defeat the next assembly line liberal Republican Presidential candidate named Willard "Mitt" Romney.
loulou| 3.3.10 @ 12:34PM
And Pawlenty, Gingrich and Huckabee better get the message--we will not support Appeasing Republicans. They can go join the Democrat Party.
George Harper| 3.3.10 @ 1:02PM
Cris,
Are you a Jerry Falwell conservative or a Ron Paul conservative? Seems to me they're miles apart ...
Cris Worth| 3.3.10 @ 3:22PM
Conservative...constraining the federal government according to the constitution and the federal government protecting all individual rights listed in the constitution. For example border control is a federal government responsibilty and all immigration laws need to be enforced or changed to protect American citizens. All wars need a Congressional declaration before one troop is sent overseas. Congress is responsible to coin money not a private bank aka Federal Reserve. The census, national defense and the patent office are federal responsibilities too. Abortion, health care, education, energy and the environment to name a few are 10th ammendment issues therefore up to the states and the people. Yes I'm more of a Ron Paul conservative and ecstatic he beat Romney who governed as a big time liberal.
JohnJay60| 4.21.10 @ 7:58PM
Ron Paul opposed the Iraq War - as did President Obama. I would like all of those who accused anit-war Democrats of being unpatriotic to make a clear, similar statement about Congressman Paul.
martin j smith| 3.3.10 @ 7:34AM
If the Republican party does not have the backbone to stop Obama Care, they are then irrelevant.
John - TMF| 3.3.10 @ 7:42AM
Shades of the Gipper's 1975 CPAC speech.
1. Political parties are election machines, not ideological stalking horses. The candidates endorsed and nominated by any political party will ultimately be those people who can marshal the money and support to run, not necessarily be "right". This is a rule for ALL political parties, not just the GOP. Occam ’s razor dictates a two party political system. Unless the "Tea Party" movement can replace the GOP (and thereby becoming the “GOP”) it will be doomed to A) electing Democrats by pluralities running against fractured opposition and B) going the way of the Reform Party which elected Bill Clinton twice, and then died on the sword of Buchananism.
2. If the Tea Party movement wants to be effective and a great benefit to the polity of the United States, it fortifies the GOP by ceasing the blind irrational cynicism and helps to keep the Republican Party on the right of center. This takes a level a maturity and patience that I am afraid our general society might not have.
The GOP Establishment has the money, and the keys of power. It controls the agenda, and sometimes that agenda is as Mr. Antle points out, getting an R into office. If Tea Party folks want to make a difference, then they must join the county committees. They must submit candidates for nomination, work hard to win elections at the committee level. They also need to learn not to walk away when they lose. Politics is a give and take, it is also a real understanding that the battle is never over, and the opposition will never accept defeat. "The ok... We won... Now we’re going home." thing is a strategy for failure. It sounds noble, but the other guys are just waiting to take the field that you just abandoned.
3. And that leads me to the last item. Please be aware that the Democrat/Marxist/Fascist/Statist Party has internalized and understood this hard and fast rule; "say what they want, do what you will". In passing this healthcare monster, they will sacrifice their majorities and seats to impose the state into the intimate lives of all Americans. They know that even if 2010 is a disaster electorally, they will merely allow the GOP to occupy the driver's seat just before the crash. Of course they have internalized the following realities of their opposition:
A) It is fractions, easily mocked by the Propaganda Mills that they still hold absolute control over.
B) It is prone to quitting in anger, or out of blind adherence to ethereal “principle” which often proves politically suicidal. The Left has no principle but the power of the state.
C) It will "quit" after winning in 2010, and be unable to repeal anything while “The One” occupies the White House, which as the economy continues disintegrate, will seek to blame the Republicans for the failure. Of course with their easy hypocrisy they will filibuster any attempt past 2012 to repeal their monster, thus leaving it to the courts to dismantle and we all know where that often goes. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid where never truly constitutional; but they have never been struck down by any court. The Left will have its fait accompli it will have replaced religion, enterprise, health, and life with the State.
It's ugly. The Tea Party folks need to go where they are most useful or they risk contributing to the decline by useless fits of self-destruction.
R/The Mighty Fahvaag
Siegfried X| 3.3.10 @ 10:28AM
" They also need to learn not to walk away when they lose.... the battle is never over, and the opposition will never accept defeat... the other guys are just waiting to take the field that you just abandoned. "
Yes and the RINOs are part of the opposition. There must be eternal struggle against liberal Republicans for control of the party, just as we must fight the Democrats. The RINOs never give up, so neither can conservative Republicans.
And one tactic for battling the RINOs is to SELECTIVELY sit out certain races, like by voting third party conservative. Just as liberal Republicans like Colin Powell threaten to vote Democratic if they aren't happy with the Republican Party. We need to be as tough as they are.
If liberal Republicans want our loyalty as party members, then they need to treat us as part of the party. Like giving our candidates a fair chance in the primaries. Liberal Republicans in power need to act like party members instead of rogues.
tatosian| 3.3.10 @ 2:21PM
Nonsense.
1- If political parties are just “election machines” rather than “ideological stalking horses”, how do you explain the undeniable success of progressive democrats in imposing their progressive ideology on the American people? Why do republicans and conservatives insist that adhering to a political ideology cannot work when we see it work, consistently, for progressives?
And Frankly, this “fractured opposition” argument has everything to do with republicans maintaining power and nothing to do with the needs or the God given rights of the American citizen.
2- Proclaiming that Americans can be of no benefit to the nation unless they fortify a degenerate, corrupt and cowardly republican party is pure partisan hackery. Tea Partiers and town hallers are already having a beneficial effect on the American polity. And the Tea Partiers have done so by NOT fortifying the republican party. Read the Tea Party Declaration of Independence.
3- “Say what they want, do as you will” perfectly describes the republicans As for the GOP occupying the driver’s seat just before the crash…are you kidding? The republicans drove drunk for six years throwing hundred dollar bills out the windows while their conservatives sat in the back, dutifully paying for gas, checking the oil and rotating the tires at every stop.
A, B, C—Yada yada yada. We may proclaim the left to be unprincipled in achieving their goals, but the imposition of their progressive agenda upon us continues. Other than Bunning, where is the effective republican principled opposition? Don't talk principles when principles are nowhere in evidence within the republican party.
Finally, the republicans have been sounding the alarm regarding obama’s nation destroying agenda. One would think, with our very survival at stake, that republicans would sacrifice their fortunes, honor and very lives to defend us. Instead we get partisan drivel. We are told we must continue to support a profligate and corrupt republican party that will not put itself at risk while the quality of our lives continues to diminish.
Finally, it’s not the Tea Party that contributes to our decline; it’s the republicans.
tatosian| 3.3.10 @ 2:25PM
Sorry about the "finally" redundancy thing.
John - TMF| 3.3.10 @ 3:04PM
Simple.. you lose... always and in perpetuity.
The Democrats win because they stay loyal to a political party that gets them elected. Democrats have many ideological stances... some are enviros, some are socialists, some are this some are that, but above all all are Democrats, and all of them fervently believe that the State is the answer. The Party is a means to an end.
You suffer from the typical anti everything cynical angry, fruitless warfare against friends because opponents are too hard to defeat.
So. Understand this:
There will be NO, ZERO, Nadda, Zippy... Third Party that will win elections. It will not happen. The Core of the Republican Party is too large, influential, and established for any third party to garner more than 20 to 25 percent of any electorate. Which means the Dems win. Because they have a coalition that maintains a steady 40+% and that number hasn't changed for almost two centuries now.
The GOP is not the 30 year old Whigs. It is the 156 year old Republican Party.
And Finally... for real since I have better things to do than fence with the perpetually peeved and flailing....
IF a Third party did successfully replace the Republican Party (big IF) it would look and act EXACTLY like the Republican Party because it would be made up of exactly the same people.
Cynicism is cheap and easy. Everyone is evil except "me and mine".
Like I said... epic fail.
Tootles
TMF
Siegfried X| 3.3.10 @ 4:19PM
The purpose of a third party is to stimulate the Republican party, not to replace it. No one wins a negotiation by giving in as soon as negotiations start. Conservatives need to be able to walk away from the table sometimes, just as liberal Republicans like Colin Powell walk away by voting Democratic.
The last 15 years have proven that ALWAYS voting for the RINO doesn't work. Doing that gave us John McCain as candidate. It's not even worth debating.
Margie| 3.3.10 @ 5:13PM
Bravo TMF! You are so right on. Well said, and I for one thank you.
loulou| 3.3.10 @ 5:52PM
Third party or not, I will not vote for a RINO.
tatosian| 3.3.10 @ 7:57PM
"The Democrats win because they stay loyal to a political party that gets them elected. "
Well no. The democrats win because they find a way to give their base whatever they want; from abortions on demand to pushing the homosexual agenda on kindergartners.
And while the core of the Republican Party may be large and influential, and they may have a coalition that maintains a steady 40+%, none of that changes the fact that republicans can't seem to slow the progressive juggernaut down.
Pointing this out doesn't make me an anti-everything cynic. It makes me a realist.
And yes, you bet your partisan hack butt I'm angry. Why wouldn't I be?
The republicans have forsaken their oath to uphold the constitution and to safeguard my liberties for their own aggrandizement. If that were not the case, we would not be in the situation we are in now.
I made no mention of a third party. You scared?
Cynicism might indeed be cheap and easy. But how much easier is it to go along to get along, lapdog?
Tootles? What're we, girlfriends?
Simon Templar| 3.3.10 @ 4:50PM
Tatosian..you have nailed it! Principles..clear defined principles...an understanding of history..and the ability to articulate that to the population. All of which have been missing for nearly a hundred years as the disease of progressivism has marched on. We are at a crossroad. Those that understand and believe in the founding principles of our founding fathers and the original classic liberalism of our constitution and form of government MUST step forward, speak loudly, unify, and do what ever is necessary to protect and defend these principles. How can I make it anymore clear that THIS IS IT! No more compromise, no more corruption, no more useless infighting and misdirection. The time to take a clear stand has come. Decide where you stand...for or against. The forces of tyranny and enemies of liberty have been exposed....progressives! While we are sitting around debating and sniping..they are about to pass law that will give big statist government control over one sixth of our country and have realized the first and essential step toward all socialist agendas. So, yes, we must take back this Republican party and set it back on its original principles that it established in that school house by 1850 "tea party" plain folk.
Grant| 3.3.10 @ 7:46AM
What is the point of the 'R' if, once elected, the politicians only give us 'D' stuff?
They should be made to uphold the oaths they swear to the U.S. Constitution, one way or another.
Even Lincoln needs a do-over minus the Statist overreach.
Tim| 3.3.10 @ 8:07AM
We,Tea Party Rebels Are Taking Down NEO-DEM Turncoat Specter With Pennsylvania's Next Senator , Real Conservative Pat Toomey. The Rebellion Escalates.
maverick muse| 3.3.10 @ 8:16AM
"At the time the NRSC began leaning toward Crist, Cornyn's logic looked solid. Not only did polls show Crist with a commanding lead over Rubio (Mason-Dixon put Crist ahead 53 percent to 18 percent), but the Florida governor had a huge cash advantage and was up by as much as 34 points in head-to-head match-ups with likely Democratic candidates."
Yep. And last November, Hutchison's bid for the TX gubernatorial race polled 80% support from Texan Republicans. That support evaporated into thin air.
Homer| 3.3.10 @ 11:14AM
Hutchison's bid did evaporate into thin air. However the globalist Perry got the Repub's nomination. Moreno was the only decent choice. I will have to vote Libertarian if I vote at all.
VinceP1974| 3.3.10 @ 8:34AM
This country is in collapse. Most of the politician R's talk like nothing is going on. It's infuriating beyond belief.
obadiah| 3.3.10 @ 1:21PM
the politician R's are satisfied with the way things are because they got theirs.
the politician D's are satisfied with the way things are because they got theirs.
getting theirs is what they are good at.
Melvin| 3.3.10 @ 8:43AM
John, what you say does make sense, but, as odd as this sounds, many in the Tea Party movement just want to left the hell alone. In other words, they don't have any real interest in the minutia of the inner workings of either party, but T.P. people have been basically dealt a hand that gives them no choice but to enter into the political arena.
The rescission/depression was the tipping point
of it all. Everyone was cutting back, because no all Americans were going out and putting multiple mortgages on their homes, taking vacations they couldn't really afford, and buying themselves into hock.
There are millions of Americans who lived within their means, and now are getting slammed with the bill, "To be Paid in Full," for something we didn't even get a chance to enjoy, like charging multiple trips to Disney World.
And now many of us are hopping mad, and the Tea Party has been an outlet for this anger. Some might misconstrue this anger has revolutionary but, this anger is akin to a jilted wife when she finds out that her husband has cheated on her with the remark of, "How the hell, could you have done this to me."
This, "How the hell, could you have done this to me" is now directed at the Republican Party. And it is going to be a very, very long time before the Republican Party i.e. the leadership can ever be trusted again if at all.
I know the above is wordy, but my opinion is, the the Republican Party leadership doesn't understand or even want to understand where this anger originates from and the government is too quick to place the Tim McVeigh tag on all the Tea Party members as a wild bunch of inbred, toothless, bible and rifle carrying hayseeds hell bent on overthrowing the government.
Just goes to show you how both sides don't even know their own fellow Americans.
Louis Jenkins| 3.3.10 @ 11:07AM
Melvin:
“Everyone was cutting back, because no all Americans were going out and putting multiple mortgages on their homes, taking vacations they couldn't really afford, and buying themselves into hock.”
That’s what is so infuriating. People with common sense use their money wisely. They know their limitations and spend accordingly. (I guess I was raised in a different day and age, and I still read Franklin’s “Poor Richard’s Almanac”) Our elected criminals in the District have no compunction to ignore the bleeding red ink on the ledger sheet.
Senator Bunning, Kentucky, only asked for a way to pay for the unemployment benefits extension out of the funny money his cohorts had already created, and the statist media and most of the senate keel hauled him. Even the Dead Elephant senators let him stand alone. That is how those people think (if you call it thinking). They cannot tolerate anyone who even hints at monetary responsibility. Folks, it can’t continue this way for much longer. The District of Criminals is ‘fiddling while the nation burns’ and election day 2010 is getting closer. On that day we the voters will step into the booth and have to make a choice- evil or awful. The nation will continue to burn and only the basement will be saved. The foundation will be kaput.
Siegfried X| 3.3.10 @ 4:24PM
"many in the Tea Party movement just want to left the hell alone"
The problem is political pacifism doesn't work: eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
The Democrats are always looking to control us. The liberal Republicans are always looking to control the Republican Party. Either we fight back or they win.
ggoblue| 3.3.10 @ 8:43AM
lmao outreach to the democratic party....the party that voted 60 for 60 in the senate with barak obama...the party that called the tea party movement nazis....
we gonna reach out to them with the billy club on the first tuesday in november.
in the meantime we will vote conservative in any primaries.
Claire Solt| 3.3.10 @ 8:48AM
I don't think any of the pros or pundits really know what is happening. We had fourteen years of triangulation when bush and Clinton strode the center by stealing the other party's ideas. But beginning with Howard Dean's claim thaat he represented the Democratic wing of the Democratic party the Republocrat consensus blew up. Then came the Tea Parties to show Republicans that they did not like this consensus either. consequently, although all experts agree that the center rules, nobody really knows where that really is. Only the Shadow knows, for sure.
maverick muse| 3.3.10 @ 9:16AM
"This dramatic polling turnaround suggested the NRSC was premature in picking a horse in the Florida race. But to many conservative activists, it was also part of a pattern of official party support for moderates and hostility to conservatives."
You can say that again.
Hostility to conservatives is based upon hostility to the Constitution. Study "official" Republican whole cloth rhetoric fabricated to support re-elections; that Republican Party favors revisionism that doesn't stop with party platform but revises Constitutional Governance.
Republican Conservatism was revised into progressive Neoconservatism, just as the Democrats have evolved into progressive Socialists. Follow the legislative record. Progressive politics from the turn of the 20th century have permeated BOTH parties with varied shades of success. Pointing the witch-hunt finger at Conservative Constitutional candidates is meant to support more revisionism, more neoconservatism. Witness Republicans augmenting federal powers, lessening states' rights, higher taxes and less response from elected officials preoccupied augmenting their own affluent corruption.
Now, the point is to confront and rescind progressive elements and officials.
The Conservatism that nominated Barry Goldwater for GOP POTUS still exists but is NOT represented in today's neoconservative Republican Party. Goldwater's conservatism exists more in the Libertarian platform which Republicans now eschew and repudiate as "radical" in order to excuse their own corrupt revisionism.
Republican revisionism preempts local authority and dissolves Constitutional Rights. Incumbent neoconservative Republicans are fighting to retain "ownership" of the Republican Party.
Republicans unconstitutionally augmented Federal bureaucracies with powers and czars to dictate educational curriculum and mandate Statist infringements against free thought, personal expression and choice involving health decisions.
Constitutional Conservatives do not have possession of the Republican Party purse strings. Neoconservatives "own" the Republican Party if possession is 9/10th of the law.
Given that Washingtonian neoconservative Republicans direct the Republican Party's agenda, their obvious disconnect with Republican voters is the battleground.
Neoconservatives can play Alinsky games all they want against Constitutional Conservatives. Such media ridicule does not alter the record differentiating platform and candidate agenda.
Wounding the voters who support the Constitution only makes more obvious the distinctions between neoconservative corrupt party favorites currently confronted by the up and coming Conservative candidates and voters who actually represent the grassroots, i.e. the "real" American population paying taxes and voting.
The personal taxation fixed upon citizens bears witness every paycheck. The lack of employment resulting from decades of government mandates and favored nation trade status with China began no thanks to neoconservative Nixon-Kissinger.
Our nation's dire economy, higher taxes combined with failed official government services (community police, fire, roads, mail) coincides with the increase of protected services provided to illegal aliens.
Where incumbents fail their Constitutional duties to their constituents, vote Conservative.
When in doubt, consider:
Borders. Language. Culture.
ds80| 3.3.10 @ 9:33AM
The Tree of Liberty will be refreshed in Nov, 2010.
Or the ramparts will be stormed.
Dan Hirsch| 3.3.10 @ 9:36AM
NO PROBLEM! Just think this simple thought "Congressional Tea Party Caucus." Scott Brown would be your caucus chair. Caucus with the Republicans. When they see our growing numbers, they'll come a'runnin'. Then we'll have to keep a sharp eye on them. How hard is this?
Joe Lieberman caucuses with the Democrats, yet calls himself Independent, as does Bernie Sanders. Joe is too far right to be a Dem, Bernie thinks he is too far left to be a Dem; but they are both counted as Democrat seats in determining majority party status....
Actually Bernie just talks too far left to be a Democrat, philosophically he's probably in the middle of the (very narrow) left-right Democrat spectrum. He just didn't get the memo about pretending not to be Socialist.
Tenn Slim| 3.3.10 @ 9:45AM
Opine
Right on the money. B. Sanders is the ex mayor of Burlington, Vt and at his deepest heart, loves his folks.
He rants and raves a lot. but underneath he is a basically good guy.
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Neo-libertarian| 3.3.10 @ 9:41AM
I put this in AT yesterday, but it seems relevant here.
This is not rocket science. In the last election the revolt against the RINO’s in the Republican leaning voting pool (or protest non-voting pool) produced Obama. He alone has advanced the conservative voice and awareness of the electorate, far more than any nuance “lesser of two evils” primary candidate selection. The tide in reestablishing a constitutional ideology has already turned, even without an election. The RNC, the power brokers (some who reside on these blogs) and the established incumbency will not learn by reinforcement. Always vote for the constitutional candidate, the most conservative.
Let the cards fall where they may. Liberals have been stymied even with the WH, the Senate and the House.
The real important issue will not be the outcome of the 2010 November elections, it will be to get ALL the degrees of conservative candidates to pledge to completely replace the RINOs as committee chairs and committee members. They are the problem, not the incoming roster that achieved office by surviving the tea party environment.
Tenn Slim| 3.3.10 @ 9:43AM
If the Republican party does not have the backbone to stop Obama Care, they are then irrelevant. (and all other OBNA intiitatives)
bt
Precisely said. Current day Conservatives, IE: the New Breed do and have the backbone.
We Will Prevail come nov 2010
Semper Fi
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Bob Miller| 3.3.10 @ 10:12AM
Because they are a minority, the Republicans in Congress don't now have the ABILITY to stop Obamacare, unless enough Democrats can resist their own leaders pushing this reconciliation gambit. Republicans need more members of Congress, conservative of course, to have that ability. Without taking control of the Republican Party, how exactly can conservatives translate their principles into legislation or at least stifle bad legislation?
John Navratil| 3.3.10 @ 10:24AM
"The NRSC's mission is not to further conservative principles. Rather, it is to elect as many Republican senators as it can at the lowest possible cost. If this means supporting a moderate or liberal Republican over a lesser-known conservative, then this is precisely what the NRSC can be expected to do. "
And that is precisely why I do not give money to the party and haven't done so since Bush 41 presided over the largest tax increase in history (at the time).
Each party is pulled to battle at their frontiers. This dismays those who hold less centrist views and diminishes party principles. When putting an 'R' or 'D' against a name is more important than principles, the result is the permanent political class and the "little people" are damned.
Stop all this wailing about parties and fratricide. Remember the voter! The party is reaping what it has sown.
maverick muse| 3.3.10 @ 10:26AM
"This latter, more libertarian, group isn't just against the parts of that agenda that were never popular with conservatives to begin with, like amnesty for illegal immigrants or excessive federal spending, but the conduct of the war on terror. Still other Tea Partiers are passionately hawkish."
Yes. The Libertarian element that started the Tea Party protest against government corruption has been augmented by disenchanted mainstream Republicans who as yet mistake "neoconservative" as modern conservative, having yet failed to research the Leninist origin and evolution into the Republican Party powerhouse.
...
"But even troubled relationships tend to endure when both parties have nowhere else to turn. "
That pessimism hardly reflects modern young Americans whose vaulted self-importance manages the breakaway from abusive relationships, even if only to spin into the next. An element of wisdom can be gleaned through the school of hard knocks. That wisdom need not be pessimism, though drop-outs quit "satisfied" at that point as if pessimism improves their lot in life.
The internet provides open access to research. And though many are easily distracted from application, I do not question that people have curiosity. Currently, there is massive disapproval with our government. We are discussing the disgust that Conservatives have with the corruption of the Republican Party.
It would prove the quintessence of stupidity to reference Constitutional Conservatives as impotent, given that the neoconservatives have pirated the Republican Party.
"No where to turn," is the neoconservative message to the Tea Party movement.
I don't buy it. And I repudiate those who would make that assertion. This is, as yet, still the United States of America. Although the corrupt "own" the two major parties, they do not "own" the minds and hearts of the American people.
Constitutionally protected public discourse defines where politicians stand.
McCain stood against free speech, and as yet has failed to retract his law found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The only reason Conservatives were willing to vote for McCain on the GOP potus ticket was on the basis of judges to be appointed. Actions speak louder than words, and McCain's apparent disrespect for the Constitution and the Supreme Court negates the endorsement and purpose for which voters spent their votes. Since Massachusetts Scott Brown announced McCain as his model, the Unites States has his extension in the Senate. No conservative begrudges Massachusetts their new Republican Senator. But the neoconservative template that Brown emulates will never satisfy constituent populations from more conservative regions. That the Republican Party is attempting to politically assassinate candidates and supporters from the Tea Party movement of revolution is no surprise, just politics as usual.
And abused Conservative voters with their ballots get to vent in private against their abusers.
Limbaugh convinced MANY Republicans to vote for Hillary on the primary ballot to rebuke the GOP primary process that gave the 2008 GOP ticket to McCain. Disgruntled mainstream Republicans have already practiced the process of electoral revolt against the Republican electoral process. It isn't as if mainstream conservatives are so pessimistic or apathetic that they refuse to regain the GOP power structure.
A main characteristic of conservatives is their resilience to preserve the Constitution and smaller government. That resilience does not give up after one national election, nor after many primaries and general elections.
Resilience does not "give up" UNLESS the definition undergoes REVISIONISM in order to pollute and corrupt meaning and effect.
I am certainly not the only voter who is researching meanings and records to determine where I can align and what I can do to retain my American heritage by preserving our supreme authentic Constitutional Governance for our posterity.
Rebuke Socialism, not only in our opponents, but within our Republican Party. Neoconservatives are the progressive socialists currently officiating the Republican Party. They are the corrupt usurpers of the Tea Party identity who repudiate the Libertarians as radical anti-Americans. "If you can't beat them, join them," is a progressive tactic that does not dilute the progressive, but instead permeates the entity to redefine and ruin the authentic meaning which an element possessed.
Conservatism supports the Constitution. Conservatives protect the Constitution.
MikeF1| 3.3.10 @ 10:34AM
We conservatives are truly fed up with the party structure and are not giving to the RNC or the NRSC. I have learned an important lesson. If 100,000 of us will contribute $100 each to a targeted candidate, we can raise $10 million dollars for each candidate targeted. That will beat the RNC, NRSC and the DNC candidate everytime. That's what I and many of my friends plan to do. You witnessed it on a small scale with Scott Brown. While he is not exactly a conservative, it shows what we can do. When the Tea Party people got behind him he started raising $1 million dollars a day and won the election.
Margie| 3.3.10 @ 12:23PM
MikeF1,
Excellent idea! This is precisely what we need to do. And I just had a thought. I saw the commercials for raising money for the earthquake victims in Haiti put on by actors. They said text or dial a certain number to give $10.00. What if a conservative candidate put an ad on like that on t.v. A 15 second ad. But say exactly what you said. Give $100.00, not just $10.00, because you are right. THAT is a realistic amount to really make the difference.
With the amazing invention of the internet by algore, (heehee), we now get to know (and radio) who the true conservatives are, so doing that 15 second ad on t.v. could only help.
Just an idea!
martin j smith| 3.3.10 @ 10:49AM
Those of you who say that being tenacious and single minded about fighting the left are absolutely right.(correct, that is to say ). What is really needed are ways to counter MSM BS( Lies in Casa Blanca ).
And, there is a need for more aggressive challenging of RINOS. For Example John McC.
Other than Sara Palin who endorsed MacC out of obligation ( since he brought her on his ticket )others who endorse him should be the kiss of political demise. The other Rinos who you all know need to be treated like any Left Democrat, unless they act otherwise.
Those repubs who went and spoke at the summit I thought did a good job. But, that is not enough they are facing a challenge of momentous proportions and I do not know if they know what they are doing,faking it or actually currupted too far. The viability of any opposition to the democrat Left appears at risk. This is the point that must sink in.
Sheila| 3.3.10 @ 11:28AM
Enough with the posturing and strutting, already. All the talking and posting in the world does utterly nothing to lessen the power of the NRSC, and despite those who declare their intention to sweep all moderates out of congress, results in elections speak for themselves. Here in Texas almost all incumbents won re-election yesterday, and the most conservative candidates lost badly. No, they didn't have the money or name recognition, but their biggest problem was the VOTERS - you know, the great "American people" that fools are always proclaiming their trust in. I say again what I've been saying for months - people think everyone else's representative or senator needs to go, but their own is fine - just as everyone else's public schools need to improve, but theirs is fine, and all other government subsidies and handouts need to go, but their own (SS, medicaid, medicare, subsidized college loans) is VITAL. I will continue to vote for the most conservative candidate I can find, but I'm tired of all these Doctors Pangloss who insist that human nature and inertia has changed in their best of all possible worlds. Bah, humbug I say. Decline and fall.
Siegfried X| 3.3.10 @ 12:01PM
"Neither is there anything new about the sense that party leaders stack the deck against conservatives."
That is the real problem. Teammates don't cheat each other. Liberal Republicans cannot expect my loyalty when they rig primaries, like McCain's nomination.
David| 3.3.10 @ 1:32PM
John, you could not be more wrong. We need to nominate the conservative candidate in every primary race in every election and in every election cycle. Marco Rubio in Florida proves you wrong about the power and money of the establishment Republicans party. Who needs them when they support people like Crist, McCain, Scozzofava in NY, the Specters, etc.
Hopefully, Hayworth will be our general election candidate in AZ and not McCain.
We will alway have some RINO's in Congress because of the northeast and CA, but we can keep them to such a small number that they will have no influence and will have to go along with a conservative agenda. I can't see even RINO's switching and supporting the liberal/socialist agenda of the Democrats.
jwschneider@braemarnet.com| 3.3.10 @ 3:37PM
You misunderstand... Yes we need to nominate the most conservative candidate that we can.
That is NOT going to happen by osmosis however. Nominations don't happen out of blue sky, hearts and flowers... and fancy hopes and dreams...
Nominations occur because people go to county conventions and caucuses. They occur because individuals step up and run responsible, enthusiastic campaigns.
Conservatives will usually win when they work to win. But sometimes the most conservative person doesn't win. Well that means you support the winner, and push for a victory in the next nomination battle.
Politics is the art of the possible. You cannot wave a magic wand and demand that all things conform to your view of the world. If you do that your phone booth of support is likely to be small, and in case you didn't notice most folks don't need phone booths anymore anyway.
The RINO thing has gone too far. There are indeed Republicans in name only. They do make life tough for Conservative and even moderate Republicans. If everyone but you is a RINO then there is a problem with the definition.
George W. Bush was NOT a RINO and neither was his father, McCain for all of his painfulness was and is not a RINO. Spectre was a RINO... the Maine twins border on it... but so far have maintained a modicum of respectability.
To call everyone a RINO means that no one is. And the term merely becomes an excuse for rank cynicism.
Winning means work. It means reasonable compromise with Conservative principles being the guiding factors... Ronald Reagan was a REPUBLICAN. He was also a Conservative, but first and foremost he was a loyal, effective, and sucessful Republican. And he would bridle at the thought that a third party path was a good one.
Ta Ta... TMF
David| 3.3.10 @ 1:34PM
One more thing, the states that allow registered Democrats to vote in the Republican primaries should end that practice as of the 2010 elections.
Bram| 3.3.10 @ 1:45PM
"By the end of his presidency, many of them felt whupped by their own party..." I didn't make through his first term.
By 2002 I was asking where the flat-tax and spending controls were. In 2003, my last prepaid RNC donation envelope was used to send a Dear John letter explaining why they would never see another penny from me until they govern as conservatives.
Chris in VA| 3.3.10 @ 2:17PM
It's not only the Ron Paul libertarians that criticize the Bush 43 agenda. Pro-lifers were left in the lurch -- major league, big time -- by the Bush-Cheney scorched-earth polities that destroyed pro-life chances at progress even as the country turned more strongly against abortion.
Bush defied the Constitution every bit as much as Earl Warren ever did. That disregard weakened terribly the arguments of pro-lifers to find a constitutional remedy to abortion on demand. And of course the unconstitutional wars destroyed our majorities in Congress.
David| 3.3.10 @ 2:24PM
Don't forget, Bush's first act as president was to cuddle with Ted Kennedy and increase federal education funding by 50%. He lost me at that point.
Mark| 3.3.10 @ 2:40PM
How is it that someone who can spell and use "bete noire" correctly doesn't realize that the verb form of "coronation" is "crown", not "coronate"?
Otherwise, not a bad article.
Melvin| 3.3.10 @ 3:05PM
People, people, people! The Democrats are pushing that abomination of a health reform bill that is unconstitutional as hell.
You guys already know this, just makes me feel better to rant.
rdman| 3.3.10 @ 3:07PM
Sometime ago, the current GOP leadership stated that Sarah Palin would not be a candidate for “grooming” for a Presidential run. Since when do We The People need our favored/chosen candidate (whomever that may be) to be “groomed” by the Inside-the-Beltway Government Class???
The GOP leadership needs to be reminded that Governor Sarah Palin was and is overwhelming supported by the Alaskan people. Despite being Lieutenant Governor of his state, how did Mr. Steele fair in his run for Governor of his state??
Meanwhile, it has been reported that current GOP leadership is living it up on GOP donations with limousines, private jets and lavishly catered events for the "insiders".
APPEASEMENT, COMPROMISE, PLACATING and the RINO STATUS QUO is not LEADERSHIP and no longer ACCEPTABLE!!!
Mike| 3.5.10 @ 11:03AM
Mike Steele ran for and lost for Maryland Senator. However, Steele and former Gov Erhlich-R are moderates. They never got my vote
George Silvestri | 3.3.10 @ 3:13PM
Mr. Atlee is wrong on several points.
I am a conservative and was in the final years of engineering college after a tour in the US Navy.
Taft would have been slaughtered. Following his election, Eisenhower began rearming in the face of the Soviet threat. He grew the economy through his policies and kept inflation under control. How dare you align him with left of center kooks.
There are those among so called conservatives who are libertarian extremists. Government does have a place in providing for our defense and ensuring that excesses do not occur in the private sector. I am for free markets and avoid the blanket argument regarding capitalism, it covers too many sins.
Maybe it is time for Mr. Atlee to get out of his armchair and talk to those of us who were of voting age then and are still alive instead of reling on the writings of ideologues.
If you want to disaffect Independent, keep writing articles like this or avoid extremist positions.
George Silvestri
JP| 3.3.10 @ 7:32PM
President Eisenhowe may have had a firm handle on foreign affairs, but he joined the Dems in continuing and expanding FDR's New Deal. Domestic spending in entitlements continued to increase through out the 1950s; increases in Welfare, education, transportation (which exploded) and other federal spending and regulations increased 3 fold. Increases in fuel, income, excise, and capital gains taxes were signed by Eisenhower. The GOP lost significant ground through out Eisenhower's reign. But his 2 biggest mistakes was the appointment of Earl Warren and Terry Brennan to the High Court.
Simon Templar| 3.3.10 @ 5:18PM
Let us not forget that this is much more than just about elections of conservative candidates or republican candidates. It is about the concerted attempt by a segment of of the american population over the last 100 years to transform this republic into something that it was not intended to be. The progressives have had a clear vision of what they wanted and how to achieve it. Through hook and crook they slowly took over the entertainment, university, media, and school systems. Most people do not have a clue as to what our founders believed nor have an understanding of what conservativism means. I am afraid to tell you but we lost the culture war. So, in short, elect conservatives, elect libertarians, elect republicans and fight the necessary political battles to get them there. The real battles must also start in your local schoool district, your university,your local newspaper. We have a lot of catching up to do and no more room for sitting it out or laziness.
ImagePhreak| 3.3.10 @ 5:50PM
While we argue and pit democrats against republicans, liberal against conservative, people like Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski along with the central banks, make off with our wealth, our borders, our resources and our freedoms. We must stop the political social fighting and expose the shadow government. End the private Federal Reserve, read the constitution, and we will repair our republic.
jr| 3.3.10 @ 5:51PM
I routinely do not give much to Republicans - and haven't given any for the past 2 years. I hang up on the Repubs asking for money. I chewed them out consistently but it did no good. Nothing changed. I will now give some to specific politicians based on what they do for me and the country. At the first hint of earmarks or wrong votes, that will end it.
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philfl63| 3.3.10 @ 9:11PM
It does little good to vote for a Rinolican who is as corrupt and cynical as a Democrat. Actually the whole argument is a big smokescreen. Everyone in America is focused on elections of politicians, whether Repubs, conservatives, or whatever. We all seem to have the idea that politicians are going to save us and save our country. Each citizen must do what is needed to take care of himself and his family. No politician in Washington, D.C., a state capital, or a city hall gives a rat's a** about you or your family or your well-being. This is not cynicism, it is fact. We do as we did 150 years ago, and we look after ourselves and our neighbors. We tell the pols to go f*** themselves, and we take care of ourselves and our neighbors. This entails refusing to follow those dictates we know to be extra-Constitutional whether it concern healthcare, gun ownership, taxes, etc. I can read the Constitution for myself. The Founding Fathers made it quite simple to understand. As long as I know that my rights are inalienable and from God, not government, I will live my life as I see fit for myself and my family.
bluecollarbytes| 3.3.10 @ 9:40PM
Republicans are fortunate to have such competition of ideas. What is there currently in the Democrat Party?-->There is lockstep and fearful. The Republican party is the big tent of ideas, even if some of that is bleed-off from the relentless Leftist agenda of 'moral superiors' on the Left.
At least the odds are good that we won't have to vote for 'the next guy in line'...like a Dole or McCain 0r Romney(with respect).
Donn Janes goes to far in attributing Corruption to them all, Repubs or Demos. Politics are messy and deserve the sausage label as much as legislation. Even the truest conservative in office needs to work with the enemy, on both sides. Placing all the blame on politicians also ignores the fault of a public which generally goes along with whatever as long as it's not their pockets and freedoms beings squeezed.
Whatever their motives, elected Republicans have been standing up to Obama despite Obama's majority and his sidekick media. At some point they start deserving to have their support back-filled.
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RightKlik | 3.4.10 @ 12:05PM
"The NRSC's mission is not to further conservative principles. Rather, it is to elect as many Republican senators as it can at the lowest possible cost. "
Fine. But they need to include in their calculations the cost of alienating the conservative base.
They also need to think about the long term return on their investments, vis-à-vis Chafee, Specter, et. al.
Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 3.4.10 @ 12:32PM
"Democrat supermajorities empowering liberalism can only be reduced by electing Republicans." I say baloney Mr. Antle III! Democrat supermajorities empowering liberalism can only be reduced by electing CONSERVATIVES! Tell me Mr. Antle III, what have Lindsey Grahamnesty, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, & Susan Collins done lately to stop the Democrat supermajorities in Congress from empowering liberalism & poor liberal legislation? What would Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee, & Dede Scozzafava have done, if they were still Republicans (Scozzafava still is, but in name only) to stem the tide of out of control loony liberal legislaion? Until the GOP & their re-election committees get a clue & start listening to the electorate they can take a long walk off of a short pier! They will NEVER get another dime from me until they get this message: "Conservatism wins every time it is tried!" If they need cash for their RINOcrats they can call up GWB, Colin Powell, Bill Bennett, Sean Hannity, Mike Gallagher, Moot Spingrinch, Michael Medved & Michael Smerconish! Sending the GOP "leadership" & their re-election committees money is the equivalent of slitting one's own throat! Direct funding of PROVEN conservative candidates is the ONLY means left of getting conservative ideas & principles back into the Federal government.
Margie| 3.4.10 @ 3:48PM
Just who is considered by you to be a "proven conservative?"
Let me guess.
Ron Paul.
JmsA| 3.4.10 @ 12:35PM
"At the time the NRSC began leaning toward Crist, Cornyn's logic looked solid."
I respectfully beg to differ: Cornyn is an establishment republican; his logic, as is those of his ilk, is never solid. When a Washington rino, e.g., Collins, Snowe, etc., goes against truly solid conservative values, it not only dilutes the conservative message, but it has an immensely demoralizing effect. I guess these so called establishment republicans haven't heard that the mainstream media is becoming increasingly inconsequential, and thus they truly don't have to fear it.
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