Did The Tea Party Kill The GOP Party ?
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2013/01/30 11:00:35
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Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have both come out recently and proclaimed the GOP to be dead.
They do not seem upset by this fact and actually are quite giddy that they took down the party of Lincoln and Reagan.
The Tea Party ran many candidates to primary long time Republicans claiming they were RINO's and in some cases the Tea Party candidates won the primary only to lose to the Democrat candidate.
This has caused a major divide in the Republican party with more Moderate Reagan Republicans and Tea Party Cons unable to get any legislation passed that would be acceptable to the American people that as a majority are more Liberal and Moderate.
The Tea Party also has more money that most Moderate Republicans and their backers are big oil and Koch indutries that have no problem wasting a few million to get someone to advoocate for their positions.
Some Moderates like Chris Christie have been very vocal about the stupid people he says have taken over the Republican party and Bobby Jindal has said openly that his party has to stop being the party of stupid people.
Both of those people are likely to run for President in 2016 against the Tea Party candidates Paul Ryan and Michelle Bachman and whoever else jumps in the ring.
So not only does the GOP have an identity crisis it looks more like this is a hostile takeover of the GOP by a well funded smaller group of social agend tea party extremists and these extremists goal is to either own the GOP or destroy it.
Your thoughts ?
They do not seem upset by this fact and actually are quite giddy that they took down the party of Lincoln and Reagan.
The Tea Party ran many candidates to primary long time Republicans claiming they were RINO's and in some cases the Tea Party candidates won the primary only to lose to the Democrat candidate.
This has caused a major divide in the Republican party with more Moderate Reagan Republicans and Tea Party Cons unable to get any legislation passed that would be acceptable to the American people that as a majority are more Liberal and Moderate.
The Tea Party also has more money that most Moderate Republicans and their backers are big oil and Koch indutries that have no problem wasting a few million to get someone to advoocate for their positions.
Some Moderates like Chris Christie have been very vocal about the stupid people he says have taken over the Republican party and Bobby Jindal has said openly that his party has to stop being the party of stupid people.
Both of those people are likely to run for President in 2016 against the Tea Party candidates Paul Ryan and Michelle Bachman and whoever else jumps in the ring.
So not only does the GOP have an identity crisis it looks more like this is a hostile takeover of the GOP by a well funded smaller group of social agend tea party extremists and these extremists goal is to either own the GOP or destroy it.
Your thoughts ?
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Kookieless The Sexy Nihilis... 2013/01/30 11:05:50
#1) The Tea Party, at its core, is composed of people who truly just want smaller government that obeys the Constitution.
#2) The GOP experienced a "hostile takeover" by big-government war-mongering morality-pushing neocons back during the 70's and 80's. Beck, Limbaugh, and Bachman are prime examples of this breed of "moderate." So are people like McCain and both Presidents Bush and that also-ran the idiots in the GOP nominated to lose the 2012 election.
#3) The TP was, really, a reaction against those extremist forces which have teamed up with the Democrats against America's middle class. How they let themselves get so infiltrated by the rot they were protesting in the first place is a different story.
In a way, this sort of *is* radical. The "true" Tea Partiers are pushing back to the conservative ideas of Barry Goldwater, who led the "revolution" against the so-called "Rockefeller Republicans" who'd made the Republican party basically obsolete and meaningless while FDR turned the country Socialist (with their collusion...they've never cared about anything but winning the next election).
Personally, I'm inclined to say that the GOP has destroyed itself through its own hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy. Some of the Tea Part...
#1) The Tea Party, at its core, is composed of people who truly just want smaller government that obeys the Constitution.
#2) The GOP experienced a "hostile takeover" by big-government war-mongering morality-pushing neocons back during the 70's and 80's. Beck, Limbaugh, and Bachman are prime examples of this breed of "moderate." So are people like McCain and both Presidents Bush and that also-ran the idiots in the GOP nominated to lose the 2012 election.
#3) The TP was, really, a reaction against those extremist forces which have teamed up with the Democrats against America's middle class. How they let themselves get so infiltrated by the rot they were protesting in the first place is a different story.
In a way, this sort of *is* radical. The "true" Tea Partiers are pushing back to the conservative ideas of Barry Goldwater, who led the "revolution" against the so-called "Rockefeller Republicans" who'd made the Republican party basically obsolete and meaningless while FDR turned the country Socialist (with their collusion...they've never cared about anything but winning the next election).
Personally, I'm inclined to say that the GOP has destroyed itself through its own hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy. Some of the Tea Partiers are just nature filling a vacuum which most of the old white people who make up the GOP's remains refuse to admit they've created. Others are pretty much exactly like the "Occupy" protesters: they're angry and lashing out, but they don't have a clue who to blame or what to do about the mess we're in.
Still others are exactly the sort of political schemers that are suggested in this article.
But suggesting they have tons more money or influence than the Establishment is pretty ridiculous. Romney and his cronies showed at the Republican Convention that the Rockefellers have re-taken total control of the party. They spit on the grassroots and then seemed amazed when we didn't respond properly by licking their hands in thanks.
Which is ironic, considering how little involvement and influence the grass roots has left over the Tea Party. But that's really what this question is all about.
However, I don't think the Tea Party is helping at all.
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and Faux Newz are simply the propaganda arm of the New American Fascist Party and they are making HUGE money off the whole nation It is said that Glenn Beck is worth about $300 million now and Limbaugh is approaching a Billon.
They are laughing all the way to the bank at the expense of the American Pubic.
The Tea Party was dramatically downgraded by the infiltration by the GOP.
Dream on... and thanks for showing your hand.
A major mistake made by the Republican Party has been its embrace of corporatism through tax favors, regulatory favors, direct subsidies, and other mechanisms to garner a government assisted hand-up for particular companies and industries. Corporate America easily buys a Republican congressman; they come cheap. Remember how they coddled BP at the hearing after it trashed the Gulf waters ? It was an obvious romance in full bloom.
Then there is the hypocritical howling about spending... spending on wars they started and supported. For 8 years they embraced a willingness to support a radical non-American foreign policy of American aggression and intervention overseas. In their eyes, nations are subject to attack if they gain the power to build their own defense, even though they display no willingness to use it. This belief is called "naked aggression". Iraq has a huge arsenal of WMDs... let's shock and awe that sucker !
The GOP is in crisis mode. Then, to rub salt in the wounds, Pres. Obama puts immigration on the table, knowing Republicans will have to cave or accept they will lose in 2014 and 2016. Pres. Obama got 71 % of the Hispanic vote. He has an abundance of political capitol.
But it was coughin' up blood last night . . . .