This is THE Question confronting the Establishment Republicans: What DO you stand for (besides mere winning)? - Granite Grok

This is THE Question confronting the Establishment Republicans: What DO you stand for (besides mere winning)?

This exemplifies the divide in the Republican Party today; it is especially true given the events in the NH House with Republicans voting for a $1 Billion gas tax (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Club for Growth President Chris Chocola charged that Republican establishment figure Karl Rove cares more about the Republican brand than Republican “core beliefs.”   “What Karl Rove and some of the establishment groups only care about is the brand,” he said during an appearance on CBS’ “Face to Face.”

 “They only care if someone’s a Republican or not. They don’t really care what their core beliefs are. I think voters actually care what their core beliefs are.“…

 … In his interview with CBS, he repeated his previous criticism, and defended the Club for Growth as focusing on “whether [candidates] have core beliefs based on pro-growth policy.”  “If you go to the grocery store and you have a box of cereal that just has that brand but you don’t know what’s inside, you know, you’re not going to be too enthusiastic about buying it,” Chocola said.

 “But if you know what’s inside every single time, you’re going to become a loyal supporter of that brand. I think they’ve gotten the brand loyalty kind of backwards.”

Cereal boxPolitics has become, on the Right it seems, a question of what’s behind Door #1, Door #2, or Door #3 – a flip of the coin or a “belief” pulled out of thin air.  Trust?  In order to build it, one has to be reliable under all conditions and not just when the whimsey hits.  Not just when it is politically expedient but all the time. Sure, people like to be associated with winners, but a hollow winner isn’t a winner at all.   After all, isn’t it just the Right thing to be is Consistent?  Because once you are Consistent, you no longer are generic, right?

(H/T: Hot Air)

 

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