A perfect reason why the Conservative base keeps wondering "third party"? - Granite Grok

A perfect reason why the Conservative base keeps wondering “third party”?

Much has been written lately about how “the base”, the conservative / libertarian / constitutional / TEA Party wing of the party – the grassroots, are starting to really turn the Evil Eye upon the other part of the Party.  That would be those that write the talk, talk the talk, and then act and vote opposite way.  Often times, with disdain for the base and with their eyes on the political advantage instead of doing what they should be: standing up for and protecting the Values for which we sent them there.  Promise to cut the budget?  You’d better do that.  Promise to do something else?

Yeah, it’s called Keeping Your Word.  Build our Trust with you – don’t break it in being “pragmatic” or so that you can reach being a Ranking Member or Chair one day.  Or Leadership.  After all, it isn’t about the Win to Get The Power – it is what you do with it once WE help you win.  And yes, we Watch.  And last night I watched a PERFECT example of how the Republican Party continues to play small ball and excuse their way out of doing the right thing.  Sure, they’ve had 37 votes in the House to repeal Obamacare – meaningless votes except for the rubes who believe they actually accomplished anything.

Those of us who actually KNOW, have been waiting for them to do The Right Thing – which of course, they have refused to do and yakked their excuses all around it.  PERFECT Example?  I listened to the Hannity show last nite with Eric Cantor, part of the Leadership in the US House of Representatives.  Sean had THE question that most of us in the grassroots want answered: “Would you use the option to defund Obamacare ’cause that is in your authority?

Disappointed was my reaction:

Cantor’s answer was simply bloviatingish horrible:

Right, and we have continued, when we — to do just that, we’ve continued to say under the sequester that we’re operating on, that the president says, you know, he wants to do something about it, but never has come forward with any kind of other suggested reforms in the entitlement areas. But when they ask for more money for Obamacare’s implementation, we said no. We said no, we don’t feel that this law is the right direction to go in.

…We ought to go ahead and delay the individual mandate, and as you know, that individual mandate is the crux of Obamacare, without the individual mandate, the whole law collapses,”

Translation – I will answer your question that we won’t give him any more $$.  Further, we will wait on Obama use another Executive Branch action to waive the Individual Mandate.  Screwing up our GOP Political Courage and actually DO what we could – defund ALL of Obamacare in the Budget Bill.  And stand firm.  After all, some Democrats had the political courage of their Progressive convictions to pass Obamacare in the first place KNOWING that their careers would end.   Must have been hard to give up such a comfy status-filled position, but they did it.

Nice to see that the GOP has less conviction than the Democrats had in standing up for Republican Values.  What Cantor said was “No, we are not willing to make the kind of Big Waves to make that happen.  We are not willing to go to the mat for our Values and for the Country (after all, they keep saying that Obama is destroying the nation, right?). We are not willing to defund Obamacare”.

Why?  Because the only way is to pass a budget bill that defunds all of the line items pertaining to Obamacare.  Only the House has that kind of power.  And what Cantor said is that we, the Republicans, are not willing to do that because the Senate will not pass it and Obama will not sign it.  They will, in essence, shut down the Federal Government by doing that.  But the Democrats will say mean, hateful, spiteful and lying things about us – and blame us.  And the MSM will help them.  Which means we will all lost our cushy Congressional jobs later on.  All that stuff in the Declaration about “our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor“?

So I, along with others, ask the question: if they won’t do what we send them to do, that they won’t support OUR values, why should we support them?  Shouldn’t they be more fearful of us, their own Base, if they don’t defund it?  And stop kicking the can down the road hoping somebody else would take the fall? Seriously.  Listen to this stupid immigration debate, that the Republicans will lose forever if they don’t act like Democrats, pander to the Hispanics and give into the demands to give them citizenship (remember, that worked out oh so very well for the Romans, didn’t it).  Gee, what happens to them if they gained even 50% of the Hispanic vote but lose 25% of their current base?

And it isn’t just at the National level – it is at the State level as well.  Just look at the Republican Leadership in the NH House and see how often they have voted AGAINST the majority of the other House Republicans?  Again, the words of Gene Chandler, NH House Minority Leader, that he said at a Belknap County Republican Committee meeting:

“Any Republican that helps us regain power is a good Republican“

Again, consider my words: “see how often they have voted AGAINST the majority of the other House Republicans?”  Yeah, he’s the Leader.

Cantor is a Leader.  Maybe it is time to say “screw’em all” – Republican incumbents that is.

(H/T:  CNSnews)

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