The Ruling Class Stokes The Flames, Again - Granite Grok

The Ruling Class Stokes The Flames, Again

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Storm Gathering?
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Torches and Pitchforks time again for the GOP leadership!

What these unprincipled buffoons fail to realize is that there is a huge vein of burning resentment against overbearing and overpriced, “Nanny knows best”, government out there waiting to be tapped.

What they especially fail to realize is that, by continuing to advocate for big government solutions with a barely different flavor from the Democrats, a significant portion of that resentment is aimed at Republican Leadership in DC.

A recent article in Breitbart’s Big Government makes the point that it is the methods of the leadership, possibly more than the policy differences, which is driving the current frustration.

SouthPark-PitchForkThe party leadership commissions studies, vows to back moderate incumbents and shut out the ‘extremists’, and cooks up new schemes to sell us into slavery, yet they cannot understand how they made the libertarians too angry to vote last year, and how they are pushing the conservatives and libertarians into a corner where the only viable way out is a third party!

How is the GOP ‘leadership’ stoking the fires of civil war? Let me list a few examples from the Big Government article:

The party leadership, believing that immigration reform will appeal to Hispanic voters, is attempting to impose its will on rank-and-file conservatives who object to current legislative proposals.

The party’s recent internal “autopsy” insists bluntly that Republicans “must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform.” Period.

The grass-roots suspects the leadership’s real motivation is to reward special interest lobbies. The leadership, meanwhile, has joined Democrats in accusing conservative opponents of the bill of “nativism.”

The real fight is about whether Washington can be trusted……. [but] the party is failing to exploit public outrage over a string of Obama administration scandals to build support for the 2014 midterm election effort.

What the party needs most is leadership that can reconcile the two factions (conservative and libertarian). However, much of the Republican establishment is committed to asserting its control. In the midst of the immigration debate, House leaders are joining their Democratic colleagues in a nationwide tour, “Become America,” that will attempt to impress upon voters the need for immigration reform…

[In 2009, the party embarked on a listening tour, and engaged activists to win the 2010 mid terms]…. In 2013, Republican leaders are no longer listening. They are lecturing–and raising money to protect moderate incumbents from conservative primaries.

The party’s grass-roots….. have no way of responding. They rally around junior Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, ….[a]nd they continue to adhere (cling bitterly?) to conservative media, especially on talk radio and the Internet.

Republican leaders inside the Beltway increasingly resent the power of conservative media. They have begun to identify with time-worn Democratic criticisms–that talk radio is bigoted and shrill, that conservative bloggers are unreliable, that grass-roots heroes are “wacko” (to borrow from Sen. John McCain). They fail to understand the gap that conservative media fill–namely, the need for coherent, courageous opposition. (Or as we say around here, having a set of principles!)

Conservatives have been … patient with the GOP establishment, but that patience is wearing thin…. Some conservatives, notably Sarah Palin, have suggested that a third party may be an option…. Those Republicans in Washington who are stoking the fight should try listening again–before it is too late. (Something about Whigs??)

Whig-PartySure – siding with Democrats over grassroots, embarking on a lecture tour instead of a listening tour, ramming bad and expensive legislation down our throats, telling us we don’t have any alternative but to vote Republican… Hmmm – I think it’s time to CREATE an alternative to voting Republicrat!

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