Enter, Stage Establishment: Trent Lott - Granite Grok

Enter, Stage Establishment: Trent Lott

Yes, he was drummed out of the US Senate for praising retiring ex-segregationalist Strom Thurmond – the grievance-mongers hauled out their Political Correctness swords and hacked him to slivers (even as those same hypocrites gave ex-KKK Grand Kleagle Senator Byrd a pass for the same stances). At the time, I thought he got a raw deal.  Then he came out with this after the 2010 elections in which a larger than expected TEA Party based candidates won their way to DC:

“We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.”

As a TEA Party guy, whose main goal was only to put Constitutional values back into vogue and into force of operations of our Government, my jaws gritted more than a few molecules of dentin from my molars.  He showed pretty much all that was wrong with the Establishment Republican wing of the Party – only concerned with winning elections and wielding power – but in doing so, only wishing to be loved for being more efficient at implementing Democrat policies which did nothing to stem the higher and higher spending, the increase in the debt, and slow but steady distance from what the Framers knew to be needed in Government.

And now, if Obama wasn’t enough, Lott has now inflamed the Liberty and Freedom wing of the Party, once again with these bon mots:

“That Ted Cruz. They have to teach him something or cut his legs out from under him.”

Can you feel the disdain love dripping from his lips?  Yeah, we just can’t have “that kind of people” getting all ignited about (shhhh!) actual values of the Party again!  Well, ah, er, it’s just not the Country Club way!  After all, CCers only act like Brittany Spears – our lips move but somebody else is throwing the voice.  Values in politics?  So old-fashioned!

And that is why the Republican Party IS teetering on a breakup – the ascendancy and the motivation of that wing within the Party that believes that the other has become far too complacent and chummy with the opposition to be of any worth.  I AM hearing of those that are talking third party again – simply because the Party hasn’t been willing to enforce ANY kind of discipline on say “Er, if you say you are a Republican, how about voting and speaking like one”?  I hear the Old Guard saying “but you can’t possibly win!” – even as they just don’t get the point of the discontent at all.  Part of the point is, for the clueless, is that many in the base believe that the Establishment is as much at fault as the Democrats – and enough of the base leaves, the Establishment will lose as well.  And some are bitter enough at the betrayals and treatment that they would be ok with that.

Sure, the base is sore at Obama and the New Left Progressives that have taken over the Democrat Party.  But with this outburst against Ted Cruz, who is willing to take the fight to the Dems with values shared by the base, basically signals a total hatred against the base by the entrenched elite.

Not sure that the base is going to be so willing to take it nuch longer.

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