The wages of the Establishment Republicans when they can't name the threat - Granite Grok

The wages of the Establishment Republicans when they can’t name the threat

Let him punch you in YOUR collective noses so that you just might actually start picking on the right folks – like Ray Buckley and his pack of Left Wing  Socialists (emphasis mine, reformatted):

As some idiot wrote in Rules for Radical Conservatives:

So there you are, lying flat on your back on the canvas and wondering whether the referee got the number of that truck. For decades, we’ve pummeled you and pounded you, if not quite into submission than pretty close to it. We’ve robbed you of your tongue, of your fighting spirit; we’ve hamstrung you with lawyers and political correctness. We’ve made you doubt the worth of everything you once held dear – now there was a practical application of “Critical Theory” if there ever was one! – including your culture, your history and, well, you. We’ve practically criminalized everything about you, including your thoughts, and it’s just a matter of time before we get those too . . .

You stand there and let us whale away on you, imputing every sort of ignobility to you, your culture, your belief system, your faith tradition, and your families unto the generations. By our lights, since we despise you so roundly and so thoroughly, any weapon to hand is useful, and so we club you to death with your own good manners, telling you all the while that to fight back would be wrong, would be deconstructionist, would be advocating at least symbolic violence and hate-mongering, would be trying to force your opinion on us.

And so you take it, when what you should do is punch us right in the face.

They’ve been shoving you around like school yard bullies, destroying and turning everything of  traditional American values and traditions totally upside down.  For over 100 years, they’ve been weakening that which has held us together, our social contract – the US Constitution.  And now, the Progressive-in-Cief has been laughing at you. Congress has become his right arm, the Press his PR department.  That’s right, keep your eyes on the goal and stay on the attack. Oh, oops!

He continues:

Symbolically, I hasten to add, although that’s certainly not how the Left plays the game. But at long as conservatives continue to impute good motives to the current crop of hard leftists now occupying Washington — and who will become increasingly open and honest about their real motives, now that they have nothing to fear from the electorate at the presidential level — and recoil in fear from charges of “meanness,” we’ll continue to see such spectacles as this:

Dismayed Establishment Republicans, frustrated again by an increasingly influential community of conservative insurgents, reasserted themselves in the wake of the shutdown and demonstrated a new resolve to fight back — something they were once reluctant to do.

“There were people who were basically afraid of ‘em, frankly,” McConnell told the Washington Examiner. “It’s time for people to stand up to this sort of thing.”

McConnell worries that the Senate Conservatives Fund and other insurgent groups are pursuing a confrontational, uncompromising strategy that makes it impossible for conservatives to govern.

That’s right – instead of marshalling their forces for an all out, no rules barred towards those are the REAL enemies (those that are trying hard for us not to “keep our Republic”) because they remain blinkered, thick necked – so who do they fight?  Those that are NOT confused as to the real target and real goal – and could be the strongest allies they could ever wish for.  But they Just.Can’t.Go. of the power – heedless of the enemies that will take that power in SNAP! – they think they have.  Again, they don’t seem to understand that the ground has been rearranged from underneath them – and that the old rules no longer apply.

And there you have it. McConnell and the other Washington Generals think that the point of playing politics is to win the right to “govern,” whereas the Democrats know it’s to win the force with which to rule. But real conservatives understand the battle is much larger than McConnell’s hidebound, limited world-view. The first job is the restoration of constitutional principles — and if that’s not accomplished, then nothing else really matters.

You can’t fight the real enemy when you’re looking in the wrong direction.  Or only looking for the same-old same-old tactics to win in a new style of fight.

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