Yes, Reince Priebus, that's just about right....let's talk price - Granite Grok

Yes, Reince Priebus, that’s just about right….let’s talk price

Reince PriebusWatching FoxNews “Special Report” is a staple for me – while it seems that they do try to report the news fairly straight up (yes, sometimes shaded a bit or bit more to the Right – let’s be honest here, as do the others shade (or in the case of MSNBC, leap) to the Left), it is the roundtables in the latter part of the show that I really do enjoy.  That said, the news part had a snippet of GOP Chair Reince Priebus begging for unity on the Right.  In doing so, he said  a sentence that I thought was quite oddly constructed:

“If we work together – Conservatives, Republicans, Independents, local TEA Party activists – we can fire Reid and get this country working.”

I would have thought that “wings of the Republican Party” might have been sufficient or even just “Republicans”.  However, it actually is rather truthful.  A lot of Conservatives have and are leaving the Party because elected Republicans aren’t voting the way they talk.  Then there are the Republicans – mostly known as  “Establishment Republicans” or I am wont to say “Republican Republicans for the sake of the Party” (which means as long as you have an R next to your name, that’s all that counts).  The Independents could include Conservatives as well as folks that can’t stand the Party (or, as we hear every single silly election, “the 10% we need to win” that really don’t know what they believe”) and then the TEA Party folks that pretty much would be Republicans but for the fact that way too many elected Republicans aren’t voting the way they talk (e.g., here in NH, we have the Rogue Republicans like NH State Senator Chuck Morse, NH State Senator Jeb Bradley, NH State Senator Nancy Stiles, and NH State Senator Bob Odell, to name but a few, that under the Republican Platform guise of lower taxes, self-responsibility, and limited government, gave we New Hampshireites Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion).

So, in thinking back, Reince was right – there are a lot of folks not in the Republican Party that the Party needs to win.  Yet, as Mitch McConnell said (as he is in a very close race to keep his US Senate Seat against a young female Democrat) “I think we are going to crush them everywhere” (speaking of the TEA Party).  Much effort and bucks were spent by the Establishment to do just that, leading many to believe that the GOP hates the TEA Party more than it does the Democrats (akin to Obama hating Republicans more than America’s enemies).

So my question is, as NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn has pretty much said the same thing here in NH, what is our price? Seriously – what should we demand?  Why should we continue to fall for that unity BS when we know right afterwards that any promises will have the same expiration date like:

  • Obama’s campaign promises
  • The Democrat promises to black community

If we are to be identified in ways similar to how the Dems identify their identity groups (albeit, our diversity is more action and ideology vs the Dems skin color and sexual identity (or so it seems)).  We at the ‘Grok pretty much fall into two of those “identity group politics” that Reince identifies (Conservative, TEA Party) as we see the GOP starting to adopt the same identity politics behavior as the Dems).  So, why not demand our pound of flesh for playing the game?  Especially here in NH, we rarely we get to vote FOR someone (as opposed to voting against someone).  After all, in considering the Rogue Republicans above, why vote for Dem-vote-alike when you can get the real thing and suffer the same Liberty crushing consequences (and know its authentic)?  For another example out of DC, how about this for Republicans (so much for fiscal frugality, $18 Trillion debt, and limited government, eh boys?):

House Republicans adding to debt as balanced budget commitment wavers

After initial success in cutting federal spending and reducing deficits, House Republicans have drifted into the red with a series of tax measures and spending bills that are not offset — either adding to the pile of debt or hiding the costs with accounting gimmicks.

More than a dozen bills with costs that are not fully offset elsewhere in the budget have passed the Republican-controlled House and threaten to add nearly $1 trillion to federal debt over the next decade.

Like I keep saying (and they keep proving me right): Jr. Partners of the Democrat Party.  And Reince wants us to keep voting for this Tom-foolery – with us acting the part of the Fool?

Here in NH, races can be won by a few percentage points one way or the other – and Conservatives and TEA Party types can be exactly that – the weight that can tip the scale’s balance beam.

So Reince and Jennifer, what’s your offer?  Remember: right now, I am using the NH Rogue Republicans as a baseline for what Republicans are – that gave us the Democrat agenda items of Medicaid Expansion and a statewide gas tax.  If you are passing items that directly contradict the Party Platform, what does that say about the Republican brand?  So tell me, what is the price you are willing to pay for us to hold our noses?  Five on the E-Board (newly created of course, to represent the new Republican “special interest groups”?  After all, the College Republicans have a seat, the Young Republicans have a seat, and the NH Federation of Republican Women have a seat – why not some for us?

Throw in the Vice-Chair and we might have a deal!

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