'“...insufficient respect” for the Republican establishment.' - Granite Grok

‘“…insufficient respect” for the Republican establishment.’

David BrooksThis smacks high on both a fawning level of royalty and a big gob of Republican Republicans for the sake of the Republican Party:

New York Times columnist David Brooks chastised supporters of Dr. Ben Carson and Donald Trump for showing “insufficient respect” for the Republican establishment. “It’s like a mutiny, not a campaign,” Brooks said on Sunday’s Meet the Press.”The problem is, there’s an illusion in this country, and in the Republican base, that you can govern by screaming.”

That last bit is quite the show of how the Beltway Circle of Jerks view the base out in “the wild”; often derisively called “Fly over country” when talking about the uneducated, uncouth, and unenlightened rubes that should vote and keep quiet.  Which attitude gives rise to that haughty “mutiny” dirty look word.  How DARE they defy us and give us our proper due is the thought behind that.

I often ask about The Proper Role of Government.  Here, I ask the analogous “the proper role of the Party”.  It is obvious that Brooks (and his ilk) believe that there should be an air of respect due only to it being “the Party”.  Top down, command-and-control; do not go against what has been decreed by your betters.

Fools – he and others have forgotten the primary rule of leadership – if no one is following, you aren’t leading.  The base has been saying for a while that it hates what its “leadership” says, does, and demands.  It really isn’t a mutiny per se than a groundswell of “we’ll decide where the party is going to go – not you Smart People.

It is the base that is telling the leadership “this is where the Party will go – because you have FAILED for so long”.  Not a mutiny – but the true leadership finally stepping up and out to say “sit down – THIS is what is right” (as well as Right).

Responding to host Chuck Todd’s earlier interview with Chris Christie, Brooks criticized the New Jersey governor for attacking the Republican party before he did Democrats. ”His first answer to you was not an attack on the Democrats, it wasn’t an attack on Hillary Clinton — it was an attack on Republicans,” he said.

Yo, Brooksie?  Are you really that out of touch being the “token conservative” there on your NYT perch?  You’re supposed to be one of the top level of the Smart People – can you not understand what is going on?  Or refuse to see.  But he doubles down

“We have a very tough legislative system, and you need craftsmen,” Brooks continued. “And there is insufficient respect for that right now among the Carson and Trump supporters.”

Well, I think it fair to say that what is being done to advance the Conservative Agenda in DC by the current crop of guppies ain’t making it.  The base has made its ire made known and gets ignored for its trouble of putting them there in the first place.  In the private sector, if you don’t achieve, you get replaced.  What is happening now is the TEA Party still working at that goal – if you aren’t working towards OUR Principles, we can do without you.

On Fox News Special Report tonite, three of the top 4 in the Prez polls are Trump, Carson, and Cruz with 47% of the polling.  Is that not a sign that you and yours ARE being “insufficiently respected” and ignored, David Brooks?

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