File this under "Accountability": "GOP Donor Sues Party for Not Keeping Obamacare Repeal Promises" - Granite Grok

File this under “Accountability”: “GOP Donor Sues Party for Not Keeping Obamacare Repeal Promises”

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The GOP ran on “repeal and replace” and raised millions of dollars from individual donors who believed in this promise. Politicians aren’t used to having to actually deliver on what they say on the campaign trail, but a Virginia attorney has filed suit against the Republican National Committee over the party’s failure to repeal and replace.

There’s always a reaction when promises aren’t kept.  I’ve held for a while that we ought to be treating politics not as a separate entity but as another facet of the Marketplace.  You want me to spend my political currency (i.e., my Vote) with you, you need to make the case that you are worth it.  My Vote is very precious and rare, and I don’t wish to waste it on a sub-par product (as that is what a candidate is writ small and what a political party like the GOP is writ large).  I’d rather NOT spend it if what the GOP is offering for a product is flawed, not up to par, or can reach my standard of excellence.  And as a number of political wannabee candidates have found out, my ire has ramifications with other like minded conservatives and libertarians here in NH.

Look, if we purchase an inferior product in the marketplace, we have redress protocols available to us courtesy of these same politicians.  Many are 

almost immediate (return the product to the store, talk to the owner / manager), some are a bit longer (like arbitration), and then there is the Judicial system.

Bob Heghmann claims that the RNC “has been engaged in a pattern of Racketeering which involves massive fraud perpetrated on Republican voters and contributors as well as some Independents and Democrats,” and that they knew they wouldn’t be able to repeal and replace Obamacare and promised it anyway because it brought in donations.

Yeah, at the surface level, it certainly feels that way, right?  They promised, promised, promised and promised again that we would be free of this pestilence of government mandating that we buy a particular favored product from favored companies because PROGRESSIVES.  And the Republicans played us for shills and showed their lack of political courage to follow through.

In the suit, Heghmann says the RNC brought in $735 million and the Virginia state party $20 million between 2009 and 2016 “in large part by promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act.” Heghmann also listed the Republican Party of Virginia and its two RNC national committee representatives, Morton Blackwell and Cynthia Dunbar.

And Blackwell DARED to go here:

…Blackwell said part of the problem is that progressive activists have taken over the Democrat party, but that a similar takeover hasn’t happened in the GOP and that many conservatives are still sitting on the sidelines.

Too few conservatives are willing to invest their time, talent, and money and personally participate inside the Republican Party,” Blackwell said. “A Republican majority will mean a conservative majority if and when a sufficient number of conservatives figure out why the success of their principles depends on their personal involvement in local, state and national Republican Party committees and in party nomination contests.”

So now we were told that the Republicans needed the US House – and we gave that to them.  Then we were told that the Republicans needed the US Senate – and we gave that to them.  Then the next excuse was that the Republicans needed the Presidency – and we gave that to them. But that wasn’t enough – NOW we’re being told that they need 60 Senators to pass legislation.  And NOW we’re being told that we haven’t sent enough Conservatives?

WHEN WILL THIS STOP???   EVERY Republican calls themselves “Conservative” even when every outside Conservative advocacy group rates them as moderate (or worse).

Look – the Republicans had the benefit of the TEA Party – constitutionally minded / Free Marketplace ordinary folks that put their noses to the political grindstone.  What happened?

The Establishment Republicans turned on us.  “Thanks for your votes but we’ll take it from here” and then ran most of us out of the Party.  Votes, yes; power “sharing”, no.  So for Blackwell to make that smear is beyond belief.  We’ve documented it here over and over – how they ran Jack Kimball out as NH GOP Chair and how the NH Senate Majority Pack and Incumbent Protection Racketeering PACK exists to keep their “family” together. So why would we reward them yet again?  If you can’t make it happen, you SHOULD lose your next election.

However, I really like this idea – a lot.  Another way to keep politicians accountable outside of the election box.  After all, if you have made promises, how different is that, really, from a company promising their product or their service will cure all your ills?  Then take your money and like the snake oil carpetbaggers of old, vamoose out of town?

(H/T: Townhall)

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