Shot: It’s all about the power
A.J. Spiker, past chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa and a former senior advisor to Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential campaign, said the RNC is against Trump because he has not taken any special interest money, which would secure RNC influence over the president.
“He is not beholden to them,” Spiker said. “These are people you wouldn’t even want looking after your children.They are deadbeats. The RNC wants someone in the office they can have influence on. With Trump they would have no power. They would rather lose the election and keep the power of the Republican Party rather than win the election where they have no power.”
Chaser: Republican “strategist” – vote for Hillary
Wallace: SoCons Aside, Republicans Should Consider Supporting Hillary
. . . on today’s Morning Joe, Nicolle Wallace, citing GOP consultants, suggested that–other than social conservatives–Republicans concerned with foreign policy should consider supporting Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Hillary supporter Harold Ford, Jr. could be heard chiming in with a “well said.” Wallace was echoing the argument laid out by Joe Scarborough: that on a range of issues from foreign intervention to Israel, taxing the rich to breaking up the banks, Clinton’s positions are closer to those of the GOP establishment than Trump’s.
More from Diana Orrock:
You should have heard the diatribes from two RNC members this morning at our members-only breakfast. They didn’t name him, but strongly admonished the members to not support Trump. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. So, here we have Trump, the consistent FRONT RUNNER, who could hand the GOP a landslide win with RNC backing, but all they want to do is take him out. Welcome to the organization that wants to destroy its own party and go against the will of the people and its voting base.
I’e been saying this for a while now – the “leadership” is not addicted to the Principles of the Republican Party. Instead, and like with all political animals, it is all about the addiction to power. They’d be quite happy to jettison their base, take the Party leftward, and lose, than give up any power or engage in power-sharing. We saw that with the TEA Party and now we are seeing it with the populist movement whose symptom is Trump.
The disease, however, is like that of a company that has failed to listen to its customers – and I have had to live through that horror show during the mini-computer industry “vanishment” during the 80s. They became insular, too cocky, and didn’t see the revolutionary changes sweeping through them via the PC revolution even as they had set that process in motion in taking on the mainframers decades earlier. Multibillion dollar entities went “Poof!” in amazingly short amount of time (I think it was merely 7 years from the DEC implosion to to the final burial).
Now, are we seeing it in the political realm? After all, we just saw 30,000 (20?) Pennsylvania Dems switched to the Republican Party to vote for Trump even as the Dems are hauled leftward first by Obama and the New Left and now even further by an outright Socialist / Communist-sympathizer and an aging last-gasp horribilus harridan that is an Alinsky accolyte trying to out-Socialize his policies. In the meantime, the Rs are being torn asunder as the Elite are either blind to what they have done to their base (and the revolt they have themselves formented) or actively recreating Little Big Horn for themselves. What the base believes in seems to be the mirror opposite of what the Elites believe in and the elected officials in DC (and Concord, NH) work for. The base believes in conservative principles – the elected officials, more and more, are crossing the aisles to implement Democrat agenda items.
Again, I left the Republicans as the Party (officials and elected politicians in leadership) actively move away from the Principles that brung them to the dance. They have lost their way, IMHO, in that they only believe in the first word of “Winning is only a precursor – it is what’s you do afterward that is most important”. They have given up on their first love (to steal a Biblical metaphor) and they wonder why the base is abandoning them.
Trust, ladies and gentlement, Trust is the answer. Just like the minicomputer industry no longer offered value-add for the customers laying out time, expertise, and money, the Republicans have seemingly squandered the time, effort, sweat, and tears of their base and volunteers. They are rebelling against empty promises and words – their “offerings” no longer show value-add to millions. They’ve moved on.
And Orrock proves the point from the inside the inner sanctum of the RNC:
“They would rather lose the election and keep the power of the Republican Party rather than win the election where they have no power.”
It doesn’t take a whole lotta pondering to see the truth in that – the smoke is dissipating and the curtain has become rather threadbare. There just doesn’t seem to be a whole lotta “there” there. And worst, I don’t have to make a single thing up (even under “literary license”) – all one has to do is look, watch, and listen. It’s there – one just has to have the wisdom and willingness to observe.
UPDATE: forgot I had bookmarked this:
“We can lose an election, but I don’t want us to lose our heart and soul,” [Lindsey] Graham said on CBS’ Face the Nation:
“If we nominate Donald Trump, and he carries the banner of the Republican Party, given who he is and what he said about immigrants, about Muslims and young women, we will not just lose the election. We have lost the heart and soul of the conservative movement. That’s what is at stake.”
Sorry, that’s been a problem for a long, long time – long gone.
