Yes, this tends to be a vocation with me lately – pointing out the why of the Republican officials, candidates, and Party are not all that welcome with a lot of Republican folks in the base. And it is ALL self-induced! Don’t do what you have promised, for years? Decisions have consequences and with the New Media, there are MANY more eyes watching a whole lot more people and a whole lot conversations thanks to the ‘Net. Repair_Man_Jack at RedState has another slant on the Donald phenomena: arbitrage (reformatted, emphasis mine):
If you ever attempt to manage anything complicated you will have to figure out what to do about risks. Risks can be roughly defined as things that could go wrong and give you a problem. Once they do go wrong, they become issues. Then you have a problem on your hands. The political leadership of the GOP has failed at risk management. They now have an issue on their hands; THE DONALD.
Yup one of the Republicans’ own making. Inattention, stupendous hubris, and a wrong worldview of their customer voter base has created a nullity in the Right side of politics. The media analogue is Fox News – they saw a whole in the marketplace and proceeded to fill it – like 50% of the market that was underserved that the other networks just threw away. Just walked in and by pretty much NOT INSULTING THEM, they just took the customer base away. Same thing is happening during this primary – the old is just bamboozled by the new arrival:
You know who thinks we should be perfectly willing to shut down DC to stop Planned Parenthood? OK, that was a gimme. You know who else claims to believe the exact same thing? THE DONALD. Oh my, how convenient. Nobody cognizant of Donald Trump’s previous support of legalized abortion should be intellectually convinced that THE DONALD means what he is saying. He doesn’t have to. He is serving a potential customer base. He’s arbitraging the GOP voter base right out from under them because the GOP failed to evaluate and manage that risk. Now, he is no longer a risk. He is an issue.
THE DONALD is able to effectively arbitrage based on the desire on the part of the American people that the priorities and policies of President Barack Obama get put under a hash microscope and opposed when they deviate from decency and reason. The GOP is either rightly or wrongly seen as failing to adequately serve that demand.
Just like Detroit failed to recognize when the Japanese auto industry stormed US shores – and got caught with its pants down.
In some cases, they are portrayed in deliberately engaging in Failure Theatre to avoid facing tough fights that are strategically or tactically difficult in the current environment.
Like the Senate vote on Planned Parent funding fiasco earlier this week – that was an “all for the rube show” as it never had any possible chance of passing. If Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader (R), really wanted to cut the funding, he would have attached it to a must-pass bill. But no – strictly political theater.
A harsher critique (#cuckservative)* would be that the GOP is merely a Potemkin opposition that only pretends to oppose the DC status quo in return for a rake-off. It matters not if the actual truth is defined by these critiques. It matters how much truth GOP base voters believe is portrayed by these disparaging critiques of the current GOP leadership.
And I will say that whole lot of the base believes that they are being played – not by the Dems but by their own Party. How many posts have I quoted now, from a number of disparate sites? This truth is starting to build. After all, if you are unwilling to serve your customers (for that is what voters are with the coin of the realm being individual votes instead of US currency), if they find someone else that will, they will go. And they are. And the GOP only has itself to blame – just review GraniteGrok for all of the Republican failures we have compiled.
This, therefore, allows the Donald to opportunistically promise to do the GOP’s job for them and take away a large swath of the GOP voters. Will it be enough to even elect Hillary? It will be if an issue mitigation strategy isn’t put into effect. That strategy is as follows. It is no longer legitimately sufficient to tell us what we would do absent Obama in the White House. We have to attempt it with him there and make him stop it or get out of the way. The GOP gained when it shut down the government to plug President Obama’s poisonous priorities.
Now, this is NOT an endorsement for Walker, but he IS showing exactly what Repair_Man_Jack is talking about – Not Words, Actions. Not Promises, Results. A willingness to stand up and throwdown. Fight, Not Wimp. Doing what is important and understanding that winning is the end goal but merely a precursor.
Governor Scott Walker is leading the way on this. He has taken on the unions, he has stripped Planned Parenthood’s Title V government funding. He now has to finish the job and get the Title X funds as well. Governor Jindal killed a Planned Parenthood contract with Louisiana and Rick Perry challenged the forthcoming Obama EPA ruling that would curtail the availability of energy. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) 87% at least tried to strip Planned Parenthood’s Federal monies.
These are the types of legitimate Conservative opposition to the current regime that will defang THE DONALD and convince potential GOP primary goers that the GOP still actually believes differently than the Democrats. That is the key to handling the issue known as THE DONALD.
But they didn’t so he is. They aren’t showing a difference worth spit. Sure, they TELL us they are different, but ask yourselves:
do you EVER not worry about how a Republican Politician is going to vote?
Again, an example. We never have to worry about how NH Executive Councilor Dave Wheeler is going to vote? Nope
Compare that to how often we have posted up something containing NH Executive Chris Sununu, urging him to vote down the Planned Parenthood contract? Was that “not worrying”?
Now, he did end up voting right in accordance with the Platform. Joy and celebration time?
No, it merely means he did his job right. That should ALWAYS be expected. Just do the job. And that will keep you the votes. Don’t make me worry – which means I’m not being served.
