Too Many RINO’s For The ‘Available’ Resources

by
Steve MacDonald
rino_hunt
RINO’s consider targeting a few of their own…

Yahoo! has an article from AP bemoaning the number of moderate Republicans in the primary race. There is concern that with all these neutered, spineless GOPers vying for votes the party might have to suffer someone who actually defends the values documented in the party platform or (God forbid!) the Constitution. Well, they didn’t say that exactly, but that’s the truth.

AP | “If the center-right doesn’t coalesce here, it runs the risk of allowing a far-right, ideological candidate to go unchecked,” said Tom Rath, a New Hampshire-based Republican strategist backing Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

I feel so bad for you. Really, I do.

But there is reason for RINO concern. With little chance in Iowa a RINO needs to do well in New Hampshire or the odds for the GOP’s center left right get exponentially worse down the road, whether the GOP *Butt-Pirates try to hijack the convention or not. *But Trump will kill the down ticket races, but Cruz is too extreme (with more on that in a moment).

To Fergus Cullen, a former New Hampshire GOP chairman, the establishment candidates are “all so clustered that anyone can win that bracket.”

That bracket? You mean the invertebrates, yes?

So far, Republican operatives — some insisting on anonymity to discuss private conversations — say there is no organized effort to persuade one of those candidates to leave the race before the primary in order to narrow voters’ choices. But there have been preliminary discussions about what to do if four or five of those candidates finish within a few percentage points of each other in New Hampshire and all want to stay in the race.

There’s no organized effort because that would require a missing gene in their progressive DNA. These modern moderate Republicans don’t know how to organize, they just know how to lose elections to Democrats who do.

So even if a Paul Ryan or a Mitt Romney could poach a few of these invertebrates encourage a few of these rubber-chicken moderates to drop their bid to thin the herd it wouldn’t make a heck of a lot of difference. Not against Trump at least. No matter what you think of him or his politics, whatever they may be, The Donald’s unconventional style is exciting a dormant electorate to get involved and kicking their RINO backsides in every state polled, and nationally as well. So is it really Trump you are worried about or is it the voters he has woken from a slumber brought on, by the way, because of all those stupid RINO’s to which the national party is so addicted.

And right behind Trump is Ted Cruz, who is a constitutional Conservative, a guy the base can get behind and that ideological candidate Tom Rath is afraid could go unchecked. About that…

Rath, Cullen, Gregg, Bradley, et al., are afraid of someone in the Oval Office who might actually follow the Constitution, shrink the size and power of the executive branch, curtail bureaucratic overreach, end Medicaid Expansion and ObamaCare, return power, money, and local control back to the states and the people and business owners, scarp nutty climate and UN treaties, tap in to cheap abundant domestic energy resources, who will stop punishing states that disagree with him, end deal-making with our ideological enemies, and defend the nation from all threats foreign and domestic (to name a few).

That sort of person would be an ideological candidate, like Reagan. And if I’m not mistaken the establishment had the same things to say about Reagan. Remember him? He crushed Jimmy Carter who was the worst president until Barack Obama.

The stage is set for a similar demolition of the Democrats, who have geriatric socialists for the top of the ticket and no bench. A party that continues to lose state legislatures in every election season. Obama has destroyed the Democrat brand by being the perfect example of that brand.

Trump’s success suggests that the voters see the RINO’s as complicit in his “success” and that they are more inclined toward the business as usual inside-the-beltway-elitism. A RINO nominee will most certainly lose the general and hurt down ticket races because the libertarians, evangelicals, and other conservatives will stay home.

On a positive note, with all these RINO’s in the race, activists and voters have a growing list of the names of people who are more interested in the politics than the principles. You remember the principles? Those are the things that define an ideology, which is just a fancy word for a system of ideas and ideals that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

I can’t speak for everyone but the only reason I even registered Republican was because the Republican Party ideology was the one closest aligned with my own. On paper it still is. In practice it is not and that is why a RINO nominee will lose.

NH Senator Kelly Ayotte’s only hope of winning re-election is if that newly energized electorate has someone not at all like her at the top of the ticket for whom to vote. It significantly increases the odds she will get a down-ticket sympathy vote. But they need a reason to show up at the polls. Neither Kasich, nor, Christie, nor Bush will motivate them to turn out in the general to vote for them, or her. So the State party’s obsession with center left right candidates will cost them the presidency and a Senate seat.

And they are so disconnected from real voters that they won’t know what hit them or why, even though I just explained it.

 

 

 

 

 

Author

  • Steve MacDonald

    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

Share to...