Remember while reading the below that two of the three top finishers are TEA Party associated (emphasis mine):
And the night’s biggest loser wasn’t Donald Trump (though he indeed lost big), but the GOP establishment, what William F. Buckley once referred to in the initial mission statement of National Review as the “Well-fed right whose ignorance and amorality have never been exaggerated for the same reason that one cannot exaggerate infinity.” They suffered a loss so ignominious and dramatic that one needs to step back a bit to reflect on its comprehensiveness. The campaign began with seventeen GOP candidates, of whom eleven had longtime pre-Tea Party era experience in elected office, including several senators and the former Governors of Texas, New York, and Florida. Between pre-caucus drop-outs and election night performances, those eleven candidates took just nine percent of the vote combined. Nine percent. The other ninety-one percent of the vote went to candidates who had neither not held office before 2010 or whom had never held office at all.
In the face of repudiation this total,
a sane party establishment would re-evaluate everything that it had been doing over the past decade: its policies, its strategies and its rhetoric. Sadly, the GOP establishment shows no signs of creeping sanity, so expect more quotes from lobbyists and failed presidential candidates taking shots at Ted Cruz, or any other candidate who attempts to wean the GOP from its addiction to amnesty, the lobbying gravy train, the donor class, insulting its voters, and losing presidential elections. Plus, as a bonus, we can look forward the typical bout of “concern trolling” from our friends in the left-wing media, who will lament how awful it would be for the GOP’s electoral prospects if the party actually nominated a conservative for President. To which I can only respond: “Br’er Fox, please don’t throw the GOP in that briar patch!”
What we have heard just leaves me LMAO – it is the ESTABLISHMENT folks that have murmured words to the effect that if Trump or Cruz were to win, they’d go third part. Third party! Yup, the same thing for which they laughed and mocked disaffected Republicans in the TEA Party, laughingly saying “go ahead, form your own party”.
Strange how karma can circle around, isn’t it? The GOPe Leadership is refusing to learn the first Rule of Leadership:
If no one is following, you ain’t leading.
And in Iowa, that stark truth has been made clear – no one is following the Establishment Wannabees. They ARE following people, distasteful to the GOPe, that are expressing support for the issues (and the proper side thereof) they drive them, the base. How simple can this be?
Or has the GOPe become the McDonalds (pre-breakfast) of politics?
No, the TEA Party is not dead. Like I said at the top of the post:
…two of the three top finishers are TEA Party associated
That would be Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio – without the support of TEA Party type folks, they would never be competing for the Presidency. I will admit, neither are perfect – no one is. But in this current crop of candidates, based on the three principles of the TEA Party (fiscal frugalness, Constitutional boundaries for government, and support for Free Markets), they fit. I sure can swat them on other issues, but on these, they fit.
So after eight short years, the TEA Party has a good shot at putting a candidate into the Oval Office.
And yet, the GOPe, once mocked the TEA Party – and now they are unloading everything they got to stop them.
So no, GOPe is not learning. They don’t want to learn and they don’t want to listen to those that actually matter – no, not the Donor class but actual voters. Because everyone in the Donor class only has one vote to spend – just like the rest of us.
(H/T: The Corner)
