Great quote on the state of the Republican Party:
Honestly, I’m not sure the Republicans have the slightest idea what they want to do other than come up with a slogan that will sound good to the masses. -- The New GOP Strategy On Health Care: Not Repeal, Defund
John Cornyn and the Eunuch Anacephalic ‘Leadership’ of the Republican Party
Over and over, we have seen recently that Republican “leadership” in Washington is a joke, their cowardice exceeded only by their incompetence. Pete Sessions and the National Republican Congressional Committee squandered hundreds of thousands of dollars on the Dede Scozzafava campaign, and the NRCC’s candidate-recruitment efforts consist mainly of trying to find “self-funders” — e.g., Ben Quayle types with lots of Daddy’s money to throw around — rather than identifying real leaders with solid values, like Vernon Parker.
The recent foibles of the Republican National Committee are too numerous to mention, but the bondage-nightclub fund-raiser is the tip of a very large iceberg of RNC staff blunders. The RNC also backed Scozzafava and there was that moronic Powerpoint presentation. Now Michelle Malkin calls our attention to the latest outrage ...
Here's the thing ... Maybe the Republican Party leadership isn't a joke, cowardice, or incompetent. Maybe instead, they just don't share the same goals as the average conservative.
Phyllis Schlafly pointed this out almost 50 years ago: The Republican Party apparatus is fighting for control of a multi-trillion dollar budget. They're not fighting to limit government. Think about it ...
Campaigns aren't cheap. Businesses don't make campaign donations, they make investments. Same with unions. When you make an investment, you expect a return.
This isn't rocket science. Seriously! How can anyone believe otherwise?
The government has not stopped growing since the day I was born just over 41 years ago. And don't tell me Republicans are victims of the Democrats. I don't buy the victim game. That's an excuse, not a reason.
Yes, some individual Republican politicians are on your side. But get over your bad selves, the party apparatus isn't! The RNC represents Washington DC.
I absolutely agree with you CL. The Republican Party's leadership is part of the problem. We the people want the party to move back to its conservative principles of limited government not the current party plaform of limited growth.
We simply can't settle for getting us to the far left with small steps, we need to reverse the trend. Great post CL.