Good-Bye, Republican ‘Leaders’
posted at 8:24 pm on May 27, 2009 by The Other McCain
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While I was busy with other things today, Allahpundit posted the news that Senate Republicans were ready to “roll over” on the Sotomayor nomination.
Also, while I was busy on other things, Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee endorsed Marco Rubio. (Take that, John Cornyn.)
One of the things I was busy on? Well, today an e-mail went out to thousands of conservative activists:
Dear Friend:
I’m Erick Erickson, editor-in-chief of Red.State.com. . . . I hope you’ll take a moment to read my message and take action.
The Republican Party establishment is making it clear that conservatives should give them money and then shut up.
Remember in 2006, when the GOP establishment spent millions to help Republican-in-name-only Sen. Lincoln Chafee (RI) turn back his conservative primary challenger – only to have Chafee lose in the fall (and then, like Arlen Specter, abandon the Republican Party)?
Don’t forget last year, when the National Republican Congressional Committee canceled critically needed ad buys on behalf of some of the best conservatives in Congress, such as Reps. Tom Feeney (FL) and Marilyn Musgrave (CO), possibly costing them re-election.
And this year, the Republican Party gave Arlen Specter its full-throated support against conservative Pat Toomey until Specter jumped ship. Then, instead of supporting Toomey, the Republican party ran out to find a Specter clone – ignoring the conservative.
Friends, the Republican establishment’s favoritism toward liberal candidates continues.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee just officially endorsed tax-hiking, affirmative action-loving liberal Florida Gov. Charlie Crist over conservative rising star Marco Rubio. Meanwhile, rumors are flying that the NRSC might soon do likewise in several other states.
I am sick and tired of the GOP taking my money and telling me to shut up while they spend my money on pro-abortion, big-spending tax hikers.
That’s why I am giving to the National Conservative Campaign Fund (NCCF). . . .
What Erick is saying is very simple: Grassroots conservatives have been sold out by Beltway Republicans for the last time.
It’s over. The days of party leadership in Washington shoving compromises down the throats of the conservative grassroots, endorsing bad policies and bad candidates, and then blaming the subsequent defeats on conservatives who opposed all of that stupidity? Over. Finished. Done.
Something else I was busy on today . . . well, I’ve got sources to protect. But one of my sources was on the air with a top conservative radio host, and the host told him, “I’ve been a Republican all my life, but so help me God, if they don’t stand up and fight on this Sotomayor thing, I’m through with them.”
I am simply reporting the facts here. If the “party leadership” doesn’t know how to lead, they won’t be the leaders any more, and they may not even have a party any more. It is that serious. And if Charles Grassley or anybody else thinks these people are kidding, they’ve got another think coming.
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Well, great but Rubio’s popularity is doing great already. It’s great that they’d endorse Rubio, but, it’s not as if Rubio’s not already the popular candidate.
Every bit helps, I guess.
I’d really like to see Rubio win the FL Senate seat. The Party needs him.
Lourdes on May 27, 2009 at 8:44 PM
EXACTLY. The GOP is going to flounder in the Land of the Lost if they cower as to the Sotomayor nomination. They really have to get ahead of (or step aside from) this whole Leftwing racist/sexist/ethnicsupremacy thing used nearly daily by the Democrats to try to force everyone into submission.
Sotomayor is horribly NOT qualified for the Supreme Court, based upon her own statements revealing an irrational series of views concentrated upon her ethnic supremacy views, as also sexist views.
She insults the Supreme Court, her nomination does, as does the guy who nominated her. Which is his objective, I think.
Lourdes on May 27, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Yep, next two election cycles are going to be all about the Oligarchs in Washington fighting against the Grass Roots out in Flyover country… with many on the coasts joining in.
Next major political movement will be a Fiscal Con / realistic Libertarian movement… (realistic libertarian being the most freedom possible without bordering on anarchy… ie… States Rights, Personal Responsibility, Law and Order, Old Constitutional value party, and the ideal that RIGHTS are for the individual, not the group, or even worse, the government…)
Its a coalition that Blue Dog Democrats, Moderates, Fiscal Cons, and Libertarians will all be able to support… ie… about 66% of the Nation…
Romeo13 on May 27, 2009 at 10:40 PM
BTW, the endorsement is from Jeb Bush, Jr., not the former Gov. as far as I know.
cs89 on May 27, 2009 at 10:55 PM
I round-file everything I get from the GOP, including the whiny crap that Steele sends via email. For two election cycles all of my donation money has gone to individual campaigners rather than the GOP.
If I wanted demorats in power, I would vote for the real thing, not a bunch of losers grabbing at coattails and pleading for a seat at Ogabe’s table. The GOP will move ahead without me; I’ll stand with the resistance when the time eventually comes.
Bishop on May 27, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Preach it!
ddrintn on May 27, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Don’t leave the party, that’s what the fifth columnists want us to do. Instead just show up once a month at your local republican party central committee meetings and get involved. Spend a season observing how things work and then get on the local ballot for membership on the committee. Convince a few hundred republican voters to vote for you and come November you’ll be on the committee.
Once on the committee get nominated for and win a leadership office (like treasure, vice-president, or president) and then you’ll have a say in who from your district gets sent to the national convention. As a voter at the national convention you will be able to influence the direction of the party and its funds.
palarson on May 28, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Yesterday my group was unleashed on Sacramento to lobby against a horrid piece of legislation that is working its way through the assembly. Here is what one of our members wrote to me:
Seems to sum it up doesn’t it? I would love to see Leadership in the GOP throw this kind of thinking at the electeds. It will only take one to stand up, find they are the new Leader, a Moses type, and others will follow.
InTheBellyoftheBeast on May 28, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Nice post, TOM.
It’s gotta start somewhere. And it ain’t gonna start inside the Beltway. Cornyn, McConnell and Co. still don’t get it. The whole lot of them needs to be replaced. We’ve got plenty of capable candidates. It’s time to retake the Party. And then hope to hell that the new bunch doesn’t rot as quickly as the old bunch has.
notropis on May 28, 2009 at 1:02 AM
I no longer donate to the Republican anything. I give money direct to my candidate of choice, regardless what State he is in.
tarpon on May 28, 2009 at 6:21 AM
The biggest single problem with career politicians (and that includes the pundits as well as those who face elections) is that after a while, they start identifying more with the Washington establishment (or state capital of your choice) than they do with ordinary citizens.
It becomes more important to them to have glowing reviews in the local papers. It becomes more important to them to be invited to the A list parties.
Actually winning elections? Distractions.
Actually passing the legislation they were sent to pass? Irrelevancies.
MarkTheGreat on May 28, 2009 at 8:38 AM
Something must be done about the lack of conservative leadership in the Republican Party.
I fear it is too late.
darktood on May 28, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Dare I say old boy, I like the cut of this RS MCCain fellow’s jib.
Brian1972 on May 28, 2009 at 2:37 PM
I think I’ll now go to the Red State Party coming up in Atlanta. I like that site. I hope you all consider. Grassroots is a good thing, and those that will follow are not looking for a handout, they are looking to rebirth our Country as it should be, as our Founders saw it, and – oh how I see, love and respect it.
seesalrun on May 28, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Funny thing happened yesterday… I had a call from the NRCC. I wasn’t polite. Not in the least.
They won’t get the contribution I pledged too, and they’ll never get any future contributions – ever
The officials who are already there don’t need money to stand up and do the right thing. It takes backbone. Something the GOP is sorely lacking.
I find it kind of funny that the two most principled conservatives around are beauty pageant winners. Michelle Bachmann would probably be the most principled.
BTW – Loved Tancredo’s rant on Sonia Sotomayor.
hoakie on May 29, 2009 at 1:31 PM