Another guy who says it for me. John Nolte writing at Brietbart: Why We Lose: Top GOP Consultant Rick Wilson Trashes Republican Base
It will not be sufficient for the establishment to just stop insulting and threatening the party’s conservative base. If the current GOP congressional majority doesn’t deliver some very significant achievements in the next 6 months, you know like stopping the illegal, unconstitutional actions of president Obama and showing some interest in slowing spending while strengthening the slow destruction of America’s military, I would suggest Mitch and John and the Republican saps who have kept them in power, are going to see Republican turnout and “persuadables” negatively impacted (to say the least).
From the John Nolte article linked:
Let me set the scene with some science…
The national Republican Party has lost the popular vote in five of six presidential elections. The only one they were able to win was a lay-up, the re-election of a sitting president, George W. Bush, during a time of war. And while the national Republican Party has been able to win majorities in Congress, other than better congressional offices for the winners, what exactly was the point? . . .
The GOP voting base has been repeatedly betrayed, is furious, and has every right to be. The incompetent Establishment is either losing national elections, getting rolled by Democrats, simpering to the media, or serially-stabbing their own voters in the back — and doing so on nothing less than illegal immigration, an issue the base correctly sees as an existential one that will determine the future of our Party and our country.
Meanwhile, Establishment icon Jeb Bush sees illegal immigration as an “act of love.”
To anyone not blinded by their own snobbery, Trump’s appeal to this group, even if it is on the single issue of locking America’s back border door at night, is painfully obvious.
So what does a well connected Republican political consultant do?
1. Go on CNN to insult Donald Trump’s supporters, who make up 23% of the GOP base.
2. Recommend that no one tries to win the votes of these knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.
If there is an example of anyone winning an election by attacking their own voters, I’m all ears.
Nolte has more trenchant remarks in his article available here
DLH
