Possibly I think this is a superb piece because it reflects precisely my own views, and, perhaps also because I believe it makes a most compelling case for closing out the GOP establishment in 2016. Along with that necessity goes the real question and the only obvious answer in my opinion:
If the establishment successfully foists another of its shills off on conservatives in 2016, there is simply no case to be made for conservatives to support the GOP. The threat that to stay home on election day hands the presidency to Hillary Clinton and all the terrible consequences that go with that, is being hurled once again at the party’s conservative base.
The same threat is made if conservatives were to resort to a “third-party”.
We get this every election…the promises (never kept) in off-year and the threats in presidential years. It has been the case for decades and not even Charlie Brown would fall for the same football snatch-away forever.
It is time in 2016 for the Establishment to hear and heed this: Your continued contempt and disregard for the conservative base and its candidates in this election will hand the presidency to Hillary Clinton…or, if indicted, some other Democrat far left ‘progressive’!
This time, Establishment, the ball is in your court. The potential demise of the Republican Party, this election, IS ON YOU!
Dismiss this publication, dismiss us, but be aware the sentiment, the disgust is wide and deep. Consider this article by Brent Bozell eminent conservative commentator in his own right and scion of the conservative family with deep Republican and conservative connections:
The GOP establishment has ruined the Republican brand (excerpts)
In Politico Tuesday, Republican elites warned that if Donald Trump or Ted Cruz become the nominee it would ruin the Republican brand.
How’s that for party unity and loyalty?
More to the point: What brand?
The GOP brand is already ruined. And they ruined it.
The GOP brand was one that championed limited government. The second largest expansion of the federal government came under the stewardship of President Bush 43 with the GOP in control of both the House and the Senate. Since 2008, the growth has exploded, with more debt added during the Obama administration than all others combined. And since 2010, the GOP leadership has approved every single spending measure.
So much for limited government.
Bozell goes on to list key avoidable failure, after key avoidable failure in the area of family values, national defense and more . . .
For years the GOP elites, along with their high-priced consultants, have cynically manipulated the Republican base, constantly promising to deliver on one issue after another, in order to get elected, yet delivering on nothing because there was never the intention of doing so.
. . .
I’m sure I could think of more failures. But there’s something I can’t recall. Beyond welfare reform and the naming of two superb Supreme Court Justices, I can’t think of any GOP accomplishment advancing the GOP brand over the past quarter century.
The rise of Trump and Cruz (and Carson and Fiorina too) is a direct reaction to the establishment’s own criminal incompetence.
But the GOP honchos are so blind to reality they can’t see any of this, or too dishonest to admit it. . . .
The establishment is frightened. They should be. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz don’t pose a threat to the GOP, they pose a threat to them. The current worry among Republican elites boils down to this, and this only: The GOP establishment is paralyzed by fear that it will be defeated by Trump or Cruz.
DLH
