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John Cornyn and the Eunuch Anacephalic ‘Leadership’ of the Republican Party

Posted on | April 1, 2010 | 61 Comments

Drew M. at Ace of Spades says John Cornyn is “starting to go wobbly,” which involves the wholly unwarranted assumption that Cornyn was ever steady to begin with.

It was Cornyn who, by giving the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s endorsement to Charlie Crist — 15 months before the Florida GOP primary — sparked the Not One Red Cent rebellion.

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:

Mr. Steele agreed to meet with the immigration groups after they staged a brief but noisy sit-in at the R.N.C. offices on March 22.
Several advocates emerged from the closed-door session to say Mr. Steele had pledged to help find at least one more Republican sponsor for a bill being crafted by Senator Lindsey O. Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, and Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, a Democrat.
The advocates “walked away with a commitment from Steele to work with Sen. Lindsey Graham and the party’s leadership to enlist another Republican senator’s support for comprehensive and bipartisan immigration reform,” the leaders of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement said in a statement. The movement is a coalition of groups that support a path to legal status for illegal immigrants.

This kind of sellout — the GOP elite betraying the party’s conservative grassroots — occurs routinely. While I was in Arizona, I heard rumors that if John McCain’s big money isn’t enough to buy re-election, the NRSC will spend money to help McCain destroy J.D. Hayworth. It’s typical of the kind of clueless Republican “leadership” that spent $320,000 to help Arlen Specter defeat Pat Toomey in 2004 — and was prepared to do the same this year, until Specter decided he was a Democrat:

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, [wrote an April 2009 letter] to fellow Republicans asking them to support Specter.

And Cornyn certainly wasn’t alone:

In a sign of party support, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s Bluegrass PAC contributed $10,000 to Specter [in March 2009].

“Does the GOP have enough balls?” Neither balls, nor brains.

(Cross-posted at the Hot Air Greenroom.)

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Category: Arizona, Congress, Health Care, Immigration, J.D. Hayworth, Republicans, Senate

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  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    theCL, reocean:

    I’ll repeat, then drop it: there is a difference between ‘bad’ and ‘worse,’ and refusing to do anything practical about ‘worse’ is an all too common problem in the VRWC right now. This is a thing that is.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    theCL, reocean:

    I’ll repeat, then drop it: there is a difference between ‘bad’ and ‘worse,’ and refusing to do anything practical about ‘worse’ is an all too common problem in the VRWC right now. This is a thing that is.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane
  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane
  • http://politeaparty.blogspot.com d.eris

    “Maybe we should turn the Tea Party into a third party.”

    It is sometimes difficult to believe that there still exist people who are so deluded by corporatist propaganda that they would support the Republican or Democratic Party in any way, shape or form. But the numbers of dead-enders in the duopoly parties are dwindling. Freedom and independence today begins with freedom and independence from the dictatorship of the Democratic-Republican two-party state and duopoly system of government.

  • http://politeaparty.blogspot.com d.eris

    “Maybe we should turn the Tea Party into a third party.”

    It is sometimes difficult to believe that there still exist people who are so deluded by corporatist propaganda that they would support the Republican or Democratic Party in any way, shape or form. But the numbers of dead-enders in the duopoly parties are dwindling. Freedom and independence today begins with freedom and independence from the dictatorship of the Democratic-Republican two-party state and duopoly system of government.

  • Scott Wilson

    Reading this post and the comments hits home with my frustrations here in the 10th PA. We have a house seat in a conservative district, which is up in arms over Carney’s health care vote. Carney was my prime motivation in getting off my duff and involved in the political process. I have vowed to expend all the energy I can muster towards his defeat. I have seen all three Republican candidates speak and swiftly concluded that David Madeira is the one to beat Chris Carney. The Red State article (link below) says all about Tom Marino and needs no further elaboration. But I will add that as a speaker, he could not articulate his thoughts very well and did not seem to have much depth of knowledge of the issues. In short, he was unimpressive. David Madeira was articulate, energetic, positively engaging, exuded confidence, exhibited great depth of understanding of the issues, is a real conservative, family man, has health care experience, is a small businessman, has no baggage. In short, just what the doctor ordered. On the one hand, it was such an overwhelmingly obvious choice to me, and yet it seems, the Republican Party machine is lining up behind Marino. If Marino takes the primary, it will be a disaster as Chris Carney will have a field day, whether deserved or not, and we will lose the opportunity to retake the 10th PA….very frustrating and makes me want to quit the Republican Party. I am all in with David Madeira.

    http://www.redstate.com/redhk/2010/03/26/the-gops-giannoulias/

  • Scott Wilson

    Reading this post and the comments hits home with my frustrations here in the 10th PA. We have a house seat in a conservative district, which is up in arms over Carney’s health care vote. Carney was my prime motivation in getting off my duff and involved in the political process. I have vowed to expend all the energy I can muster towards his defeat. I have seen all three Republican candidates speak and swiftly concluded that David Madeira is the one to beat Chris Carney. The Red State article (link below) says all about Tom Marino and needs no further elaboration. But I will add that as a speaker, he could not articulate his thoughts very well and did not seem to have much depth of knowledge of the issues. In short, he was unimpressive. David Madeira was articulate, energetic, positively engaging, exuded confidence, exhibited great depth of understanding of the issues, is a real conservative, family man, has health care experience, is a small businessman, has no baggage. In short, just what the doctor ordered. On the one hand, it was such an overwhelmingly obvious choice to me, and yet it seems, the Republican Party machine is lining up behind Marino. If Marino takes the primary, it will be a disaster as Chris Carney will have a field day, whether deserved or not, and we will lose the opportunity to retake the 10th PA….very frustrating and makes me want to quit the Republican Party. I am all in with David Madeira.

    http://www.redstate.com/redhk/2010/03/26/the-gops-giannoulias/

  • Mike

    Thanks Stacy – If we only had more folks like you. Unfortunately we don’t – I’ve given up on the GOP and their bought and paid for media whores Hannity, Limbaugh, Levin, Beck, etc. I’m hoping for a complete socio-economic collapse so we as a nation can separate the wheat from the chaff.

    See you in the flailing field.

    Mike

  • Mike

    Thanks Stacy – If we only had more folks like you. Unfortunately we don’t – I’ve given up on the GOP and their bought and paid for media whores Hannity, Limbaugh, Levin, Beck, etc. I’m hoping for a complete socio-economic collapse so we as a nation can separate the wheat from the chaff.

    See you in the flailing field.

    Mike

  • Mike

    Thanks Stacy – If we only had more folks like you. Unfortunately we don’t – I’ve given up on the GOP and their bought and paid for media whores Hannity, Limbaugh, Levin, Beck, etc. I’m hoping for a complete socio-economic collapse so we as a nation can separate the wheat from the chaff.

    See you in the flailing field.

    Mike

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