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The Fierce Fury of the Angry Mob of Impassioned Bipartisan Moderates

Posted on | December 14, 2010 | 30 Comments

Few things are more predictable than this: Whenever Republicans are on the upswing — whenever conservatives are on fire with enthusiasm, proclaiming their core principles and clearly on the winning side of important issues — the mainstream media will devote enormous coverage to an alleged groundswell of discontented moderates whose demands for “bipartisanship” and “civility” are accompanied by condemnation of “divisiveness” and complaints that “extremists” are ignoring the vast majority of independent “centrist” voters.

Let the reader note that we never heard any such complaints about “divisiveness” and “extremism” after Obama was elected and Democrats were ramming their partisan agenda through Congress.

If you’ve been paying attention to politics for the past 20 or 30 years, this kind of stuff is as predictable as critical acclaim for a ballet movie with lesbian themes. (The Black Swan is this year’s Brokeback Mountain, and lesbian ballerinas, like gay cowboys, exist mainly in the imaginations of screenwriters seeking the kind of épater les bourgeois symbolism that makes Oscar voters feel good about rewarding “art.” But I digress . . .)

All of this is to explain what notorious candy-ass Allahpundit calls the RINO/DINO Alliance, an alleged “movement” with a manifesto co-authored by David Frum:

On Dec. 13, more than 1,000 citizens from the 50 states will convene in New York to change the odds. They are founding a movement – No Labels. Among them will be Democrats, Republicans and independents who are proud of their political affiliations and have no intention of abandoning them. A single concern brings them together: the hyper-polarization of our politics that thwarts an adult conversation about our common future. A single goal unites them: to expand the space within which citizens and elected officials can conduct that conversation without fear of social or political retribution.

The purpose of No Labels, of course, is to give the most irredeemably stupid “independent” voters an excuse to keep voting for Democrats. The mere fact that “No Labels” gets an 808-word free advertisement on the op-ed page of the Washington Post should tell you all you need to know about this alleged movement: It’s a ginned-up Establishment scam with no real activist constituency. Erick Erickson summarizes yesterday’s No Label summit:

Only in a place like New York, where a man can set off a bomb in Times Square and have the mayor blame opponents of Obamacare, could an unserious circle of smug, self-righteous political exiles get together and demand that they be treated seriously — so long as we give them no labels.

All you need to do to understand what No Labels is about is to look at the list of speakers for yesterday’s big coming-out party. An organization whose manifesto was co-authored by David Frum, and which manages to get both David Brooks and David Gergen at its inaugural event — well, suffice it to say this probably isn’t the kind of “Army of Davids” Professor Reynolds had in mind.

This isn’t a “movement.” That would require not only an identifiable activist constituency but also some clear sense of where it is they intend to “move.”

No, this is inertia. This is status quo-ism, a panic reaction to a populist insurgency, a desperate bid for relevance by an establishmentarian elite flying a false flag of bipartisanship, since their bogus “movement” is actually bipartisan in name only:

[T]he only Republicans present at Columbia University’s modern, square Alfred Lerner Hall seemed to be those who had recently lost primary races, such as South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis and Delaware Rep. Mike Castle, or former Republicans like Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. No other senior elected Republican officials were in attendance, though a range of Democrats were present, some of them seeming a bit mystified by the bipartisan cast of the event . . .

All of which is to say that this is an outright scam, and the only question you really need to ask about this kind of political hustle is: Cui bono?

Who benefits here? What’s the bottom line? Where’s the payoff, who’s paying and who’s getting paid? Before we identify the sow, let’s see which piglets are sucking the teats:

It’s something of an odd conceit, given the decentralized way powerful grass-roots movements generally come together these days. After all, MoveOn.org and the Tea Party groups sprang up organically and in a decentralized way, embraced by angry citizens circulating online petitions and holding rallies.
By contrast, No Labels was created by two Washington consultants, the Democratic fund-raiser Nancy Jacobson and the Republican image-shaper Mark McKinnon, and its slick opening event featured throngs of journalists, free boxed lunches and a song written for the occasion by the pop sensation Akon.

Ding! Ding! Ding! This scam is funded by Democratic money and scripted by the man whose name is a synonym for everything that’s wrong with the Republican Party. 

So this No Labels operation is a stealth-Democrat ripoff perpetrated with the help of two-faced RINO backstabbers. Now let’s see who’s paying the bills for this lavish exercise in bogus bipartisanship:

No Labels, the new centrist pro-”common sense” advocacy group that launched at a high-profile New York conference today, will not be revealing to the public who is putting up the money for the effort. . . .
No Labels, the new centrist pro-”common sense” advocacy group that launched at a high-profile New York conference today, will not be revealing to the public who is putting up the money for the effort. . . .
Transparency . . . is not a part of the No Labels vision.

Yeah. Funny how that works out.

But speaking of “transparency,” it’s now less than two weeks before Christmas, and I am transparently in need of cash to buy gifts for my wife and six children, so reader contributions to the tip jar would be extremely welcome.

Those phony “moderate” rat-bastards would never give a dime to a right-winger like me. Because they hate children and Christmas, too.

Merry Christmas, and hit the freaking tip jar!

UPDATE: Welcome, Gateway Pundit readers!

UPDATE II: Linked by Da Tech Guy, by Nice Deb (who sees “No Labels” as the “Coffee Party” redux) and by Dyspepsia Generation, where it is asserted that I am “having entirely too much fun.” Perhaps so, but I’m not yet earning entirely too much money, so hit the freaking tip jar!


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  • http://kingshamus.wordpress.com/ KingShamus

    Merry Christmas, RS.

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  • Anonymous

    David Frum and Mark McKinnon are lesbian ballerinas and gay cowboys?

    I can see why they would like “No Labels”.

  • Tennwriter

    Yeah! Nicely done.

    RINOism is weakness. Primarying is weakness leaving the GOP.

    So many of the RINO types can be described as cowards or self-interested establishment types. But while they may not be willing to fight for freedom, they’re willing to fight us, tooth and nail.

    Also, as this story shows, they are cunning and tricksome. Fortunately the Net is allowing a lot of ordinary people to get schooled in the tricks and traps of the playas. Just like this article serves to help teach those of us not used to false flag games.

    Next time this happens, one of your readers is going to look at the same old trick, and laugh because they recognize what the RINOs are trying to pull.

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  • http://twitter.com/LeatherPenguin TC Lynch

    They got plenty of chiefs, but where do they intend to get their indians, “Rent a Mob”?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Coffer/1296650908 Chuck Coffer

    An adult conversation? Is that one wherein truth is forbidden? Like where we’re supposed to pretend the democrat party is now something other than an openly Marxist enterprise?

    You “no labels” vermin, can take your version of “adulthood” and shove it right up your impotent, irrelevant asses.

    Respectfully, of course.

  • http://www.goldfishandclowns.com Jerry Wilson/Goldfish & Clowns

    Allahpundit is the patron saint of candy-ass.

    Well, the atheist equivalent thereof.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Charlie Crist is involved.. That in and of itself should tell you all you need to know about ‘No Lables’.

  • Anonymous

    Someone tell Tom Friedman he didn’t get the memo, he is calling moderates “The radical middle”

    FYI, I am an Independent. We swung in big numbers to the right this last election. It’s not that surprising – look at McDonnell, Christie and Brown elections. The Progressives were busy with reassuring self talk – MSNBC to notice they were in trouble with the Independents.

    The Progressives are busy telling the Independents who they are because we must have forgotten ;) Not hardly – and I predict that “No Labels” will not be able to draw off any of the Independents, who identify with the TEA PARTY. As progressive Soros’ henchman likes to say, that ship has sailed.

    The Progressives would love to co-opt the TEA PARTY a populist movement. They can’t the TEA PARTY movement exist because of Progressive overreaching. They think they can draw off stragglers. Progressives create “No Label” sheep in sheep’s clothing. Do you look for “the union label” when you buy wool garments ? LOL!

  • Anonymous

    I liked him better when he was actually doing the Allah shtick. That was some funny stuff. :(

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    “and lesbian ballerinas … exist mainly in the imaginations of screenwriters…”

    “It’s not true! It CAN’T BE! You LIE!” — Guy with camcorder he’s hardly used yet.

  • Anonymous

    “The Lapel” movement, more like. Oh when oh when can we go back to blindly loving and trusting our superiors in New York?

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  • Adobe_Walls

    The fun part is that this top down movement will immediately start acquiring labels let’s start with The Scrofulous Party.

  • http://twitter.com/vjmfilms Victor Morton

    Not on the principal topic of this post (to which kudos, BTW), but I have to say this.

    Dude … I have seen BLACK SWAN twice (I think it’s a great film). It is not remotely a lesbian-ballerina movie, even in the sense that BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is a “gay cowboy” movie (they’re actually bisexual sheepherders). Sexuality is a major topic of BLACK SWAN but orientation a la BROKEBACK simply is not.

    It has one scene (and you find out more about it later) of carpet chewing in which not only do you not see the carpet, you don’t even see much of the rest of the furniture. A viewer who is not already sexually aware would probably be more confused (“what’s going on here?”) than turned on by it. Horny teen boys looking for lez will be disappointed.

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  • Anonymous

    Those who think Mr. Bloomberg would want to build a similar kind of organization, be it No Labels or something else, are assuming that the growing power and disaffection of independent voters who identify with neither Democrats nor Republicans make a third party more viable than it has ever been. In fact, though, the rise of the independents represents a movement in exactly the opposite direction — away from party organizations altogether.

    This “No Labels” drive seems a bit like trying to quickly organize procrastinators.
    The Times thinks a “third party” based on the power of “NO” just isn’t in the cards.

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  • Anonymous

    If Charlie Crist is involved, should it be called ‘No Labia’?

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  • Anonymous

    No Labels = Coalition of the Befuddled.

    http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
    “Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”

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    ANNOUNCING THE NO-LABELS LOGO CONTEST!

    http://tinyurl.com/23kcf34

    Stacy McCain is our First Contestant… and what a bar to reach, folks.

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  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    Shameful that he would destroy the belief of all those young boys who go to sleep at night dreaming of a visit from lesbian ballerinas.

    And at Christmas, too . . . how sad . . .

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