Last week, a Breitbart News article highlighted Sarah Palin’s criticism of the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, and on Sunday, she wrote a Facebook post excoriating this “bipartisan” sellout:
Great job, GOP establishment. You’ve just abandoned the Reagan Democrats with this amnesty bill, and we needed them to “enlarge that tent” of which you so often speak. It’s depressing to consider that the House of Representatives is threatening to pass some version of this nonsensical bill in the coming weeks.
Palin went on to say that many Americans, herself included, “are barely hanging on to our enlistment papers in any political party,” denouncing both parties as “dysfunctional political machines.”
Hear! Hear! Attagirl, Sarah! You tell ’em!
Then, in response to my friend Josh Painter, Governor Palin said she liked his suggestion of joining forces with Mark Levin to create a new “Freedom Party” if the GOP continues its drift toward abandoning a commitment to core American values. This comment was picked up by the Daily Caller’s Jeff Poor (who has always hated Sarah Palin with a blind fury) and was in turn seized on by a Red State diarist who, in order to illustrate his post, used a Photoshopped image to mock Palin.
By a strange chain of events — having missed the build-up of the brewing controversy — I learned of this via Stacy Drake, who slammed the dishonesty of the Red State attack. Quite frankly, a lot of Palin supporters have been bitter toward Red State since 2011, when Erick Erickson went out of his way to mock them. But let us lay aside these ancient quarrels to ask: Is Sarah Palin right?
Not only is she right to oppose this amnesty sellout, but the resentment toward GOP leadership she expresses touches on key aspects of a criticism that the most astute minds in the conservative movement have been making for many, many years. Readers already acquainted with this critique will excuse me for taking time here to explain to new readers the historical and philosophical background.
The perennial problem of the Republican Party is that they are a party of ideas, whereas Democrats are a party of people. That is to say, the GOP since the era of Reagan has been devoted to a philosophy of conservatism — an ideology — while by contrast, the Democrats sit around identifying specific voter groups (labor union members, women, blacks, gays, etc.), telling them that the Republicans are their mortal enemies, and then pitching them with promises: “We’re on your side. We’re your friends. Vote for us and we’ll give you X, Y and Z.”
Republicans succeed when they are led by spokesmen who can clearly articulate a conservative philosophy, and who consistently point out the Democrats’ history of dishonesty and failure: Even if you could trust Democrats to do what they say they’re going to do (which by the way, you can’t) their policies don’t work, have never worked and never will work. People who vote Democrat in the belief that Democrats will fix their problems always end up with worse problems.
Want to see what Democrats do for their “friends”? Go to Detroit.
Republicans fail when they lack confidence in their own beliefs and instead offer voters a “Me, Too” agenda of Democrat Lite. This has been a GOP problem since the era of Herbert Hoover, at least, and was a basic reason why William F. Buckley Jr. and a number of other like-minded people organized what we now know as Movement Conservatism during the 1950s. It is a sad fact that many of those who today claim to be conservatives have never really studied the development of this movement. Too much of this history has either been forgotten or twisted by liberal authors (e.g., Sam Tanenhaus) so as to be unrecognizable to those familiar with the actual facts.
Many of my friends of the libertarian or traditionalist persuasion (“Old Whigs,” so to speak) scorn Movement Conservatism as weak tea, a pragmatic compromise with electoral politics that lacks the radicalism of a fighting creed which can inspire a true revival. As one of my late acquaintances liked to say, the conservative movement is an oxymoron; it conserves nothing and doesn’t move anywhere.
Well, “steady licks kill the Devil,” as they say. We have seen in the past half-century that, if properly organized and properly led, the conservative movement can make real changes. But personnel is policy, and too often the ambitions of individuals — careerists seeking to make politics the vehicle of their own personal success — have put the wrong kind of people in key roles, enabling them to prevent success (and then, of course, to scapegoat others for the failure).
Ability and ambition are not always accompanied by virtue and wisdom. Quite commonly in political life, we encounter selfish people who cleverly present themselves as principled idealists, zealous for The Cause, while enriching themselves and enhancing their own influence behind the convenient camouflage of political purity.
Al Regnery once summarized this problem by saying that the success of conservatism had created opportunities for opportunists.
In other words, back when “conservative” was an unpopular label and a misunderstood idea, people could not get rich or build careers for themselves by parading beneath the banner of conservatism. But the success of the conservative movement during the Reagan era and beyond made it a popular thing — both for Republican office-seekers and for various sorts of political functionaries — to identify themselves as “conservatives,” to claim to speak for conservatism, and to assert that their particular ideas were True Conservatism.
This influx of opportunists has not only confused the public as to what “conservative” means, but it has erected an organizational infrastructure of the movement staffed by careerists more interested in their own advancement within this hierarchy — “The Ziggurat of Ambition,” as I’ve called it — than in conservatism itself.
Sarah Palin’s career on the national stage has involved some misfortunes, which the Red State diarist imperfectly summarizes:
I’ll admit, for a brief moment in 2008, I thought John McCain might actually have a chance at winning the White House. That moment was at the end of Sarah Palin’s RNC convention speech during which she took a mere 45 minutes to eviscerate the 18 months of image building that was Barack Obama’s campaign.
In 2008, to me, Sarah Palin was the “hope” and “change” the GOP could have used. Palin seemed to be more the ‘maverick’ than McCain ever was or could hope to be.
However, shortly after her convention speech, the McCain campaign took over, the Left attacked, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Now, after four years of being the quasi-professional bomb-throwing GOP outsider, Palin is tossing the idea out there that she’s open to supporting a third party.
This certainly summarizes a perception of Palin that many people might agree with, if they haven’t bothered to study Palin’s biography and to assess the fundamental problem: What happens when a successful but relatively obscure Republican with no previous exposure to high-stakes national politics is suddenly thrust into the spotlight — and finds herself surrounded by the sort of vicious backstabbing crapweasels who were running John McCain’s campaign?
Seriously: If Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace are the future of the Republican Party, we are doomed beyond all hope of redemption.
Criticize Palin however you will — say she was “not ready for primetime,” call her a “bomb thrower,” accuse her of greed or excessive vanity, impugn her temperament, whatever — but you must understand this: Sarah Palin is not what’s wrong with the Republican Party.
And while I do not mean to endorse a third-party effort in 2016, Governor Palin has put her finger directly on a key problem for conservatives, namely that such leaders of the Republican Party as have joined The Gang of Eight Liars are betraying the people who elected them with the belief that those voters have no alternative.
Controlling the party apparatus and able to hire plenty of “conservative intellectuals” to endorse their betrayal as essential to the future success of the GOP, these Republicans proceed on the assumption that conservative voters are so lacking in devotion to principle that they will always vote Republican no matter what.
Governor Palin can’t say this, but I can: F–k you, “Republican leaders.”
And while we’re at it, f–k anybody who says we should roll over and accept this kind of phony “conservative” bulls–t as inevitable.
No, by God, I say we fight these bastards with everything we’ve got.
Fight them until Hell freezes over, and then fight them on the ice.
Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, a fine occasion to declare our independence from these vicious backstabbing crapweasels.
If Governor Palin is willing to help lead this fight — inside the GOP so long as there is hope, but outside the GOP if we must — then I say, “Patriots! We must conquer here or die! Rally on the Alaskan!”
WOLVERINES!
Teddy Roosevelt was a Progressive who lost and started a 3rd party. Lincoln JOINED a 3rd party. So you’re 1 for 3 on your analogies. Show me another figure with Reagan’s charisma and ability to articulate, and you might have an argument.
Bottom line is, we’ve been getting railroaded by the establishment since Bush the Elder. How many elections do we have to be the scapegoat, or the immediately cast-aside rubes, before you have to get that it’s the same song and dance every time. When is it enough?
Next election? 5 more elections? Give me a number. Because I’ve heard this argument for 30 years now. It’s getting mighty old. Lesser of two evils doesn’t cut it. Time to do some good. If you’re gonna lose anyway, might as well lose for what you believe in, instead of whore yourself to the establishment and lose anyway.
This. RedState died in 09.
**__** … There is a path… Steve King Rally the conservatives in the houser and oust johnny boy boehner and his GOPe arm twisters, take it bk and the committe leadership also then 2014 tke the senate install Ted Cruz… paving the way for Governor Sarah Palin and the oval office… She the only one tht can fix it at this point,,,O Ha La… ~ !
Chuck the leadership cut the hydras head off and the rest wont follow…
I think you’re right on both counts. Rule 12 was clearly meant to protect Romney’s friends in future elections.
And Palin is right in both the shot across the bow ‘and’ what passing Shamnesty would mean. If the people who made the Reagan Revolution are going to be spat on for people who aren’t going to vote for the GOP anyway, why the heck should we stay in a party that doesn’t value us?
Bottom line, if the GOP is a party of ideas, but the ideas aren’t the ones we believe in, what do we gain by supporting it?
Some of those people have been in office since Christ was born, how do you get them out.
I left Red State years ago, it got so Moe Lane and “Union Labor Report” were the only ones I could stomach. Then Moe changed his comment rules so you have to register another ID, and I’m a “member” of more places than I care to read already, so I don’t check him any more either.
Erickson is pretty much an idiot. I have nothing against idiots, there are enough on our side and you can’t win any election without a fair percentage of them, BUT he combines stupidity with arrogance in a way I find quite annoying, much like Obama. His minions aren’t quite Lizardoids, but they aren’t quite what I would call “Tea Party” either.
Great piece!
I especially appreciate your well-stated sentiment regarding this battle: “inside the GOP so long as there is hope, but outside the GOP if we must”.
We have amnesty ring leaders McCain (“Build the Dang Fence” ~ 2010) & Rubio (“You Cannot Grant Amnesty” ~ 2009) leading the charge against our nation’s sovereignty. With Graham pitching a tent at the Fox studios and & Flake cheering this on they managed to garner a total of 14-15 DEMOCRATS-IN-TRAINING who voted for this amnesty monstrosity.
And that’s what I consider ANY republican who ‘reaches across the aisle’….a Democrat-In-Training. Reaching across the aisle always means the republican compromises THEIR principles for the sake of ‘getting something done’.
‘Reaching across the aisle’ in order to ‘get something done’ is the quintessential apple in the Garden of Eden of DC politics. Once you take a bite, there’s no turning back. Sadly, those of us who sent these politicians to DC to resist the temptation of the compromising your principles snake are forever screwed.
When it comes right down to it, these RHINO traitors have simply become an extension of the democrat party. They are the new conservative wing of the democrat party.
It’s when I realize this glaring fact that the idea of starting a third party is more palatable. The Rhino’s and the Establishment can just fold themselves into the democrat party. They can compromise, play footsies, and slobber all over each other in their love letters…I mean speeches….on the floor of the senate and in front of the media all they want!
The rest of us freedom-loving, constitution-revering Americans can get down to the business of electing like-minded patriots who will stand on principle (see Ted Cruz) and lead the charge to shrink this out of control federal government.
I would agreee normally, but think about the chronology of what you suggest:
That would mean we would have to wait to see who the GOP nominates (roughly by the Spring of 2016) BEFORE deciding whether or not to start a Third Party and run a candidate.
TOO LATE.
As the song goes: “It’s Too Late To Apologize…”
I don’t know that Palin has any particular connections in the House. The last word has been pretty clear that no immigration bill that doesn’t pass the Hastert rule will get a vote, and there is certainly nothing even being considered yet which comes close.
Last week, a Breitbart News article highlighted Sarah Palin’s criticism of the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, and on Sunday, she wrote a Facebook post excoriating this “bipartisan” sellout:
“Great job, GOP establishment. You’ve just abandoned the Reagan Democrats with this amnesty bill, and we needed them to “enlarge that tent” of which you so often speak. It’s depressing to consider that the House of Representatives is threatening to pass some version of this nonsensical bill in the coming weeks.”
Palin went on to say that many Americans, herself included, “are barely hanging on to our enlistment papers in any political party,” denouncing both parties as “dysfunctional political machines.”
Hear! Hear! Attagirl, Sarah! You tell ‘em!
Then, in response to my friend Josh Painter, Governor Palin said she liked his suggestion of joining forces with Mark Levin to create a new “Freedom Party” if the GOP continues its drift toward abandoning a commitment to core American values. This comment was picked up by the Daily Caller’s Jeff Poor (who has always hated Sarah Palin with a blind fury) and was in turn seized on by a Red State diarist who, in order to illustrate his post, used a Photoshopped image to mock Palin.
By a strange chain of events — having missed the build-up of the brewing controversy — I learned of this via Stacy Drake, who slammed the dishonesty of the Red State attack. Quite frankly, a lot of Palin supporters have been bitter toward Red State since 2011, when Erick Erickson went out of his way to mock them. But let us lay aside these ancient quarrels to ask: Is Sarah Palin right?
Not only is she right to oppose this amnesty sellout, but the resentment toward GOP leadership she expresses touches on key aspects of a criticism that the most astute minds in the conservative movement have been making for many, many years. Readers already acquainted with this critique will excuse me for taking time here to explain to new readers the historical and philosophical background.
The perennial problem of the Republican Party is that they are a party of ideas, whereas Democrats are a party of people. That is to say, the GOP since the era of Reagan has been devoted to a philosophy of conservatism — an ideology — while by contrast, the Democrats sit around identifying specific voter groups (labor union members, women, blacks, gays, etc.), telling them that the Republicans are their mortal enemies, and then pitching them with promises: “We’re on your side. We’re your friends. Vote for us and we’ll give you X, Y and Z.”
Republicans succeed when they are led by spokesmen who can clearly articulate a conservative philosophy, and who consistently point out the Democrats’ history of dishonesty and failure: Even if you could trust Democrats to do what they say they’re going to do (which by the way, you can’t) their policies don’t work, have never worked and never will work. People who vote Democrat in the belief that Democrats will fix their problems always end up with worse problems.
Want to see what Democrats do for their “friends”? Go to Detroit.
Republicans fail when they lack confidence in their own beliefs and instead offer voters a “Me, Too” agenda of Democrat Lite. This has been a GOP problem since the era of Herbert Hoover, at least, and was a basic reason why William F. Buckley Jr. and a number of other like-minded people organized what we now know as Movement Conservatism during the 1950s. It is a sad fact that many of those who today claim to be conservatives have never really studied the development of this movement. Too much of this history has either been forgotten or twisted by liberal authors (e.g., Sam Tanenhaus) so as to be unrecognizable to those familiar with the actual facts.
Many of my friends of the libertarian or traditionalist persuasion (“Old Whigs,” so to speak) scorn Movement Conservatism as weak tea, a pragmatic compromise with electoral politics that lacks the radicalism of a fighting creed which can inspire a true revival. As one of my late acquaintances liked to say, the conservative movement is an oxymoron; it conserves nothing and doesn’t move anywhere.
Well, “steady licks kill the Devil,” as they say. We have seen in the past half-century that, if properly organized and properly led, the conservative movement can make real changes. But personnel is policy, and too often the ambitions of individuals — careerists seeking to make politics the vehicle of their own personal success — have put the wrong kind of people in key roles, enabling them to prevent success (and then, of course, to scapegoat others for the failure).
Ability and ambition are not always accompanied by virtue and wisdom. Quite commonly in political life, we encounter selfish people who cleverly present themselves as principled idealists, zealous for The Cause, while enriching themselves and enhancing their own influence behind the convenient camouflage of political purity.
Al Regnery once summarized this problem by saying that the success of conservatism had created opportunities for opportunists.
In other words, back when “conservative” was an unpopular label and a misunderstood idea, people could not get rich or build careers for themselves by parading beneath the banner of conservatism. But the success of the conservative movement during the Reagan era and beyond made it a popular thing — both for Republican office-seekers and for various sorts of political functionaries — to identify themselves as “conservatives,” to claim to speak for conservatism, and to assert that their particular ideas were True Conservatism.
This influx of opportunists has not only confused the public as to what “conservative” means, but it has erected an organizational infrastructure of the movement staffed by careerists more interested in their own advancement within this hierarchy — “The Ziggurat of Ambition,” as I’ve called it — than in conservatism itself.
Sarah Palin’s career on the national stage has involved some misfortunes, which the Red State diarist imperfectly summarizes:
“I’ll admit, for a brief moment in 2008, I thought John McCain might actually have a chance at winning the White House. That moment was at the end of Sarah Palin’s RNC convention speech during which she took a mere 45 minutes to eviscerate the 18 months of image building that was Barack Obama’s campaign.
In 2008, to me, Sarah Palin was the “hope” and “change” the GOP could have used. Palin seemed to be more the ‘maverick’ than McCain ever was or could hope to be.
However, shortly after her convention speech, the McCain campaign took over, the Left attacked, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Now, after four years of being the quasi-professional bomb-throwing GOP outsider, Palin is tossing the idea out there that she’s open to supporting a third party.”
This certainly summarizes a perception of Palin that many people might agree with, if they haven’t bothered to study Palin’s biography and to assess the fundamental problem: What happens when a successful but relatively obscure Republican with no previous exposure to high-stakes national politics is suddenly thrust into the spotlight — and finds herself surrounded by the sort of vicious backstabbing crapweasels who were running John McCain’s campaign?
Seriously: If Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace are the future of the Republican Party, we are doomed beyond all hope of redemption.
Criticize Palin however you will — say she was “not ready for primetime,” call her a “bomb thrower,” accuse her of greed or excessive vanity, impugn her temperament, whatever — but you must understand this: Sarah Palin is not what’s wrong with the Republican Party.
And while I do not mean to endorse a third-party effort in 2016, Governor Palin has put her finger directly on a key problem for conservatives, namely that such leaders of the Republican Party as have joined The Gang of Eight Liars are betraying the people who elected them with the belief that those voters have no alternative.
Controlling the party apparatus and able to hire plenty of “conservative intellectuals” to endorse their betrayal as essential to the future success of the GOP, these Republicans proceed on the assumption that conservative voters are so lacking in devotion to principle that they will always vote Republican no matter what.
Governor Palin can’t say this, but I can: F–k you, “Republican leaders.”
And while we’re at it, f–k anybody who says we should roll over and accept this kind of phony “conservative” bulls–t as inevitable.
No, by God, I say we fight these bastards with everything we’ve got.
Fight them until Hell freezes over, and then fight them on the ice.
Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, a fine occasion to declare our independence from these vicious backstabbing crapweasels.
If Governor Palin is willing to help lead this fight — inside the GOP so long as there is hope, but outside the GOP if we must — then I say, “Patriots! We must conquer here or die! Rally on the Alaskan!”
See more at: http://theothermccain.com/2013/07/03/by-god-sarahpalinusa-is-right/
Rule 12 gives the winner of delegates in a state contest veto power over who those delegates are. It was proposed when Ronulans began putting their own people in slots won by other candidates.
Thank you for throwing Jeff Flake in the mix, soon to be known as Jeff McFlakey Jr.
Thanks az..you and I on same page.
True. But let’s be honest, unless we could get a big name Conservative to defect and go 3rd party, we’re not going to win in 16 regardless.
The point is to say since the GOP no longer represents us, it’s time to break the Duopoly. Doing so is a longer term project than 1 cycle. So that’s why I’m saying wait to see what comes out of this, see if we can stem the RINO tide in 14 and find a strong candidate. If not, then it’s time to cut ties.
Great, so it basically undermines the purpose of Precinct Chairman. Which effectively kills the one reason for a Movement Conservative to continue to work.
And don’t tell me it wouldn’t be used to undermine any candidate not approved by the leadership. We’ve already seen them do it with Romney in the last cycle.
To be fair to RedState, Erick Erickson did write a diary defending Palin and taking a very different view than the diary linked to here.
That said, I’ve complained here before about some of the moderators there– there are a couple that could use firing up a toke now and then, because they tend to ban people they don’t already know like a meth addict on PCP. I’m sure I would have been banned half a dozen times there by now if I hadn’t been on there since the site started, practically (summer 2004). However, their banning tends to be only of people that annoy them directly; other people can be complete jackwagons (like one person on that thread that I got into it with, someone that I’ve gotten into flame wars with before) and never even get a word from the moderators.
Stacy. We talked at the Teaparty Express rally at Veteran’s park in Manchester NH Sept 5 2011. I was doing the O4P tent. I was the big guy with the Palin 12 T-shirt. I knew then and I know now that you know She’s the One! I know it…you know it…hell even Bob Dole knows it!!
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Now that’s a chickenshit cop-out if I ever heard one!
Karl Rove might be a friggin mole for the left for all the good he does for the GOP and conservative issues. There is special circle in hell for The Architect…
Right on VG! While we’re both here to do it!!
2104 – GOP, Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory…again! The GOP had better learn that we are sick and tired of accepting the lesser of two evils. We want the best!
Stacy:
Your post is a “Breitbart moment.”
Andrew is smiling.
“2104 – GOP, Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory…again! The GOP had better learn that we are sick…” — Frances http://t.co/TxkyL5Rawo
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Go on YouTube and watch Palin’s VP acceptance speech from 2008. Point for point, she was right about everything. That must drive the left absolutely insane.
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That’s the “dirty little secret” that the Left and the GOPe has been so successful about, creating an image that the electorate believes about Palin and Obama that is exactly 180 Degrees away from the truth, from the “I can see Russia..” junk, to how divisive she is, to how unintelligent she is, blah, blah,blah, blah. It frustrates me no end because all anyone has to do is look up her record as Gov., read about how she was elected, even jus simply watch the SNL tape for crying out loud! One of the greatest political talents in our history is commonly thought of as a lightweight idiot while a cold-blooded intellectual and ideological lightweight Marxist of considerable political cunning is POTUS because people believe that “he’s a nice guy, he’s doing his best”, etc. etc. Because of this terrible, upside-down “Alice in Wonderland” political culture that the majority of voters have boiught into, he is one of the most successful Presidents of many many decades, possibly since FDR. These two are manifest examples of that old saying that “life is unfair”.
I said all of that so that you will understand how much I appreciate this article, particularly from the paragraph “Sarah Palin won’t say this but I will:” all the way to the end. You wrote what I feel in my heart. Except for Ford in ’76 I have voted GOP every time. Never again. I’ve written this before, and I’m going to keep repeating it: From now on, I will only vote for candidates for POTUS that prove to me by both word AND deed that they are Palin Conservatives. Period. Sen. Ted Cruz is a shining example. Sen. Orrin Hatch is not (voted for amnesty).
Thank you, thank you, thank you for expressing my anger so vividly.
If we went and formed a new party, it would be, in reality, a second party.
I don’t really think we should be worrying at all, in any way, about polls. We have our beliefs and we should stand up for them, not because [or partly because] the majority [or a sizable number] of people support them, but because they are right [pun intended].
We are about principles that are based on the experience of Man – what is his nature. We don’t seek to re-engineer Human Beings, we don’t seek to be gods.
Stacy: to be a conservative or small ‘l’ libertarian is to reject Ideology. Yes, the opportunists and power seekers are to blame for the bad reputation of Right Wingers, but so are the Ideologues of the Right, whose ideas have been developed in the sterile laboratories of their own minds, far away from the Real World.
Hey, @GOPLeader, @Senate_GOPs, Palin is correct. Conservatives not secure vote–>By God, @SarahPalinUSA Is Right! http://t.co/XYbZSMCQ4x
Crapweasel<—learned a new word that I like from here–>By God, @SarahPalinUSA Is Right! http://t.co/4UzCGKxBv6
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AWESOME RS McCain! ——->Multiple ^5s !
“Patriots! We must conquer here or die! Rally on the Alaskan!”
Let’s COMPARE last two cycles ….
Look at what Conservative America did under the leadership of Palin and the Tea Party (with Steele/RNC fully on board), during 2010 Midterms —> swathe of new Conservative Governors, Conservative Landslide in HOR and huge gains in Senate. This was with the hated Obamacare recently rammed through …
Contrast 2012, led by Rove and the RINO GOP Establishment = EPIC FAIL … their Senate Candidates going down … their RINO ‘obama-lite’ ticket crashing and burning … against a known marxist …
the hated Obamacare was not even a tabled issue … which had to happen because Romneycare was the father of Obamacare
Conservative America now understands how bad the leadership in the GOPe really is …
The scene is set for 2014 to become 2010 on STEROIDS now, with TRUSTED Leadership (Palin, Cruz, Demint) operating via new and social Media …. the RINO RNC will be the enemy in judiciously chosen GOP Primaries
All those Conservatives who sat sidelined watching the 2012 debacle will be ACTIVATED once the Real Deal engages in high gear …. 2010 will appear as ‘low
gear’ in comparison …… especially so as Obamacare advancing is more and more seen as a DEBACLE
#WAR ————> #CrushROVE
#BeClingers —————> #AmericaRISING
surrounded by the sort of vicious backstabbing crapweasels who were running John McCain’s campaign
Hey! Actual, vicious, backstabbing crapweasels resent being compared to the people who ran John McCain’s campaign.
True, Nazguls or deatheaters are the appropriate description,
Imagine my surprise to discover I was an infiltrator when I joinef the GOP in 2004. So far I’m to the right of my state AND national leadership…
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