Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the “biggest donors in the Republican Party” have joined forces with Karl Rove and Steven J. Law, president of American Crossroads, to create the Conservative Victory Project. The Times reports that this new group will dedicate itself to “recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts who Republican leaders worry could complicate the party’s effort to win control of the Senate.”
Win control of the Senate? These fools should be concerned with hanging onto the House! And don't let them fool you...there's nothing 'conservative' nor 'victorious' about these rinosaurs...
On another note, Jen Kuznicki writes:
Current power brokers in the GOP are clinging to the idea that they will be able to control their grassroots, and in doing so, they are killing the party.
It was not enough, I suppose, to orchestrate the primary timetable for their preferred candidate, influence State party committees through congressional aides, threaten grassroots with ostracism for going against their preferred candidate, use falsehoods to smear the opposing teams, change rulings in State committees to favor their preferred candidate, change the rules at convention to lock in top-down rule, lose, and then blame the power-stripped grassroots.
Not that some grassroots aren’t all for it, it just depends on whether or not party trumps principle. In today’s GOP, however, principle is languishing in that one perfect policy, for that one perfect candidate, who is perfectly without ideology.
Changing the meaning of the Buckley rule as well as the meaning of the word, ‘conservative’, will work on those whom already vote with the establishment, and it will expose even further, the political bastards who lie as a matter of course.
How can a party who seeks the truth in contests against its rival with each issue, continue to pander to that rival, rejecting the principles that the party stands upon? And how can they continue to expect voter ignorance in the age of information?
Kuznicki's conclusion:
In all, the grassroots conservative does more for the Republican party’s core principles than the moderate party team player, who despises the conservative because they aren’t coming to the same conclusions. The reason for the divide is the dissemination of the truth.
The truth is, Karl Rove is not a winner precisely because he takes the opposite tack of what worked in 2010. His Bush Mandarin status is in opposition to Reagan principles, and his quest for control proves he is a poor representative of a party founded upon liberty.
The GOP made great strides toward conservative principle in 2010, getting many House Republicans elected as a result. In only two years, Karl Rove has surmised that grassroots conservatives are failures and he needs to take over. This man is a power-hungry menace to the party, and stands ready to kill it.
No joke. Michelle Malkin weighs in as well...
This is war.
But of course, for Beltway establishment strategist and GOP control freak Karl Rove, it has been war on grass-roots conservatives for years now. The New York Times reported this weekend that Rove and the deep-pocketed donors whose coffers he drained futilely this past year are doubling down on stupid. Rove, Inc. will re-commit to a new group that will “protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts who Republican leaders worry could complicate the party’s effort to win control of the Senate.”
Who needs Obama and his Team Chicago to destroy the Tea Party when you’ve got Rove and his big government band of elites?
Precisely. Her sentiment (and mine)...
Bug off, Zod. You and your Incumbency Protection Racket are the problem, not the Tea Party.
As Levin mentioned this evening (which I'm certain to add later to this post), we are fighting the same forces within our own ranks that defeated Goldwater and tried to defeat Reagan. At this point, I truly believe it's time for one of two things to occur on the Right: 1.) either the GOP must reject the architecture of a Karl Rove type inconsistently principled establishment, or 2.) the party faces the stark reality of conservatives, who desire Principle upheld, going our own way. The first would be the much less painful path, but for the entrenched establishment who desire existing within the federal Leviathan, whether ruling over it or not. And though the other option might undoubtedly present a rocky path, possibly foreseeing a lengthier than desired Democratic reign; in the end, it would lead to revitalized virtue and inevitable victory permeating far beyond mere party politics. It would be better for us, for the nation, to pursue the goals of the second within the confines of the first...but the GOP must reject Karl Rove and the establishment to accomplish that pursuit.
