The VA gubernatorial race is one that comes to mind, being decided at this very moment. Mark Levin hit the nail on the head yesterday in the case of the RINO desire to defeat VA Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's bid (yes, the first AG to step up and successfully challenge Obamacare), while despicably opting FOR a Terry McAuliffe victory (you know, the former Clinton operative who's supposed to be their political opponent). Yet on the flip-side of that, they rally for Krispy Kreme Christie...
To cut to the chase, the Republican establishment operatives' desire to kill conservatism in an effort to maintain a grip on their status quo minority power. They utterly disregard the dire need to preserve the American exception. But Levin's got a message for them: 'We're not going anywhere'...Many in the GOP establishment, from major fundraisers and consultants, to GOP officeholders such as the GOP Lt. Gov and mayor of Virginia Beach, have either trashed Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli or endorsed McAuliffe outright. The GOP national machine has done next to nothing for Cuccinelli. And GOP bag man, Karl Rove, is all over Fox without a word of support for Cuccinelli, while he schemes and whispers behind the scenes against conservatives nationwide.
Having tried to sabotage Cuccinelli's candidacy from the start, these GOP actors are hoping for a Cuccinelli loss and a big Chris Christie win (built on a Huey Long style of politics) to make the case that only big government Republicans can win and limited government, constitutional conservatives, such as Tea Party activists, are too extreme to prevail. They've already written the script.
In fact, the GOP establishment's attacks on the Tea Party, which is an obvious assault on conservatives and conservatism generally, are increasingly difficult to distinguish from Obama and the Left's attacks on the same folks. The ruling class in Washington is clearly united in one respect: to wipe out conservative resistance to their corruption, cronyism, and nation-killing policies.
Related link: Mark Levin explains how the Tea Party is under attack from BOTH sides in race for Va. Gov.What these people will never understand is that for most of us this isn't about politics per se but preserving what's left of our society, Constitution, and individual free will. It is about our families and our way of life. It is about who we are as Americans. We are not surrendering to this because we will not sit quietly while the ruling class continues to destroy our nation. We fight against growing oppression as many did before us. And we will fight like hell through the constitutional process. We will continue to learn, we will take names, and we will battle these people and groups at every turn, and in every election. We are not going anywhere.
And as the ruling class catastrophe continues to unfold, as with Obamacare, the monstrous debt, and suffocating regulations, and with the cycle of unsustainable spending and confiscatory taxing, the coerciveness of the ruling class and its federal agencies will only intensify. There will be a commensurate backlash.
The sleeping giant that is the American people is only beginning to awaken. It is only a matter of time until more people are roused to join this all important constitutional fight. We fight to hold Virginia today and we fight on thereafter.
To compound the uphill struggle of battling both Washington elite camps, it was revealed TODAY (that's right, the day of the election) that an Obama campaign bundler is helping to fund the purported 'libertarian' in the race (who's NO such thing) to of course SPLIT Cuccinelli votes!
- A Nov. 5 special congressional election in Alabama, where former state Sen. Bradley Byrne is competing in the Republican runoff primary against Dean Young, a tea-party candidate who declared at a candidate forum, "We are witnessing the end of a Western Christian empire."
- A crowded Republican primary field facing a top Democratic recruit, Michelle Nunn, for an open Senate seat in Georgia. One GOP operative described two of the candidates, Reps. Paul Broun and Phil Gingrey, as "ticking time bombs." Broun has condemned the theory of evolution, questioned President Obama's citizenship and religion, and advocated abolishing the Federal Reserve and returning to the gold standard. Gingrey defended former Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin, who said victims of "legitimate rape" could avoid pregnancy.
- A Republican primary in the open Senate race in South Dakota pitting challengers from the right against former Gov. Mike Rounds. The front-running candidate has piqued conservatives by refusing to sign a no-new-taxes pledge.
- A Republican Senate primary in Alaska that features two establishment figures, Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell and former Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan, against Joe Miller, a tea-party firebrand with high unfavorable ratings after a 2010 defeat.
Much of this blubbering adoration for mush moderates and vile criticism for principled conservatives is coming from, well, let's face it: losers. So why listen to their valueless advice at all? An Investors Business Daily piece makes the case that perhaps it's time for these GOP defeated 'to button their lips.' I concur...
This sentiment is in no way confined to those three. We see it in the GOP leadership of both House and Senate, as well as those annoying media gnats, like Rove and Rubin, who won't allow the genuinely responsible handful of principled statesmen to lead us out of the Washington muck. It's gonna take a concerted effort on our part, the electorate, to make this happen. Keep your waiters on, folks.Romney '12, McCain '08, Dole '96 — these campaigns were failures. The voters rejected the men who led them. Romney's and McCain's opponent, moreover, was a leftist community organizer whose extremism should have assured he never got within a mile of the White House. Yet the media attention these three receive would make you think they had wisdom to impart to the party they took down in flames.
The media actually have little use for the opinions of Dole, McCain or Romney — except when they disparage Republicans who are in the driver's seat today.
And so, as Mitt Romney, he of RomneyCare infamy, visited NBC's "Meet the Press" to give President Obama advice on how to make ObamaCare work so "he can rebuild credibility," he also recommended New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as the 2016 presidential nominee to "save our party."
Ironically, Christie hurt Romney's chances more than anyone by joining Obama at the hip as adoring court jester during the president's post-Hurricane Sandy visit to New Jersey on the eve of last year's election.
Romney also pointedly refused to include Sen. Ted Cruz on his "long list of very capable people" who could be the next Republican president.
Then we have Sen. McCain calling his fellow GOP senator Cruz a "wacko bird" whose filibuster against ObamaCare was "one of the more shameful chapters" of McCain's nearly 27 years in the Senate.
The liberal intelligentsia no doubt collectively spewed latte all over the reclaimed wood of their breakfast nooks in May upon beholding a New York Times editorial titled "The Wisdom of Bob Dole." With his typical brand of bile, Dole had told Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace that the party he used to lead in the U.S. Senate should get a "closed for repairs" sign until New Year's Day next year and spend all that time working on a "positive" agenda.
Has Dole forgotten it was his claims of having done everything to kill HillaryCare in the early Clinton administration that got him the GOP nomination in 1996, and that defeating that attempt at a government takeover of health insurance is what in 1994 gave Republicans their first congressional majority in four decades.
Members of what the Times calls "the responsible wing of the party" — in other words, good losers like Romney, McCain and Dole who know their place and keep on smiling — may wring their hands about the Tea Party. But it was that movement that brought Republicans back into the majority in the 2010 elections.
ADDENDUM: via theRightScoop...
This morning both Reince Priebus and Mark Levin were on WMAL…but not at the same time. RNC Chair Reince Priebus was asked to respond to comments Mark Levin has made that they’ve done next to nothing to support Cuccinelli in the VA. Gov. race. Priebus basically said that the RNC has spent 3 million on their ground game in VA which doesn’t just help Cuccinelli, but also other candidates on the Republican ticket.
But hearing that, Mark Levin called into WMAL and basically said that’s not true, that the money the RNC has spent in Virginia had everything to do with their post-2012 autopsy and has nothing to do with turning people out to vote on election day. Levin charged that Priebus has showed up in this last weekend of the election to position himself to talk about his great ground game if there is a victory or criticize the candidate if they lose. Otherwise, he said the RNC is nowhere to be found. Levin said it’s the church groups, Tea Party activists, and others who are doing the hard work of getting people out to vote on election day. He calls out Priebus to tell the truth.
