The fumbling bumbling incompetent and witheringly tone deaf Reince Priebus just can’t get out of his own way. The RNC and GOP establishment is much like big government itself in this way, trying to operate outside the constraints of human nature and cause and effect in an attempt to manipulate that which they cannot really ever control from headquarters.
What is it about establishment Republicans and their consultants that make them rush to accept blame for problems caused by decades and decades of liberal ruination by Democrats?
Lindsey Graham is out of touch with 90-95 percent of the Republican base electorate when it comes to the direction of the party. Moreover, Graham keeps talking about trying to save the Republican Party – and never seems concerned about saving the country.
Karl Rove is no doubt stunned. Oh maybe not recently stunned – as it was widely believed that South Carolina would end it for Jeb most of this past week. But for many months prior, the establishment had assumed Jeb would eventually rise to the top. He was their inevitable one. All of this Trump and Cruz stuff was just a distraction until people got serious.
Rove Stupid: Now it makes absolutely no sense on the surface that going Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan would score points in a Republican primary fight. I mean it’s one thing when Cindy Sheehan goes Cindy Sheehan – but when a Republican Presidential candidate does it? WTF as some might say. And yet it seems to have worked, or at least not backfired.
The Republican establishment was totally humiliated and annihilated Monday night in Iowa, and the carnage to the GOP-e segment of the Washington Cartel goes deeper than just the readily apparent.
A few weeks ago – in the Rove-Stupid series – I posited the notion that the conservative base had finally defeated the GOP establishment.
On the heels of the disastrous and obscene Omnibus Spending Orgy rubber stamped by the Obama Republicans in Congress last week – there is actually hope that we have turned the corner against the Republican Establishment wing of the Washington Cartel.
The establishment got their “electable” man nominated in 2008 and 2012, and both McCain and Romney got clobbered. Meanwhile, Washington Republicans have still not managed to figure out the historic, back-to-back midterm victories of 2010 and 2014 – wins that elevated them to heights of power and majorities not seen in many decades.
This has to do not only with the electoral disaster – which was obvious – but also with the arrogance with which Rove and the other sorcerers of Crossroads raised and spent money, how they insisted on controlling the messaging, and all but guaranteed a win as a result.
The establishment’s fear of getting into a budget battle that might lead to a shutdown is just as contrived – and yet just as paralyzing. The media and the Democrats will enter into these budget negotiations by sprinkling a little red paint of assumed Republican blame on the floor, and the simple minded Republican establishment falls for it just like Danby.
There has been no group of people more responsible for Barack Obama’s breath taking damage to the country – nor his total lack of being held account for that damage- than the Republican establishment. Oh sure, the Jurassic media and Big Hollywood and Big Education and Big Wall Street have all played their roles, but the main enabler is the GOP-e. Make no mistake about that.
Donald Trump has led the most successful push back against the Republican Establishment in recent history. For good measure, he has set political correctness back a few decades – and also taught conservatives and Republicans that they need not fear the media.
John Boehner unwittingly explained his epically failed Speakership and the entire GOP establishment mindset when he babbled the words “the first job of any Speaker is to protect this institution that we all love.”
Lindsey Graham is totally irrelevant as a contender in the 2016 Republican Primary season, barely registering a blip on the radar of any poll.
Jihad denial did not first manifest in a big way on the left. No, the entire premise of Jihad denial was thrust into the national conversation when President George W. Bush called Islam “a religion of peace” just days after 9-11. True, Bush and his (Rove led) administration was not what many would call really conservative, but they are somewhat distinct from the hard core left.
Scott Walker burst onto the scene with his stunning Tea Party-based victory for governor in 2010. He then had the nerve to actually follow through on promises and roll back the powerful government unions that were causing Wisconsin all kinds of fiscal problems.
Prior to February 19, 2009, CNBC was an obscure niche network watched mainly inside Merrill Lynch offices. The network would never have been chosen to host and moderate a Presidential debate solo (although it tagged along with MSNBC once in 2007.)
The crashing and burning of the once promising Scott Walker for President campaign is very illustrative of a major media dynamic in conservative politics. Regardless of who you might support currently, I think you’ll recognize it. The most important primary isn’t an official state primary at all.
Did we just see Erick Erickson’s Red State draw a red line in the sand in front of Rush Limbaugh? And if so, is it another aspect of the booming dynamic known as “the Trump effect?”
So much for what Fox News thinks of the two leaders in the Breitbart Primary. It’s pretty clear that Fox has an agenda, and that is to destroy Donald Trump while ignoring Ted Cruz. On the first count, they failed miserably — while they certainly managed to pull off the second one. For now.
Yet Mr. Trump made some comments on MSNBC and in Iowa in the past few days that indicate he is perhaps unclear about the causes of the 2008 economic crash. However you want to reconstruct the meltdown, the economic problems were clearly set in motion by several decades of liberal policies on lending, housing, mortgages, energy exploration and refining, and more recently, crony and esoteric derivatives on Wall Street.
When March Madness rolls around, the NCAA falls in love with big football domes as venues for much of the basketball tournament. It’s bad for the game.
You can talk about the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire and South Carolina all you want – and those all are important – yet not one of them is the most important primary on the Republican side.
Did a bunch of government bureaucrats concoct the rule for what constitutes sufficient possession by a pass receiver?
For several weeks now, the mainstream Jurassic media has been up to their old psychological warfare tricks, and naturally, the Republican establishment is falling for it hard. They always do, and this includes “the architect,” Karl Rove. This time it’s
For the first time since 2000, the Atlantic Coast Conference swept all of the intrastate rivalries against the SEC on the last weekend of the regular season. Florida State, Georgia Tech, Clemson, and Louisville defeated Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and
There is a widely held convention that the quotable Richard Sherman is one of the most thoughtful and intelligent of NFL players. Yes, he talks trash. But he backs it up on the field. Moreover, he does not speak ebonics
Many people were startled when the New York Times broke an eight part story a few days ago about a Karl Rove-led cover-up of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) in Iraq — and then The Daily Beast followed up with a report entitled “Insiders Blame
In light of the Ray Rice episode, it’s hard to imagine that the NFL would once again undershoot on a player punishment–and yet that’s exactly what has happened in the Vontaze Burfict “ankle gate” case. Amidst a consensus among sports
Longtime Carolina Panther Steve Smith torched his former team on Sunday with 139 yards receiving and a couple of touchdowns in Baltimore’s 38-10 win. Yesterday, on a Charlotte sports talk show, Smith put the wood to the Panthers again–taunting general
If you have any interest in the NFL, and the Ray Rice/what-did-Roger-Goodell-know-and-when-did-he-know-it case, then you have probably heard ESPN contributor Bill Simmons’s f-bomb-laced rant on the topic. Simmons, who edits the sports and entertainment website Grantland and comments on the
In light of polling data confirming what we already knew–that the vast majority of NFL fans, players, and Americans want the Washington Redskins to keep their name–ESPN is doubling and tripling down on the network’s thinly-veiled political crusade to force owner
Karl Rove and his Crossroads GPS PAC are about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the senate — by campaigning to the left of incumbents Mark Pryor and Kay Hagan on behalf of Republican challengers Tom Cotton
It has been a dizzying few months for big-time college football and basketball players, coaches, fans and the attendant media. How all of this will change college sports is yet to be determined, but without a doubt, we are in
The American ‘soccerati’–soccer moms, knee-sock-wearing kids eating orange slices, illegal aliens, hipsters, and self-righteous sportscasters–feels pretty good today. After all, the 2014 World Cup just ended in a vortex of self-congratulatory euphoria: America has finally caught up to the rest
You mean it’s been more than eight years already? Yep, and the Duke lacrosse case remains fascinating for any number of reasons. There was no Rush Limbaugh or George W. Bush to demonize in this skit. No, the usual suspects,
The Michael Sam “be careful what you wish for” train wreck may be amusing to watch. That is, the untitled reality television show starring Michael Sam on Oprah’s OWN network. But Sam’s prospects on the NFL’s Sunday afternoon reality show
Coach Dabo Swinney and his Clemson football program face a blitz again. This time it’s not South Carolina’s Jadeveon Clowney seeking to slam their quarterback into the turf, or even a lighthearted sound-byte from Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier aiming to
When Coach K’s legacy is finally written – and a good number of chapters have been filed away already – his name will be either right above or right below that of John Wooden’s. That specific pecking order probably depends
