Buchanan is absolutely right. The idiots like Rove and Cheney destroyed the Republican party with their warfare and welfare policies from 2000 through 2008. They doubled the national debt, rolled out the most social spending programs since LBJ and murdered 5,000 young Americans with their wars of choice. The establishment thought they would pull the usual strings this year. They are dead wrong. They will be swept away. The old order will be destroyed in the next 10 years. They will flail about, lie, and throw temper tantrums like Rove and Kruathammer threw last week. It is time for these morons to step aside. They’re done. FINISHED!!!!
Rockefeller Republicans
by Patrick J. Buchanan
by Patrick J. Buchanan
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Is the Republican establishment losing it?
Is the party leadership capable of uniting a governing coalition as Richard Nixon did before Watergate and Ronald Reagan resurrected in the 1980s?
Observing the hysteria and nastiness of Karl Rove and the GOP establishment at the stunning triumph of Tea Party Princess Christine O’Donnell, the answer is no.
This party is not ready to rule.
Consider. In its grand strategy to recapture a Senate that George W. Bush and Rove lost in 2006, the GOP Senate leadership endorsed all its own caucus members for re-election, if they chose to run, then picked out all its favorite candidates for the open and Democratic seats.
Conservatives and tea party activists, however, had other ideas. They began to pick their own candidates. And, again and again, the Senate’s chosen were rejected in favor of tea party challengers who had the endorsement of Sarah Palin or South Carolina’s Jim DeMint.
Arlen Specter was rejected by the Pennsylvania GOP and left the party. Rand Paul routed Sen. Mitch McConnell’s man in Kentucky. Charlie Crist was challenged by Marco Rubio in Florida. Crist, too, departed. Sen. Bob Bennett was denied renomination in Utah. Sen. Lisa Murkowski lost her primary in Alaska to a little-known fellow named Joe Miller.
But Delaware was the stunner. Rep. Mike Castle, a former two-term governor who had been winning elections for 40 years, was a certain victor in November.
Challenger O’Donnell, however, ended all that.
Yet, though her conservative credentials are far superior to those of Castle, O’Donnell was made the object of a wilding attack by National Review and the Weekly Standard, Charles Krauthammer, who lashed out at Palin and DeMint for “irresponsbility,” and Rove, who on Sean Hannity’s show went postal as soon as the returns came in.
Now, on paper, O’Donnell is a far tougher sell in Delaware than is Castle. But her defeat is not certain. Not in this volatile year.
And what is the justification for the savagery of the attacks on her, from her own?
What has this woman done? Did she vote for Sonia Sotomayor or Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court like Lindsey Graham? Did she support the Obama stimulus like Olympia Snow and Susan Collins? What did she do to deserve the trashing?
The answer is not distant.
To the Republican establishment, tea party people are field hands. Their labors are to be recognized and rewarded, but they are to stay off the porch and not presume to sit at the master’s table.
And what O’Donnell did, with her amazing victory, is to imperil that establishment’s return to power. That is why these Republicans went ballistic.
O’Donnell’s conservative convictions and Castle’s social liberalism mean nothing to them.
They are about power and all that goes with it.
And that raises a question too long put off.
What is the Republican establishment going to do, what are the neoconservatives going to do, if returned to power?
Are not these the same people who assisted George W. Bush in stampeding the nation into an unnecessary war that got 4,400 Americans killed to strip Saddam Hussein of weapons he did not have?
Are these not the same people who misled or deceived us about Iraq’s role in 9/11?
Are these Republican scribes and senators not the same folks who went all-out for NAFTA and GATT and the WTO and MFN and PNTR for China, those brilliant trade deals that gave us $5 trillion in trade deficits, wiped out 6 million manufacturing jobs and 50,000 factories in one decade, and put us into permanent debt to China?
Are these not some of the same folks who backed the Bush-McCain amnesty and did nothing for 20 years, as millions of illegals invaded America? Now that all America is on fire, they too want to “build the dang fence.”
Are not the National Review and Weekly Standard scribblers and their neocon comrades of the mainstream media not now drumming up another war for Americans to fight, against Iran?
Are these not the same folks who went along with No Child Left Behind and the biggest run-up in social spending since Great Society days?
Beltway Republicans say they have learned their lesson. But the tea party folks and conservatives who vaulted O’Donnell to victory are saying: You had your chance. Now, move aside for new leaders.
Why is the tea party wrong – and the establishment right?
The first tea party rebellion was the Barry Goldwater movement. When it triumphed at the Cow Palace, Nelson Rockefeller denounced the movement as riddled with radicals, baited the Goldwater people at the convention and refused to endorse the nominee.
A decade later, Vice President Rockefeller got his payback, when conservatives demanded that President Ford drop him off the ticket as the price of renomination. Ford agreed.
In its contemptuous response to O’Donnell’s victory, the GOP establishment of today looked like nothing so much as the Rockefeller Republican establishment of yesteryear. Its time is coming, too.
September 18, 2010
Patrick J. Buchanan [send him mail] is co-founder and editor of The American Conservative. He is also the author of seven books, including Where the Right Went Wrong, and A Republic Not An Empire. His latest book is Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. See his website.
flash says:
Buchanan would have been a great POTUS .I’ll never waste another vote on the Republic-puke party, unless of course there is a Libertarian on the ticket e.g. Ron Paul.
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18th September 2010 at 4:02 pm
SSS says:
Flash
Just because you are a committed admirer of me, here’s a list of Congressional libertarians, present and past (note that Ron Paul is chairman). I take particular pride that all three Republican House Representatives from Arizona are on the list. Will you join with me in hoping that the list will grow exponentially after the November elections?
Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland
Jimmy Duncan of Tennessee
Jeff Flake of Arizona
Trent Franks of Arizona
Scott Garrett of New Jersey
Walter B. Jones of North Carolina
Jack Kingston of Georgia
Jeff Miller of Florida
Ron Paul of Texas- Chairman
Denny Rehberg of Montana
John Shadegg of Arizona
Zach Wamp of Tennessee
Past members
Chris Cannon of Utah
Jo Ann Davis of Virginia
Virgil Goode of Virginia
John Hostettler of Indiana
Marilyn Musgrave of Colorado
Butch Otter of Idaho (now Governor of Idaho)
Richard Pombo of California
Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania
Tom Tancredo of Colorado
Dave Weldon of Florida
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18th September 2010 at 8:36 pm
Smokey says:
FUCK ALL THE COCKSUCKERS. Not a fucking one is worth a shit. Especially Ron Paul. BOTH Pauls eat shit, Ron and Rand. Christine O’Donnell eats shit. Both Bush’s Bush eat shit. Cheney eats shit. Clinton eats shit, Bill and his dyke wife. Joe Biden eats shit. Barney queer Frank eats shit. Arlen Specter eats shit. Harry Reid eats shit. Chris Dodd eats shit. Nancy Pelosi eats shit. Lindsey Graham eats shit. Ben Bernanke eats shit. Maxine Waters eats shit. Tim Geithner eats shit. Henry Paulson eats shit. Jim Demint eats shit. Alan Greenspan eats shit. Both Obamas eat shit. John McCain eats shit. Sarah Palin eats shit.—- ———–Now I have all of you Libertarian, and tea party faggots in a box, don’t I? You fucking ACHE to SLAM the thumbs up button because you agree so strongly with most of this comment. OTOH, you fucking ACHE to SLAM the thumbs down button because I have openly dissed you gay heros, Ron and Rand. What to do, what to do? Life is a choice.
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18th September 2010 at 8:50 pm
SSS says:
Smokey
You get a thumbs-up (recommended) for provocation.
A simple question: who DOESN’T eat shit? Except for Dennis Kucinich, I will vote for whomever you recommend.
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18th September 2010 at 9:07 pm
Smokey says:
SSS—-Newt Gingrich.
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18th September 2010 at 9:15 pm
LLPOH says:
Smokey – that’s sick even for you. Funny but sick.
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18th September 2010 at 9:22 pm
Smokey says:
I say Newt because he’s already a political figure. But in a perfect world, if I could have my choice of every person on the planet, my preference would be a Mark Fuhrman / John Rocker ticket with Fuhrman on top.
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18th September 2010 at 9:26 pm
Administrator says:
Did anyone see the video of O’Donnell on the Bill Maar show in 1999 talking about being involved in witchcraft and having a date on a satanic altar with blood sprinkled around? I fear she is crazier than a shithouse rat.
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18th September 2010 at 9:58 pm
Administrator says:
Newt Gingrich eats cock.
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18th September 2010 at 10:00 pm
Smokey says:
I do believe you are confusing Newt with Ron Paul, your hero.
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18th September 2010 at 10:04 pm
Hogan says:
Does anyone remember the much touted Contract with America? If memory serves, it was spearheaded by none other than Smokey’s hero, Newt Gingrich. He was going to usher in a new era of conservatism and small government. How’d that work for ya, Smokey?
Hate to rain on your parade, but the Contract was a gigantic flop, and that’s being generous. Basically, it was a steaming pile of crap, compliments of Newt and his band of Republican crooks (or do I repeat myself?).
By the way, Newt is a hypocrite, egomaniac, and is more than a little creepy. If this is the best the conservatives can muster, we are indeed doomed.
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18th September 2010 at 10:23 pm
Reverse Engineer says:
The only good Republocrat is a Dead Republocrat.
RE
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18th September 2010 at 10:31 pm
Smokey says:
Hogan—-If you knew any fucking thing besides what the liberal MSM fed dupes like you, you would know that the contract with America was very successful. How about welfare reform? Do you fucking honestly believe Bill Clinton would have reformed welfare if Newt hadn’t been in office? You fucking dumbasses suck up any and every thing the MSM, who has always hated Newt, puts out. Gingrich’s Congress was the second most successful in terms of accomplishing it’s agenda since the asshole LBJ’s, thirty years prior. Read the fucking record before you make a fool of yourself. BTW, Gingrich was pushed out by liberal douchebag republicans like Steve Largent right about the time the budget was balanced (THANKS TO NEWT). The exponential growth of Bush came AFTER Gingrich’s term.
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18th September 2010 at 10:38 pm
Smokey says:
Hogan—-If Bill Clinton had kept his dick in his pants, he would probably have gone down in history as a great president. Not from anything he did, but because of prosperity on his watch. CLINTON ADOPTED THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA, and everyone knew it. Gingrich’s agenda. The agenda that eventually balanced the budget. Clinton has openly admitted his governing was determined by public opinion polls. Bill Clinton was in the right place at the right time because of Newt., and still blew his shot at greatness. You don’t know shit about Gingrich except what the MSM maggotry spew out.
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18th September 2010 at 10:58 pm
Hogan says:
Sorry, Smokey. I don’t watch or read the MSM, as it’s nothing but a mouthpiece for every big government debacle that comes down the pike. I’m a libertarian, which means I think we should be building a giant moat (populated with alligators) around Washington to keep the crooks from escaping, and that includes the likes of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. Call me an equal opportunity critic of both criminal political parties.
As for the alleged balanced budgets of the late 90′s, that is a myth, thanks to taking Social Security surpluses and transferring them to the general fund, something they’ve been doing for years. Imagine a CEO of a corporation using employees’ pensions and reporting those funds as company revenue, and you begin to understand the criminal nature of the accounting hokus-pokus that is routinely used in our nation’s capital to hide the enormity of their malfeasance.
Of course, this was also a time of surging tax revenues from the absurd NASDAQ bubble, compliments of that bastard, Alan Greenspan. If you’re going to suck up to Newt for being such a wonderful representative, maybe you should ask yourself where the Congressional oversight was during the stock market bubble and implosion. But no, that would ruin the Newt-is-great narrative you’ve dreamed up for yourself.
Anyone that thinks a Gingrich administration is going to address the seriously fucked up problems facing our country needs to put the crack pipe down, take off the rose-colored glasses, and grow up. Newt wouldn’t do shit. He’s a puppet and a conman. If you can’t see that, you’re the dupe.
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18th September 2010 at 11:05 pm
Apollo says:
“They’re done. FINISHED!!!! ”
You will be disappointed. The Republican Party is God’s party, doing God’s work. They’re never done. God put G W ‘the Mofu’ in office, not the voters. He did his divine duty. Next come his reincarnation – in the form of one Palin whose brain is still out-of-body being re-programmed with Scripture V2010 and purged of reality at the Vatican. The GOP is like cancer: you do a chemo on one part, it pops out in another. You radiate like hell into Bush brain, out pops a Palin from the pussy. Or a Gingrich from the asshole. It’s no use fighting God. Better spend your energy hitting the Pope when he is on the defensive over there in UK. After all, all his shop did was to screw 4000 alter boys, not killed 4000 GI’s.
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18th September 2010 at 11:29 pm
Smokey says:
Newsflash Hogan—–Glass-Steagall was repealed nearly a year AFTER Newt left office and at the beginning of the dotcom bubble. Newt left in early 1999. Glass-Steagall was repealed in November 1999. So don’t even THINK of trying to lay that shit off on Gingrich. The dotcom stock bubble came after Gingrich’s term. My guess is that the G-S- repeal would not have happened if Gingrich had still been in office. Newt Gingrich has not had one fucking thing to do with the sorry shape this country is in. Not one. We would have arrived here a HELL of a lot sooner if it weren’t for Gingrich. The repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999, followed by George Bush’s wars and Obama’s policies have guaranteed financial ruin for this country. What I am saying is that Gingrich has a record of fiscal conservatism that is backed up by facts, and he is reviled by the MSM. Look at his fucking voting record in congress. Most of the country hates Gingrich, and the vast majority of those who hate him do so strictly because of shit they hear from the MSM. Even a cursory glance at the financial condition of the country now compared to when Newt was Speaker will reveal a rather stark contrast in the respective eras. I say without reservation that Newt Gingrich had a great deal to do with the shape of the country for much of the Nineties. Please don’t think I believe there is even a remote chance for Gingrich to be elected POTUS. He has as much chance as Ron Paul, which is zero. SSS asked me to recommend someone.
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18th September 2010 at 11:46 pm
Apollo says:
@Smokey
You’re right about Gingrich – he has nothing to do with much of today’s mess. The facts back it up. [I worked for his Contract With America org at the grass root level way back. I was big for balancing the budget. But that didn't work.]
But he is trying a comeback. And that’s a NO-NO. Gingrich has nothing good to offer for the future. It’s way too late and he is too old. Besides, I am sick of evangelicals.
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18th September 2010 at 12:08 am
SSS says:
Smokey
Thanks for being upfront with your response and your defense of Newt. Well done.
We libertarians need a fresh face for 2012. It won’t be Newt or Sarah or Ron Paul. I just hope it will be someone who will catch fire with the general public.
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18th September 2010 at 12:15 am
Sonic says:
Smokey, you’re still a dip shit. Gingrich is a neo-con with conservative sound bites.
@SSS: Walter Jones is a worthless wind-vane. I live in NC and have closer ties to his campaign than I will admit to here. He’ll vote for anything, but he will invoke God and mama at every campaign stop. His wife is a very nice lady though. He may be a nice guy too; I speak only from his voting record.
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18th September 2010 at 12:26 am
Smokey says:
SSS—-It’s too fucking late. Critical mass was hit a couple of years ago. Economic devastation is ahead. It will take decades to fix the mess when TSHTF.
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18th September 2010 at 12:43 am
LLPOH says:
Smokey.- I originally thought you were joking re Newt. Still not sure.
In my humble Newt is a hypocritical, unethiical, spineless, womanizing piece of shit. He apparently pursued Clinton over the Lewinski affair while he was busy cheating on his wife. He moved houses to avoid a political fight.
Newt isn’t fit to lick the sweat of an honest man’s balls.
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18th September 2010 at 12:51 am
Smokey says:
Sonic—–You’re from NC? Damn. That solves the riddle. I was in NC last week, walking down the road, when I happened upon a dead dog lying beside the road. He had obviously died from malnutrition, starved to death. There was a man beside the road making notes and collecting the carcass. He told me he was from the SPCA. He told me the species of dog was a shit-eating dog. He said the dog had starved to death. Then he pointed at the top of the tree that was beside the dead dog. He said “See that fellow up there? We’re charging him with animal cruelty. Calls himself Sonic. He sat up in that tree and starved that shit-eating dog to death.”——I did not realize that was you until now that I see you are a NC resident. It must be you.
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18th September 2010 at 12:54 am
Smokey says:
Actually LLPOH, Gingrich was very quiet about Clinton during the Lewinski scandal fallout. I remember wondering at the time why he was being so quiet. Several journalists said at the time that Newt was trying to stay above the fray. In hindsight, he was probably quiet because he was doing the same thing as Clinton.—Regarding Washington politics, Newt has no monopoly on bad ethics and hypocrisy. Those are requisite character traits for admission into DC politics. Every fucking one of them, EVERY one, INCLUDING Ron Paul, have skeletons in the closet. The federal government is systemically corrupt and Newt is no better or worse than the rest. The fact that Clinton and Gingrich have been caught doing unethical shit and their colleagues haven’t been caught doesn’t mean shit. —-Literally hundreds of millions of dollars of attack ads were aired against Gingrich in the nineties by the mainstream media. Deliberate and unequivocal lies. Yes I like Gingrich, but it is rather moot with regard to any future political ambitions he may have, since he is not going to be elected.
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18th September 2010 at 1:27 am
LLPOH says:
Smokey – time for some honest men with integrity to stand up. Don’t know where we will find them tho. I agree with your last post. Doesn’t mean I like it.
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18th September 2010 at 1:34 am
LLPOH says:
I apogize for the typos and appreciate that y’all haven’t skewered me for ‘em. Friggin’ phone.
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18th September 2010 at 1:44 am
Sonic says:
LOL. Damn dog wouldn’t quit barking.
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18th September 2010 at 7:12 am
Administrator says:
Smokey
Is Newt still the chairman of the special interest group – Fuckwads Who Cheated on Their Wives With Cancer? Or did John Edwards assume leadership of this noble group?
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18th September 2010 at 9:11 am
Administrator says:
The balance budget in 1999 didn’t have anything to do with capital gains taxes pouring into the Treasury from the great Internet boom fraud, did it?
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18th September 2010 at 9:12 am
Administrator says:
Glass-Steagall was repealed through the efforts of that great Republican Phil Gramm. His wife was compensated extremely well by Enron.
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18th September 2010 at 9:15 am
Administrator says:
LLPOH
I think you are being too kind regarding Newt’s character.
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18th September 2010 at 9:17 am
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SSS says:
Flash
Will you join with me in hoping that the list will grow exponentially after the November elections?
Sorry.
I only pull the lever for members of the Libertarian Party. I prefer to see the Republi-puke party relegated tot he dustbin of history. It is too wormy an apple to keep chewing on.
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18th September 2010 at 12:11 pm
LLPOH says:
Admin – Sorry. A long character analysis is difficult at the moment owing to no access to a proper computer.
I did want to go into his recent conversion to Catholic from Baptist. I mean, WTF? A man of true conviction.
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18th September 2010 at 5:00 pm