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Republican Failure Control

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Erick Erickson at RedState put up a post today regarding a message he and other conservative activist drafted and sent to Congress.  In short, it states that anyone who backs the McConnell plan to give the President near-unilateral authority to raise the debt ceiling doesn’t get their support.

McConnell is a RINO disaster and a failure of leadership.  Republican failure control has been long overdue, and a serious shortcoming for some time.  To that end, Erick’s approach takes advantage of a huge and immutable fact in Republican politics:  the conservative activists the RINOs so despise do all the heavy lifting.  Heavy lifting that can be selectively withheld now that we can organize without the party.

No, we don’t provide the bulk of the money, but the manpower, energy, and votes?  They can’t get along without us, and this can be put to use in getting rid of Republican failures like McConnell.  We can’t remove him until 2014, but we can isolate him from his allies with threats of not supporting officeholders that do back him.

As to the purpose?  Likely this will provoke more of the “perfect candidate” straw man nonsense, but the bottom line is simple.  The Republicans can’t be a real opposition party and reverse decades of liberal damage so long as the McConnells retain significant control within it.  We can fight the Democrats once the Republicans are actually ready, willing, and able to do so, hence this over attacking Obama.  For now.

Just In Case You Were Under The Mistaken Impression That You Can Work With RINOs

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Hey, we had some good news.  Obama got petulant on Eric Cantor because The One is feeling the strain.  The House is holding strong to the point in not selling out on the debt ceiling.  If they continue to hold strong, Obama may fold like Dayton in Minnesota and the Republicans can start us back on the path to fiscal solvency.

All of this could be, unless some RINO idiot like McConnell gives the Democrats an out such as granting the President authority to raise the debt ceiling without Congress.  A plan that the Democrats then take and reincarnate to regain the initiative.  You know, like this one.

So now the Democrats may be in a position to turn their debt ceiling shellacking around because McConnell did what RINOs do best:  lose when things are finally going their way.  Here’s Obama’s escape from this mess, courtesy of the craven establishment trash.  Good thing we never stop using the plan we did in 2010.

It’s very simple.  The Republican National Committees (RNC, NRSC, and NRCC) are partial to establishment sorts like McConnell, so don’t donate to them.  Don’t support their recommendations.  Don’t believe known RINOs when they tell you they’re conservative contrary to their records.  If you want conservatives to get your money and effort, donate directly to their campaigns and leave anything establishment/RINO related out of it.  We need more Tea Party sorts and fewer McConnells if we want to turn the country around.  As McConnell just demonstrated, the establishment will never be a part of that.  Time to get rid of them as fast as we’re able.

News links to reports at Hot Air and commentary by Michelle Malkin.

Being Taken For Granted At a Whole New Level

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Is anyone else getting the sinking sensation that conservatives are being taken for granted by the Republican primary candidates at truly mind-boggling levels?

Yes, it’s a fact that we’re all motivated to get rid of Obama and will likely go to greater lengths than usual over it.  It’s also a fact that up until recently, we were mostly the Republican base.  So why is it that this time around it seems that the “taking the conservatives for granted” part of this has reached a whole new level?

Mitt continues to stand by Romneycare.  Newt openly steps out and attacks the Ryan budget plan.  Huntsman throws his hat into the ring despite some truly fawning letters written during his tenure as Obama’s ambassador to China.    Are we just supposed to forget any of this in the Internet age?

Is this a bad case of “Where are they going to go” syndrome?  We didn’t answer that well enough in 2006 and 2008?  Well, how about nowhere.  If enough of us decide to be ruthlessly apathetic and back Tea Party candidates to the exclusion of all others regardless of the primary results, they lose.  Boehner’s been proving from Day 1 of his tenure as Speaker that there’s no point to taking real pains to re-elect the establishment sorts because they fold at the first sign of Democrat hostility.  If all else fails, we just vote for the people we think we’ll make real change and the difference is waste byproduct.

Whatever has found its way into the establishment Republican water supply about being blatantly RINO where it was only stealth underming before is rapidly ending Presidential hopes.  The Republican will not automatically win, or as McCain found out to the point he brought Palin into his campaign, the conservatives don’t just fall in line anymore.  Those taking us for granted can get serious or go home.  In Mitt, Huntsman, and Newt’s cases, just forget it and go home.

Lugar Gets a Credible Primary Opponent

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In need of some good news?  After hearing about the Republican House leadership cowering into submission over a possible government shutdown, it wouldn’t hurt.  So it’s good to know that one of the Senate RINO turds, Dick Lugar, has a primary opponent who will be launching his race with some backing.

His name is Richard Mourdock, and he’s Indiana’s current Treasurer.  While his backing is off to a good start, one of his conclusions is wrong.  Governor Daniels was a former Lugar staffer and won’t remain neutral, so Mourdock had best be prepared for a fight.

As far as Mourdock’s concern that Lugar might be humiliated?  Lugar brought that on himself.  Those sorts of things tend to happen when you cross the aisle for no good reason.

As for the Republican cowering in the House?  Time for a round of leadership primaries.  The Republican freshmen are doing their jobs, and the establishment garbage in their way needs to go.  If the old hands believe cowardice was why they were elected in 2010, they’re irredeemable and need to go.  We have no time for it as our fiscal house is burning down.