By now even if you live under a rock you have heard all the stuff about the Repubs and their internal civil war….Party vs Tea Party, if you will……..we know, for instance that the TP is not happy with Boehner and the old guys for their kowtowing to Obama….at least if is as they see it…..what if anything can be done?
Glad you asked that all important question.
The so-called GOP civil war may be going from cold to hot. The conservative group ForAmerica tells CNN that it intends to spend six figures on a campaign it’s calling “Dump the Leadership,” aimed at deposing all the GOP’s leaders in both the House and Senate. “Time and again, year after year, the Republican leadership in the House and Senate has come to grassroots conservatives … pleading for our money, our volunteers, our time,” the group’s chairman says. “It’s been years. There is not a single conservative accomplishment this so-called ‘leadership’ can point to.” The group is vowing “significantly” more spending than the $200,000 it dropped to promote defunding ObamaCare, notes the Hill. The group says it’s got digital ads online now, but it’s unclear if those ads will attempt to convince voters to oust John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and Co., or attempt to convince other GOP lawmakers to depose them. It’s not the group’s first swipe at leadership, either; it has repeatedlyattacked McConnell for striking deals with Democrats, once dubbing him a “chicken” for not fighting hard enough to defund ObamaCare.
Now from my perspective……is this the best idea? I know there are many that are unhappy with Boehner and his cohorts….but removing them may not be the best idea……why? The agenda that is being pursued is not necessarily the agenda of what the people want to be done….I know people? Who among them gives two craps in Hell what we want done by our elected government?
This, if successful, could give them a temporary win….but in the long run they will be thrown from office….the American people are very close to that now……the people do NOT see these toads doing their jobs….only massaging the genitals of high dollar donors…..what is it that Kenny Rogers sung about……you gotta know when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em……..a better strategy needs to be found…a winning strategy….the course they are on now is NOT a winning one……
This is just plain silly…..they had rather beat their own leadership than a Democrat……explain the logic there please?
Good… let them self-implode.
They are whacking each others pee pee and the Dems could blow pass them…
The Republicans have dug themselves a whole with most voters but there is discontent among many over their perception of what they feel is an Obamacare failure, even though most of what went wrong has been corrected. This leaves wiggle room for the right. If they can find an effective message that taps this discontent it could help them in the upcoming election.
It’s disappointing however to become aware that a simple bumper sticker campaign that hits an emotional nerve with voters is all it takes to get someone elected rather than studying in depth the issues that are important to our future and knowing what kind of questions we need to ask and having a good idea of what the answers should be. We just simply are not a well-informed political society anymore.
Well said….knowledge is no longer required…all one needs is a clever slogn to get elected…sad…