There was a time, not all that long ago, that I felt
the biggest obstacle, or at least one of the biggest, to a Republican being
able to win the White House in 2016, was the fact that we had leaders, in the
person of Boehner and McConnell, who were nothing more than abject failures in
charge of what were far too many RINOs in Congress. Well, regarding our leadership team is
concerned, we are now half way home in fixing that problem, having recently
removed one of those two impediments.
But Boehner has announced that his next month will be a very busy one as
he has made clear he plans to enlist Democrats to join with the RINOs to stick
his finger in eye once more before he leaves.
But we have yet to see who will replace Boehner and if it turns out to
be Kevin McCarthy, well then, we’ve succeeded in nothing.
Now as far as old Mitch McConnell goes, there now
seems to be at least one senior Republican official who is urging McConnell to
resign from his job as the Republican leader of the Senate. Roger Villere, the chairman of the Louisiana
GOP, recently said, “Mitch is a good and honorable guy, but the base is leaving
our party.” He went on to say, “I’ve
worked for 12 years as chairman to build this party, and I just don’t want to
see it all go down the drain because the [leaders] aren’t willing to fight for
what we believe… Our base is demanding we do something or they’re going to
leave us.” He added, “The GOP brand is
being damaged… everybody is so furious at the leadership.” First of all, and I don’t mean to disparage
Mr. Villere’s judge of character, but I view McConnell as being neither good
nor honorable.
But I do very much agree with Mr. Villere when he
says, “Mr. McConnell could have suspended consideration of confirmations for
all presidential appointees, except for those who are essential to national
security, until the president rescinded his unconstitutional executive action
on amnesty.” And when he goes on to say,
“This would have been a constitutionally appropriate response to the overreach
of the executive branch.” And there is
also much truth in what he says when he makes the point that, “It would have
transformed the political environment, greatly encouraged Republican donors and
grass-roots activists, and positioned us to refuse to confirm replacements for
any Supreme Court openings that might occur during the remainder of the Obama
administration.” But McConnell has
proven himself to be gutless!
There were many promises made, as I’m sure many will
recall, in the lead up to the 2014 election.
And as Mr. Villere said, “Not trying to repeal Obamacare, not defunding
Planned Parenthood, not trying to stop illegal immigration… That is what
Republicans ran on and once they were elected they did not follow up with their
promises.” And he’s absolutely right! Why should any of us trust any of these
losers the next time around. If they’re
going to lie to us like Democrats, then we might as well vote for
Democrats. We simply cannot afford to
choose as our candidate someone like Bush, Christie, Graham, Pataki, or even a
Kasich or Rubio. I’m not really a Trump
guy, I’m not crazy about Huckabee, and I’m still not sure how I feel about
Fiorina. I was a Perry guy who now finds
himself leaning toward Cruz.
We will need to make sure whoever our candidate is,
be it Trump, Carson, Cruz or someone else, is of OUR choosing and not someone
foisted upon us by either the Republican Establishment or the state-controlled
media. Right or wrong, the choice must
be ours! No more wishy-washy, middle-of–the-road,
self-professed moderates who are nothing more than a less progressive version
of your basic Democrat socialist. And
those running must be made to understand that it is they who will likely be
made to pay the price for the way we were screwed over in 2014. Many are already treading on what is some very
thin ice. We are in search of a bona
fide conservative, and simply invoking Reagan’s name ain’t gonna be near enough
to validate one’s claims of being a true conservative. Reagan was then, this is now.
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