Establishment Desperate as GOP Civil War turns in favor of the Grassroots

[sailingaway]

(The Subsidiarity Times) The GOP Civil War has begun to unravel the Republican Party as many strategists now begin to fear that the party will soon split in two. The war, which officially began with the purge of the four fiscally responsible U.S. representatives from their committees by Speaker of the House John Boehner in late 2012, has grown and expanded as the first two months of the year 2013 have progressed. Across the nation, members of the three major grassroots groups (Ron Paul’s Liberty Movement, the grassroots-oriented Tea Party and the religiously-oriented Social Conservatives) have made determined efforts to reject pushes by Establishment Republicans and RINOs (Republicans-in-name-only) to regain control of the local Republican Parties, which they have slowly been losing control of since 2010. The war is only beginning to heat up and looks to become more nasty as the year 2013 continues. What shall be presented now is a summary of the civil war since December.

Battlegrounds:

1. Washington D.C.: Speaker of the House John Boehner officially inaugurated the GOP Civil War with his purge of Liberty Movement Republican representatives Justin Amash of Michigan and Walter B. Jones of North Carolina and Tea Party Republican representatives Tim Huelskamp of Kansas and David Schweikert of Arizona from key positions on House Budget and Finance Committees. By this action, Boehner made it clear that the uneasy alliance that had existed for the 2012 elections between grassroots Republicans and Establishment Republicans against President Obama and his Democratic allies was now over and that the Establishment was now determined to carry out on the threat they had made at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, namely that those who did not play by the rules of the Establishment Republicans and RINOs would receive no place in the Republican Party of the 21st Century. The backlash resulted in talk of a revolt against John Boehner which would cost him the House Speaker position, but due to the lateness of the effort and the unwillingness of proposed candidates Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to actually mount a campaign for Speaker, the offensive fell woefully short and Boehner defeated a host of undeclared candidates as well as Nancy Pelosi for a second term as Speaker of the House, leaving the Establishment on top in the first campaign of the GOP Civil War.

Battle Result: Establishment Victory

2. Washington State: Liberty Movement Republicans sought to take control of the King County GOP in December 2012, but were unable to show sufficient strength to do so. However, the Establishment can not claim total victory here because of the use of unethical tricks to deny the ability to participate in the party organization meeting to several Liberty Movement members who were new to the party. These tricks and arguments will be unusable in 2014 and the Liberty Movement in King County is already planning another run at taking over the King County GOP next year with the added advantage of their increased numbers.

Battle Result: Draw

3. Florida: Liberty Movement Republicans swept into several positions in the Republican Party of Miami-Dade County and seem to have taken plurality control of it. They failed to win the chairmanship, but they won the vice-chairmanship and treasurer positions and effectively secured a plurality of the district committee seats, making the Miami-Dade County Republican Party a bastion of the Liberty Movement in Senator Marco Rubio’s literal backyard.
Battle Result: Grassroots Victory

4. Michigan: The state which in 2010 gave the Liberty Movement its biggest new star in the House of Representatives in Justin Amash of Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District, saw the Liberty Movement sweep into control of Michigan’s Muskegon County Republican Party. They won the chairmanship, vice-chairmanship, secretary and treasurer positions as well as a majority on the county party’s executive committee. It was a sweeping success for the Liberty Movement in a state which appears to be more receptive to Liberty Movement Republicans than Establishment Republicans.
Battle Result: Grassroots Victory

5. Arizona: This state saw the Establishment use unethical tactics and dirty tricks to shut out Liberty Movement and Tea Party delegates in the 2012 presidential primaries, but now Liberty Movement members have streamed out of the grassroots like members of a guerrilla army and swept into control of the executive committees of the local Republican parties in the counties of Mohave, Yavapai and many others. It might not be an understatement to say this has been the biggest turnaround in the GOP Civil War to date.

Battle Result: Grassroots Victory

6. Iowa: Ron Paul’s first big victory in the 2012 presidential primaries saw members of the Liberty Movement such as A.J. Spiker take control of the Iowa Republican Party. They handily won re-election to their positions heading the state party and appear to be firmly entrenched in the state which currently holds the title of being first in the nation in presidential primary voting.

Battle Result: Grassroots Victory

7. Oklahoma: Liberty Movement activists were shut out of the Oklahoma Republican Convention in the 2012 presidential primaries, but like in Arizona, they have been given the call to come out of the grassroots like a guerrilla army and flood the races for the party offices in the Oklahoma Republican Party which will take place from February to April. So far information on the battle there is sketchy, but if they come out in the same numbers that they did in Arizona and ally with frustrated Tea Party activists, they could complete the second big turnaround of the GOP Civil War.

Battle Result: Ongoing

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[anaconda]

1) From my politically naive perspective, it seems we're far from being able to "take over" the Republican Party, but not terribly far from rendering them too impotent to win national elections without some significant concessions to us. Am I close here?

2) Would an actual split result in a negotiated truce and remodeled platform? Or, would it leave three parties and a period in the wilderness with a contemporaneous indefinite command of national politics by the Democratic Party? I'm assuming it would initially be about 50% Democrat and the Republican Party divided with about 33% Moss-Covered and about 17% Liberty. Would the split Republican Party factions continue to be registered Republicans? Or, would one or both form official new parties?

3) Might the "puppet masters" arrange an "uneasy (according to the main stream media, of course)" alliance between the Moss-Covered GOP and the Democrats, to cement a permanent majority of tyranny in essentially a one party monolith? Sort of like a Soviet Politburo? And, intentional or not, end up purging all of the minority liberty movement from North American politics?

 

[thoughtomator]

to answer your questions...

1) We're already past the point where we have the ability to deny the GOP national victories if it doesn't meet our terms. That's the takeaway from the Romney fail. In key state after state, he lost by margins smaller than the number of primary votes for Ron Paul. We have only grown since as establishment influence recedes.

2) The platform doesn't need remodeling - the establishment has been operating in total defiance of it. The official GOP platform is far more in support of the liberty movement than it is the establishment. The party won't need to be split - the herd will fall in line once the momentum is decisively ours (and we're close).

3) The puppet masters are already way ahead of you on that point. There have already been votes taken where the establishment of both parties teamed up against the grassroots of both parties. Boehner has indicated that he may let some legislation not supported by the GOP caucus to come to the floor to be passed by Democrats and a handful of traitorous left-wing GOP members.

 

[anaconda]

to answer your questions...

1) We're already past the point where we have the ability to deny the GOP national victories if it doesn't meet our terms. That's the takeaway from the Romney fail. In key state after state, he lost by margins smaller than the number of primary votes for Ron Paul. We have only grown since as establishment influence recedes.

2) The platform doesn't need remodeling - the establishment has been operating in total defiance of it. The official GOP platform is far more in support of the liberty movement than it is the establishment. The party won't need to be split - the herd will fall in line once the momentum is decisively ours (and we're close).

3) The puppet masters are already way ahead of you on that point. There have already been votes taken where the establishment of both parties teamed up against the grassroots of both parties. Boehner has indicated that he may let some legislation not supported by the GOP caucus to come to the floor to be passed by Democrats and a handful of traitorous left-wing GOP members.

Thank you for making me feel more hopeful and optimistic!

 

[thoughtomator]

Thank you for making me feel more hopeful and optimistic!

Don't get overconfident. The real beast is not the establishment in the GOP itself - it is the cross-party establishment that has made the two parties into one de facto totalitarian party that is the real enemy that needs to be defeated. Don't be surprised to see the Democratic Party intervene on behalf of the GOP establishment.

 

[anaconda]

Don't get overconfident. The real beast is not the establishment in the GOP itself - it is the cross-party establishment that has made the two parties into one de facto totalitarian party that is the real enemy that needs to be defeated. Don't be surprised to see the Democratic Party intervene on behalf of the GOP establishment.

This was the pivotal concern of my line of questioning. Why would the "puppet masters" blow an opportunity to commandeer 50% + 35% into a permanent tyranny establishment apparatus? With the irony of us doing all the work in creating a "crisis opportunity" for them to "react to and solve?" With the Liberty Movement essentially showing themselves to the door without even an escort? It almost feels like a set-up.

 

[aclove]

That's a result we should be trying to force. If we keep pushing them to the point that the party elites make it obvious that there's really only one party running the show, we win a huge PR victory and it becomes much easier to break people from the false 2-party paradigm. It becomes much more obvious to everyone that politicians make policy in SPITE of public opinion, not as a response to it.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

That's a result we should be trying to force. If we keep pushing them to the point that the party elites make it obvious that there's really only one party running the show, we win a huge PR victory and it becomes much easier to break people from the false 2-party paradigm. It becomes much more obvious to everyone that politicians make policy in SPITE of public opinion, not as a response to it.

Making the point that the people don't always get the government they want. There is also, the media that pushes the idea that public opinion is in line with the policy that the politicians want.

 

[CaptUSA]

Time to stock up on this:

 

[Christian Liberty]

Short of a liberty-candidate, Democrats continuing to win because of a refusal by people like us to vote for guys like Mitt can only help...

Too bad Rand Paul isn't on board with that....

 

[sailingaway]

1) From my politically naive perspective, it seems we're far from being able to "take over" the Republican Party, but not terribly far from rendering them too impotent to win national elections without some significant concessions to us. Am I close here?

2) Would an actual split result in a negotiated truce and remodeled platform? Or, would it leave three parties and a period in the wilderness with a contemporaneous indefinite command of national politics by the Democratic Party? I'm assuming it would initially be about 50% Democrat and the Republican Party divided with about 33% Moss-Covered and about 17% Liberty. Would the split Republican Party factions continue to be registered Republicans? Or, would one or both form official new parties?

3) Might the "puppet masters" arrange an "uneasy (according to the main stream media, of course)" alliance between the Moss-Covered GOP and the Democrats, to cement a permanent majority of tyranny in essentially a one party monolith? Sort of like a Soviet Politburo? And, intentional or not, end up purging all of the minority liberty movement from North American politics?

That is what they have already done, calling the norm 'centrist' and with their bipartisan corporatist squishes. Isn't it?

 

[cjm]

11. Virginia: Liberty Movement Republicans, Tea Party Republicans and Social Conservative Republicans formed an alliance to back Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in his bid for the Republican endorsement for Governor of Virginia and have effectively won the nomination for him. However, this does mean the end of the fight in this state. As he admitted that he had been defeated by a coalition of Liberty Movement, Tea Party and Social Conservative members, incumbent Virginia Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling held out the possibility that he will launch an independent campaign for Virginia Governor. As the mainstream media and Establishment Republicans have continued to attack Cuccinelli, Bolling’s hints at such a possibility have grown stronger to the point that it seems an announcement of an independent campaign for Governor from Bolling might take place as soon as mid-March. Powerful forces led by Liberty Movement/Tea Party leaders like Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) have already thrown their weight into the fight to support Cuccinelli, while Bolling, if he runs, might seek allies in the Establishment such as former Bush adviser and Establishment party boss Karl Rove. If this happens, then the sheer weight of the forces being thrown into this race will likely make it the biggest Grassroots vs Establishment face-off to date and lead to the beginning of the official split in the Republican Party. Needless to say, all eyes, Grassroots and Establishment, will be on this race as it unfolds over the course of the year heading into November.
Battle Result: Ongoing

Bolling announced that he would not run for governor.

 

[FSP-Rebel]

Too bad Rand Paul isn't on board with that....

I doubt you're of the sort that would choose to understand and see the reasoning as to why he did what he did but in case you're interested, not doing so when it was pretty much clear who the nominee was would've came back to haunt him down the line and by endorsing it allowed him to question Romney's foreign policy positions. There's no proof either way as to whether he actually voted for him and there was never any doubt in his mind that his endorsement wouldn't swing Ron folk to Romney. It was pure PR

 

[anaconda]

That is what they have already done, calling the norm 'centrist' and with their bipartisan corporatist squishes. Isn't it?

Yes, but they have maintained the illusion of two parties thus far (despite bipartisan agreement on corporate welfare, monetary policy, the "security" state, and military spending) . What do they do if there is an official split of half of their charade show? It destabilizes their ability to distract the public with non-stop "partisan" wedge issues. and it becomes harder to deflect blame on "the other party for "reluctant bipartisan deals."

 

[sailingaway]

Yes, but they have maintained the illusion of two parties thus far (despite bipartisan agreement on corporate welfare, monetary policy, the "security" state, and military spending) . What do they do if there is an official split of half of their charade show? It destabilizes their ability to distract the public with non-stop "partisan" wedge issues. and it becomes harder to deflect blame on "the other party for "reluctant bipartisan deals."

I don't think they will do that until they have to, the biggest thing they have going for them is habitual 'team partisanship' keeping one side or the other 'in line' with the squishes because of sponsorship identity. Once the country at large realizes it is the people v the political class, all bets are off. Check out the Rasmussen poll lines on that breakdown.