The GOP Establishment is missing the point (again)

[SonofThunder]

http://rlcsc.org/2012/11/09/the-gop-establishment-is-missing-the-point/

Any feedback appreciated

 

[LibertyEagle]

We are never going to win over the establishment. But, most of the GOP is NOT establishment. Those are the people we need to win over.

 

[NewRightLibertarian]

We are never going to win over the establishment. But, most of the GOP is NOT establishment. Those are the people we need to win over.

The establishment is playing right into our hands by capitulating on key issues in a desperate attempt to win over minorities and women. When the establishment is unwilling to fight Obama in the next four awful years, more conservatives will be sent our way. Huzzah!

 

[SonofThunder]

This is true. But you know, some times you speak truth to power and hope that the people watching like your argument better than the establishment's.

 

[Athan]

Its time to pound some establishment GOP ass and forget the lube.

 

[FSP-Rebel]

Its time to pound some establishment GOP ass and forget the lube.

I tend to agree but am a little put off by the phraseology.

 

[nobody's_hero]

It works like this:



The GOP is in a better position to listen now that they've had their butts handed to them. Don't worry about winning over the establishment. Fuck 'em.

Win over the ones you can.

 

[Lucille]

It works like this:



The GOP is in a better position to listen now that they've had their butts handed to them. Don't worry about winning over the establishment. Fuck 'em.

Win over the ones you can.

Perfect. +rep

 

[affa]

http://rlcsc.org/2012/11/09/the-gop-establishment-is-missing-the-point/

Any feedback appreciated

I really enjoyed the article and it's approach to the subject. My only critique was that it felt too short... I wanted more. It felt like page 1 of a piece three times the length. It did a great job discussing the drug war, but I wanted a little bit more there, and then for it to go into explaining the same effect for other issues.

So great article... just wanted more.

 

[nasaal]

They aren't missing the point. They aren't stupid. They are changing the narrative so that they don't have to actually change.

 

[Bastiat's The Law]

The establishment is playing right into our hands by capitulating on key issues in a desperate attempt to win over minorities and women. When the establishment is unwilling to fight Obama in the next four awful years, more conservatives will be sent our way. Huzzah!

That's exactly how I see it going. They will push their base towards us and we should welcome them into the fold.

 

[CableNewsJunkie]

They aren't missing the point. They aren't stupid. They are changing the narrative so that they don't have to actually change.

^^^this

 

[man is truth]

I agree with CNJ and Nasaal- the Establishment knows that they are traitors and that they are trading on the name-recognition alone. Their lackeys know the game to be a game, and are happy to clap and rep their patron when it awards pensions and connections. They horde resources and consult with professional marketing neuroscience advertising data-miners and social-engineer philanthropist donors, in order to manufacture and maintain an immediate image-reel association triggered by their logos and key-words.

the problem is that people call this memory-amalgamation of commercials and headlines "thought" and "us" and "them."

I think that Ron Paul though understands how the images and logos are like a mantle and a church and are transferrable possessions and projections of the factions occupying a given space and rank. That is why he asked sympathizers to overtake the GOP and fill those rooms. We carry the symbols and flash the brand-recognition, and attach them to actually good, legally protecting, common good, common-sense reforms and expansions of popular freedoms, and those symbols cease being associated with the neo-con war gods.

 

[Tod]

read my sig

 

[kathy88]

I tend to agree but am a little put off by the phraseology.

Homophobe. Reported.

 

[RickyJ]

After this election they are largely irrelevant. It is time for a third party. A third party can win in 2016 in a fair election. We need a candidate and a platform that will include both Democrats and Republicans.

 

[SonofThunder]

I really enjoyed the article and it's approach to the subject. My only critique was that it felt too short... I wanted more. It felt like page 1 of a piece three times the length. It did a great job discussing the drug war, but I wanted a little bit more there, and then for it to go into explaining the same effect for other issues.

So great article... just wanted more.

You know, I actually thought about writing about two more issues: corporate incentives and the income tax. But then I thought it would be best to keep it short and only ruffle feathers on one single issue. I'm not sure which avenue is best, but thanks for the feedback!