The Soggy Sandwich Society
Cocktail Party GOP Establishment’s Board of Directors
On the TV show The Simpsons, the Republican Party leadership is depicted as a board room full of various stock villains that assemble in a spooky castle atop a forest of thorns. At the table are Dracula, a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bob Dole, a crazed Texan, and other archetypes of what “The Tolerant Left” sees as the Legion of Doom-grade Republicans that supposedly control everything on the conservative side of the political aisle.
We all know this is bunk, because it’s sadly the Cocktail Party GOP establishment that has controlled the Republican Party for decades — consistently making the same mistakes while expecting different results and forever surrendering to Democrats on important issues in the spirit of being “bipartisan” (which itself is part of a bigger strategy these fools have of currying favor with an elite, agenda-driven media that will never, ever love them).
I coined the term “Cocktail Party GOP establishment” here on HillBuzz.org in 2010 after evolving the theme from a real-life incident that happened here in Chicago involving Willard “Mittens” Romney back in 2009 when he was beginning his fundraising push for this election cycle. Romney — like all Cocktail Party establishment types who roll through town — held meetings with donors in the cloistered, oak-paneled halls of the exclusive private clubs in the Loop. These places are massive, opulent, and as imposing as gothic cathedrals on the outside. In contrast, when Democrats come through Chicago to fundraise, they normally hold events in rented meeting rooms at the Marriott or Renaissance hotels. The Cocktail Party GOP establishment has never realized how much they reinforce the terrible image they’ve created for themselves in the minds of the public.
Romney, in particular, solidified all this for me when he repeatedly complained about the food he was served here in Chicago as being “too spicy”. Lunch was turkey sandwiches with water cress and shredded lettuce and lots of mayo — but Romney insisted it was all “too spicy” and provocative for him (one of my friends from Boystown was the waiter who had to take that complaint back to the kitchen, where the cooks laughed and laughed about a turkey sandwich being “too spicy” for Romney). He needed plenty of skim milk to wash his “spicy” lunch down. It’s just who he is, and he’s certainly not the only milquetoast patrician in the Cocktail Party GOP establishment ranks who is off-putting to the millions of Americans who respond to someone like Newt Gingrich, Allen West, or Sarah Palin because none of these people would be ordering skim milk chasers for their cucumber and mayonnaise soggy sandwiches.
I write about the Cocktail Party GOP establishment a lot but have never taken the time to specifically identify who these people are. In general terms, it’s always broken down to groups such as:
1. The consultants who have made lucrative careers in DC running losing campaigns where milquetoast moderate candidates lose to The Tolerant Left…but then these consultants get hired to run the next losing campaign.
2. The writers and talking heads who fill the required “Republican” seat on various panels…who then push for the milquetoast moderate candidates to be the face of the party, as if being conservative is something to be ashamed of.
3. The dynastic Republican families like the Bushes…who weigh in to make sure new generations of The Soggy Sandwich Society inherit their own invitations to the Cocktail Party elite in much the same way that wealthy families write recommendation letters for the children of other wealthy families who want to attend the most elite prep schools.
4. The big GOP donors who write checks to keep the Cocktail Party flush with cash so it maintains its influence for generations…with these people expecting permanent invitations to glittering cocktail parties in exchange for their continued financial loyalty.
5. Obviously, the men and women of the Cocktail Party who serve in the Senate and House for decades and who come to see themselves not as public servants but as aristocrats in their own imaginary House of Lords.
6. ?
7. ?
Who am I missing?
Please use this thread to brainstorm who YOU think comprises the Cocktail Party GOP establishment.
These are the people who keep pushing the “it’s his turn!” garbage when it comes to political nominees. These are the people who forced Bob Dole on us in 1996…who then forced John McCain as the nominee in 2008…and who are doing their soggy sandwich best to force Willard “Mittens” Romney on us in 2012.
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
If you were creating an image like the one featured in The Simpsons, what 7 people would you put at the table?
You can be specific and identify an individual person (like George H.W. Bush or Colin Powell or Lindsey Graham) or generic like “Highly Paid GOP Consultant Based in Alexandria, Virginia”.
Let’s try to use our creativity and flesh out who, exactly, sits on the Cocktail Party GOP establishment’s Board of Directors.
The first step in permanently defeating these people is to know who the heck we’re actually dealing with in those dimly-light, expensively decorated, wood-paneled interiors.
Mitch Daniels Looks and Acts Like Actor Leslie Jordan (Beverly Leslie From Will & Grace and Brother Boy from Sordid Lives) Republican Reponse to State of the Union Address Tonight
Whenever Cocktail Party Republicans start talking about how wonderful Mitch Daniels supposedly is, before my mind conjures up an image of the actual Daniels, I first think of actor Leslie Jordan who played Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace and Brother Boy on Sordid Lives.
Daniels is 5’4″ tall, shops in the boys’ department at Sears, has the world’s most egregious comb-over, and speaks with a squeaky little voice that’s frequently been used in Indiana to discuss terms of surrender to The Tolerant Left on many issues important to conservatives and Tea Party Americans.
He is a wimp of the first order, which is what the Cocktail Party favors in its candidates — for reasons I will never understand.
Why was this man chosen to give the Republican State of the Union Address….when that honor should have gone to someone like Congressman Allen West, who would have absolutely clobbered Barack Obama in a memorable way.
Instead, the Cocktail Party serves up another wimpy, squeaky, milquetoast cucumber and mayonnaise darling.
WHY?
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UPDATE: MSNBC is really stoking the “Mitch Daniels will replace Romney” if Newt Gingrich wins Florida meme.
Chuck Todd was really pushing this in particular. MSBC was repeating over and over that “Newt can’t beat Obama” and that “only Romney can beat Obama”. If you can’t see for yourself that the media wants Romney to be the nominee so that he will in fact lose to Obama, then there is no help for you.
It is clear, however, that the media and Cocktail Party are now scared that Romney has imploded and that’s where this “we’ll just insert Mitch Daniels” into this instead.
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I’ll put Daniels’ speech up as soon as I see it on YouTube.
They’ve got him sitting on a phone book, stiffly reading off a TelePrompter. He is a good reader, but he has no emotion in his voice. He reminds me of my high school principal reading the morning’s announcements. He gives a long, running stream of information that I tune out. He’s trying hard not too blink too much, but blink just enough so that he doesn’t seem off-putting. That itself is unnatural and off-putting.
Mitch Daniels is creepy.
This is not as big a disaster as 2009 when Bobby Jindal delivered the Republican response to Obama — Daniels did not make a fool of himself, but he also did nothing to show me what the fuss is about this man.
Mitch Daniels needs to get someone to buzz his head and get rid of the comb-over. He also must learn how to speak so it doesn’t sound like he’s reading.
Allen West should have been picked to do this State of the Union Response. He would have knocked it out of the park.
Mitch Daniels reminded me of Kathleen Sebelius when she did the Democrats’ response in 2008:
She did that same, standing there, reading from a TelePrompTer, pretending to be the principal of a nice, moderately-priced, private school in the suburbs morning announcement routine.
Still waiting for the Response to hit YouTube, but I found this:
I will say that if Rachel Maddow doesn’t like Daniels and if he pissed off the unions by trying to strip their collective bargaining rights that earns him points in my book — but it still can’t overcome how much of a twerp he comes off as when he speaks or how nebbishly he behaves himself on camera.
This is not a man who can defeat Barack Obama…and the Cocktail Party has no ability to just waltz in and decide, “Screw you voters, we’re running that little guy from Indiana who sounds funny” instead of anyone people are voting on.
2008 Romney Campaign:Hey…let’s offer Global Romneycare.
(h/t Bare Naked Islam)
This video is from Romney’s 2008 campaign. The girl asking the question only wanted to know if Mittens would continue the good work that George W. Bush had done combatting AIDS in Africa but Romney had bigger plans for our tax dollars. You heard him correctly…he thinks America should provide free health care to the world….just like Hezbollah did in southern Lebanon. Doesn’t this smack of something a Democrat candidate would say? The phrase “Global Health Diplomacy” makes me very nervous. I think what President Bush did in Africa was wonderful but Romney is suggesting something along the lines of “free health care for all”.
Maybe if we give the world free health care…they’ll like us better.
Can you say Global Romneycare?
Should we start calling it RomneyHezbollahcare?
Holy Cow!
Poll: Americans Fear Big Government More Than Big Labor or Corporations
Or, “Why Electing A Big-Government ‘It’s His Turn’ Establishment Republican Will Be The GOP’s Kiss of Death”
As reported in The Politico (no doubt, with clenched jaws):
Americans’ fear of big government – partly fueled by a sharp spike among Democrats since President Barack Obama took office – almost reached a record high this year and is far greater than people’s concerns about big business and big labor, a new Gallup poll Monday shows.
An overwhelming 64 percent of people surveyed said big government was the biggest threat to the country, compared to just 26 percent who said big business is their gravest concern and 8 percent who picked big labor.
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Republicans are most wary of the threat of big government than are Democrats or independents – 82 percent of GOPers said big government was the biggest threat to the nation, compared to 64 percent of independents and 48 percent of Democrats who said the same.
Question: When did the Cocktail Party GOP establishment as we know it congeal its power?
I’d like to spend some time today looking back to discover when the Cocktail Party GOP establishment as we know it congealed its power.
We all know the Republican establishment didn’t support Ronald Reagan and tried its best to thwart his 1980 run for the White House.
So, I am assuming that Reagan cleared out the establishment types after his inauguration in 1981…and I further assume these people did not call the shots while Reagan was in office.
I’m guessing the Cocktail Party GOP establishment as we know it today was birthed by the first President Bush, sometime in late 1988 or in 1989.
This makes sense to me, because Cocktail Party GOP establishment stupidity can, in retrospect, be faulted for Bush’s loss in 1992…and then the disaster that was Bob Dole’s “it’s his turn” presidential campaign. The Cocktail Party almost lost the 2000 election against Al Gore…and Cocktail Party decisions were directly to blame for Republican losses in 2006 that turned power back to the Left.
The “it’s his turn” mentality favored by the Cocktail Party GOP establishment resulted in McCain 2008 — a campaign that just gave up on itself in September of that year, while simultaneously including Cocktail Party attacks on Governor Sarah Palin while she was McCain’s running mate.
The Cocktail Party GOP establishment has aggressively assailed Tea Party Americans as much as the Left has attacked us. The Tea Party and what it really represents is an existential threat to both the Left and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment.
I’d love your help today thinking about who exactly the Cocktail Party leaders are, and where they congealed their power. The Cocktail Party is aggressively pushing the nomination of Mittens Romneycare as the lastest “it’s his turn” candidate. I believe Romneycare is the only Republican who will lose to Barack Obama in the general election because the Left’s plan is to run Romneycare as the GOP nominee while encouraging a third party candidate like Jon Huntsman to split Republican votes enough so that Obama squeaks through to re-election.
That third party stunt will only work with Romneycare, since fewer Republican voters want Mittens as the nominee than supported McCain in 2008. If the Left funds a third party candidate like Huntsman, people who won’t vote for Romneycare will have somewhere to register a protest vote.
The Left would never get away with funding Huntsman if Herman Cain was the GOP nominee, however. It would look like flat-out racism to have Huntsman challenge both Obama and Cain — two black candidates running for president. This gambit only works with Romneycare (who, incidentally, as a candidate allows the Left to take Obamacare off the table in the next election, since Mittens won’t attack Obama on something based squarely on Mittens’ own actions as Massachusetts Governor).
When do you think the Cocktail Party GOP establishment congealed itself as we know it today?
Who was responsible for this?
Who are the real driving forces within this permanent political class?
Herman Cain needs our help.
The Cocktail Party has already picked our nominee so all of us who do not want Romney as our 2012 nominee should just pack up and go home. It’s over. Romney is it.
Here are the results of the National Journals Political Insiders Poll…
| Rank the top five candidates, 1 through 5, in terms of who you think is most likely to capture the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. | |
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Republicans
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| CANDIDATE | INSIDERS INDEX SCORE* |
| Mitt Romney | 98 |
| Rick Perry | 72 |
| Herman Cain | 47 |
| Newt Gingrich | 31 |
| Rick Santorum | 13 |
| Jon Huntsman | 11 |
| Michele Bachmann | 7 |
| Ron Paul | 5 |
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*Methodology: In tallying the rankings, a first-place vote was worth 5 points, a second-place vote was worth 4 points, and so on. The Insiders Index reflects the percentage of points that each contender received out of the maximum possible. For example, Mitt Romney scored an Index rating of 98, meaning he received 98 percent of the possible 525 points, the number he would have if all 105 participants in the poll this week had ranked him first. |
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The ruling class of the GOP don’t want Herman Cain. They’ve spent too much time and money grooming Mittens to let an outsider like Mr. Cain take the nomination. They seem to be ignoring one little fact…
We the people decide who will be our nominee.
It’s our votes that count…it doesn’t matter what Karl Rove or Charles Krauthammer or Chris Christie or any of the other good little GOP puppets want.
Herman Cain needs our help. NOW. He needs money and he needs volunteers. He needs people on the ground in Iowa and New Hampshire but I ‘m sure his campaign could use help everywhere.
Let’s help Herman Cain win the GOP nomination (and 2012 presidency).
Please go to his campaign website and donate….either your time or money or both.
The American people should decide who’s best for our country.
George Will correctly informs Republicans that a President Romney would be too afraid of making actual, hard decisions to save the country from economic ruin
George Will’s new column on Mittens Romneycare is out. You can read it here.
Essentially, Will clearly spells out that Mittens is just not the sort of politician who can be counted on to make tough, unpopular decisions that will be needed to get our economy back on track.
One area of Mittens’ long history of taking both sides of just about every issue that Will highlights is Mittens’ flip-flopping on ethanol subsidies; Mittens changes his opinion base on whom he is speaking to in a room on that particular day.
Ethanol subsidies are part of what’s tanking our economy and driving up food prices around the globe. Some days, Mittens is for them (when he’s sucking up to Iowans) and other days he’s against them (when he’s directly confronted on this by conservatives). Mittens is so afraid of bad media coverage and upsetting people he needs for his rise to power that he just can’t be trusted to do the right thing and end all ethanol subsidies and ethanol requirements in fuel.
Mittens can’t be trusted to do the right thing on anything, and would essentially be Obama-lite as president.
Do you really want this?
