What was your last straw with the Cocktail Party GOP establishment?
The other day, my friend Kathleen asked “What was your last straw with the Democrat Party?”. Many people gave interesting answers as to when, exactly, they broke with Democrats. I’ve talked about my own break from the party many times before (I know down to the second when it happened, for good, too: May 31st, 2008 at 5:36pm while sitting in Dulles airport in Washington, DC, soaking wet, waiting for a flight back to Chicago after attending the DNC Rules & Bylaws committee meeting and fuming over Donna Brazile’s and Howard Dean’s shameless usurpations to hijack the Democrat Party to the far Left).
A number of readers remarked on never being Democrats to begin with — with some noting they were actually Republicans who are sickened with the Cocktail Party GOP establishment and how it’s long enabled everything bad the Left has wanted to do to this country.
If you are someone who realized just how much damage the Cocktail Party GOP permanent political establishment does to this country, can you speak a little about what led to your epiphany?
I firmly believe America is besieged by three forces that do the country immense harm on a daily and ongoing basis:
(1) The Left (and all the goon squads and horcruxes it relies upon)
(2) The Cocktail Party GOP permanent establishment
(3) George Soros and external “globalist” villains abroad
I also believe the Tea Party is really, at its heart, Americans’ innate and natural revolt against the above.
If you are reading this, you are the Resistance…and as part of the Resistance it’s really important to get a full picture of when, exactly, you saw the Cocktail Party GOP permanent establishment for what it is?
If you disagree with me that the Cocktail Party isn’t so bad, I’d love to hear that opinion too.
It would be fascinating to hear a substantive defense of the consulting firms and Karl Rovian career analysts, advisers, and other cronies who comprise the Cocktail Party.
What think you?
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Two words: John McCain
It was the contempt for ordinary people, and the desperation to be liked and respected by their opponents.
I can deal with good faith differences in opinion. I refuse to indulge their contempt for people outside their milieu, the way they place more importance in the opinions of people who will never vote for them, their complete lack of fresh ideas, their assumption that everyone who disagrees with them is stupid…
John McCain. Meagan McCain was the nail in the coffin.
Meghan McCain is only in her mid-20s. She strikes me as someone whose opinions are backed by the need to be popular rather than conviction. She rarely makes any solid points and is quite obviously being used by the media. It will be interesting to see if her opinions change as she ages. I know mine certainly did.
great question! for me, it was bob dole in 1996. dole is an honorable man who served this country with distinction, and he has my undying respect and gratitude for his service. however, the gop had no business running him against clinton. the cocktail elites handed the election to clinton, which i believed then, and continue to believe today, was the plan. i would've left the party then, but didn't know where to go. thank God for the tea party. they are returning the grand old party to its roots and ideals.
My last straw was when Newt Gingrich threw his weight (no pun intended) behind obvious RINO Dede Scozzafava in NY23 rather than back the conservative candidate.
I am paraphrasing, but his words were something to the effect of "who are we to say we know more than the local Republican party".
It was only days later that Scozzafava ended her campaign and put her support behind the Democrat. Good call Newt.
I've always known that most politicians care more about their party than their constituency, but never was there a clearer example for me than this.
Bob Dole and John McCain. I respected Bob Dole and his service to the country but he was to old and past his prime. He got the nomination because it was his turn and the same for John McCain.
YES YES YES!!
The rise of Jim Thompson, John Anderson
John McCain again. Mitt Romney was the most Conservative in 2008 now he is the moderate.
I personally like Mitt and support him, but he does need to man up a lot and really attack the Obamacrats. Ann Coulter likes him and she is the Queen of Conservatives.
"Ann Coulter likes him and she is the Queen of Conservatives."
Not so much any more, since she has been claiming Chriistie who is considered another Rino ( repub in name only) should be president. Conservatives want conservatives elected, not more Rinos, who are no different, agenda wise, than Dems.
I fear we have lost Ann.
Chris Cristie is no RINO. He is from New Jersey a very hard state to win.
Reagan was not a perfect Conservative President. Human Events trashed Reagan during his first half term in office.
I am for Moderate Conservatives to run in Liberal states. Vermont, Rhode Isand, Connecticut Massachusetts and New York all had Republican Governors since 2006 at some point. Rudy in NYC did some great things, and he isn't a conservative because he was never in the pocket of the unions.
The two big problems with Christie that I have yet to see a good explanation for:
(1) Why does he support the Ground Zero Victory Mosque?
(2) Why does he support the Anthropogenic Global Warming Cult?
Rae…do you have an answer for this?
I’d also love to see the term RINO phased out. It’s much more productive to look at who’s part of the Cocktail Party establishment and who shares Tea Party values. That’s a better contrast.
RINO should be retired.
I feel that the establishment – on both sides – has beenand continues to be tested by TeaParty supported candidates in the 2010 election. ObamaCare woke up the passive electorate and now the establishment is losing their vice-grip hold on Washington much to the dismay of both sides. They don't know what to do so they lash out at the very people that have become the loose-knit TeaParty supporters.
I have been going to TP events since the beginning of the movement. And, as many of you already know, we may not be attending rallies but we are all working very hard to first defeat Obama and secondly to clean out the House & Senate. We know it will take more than one election, but the establishment will be the group that suffers the most in the end…and they know it all too well!
I wonder if you are a Concern Troll?
The Tea Party is NOT "working very hard to first defeat Obama and secondly to clean out the House & Senate."
The Tea Party is founded on Taxed Enough Already (TEA) and fiscal restraint. It may be true that the means to that end is to throw the Dems out, but the TEA party primaried Reps. The TEA party will not support a R that seems to want to spend like a D. The TEA party has never been focused on Obama and the House and Senate being Rs only.
I don't know who you are, but what you say does not match any of the press releases or official communications of the TEA party.
If you are trolling to get HillBuzzers deflected to an alternate path, you can forget it. We aren't easily fooled. You don't sound authentic TEA party to me.
Just my $0.02.
The establishment GOP doesn't understand the average American. Pat Caddell says we have the corrupt party (Democrats) and the stupid party (Republicans).
The GOP establishment were too busy mixing cocktails to notice the GOP was failing in 2006 and 2008 which gave the Democrats the super majority in the houses and Obama. The GOP was failing untilt the healthcare vote when the people rose up fed up of waiting for the establishment GOP to stop Obama and did it themselves.
The Tea Party will never let the left win again in America.
That depends on who is counting the votes. The Acorn off shoots and Seiu, etc. are getting themselves in place to steal elections and we'd better believe it. WHO is minding the store?
Also Charlie Crist of Florida, the way the Senate establishment backed him over Rubio was stupid and totally out of touch.
Rubio polled 80% to 20% against Crist before he dropped out of the Senate Primary. Crist would have joined the Democratic Senate if he was elected by Florida.
That was the last straw for me — the RNC backing Crist over Rubio. Now establishment Republicans act as though they invented Rubio.
The last straw for me was the whole debacle over Sharron Angle in the last senatorial election here in Nevada. The entire country can thank the "establishment/coctail party" GOP for Reid being back in the Senate. Ms. Angle was a true conservative that had ruffled the feathers of the state GOP back in the days when she was in the State Legislature by getting elected even though she was not the "chosen one". This was repeated when she won the primary in 2010 against the former head of the GOP in Nevada. Almost immediately afterwords, the real power of the state GOP, a termed-out State Senator came out for Reid in a fit of "payback" against the Republican primary voters. Between the po-ed GOP establishement and the (sorry Kathleen) Ron Paul fanatics boycotting the election, we all know the rest of the story.
It may very well be the final nail in the coffin of the GOP in Nevada. A good measurement of the speed of the GOP demise will be the special election to be held the 13th of this month.
I personally liked Angle as a person, I would have picked her as she didn't answer some questions and phrased her her medicare and social security policy so badly.
Reid is terrible and anyone was better. It was shameful the way the establishment didn't give her some support and candidate advice.
Since you said my name…
I don’t recall hearing anything about Ron Paul supporters boycotting the election, since most Ron Paul supporters (like myself) are also Tea Party supporters. My parents and I both sent money to Sharron’s campaign.
The out-of-the-gate trashing of Conservative women: Palin, ODonnell, Bachman. I can barely tolerate looking at, much less listening to, Chris Wallace anymore. More and more, I am turning off all LSM and turning to the intertubes. I refuse to be told who I should want to, or can, win any political office.
Same here……sent Mr. Wallace afew flaming emails telling him it was over, not tuning in any more!
The Five is not worth watching either.
For me, the realization heightened during the 2008 campaign but the last straw came within the past few weeks as I became an avid reader of Hillbuzz. Lisette's excellent comment here is illustrative of the thoughts often discussed on this site. The realization that the Cocktail Party GOP are just appeasers, suck ups, and enablers of the left and how truly reprehensible that is considering the left has an excuse: they are deranged lunatics. What's the Cocktail Party GOP establishment's excuse? These are vapid, gullable, self-absorbed people who actually think the leftists value their "bi-partisanship" as something constructive for the country. It's the complete opposite. They are the most useful of all the "useful idiots" and I've just realized that recently. The deck is so stacked it's ridiculous.
The day after the 2004 presidential election, when Arlen Spector held a press conference to announce that he expected Bush to nominate only moderates to the Supreme Court (an implied that he would fight any "extreme" nominees).
Why did the GOP pick Spector, if we picked Tommey and lost then people would have voted differently in other states to to ensure the Dems didn't get 60 seats
A senior Republican operative on Long Island asked me to a fund-raiser for Planned Parenthood that was being sponsored by Marsha Laufer — a woman who had almost single-handedly revived the Democratic Party on the Island. Then I realized they were all really in the same party: connected elites vs. everyone else, babies included.
When George Bush, Sr. kept looking at his watch during the debates against Clinton. He couldn't be bothered to try to win that election.
No Child Left Behind was my WTF moment. McCain winning the 2008 Republican primary was the 'are u kidding me" moment.
Sarah Palin as the VP candidate was my OMG moment. I knew immediately she wasn't an establshment GOPer. She is the future!
Yep! No Child Left Behind did it for me as well. I had supported W pretty enthusiastically during the election and felt that the National Party had done a terrible job defending him over the Supreme Court/Florida vote count debacle. But then, he finally got into office and immediately started trying to "win" over liberal Dems like Teddy Kennedy, who was openly contemptuous of him.
I think the final nail in the coffin was the Medicare Part D scam that he pushed through, trying to get the AARP crowd to like him. There must be something in the water that politicians drink that just makes them unable to think clearly once someone calls them "The Honourable Senator from…." or "Madame Chairwomen". They willingly give up their souls just to be accepted on the Beltway party circuit! It is really pretty pathetic!
Lisette and Jean have what got me.
Leaders lead and articulate their goals. They inspire people to follow them.
Leaders do not pander to the press and their opponents, seeking approval.
Leaders are strong in character and conviction to their moral truths.
As I've said elsewhere, as a teen, I walked precincts in the 1st Richard Nixon race. I turned 18 in time to vote for Gerald Ford. I was a loyal R for most of my adult life.
The first chink in the armor-plated belief in R happened when GBush the 1st convinced me that he was, at best, a Rockefeller R, or at worst, a RINO. But I soldiered on as an R.
It was when I saw the back-room adjustments that made Dole the nominee, because it was "his turn" that ended it for me. Instead of the best and brightest leader being put forward to challenge Clinton (a most formidable candidate), they picked Mr Compromise.
That was it. That was my "Popeye point" where as Popeye the Sailor Man says, "I've stands all I can stands, and I can't stands no more." Popeye may be too old for the youngsters' cultural iconography, but he is the archetype of one aspect of my mortal soul. Popeye represents the American attitude of tolerance, until a certain line is crossed and our sensibilities are offended. Then we open our "can of spinach" and bring our full power to solve the problem.
Seeing the Cocktail Party (nice name, Kevin!) pushing Mittens because it's his turn, just makes me sick.
You have to earn my respect to get my vote. I respect Palin, Bachman, Paul, and Perry. But since I quit the R party in 96, I don't have or want a say in picking the R nominee. You Rs pick your candidate, and the Ds will pick theirs, for each office, and I will vote for the most respectable one. If neither candidate for the office, even city council, then I will not vote for either.
This election, because I'm so displeased with how we still do not have a budget (Reid won't bring up the House budget), and the whole catastrophe, I will vote R for Pres and VP, even if it is Bozo the Clown and Butchie Boy on the R ticket.
thanks for the great post, newtlove. pondering how we can incorporate popeye into the conservative lexicon. the first thing i thought of was, 'popeye palin.' she yam who she yam. she's stood all she can stands, and she can't stands no more so the mama grizzly has opened a can of 'whup-spinach' on the left and the cocktail weiners. it's time for the rest of us to start chowing down on our spinach.
Sarah Palin is living in the spirit of Popeye the Sailor Man. She was just a mom in Wasilla, until she had been pushed too far. That led to her being "sick and fed-up" with her state leadership.
As Rae pointed out above, the TEA Party pulled a "Popeye Point" maneuver: "The GOP was failing until the healthcare vote when the people rose up fed up of waiting for the establishment GOP to stop Obama and did it themselves."
When somebody or a group are pushed far enough, and past their Popeye Point, the spinach can will come out and it's a can of "whoop-ass" for whoever crossed the line.
Like I said, Popeye exemplifies American tolerance of others. We mind our own business, letting it all happen, until the Popeye Point.
Like we let the Islamo-Fascists play gotcha-tag with the barracks in Beirut, the German bombing, the SS Cole, the basement bombing of the World Trade Center, but when they pulled the 9-11 aircraft stunt, they crossed our Popeye Point line, and BAM! We were whipping out our cans of spinach whoop-ass, and just today, I read we bagged yet another Al Quida #2, and possibly the current #1.
Like the Gadsden (coiled rattlesnake) flag says, "Don't Tread on Me!"
I became disgusted with them after the election of 2008 when not a one of them would come to Sarah's defense when McCain LOST (or, IMHO, gift-wrapped the election & handed it to the other side).
And not one of those spineless, cowardly rat-b@stards has come to her defense in the last three years. NOT ONE!!! My question: what is everyone going to do when the R's start calling asking for $ next year?
Never, ever give to the GOP again. Do not give to the national party.
ONLY give to the candidates you like…directly to them. Or, to SarahPAC.
That’s it.
No more giving to the RNC.
I tell them with every plea for money that I only give to PROVEN conservatives. The last lady I told that said "I understand". It sort of surprised me.
I told the GOP that I will not give them a penny until they grow a spine. But based on Kevin's recommendations, I will only give to the candidate and to SarahPAC.
Amen, amen, amen. My parents have both been Republicans their whole lives. My mom voted for Ron Paul in the primary and my dad registered as a Democrat so he could vote for HIllary as part of "Operation Chaos." They were both so disgusted by the way the Cocktail Party rigged the 2008 primaries that they swore they would never give another dime to the Republican party on any level. Once McLame was appointed the nominee, the folks put a McCain/Palin sticker on their car. After the election, Dad took a razor blade and cut out the "McCain" part. So they've been driving a minivan with a little "Palin" sticker on it for 3 years.
I grew up in a conservative household, but even when I was a kid the one thing that always bugged me about Republicans is how they let the liberals bully them, which resulted in the left everything they wanted. Even at a fairly young age, I couldn't figure out why the right always cried "Uncle!" when the left could get away with arson, murder and jaywalking. For a long time, I wished Republicans would stand up for their principles and show some spine – but I always thought I was the only one (as you know, the only way to get anything done is to get along with everybody, pass the peace pipe, hold hands and sing Kumbaya). It annoyed me, but I thought that I could only support the Republicans or the Democrats (and I certainly wasn't going to throw my support behind the latter).
It's only been since the Tea Party came about that I found out I wasn't the only one who wanted the Republicans to ball up and push back against the Dems the way the Dems have pushed the Republicans around for years (it was like watching your friend getting beat up by the schoolyard bully day after day, knowing they could throw a few punches back, but they never would). I think it's seeing someone like Sarah Palin stand up to the GOP establishment the same time she stands up to the left finally makes me feel validated. It helps that I finally have a name for the Cocktail Party (the elitist, arrogant, liberal wing of the GOP that values their power in office more than what good they could bring to the country)
I think once I could clearly see the lines between the GOP and the Tea Party people, I felt like I could finally break away from the establishment and support people that actually represented my values.
I used to think that they were too well manners and polite to respond in kind to the Democrats. Now I agree with you.
The Cocktail Party GOP started losing me in 2006 when they could not put up *any* credible candidate to run against Sen. Herb Kohl — they waited until Tommy Thompson decided to not run, and then it was too late for someone like Tim Michels to get into the race.
John McCain in 2008, along with their treatment of Sarah Palin.
The final straw for me, though, was in 2010, when the Wisconsin GOP party endorsed Ron Johnson only six days after he got into the race, and did whatever they could to shut down another viable candiate, Dave Westlake (who is a solid conservative and gets the Consitution). Don't get me wrong — Sen. Johnson has turned out to be a very pleasant surprise, but I was not happy with the way the whole thing was handled.
I officially joined the Constitution Party about a month ago, and will only support those GOP candidates whose positions are consistent with the Constitution Party's platform.
I would love to see a good constitutionally aware challenger take Kohl's seat in 2012. I guess Neumann is in the race – I'm not too convinced of his suitability though.
Neumann lost me (and a lot of other conservatives) during the gov. primary with his negative campaigning, lying and weird behavior.
For me, it started when I found myself defending positions and actions taken by the leaders of the Republican Party that I personally did not agree with and asked myself, “what is wrong with this picture?” My conclusion was that my actions were guided by some misplaced loyalty and to leave the party was the only way to break the curse.
Two things sealed the deal for me.
First, the attacks upon Sarah Palin by the party political leaders, their agents, and the so called “conservative” pundits. I would think she would be the poster child for Republicanism. She is all the things that Republicans claim to admire. She wasn’t born in a log cabin but came as close as you can in this day and age. She didn’t come from wealth or privilege. She has earned all that she has received and she is the champion of all those people that Republicans claim to represent.
She believes in all those things that Republicans claim to believe in – a strict interpretation of the constitution, a smaller Federal government, state’s rights, free-market capitalism, etc. She successfully fought waste and corruption in Alaska’s government.
And yet they attacked her.
Second, their attacks on the Tea Party. A movement for the things that Republican Party pretends to endorse:
• Limited federal government
• Individual freedoms
• Personal responsibility
• Free markets
• Returning political power to the states and the people
And to top it off, for a person that owes his re-election to Sarah Palin and the Tea Party to calling them ‘hobbitts’ is outrageous.
The Tea Party is the first truly grass-roots movement that I have seen and I have been around since before JFK. Cocktail Party Republicans fear them because they are a bottom up movement that threatens their top down dictation to the party on what and whom to support.
I truly believe that the Tea Party is our last, best hope for turning our country around and righting the ship of state and that Sarah Palin is the person to lead the charge.
Democrats and Republicans alike fear Sarah Palin because they believe that she will actually pursue the policies that she espouses. I support her because I also believe that she will do what she says she will do.
Sorry I went off on a rant here and didn’t really address the question.
Sojourner, I could listen to you rant like that all day!
Me too! Agree with every word, Sojourner.
I remember precisely when I turned against the GOP. It was a week after the 2008 election when I finally sat down and listened to McCain's concession speech. I couldn't have heard the words before then because the roaring in my brain was too loud: 'My God! What have they done?' was screaming 24/7 between my ears. When the noise finally subsided, I clicked on the video of the speech and within seconds was absolutely sick as I listened to McCain lick Obama's boots. "Oh, you're so wonderful! Oh, I just love you! I just want to be your best friend, please, please, please!"
Before then I'd suspected McCain was a traitor but I'd been too scared to admit it. I just kept telling myself he had to be patriotic because he was a POW and, of course, he'd nominated Palin. But when I heard those sucking up words from election night, I couldn't deny the Benedict Arnold colors flapping in my face. From that point on, I've despised McCain. But I've despised even more the Cocktail Party sellouts that not only let him run that treacherous flag up the GOP's pole in the first place but stood back and applauded him.
And they wouldn't let Governor Palin address the crowd. I wonder why that might be.
When it was over……I cried like a baby. Don't want to hear from or see McCain ever again.
The treatment of Joe Miller in Alaska confirmed to me that I may as well retain my Democrat registration, as this has become "Ruling Class" vs "County Class".
In Chicago, I ran for office without one shred of support from any organized Chicago GOP groups. Instead, I received eye-rolling and sighing since I "obviously" couldn't win in Chicago. (because i was gay, I never donated to the Romney campaign, I never went to CYR meetings).
That sounds about right for the GOP in Chicago.
It’s a real shame what became of the CYRs after Keeley Drukala was ousted as president. Keeley led a great group that did actual work. When the “Romney Guys” staged a coup to oust her and replace her with “The Prophet”, the organization became worthless.
The GOP in Illinois is all about advancing the careers of the Cocktail Party guys themselves, not about actually electing good people to office to do things that help Illinois.
That rings true Kevin. I worked in Illinois state government for 12 years and both parties can be rather damaging to the interests of the citizens in their pursuit of advancement.
I started feeling uncomfortable with the level of deficit spending about 2003 and never really saw the point of invading Iraq.
But nothing Bush did excuses the current administration. I guess McCain's politics was the final catalyst.
I have never understood why Sarah Palin not only endorsed, but campaigned for, John McCain in the last election. I have to say that it ticked me off! I know she's too classy to outright diss him, even though he let his minions destroy her. But, she could have just taken a neutral stand and not gotten involved in the race.
I think it could come back to bite her when she declares because it may make people question her status as an outsider. I also don't think that McCain will return the favor – he'll let her be savaged again and not do a thing to stop it.
I think Mc Cain is a Democrat filling a Republican space. He was so afraid he might say something they could call him racist for that he never even ran.–And they wouldn't turn Sarah loose. Big mistake–or planned conspiracy.
Backstabber Rove attacking Christine O'Donnell the night after the congressional primaries.
Honestly, my last straw was Bob Dole. I knew he wouldn't beat Clinton, and I was in JUNIOR HIGH at the time. Yup, as a 13 year old, I was done with the Cocktail Party.
McCain looked absolutely ecstatic during his concession speech. He did NOT want to win. It was equally shameful that Palin was not allowed to speak that night.
For me, it was the moment when they placed McCain into the nomination because he was: "a maverick" which meant that he could turn into this instant "liberal" in a moment and suck up to them, and also because he said that he "could work with others from across the aisle." Both of those phases gave me an instant dislike and I had to fight my desires to chuck the entire thing or hide my face in shame as I walked to the voting booth to vote for him. I eventually did the latter, but I'm working like mad during the nomination process to make sure I have a voice in this for someone I desparately want in that nomination slot. I will no longer listen to our the stupid GOP to tell me who to nominate because he is "electable." I want someone who will be a champion and who has touted conservative credentials.
Dole. Then McCain.
I voted for Sarah.
My final straw was when George Bush stated publicly that if Congress sent him an amnesty bill he would sign it. Then Bush came to PA and stumped for Arlen Specter. Then I knew the truth.
I have worn a clothespin on my nose to the voting booth so many times, there is a permanent dent in my nose. I agree with all the above and would add my Waterloo with the pubbies, even though they may not have had anything to do with it, was when I read that Perot and Klintoon had been seen hobnobbing and laughing together before the firs time the Little General ran. Of course, I was so disillusioned with the pubbies I voted for Perot BOTH TIMES so you know it was bad. I've worn sackcloth and ashes ever since, but it was the fault of the pubbies for not being more of what our party and country needed. McPain makes me sick with his 'reach across the aisle' and 'dear friend' schtick with the enemy. I think the old bulls in DC took the Tea Party candidates aside, told them the whys and what fors if they wanted to get anything done during their Senate or House careers. So many more troubling issues, but you know how I feel. I have to stay registered as a Republican or I can't vote in my county. There are only three of us here anyway.
Turning my nose up at the GOP and sorta calling them thieves and liars and such, ….. we it happened when Regan became president, did some things I did not really like, but the results COULD have been very promising. But the phukers in congress of his own party pretty much phuked it all up and did so very badly. Amazing the name Regan is even remembered what those wipes did to him.
I've been at war with CONGRESS ever since. Regan's moves raised enough money to wipe the federal debt, the GOP controlled congress made sure to spend every dime on everything i the phukin world except reducing the debt! The nation should have learned way back then that both parties were NOT interested in the state of the nation, only their own balance sheets.
Would have loved to be able to do more then, but such was pre internet, and I had two businesses to run. Yeah I was busy. I still threw my manure where and when I could, but micro markets do not lead to much change.
So I continue today with my motto. Re-Elect NO-ONE! Professional politicos are dinosaurs, I desire real citizens making laws, not lawyers desiring to pave the way for their kid lawyers to have a good life with laws that we do not need!