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cali

(114,904 posts) Thu Oct 17, 2013, 10:46 AM Oct 2013

The Conservative War on the GOP

On his radio show recently, Glenn Beck urged his listeners to “defund the GOP.” Sarah Palin has threatened to leave the Republican Party; Rush Limbaugh calls it “irrelevant.” The Senate Conservatives Fund has targeted mainly incumbent Republican senators for defeat. Erick Erickson, one of the right’s most prominent commentators, wonders if what's coming is “a real third party movement that will fully divide the Republican Party.”

Conservatives have declared war on the GOP.

Tired of feeling taken for granted by a party that alternately panders to them and sells them down the river, in their view, Tea Partiers and others on the right are in revolt. The Republican Party itself is increasingly the focus of their anger, particularly after Wednesday's deal to reopen the government, which many on the right opposed. Now, many are threatening to take their business elsewhere.

“Conservatives are either going to split [from the GOP] or stay home,” Erickson, the influential editor of RedState.com and a Fox News contributor, told me. “They’ll first expend energy in primaries, but if unsuccessful, they’ll bolt.”

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-conservative-war-on-the-gop/280637/

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The Conservative War on the GOP (Original Post) cali Oct 2013 OP

Abraham Lincoln would be greatly cheered by this news. raging moderate Oct 2013 #1

They have become the party, not of Lincoln, but of his murderers raging moderate Oct 2013 #2

Ohpleezeohpleezeohpleeze!!! 2naSalit Oct 2013 #3

They ain't "conservatives" They just use that word as doublespeak. Berlum Oct 2013 #4

+1. There is not a conservative left in the Republican Party. They are pseudo-conservative mobsters. Faryn Balyncd Oct 2013 #7

They're reactionaries. Fantastic Anarchist Oct 2013 #10

Excellent work Glenn, keep that circular firing squad in formation! phantom power Oct 2013 #5

good. robinlynne Oct 2013 #6

What if the GOP wing of the party decides the brand is so damaged, CrispyQ Oct 2013 #8

Decisions will have to be made. Fantastic Anarchist Oct 2013 #11

You reap what you sew, fuckers! Fantastic Anarchist Oct 2013 #9

They'll have make-up sex in a few months' time jsr Oct 2013 #12

raging moderate

(4,307 posts)

1. Abraham Lincoln would be greatly cheered by this news.

Reply to cali (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 10:55 AM

Oct 2013

I am old enough to remember the "Southern Strategy" when quislings decided to actually join the remnants of the antebellum Confederate South, in order to defeat the forces of freedom and equality for which the Grand Old Party had been founded and for which Abraham Lincoln had given his life.

raging moderate

(4,307 posts)

2. They have become the party, not of Lincoln, but of his murderers

Reply to cali (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 10:56 AM

Oct 2013

Like all psychopaths, when you give in to them, these people only demand more.

2naSalit

(86,748 posts)

3. Ohpleezeohpleezeohpleeze!!!

Reply to cali (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:00 AM

Oct 2013

It would be the best thing for them to do. It will marginalize them and hopefully they could be set in the corner to rot then.

Berlum

(7,044 posts)

4. They ain't "conservatives" They just use that word as doublespeak.

Reply to cali (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:03 AM

Oct 2013

They want to mess your mind up. That is they embrace the word 'conservatives' -- to keep pounding that false meme into America's brainpans, while their OCCULT assault on America continues.

I make a point of avoiding the word 'conservatives' to desribe THM because it is intentional dark-side RepubliBagger mindf*ckery in the extreme.

Faryn Balyncd

(5,125 posts)

7. +1. There is not a conservative left in the Republican Party. They are pseudo-conservative mobsters.

Reply to Berlum (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:19 AM

Oct 2013

Former Reagan economic adviser Bruce Bartlett, on the Daily Show, February, 2012: "Frankly one of our political parties is insane, and we all know which one it is... They have descended from the realm of reasonableness that was the mark of conservatism. They dream of anarchy, of ending government."

Barlett added, "the Republican Party will oppose anything – even good conservative policy – if Democrats agree to it."

Fantastic Anarchist

(7,309 posts)

10. They're reactionaries.

Reply to Berlum (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:39 AM

Oct 2013

And fascists masquerading as libertarians.

So, reactionary or fascist or both should apply.

phantom power

(25,966 posts)

5. Excellent work Glenn, keep that circular firing squad in formation!

Reply to cali (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:04 AM

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robinlynne

(15,481 posts)

6. good.

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Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:05 AM

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CrispyQ

(36,492 posts)

8. What if the GOP wing of the party decides the brand is so damaged,

Reply to cali (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:29 AM

Oct 2013

they jump ship to our party? We don't need anymore righties. This is what I fear. Then, the Democratic wing of our party will become even more irrelevant than we already are. We will have a two party system that is solid right & far, far right.