I was about to turn off the computer for the night when I found this Dan Riehl post through memeorandum. The GOP better wake up and realize it’s not the 1990s anymore.
Erick Erickson blogged this Washington Post item last night. His post contains an anecdote about a Tea Party favorite GOP politician mocking Tea Partiers after attending a TP rally. That happened later, while sitting in the Capitol Club. I’ve had off the record conversations on the topic with Hill Republicans. It’s not surprising to hear one say something akin to, well, you know those bloggers, they’re not very bright people, a bit crazy, with too much time on their hands. Then they’ll catch themselves and say, present company excluded, of course.
In a recent conversation with a GOP new media type, I learned that new media to the GOP simply means taking the same old top down messaging and creating it on websites, or for digital distribution. With some few exceptions, Todd Herman at the RNC being one, the establishment GOP has no real conception of new media as bloggers understand it. Nor do they have much desire to engage with it, beyond the way they currently engage with the establishment media. Here’s the press release, or talking point. That’s all we got.
That doesn’t serve them well, as questions from activist bloggers are actually quite different than ones usually coming from the press.
Too much time on our hands? (That would be the liberal bloggers.) Most conservative bloggers do this on the side because it certainly isn’t very lucrative. For nearly three years I’ve been blogging in addition to being employed full time, raising two sons, and helping my husband start his small business. If that’s someone with too much time on her hands, I’d like to know what it’s like to be busy. Trust me, I’d much prefer to spend my time enjoying life than keeping up with the freedom killing actions and policies of those in our government.
Now I’m spending my “free time” looking for a job and coming up with creative ways to stretch our family budget. A few years ago there were plenty of jobs in my field and I had headhunters calling me on a regular basis. Today nobody’s hiring thanks to the disastrous policies of the Democrats and the RINOs who help them.
Oh, and if “crazy” is wanting a return to constitutional governance and fiscal sanity, well then call me crazy!
This is what we have been afraid of all along – and I just read that the entire Tea Party Express has been expelled from the Federation of Tea Parties for a column Mark Williams wrote. It’s my understanding that Williams resigned the Tea Party Express.
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I linked you on a short one.
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The biggest advantage the Democrats have is that Republicans and conservatives are always fighting amongst themselves. Not only Republican vs Republican, but conservatives are getting more and more critical of each other. We’ll never have a perfect person in office, but as time goes by, I just hope newly awakened giant doesn’t go back to sleep. We need to have pressure on the Republicans to keep them from caving. Remember, they’re under intense pressure from the left in DC, and we need to make sure they know we have their backs when they do the right things.
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I just think the GOP can go to hell and I’ve told them as much, re registered as an independent a couple months ago and I’ll never be a party person ever again. As far as I’m concerned the more Alvin Greene’s the better.
He hasn’t spent a dime and if he’s smart enough to be in the military and can count to 200 I’m all for him and all his friends.
That’s the way the people take it back..None of the above.
The GOP is marginalizing us because they too see their hopes to cash in being dashed. I’m now of the people who say ‘they’re all crooks’ right now. Even the ones we like so we need new blood in the congress and then we can see how they do. THey can’t be worse than these morons. In all seriousness, they can’t.
The less they know the better I say.
“well, you know those bloggers, they’re not very bright people, a bit crazy, with too much time on their hands.”
I get the ‘down the nose treatment’ from all the top conservative bloggers who support the same old same as a “far right nut’..so that’s what it is. They can’t stand that anyone can start a blog and write as good as most of these ‘degree’d journo’s’ ..It’s a turf war.
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Flip—Flop, two sides of the same useless coin, a mirror image, one steals with the left hand, the other with the right.
Diametrically apposed? What a joke. Which truck runs over you the best, the red one? Or maybe, the blue one?
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Here is a novel idea, the civilians can do it cheaper than the government………………..
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/19/cities-rent-police-janitors-save-cash/?test=latestnews
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The federal government is out of control.
It doesnt matter whose in charge right now. If the GOP is in charge the slide into Socialism is lessened by a degree or two. If the Democrats are in charge the slide speeds up.
Either way the end result is still the slide off the cliff. The only determining factor is if we get to hug two children before we go over the cliff………
Or Three.
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The governments need to be OUTSOURCED – that would be real justice, not just poetic justice. There are too many “crony capitalists”. A good example is Ross Perot – message ok, but he got billions from where ? Govt. Beck is documenting a clot of freaks who stand to make zillions from Cap n Trade. Why should they bother listing to us ‘little people’. So Larry Kudlow was on cspan this morning saying the UI extension would be “humanitarian”. Interesting – i suppose the trillions of dollars of FRAUD that was reported by the FBI and other agencies had nothing to do with the huge mess we are in ? So he is citing some CATO report about how UI makes people less hungry. Guess what – the entire CATO institute can be OUTSOURCED, and THEY can spend 10 hours a day looking for non-existent jobs – because that IS their job !!! They are just fanning the flames of Class War, and we will end up like England. I was not born yesterday. They WANT people to be hungry. Literally. Sounds like Europe in the 1700s. That aspect of Human Nature does not change. As far as I can tell, both the Democrats and Republicans LIKE the idea of SERFDOM for “the little people” – not for themselves, of course.
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[...] night it was late when I wrote my post about some in the GOP dumping on the Tea Parties and conservative bloggers. I wanted to get to bed, so I didn’t delve into [...]
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This is disappointing to say the least. Yet not completely surprising. What will it take to truly awaken the RNC? Another crushing blow this November? So sad that our party leadership doesn’t get it… ugh.
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Maybe Republicans lose so often it has become a hard habit to break, so they pick on each other. If McCain had run against Obama instead of Bush, he may have won. Just another example.
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[...] I just finished reading America’s Ruling Class – And the Perils of Revolution in The American Spectator. It’s long (I printed it out and it’s 23 pages, single-spaced) but definitely worth a read. Long before most of us were born, a ruling class emerged in America, and over time it has grown into the leviathan we have today. Although the face of the current ruling class is the Democrat Party, plenty of Republicans belong to the ruling class, and don’t want to lose their status in that class. (For recent examples see here and here.) [...]
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