Erick Erickson is explaining why our party is dying, and why it won’t change. And he’s naming names. It’s worth a read:
The party, as we know it, is going to die because the party leadership is incapable of changing. We should examine part of this from one side that rarely gets mentioned — consultants.
The consultant class within the GOP has arranged their deck chairs on the Titanic of the RNC so that they win whether the party wins or loses. But if the party were to reform and reconnect with its grassroots, the opportunities for much of the consultant class currently in power would shrivel up and die.
Read the entire article here. Erickson makes some excellent points. Disgusting but true.
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BD really shouldn’t call itself “Virginia’s conservative voice”. Most of the stances of certain writers are really in line with the Democrats. I’ve said that on there and the response I got was that my saying “why bother to call yourself a Rep” was a broken record, but I was not told it was not true.
The consultants fill the vacuum created by the systematic elimination of the grassroots by the State and National party apparatus. There ain’t no local party with grown ups nor elders so all the candidates outsource campaign operations to revolving doors of “specialists’ and ‘consultants.’ What got us here? Look no farther than the dysfunctional family circus that is RPV State Central. What is the purpose of local unit parties other than gathering door and phone data for some variant of Nation360 that is used by the GOPERINO up channels to render the very grassroot local unit organizations irrelevant.
Hint, it’s the consultants.
It is the consultants that fill the vacuum created by the systematic elimination of the grassroots by the State and National party apparatus. There ain’t no local party with grown ups nor elders so all the candidates outsource campaign operations to revolving doors of “specialists’ and ‘consultants.’ What got us here? Look no farther than the dysfunctional family circus that is RPV State Central. What is the purpose of local unit parties other than gathering door and phone data for some variant of Nation360 that is used by the GOPERINO up channels to render the very grassroot local unit organizations irrelevant.
Not the current State central which is dominated by the grassroots and chaired by John Whitbeck who is one of us.
If the current State Central was dominated by the grassroots, we’d be selecting our candidates by a party process. The RPV is being torn apart by GOPERINOS on the leftish and the nihilistic “Tea Party” on the rightish, middleish, upish (heck they don’t even know what part of the spectrum they’re on this week.) Chairman Whitbeck panders and appeals to both concurrently offending the other — while the grassroots and party grunts get to do the scut work and pay for the privilege.
There is a blog called Bearing Drift that perhaps represents the GOP insider establishment consultants best (as they all seem to make a living off of connections to the GOP establishment.) They tell us about how masses of immigrants who their donors favor are going to make us all rich and lead to a conservative majority, if only we support yet one more amnesty. Those idiots are the problem.
Yes, It’s ‘an of love’ when the immigrants come here, take jobs, and lower the wages of American citizens. If you think anything else, you’re a ‘nativist’.
Yes I saw that. That Kenney devoted an entire article to you. I can’t imagine a more stupid bunch of people who are supposed to represent the Republican Party and they do this by screaming racist at anyone who opposes open door immigration. Do they not realize that Trump has risen to the top of the polls over their donor’s chosen candidates by emphasizing border control? Who is going to vote for their stupid party when the Tea Party and “nativists” leave?
They don’t like the grassroots because the grassroots don’t pay their bills, consultants do. Would you be shocked if I told you some of them are working for Jeb Bush? Of course you aren’t surprised.
I guess they are going to be bitter yet again as it doesn’t look like Jeb is going anywhere.
From your keyboard to God’s ears. I hope you’re right! We’ve had enough of the Bushes and the Clintons!
And if we actually expect our immigration laws to be enforced, we are called “nativists”.
Yeah.
Oh please. Bill Kristol is one of them!
I know, Jeanine, but even a blind hog finds an acorn sometimes.
Haha, true!