Death Of Republican Party?

A few days ago David Adams posted a video of Mitch McConnell talking about then candidate Rand Paul.  The comments were interesting to read.  A number of TEA party folks hold McConnell in great disdain.  He is the poster boy of the mainstream republican that they love to hate.  But one comment was very interesting.

It has been announced that Senators McConnell and Paul will host a joint fund raising event for Thomas Massie later this month.  The most interesting comment said that Rand Paul had promised to take over the Republican Party of Kentucky and was close to making that come true.  The comment ended with the sentiment that the RPK as it used to exist is dead.

McConnell is no fool.  He saw that Massie was able to tap into a big money donor, and that's the style of politics that McConnell loves, and for good reason.  More money means a better chance to win.

Rand and Mitch teaming up to help Massie should come as no surprise either.  He is the nominee, likely to win big and the top two republicans in the Commonwealth are expected to support him.  But there is another angle to this as well.

Some of the comments from people made it pretty clear that McConnell is the turd in the punch bowl at the TEA party.  Some people have worried that Rand and Massie are selling out by letting McConnell anywhere near their movement.

There is no reason to be so upset.  It's politics as usual for these guys to scratch each others back.  You didn't REALLY fall THAT hard for the tea party philosophy did you?  Striking a chord, resonating with people, feeling their pain, all of that stuff is what politicians do in order to win.

Now watch them appeal to the money sources, speak platitudes to the voters, get very little done except become wealthy themselves.

You knew this was coming didn't you?

Comments

[dean]

just a thought to chew on after reading so many post's. it seems alot of dirt is being dug up or want-a-be dirt. i say let both parties dig up the dirt and see who really is worthy of being president of the united states let that be our vote to what is really dirt or just digging.

[Nelson Abdullah]

Politics is all about courage, principles and ideology. Consider them the three pillars that support what you stand for. When you turn your principles into a wet blanket and use it to hide your courage then your ideology becomes lopsided and tends to lean in every direction. When a politician becomes wealthy and successful as a result of doing his job then his greed for more wealth becomes a magnet that bends his ideology.

We have a lot of wet blanket Republicans in Kentucky and none of them have the courage to stand up and attack the evil that is destroying our country because it's not politically correct. The greatest evil in our nations history is sitting right now in the White House and will likely get reelected because the National Republican Party, just like our Kentucky representatives, do not have the courage to attack him personally for his radical past, his radical associations or his radical beliefs. In 2008 we had a RINO from Arizona say he would never say anything bad about a fellow member of the Senate. In 2012 we have a goody-two-shoes candidate who won't say anything bad about the same person we have now come to know as the man who was mentored by a communist, launched into politics by the founders of the Weather Underground, endorsed by the Marxist/Socialist New Party in Chicago and spiritually uplifted by a black racist preacher who said "God Damn America".

[Jeff Feist]

Marc, it really angers me that you would say such things. I'm angry because you may very well be correct - and that is what frustrates me the most.