But there is a dirty little secret that provides some necessary context: Republicans frequently don’t keep their promises to conservatives. Remember former New Hampshire Sen. Bob Smith? A great lumbering bear of a man, he was a conservative who reached this unhappy conclusion a decade before the tea party existed. He left the Republican Party to become an independent, but not before reading the party platform aloud from the Senate floor to point out how little of it the GOP Congress had actually tried to enact. ... “The Republican platform,” Smith thundered, “is a meaningless document put out there so that suckers like you and maybe suckers like me can go out there and read it.” ... If Republicans had any credibility, they could explain to their conservative base that this strategy (defunding) is unlikely to work and may prevent them from being able to roll back Obamacare in the future. But they don’t have any credibility, because many conservatives believe — for good reason — that Washington Republicans don’t really care about getting rid of Obamacare. Or doing anything else besides getting re-elected, for that matter. You can blame Ted Cruz if you want, but the real culprit is generations of Republican leaders from Bob Dole to John McCain and George W. Bush. As the president’s preacher might put it, the GOP’s chickens have come home to roost. After years of playing conservatives for suckers, the party is left with few options between suicide and surrender. I don’t feel sorry for the Republicans. But I do feel sorry for the country. dailycaller/2013/08/26/dont-cry-for-me-john-boehner/?print=1
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:48:39 +0000
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