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Corrupt Government Title: Own The Insult! If The GOP Elects Ryan, Why Not Just Rename Itself “The Donorist Party”? Im afraid that the first thing that came to my mind that the word sissy is now Banned In Britain (by David Camerons Conservative government!) was my favorite homosexual activist from the 1990s, Luke Sissyfag, who ran for Mayor of Washington, D.C. in 1994, although alas he didnt win. The latest news about him I can find is that he has turned into a bear. His changing his name to Luke Sissyfag was an example of owning the insult, which regrettably is now much less common than in the past. The party labels Whig and Tory both came up this way. A whig was originally a cattle rustler from the Scottish borders; a tory was an illiterate bog- dwelling Irish Catholic. They just owned the insults. Its a shame we dont do that anymore. Democrats could face the world boldly as the Tax-Eaters Party. The GOP could proudly rebrand itself the Donorist Party. Thered be a net gain in political honesty. Own the insult, people! The GOP is a particularly peculiar political beast. Any big party, if its to enjoy widespread success, needs two things: money, so that it can advertise itself to the populace, and votes, so that its candidates can get into office. What is peculiar about todays Republican Party is that most of its voters want things diametrically opposed to what most of its donors want. Thats why you hear so much scornful or angry talk about the GOP Establishment. These are the party bosses and congresscritters who see it as their main job to keep the donors happy. Big parts of the partys message, though, are indigestible to Republican voters. Since they need voters just as much as they need donors, the GOP Establishment is trapped in a painful and unsightly straddle. This is the reality behind Mitt Romneys defeat in 2012. Rightly or wrongly youll get an argument from Ann Coulter about thatRomney was seen as an Establishment candidate, so a lot of GOP voters stayed home. The straddle failed even more spectacularly in the summer of 2014 when quintessential Establishment Republican congressman Eric Cantorwho was House Majority Leader, no lesslost in a primary contest to an unknown and underfunded challenger. The Eric Cantor story reveals the dark underside of this issue. Cantor had barely finished cleaning out his desk on Capitol Hill when he was offered, and accepted, a job with an investment bank at an annual salary of three and a half million dollars. [Ex-Republican leader Cantor grabs $3.4 mn-salary job at investment bank, US News, September 2, 2014] Thats the calculation a lot of GOP congresscritters hold in the backs of their minds. Tick off the voters, the donors will take care of you. Tick off the donors, its back to small-town lawyering. Thats why the donors win on issues much more often than the voters do. Thats why the GOP is much more a donorist party than a voterist party. And thats why were likely looking forward to a Paul Ryan speakership in the House of Representatives. Ryan is donorist down to his Gucci loafers. Breitbart.coms Julia Hahn just ran a withering piece about this: On two of the issues of immense importance to GOP voterstrade and immigrationpolling from the Pew Research Center shows that most GOP voters oppose some of the key ideological stances to which Ryan is devoted
Pew found that only a vanishing 11 percent of Republican voters think so- called free trade will raise wages
Pew also found that only a maximum of seven percent of Republican voters agree with the Ryan-Rubio vision of increasing immigration. Except, given the wording of the question, it is likely that it is even smaller than seven percent
Pew Polling: At Least 93% of GOP Electorate Opposes Paul Ryan On Immigration, October 21, 2015 Ryan has a D-minus rating on immigration issues from NumbersUSA, thats down in the bottom quintile among Republican House members. He has consistently shilled for the interests of foreigners and employers over the interests of American workers. Breitbarts Hahn dug up a video clip from Chicago in 2013 where Ryan joined with the fanatical Hispanic-supremacist representative Luis Gutiérrez to call for Open Borders. Quote from Ryan on that occasion: America is more than just a country. Its more than Chicago, or Wisconsin. Its more than our borders. America is an idea. Its a very precious idea. [Immigration reform brings Democrat Luis Gutierrez and Republican Paul Ryan together, By Elaine Coorens, OurUrbanTimes, April 23, 2013] As the late Sam Francis pointed out, the logic of that is that a native of, say, Somalia who believes in the Very Precious Idea should be given citizenship forthwith, while a U.S. citizen who does not believe in it should have his citizenship taken away with equal dispatch. Yet a person who promotes this nation-wrecking flapdoodle, in opposition to 93 percent of his partys voters, is set fair to become the next Speaker of the House. Or, if he screws up somehow and falls to a primary challenger, the donors will set him up with a nice gig at an investment bank. Thats the system we have, folks. Oh well, lets look on the bright side: At least we shant have to see John Boehner weeping into his hanky any more. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
#1. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
Maybe it is time for the voters to "Donate" rope & trees to hang the GOPe, their donors, and members of the media from. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
The donor class needs their taxes to go up. All the welfare used by immigrants should be paid for with taxes on the donor class. They're the ones who imported them. Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
Yep.
Well, OK. But since the immigrants will cause a lot of other costs, like crime, how about we stop / deport the immigrants, and hang the donors? Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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