Peanut Gallery: The bad news is grass-roots conservatives have been sold out by the GOP establishment. The good news is the sell-out was in plain sight… there was no hiding it… every painful step taken down the betrayal road was documented and rehashed in excruciating detail on national television.
So now what? Mutiny… it’s our only option!
James P Gannon speaks for me…. no money, no support, no nothing that would help the establishment Republican Party. Like Gannon, I am a citizen without a party.
So bring on the mutiny. There is something worse than being a person without a party. And that is being a member of a party without a soul.
Please read Gannon’s original post here.
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Abandoned and Betrayed
By James P Gannon, spectator.org
After the McConnell sell-out and the Boehner betrayal, after the disgraceful abandonment of principles and conservative values by the Washington Republican establishment, what is the proper response from outraged conservative believers in limited government and fiscal responsibility?
I have been sitting here on the morning after the New Years’ Day capitulation by Capitol Hill Republicans, trying to answer that question for myself.
Start with feelings. I feel abandoned by the establishment Republican Party of Washington, D.C. I feel depressed that I cannot see a single conservative leader in sight who could grab the Republican Party, slap it across the face, and tell it where it can go if it does not shape up. I feel angry that Republican “leaders” in Washington put a higher value on their own survival in office than the principles they claim to stand for.
As I see it, the Republican Party is a rudderless ship that has lost its compass, dead in the water, with no captain and no destination. What this ship needs is a mutiny.
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