In response to my post yesterday on the status quo faux conservatism of Ann Coulter, I received the following comment from a drive-by neostatist troll calling himself gcm2:
“It only surprises people like the morons at the Daily Beast who, even after you pushed the most moderate, liberal candidates you could find as the very essence of conservatism, still think the TEA Partiers give a good shit what you have to say — or in any way speak for us.”
Stand for your principles and don’t win elections consistently or win elections and compromise your principles. That is where we are at. Remember, consider the audience–the electorate is center-right, not right.
??Furthermore, the issue with “true” conservatives is that they write blog posts and don’t run for office.
“But beyond that, I’m not terribly interested in them anymore. So. Please. Crawl back into a hole.”
Until Coulter is needed again. Dude, you’re a crack whore just like the rest of them. You helped to create this mess, now you’re disavowing it.
To which I’m happy to reply:
Dear gcm2:
First, you know dick all about me and dick all about what I’ve done for the cause of liberty and individual autonomy. And while it’s kind of you to try to offer me rhetorical advice, the fact is, I know my audience, and it isn’t the backbiting surrender monkeys looking to put me in my place; rather, it’s the people those same backbiting surrender monkeys have continued to bugger in pursuance of securing their own power and sinecures — all while mouthing whatever empty conservative platitudes they’ve learned by rote in order to convince we rubes they really are on our side — to whom I speak.
You, my dull, desperate, rusted bucket of stagnant fail, are the problem, not those of us who adopt “pragmatism” for its own sake, or think that “compromise” the gesture, divorced from the substance of what is being compromised, is the apotheosis of political “realism.” The country is, in fact, trending heavily conservative, as recent studies have revealed. The question now is how do conservatives / classical liberals / libertarians / Reagan Democrats regain their leverage to take back control of a government of, by, and for them — not of, by, and for legislators, bureaucrats, the Executive, and their clients and cronies. Your answer is — as it ever is and ever was — to compromise principles, to trade them for “deals” that do nothing but lurch the country leftward, then after the fact, beat up on those of us who insist those principles aren’t negotiable, because those principles are reflected in our founding documents, which are themselves the very foundation of our social compact.
Well guess what, you pretend “smart” Republican: the Constitution is not up for election, and it most certainly is not available for “center-rightists” to negotiate away in order to hold power that, the last time they held it exclusively, marked the single greatest expansion of government and fiscal operating debt in history. Until Obama came along and trashed that record.
The TEA Party was born not in reaction to an “historic” Black President whom we tea-tards hate because we think him a Kenyan interloper. It was born under TARP and the Bush Administrations horrific corporatism — and then strengthened immeasurably by the ascension to the White House of a Marxist posing as a “post-partisan,” “post-racial” pragmatist. Which we saw at the time and warned against: a man who wishes to bring about “fundamental transformation” of the US is a man who believes the country as founded was faulty and in need of such an overhaul and reconfiguration. And that’s where he’s taking us, while feckless GOP cowards, who because of their “pragmatism” lack the intellectual conviction to combat the committed ideological march of the left, lash out at those who remind them of their impotence and failure.
The truth is, gcm2, that some of us simply aren’t as stupid as you seem to be. And we’re done listening to you or people like you who presume to lecture us on how we lack the nuance to interject ourselves into politics.
Let me make this perfectly clear to that middling, easily-confused intellect that fires infrequently inside your likely sloped brainpan: you will not shame us; you will not cow us; you will not degrade us into retreat; and you will not win without us.
That you’ve lost us means, then, that your strategy for winning is already fucked. Because when you lose the base — who no longer believes there’s any advantage to electing the lesser of two evils, and in fact has had to live with themselves for having made such a Hobson’s choice in the past, with no desire to re-visit that ignominy — you lose the Party.
And that’s on you, not me, or any of us who have repeatedly warned you, since we gave you back the House in 2010, that you were running out of chances.
The nomination of Romney was for many to whom I speak the last straw; the capitulation by the Senate (and the caucusing of Boehner with Democrats) has made it crystal clear that we are the enemy of an entrenched ruling class that you continue to protect — either out sheer stupidity, which makes you a useful idiot being played by serial liars who blow smoke up your ass and call it a colon cleanse; or else out of some self-interest tied to corporate cronyism and a maintenance of the status quo that has given us 17 trillion in fiscal operating debt and 90+ trillion in unfunded liabilities.
You’ve already lost and don’t yet know it. And yes, we realize you’ll shriek and cry when we don’t rally behind the next “inevitable candidate,” be it Jeb Bush or Chris Christie. You’ll accuse us of throwing temper tantrums and stamping our feet, of demanding “purity tests” while refusing to face the “political realities” of a country consistently being sold on the virtues of bigger government.
And it won’t sway us one bit: reality, political and otherwise, is always fluid. And the march of historical materialism promoted by the progressives and Marxists and meekly resigned to by the establishment Republicans is not fated and never was — nor will it overtake us without a fight I suspect many of you are not prepared to make, especially given our convictions and your penchant for meek surrender. Unless it comes to attacking us with message boards or in leaks to left wing political media sources. Which won’t be the final battle ground, I assure you.
Pro-tip: if you find yourself on the side of Joe Scarborough or Karl Rove? You’re doing the whole liberty protecting thing all wrong.
So. Kindly fuck off.
Kick me out of your big tent. And then stand around with the rest of the confused Republicans who wonder why, when they throw a party there, they’ve seriously over-ordered the bacon-wrapped shrimp and the bad white wine.
Here’s a little more fuel to that fire.
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/361655/print
Million above should be trillion, which is a million millions, except in the UK.
Bravo, Jeff.
Thomas … I just posted on that! McCarthy’s tone is calm, but he really takes no prisoners in calling out the Repubs addicted to the welfare state.
Thomas … Thanks for the link. Good analysis even if it highlights the scope of the challenge.
Very nice. You wanna jump on that train headed for that great big party they told you about, you go right ahead. We’ll hold down the fort and maybe bag a few fascists.
“The nomination of Romney was for many to whom I speak the last straw”
Yep. Voted for McCain — it was painful, and I still regret it, but I did it.
I did not vote for Romney, nor will I vote for any future “electable” candidate like him.
-Goddamn brilliant, Jeff. Thank you.
-Methinks this reply should also be sent to the Jonah Goldbergs and Stephen Moores [who just said on Fox that the TEA Party needs to grow-up] of the Right because it certainly applies to them.
-Yes, thank you ThomasD for that link. It’s a relief to know that Mr. McCarthy is still resisting looking into the relections emanating from the funhouse mirrors over at NRO [Mark Steyn, as well].
– #OUTLAWS
To be truly serious about no longer supporting the GOP Establishment it seems we have no choice but to not vote for any more of their ‘electable’ candidates.
Time to show the rat bastards what it’s really like to lose the base – hit ’em where it hurts the most by denying them a seat at The Table Of Power.
Refugium inveniemus in provinciis
[trans: Find refuge in the provinces]
I’m tired of having to choose which Democratic presidential primary to vote in every fourth March. I wish they’d combine them and call the resulting single menu of options by its right name.
SBP
You know what really bothered me about Romney’s defeat? It’s that the man was really a very decent, GOOD man. Not only was there nothing in his background of doing anything bad, but there was oodles of stories of his genuine and personal acts of charity and compassion.
Yet if you look at the press coverage, Romney the centrist moderate — in what the press demands we must MUST have as a candidate, was slandered, libeled and vilified as some great ogre who eats babies. Anne was mocked and derided and even her struggles with a debilitating disease was the stuff of sneers.
Fuck the statist press. They need to be held responsible.
Fuck the statist press. They need to be held responsible.
Yes, this X 1000. The question is how do we hold the press responsible? Every court case dating back to the Times V. Sullivan USSC case makes it damn near impossible to hold them responsible for the slander they inflict.
The question is how you circumvent this? Especially since the GOP has basically put in with the same types?
I voted for Romney because of the way Benghazi was handled.
I will not vote for another establishment candidate.
Ditto. Unfortunately the GOP hasn’t handled it any better. ATTBAI:ASAFSN
Actually, the genesis of the TEA Party was way back in 2005 with the base’s disgust with the Republican Congress and their lack of fiscal restraint coupled with wobbling support of the Iraq war, resulting in their loss of the whole thing in 2006. The soon to be TEA party types stayed home.
What happened with the Polosi/Reid congress after is the reason for the rise of the “pragmatic” republicans, who were more convinced than ever that choosing the lessor of two evils is the only way forward and winning is all that matters, not the prize.
I think what we have in this post is a great illustration of the two factions the right has broken into. The frightened reactionaries like Ann Coulter and gem2, and the pissed off revolutionaries like Jeff and his bloody minded band of fellow travelers.
…we are the enemy of an entrenched ruling class that you continue to protect — either out sheer stupidity, which makes you a useful idiot being played by serial liars who blow smoke up your ass and call it a colon cleanse; or else out of some self-interest tied to corporate cronyism and a maintenance of the status quo that has given us 17 million in fiscal operating debt and 90+ million in unfunded liabilities.
Oh, there are plenty more reasons than THOSE two:
3. You find that being called heartless by the Left for stealing grandma’s crutches out from under her is too high a price to pay, because either
(3a) You don’t have sufficient spine to stand up to their contempt.
(3b) You are afraid they might be right.
4. You find that being called names by other Republicans is too high a price to pay for the same (a) and (b) as above.
5. You find that being mocked by Jon Stewart for being an unsophisticated “bagger” is too high a price to pay.
6. You’re a concern troll from the Left in the first place.
So many “good” reasons to support the status quo over a return to the Constitution; so few “bad” ones to fight it.
The question is how do we hold the press responsible?
We can’t at least not in a legal or political sense. Those tools are not at our disposal.
Going around them and making them irrelevant — thus robbing them of what they love most — that we can do.
I voted for Romney just to slow the train down with the hope the coming wreck could be delayed long enough to take over the Republican party from the establishment. It was a long shot then, but it seemed the best chance at the time.
Now? There is no chance of arresting the transformation through the ballot box. I think those pinning their hopes on 2014 0r 2016 are delusional. It’s too late for that, the entrenchment is too complete. Our only hope now, short of armed rebellion, is for several states to band together in bold defiance of federal unconstitutional overreach.
And that’s a hell of a long shot.
It’s too late for that, the entrenchment is too complete.
It’s probably been too late for that for longer than any of us knows. At least since Reagan, maybe longer. Reagan was an outlier, and even then he didn’t prune back Leviathan so much as take on the USSR.
Our only hope now… is for several states to band together in bold defiance of federal unconstitutional overreach.
That’s our only hope if our goal is for the federal government to be trimmed back without disrupting much else.
We may need a different goal. “Quarantine Washington” means that we kick DC out of the union. The extreme meaning of that would be to declare DC’s authority to be null and void and to set up a new capital elsewhere. There are other less-extreme meanings that hew to the same principle: States assert the 10th amendment (which is what you meant), secession of a group of states, civil disobedience.
Of course, Washington’s authority might be nullified by itself when hyperinflation sets in along with All Hell, when the EBT cards go $0.00 for real (All Hell again), when the EPS destroys our electronics (All Hell plus Mad Max), when that slope on the Canary Islands falls into the sea and the east coast is scoured into the Atlantic, when SkyNet becomes self-aware.
Or, of course, the coming of the Sweet Meteor of Death.
In the meantime, food, water, books, clothing, blankets, batteries, ammo.
Plus local activism. Plus Article V, either before or after it all crashes down
Jeff: I hope you don’t mind, but I quoted from you rather extensively here: ‘You Will Not Shame Us; You Will Not Cow Us’.
“Or, of course, the coming of the Sweet Meteor of Death”
I think there’s another world war coming soon, and this one will feature nuclear/bio/chem weapon armed mid-east barbarians unconstrained by silly Geneva convention rules.
I believe it will be a clarifying reset button indeed…
I choked, I was laughing so hard, when I read about the bacon wrapped shrimp and cheap white wine. How friggin true is that.
Bravo over all.
The content of a letter I am sending to Senator Bob Corker
I’m also including a printout of the McCarthy article, with selected portions highlighted. Honestly, when reading McCarthy there were portions that brought a visual image of Corker directly to mind.
I doubt it will even register, but fair warning is fair warning.
OT: It is now illegal to embarrass the government.
http://drhurd.com/index.php/Daily-Dose-of-Reason/Society-Culture/It-s-No-Longer-Legal-to-Offend-the-King.html
I’m sure this has already been seen here, but repeating it for good measure.
I just have a hard time disliking Ann Coulter she’s for sure nowhere near as obnoxious as Meghan’s coward daddy or chinless nutless kentuckyslut Mitch McConnell
or Colin Powell
or Mitt Romney, to name one of the more obscure ones
or Marco Rubio el cubano mas authentico
or Jeb Bush lol
Disliking isn’t much of an investment, like hating is. And I lack the patience necessary to hate someone who is, for instance, in the act of hitting me in the face. Got more important things to attend to at a time like that.
I hear Cuban Pete lately whenever I hear Marco talking.
I see Shane Victorino’s 7th inning Grand Slam when I read this essay. Fantastic work!
Just pretend that she said ‘Have a Blessed day’ or wouldn’t bake a gay wedding cake and it’s easy to dislike her. She’s a lifey-doodle you know or at least she implied that she was, at one time, when it greased up the book selling machine.
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“You, my dull, desperate, rusted bucket of stagnant fail”
I’m going to find a way to work that into conversation several times this week.
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