How many times have you read me write that, politically, it’s the ruling class vs the rest of us — and that party formalities are merely that, a near distinction without a difference intended to perpetuate the theater of competing ideas, when really all they are is a fan dance disguising that the only real difference is an agreement on the rapidity and thoroughness of big government expansion.

It’s a den of self-serving, incestuous thieves and scolds and power-hungry control freaks who believe it their right to control the mass of humanity that otherwise teems with frightening industry and individual sovereignty in ways these people simply cannot control, reducing their ability to manage the herds and guide the animals into their various cubicle-shaped pens.

To point a fine point on it — as if McCain’s campaign chief’s support of Obama wasn’t illustrative enough — is the revelation that the number 2 House GOP leader’s ex-chief of staff was part of the push to elect a shady businessmen and former-DNC fundraiser with no idea how to govern, save for following the orders of party higher ups, over a successful state senator and truly impressive state AG, the man who first took on the federal government over ObamaCare and won, at least until John Roberts revealed himself to be an arrogant embarrassment to his position, putting his desire of his court’s ‘bipartisan’ legacy over the Constitution, rewriting a statute to make it law without having read the entirety of the statute to see what all he was enabling, from a now-sanctioned attack on religious liberty to a taxation power previously not held by the government.

And even still, the “pragmatists” have taken to Twitter and elsewhere to try to shame us into believing the “asinine” narrative that the GOP establishment didn’t want a Cuccinelli victory in Virginia — despite their knowing that a McCauliffe win would help the cause of “comprehensive immigration reform” so sought after by both the left (who will use it, they hope, to create a demographic supermajority; and the corporatist right, who wish to use the cheap labor).

Matthew Boyle, Breitbart:

Boyd Marcus, the chief of staff for Cantor until 2003—who later teamed with another GOP operative Ray Allen to found the firm Marcus Allen, which Cantor employed until earlier this year—joined the McAuliffe campaign after Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, with whom Marcus campaigned, did not win the GOP nominee in Virginia.

— But remember:  big tent!  We must all stick together!  Unless it’s Richard Lugar refusing to back Richard Mourdock after being beaten in the primary; or Charlie Crist switching parties; or Karl Rove attacking Christine O’Donnell on the night of her primary upset; or the attacks on Sharon Angle, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Steve King, and a host of other conservatives who continue to vex the “pragmatic,” “pro-business” (read: crony capitalist) GOP establishment, who has watched as outsiders — citizen legislators — have invaded their turf and upset status quo that “comity” and “collegiality” covered for.

And what is particularly abhorrent are the lies these rotating DC insiders tell:

“I was looking at the candidates, and I saw Terry McAuliffe as the guy who will work with everybody to get things done,” Marcus told the Associated Press in August when he joined McAuliffe’s campaign.

If by “work with everybody to get things done,” Marcus meant “follow the hard left agenda of the Obama Administration, but work with the GOP establishment on getting amnesty passed,” he was dead right.  Other than that, McAuliffe hasn’t the brains nor the desire to “get things done,” save tax and spend and demonize his opponents.  And perhaps stay one or two steps ahead of federal prosecutors looking into his sleazy business dealings.

Cantor employed Marcus Allen until the day before Marcus left the firm to work for McAuliffe, at which point Allen dissolved it. NBC Washington reports that Allen will continue to work with Cantor. Cantor personally endorsed Cuccinelli in the race.

“I am enthusiastically supporting Terry McAuliffe for Governor because I believe he will work with both parties to advance an agenda that prioritizes economic growth,” Marcus added in a statement posted on McAuliffe’s website earlier this year.

Virginia needs an experienced businessman who will put the practical needs of our people ahead of political ideology. I’ve never before supported any Democrat, but this election Terry is the clear choice for mainstream conservatives. I am excited to work with him to grow the already-long list of prominent Republican leaders who are supporting his campaign. Virginia is facing tremendous economic headwinds and we need a Governor who is going to work with both parties.

Marcus is not the only establishment Republican who actually worked to help McAuliffe and undermine Cuccinelli.

Former Republican National Committee finance chairman Dwight Schar supported him, too. “As a Republican and especially as a Virginia businessman, I am supporting Terry McAuliffe for Governor,” Schar said in a statement posted on McAuliffe’s website. “Terry is going to work with both parties to enact mainstream solutions that reduce traffic, improve our schools, and develop our workforce for the global marketplace. Ken Cuccinelli’s ideological agenda has divided Virginians and blocked progress on education and transportation for long enough.”

Judy Ford Wason, a GOP strategist who worked for outgoing Republican Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, endorsed McAuliffe, as well. “We saw this earlier this year when he [McAuliffe] rallied support for Governor McDonnell’s bipartisan transportation compromise, and we continue to see this as Terry travels across the state meeting with business and community leaders regardless of political affiliation to discuss mainstream ways to grow our economy and create jobs in the Commonwealth,” Wason said in a statement posted on McAuliffe’s website. “With six grandchildren I want to be sure that young Virginians will be able to look forward to exciting job opportunities and a great quality of life. I believe that as Governor Terry will work to ensure that Virginia is a leader in the global economy and that our citizens and communities prosper.”

Former Virginia Sen. John Chichester, once the GOP president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, also endorsed McAuliffe, as did former state GOP Sen. Russ Potts, former Virginia GOP delegates Vince Callahan, Katherine Waddell and Jim Dillard. Each one of those Republicans issued statements distributed by the McAuliffe campaign.

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In addition to all of those GOP establishment figures who were key operatives for Cantor, McDonnell, the RNC, and actual state GOP lawmakers, national RNC chairman Reince Priebus spent Tuesday in New Jersey to back up Chris Christie, whose re-election was never in question, rather than in Virginia using his celebrity to get out the vote in Cuccinelli’s nail-biter race.

Among these GOP establishment figures connected to Republicans who helped McAuliffe—particularly Priebus and Cantor—many support comprehensive immigration reform. Pro-amnesty activists have pledged they would use a McAuliffe victory to promote their national cause.

The fix is in. This is not a government of, by, and for the People.  It is a government of, by, and for the ruling elite — with the public both a camouflage and an afterthought, dumbed down worker bees to be managed, manipulated, and “nudged” into their “proper” roles as economic units in service to the State.

But I won’t live as a slave to some nerdy wonk in a suit.  And I suspect I’m not alone.  So this fight is far from over, no matter how desirous both parties have become of dispiriting the pro- liberty, pro- constitutional movement that is aimed at nothing  more than restoring the rule of law while restoring the proper legal scope of a government to designed to work for us, not declare itself our sovereign.