The GOP Establishment and the Reckoning

Mark Alger has an interesting post that captures much of my feeling this election cycle:

In short, the couch thing with Bela Pelosi: FAIL. The JohnKinging of the media (note how quickly that became a transitive verb): EPIC WIN.

And that, I think, is the point. Tired of taking it on the chin from rude, gibbering, little homunculi of the Left, and then being laughed at for wimps when making a measured and proportionate response, We in the Right have long demanded a more muscular response -- a retaliation... a punishing retaliation -- from our soi disant leaders.

Newt seems bent on giving that to us, in word and in deed -- without much regard to what may be drudged up out of his record to smear him with.

And that is why he is liked by the groundlings.

Yeah.  It's like Lincoln's reply when the Union Military Elite told him to get rid of Grant early in the war: I can't spare him.  He fights.

But that got me thinking (as Mark is wont to do), and I went to leave a comment over there.  Unfortunately, I'm not registered or something, and so can't leave a comment.  And so I'll inflict it on you:

I recall that scene in Tombstone, where Val Kilmer says "It's not Revenge he wants.  It's a Reckoning."

That's what the Tea Party is about.  That's what the anybody-but-Romney crowd is about.  I dare say that's what your post was about.

So if Romney gets the nomination, when comes the Reckoning?  Because come it will.

People are fixated on get Obama out of office at all cost.  They're missing the Reckoning:



And so we come yet again to the stupidity and short sightedness of the Elites.  Do they really not see the Reckoning, after the rallies and election of 2010?  Really?  If they really ram Slick Willard down everyone's throats, do they not inflame this feeling, rather than tamping it down?

And then I think on how the Elite is handling the financial crisis in Europe, where reasonable changes early would likely have defused the situation.  But those changes would have cost the Elite control, or money, or embarrassment, and so the Elite kept doubling down, hoping against hope to cheat their way through.

The GOP Establishment have lived up (down?) to the Progressive's scolding that we all need to be more like Europe.  Watching this, it's the same incompetence, mixed with equal measures of arrogance and desperation.  And so again: when comes the Reckoning, what happens?  Does it sweep Ron Paul to power?  Whatever it will be, it will be the more extreme for being thwarted so often in the past.

Tagged "GOP sucks" because, well, you know.