The GOP Base Is Done Tolerating RINO Collaboration With The Democrats

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

The GOP Base Is Done Tolerating RINO Collaboration With The Democrats

The stupid Beltway GOP Establishment, but I repeat myself, is finally standing firm on something – unfortunately, what it is standing firm on is its failure to listen to its own base. The base is woke and the Establishment’s a joke. I speak to a lot of conservative groups of various types and flavors: hardcore tea partiers, patriotic vets, loyal radio listeners, besieged students, brass New Yorkers, even rich country club types who you would think were into Jeb! – you know, diversity. And lately, I’ve tended to start off my talks by posing this question:

Okay, who here agrees with me that the left wants us enslaved or dead?

Every hand goes up.

Every single one of them.

That’s our base.

Folks, our base is hella woke.

And they love Trump, because Trump has delivered the oven-fresh, piping hot conservatism they ordered.

Now, these were not all Trump fans from the get-go. The vast majority were initially like me – extremely suspicious and leery of the outrageous Manhattan tycoon. But, as I described in the first chapter of book Militant Normals, I came around because Trump delivered – something the GOP Establishment never did. Trump came through with the most conservative agenda of anyone since Reagan – maybe more conservative than even St. Ronnie – and he won me over. And he won the base over. They love him.

Love him.

He fights.

He wins.

The Establishment never does either.

So, we’re now two years into what we hope will be eight years of awesomeness. The GDP is exploding. We’re rebuilding our military yet avoiding more idiotic wars that the geniuses in DC thought were a great idea for us and our kids to get killed fighting with our hands tied behind our backs. We have scores of new judges and have rolled-back bushels of regulations. Unemployment – for every kind of American – is setting record lows not seen since Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit tried to rock a miniskirt. And the constitutional abomination that was the soft coup disguised as a scandal was finally blown out of the water by a gravely disappointed Robert Mueller.

It appears the situation might be resolved, but it never should have arisen. With the party unified and rising in the polls, and the fake RUSSIA! scandal finally behind us so we can move forward with the conservative agenda we were promised, what do the Fredocon jerks of the GOP Establishment do?

What they always do.

Screw everything up.

You probably don’t know Senator Richard Burr (R-Chamber of Commerce), because he’s utterly undistinguished in everything except his total commitment to doing the bidding of his corporate donor masters in service of reinforcing the Establishment’s grip on power. He allegedly represents North Carolina, but he is actually the Distinguished Gentlemen from Open Borders.

And he’s a sap.

He’s chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee – go ahead and insert your own oxymoron joke – and it was with him that Donald Trump, Jr., agreed to give 20+ hours of testimony about the whole bogus RUSSIA TREASON EMOLUMENTS TRAITOR COLLUSION lie on the condition that his testimony was once and done. In the end Mueller, who would have gleefully charged Don Jr. with anything he could have found or invented charged Don Jr. with nada. So, after Mueller reluctantly put a stake in the heart of this garbage scandal – because you know Mueller and his pack of Democrats was slobbering at the thought of a Trump scalp – what did Burr decide to do?

1.Celebrate the total exoneration of the President of the false charges made against him by Democrats and their lying mainstream media transcriptionists?

Or

2.Decide to play along with the Democrats’ craven and malicious effort to keep the lie alive by subpoenaing Don Jr. to testify again about claims made by Federal Convict #86626, aka Michael Cohen, currently a resident of the old stoney lonesome for lying to Congress, as part of an attempt to frame the President’s son for perjury?

“Well, gosh,” you might think, “Only a Democrat-collaborating hack, or slack-jawed idiot, or both, would choose Option Two,” but then you remember we’re talking about an Establishment bot like Richard Burr.

Of course, the usual cruise ship conservative crewmembers gathered on the Lido Deck to opine that this was all perfectly legit and just fine and gee, how could anyone imagine that what is manifestly a perjury trap designed to revitalize a failed bogus narrative could be a perjury trap designed to revitalize a failed bogus narrative? Why, we should defer to our wonderful institutions because the people who run our insitutions only want what’s best for us.

Except our institutions are garbage.

There’s our lesson from the last two years. The ruling class that runs them ran the institutions not for our benefit but for its own, to preserve its own power and position. The institutions and those running them are entirely responsible for our legitimate contempt – they deserve no respect, no deference and no obedience.

That’s the feeling of the GOP base, DC insiders. You might consider interacting with some DC outsiders sometime because you don’t seem to get it. The base is furious. And now this North Carolina nitwit decides to side with the Democrats against the base just as we were all finally coming together? Does anyone think the base will just shrug it off?

This kind of nonsense is just part and parcel of what Never Trump is. See, though Burr is apparently not running again in four years, he’s laboring under the delusion that by then America will come to its senses and welcome him and his gooey ilk back into unchallenged power. He’s counting on some sort of Establishment payback down the road – a nice job on K Street, an appointment as the token GOP Secretary of Mediocrity for President Creepy Joe, or maybe some CNN hits along with Ana Navarro. He’s burnishing his credentials as one of the Republicans the ruling class can always count on to submit and obey.

He’s Mitt Romney without the dog tormenting. BTW, Mitt was last seen voting against a federal judge nominee because of True Conservatism™ or something.

Never Trump is just another flavor of narcissism, and Burr’s selfishness will shaft the rest of his Senate colleagues most of all in 2020. He doesn’t care – and he expects the Senate collegiality he is ignoring as he hurts his team will protect him from the blistering criticism he deserves from other Republicans. Pity poor Thom Tillis, North Carolina’s other senator. Most of us already suspect he’s squishy. Tillis has to run in 2020 and now Burr’s brought this Schiff-storm down on him. Burr’s behavior was bad enough that Tillis offered tweets in protest, which is a big deal among senators. When Tillis loses, he can thank his good buddy Burr the Blue Falcon.

Other senators better tighten-up and turn on the pressure. Martha McSally faces a tough run next year – where is she on this? John Cornyn? Better surf the zeitgeist, and the zeitgeist is all about fighting back. I give Mitch McConnell (who Hugh Hewitt accurately assesses as the best GOP Senate majority leader in a century) a pass, since he has to wrangle a Senate caucus composed of both sissy weak-hearts and sturdy heroes, and he needs to fight this fight his way even if we don’t fully appreciate his moves right now. But you know Cocaine Mitch must be livid at Burr; down the road, that tool will be saying “Hello” to Mitch’s little friend.

We’re woke to the Burrs too, and sooner or later we are going to purge them all.

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18 Comments
MrLiberty
MrLiberty
May 16, 2019 10:17 am

Every election the RINOS come back. The problems begin at the local level where these clowns maintain their base of support among the party hacks. NO superior, alternative candidates can even get a foothold unless they are filthy rich (and you know that generally means RINO anyway), so then can never get the support of the party faithful and party labor that is needed. This is especially true if you are talking about a US Senate seat where the entire state must be mobilized and won. The “GOP Base” is only concerned with winning the election, not in actually electing folks that will stay committed to principles – not that most can actually vocalize or explain the “principles” they stand for in the first place.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr
  MrLiberty
May 16, 2019 11:18 am

Rich “Rockerfeller” RINOs control my local Party and they supported Jeb at the Florida State Convention in 2016 even though our county voted for Trump; they work against Trump but it would take a “Yellow Vests” Populist type uprising in my county to replace them.

Linden
Linden
  robert h siddell jr
May 16, 2019 5:59 pm

I won’t name names, but a close friend who is related to Cornyn, and was active in Pubbie party, was raked over the coals by the GOP FL machine, for NOTHING, in March 2015. We couldn’t figure out why, and then we “got it”… They were clearing the party of conservatives, so Jebito could get the state delegates. Completely vile.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  MrLiberty
May 16, 2019 1:02 pm

Nothing less than Day of The Rope for these RINOs.
Every. Last. One.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
May 17, 2019 6:02 am

I do not hold much hope to vote them out. Germany’s Kristal Nacht may be our only remedy!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  MrLiberty
May 16, 2019 1:17 pm

Yea, look at Romney … ‘nough Said

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  Anonymous
May 16, 2019 4:45 pm

Exactly what happened at the local levels, though the same thing happened 4 years earlier with McCain.

Deter Naturalist
Deter Naturalist
May 16, 2019 10:22 am

No people on Earth ever voted their way to greater freedom from the yoke of political servitude.

Politics is inevitable, but centralized, bureaucratic and deaf-eared politics is not. The GOP is filled with “let them eat cake (i.e., let them eat road apples)” arrogance.

We have the best Congress money can buy. It’s just that the money used to buy them comes from us but it passes last through the hands of those who ride us like beasts of burden…AKA our corporate masters.

The US Chamber of Commerce, the executives of public corporations, politicians & bureaucrats. It’s a big club but you and I ain’t in it. We’re just expected to STFU and pay so they can live like kings.

Anonymous
Anonymous
May 16, 2019 10:24 am

It’s the stupid conservatives. Why bring up the abortion issue in Alabama.

You can well know the media is going to use it to distract from spygate.

Know your enemy is rule #1.

We want to ambush them. Like the Indians did to Custer.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
May 17, 2019 12:58 pm

Unlike Burr and Tillis – the representatives in ALabama are ACTUALLY DOING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. You should know stupid, with a stupid comment like yours. Your ideas are the enemy of conservativism. WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE? ANOTHER MEALY MOUTH ‘MODERATE’ CANDIDATE AND AVOID SOCIAL ISSUES? LOOK AT THE EQUITY BILL FROM NANCY – IT WOULD DESTROY ALL THINGS THAT DID MAG THE FIRST TIME.

We Shall Live in Interesting Times
We Shall Live in Interesting Times
May 16, 2019 11:20 am

McSally? Is there also a McSusy and a McCindy out there in Arizona? What is the obsession that people have with putting MC in front of their name? I have no Scots ancestry to claim, I wish that I did, but I believe that I can live a full and meaningful life without having relatives living in the Highlands.

WDS
WDS
May 16, 2019 1:40 pm

A pic of Lindsey Graham 2.Zero would have been fitting as well.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
May 16, 2019 3:52 pm

Burr didn’t vote with the Dems on subpoenaing Don Jr. just because Burr is a squish (although he is). Burr sided with the Dems because he’s part of the oversight Gang of Eight (just like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell) and knew from the get-go that the whole Russia hoax was created just to ensnare Trump in an obstruction trap. Now that the instigators of the hoax may be investigated, Burr is afraid that he’ll get caught up in it – especially since he probably knew that fellow Gang of Eight member Mark Warner was communicating directly with Christopher Steele in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election. Burr’s not just a dickless wonder – he’s crooked.

musket
musket
  Iska Waran
May 16, 2019 5:53 pm

Both North Carolina senators are crooked and I will not vote for either one next time.

CA Dreamin
CA Dreamin
May 16, 2019 10:34 pm

Kurt’s post and Chuck Baldwin’s post above, seem to have wildly different perspectives

Ken31
Ken31
May 16, 2019 11:58 pm

GOP base? What kind of moran thinks either party will ever serve the interest of Americans again?

Anonymous
Anonymous
May 17, 2019 6:00 am

I agree with Mr. Liberty and would add – if conservatives do not take over state Repub. committees, and the RNC, then we will never get rid of rinos. EXAMPLE: Tillis, (NC senator) won a primary over Greg Bannon – a very strong conservative who killed tillis head to head (57 to 40), why? RNC pumped money, state Repub. committee flooded the zone with ‘candidates’ and we get ultra-RINO Tillis. SAME THING in SC with Graham – EVERYBODY hates the little homo-weasle libtard.
Let’s see if we can remove Richard “DICK” Burr (NC) this fall – we have a conservative to “primary’ him already!

None Ya Biz
None Ya Biz
May 21, 2019 6:41 pm

Kurt is insane.