Conservative Repudiating the Insiders of the Republican Party aka Rockefeller Republicans

We are finding out daily how much the 'insiders' of the Republican Party are dissatisfied with our current candidates for President because Fox News and some websites like the Weekly Standard keep pushing it so much.  First, they have probably figured out that their chosen one Romney is not doing near as well as expected and  second the 'insiders' don't want someone from outside their arrogant circle.  Voters on the other hand seem to be pretty satisfied with their choices.

The bottom line, then, is that there is a difference between an electorate that is undecided and an electorate that is unhappy with its choices. It may turn out that GOP voters would welcome a new candidate -- few voters will ever tell a pollster that they don't want any more choices -- but that does not mean they are dissatisfied with what they have now. The much-discussed dissatisfaction, such as it is, is concentrated among Republican party insiders, not voters.

Just who are these 'insiders' of the Republican Party or as a lot of us call them 'establishment', 'country-club' or 'Rockefeller Republicans.'  IOTW, the members of the Republican Party who consider themselves the elitist insiders and who supported President George HW Bush over President Reagan in 1980.  Most have some ties back to the Nixon White House.  "Who is a Rockefeller Republican?"   The American Spectator has the best definition to date I have seen:

The Rockefeller Republican became immutably identified as someone whose philosophical moorings and political instincts lay not in the Constitution but rather with the American progressive movement and the liberal Establishment that movement had become. Or, as Rockefeller's longtime intra-party rival Ronald Reagan once described the problem to Time magazine:

"I think the division of the Republican Party grew from pragmatism on the part of some, the Republicans who said, 'Look what the Democrats are doing and they're staying in power. The only way for us, if we want to have any impact at all, is somehow to copy them.' This was where the split began to grow, because there were other people saying, 'Wait a minute. There is great danger in following this path toward Government intervention.'"

Reagan never left any doubt as to the fact that in his use of the word "some" he was decidedly including Nelson Rockefeller. 

Note this is from a earlier debate but is apt:

But Rockefeller was wrong. He had misjudged conservatives completely.

Which is precisely the pattern of misjudgment that Mitt Romney is exhibiting with every increasing moment he spends campaigning for the very Republican presidential nomination that eluded Nelson Rockefeller.

From the first time we heard about Romney considering running in 2008, we immediately put him in the 'Rockefeller' wing of the Republican Party.  His Dad who ran for President was good friends with Bush 41 and the rest of the establishment from the Nixon years.  When Romney wanted to give a major speech on his Mormon religion, Bush 41 immediately opened up the Bush Library at A&M for the speech.  Did any other candidate get the same treatment?  Not at all.

The one thing that is very odd was Senator Jim DeMint endorsing Romney in 2008 who was the 'establishment' candidate and then he goes out in 2010 and supports some candidates who never should have been running they were so far out of mainstream conservatism.  Why?  Who was DeMint carrying the water?  His choices helped ensure that Republicans did not take the Senate as he used the Tea Party Express (TPE) to work the states for the primaries giving us some odd candidates.  Does that mean that TPE is working for someone other than the rank and file Tea Party members?  Food for thought but when you connect dots that seems to be what you are finding.

When first reading the article that was sent to me, I didn't look that closely at the picture that accompanied the article, but I have now.  See if you see a problem with the picture being used for an article written last night:

First of all, Governor Pawlenty has dropped out of the race, and second, Rick Perry, John Huntsman, and Gary Johnson are not included in the photograph.  Don't you think when you have an article about voters being pretty satisfied with Republican candidate choices, that you would have a current picture?  BTW, this is the fault of the copy desk not the author of the article but the question comes to mind 'WHY' would the person insert this article that leaves out candidates?

The myth of Republican unhappiness with the fieldbyByron York Chief Political Correspondentposted 09/27/2011 

Recent efforts to coax New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie into running for president are the latest example of continuing dissatisfaction among some Republican insiders with the existing GOP presidential field. "Unhappy with field, GOP courts Christie," reports MSNBC. Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, called Herman Cain's victory in Saturday's Florida GOP straw poll "a vote of no confidence" in frontrunners Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. "These are very weak frontrunners," Kristol said, urging Christie to enter the race as he had earlier hoped that Mitch Daniels and Paul Ryan would run. John Heilemann, author of the '08 campaign bestseller Game Change, says the feeling is particularly strong among top Republican donors. "There's no doubt that there is a clamor in a lot of the Republican donor class, in this city [New York] and other cities right now, for Chris Christie," Heilemann said Tuesday. "It's deafening." 

There's no doubt the talk is accurate. Some Republican elites, not just members of the commentariat but also big GOP money men, are in fact unhappy with the field. But what about the voters? Is dissatisfaction with the Republican field widespread among the people who will actually decide the next GOP presidential nominee? 

Not really. "I do not know of any widespread unhappiness," says pollster Scott Rasmussen. 

"Our polling shows that the vast majority of Republicans still are not certain how they would vote, but that's a sign that it's still very early in the process, not a sign of unhappiness."
"I'm not sure I've seen any," says Republican pollster David Winston. "There is this sense that since we haven't gotten to a clear, decisive winner, then that means there must be dissatisfaction.  

But it could mean that people are still thinking it through." 

Anecdotal impressions support what the pollsters say. I have been in Iowa, South Carolina, and Florida in recent weeks and talked with a lot of voters. While a few are unhappy with their choices -- there are always some voters who feel that way -- there just does not seem to be much overall dissatisfaction with the field. Voters realize there is no perfect candidate in the race -- that might be an understatement this time around -- but that doesn't mean they believe there is some perfect candidate out there over the horizon, waiting to enter the race. 

State-level polling also does not suggest that dissatisfaction is widespread among Republican voters. A recent Suffolk University poll of New Hampshire voters found that 68 percent say they are very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with the field, while 30 percent say they are very dissatisfied or somewhat dissatisfied. Breaking down those numbers, 16 percent say they are very satisfied and 52 percent say they are somewhat satisfied with the field. Among dissatisfied voters, 19 percent say they are somewhat dissatisfied, while 11 percent say they are very dissatisfied. Rasmussen says that 11 percent -- the number of people who are most intensely unhappy -- is a very, very small number. 

"I am somewhat irritated with the desire to pick a winner now," says Rasmussen. "Most voters still have the quaint notion that the election will be held in 2012, not 2011…My view of the GOP race is that Romney has won the establishment semi-finals by beating Pawlenty and Huntsman. Now, the outsider candidate has to be selected. GOP voters would prefer to vote for an outsider, but want to make sure it's the right outsider, and no one has closed that sale yet. Establishment Republicans (and some Democrats) seem puzzled that GOP voters aren't flocking to Romney, and that's probably causing some of the stories you're hearing about." 

The bottom line, then, is that there is a difference between an electorate that is undecided and an electorate that is unhappy with its choices. It may turn out that GOP voters would welcome a new candidate -- few voters will ever tell a pollster that they don't want any more choices -- but that does not mean they are dissatisfied with what they have now. The much-discussed dissatisfaction, such as it is, is concentrated among Republican party insiders, not voters.   

Excerpt:  Read More at Washington Examiner

There is no better example than how the Republican insiders/establishment are not conservative then their pushing Governor Chris Christie (NJ) to run.  As we highlighted in the article below, Christie is not a conservative on most issues.  The video from his campaign in October 2009 looks like a Democrat video with all the references to Obama but yet this is the man the insider/establishment wants?  

Look at it more in-depth and you discover that Fox News is a willing accomplice with the insiders/establishment types but then Ailes goes back to the Nixon years right along with their group.  Is that the tie that binds them all as part of the Rockefeller wing which has become very diminished over the years?  That group controls a lot of wealthy donors who want to keep the soft money policy in place, but they don't come close to controlling the votes of rank and file Republican conservatives.

Cannot believe after all these years, we are still seeing that same group from Nixon along with some of their sons trying to control an election once again.  Their idea that someone is 'entitled' to run is so wrong in so many ways and what gave us Bob Dole.  They want to give us a throw-away candidate so in the next election we can elect someone of their choosing.

When President Reagan was nominated in 1980, it put a massive roadblock in their plans.  What did the Nixon group do -- threaten not to support Reagan if he didn't choose George HW Bush for Vice President who was one of the leaders of the Rockefeller wing.  That may have been one of the worst mistakes Reagan ever made.

Now this same group is once again trying to choose our nominee.  Fortunately, it is not going to happen so they won't get their wish to have a weak candidate so that Jeb Bush can run in 2016.  Time for the Rockefeller Republicans to understand they may be wealthy but they do not control the Republican Party at the local level.  We can can actually think for ourselves and don't need some guys in a board room telling us how to vote.

If you want an establishment candidate, vote for Romney who is supported by the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party led by Bush 41 with the help of Karl Rove.  If you want a candidate who is one of us, conservative, and has a track record of jobs for Texas, then your candidate is Rick Perry.  Very simple -- Rockefeller insider types versus the conservatives of the Republican Party.  As the sons and daughters of parents who supported Barry Goldwater and then Ronald Reagan, we are now saying to the elitists to get on board or get out of the way as the day of their picking our candidates will NEVER happen again.  No more moderate liberals who flip flop need apply to run for President of the United States under the Republican banner.

White House Dossier: The Obama Morning News

Keith Koffler live streams the press conferences every day at White House Dossier.  He also had the President's speech live streamed but I was tied up as usual and didn't catch what he had to say because frankly it will just be blaming someone else because Obama never takes responsibility for anything.

Why did Obama want Geithner to stay as the Secretary of the Treasury.  Two schools of thought, Obama will throw him under the bus later in the campaign as it is all his fault or he is afraid to nominate anyone else and have the Senate take a good look at what the Treasury Secretary has been doing that has helped tank the markets.

Looks like Obama is still going to be going on a campaign bus ride on the taxpayers nickle.  Only Obama would be this dumb after a downgrade to spend more taxpayers dollars for him to campaign against some Republican opponent yet to be named.  We could could cut the deficit if he would stay home in the White House and quit using Government resources like Air Force, all the security vehicles required to protect him, etc.

It is now called the "Tea Party Downgrade" -- guess they have given up on blaming Bush but how can it be the Tea Party when they wanted more deficit cuts and the Senate Democrats and Obama refused to listen.  There is a bill in the Senate, Cut, Cap, and Balance that Obama had Reid table without a vote and yet Democrats blame the Tea Party?  Excuse me but where is the Senate Budget and that magic plan of Obama's -- both seem to be MIA!

Next big announcement that will affect the GOP Primary -- Governor Rick Perry announces he is getting in the Presidential race and a lot of us can breath a huge sigh of relief.

The Obama Morning News || August 8, 2011by Keith Koffler on August 8, 2011, 7:35 am

Treasury Secretary Geithner announced that he will stay at Treasury. 

August is, as usual, the worst month for President Obama. So Obama is stumping with a new urgency. But his mid-month Midwestern bus caravan might not be the smoothest of rides.

In a sign of the narrative the White House will offer, outside Obama adviser David Axelrod and Sen John Kerry (D-Mass.) each said said S&P had performed a ”Tea Party downgrade.” 

Former Obama economic adviser Christina Romer says the downgrade is a sign the country is “pretty darn fucked.”

Whatever happens in Thursday’s debate and Saturday’s straw poll in Ames, the Republican field is likely to be narrowed, writes POLITICO. 

The Tea Party and a seething discontent with the establishment make Mitt Romney’s perch atop the GOP field a precarious one. The $1 million Romney donor stepped forward. 

And Texas Gov. Rick Perry led thousands of Christians in prayer at a Texas rally.

Obama is 'Wrong for America'

Dr. Tom Coburn (R-OK) gives the Republican address today. Watch Dr. Coburn and tell us if you don't think the Senator from Oklahoma should be running for President:





If you want to see the Obama Saturday address attacking Republicans and their budget, please follow the link. Obama's being on the campaign trail with his attack politics is already old.

Obama Assesses GOP Budget: 'Wrong for America'
Apr 16, 2011 – 9:32 AM

We have a different take on that headline from the Obama Saturday morning address to America -- Obama is 'Wrong for America' as he seeks to make sure his major donors continue to get our tax dollars while ignoring what is best for America. His speech Wednesday night offered nothing new -- tax and spend. He took a table knife to the budget he submitted and expected the American people to rave what a wonderful President he was.

Obama will never understand most of the American people are now having a hard time with the rising gas prices caused in part by this Administration's moratorium still in place in the Gulf except for one permit we heard was issued. His administration is not doing any better in issuing permits on new drilling here on land. They have essentially shut down new exploration for oil and gas in the United States.

We are now even more dependent on what happens in the Middle East that Obama helped stir up with his inept foreign policy and a Secretary of State that is out of touch with reality. Bad combination that has made the middle east worse and caused the price of a barrel of oil to rise significantly. You don't waffle like is the trademark of Obama and you certainly don't take the side of the rebels with leaders and members of Al Qaeda as a major part of their group.

None of us have to worry as we are reminded by this Administration inflation is not that bad and we have to sacrifice by paying more for gasoline. Why? Since the Government doesn't consider the price of gasoline and groceries in the inflation numbers, the inflation is going to remain lower than it actually is. Tell that to my bank account that there is no inflation. So sick and tired of the weasel wording you get from this Administration on oil and gas along with groceries as he jets around the country on our dime wasting jet fuel and throwing parties in the White House. Someone needs to tell the President that is not a king or a dictator. It is time he and his family quit abusing the perks that come with being President and realize what the average American is facing. Time for Obama rhetoric is OVER!

Obama could have said in his speech that he made a lot of mistakes with the economy when he took office as he was inexperienced and that he wasted too much of the American tax dollars on an agenda that sounded good like bailing out the banks, GM, and Chrysler but in reality it failed as the stimulus money was wasted in a lot of instances. Then he could have said that he will work across the aisle to do what is best for the American people.

Not Obama -- he has chosen the confrontational approach toward Republicans who have some very good ideas on how to get this Country back on its feet. Obama would rather play the senior citizen card that has worked in the past that Republicans want to take away social security checks. Obama is a typical politician from the far left or far right that only their agenda is correct.

Wish that our Senator, Dr. Tom Coburn (R-OK), would run for President because he truly believes that working together you can solve the problems of America. Every time he has reached out his hand to Obama, he gets it bit off which shows that Obama has no intention of working with Republicans. He would rather be in campaign mode on the attack.

Poorest example of a President we have ever experienced in this Country which is over 200 years old with Obama as the 45th President. This better teach voters a lesson that you never elect someone as President who was raised in his early years in a foreign country whose parents were not in the military but as an adopted son of an Indonesian. It doesn't look like in his life that he ever was friends with people you meet on the street every day throughout Middle America. The same people who turn out in big numbers for a spring football scrimmage and to see the alumni play flag football.

The people behind Obama pulled a coup in getting an inexperienced, far left, lazy politician elected. He has proven he didn't deserve to be President and it is now up to common sense Americans from the right, middle, and left to see that he is not reelected. Let the far extremes of both parties duke it out as we can unite to elect someone who understands you have to work together for the betterment of all Americans. The 'my way or no way' we see out of Obama/Pelosi and the far left is matched but what we are seeing out of the far right. Both groups see working across the aisle as the greatest sin you can do and go on the attack when they don't get their way.

In the weeks ahead we will start looking in-depth at some of the candidates who have announced exploratory committees and are close to making a formal announcement to run for President like former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty who learned as Governor with a full Democrat legislature that you have to work together to get things accomplished. Yet he was willing to stand his ground when he felt it was in the best interest of the people of Minnesota and tell the Democrats NO!

Then we have Donald Trump who is making all the noise. Like him or hate him, he is not afraid to say what he thinks. He is saying things a lot of people are thinking. Will he run? We have no clue but it sure is fun to watch the left squirm when he talks.

Rick Santorum surprised a lot of people by taking the straw poll in one of the SC counties. Unlike CPAC, the straw poll was not bought by the candidate busing in his people. These were activists voting.

Newt Gingrich has put out some interesting documents but we don't see his chances for the GOP nomination getting off the ground. He is more cabinet material in our opinion.

Herman Cain may be the sleeper candidate in all of this as he is slowly picking up support. We also have Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels who will decide after the legislative sessions is done if he will run for President.

My favorite, Governor Rick Perry of Texas, is making no moves to run and my second favorite, Dr. Coburn, is doing the same. That leaves a wide open field for my support and that of others although most of the people I talk with do not want anyone from the 2008 campaign which was such a disaster.

When you have former candidates that in 2010 were told they were not needed in some states to campaign for candidates, they do not need apply for 2012. The talk media needs to stay out of the primary for the most part with the horrible job they did in 2010 helping give us some bad candidates out of primaries in the Senate.

What we do know is that we need to field a strong candidate that can withstand the Obama media attacks. We don't care about Obama attacks he reads from his teleprompter and neither do most people. When you put your own Vice President to sleep with your speech, your rhetoric is wearing thin. It is the constant attacks by the Obama media as they try and get him reelected. They were a major part of his campaign strategy in 2008 by covering up his gaffes, his background, and attacking McCain at every turn. The Obama media became a part of the Obama campaign and unfortunately too many Americans fell for their spin.