After losing the 2012 election and caving on the fiscal cliff, the Republican establishment hasn’t done much to give its conservative base hope for its future. The outlook is bleak for 2013 and many are left wondering if the GOP really has a future at all.
To close out 2012, Thomas Sowell made this dire prediction for the future of the party… and the country:
One of the recent sad reminders of the Republicans’ tendency to leave even lies and smears unanswered was a television replay of an old interview with the late Judge Robert Bork, whose nomination to the Supreme Court was destroyed by character assassination.
Bork said that he was advised not to answer Ted Kennedy’s wild accusations because those false accusations would discredit themselves. That supposedly sophisticated advice cost the country one of the great legal minds of our time — and left us with a wavering Anthony Kennedy in his place on the Supreme Court.
Some people may take solace from the fact that there are some articulate Republicans such as Marco Rubio who may come forward in 2016. But with Iran going nuclear and North Korea developing missiles that can hit California, it may be too late by then.
Other outspoken conservatives have responded to the fiscal cliff negotiations with similar sentiments:
SOBER New Year: First it was Chief Justice doing the dirty. Now Republicans raising taxes on ON 77% OF HOUSEHOLDS!Surrender guns next…
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) January 2, 2013
Paul Ryan says the 41-to-1 tax hikes to spending cuts crapwich “reflects conservative values.” Stop it.
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) January 2, 2013
Can Paul Ryan still eat at the Young Guns’ table?
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 2, 2013
Today the only people who dislike Congress more than real conservatives are the programmers for accounting software.#fb
— Chris Younce (@younce) January 2, 2013
Sadly, the Senate began 2013 by passing $620 billion in new taxes & just $15 billion in spending “cuts”… facebook.com/tedcruzpage/po…
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 2, 2013
So what happens when Obama wants more tax hikes on “the rich”? GOP suddenly decides it doesn’t like class warfare again after caving?
— Jedediah Bila (@JedediahBila) January 2, 2013
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tharpdevenport
Jan. 3, 2013 at 4:13pmI’d like to point out to Sowell, that I think we’d ALL rather have a “wavering Anthony Kennedy” than a dead Bork, leaving a hole which Obama would fill by a vastly left wing, anti-American POC,
Bork was a good man, but knowing now that he diedfirst, we are all left to thank our leucky stars.
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flipper1073
Jan. 3, 2013 at 9:08amThis is no longer about Dem’s vs Repub’s
It’s Progressives vs Conservatives.
The GOP Washington DC Elites are the new
Progressive Party.
Since the Dem’s have went All Out Socialist/Communist.
I Couldn’t Care Less about the Republican Party.
They abandoned Me at Last Years Convention an Even before that.
The GOP seems to think that if they can OUT-PROGRESSIVE the Dem’s
They can Win.
WRONG You Win By Energizing the Conservatives, The TEA Party,The Reagan
Democrats,The Libertarians, The Ron Paul Supporters (Which I’m Not One)
but He’s right about Cutting Spending an Government Agencies an Dept’s.
If The GOP Can’t or Won’t become the Party of Ronald Reagan Again.
They have Gotten Their Last Dollar an VOTE From ME an I Believe
Millions of Other People across America.
I Didn’t Leave the Republican Party They Left Me !
Come to think of it This Battle for Control of the GOP has been going on
for Fifty Years or More.Started back in the sixties.
Goldwater vs Nixon (GOD! I Hated that Man)
Ronald Reagan was able to overcome the GOP Elite in 1980
but then made the mistake of putting a NWO/CFR Vice President.
(I always Thought he should have named Jack Kemp as VP.)
Putting the GOP on a path of Moderate Progressivism.
The GOP has made it Clear They Don’t Want Conservatives to
have a Voice in the Republican Party SO BE IT.
If that’s a New Party GREAT ! Call Me I’ll Donate an Volunteer my Time.
I’m FOR A Much Smaller Government an LOWER Tax
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TMOverbeck
Jan. 3, 2013 at 7:27amUnless the Kochs and other GOP sugar-daddies stop funding the GOP, we’re never gonna have a serious effort to grow a third party. The RINOs and the establishment keep getting away with their actions because they know the golden geese contributors will keep laying eggs for them.
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Earn Living
Jan. 2, 2013 at 10:21pmBad news, solutions, and process:
1) The Republicans will never have enough power again to unseat the Democrats: not now, not in 2016, not ever again. The Republican party is dead; they just don’t know it yet.
2) The only hope for the USA is a new party. If the TEA Party starts winning local elections now, and Congressional seats in 2014, there will be Conservative Republicans who will jump the sinking ship to join the rising TEA Party.
3) The TEA Party would be unlikely to win the presidency in 2016. (Go back to #1. The Republicans are not going to win it either). Perhaps a grassroots effort from the local level up can win a TEA Party President in 2020–my suggestion–Rubio.
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alinskythis
Jan. 2, 2013 at 5:33pmBreaking a rule not to post things that might discourage another Patriot, the Rube Goldberg is all set up, and the ball is in play.
Next will be the guns, then more taxes when that Horrible Piece of Dung-care is foisted upon.
California had 876 new laws enacted today!!! In what universe does this happen?
The insanity evidently has no bounds.
Nonetheless, I fully plan to continue spitting, biting and clawing to the best of my ability.
Who’s with me?
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