GOP stategists dreads conservative victory

[Originalist]

I'm sure there are scores within the establishment that feel this way. This clown dreads the thought of a Cruz or Trump victory...

GOP strategist Ford O’Connell, who has long insisted that the party must expand its demographic appeal, noted that the more conservative elements of the party are ascendant at the moment.

The nightmare scenario for modernizers like himself, he suggested, was a conservative candidate becoming the nominee and winning the general election because of a “perfect storm” of pro-GOP factors. Such an outcome, he suggested, would postpone the hard conversations that party needs to have internally.

“If they are successful,” O’Connell said of candidates such as Trump and Cruz, “then those who are arguing to broaden our appeal will be pushed to the edges of the party.”

Rush had this to say about this guy....

And let me get right back to this. It's in TheHill.com.

It is about a Republican donor and organizer (a young man, by the way) named Ford O'Connell. He's a "strategist," Republican strategist. He's one of the many in the Republican Party "who has long insisted that the party must expand its demographic appeal." He's one of the people that believe the Republican Party simply cannot win with Republican votes alone, so they have to go out and get other voters. They've gotta go get Democrats, they've gotta go get Hispanics, have to get African-Americans. They have to go get whatever.

Which is fine, but don't do it acting like Democrat Lite! If you want to go get these other voters, go do it as a proud Republican conservative. That's what's not happening here. And this story details a nightmare scenario for the "modernizers" of the GOP. The modernizers are these people that think for the Republican Party to have any long-term chance of survival as a winning and dominant party, it has got to expand, and it cannot be known as conservative. It's gotta go much farther than that. The nightmare scenario, as detailed in this story, the nightmare scenario is a conservative candidate becoming the nominee and then winning the presidency.

That is described as "a perfect storm," an outcome that will "postpone the hard conversations the party needs to have internally." In other words, Ted Cruz becoming president is a problem, according to this Republican strategist, because it will falsely portray the GOP as a conservative party, "and that's guaranteed to kill the GOP," is what these people think. Even in the scenario where Cruz becomes president, that very fact is seen by these people as a death knell for the GOP. What can you conclude from that?

"'If they are successful,' O'Connell said of candidates such as Trump and Cruz, 'then those who are arguing to broaden our appeal will be pushed to the edges of the party.'" Can I translate this for you? This guy and whoever else in the party he's talking about do not want a conservative to win no matter what. I remind you: How many times have you seen -- in the past weeks, recent months -- various Republicans quoted as saying if Cruz or Trump are the nominee, they will vote for Hillary? You may have heard me pass that news on to you, or you may have heard it for yourself.

But it's not just a few. It's a rather significant number of Republicans who've been public, saying, "Hey, if it's Trump, I'm voting Hillary. If it's Cruz, I'm voting Hillary." A conservative winning the presidency is a nightmare beyond belief. Mr. Priebus, what are we supposed to think here? I'm not making up anything anybody believes. I'm not manufacturing what people are saying. I do what I do every day. I sit here, I read, I consume whatever is to consume out there, and I react to it.

And contrary to what people might think, I do not arrive at the Golden EIB Microphone with an agenda. Meaning, I don't plan this program every night and say, "Okay, do this. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do that. Tomorrow we do that. Friday that and Thursday this, all for the purposes of expanding..." No. I deal with what happens as it happens and react to it accordingly. Here's how this story begins. It's by Niall Stanage. It's S-t-a-n-a-g-e. I'm not sure how you pronounce. S-t-a-n-a-g-e.

"The front-runners for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, are casting aside the lessons of the GOP 'autopsy' that was intended to prevent Republicans from losing the White House in 2016. The autopsy report, issued by the Republican National Committee (RNC) in March 2013 after Mitt Romney's losing campaign and titled 'the Growth and Opportunity Project,' was intended to help the GOP set itself up for victory after losing two presidential elections in a row."

So this thing was set up 2013, here we are 2016. We're coming three years old is this battle plan. They have been operating on a three-year-old report on how to win that was done by a bunch of insiders who told them exactly what they wanted to hear but not what was correct. "In both cycles, GOP candidates lost badly to Barack Obama among minority voters. The former Illinois senator also defeated Romney in 2012 and Arizona Sen. John McCain in 2008 among women and voters under the age of 30. Now some Republicans fear their party is making the same mistakes."

"'Attempting to appeal to only one segment of the population," that would be conservatives, "is bad for governing and even worse for winning a general election. And that's what Trump and Cruz are largely doing.'" What what what what? Trump is conservative now, along with Cruz? These people, that's what they're saying? So here again, Trump or Cruz winning? Bad for the party. Who ever...? You know, the Pittsburgh Steelers are playing the Denver Broncos on Sunday in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.

Antonio Brown, their best playmaker, their best wide receiver, maybe the best one in the league, was ruled out today because he cannot pass the concussion protocol after the hit by Vontaze Burfict of the Bengals last Saturday night. So they don't have their best player. Their best quarterback may not be able to play anywhere near 100%. Should the Steelers stay, "You know what? We don't want to win. We don't have our best players on the field, so we'd just as soon lose. It'd be very, very bad to win.

"We don't have our best players here, and if we win without our best players, our fans are gonna get the wrong idea and people are gonna think that management doesn't know what it's doing. If we can win with the backups, then why aren't the backups playing?" Is this the way they think? You think the Steelers don't want to win because they don't have their best players going this weekend against the Broncos? It's silly. But apparently we have ranking members the RNC preparing this three-year-old report on how to avoid what happened to Romney happening.

They're saying, "We cannot win if we have a conservative nominee that wins the White House. That's bad for the party. That's bad for our long-term plan to expand and grow the party." And who's telling them they have to expand and grow the party? Isn't it the Democrats and the media telling them what they have to do? Isn't it the Democrats saying, "You can't win with your attitude on immigration"? Democrats say, "You can't win the way you look at women." Democrats say, "You can't win with your lack of diversity."

Okay. I'd never heard of Ford O'Connell, so we did a little research here, and here's what we came up with. He's a young guy, maybe a Millennial. He founded something called Project Virginia, which is a political action committee that's supposed to help Virginia Republicans seeking public office to better utilize social media and voter mobilization technologies. He claims to have worked for several campaigns, McCain-Palin in '08. In 2013 he published a book called "Hail Mary: The 10-Step Playbook for Republican Recovery."

That would dovetail with the 2013 RNC report on how to avoid repeating the mistakes of McCain and Romney. This guy's book is "Hail Mary: The 10-Step Playbook for Republican Recovery." He's been talking about this stuff even before Trump arrived at it on the scene. Here are some of his 10 steps. "'Hug the Gays;' embrace them and make them part of the political base. Reform the GOP primary process to make it a little more like the Lincoln Douglass debates and less like a deathmatch version of 'survivor.'

"Reach out to nontraditional and Leftist media. End the Reagan fetish. Come to terms with the fact that Ronald Reagan and the Reagan coalition are dead and not coming back." That's who The Politico has written about today that is very worried that if a conservative is nominated and win the presidency, then it delays implementing all of these things that he thinks the Republican Party has to do if it's to be viable down the road in the future. So the Era of Reagan is over and that's a "fetish." Come to terms with that; realize it's not coming back and move on and hug the gays, embrace 'em, make 'em part of the political base. Hug the media. Same thing. The left-wing, nontraditional left-wing media.

[Esaias]

The GOP is disintegrating and imploding. The Party quit representing it's own base awhile back, and more and more of the base are starting to wake up to that fact. As soon as a critical mass realises that 'vote GOP to stop the Dems' doesn't actually accomplish anything substantive, the GOP will go the way of the Whig Party.

[Esaias]

Post Script: The GOP has been moving further and further left (by design, I might add). The siren call of 'we have to become good socialist liberals if we are going to have any future as Republicans' is communist drivel pure and simple.

1. Why would any Republican want to maintain the GOP and keep it viable if there is no difference between the 'new' GOP and the Democrats? We need two copies of the left-wing nutcase party? What in the world for?

2. The propaganda assumes 'the inevitability of socialism'. Communists and leftists always tout the idea that their worldview is 'inevitable', that all society is steadily marching towards left wing-nuttism. It demoralises their opponents and controls the narrative. The fact is more and more people are becoming paleo-conservative/libertarian. In fact, more and more people are becoming militantly libertarian/conservative (Malheur, anyone?). The very people who were (and would have) cheered the National Guard suppressing those radical hippie demonstrations, who supported 'law and order, God, Mom, and Apple Pie', are now en masse becoming quantified as 'antigovernment'. Meaning of course they are not interested in submitting to a final Communist takedown of the country. All this nonsense about 'Republicans need to embrace everything they stood AGAINST in order to survive in the future as a political party' is nothing but a sweet, soft seduction to suicide. 'Become the enemy, or you will not survive politically.'

It's the BORG - 'resistance is futile, you will be assimilated'.

Uh, no we will NOT.