For over two years we have shared with readers the insights of a longtime Democratic Party insider who engaged in a prolonged war against the progressive extremes of the Obama White House. The 2012 election results would suggest that war was lost. Not so says this individual, a Republican Party operative who, though fearful of what the future may hold, remains determined to see their party emerge a stronger and more unified organization that better represents the interests of conservative America.
“Ask any question of me that you want. Anything. I’ll do my best to answer it for you and your readers.” That is the directive and the promise we were given prior to our first sit down interview with Republican Insider. Here now is that conversation it its entirety.
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UM: I want to set up your background a little for the readers. Who are your political influences? How long have you been working inside the Republican Party? That kind of thing. And why you agreed to participate in this process. Basically, why would you bother with it? We lost. They won. Why be a part of that?
RI: Uh-huh. Ok…first let me start with the reason why I would want to do this. It’s a fair question. First, it’s not a big inconvenience for me. I think this…thing you have going here…has real potential. All of this new media stuff – Republicans have to get in front of it. We got to stop playing catch-up with the Democrats. It’s a chance for me, and maybe some others, to say things we can’t really say openly about…certain people or events…or plans for the party. No different really than why it was being done before, right? From inside the Democratic Party.
Look – there’s a war going on between Republicans right now. It’s been ongoing for a while. It’s been…it was put off a bit during the election – but now it’s picking right back up. And it’s a war that needs to be fought because frankly, the party has gone way off track. Way of message. It’s forgotten what it is, or was…what it’s supposed to be. There’s become too little of a choice between Democrat and Republican. We need more space between the two.
UM: What’s that mean – “space between the two”?
RI: Simple. It means there’s not much difference between the modern Republican and the modern Democrat. Not nearly enough of a difference to give Americans a real choice at the ballot box. The Democrats are absorbing the Republican Party. They’ve been doing it…Ireally started noting it during the Bush years.
UM: Bush 43?
RI: No – Bush 41. That whole “new world order” stuff…100 points of light…that tone was not right for the party. It suggested we were really starting to compromise our principles…America was losing its own identity.
UM: So you’re not a fan of the Bush family?
RI: I’m not saying that – not at all. They seem like fine people. I was pretty young…starting out during Bush 41. I was more on the outside looking in during Bush 43…I didn’t really want to be involved in what they were doing. So on a personal level, I admire the Bush family. On a professional level…a political level…I think both Bush presidencies did terrible damage to the Republican brand. And 2008 and 2012 – those elections…were a direct result of that.
UM: That opinion – would you consider yourself in the minority within the Republican Party right now?
RI: No – not at all. There’s a lot of us who feel the same way. We don’t care for the Karl Roves, the…the old guard if you will. We know there needs to be new blood to push the party in an old direction. That’s how I’ve been putting it for a while now – new blood to put us back toward an old direction.
UM: What’s that mean?
RI: It means we need to reacquaint ourselves with what we used to stand for. It means…look – I’m a student of history. Of politics. I love it. I have gone back and reviewed the Founding Fathers… and Lincoln, FDR…Kennedy…Reagan…all of it. We don’t need to reinvent something here…we just need to look back about 30 years or so to know where we should be heading right now. We need to sell liberty again in the Republican Party. People get that – they want that. They are willing to fight for that.
UM: 30 years – so…you’re a fan of the Reagan era Republicans?
RI: That’s right – and I understand you are too. Right?
UM: Absolutely. I call him the last great president America has had.
RI: That sounds like a fair description.
UM: Did you know him?
RI: No – I wish. Too young. Just a student of that time…like you. I’ve spoken with some did though…who worked the campaign. Some who worked inside the Reagan White House. And when he was governor.
UM: So you believe that Republicans today need to learn from the Reagan era, is that right?
RI: Yeah – basically that’s it. Part of it.
(Pause)
The party today…it really has so little resemblance to what it used to be. In fact…in many ways, today’s Republicans are yesterday’s Democrats. And that…I mean what a horrible thing to have to admit. But it’s true. They are killing off conservatism. That Goldwater conservatism that Reagan took up with a smile and a real conviction…and put it in terms the American people could understand and embrace and know in their hearts Reagan was right…conservatism was right…and all that liberal nonsense was just a silly sideshow. Now…I know Republicans embarrassed to call themselves conservative. We don’t need them in the party. Don’t want them in the party. But unfortunately, some of them…they are actually running today’s Republican Party.
UM: But you don’t think we’re too far gone already? You think the Republican Party can…can come back from this?
RI: Yes! Without a doubt! Look…I am an eternal optimist. I believe…I truly believe this country was blessed. We’ve neglected it for a while now. We’ve become…let’s say…overly selfish. Lazy. Certainly lazy. The Republican Party is…intellectually…it has really become pathetically lazy. And that spreads to the voters. But…well…you have to give those voters a real choice, right? You have to be willing to draw a line and say “this is us – and that is them. Now choose what you want.” And we haven’t done a good enough job of that.
UM: I want you to clarify that point – what you mean by saying give the voters a real choice. Are you…do you mean that Mitt Romney wasn’t a real choice? Between him and Barack Obama?
RI: That’s right. As unpopular as that might be for some of your readers…that is exactly right. And I am a fan of Mitt Romney the man. He is a great American success story. A wonderful businessman. By all accounts – a wonderful human being.
(Pause)
…Horrible politician though. And yes – not nearly enough of a choice for the voters between him and Barack Obama. This was not an election to be giving voters “Republican-Light.” I’m not saying Mitt Romney wouldn’t be better in the White House than Barack Obama – that’s clearly not the case here. But…look, we had about 3 million Republicans stay home. Didn’t vote. Less turnout than 2008 when we offered up the single worst Republican candidate in my lifetime. That shouldn’t have happened. But it did – it did. And the party needs to take a real honest and hard look at itself and as why. And in my view, a big reason…maybe THE reason why, is because we didn’t give voters a real enough choice. We didn’t give voters…conservative voters…a real contradiction that was easily understood and something they could feel proud and confident of voting for. This was not the time to give them a hold your nose and vote candidate. But that’s what the party did. And shame on us for doing it. America deserved better. America needs better than that from Republicans if we want to save this country from the Progressive mess it’s in. These Progressives? We all know what they really are. Barack Obama? Valerie Jarrett? Your insider had them nailed in that regard. How did they put it – “They ain’t no Democrats?” That is absolutely right. I know Democrats who feel the same way. I’ve spoken with them. They are scared to death of this White House. But so many of our own Republicans are sleep walking through this. And for the life of me…I just don’t understand why. So…we need…like I said…we need new blood to go back to an old direction.
UM: And you had no direct affiliation with the Romney campaign?
RI: No – none. I wasn’t…I wasn’t interested.
UM: You wouldn’t have accepted a position if offered one?
RI: No.
UM: Why not?
RI: Ideologically…that was not the campaign for me. I was busy elsewhere. I don’t take on a campaign just to do it. Or for the check. I have to believe in the candidate. That allows me to sleep at night. I can’t go back home to my family and feel I’m doing right by them if I don’t believe in the candidate.
UM: And you didn’t believe in Mitt Romney…
RI: Politically…no. He…the Republicans didn’t do themselves any favors with that campaign. Or more specifically – with that particular candidate.
UM: But you voted for him, right? Romney?
RI: Yeah – of course. Obama…that White House is the single greatest threat to the country. Right now. I completely believe that 100%. Mitt Romney is a great guy – horrible politician. But…he would have been much better in the White House than another four years of Barack Obama.
UM: So you don’t consider Mitt Romney or John McCain as strong choices for the Republican Party. Has there been anyone you would have liked to have gotten the nomination but didn’t?
RI: Of this last group…I favored Governor Perry. He had some horrible gaffes…he was dealing with major surgery at the time…I believe you reported on that a bit. But his stance on the 10th Amendment…I wish more Republicans would explain that to voters. In simple terms – it’s all about freedom. States need to have the barrier of freedom and self determination between them and the federal government. Governor Perry did a pretty decent job of putting that out there during the early parts of the primary. Then…you hardly ever heard of it again. And I’m thinking WHY NOT? Why aren’t Republicans talking about that? Take the 10th Amendment principle and apply it directly to what the Obama administration has been doing. That’s what the 2010 Midterms were all about – even if it wasn’t being explained in that way. Obamacare is a direct violation of the 10th Amendment in my view. People instinctively knew that in 2010. They felt it in their bones. And they went out and voted in massive numbers and took back the House and almost took back the Senate. But did the Republicans build on that feeling? That backlash against big government coming in and pushing out states’ rights?
No. They talked a bit about taxes, which of course the Democrats and the media just turned into “Republicans for the rich” or “Republicans hate the poor” or whatever. We walked right into it. Stupidly. So why would I be a part of that kind of campaign? It wouldn’t have worked. And I’m not going to sell my principles just so I can say I was playing ball in the big game. I don’t have that kind of ego. What I do hope I have is simple love of country.
UM: Any other Republicans that earn your endorsement?
RI: Sure…but first I want to say there are not “perfect” Republican candidates, and people need to stop looking for one. There are people who…basically who embrace and are proud to uphold basic conservative principles of less government and more opportunity and those who don’t. Now there are degrees of different there of course…but you take a Senator McCain of a Governor Romney…there’s just too much willingness to lean on the side of Big Government with those kinds of Republicans, and we can’t afford that kind of…for lack of a better term…wishy-washy politicking. Don’t be afraid to declare conservatism as THE real choice for America. Embrace it, and learn how to communicate it in such a way that people understand it. You have to cut through all the media bias, the education system…it’s not an easy task. I’m not saying that – but it is an essential task. It is, politically speaking right now, the most important task. And that’s a big part of why we are doing this. I see potential here. And I want you to understand that. You have real value to me. You…your readers. There is some very interesting discussions that have come out of what you are doing. There’s some less than intelligent remarks…every blog has that. But you also have some…let’s just say I’ve been impressed with what some of your readers have to say. And I take those comments and I go back to people I deal with and say “Look – this is what American wants! Listen to these people! Represent these people! They are out there. They are looking for the right leadership and we just need to be willing to listen to them and provide that leadership!” I’ve really had those conversations with people. And I intend to keep having those conversations until enough of them get it. And join us.
UM: I know we are getting a bit long in time here, but wanted to…
(Interrupts)
RI: No need to do that – to apologize. I’ve made time for this – you ask your questions. That’s what I agreed to not as a favor, not because I think what I have to say is so important, but because I believe in what you are doing. I believe in the potential of what this is and what it could be. Republicans don’t quite get this new media…this alternative news concept. The Romney campaign certainly was better at it than McCain, who was…well – they were a mess with it. But we…Republicans…we are still playing catch-up with the Democrats on this. And we are talking about literally now… we are talking about millions and millions of people who read or listen to or watch this new media format in one form or another and for us to not be taking that on and using it to educate people about what conservatism really is…new blood. New ideas. A new way of communicating an old message. Take the Reagan playbook and update how it gets out to the voters. That’s a big part of what Republicans should be doing. Some of us get that. But there’s still a lot of the old guard who wants to keep doing it the old way…and getting the same result. Again – look at 2010. The Tea Party. What an amazing transformative event that was! And it was almost entirely based on the new media! And what does the Republican leadership do? They push back against it because they were worried they couldn’t control it. Some of them openly resented it. How misguided and short-sighted is that?
So don’t you – there is no need for you to excuse wanting to ask me anything when we set aside time to have these discussions. You get contact me at any time, with any questions. I’m available to you and to your readers. Not the other way around.
UM: Thank you mate – really…that was a wonderful thing to say right there. Appreciate it.
…What I was going to ask is…I was hoping to end this with a bit of word-association. This allows me to get a bit more information to the readers in a short…it takes less time, yeah? Would that be ok? I give you a name or topic – and you give me a brief response.
RI: Sure. Keeping it brief might be the toughest thing for me – but I’ll do my best.
UM: Barack Obama
RI: Wrong. Wrong for America. Deceptive. Charismatic. Dangerous.
Is that what you had in mind? That kind of answer?
UM: Perfect.
Mitt Romney.
RI: Honorable. Too liberal. Unfortunate result. Predictable result.
UM: Sarah Palin.
RI: The reason many conservatives voted in 2008. More than voted in 2012.
UM: Marco Rubio
RI: Potential.
UM: Mainstream Media.
RI: Democratic Party.
UM: Valerie Jarrett.
RI: Obama’s brain. He said it. I agree.
UM: Karl Rove.
RI: Arrogant. Not a true conservative. Helped destroy the Perry campaign.
UM: White House Insider.
RI: (No answer)
UM: White House Insider.
RI: (Pause)
…Well intended but misinformed about some things. Critical things. Heartbroken.
UM: Benghazi.
RI: Tragic. Scandal. Republican leadership…helping to cover up. Military Insider.
UM: What?
RI: Tragic. Scandal. REPUBLICAN…Leadership…covering…up. Military Insider.
UM: Elaborate?
RI: Not at this time. It will…it’s already developing on its own. We won’t make the mistake of Insider – don’t reveal something just to prove yourself. That gives the opposition time to react.
UM: 2014
RI: Conservatism fights back.
UM: 2016
RI: Conservatism in the White House.
END INTERVIEW.
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Refreshing to hear a republican talk nice about both Rick Perry and Sarah Palin. Rick Perry is a great governor and so was Sarah. Good solid conservatives. And when is the last time we heard a Republican talk about the 10th amendment! I love it!!!! Keep these interviews coming U-Man. I really liked reading this one. It was a nice picker upper after the worst election ever.
There’s a lot to chew on here. First of all,RI, I sincerely thank you for taking the time now and in the future to communicate with us.
Since there’s so much here, I’m going to pick a specific statement by RI:
“We need to sell liberty again in the Republican Party. People get that – they want that. They are willing to fight for that.”
There was no talk of Liberty by Romney in this campaign. A bit of financial liberty, but Romney was timid in this regard at best.
There are plenty of Democrats that are scared of Barack Obama and the affect that man has had on our civil liberties. What would have happened if Romney would have walked up to the microphone at a rally and said:
“The NDAA is un-American. Drones flying over our homes is un-American. Under my Presidency, those things will be repealed.”
It may have been a different election, despite voter fraud.
Small Government isn’t just economic freedom. It is, as RI said, Liberty.
We need Republicans who believe in Liberty and won’t shy away from talking about it.
Now we are talking.
I like this guy.
Heck, he sounds like me!
I’m certain RI isn’t my Dad. But he sounds just like him.
You have no idea how lucky you are. My Dad is a lifetime reader of the New York Times and voted for Obama because he supports gay marriage.
I love this person! Thank you for introducing RI to us, DW, and I truly look forward to reading more from him/her.
Skeptical.
But I’m still listening.
Not often you hear conservatives praise the virtues of the Constitution.
I would like to pose the following questions to RI:
If we are to assume that the Progressives are Marxists–Marxists who have infiltrated the Democrats’ ranks…
Could we not also assume they have done so within the Republican Party? And, if so, would you characterize the RINOs in D.C. as closet Progressives?
Furthermore, would you characterize, as Progressives, those Republicans in D.C. who are helping to cover up Benghazi, or are they covering up in order to guarantee that their own crimes of corruption do not come to light–a form of collateral damage, if you will?
It’s McCain and Graham who are in on the coverup. Bank it.
Very interesting. Rubio-potential. Get rid of him/her now. Rubio is not qualified for any higher office than Senator AND he is way too liberal for a “newly conservative” GOP. This new Insider has already lost a lot of credibility for me.
Rubio is part of the sane conservative wing of the Tea Party, and he’s one of the most disciplined Tea Party figures.
Rubio is the Tea Party’s best bet, though the Libertarians and Paul supporters who are still trying to hijack the Tea Party movement won’t be happy with him.
Yep.
His latest evolution is no good.
He is pulling much more for the latinos than I would have liked.
We need somebody unwilling to pander.
I thought higher of him before he started pandering to latinos..
Marco Rubio’s authorship of Dream Act 2.0 is not what I’d call conservative. He’s dead to me.
Utah’s Mike Lee, now we’re talkin.’ He may be too gentlemanly, though.
The perfect combo of conservatism and fire? Sarah Palin.
You betcha !!!! Have you been checking that site http://www.conservatives4palin.com ? Don’t give up on her yet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SallyAl – Agreed. As soon as I saw Rubio’s name in glowing terms, I knew with this GOP Insider that, as the old saying goes, “the only things that change are the names of the guilty”.
I know that Wikipedia is not the most accurate source of information on the web, but let’s see what it says about his basic bio and family history: “Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971) … the second son and third child of Mario Rubio and Oria Garcia. His parents were Cubans who had immigrated to the United States in 1956 and were naturalized as U.S. citizens in 1975.”
So let’s get this straight … the parents were here for 19 years – yes NINETEEN – before getting off their butts and becoming citizens. And four years AFTER Marco was born.
WHAT PART OF “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” DOESN’T THE GOP UNDERSTAND?
Now admittedly, maybe America has changed in the past two and a quarter centuries, and the “melting pot” concept for which we are known and admired – and which has made this country what it is – has made that portion of the Constitution irrelevant. But if the majority of the people and the states feel that it no longer has meaning, there is a process to be followed.
It’s called AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION!
But no, instead our “leaders” just say “screw it – we’re just going to ignore it and do what we d**n well please – and promote whatever politician suits our fancy (or goes in lock-step with the upper echelon”.
What kind of message is that sending to the public? That if you don’t like a law, just ignore it? Or as the ’60s culture crammed into our society: “DO YOUR OWN THING”?
The Rubio situation is just another example of how the GOP is willing to compromise their supposed basic principles in order to regain power: “We can’t win unless we coddle to the Hispanic voters – otherwise we’ll appear racist.”
When the GOP admits to the difference between right and wrong and actually goes back to their basic principles instead of trying to tap dance around various shades of gray, then and only then will they get my vote again.
This is the first real glimmer of hope I’ve seen for the Republican Party since before McCain won the nomination and then lost in 2008. We have to mobilize and unite. We have to find a new leader and put him or her out there….start the process….the sooner the better.
Oh, thank you! In a world that looks more hopeless all the time, with our country on a self-destructive path, it’s nice to hear someone on the inside who gets “it”, i.e., us true conservative patriots, and who has optimism for the future! I can’t wait to read more and, hopefully, see some positive changes.
I became disillusioned by the Republican party half-way through Bush’s second term. It was then that I realized that the one party was not very different from the other, especially in terms of big government and big spending. I hope I can one day be proud to call myself a Republican, again. For now, I am a conservative Independent–mostly because I did NOT want the R party taking my vote for granted.
God bless you both and let’s get this show on the road!
One more thing…
Why are Republicans so reluctant to call a spade a spade. Why have the Progressives not been identified as Marxists? If more people understood this, they might have second thoughts about supporting this ultra-criminal administration.
The Obama administration and their media lackeys had no difficulty, whatsoever, targeting the Tea Party, and its supporters, as radical racist potential domestic terrorists. Frankly, they convinced a great number of people, despite the absurdity of the narrative.
I suspect it’s because when they do, their own party demonizes them. Look at what happened when Allen West and Michele Bachmann called out the Progressive Caucus and ties between the State Department and the Muslim Brotherhood respectively?
Democrats and the MSM piled on as one would expect.. but plenty of “Republicans” did as well.
It’s time to take this to the grassroots , real boots on the ground stuff . Get out and talk to people , find potential leaders who can explain the message to various communities that don’t normally vote Republican in great numbers , like Latinos who tend to be conservative on a host of issues and young people who need to understand that Democrats really don’t have their best interests at heart .
This interview gave me an inkling of optimism, but I’m afraid the grindstones of the Socialist machine (politicians, media, bundlers) turn most would-be conservatives to powder long before they hit the Presidential Primary debates.
Example was Rick Perry’s debate retort, “Well, if you don’t want to give illegals a discount on college tuition, YOU DON’T HAVE A HEART.”
What episode of the Twilight Zone are we living in THIS week…? Let’s review:
First, avowed Communists take over the White House in 2008.
Second, nobody seems to realize those people are Communists. Instead, they pass as “just incompetent.”
Third, folks start to realize “Hm, maybe the Van Jones / Anita Dunn / Bill Ayers crowd isn’t all-American after all….” Oh, look, Obama/Soetoro is giving a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, that paraphrases Das Kapital.
Fourth, after 4 goddamn years of the Marxist formerly known as Soetoro “pulling off the mask,” folks spend Election Day 2012 watering the begonias at their aunt’s house instead of voting against the biggest Communist in America.
Hell, even Elizabeth Warren got voted in — and she’s a con artist posing as an INDIAN………. WHILE posing as a lawyer! She’s 0% indian and 0% lawyer. She practiced law for a decade in Massachussetts WITHOUT EVER BOTHERING TO OBTAIN A LAW LICENSE. (She represented Travelers Insurance against (gasp) a group of asbestos victims suing “big insurance.”)
How isn’t she in jail?
Yet adults vote these people in.
I’m telling you, every day is a bigger nightmare, like Act 3 of a horror movie in which the deranged killer gets shot, stabbed, blown up, pitchforked, dropped over a cliff, drowned, bitten by snakes, trampled by rabid mules….. but keeps coming back to life stronger than before.
Oh, AMEN brother! Not one word to disagree with! But this is the same party that kept voting in the murderer (Uncle Teddy). Love the last paragraph!
I agree with you 100%.
I don’t know what stage of grief I am in today, but I feel like it’s over. There will never be another election that is not stolen by the leftists. In 2008 I lived in NYC and the mexicans told me they elected bho – and the muslims told me that they got him elected – and the blacks said it was them who got him elected. Guess who runs this country now? Socialists, communists, fascists and foreigners. Can you imagine them ever giving up their power? Not a chance in hell. No way. There will have to be something catastrophic to save even a piece of America. Secession, revolution… devastation. Something. Something has got to give and it is going to have to be serious – big – real. People need a hard slap upside the head to wake them up.
I am (almost) in the mood to laugh right in their faces while they destroy this country as it was founded and then watch them and their children suffer. I will laugh at their suffering. From now on I will tell everyone who voted for bho – I will look them right in the face – and smile while I say that I don’t give a damn about them, their kids or the environment any more. I will say that I am going to start litering and smoking in public and stop recycling and tell them that I am going to do everything I can to help ruin their children’s futures, like they are ruining mine.
I want to see them get what they deserve, and I will tell them so while I laugh in their faces – and then say I should feel sorry for them as they will have to watch their kids suffer under sharia law, communism, racism, totalitarianism – but instead I don’t feel sorry for them at all. And I will smile and say that I am so glad I never had kids.
This is a nasty stage of grief that I am in today!
I’ll keep trying to post until something sticks!
Thank you Insider – you gave me a glimmer of hope! And I agree with you on the party losing its way. The dead wood has to go (from both parties really) and we need fresh blood.
But we have to also stop letting the LSM & Democrat Party pick our candidates and debate moderators!
Hope this posts! (I’ve been trying for weeks/months now)
Thank you for bringing up choosing the debate moderators. What a joke that is. Here we had moderators actually helping Obama overtly, and nothing changes. I am not that thrilled with the debates, but they are totally worthless as they stand.
Perry was my choice too.
Pain meds from his back surgery slowed him down.
I agree that Palin turned out the votes in 2008
and she will make a great POTUS !
I was not a fan of Mitt but i supported him
because of BHO .
Hopefully you have some clout within the party MR Insider.
thank you for agreeing to do this with UMAN !
I liked Rick Perry. Unfortunately, Rick Perry defeated Rick Perry. We need our candidates to be more disciplined than that.
IMHO, Romney was so popular precisely because he WASN’T a political animal. I think that was a good part of his appeal. Plus, I think all of the BS about how the Republican party dropped the ball this election is just that, BS! The election was stolen via voter fraud and vote flipping in the machines. I don’t know why the media has a hard time verbalizing it. Hey, we all KNOW it was rigged, right? So why go on and on about how the Reps dropped the ball, etc, etc., ad nauseum. It’s getting really old.
Agreed.
It wasn’t Romney’s or Rove’s fault that the Obama machine committed fraud, or that the Libertarians, Paul supporters, and religions bigots sabotaged the effort to defeat Obama.
Anna,
I agree with you. We cannot fix a problem without verbalizing it first.
This voting fraud has been in place for way too long and tolarated because BOTH sides are doing it.
Back in my Dem days, I did follow the work of Beverly Harris at blackboxvoting. She encovered nausiating things Rove was doing in Ohio and Florida.
But it went nowhere. No reforms, no corrections. So now the shoe is on the other foot, and for me the first glaring exemple was the victory of Harry Reid in Nevada in 2010.
And rather than calling it for what it was, you had all those pundits bending over backwards to rationalize their defeat.
If this issue of the fraud is not a popular one, it is nonetheless a core one. It has to be addressed, either by force of law or force of money. The hardware and software companies of these machines have to be controlled for the short term until the Secretaries of State, Supervisors of elections and state voting laws can be purged and neutralized. And not favoring one or the other party. Favoring the American voting system.
We cannot expect people to vote if the elections are just a charade. And we can present the best ideas and the best candidates, it’ll be to no avail if the will of the poeple is not respected at the ballot box.
Voting machines out.
Paper ballots; purple fingers!
Very interesting to note that “RI”,used the term “WE”,”wont make the mistakes of Insider”.
HMMMMMM!
Interesting interview indeed!
“Thank You”, both.
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What kind of sideburns does Republican Insider have? I like him. I like him a lot.
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Perry? Wrong man – wrong voice: reminds people of (Dubya) Bush. Strike One!
People also didn’t stay home; that’s the lie that makes everything else null and void. He’s right that Palin brought energy and voters, but wrong that people stayed hom. They may have in states where Romney was gonna win anyway, but in states that made the difference? Strike Two.
He also failed to mention the biggest issue: the identity of the Fraud who calls himself by the name of Barack Obama, and the identities of those who propped him up. Strike Three.
He failed to mention the corrupted election process, too – not just the Alan West redistricting issue. The whole election theft.
So…I’m not interested in what this guy has to say. He knows – like a boy in the backseat of a car on a hot Appalachian night – what to say in order to get laid. I was pretty good at that, too, in my day.
Unlike RI, I repented.
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MEGA-DITTOS!!!
The RI does not recognized the 2012 election was stolen? Thinks is was ‘lost’? not much working for the new insider. O_o
that was my thought, too. sounds too much like all of the other Republicans spouting the official line about low turnout and not acknowledging that massive voter fraud occurred. Turnout was NOT low.
So do you who are immediately dismissing RI out of hand want to just hang around for the next four years (or eternity) and whine, or go underground and whine to yourself/your family? Come on! Let go of it. And give the guy a break. Why dismiss someone out of hand? Let’s see much more of what he has to say. We don’t have to agree on all points — as I certainly don’t agree with some of you on what you say, and you may be disagreeing with what I write.
Particularly to my fellow Christians here I want to say: get a grip! (Start reading the Psalms, especially in the 140s to the end.) Practice your faith in THOUGHT as well as action; trust God. Work to fight the evil. Learn to be content, as Paul says, in whatever state you find yourself. Rejoice always. (Yes, rejoice; you know who wins in the end!) That doesn’t mean only about your faith. It partly means not dwelling in despondency because the world is going to hell — which it mostly is; but God is in control, and has some purpose for what’s happening beyond what any of us can possibly grasp because none of us is God. Yes, things could get pretty bad, and they certainly will if we all just sink back into a funk because the Marxists and Muslims are taking over the world. Sorry about the “sermon” as my first post (assuming it goes through), but this constant negativity since the election is really irking me. It’s not helpful; it’s not productive; and eventually it’s WRONG if you are a Christian — though of course God hears our cries, as he did David’s, “Lord, how long will the wicked prosper?”. I’ve been trying to post for days and days now, and it hasn’t happened. We’ll see where this one goes.
UM, here’s my question for the RI:
Do we really WANT to inherit the White House in 2016 after what four more years of Obamaniacal destruction will have wrought upon the U.S.A. (a likely no-win proposition — or would it be better instead to prepare for the contingency of the inevitable collapse (financial insolvency — let it burn) and be ready with a determined commitment, simple easy-to-understand plan, and charismatic leaders to properly rebuild the country and its traditional institutions once again upon the pillars of the U.S. Constitution (wherein the 10th Amendment is once again highly honored)?
OK,
I’ve got to ask this as well:
As a student of history you must agree that, from our perspective, the American people appear to be in a political checkmate.
1) Obama’s administration has taken over all three branches of government
2) Obama won reelection via RAMPANT voter fraud
3) The administration has intentionally given comfort (and most likely stinger
missiles) to our sworn enemies
4) The administration has converted DHS into its own domestic army, with a focus
on US as potential domestic terrorists
5) The media have slid down that slippery slope, such that they have crossed the
line between media bias and now act, in unison, as a proxy branch of the
administration
6) As we speak, the administration is cleaning house–cleaning out potential
rabblerousers from the military’s upper echelon
7) With sequestration, the administration will have at last removed its own
greatest threat. Once sequestration has kicked in, we CANNOT REMOVE THEM
In this context, is it not unrealistic to expect any chance of gaining political ground, while the present administration still stands?
Why can we not DO something about the voter fraud?! It’s a felony, right?? With various polling places reporting turnout OVER 100%, there is clear cheating going on. HOW CAN THIS STAND???!!
If we are living in a country with fixed elections, then the people are truly powerless and without representation.
RI, I feel like I have no voice, no representative who will listen and go to bat for “we the people.” You are right in respect to liberty and the 10th amendment, we do want that – we NEED that. But it now feels out of our reach. Our government is a tyranny, expanding and crushing us more each day. This injustice MUST NOT be allowed to stand! But, other then Congressman Allen West who is outspoken and fighting back, who else will take on the establishment? I see no one, and that is terrifying.
Oh boy! Just wait until 2014 folks, we’ll lick ‘em good then! You betcha’!
What planet are you on mister? There isn’t going to be a shred of this country to save.
The Republicans are already caving in like the feckless losers they are.
Rubio? Rubio is going to get the same treatment all conservatives get from Bork, Thomas, and Palin, to Bachman and Perry.
He’s getting nowhere near the nomination. Jeb is their boy. Another Bush, go figure.
I like his ideas but they needed to be implemented 20 years ago. Too little too late my friend…
The political process is broken. It’s time for civil disobedience on a massive scale starting with this fraud’s inauguration. D.C. Ought to be congested to the point of paralysis and the booing so loud no one can hear the meathead’s speech.
Then we need to demand that these jerks in Washington take a chainsaw to the federal budget and cut every non essential program from PBS and the National Endowmwnt for the Arts to Foriegn Aid. Furthermore, every department gets a 20% cut in their workforce across the board. Then, maybe we’ll talk bout raising taxes. Maybe…when the senate passes a budget that is balanced and is no more than 20% of GDP. The taxpayer is not an endless source of funding for government adventures and social experiments or graft, corruption, and power grabbing.
Do you hear me? Anything less is pure BS…
My honest assessment:
This new Republican Insider thus far has left me unconvinced, both as to his understanding of the issues and as to his sincerity.
What I’ve just read is the usual confused and misinformed gobbledygook that tends to pass for “conservatism” in the loopy wing of the Tea Party these days. Pretending to be a Reagan Republican yet bashing Bush 43, blaming Rove who raised more money to defeat Obama than anyone, praising Sarianna Huffpalin…
Though admittedly UM didn’t ask him about it directly, Republican Insider missed every possible opportunity to weigh in on the now-established fact of Obama gaining a major edge on Romney via massive fraud. Does he really think Mitt Romney sank Mitt Romney, end of story?? Seems a bit opportunist to launch his internal blame-game attacks based on the outcome of an election where the other side certainly cheated.
Finally, he seems to think a civil war in the Republican Party is a good thing. Well, so do the socialist Democrats. A clean debate about our direction, I’m all for. A “war” with actual political “casualties,” absolutely not. The last thing we need is disarray in the face of an emboldened Far Left.
I know this guy comes highly recommended by WHI. But so did Obama, back in 2008.
Unfortunately I’m going to have to suspect RI as either a Trojan Horse or a Useful Idiot until he can prove otherwise.
I wish I had something better to say, but it is what it is.
I also want to express gratitude to RI for coming and exerting efforts to try to save our country. Appreciate the fact you appreciate & see the benefits of paying attention to blogs like this one. As skeptical as I am, I will give “him” the benefit of the doubt about honesty. It seems he is sincere and just trying to do what he can like we are here. But…..having said that, although I suspect he is honest and I agree with a lot of what he said, I still stand by what I said before – if he is “optimistic”, there is a problem – a big problem.
No reason to be optimistic, sadly. You can’t be “idealistic” here. Doesn’t seem to realize the enormity of the situation – the much bigger “big picture”. When he says he doesn’t understand why the other Repubs. are “sleep walking” – that’s a big problem. Why not? FIND OUT. Most of us here know. It will be painful and discouraging to say the least if you don’t know now, but it must be faced if we are to have any chance to fix it…like the rest of us.
Warning about Rubio – I suspect he will be nominated (IF we still have elections)- either Pres. or VP (or at least on the short list). Check him out more thoroughly. Palin — YES, YES, YES
How in the world do we get past the Establishment and powerful powers that be behind them when it comes to nominating another RINO??? Is the RI aware of all that? Is he aware of the treacherous tactics “they” have used and will use — that many are threatened? How do you deal with that?
He seems to acknowledge that Obama is dangerous — but does he know the DEPTH of that and their intentions of takeover (with int’l help, etc. like we have talked about here)….or does he dismiss all that as some stupid conspiracy theory? And – it’s not limited to Obama — Hillary is another one!!!! All the “Alinskyites”.
Also – if not yet noticed — it is of the utmost importance that massive voter fraud be exposed and fixed before 2014. Note what was posted on the previous thread about the RNC not being allowed to help prevent voter fraud — ?????
“Case No. 09-4615 (C.A. 3, Mar. 8, 2012)
In 1982, the Republican National Committee (“RNC”) and the Democratic National Committee (“DNC”) entered into a consent decree (the “Decree” or “Consent Decree”), which is national in scope, limiting the RNC’s ability to engage or assist in voter fraud prevention unless the RNC obtains the court’s approval in advance. The RNC appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey denying, in part, the RNC’s Motion to Vacate or Modify the Consent Decree. Although the District Court declined to vacate the Decree, it did make modifications to the Decree. The RNC argues that the District Court abused its discretion by modifying the Decree as it did and by declining to vacate the Decree. For the following reasons, we will affirm the District Court’s judgment.”
http://judicialview.com/Court-Cases/Civil-Procedure/Democratic-National-Committee-v-Republican-National-Committee/10/201975
Our prayers will be going out for you, RI and all others who are trying to do the right thing despite all odds………
I don’t think the Repubs are “sleep-walking”, I think they are making decisions and choices based on what’s good for THEM.
This country has created a beast — we’ve allowed a political force to grow that rules like a mob. They arrange things to their own ends, they do as they wish to maintain their power and they are allowed to build their careers, their power and wealth, on the backs of this country. This goes for BOTH sides of the aisle.
I’d really like to know — I’m seriously asking this, without snark — what some of you see in Sarah Palin. Needless to say, whatever it is, I don’t see it; never have. I find her annoying — in voice and manner of expression, as well as content much of the time. And I couldn’t take her seriously after she resigned as governor of Alaska.(That was one thing; there are others.) Maybe partly there’s just too much of a cultural divide as well as many MANY miles between where she’s from and where I’m from. I know this is a little off-track here, but t&j mentioned here (very approvingly). I’m willing to listen to to anybody who might change my mind.)
Well, if you haven’t, I suggest you read her first book “Going Rogue”. Helps you understand the “real” Sarah. I understand what you mean about her voice & manner. No – not exactly as I would like many times, but again – read her book. See what she had to go through when she was Governor. She doesn’t fear telling the truth when need be, has immense integrity, faith in God (which means a lot to me), Constitutionalist, not afraid to take on anyone re protecting & adhering to what’s right (like she took on her own party in Alaska) & ended corruption there, brave, will make self sacrifices for the good of the country, makes good judgement calls, believes in “peace through strength”, very pro Israel. Those are some that come off “the top of my head”. I never saw her resigning as wrong – just the opposite. She was unable to do her job due to never ending ridiculous false charges against her which she had to defend in court, etc. and also costing the taxpayers unnecessary costs. She knew there was another who would take her place that was capable and could continue doing the state’s business. I saw it as the right thing and only thing she could do if you didn’t want to cheat the taxpayers and wanted to do your job. If I was an Alaskan, I would have wanted her to leave under those circumstances and would not like it if she had continued to stay (I would consider it selfish). The media, politicians hated her and spun it to malign her instead of course.
Granted, she has her flaws – but who doesn’t. If there is anyone better, that’s great by me….let me know when you find one.
How uplifting for me after the election outcome. I agree with everything he says about Karl Rove, WHI (bless him anyway), and the potential Republican cover-up on Benghazi. I will pray hard for our country and that we make it to 2014.
Thank you UM.
Cheers everyone!
Count me as one who really likes what this person is saying. (RI) He seems much more in touch with the current system than the WHI who sorry to say was or seemed a lot more about himself and just winning than what was really going on. I know he gave the conspiracy people a lot to chew on but I like RI approach a lot better. I like them both really, but RI seems like somebody who actually has a handle on how to turn this thing around. Great interview. Loved the 10th Amendment discussion and I hope a lot more will come. I would give a suggestion to you UM that some other asked for already. What is the deal with the strange vote counts? Like you said the #s don’t seem to add up right and I really think its a possibility Mitt Romney actually won so I would love to hear RIs take on that. Thanks!
I tend to agree with you. Yet experience of what went on in my country of origin and is still going on, this is a major risk to take.
Europe has been on the verge of collapse for many years now, and yet the progressive have continue their destruction enterprise unabashed in the meantime.
That said, the international pressure is getting more strenuous by the day and there is a breaking point somewhere. Where is it, nobody knows.
Just noted your new e-book Ulsterman! Congrats! Def. going to check it out.
RI,
When will Republicans acknowledge the millions of Americans like me, that don’t wear tin hats, but yet get entirely ignored on matters of eligibility? I’m talking about Obama, I’m talking about Rubio. I’m talking about Jindal. Sure, 2 of the three are pretty good, but none are eligible for the office.
Why have we been cast aside? Why doesn’t somebody address this? This is a MAINSTREAM ISSUE!!!!!
This is a CONSTITUTIONAL issue! And should be the very FIRST thing addresses! High 5′s!
I second this. The Constitution got treated like a document which comprehension required a Harvard degree.
The Natural Born clause is very easy to understand. No divided loyalties at birth.
Until the Constitution is reintroduce in the political debate, we are lost because we have no benchmarks to rest on.
I’m a naturalized citizen of the USA with dual citizenship and agree 100% with 57th State! According to Barack Obama’s faux birth certificate, he is not a natural born citizen of the USA and every federal judge who swears in new citizens know this fact. It is all due to a Obama Sr.’s Kenyan citizenship at the time of Jr’s birth.
When I was naturalized and I gave my oath as a new American citizen, I remember the federal judge telling me a few facts about my new citizenship status…
He said:
1) You have all legal rights as any other Americans except you can never be president of the USA because you are a naturalized citizen and not a natural born citizen.
2) Should you marry an American and have a baby for the American, your baby will have the legal right to be president of the USA. (I fully comprehended why the judge said this because I had to learn the constitution and knew my baby would be a natural born citizen due to the baby’s mother (me) and the baby’s American father which would result in it as a natural born citizen.)
Federal judges know the truth. Obama is not qualified and all those foreigners who become naturalized citizens know this too. No laws have changed on this issue since I was sworn in as a citizen back in 1986. If the law had changed, The US Constitution would be ratified and it would reflect the amended change.
Rubio isn’t a natural-born citizen, is he? Why are we talking him up for the next election? He was born here, no question; however, his parents were refugees, not citizens, at the time of his birth. I believe they had green cards and were in the process of becoming citizens. Perhaps, there are special provisions for the children of refugees who are legal residents and in the process of becoming citizens. Does anyone know the answers to this?
If I recall correctly, his parents always wanted to return to Cuba. That was their intention. They did not become citizens until Marco was 4-5 years old or more.
Look folks, this is a communication and corruption problem. I don’t know the stats of who reads this blog as in the age,sex and the tech savyness{use of twitter,chats,commenting on news sites ect…} of the members here but it seems like the Republicans the old rich white guys of the party were or are not interested in the twitter-verse.. When Obama ran in 2008 I went to sites that reported everything about Obama.. I went to many different places on the net and left polite comments stating my Conservative beliefs.. McCain didn’t even try. He just rolled over. When Sarah Palin was chosen I was excited. I thought maybe we stood a prayer… Nope, white guilt, unions, thug money etc.. won that election. Then we had the 2010 elections.. The Tea Party came into being.. yep.. I did my share of burning up the phone lines to the White House and Capital letting anyone who would listen know I was not happy about obamacare. Then Bohner became speaker and I could see Judas written all over his face.. no matter how many times he cried… Proved to be true.. We are all watching you John..
I then read about all of the dems talking about Ulsterman.. The articles saying he wasn’t real.. The vitirol was just too strong.. UM you scare the hell out of them Buddy, Keep up the good work. *Grins at UM* … Progressive stupidity amazes me. UM is very real.. I read about the Insiders, I was lifted up, brought down and finally came to acceptance on certain issues because of them.
I am willing to give this new Insider a chance.
Make calls people, write emails, and never give up… Beat them with their own weapons…Progressives hate to be beaten with their own clubs..
The Republican leadership hates the conservative movement and the Tea Party as much as the Dems do. Don’t you remember being called a Hobbit by Mclame when they were raising the debt ceiling and voted for the sequestration that they found out too late guts our military. Then, they started to squeal. Who’s the Hobbit now Mr. McLame?
Both parties are run by big government statists that want power they do not have. The Republican leadership was never serious about repealing Obamacare. Now, they have it and all it’s rules to play with too!
We are in a hopeless predicament now and elections will not fix it I’m afraid…
I’m out. I figure I’d better prepare, and spending time doing this kind of research and spending more time researching how to dig in and go underground, preparing my skills that have grown a little rusty.
My advice is to buy water filtration devices (and stockpile food for 7 years) – and if you want a good one that the Japanese used after the nukes and tsunami, look at Seychelle (I have stock on it, so please buy it!) The waterbottles that filter out 99% of everything aren’t much good in an ultramarathon, because it’s too damn hard to get the water out when you’re busting ass up and over a mountain, but they’re good for drinking highly polluted water. Don’t use them unless the water is questionable. Keep them in storage; buy replacement filters to keep in stock. That’s for portable filtration, by the way – when you’re on the move but not out of breath.
I was willing to wait until I heard from the New Republican Party, and waiting for reinforcements on the election fraud. Seeing that there aren’t any, I’m going to do what most Americans – (not Obama voters, because they’re not Americans) – should be doing: planning and preparing and digging in; getting my mountain legs under me and my coldwater aquatic skills up to par. I can do OK in 60 F water for 3 hours, as long as I stay moving. (Not a neccessary skill unless I’m evading detection, but I have a feeling it will come in handy when the commies do a full assault and start shipping people off.)
Eff the Republicans. They’re half-traitors and bait-danglers.
Thanks anyway, Ulsterman: you’re more of an American than most. And thanks, guys and gals: you’re true Patriots.
Signing off.
VTX
Aw….that’s so sad. Will miss you — enjoyed your posts — will be praying —- I do still hold out hope that by 2014 we will still have elections, and having experienced and learned lessons the very “hard” way by much suffering and loss that it’ll wake up even liberals and then get patriots into the Senate; start making some progress and then elect a real Consv. patriot in 2016 to complete restoration.
Signed — my “other name” —- momprayn.
God bless you and yours.
It’s time to fight or leave. Don’t see many fighters so…someplace warm with good fishing would be nice…
And another one bites the dust! They are moving at warp speed ridding our services of the top brass. They must be behaving badly.
http://news.yahoo.com/general-demoted-lavish-travel-spending-171710140.html
Gee, just a little bit like this, isn’t it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965%E2%80%931966
Hmmm. I read somewhere Barry Soetoro called himself a Prince as a child and while at Occidental and Columbia. Then I read somewhere that he may be the illegitimate son of Sukarno. Hmmm. Many have said that Barry looks too Indonesian to be a half African, and in fact there is an Indonesian man who is a dead ringer of Barry Soetoro. I think there person (from Chicago-Sherman Skolnick) who wrote stuff like this died in mysterious circumstances too.He also had photos of the Dunham seniors sitting at a table in a ? bar with 2 Nazi couples..If you can still find it: The 3 stooges go to Washington-part 5. There is a whole series in 7 or 8 parts. Cant get the 7th one though.
Ah here it is:
http://www.whale.to/b/nicoloff5.html
See the little boy on the left?
http://marthatrowbridgeterribletruth.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/sukarno-tot.jpg
Is this Barry to whom Sukarno is blowing a kiss?
http://beforeitsnews.com/obama-birthplace-controversy/2011/12/more-reasons-than-ever-why-america-deserves-the-truth-1522248.html
Here’s the picture
http://terribletruth.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/sukarno-blowing-kisses.jpg?w=500
Seems like the generals are being purged. Remember what Erdogan? Purged the generals. And Morsi? purged the generals. I’m sure that happened in South American countries too. Were these generals set up/caught in a honeytrap? Yes–some of them.
Interesting that Obama is following the Muslim Brotherhood protocol in purging the generals.
I look forward to reading more of RI’s commentary and seeing where he/she stands going forward.
I have to say that one thing he said caught my eye: We have to bring Regan’s playbook into the 21st century. To me, this line is what we’ve failed on in the last elections and it’s a very, very large part of why the Obama campaign has now, in two elections, been allowed to frame the narrative. They have used to their ability the two ways people get information: the main stream media and social networking. The left has been controlling the conservative message for TOO LONG. They’ve framed it, they’ve ridiculed it, they’ve thrust the concepts and foundations of conservatives into a corner, like a bully demanding lunch money. And frankly, our Republican party has allowed it.
Every single step of the last two elections have been about the progressives deciding how the American public would be exposed to conservative ideas in the worst possible light, hammering that home – with the MSM as their lackeys and social media adding to the fray. When the discussion of religious freedom came up with the birth control requirement in ObamaCare, what did that become about? Women’s rights. It was framed that the conservative way was to send women back to the 50s. Just the other day, on a news program, I heard someone say that the churches wanted to take birth control away from women. THAT is how that argument was framed, from day one – because the progressives knew the fight was coming, they planned ahead and they controlled the discussion. People are mostly emotionally driven, so they focused on the emotion of the day.
When the Tea Party rose, the progressives framed the argument that these were racist, backwards, and wanted to take the world back to a worse place. The MESSAGE is the same , but how it’s framed is focused on a negative. Suddenly, the word old-fashioned meant antiquated, out of touch and old. Meanwhile, the progressives were presenting themselves as with the times by their uber focus on social media and the younger generations (who had just spent 12+ years being educated in the liberal style of things).
Progressives have OWNED the conservative message. They’ve destroyed it – to the point that RI made a comment that Republicans are embarrassed to call themselves conservatives. WHY? Why would that be? How could you be embarrassed for following and believing in the basic premise of what this country was built upon and what led to us becoming the economic power in this world? Because of how that is framed. How that is spun.
Conservative values are TIMELESS – they need to be presented and framed in a way that showcases how they can work successfully in today’s world, with today’s issues and today’s children. I am a conservative woman, a mother, a wife, and you can damn well bet that I consider myself a modern, intelligent woman – who appreciates what I offer the world, what my husband offers the world and the viewpoint that my son will grow to have. When it comes to social issues, being a conservative woman is NOT the antiquated picture of a woman stuck at home doing laundry. It’s the picture of a woman standing on equal ground with her husband and CHOOSING for herself what path she wants to take. I don’t need a hand-out. I don’t need special treatment. I’m capable, intelligent and ready to fight on my own two feet. And yet, these last two elections, conservative women have been denigrated to an early episode of Mad Men.
And don’t fool yourself. This election was WON on social standing. The Republicans were made to look out-of-date and out-of-touch, and the Democrats were made to look like the shiny, new object that is modern, forceful and makes you FEEL good. But the thing about that shiny new object is that it gets old. It’s not new any longer, and suddenly, you’re left with an old, dull object that does absolutely nothing for you. This shiny, new Democrat object WILL get old – because it will fail. Its policies will fail – history has proven that time and again. And when it does, we need to have framed that argument four years before. We need to be steps ahead of that moment . We need to start NOW.
RI, the biggest tactic to keep in mind is that you cannot get to a good end through bad means. Talk of honoring the Constitution means nothing if you then break the Constitution in favor of a favorite person. Marco Rubio is not a natural-born citizen as the Founders understood that term and as George Washington recommended as an inclusion in Article II. Running a Constitutionally unqualified candidate in 2016 for political gain and allowing an unqualified person to remain now as president without protest is not a defensible party platform.
I have spent the last year recovering and deepening my understanding of the Constitution and what Liberty means, so I am sympathetic to you as you do the same. But this is no longer about mere politics. It is Solzhenitzen, Sakharov and Havel – a time to get the framework right, the moral underpinnings of our founding documents, of true liberty, of free markets, and civility.
Restoring the 10th amendment will be a partial and short-term victory unless we also repeal the 17th Amendment so that the States can reliably recover their portion of the power the Founders harnessed for the good of all. How can you sell that to a population now so ignorant of the finely tuned structure the Founders so brilliantly created? Do you even understand that need?
Your reputation here will be damaged if you don’t go deep, if you deal with the trunk of our tree without going down to re-establish the tree’s hidden roots. In the Founders’ vision and constructs, *everything* is related. Talk of Rubio, and a lack of real talk of Obama’s own status, shows you are missing some vital points.
No matter what, you and your colleagues must prove you “get it” by working to craft *Constitutional* proposals at all times for your party’s platform and find candidates who live the Constitution the way Lincoln did.
Welcome to the site.
UM, could you please not put those loud video ads on your site? You deserve to make money, but these are seriously distracting. (Maybe that’s the point! :-0 )
Creeps me out when people capitalize liberty. “Liberty”
Too Bircher for me.
I agree with RI so far. Just hope he gets that the Dem Party aren’t just progressives, but dangerously venal.
Much of the struggle could be prevented if the other members of Congress would simply be willing to indict.
Or are both parties that fetid?
What’s wrong with Liberty?
This attitude also considers Nationalism a dirty word.
Yes, I am an American nationalist and not ashamed of it.
Border, language, culture have a deep meaning.
It’s the capitalization that freaks me out. The incessant capitalization.
Whatever.
I’ve spend the entire day at work trying to find some competent Republican press. Difficult f’ing task.
First, we must take the fight to them.
Brand them what they are: marxists.
Enough with euphemisms, like the likable “liberal” and the misleading “progressive”.
tell people what they are and what that ideology brought to the world.
Second, we must purge the repubic establishment from the party.
Free market is not synonymous with oligopolies and cartels and corporate welfare.
People really feel that they, as individuals, are shortchanged by the system.
How is it possible for the big corporations, like GE, Apple and many others to not pay taxes (or very little)?
Illegal immigration was equally pushed by the demsheviks, for future votes, and by the repubics, for free, or cheap labour.
it is a fact and we must face it.
Just look at the WSJ, as the mouthpiece of this repubic faction.
If the GOP is not separating itself from these factions, it will become extinct.
Trust me.
The level of anger among conservatives is unprecedented.
The third party seems to be the way to go.
GOP, your turn now…
Agree – and I (and a growing number) are finally thinking a Third Party is the only answer. We are thinking about that with mounting passion, just like we did at the beginning of the Tea Party movement. Beware. Warning to GOP. Yes – we used to think it was a waste and not helpful – couldn’t be successful, etc. but NOT NOW. I’m beginning to think more and more that it could work this time. Just as most didn’t think the Tea Party had a chance, so it will be with this. We shall see…..
As someone — EAB? — said last week, a third party will just not work in our presidential two-party system. If we were a parliamentary system, yes, of course. But in our system, a lot of work for no positive outcome — and AWAYS siphoning off votes from the Republican candidate. So the solution is: FIX the Republican Party and run the right kind of presidential candidate within it.
I echo the sentiments of many here.
What is the GOP going to do, if anything, to investigate the massive voter fraud that put barky back in Our House for another 4 years of destruction.
Will anyone in the GOP grow a pair and come forward to investigate this? The fraud continues to lead us on the path to oblivion. If he is allowed another 4 year term, there will be *nothing* left for the lily-livered Repubs to claim in 2016 and beyond.
C’MON, GOP, LET’S SEE SOME BACKBONE!!!!!!!!!!!
Got me to thinking about MI. Remember, he said “watergate him”. At first, I thought about what happened AFTER the break-in. What if MI means the actual “Watergate”? lol…would be interesting.
As for RI, the jury’s out. IMHO, the election was stolen and the American people are being manipulated and have been for some time. It appears there are favors and repayments going on and planned…we will see.
I think Pelosi should be “Watergated”…..
Carlotta, don’t you mean waterboarded?
“The Dark Pelosi”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr56_qxmejQ
OT – but about Benghazi, etc. – got this from my son via email:
I heard today on a radio show that Patraus and many other generals getting fired or stepping down is because there was a group of military that wanted to start resisting and stand up to the corruption, Obama and CIA are clearing these people out so they can better control the military and to weaken it. Also to stop info about Libya and other operations from getting out. They have dirt on many of them to force them to resign or they just fire them for going against an order, or some allegation. The elite want to change the military to be mostly drones anyway, easier to control and more efficient. There are also a lot of mercenary forces now being used.
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RI — if you’re out there — do you (and other Repubs.) know about all this that is going on?????? And IF NOT, WHY NOT ??????
I’ve read the interview and read the comments so far, and am inclined to align myself with those who are initially cool to RI. This is a first meeting and I suppose we can’t expect much more than we got – weak pom-pom waving and promises. Let’s see what future interviews bring.
Many posters here had hoped for a more head-on confrontation of the miserable failure of an election – even though we had been warned by WHI that it would be stolen, who among us really believed it?
We’re left to stew in our anger, frustrated at our impotence with only Rep. West to fight a battle, strong but alone. We face the downfall of our country at the hands of people against whom there appears to be no restraint. Today the rumor is that Barry is headed for Russia, presumably to demonstrate his ‘flexibility’ (show us how far you can bend over, Barry).
What will remain after four years during which his regime will be free to exercise its Marxist Muslim power? To those among us who are consoled by “it’ll be over in four years”, I direct your attention to Michael Bloomberg, a hare-brained nebbish who was still able to overturn term limits.
No, we are being offered ‘hope’ that in four years’ time all will be well and the Republican party will have pulled up its conservative socks and can assert itself. I don’t know where the rest of you stand on the stairway to heaven, but I’m running out of time to dole out in four-year increments and if this Republican transformation doesn’t happen in pretty short order, I’ll be occupied in drooling down my front when it does.
I didn’t care for RI’s condescending dismissal of Mitt Romney. A candidate’s performance is in large part a product of his campaign directors and advisers and Romney had a sizable collection of RINO know-it-alls and wimps. A decent party would have provided him with much better back-up.
VTX: I understand how you feel. I’ve also reached the end of my patience and am purging bookmarks so I don’t have to read what is happening and about to happen. But your posts have been among the best here and I will miss them. Please reconsider.
So Libya DID house a prison. Now WERE THOSE PRISONERS TORTURED AND WATERBOARDED?
IS THAT WHAT MI MEANT?
OBAMA IS BUSH 2008 BUT WORSE.
Via NRO’s Eliana Johnson, Charles Krauthammer provides a possible explanation for why the CIA supported the “spontaneous protest” narrative on the Benghazi attack.
Here’s Paula Broadwell’s reference to a potential secret CIA prison in Benghazi, which she made during a Denver University speech in October:
“They were requesting the – it’s called the C-in-C’s In Extremis Force – a group of Delta Force operators, our very, most talented guys we have in the military. They could have come and reinforced the consulate and the CIA annex. Now, I don’t know if a lot of you have heard this but the CIA annex had actually taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner, and they think that the attack on the consulate was an attempt to get these prisoners back. It’s still being vetted.”
As Krauthammer notes, Obama signed an executive order banning CIA detention centers right after he took office. The CIA can hold detainees temporarily without violating the order — which, based on Broadwell’s comments, may have been the case — but it can’t operate an actual prison. Obviously most of the media doesn’t find this worthy of investigation, but Fox News has a source who seems to support the “actual prison” scenario:
A well-placed Washington source confirms to Fox News that there were Libyan militiamen being held at the CIA annex in Benghazi and that their presence was being looked at as a possible motive for the staged attack on the consulate and annex that night.
According to multiple intelligence sources who have served in Benghazi, there were more than just Libyan militia members who were held and interrogated by CIA contractors at the CIA annex in the days prior to the attack. Other prisoners from additional countries in Africa and the Middle East were brought to this location.
The Libya annex was the largest CIA station in North Africa, and two weeks prior to the attack, the CIA was preparing to shut it down. Most prisoners, according to British and American intelligence sources, had been moved two weeks earlier.
Fascinating, if true. If detainees were being sent there from other countries for interrogation, wouldn’t that be a legitimate black site rather than a short-term holding cell for local jihadis?
If you want the full story, complete with attribution to what is going on, turn OFF the enemedia and get a piddling $5 or $10 subscription to The Blaze TV (also on DISH Ch. 121).
It is absolutely stunning to see the same people who learned about our founding, our history, the 100-year plan of the Progressives, how the Fed came to be, etc., from watching Beck on FOX every day just ignore him when he’s still out there, on his OWN network, not beholden to anyone — political party or Saudi prince.
Honestly, it’s mind boggling to see so many people think they’re in the know who don’t watch his show. He’s uncovering bombshell after bombshell day after day and yet people are still content to sit here and conjecture about the things Beck reported on days ago. Conservatives need to wake up to conservative TV, and Beck is the only one who’s working at it and doing a brilliant job.
Amen to that. Beck has been mind blowing the last couple of years. A real man. Can’t say much for the ‘real news with the blaze’ – Will Cain – that little twerp is a republican protector. A old guard protector. Always skeptical even when evidence is provided. He is not acting. HE really is a commi.
So where is Beck’s coverage of the eligibility question? Not so “brilliant” in that category. It is a real issue and they all (Blaze media staff, etc.) put it in the tin foil hat category, Why?
Optimism at this time, when True Conservatives should be investigating and REVEALING the election fraud, is nauseating. Bari Soebarkah did not win this election, wasn’t eligible in ’08 or ’12, and this “RI” stood silently with Pelosi, Reid and the other treasonous power freaks in Washington?
Words, just words. I’m not buying it, RI, You had better start realizing how much we know “out here”. We need action now because after the Market crashes in December, who knows what will be left?
Wake up and do something.
Agreed. Beck puts out ALOT of good, important information and for that I laud him and still listen. But he and the others on his show still insult and disparage anyone who dares to mention the ineligibility or any real issues with jugears’ criminality. That’s when I change the channel.
Loved hearing RI’s insight. He/she seems very open and positive. I’m dying to see how Benghazi turns out. I hope all doesn’t get covered up, but that’s my fear especially since the media will never call out the Obama admin on ANYTHING. How do you win against that? The mass media is just Obama’s PR machine. How do you fight the information gate-keepers? (so will this one show up–tired of commenting to have what I type never show up)
WHY DIDN’T ERIC CANTOR GO PUBLIC WITH THE PETRAEUS THING? IT COULD GAVE WON THE GOP THE ELECTION
http://www.usasurvival.org/ck11.13.12.html#axzz2C91cRgfD
With apologies to you, our wonderful Ulsterman, I am compelled to voice my honest opinion about Republican Insider because some things he said pained me in my core.
RI may be an ‘insider’, but I got bad vibes. Already he disparaged White House Insider, said WHI was Well intended but misinformed about some things. Critical things.
And RI disparaged Bush II. I have archives of reports circa the Bush years that overflow with evidence — including satellite photos — that Bush was 100 percent correct in identifying Saddam’s Iraq as possessing WMD and those WMD migrating, e.g. in ambulance convoys, into Syria and Lebanon. And how about that 2001 document, found on a floor after an attack, if I remember correctly, that contained detailed instructions on how to hide materials and deceive U.N. weapons inspectors? Or the 21 July 2001 column in the state-controlled Iraqi newspaper Al-Nasiriya — less than two months before 9/11 — in which Baath Party writer Naeem Abd Muhalhal predicted that bin Laden would attack the U.S., that “. . . he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House”? You will find that testimony in the minutes of the “Homeland Security Act of 2002 — (Senate – September 12, 2002).” Then-Senator Ernest Hollings, a Democrat from South Carolina and former governor of that state, read that column to all the senators and asked that it be entered into the record. Unless scrubbed, it is now in the Congressional Record of the 107th Congress (2001-2002).
RI also said that Romney was not nearly enough of a choice for the voters between him and Barack Obama.
Not enough of a choice? Mitt Romney is the polar opposite of Obama. Romney is a PATRIOT. Romney is a CHRISTIAN — and not a CINO (Christian in Name Only) — but a PRACTICING Christian his entire life. He has the business acumen and the experience and the energy plan and the tax plan — AND the running mate — to turn our economy around 180 degrees. Anybody here notice Obama’s running mate — the next-in-line to push the red button?!
In my opinion, absolutely NO apology is warranted for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
RI blames ‘low voter turnout’ for the election loss. And never mentions a single example of the BLATANT CRIMINALITY that PERVADED that so-called election! Is RI’s omission due to ostrich syndrome? or to being uninformed? or to sugarcoating reality?
Let’s look back and see what our disparaged “misinformed about some things” White House Insider did and said immediately after that stunning, shocking election. On November 7, WHI said (bold caps added):
To give you a taste of what I’m doing now I’ll share this with you. I’m using a Florida outcome in a specific district to try and wrap my head around all of this. Three counties. Martin, St. Lucie, and Palm Beach. Martin is controlled by Republicans and the turnout #s match what all our national trending showed. Big enthusiasm for the Republican candidate. Republican vote dominated Martin County. ST. LUCIE and Palm Beach are the real tests and is WHERE THE #S REALLY START TO SIGNAL SOMETHING IS WRONG. St. Lucie leans Democrat. Palm Beach is Dem dominated. St. Lucie showed marginally less votes for Democrats % wise. Republicans enjoyed some cross-over which is what all the national models were indicating. In Palm Beach County which is Dem. dominated, voter turnout was even more depressed than prior elections, especially for the Democrats. But the Democrats won the district. The Republicans lost. Basically, the Democrat-dominated counties seem to be where some very odd #s came back. And IF THIS IS THE MODEL THEY UTILIZED last night, they HAD TO HAVE DONE IT IN MULTIPLE COUNTIES FOR EVERY SWING STATE. That kind of coordination would be huge. And it would need the help of operatives from the other side. So I’m sitting here trying to figure out if the #s represent real voter outcome, which means almost all our internals were way the f-ck off, or how they pulled off fraud. . . .
Ulsterman report titled WHITE HOUSE INSIDER: “SHUT UP. MOVE ON…OR NOT.”
Now . . . compare WHI’s observations with the actual, hard data in St. Lucie County’s Statement of Votes Cast dated 11/07/12 at 01:39:59. THIS is what WHI was seeing:
http://www.slcelections.com/Pdf%20Docs/2012%20General/GEMS%20SOVC%20REPORT.pdf
Is that information not CRITICAL to Republican Insider . . . or is he “well-intended but” uninformed “about some things”?
Perhaps the answer lies partially in RI’s reply to UM’s question And you had no direct affiliation with the Romney campaign?
RI’s reply was No – none. I wasn’t…I wasn’t interested.
With apologies to you, our wonderful Ulsterman, I am compelled to voice my honest opinion about Republican Insider because some things he said pained me in my core.
I agree. There was a lot of fraud, will we ever know how much?
Also, enough on bashing and blaming Romney. The Corrupt media pushed every lie Obama told. That’s got to be stopped.
VTX (November 13, 2012 at 8:51 pm), are you surrendering? waving a white flag?
Or will you return to the front line trenches.
Impressions: It looks like RI is closer to getting it than other Republicans.
I just really hope that ‘conservatism’ doesn’t mean doubling-down with the social conservatives because in a lot of of ways they are out of touch.
Out of touch meaning (since I know some of you are raging mad at this point) that even though we have the right values, we don’t know how to communicate our message to Gen X and Gen Y voters.
There are really good reasons why we promote 2-parent homes and all the rest, but for my generation – Roe has always been legal and pushing an agenda that says that we are going overturn Roe is just stupid. Why?
Overturning Roe is a huge mountain to climb and most people don’t know or bother to explain how long that’s going to take in reality. New judges in the Supreme Court. A test case in a local court that has to work its way through the court system – that may or may not be reject the case once it reaches the Federal level.
Why are we focusing on long-term goals of the pro-life movement when there are things that are much more easier to do and have a larger margin of consensus.
And, we should never forget how Rick Santorum was booed in New Hampshire when he started going off about gay marriage and gay rights. He was booed by college Republicans. That matters.
There’s explaining why our values are better, but Gen X and Gen Y have been told over and over that these choices are valid choices. Key word: choice.
Taking away choice = taking away liberty/freedom.
We need to do a better job of explaining why these choices aren’t in the best interest of a stable society, while at the same time acknowledging that people aren’t inherently bad for making choices that we’d consider bad.
Going around shaming and judging people isn’t attractive to people in my generation. Our candidates should be able to address these issues w/o sounding ‘preachy’.
Our values are right, but I agree w/RI when they say we’ve become intellectually lazy!
Among my friends from college, I’m the only one who’s an active Republican, so I have to actively defend our positions all the time. I’m used to it. I’m sure they go “here we go again” when they see me post a long response to their liberal s-t. However, it’s really sad that our leaders and some of our activists can’t pull a reasoned argument out of their ass.
And it really comes off like we have no idea about the reality in which people live their lives.
We don’t win elections that way.
We can sit and argue about voter fraud, but the fact is that the election is over.
The thing is that we need to play the game smarter – utilize data/tech.
I’ve heard of Republican primary voters who were contacted multiple times by the Obama campaign, but never – ever – contacted by the Romney camp – especially DTD.
We need to make sure that when we see voter fraud, we take the stand and stop it because we can’t assume that nobody else will do it for us.
We can’t sit back in the way that we do and just let these things happen and wonder why these people didn’t get called out.
Remember that even though fraud has been shown to have taken place in MN in the Al Franken race – He’s been in the Senate making laws for years because the court system works a lot slower than our political system.
If we want to stop this sort of thing, then we need to figure out what we can do at the state level to improve the quality of our elections.
I know the Dems in my state are pushing for early voting (fraud) and on-line voting (more fraud) because they think that somehow those things will help people vote.
Sorry, but I think those things help people cheat. After I read that, I realized that their push for ‘election reform’ was really about politics.
A must-read
This report contains a lot about the vote fraud in Ohio as well as in other states. Click on the report’s individual links for additional details.
THE BIG LIST OF VOTE FRAUD REPORTS
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/the-big-list-of-vote-fraud-reports/
This is excellent and I welcome RI’s perspective and openness to communicate with you, UM, and with the readers here.
Keep up the great work.
I’d like the Republicans to go back about 100 years to December of 1914 and the vote on the Harrison Narcotics Act. The Republicans voted against it. Why? Because they thought the Federal Government didn’t have that power.
And now 100 years later the Republican Party is the Party of Federal Drug Prohibition. Especially when it comes to marijuana.
About 70% to 80% of all Americans favor med pot. Marijuana legalization now polls above 50% with Prohibition adherents running to 40% or less. There are votes there. If the Republicans could change. Adherence to the Constitution might be a way to introduce the change to the troglodytes.
And for all you libertarian haters who frequent this site. Reagan/Goldwater were from the libertarian wing of the party. The wing you’d like nothing better than see extinguished.
Well fine. I voted straight R this last election. Except for President. That vote went to Johnson/Gray. A couple of former Republicans.