Before Grassroots Conservatives Take The Speck Out Of The Establishment’s Eye, We Should Take The Log Out Of Our Own
by John Hawkins | April 16, 2016 2:58 pm
My latest Townhall column is called, Before Grassroots Conservatives Take The Speck Out Of The Establishment’s Eye, We Should Take The Log Out Of Our Own.[1] Here’s an excerpt from the column.
There’s just something about the swamp gas of D.C. that seems to turn diehard conservatives wimpy, out-of-touch and punishingly dull the moment they get into the GOP leadership. Maybe it’s something the lobbyists are sticking in the hors d’oeuvres at all the fancy cocktail parties they attend. Whatever’s causing it, movement conservatives are entirely justified in being furious at the way the GOP Leadership has behaved over the last few years. The grassroots wanted conservatives who’d represent their interests and they got pod people who spend most of their time servilely catering to Obama and a business lobby that doesn’t have the best interests of the American people at heart.
Unfortunately, for far too many people on our side, this is where their critique of Republicans begins and ends. They start with the premise that the establishment is bad, which is true, but then they go haywire and attribute all bad things to the establishment.
I wish that were true. I wish all we’d need to do to fix the Republican Party, the conservative movement and the country would be to flush Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, John Cornyn and a few other guys along with all their orbiters and everything would be fine. But, it’s not.
That’s because the problems the conservative movement has go a lot deeper than the establishment. Until all of us in flyover country start behaving differently, we’re not going to turn this country around.
Once again, you can read it all here[3].
Endnotes:
Before Grassroots Conservatives Take The Speck Out Of The Establishment’s Eye, We Should Take The Log Out Of Our Own.:
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