A couple of points that spring to mind:
First and foremost, a Republican party that continues to live to serve the Wall Street Journal, the Chamber of Commerce, and rich donors at the expense of the rest of its constituency does not have a bright future.
When did conservatism renounce business and commerce? I haven't. I still believe the hoary old saying that the business of America is business. Outside of working to expose rich donors to the light of day, I can't see where this is supposed to be 'bad'.
They’re furious that Obama is willfully ignoring the law on immigration, and they paid attention when the entire leadership team of the House GOP swore to use the power of the purse to keep Obamacare from ever being implemented.
The House GOP learned that the power of the purse is really just the power to fund/not fund the operations of the government entire. For the President can also play that game by vetoing budgets. The House GOP also learned that it does not work alone. There are the House Democrats, the Senate GOP, and the Senate Democrats. All of them can, and will, muck around with the House GOP plans.
Unfortunately, the House GOP is not willing to educate people about that. Instead, the GOP uses simple slogans that reinforce the unworkable notions that are so infuriating their base.
Good points, in my view:
Speaking of the mainstream media, Republican voters found out in the primaries that many members of the conservative media were just as unreliable as the MSM.
In a related matter, as the Left has gotten ever more easily offended, conservatives have become ever more anxious to offend. There’s a lot to be said for refusing to be hemmed in by political correctness, but we’ve gotten to the point where many conservatives have embraced the idea that if political correctness is bad, then anything that’s politically incorrect must be good. This has created an environment where saying foolish and inflammatory things can be a major career enhancer for conservatives. If you can say something that makes liberals talk about how much they hate you, but conservatives won’t walk away even if you make them cringe, that’s a recipe for selling books and getting on TV. This may be great for the careers of a few people, but it also gives the public at large a terrible impression of conservatives. Even if they say some things you agree with, the last thing that anyone who cares about the conservative movement should want is for the public to base its opinion of it on people who are trying to offend as many people as possible to get attention.
On one mildly positive note, all the articles about conservative PACs — such as SarahPAC, the Madison Project, and the biggest tea-party groups — that have wasted more than 90 percent of the money they receive seem to have cut into their donations, but scam PACs are still a real problem. If you’re getting e-mails asking you for money to help Trey Gowdy, Allen West, Ben Carson, or any other big name in the conservative movement and that person is not the one sending you the e-mail, you should assume that any money you send in probably won’t do anything other than improve someone’s lifestyle. It’s a shame when there are more sleazy PACS out there than good ones, but that’s where we are today.
The bolded paragraph is so very, very true!
