I see is all the time. Supporters of Establishment candidates complain that their opponents are establishment, too.
We saw it in the Missouri 2nd District. We see in the GOP Presidential primary. The last refuge of the Establishment’s candidates is to spread the pain of the Establishment label.
What many people don’t get is what the Establishment label actually means. It’s time everyone understood this.
The Establishment’s candidate is the candidate the Establishment chooses for us.
Got that? Please repeat it. Say it out loud. Write it down if you have to. Just don’t forget it. If it helps, add an apostrophe-s to Establishment, as in “Mitt Romney is the Establishment’s candidate.”
Remember the Frank Capra movie, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? Mr. Smith was the Establishment’s appointment to the US Senate. (In that case, the Establishment chose the wrong guy for their own narrow interests.) Indeed, the Establishment’s candidate might be as un-establishment or anti-establishment as you can get.
Everyone who works with, for, on behalf of an established political party is part of the establishment. For that matter, anyone who votes in a primary in which he must choose a party’s ballot joins the establishment. Every candidate who runs as a Republican or as a Democrat is a member of the establishment. Libertarian candidate? Libertarian establishment.
Simply running for a party’s nomination does not make one the Establishment’s candidate, though. Nor does having been an office holder. Or an appointee. The Establishment’s candidate one year can be the Establishment’s enemy in another election.
When people reject the Establishment’s candidates, they’re not rejecting party affiliation; they’re rejecting political elites telling them whom to vote for.
If you reject government telling you how to live, you should reject a Party telling you how to vote.
SamFox
February 22, 2012
Here is an example of establishment candidates. This 1st one is dedicated to Gina Lauden.
Santorum.
Overview of Santorum.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh144.htm
[Part 1]
http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh145.htm
[P. 2]
http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh146.htm
[p.3]
Santorum’s nephew goes for Ron
Paul:
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/01/nephew-of-rick-santorum-vote-ron-paul/
Santorum rails on freedom &
individualism.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread793960/pg1Santorum is for big govt.
http://tinyurl.com/7vb6rtl
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/perm/pr/?postID=1007SamFox
SamFox
February 22, 2012
Now for Mitt.
Romney exposedhttp://tinyurl.com/86meydk
Fake Conservative Mitt:http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh123.htm
Snakes On A Campaign, M Romney, by Southern
Avengerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3etUOq7hVE
http://godfatherpolitics.com/3369/is-mitt-romney-a-fiscal-and-social-liberal/
Romney is for big govt &war:
http://tinyurl.com/7v9vcvrThat will do for now. SamFox
SamFox
February 22, 2012
Time for Newt.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh121.htm
Quote from Newt’s mentors new age book, The Third
Wave. From P2 of above link.
” Toffler believes mankind is entering a new system. To the founding
fathers in his book, he wrote, “For the system of government you fashioned
including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete,
and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our
welfare. It must be radically changed and a new system of government invented, a
democracy for the 21st century. For this wisdom, above all, I thank Mr.
Jefferson who helped create the system that served us so well for so long, and
that now must, in its turn, die and be replaced.” ”
Gingrich no conservative. By Jack Hunter
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin606.htm
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=36799
Newt, CFR member:
http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/CFRMembers.html#GThere. You can now investigate these 3 big govt stooges & find out if I am wrong. I wish I was.SamFox
SamFox
February 22, 2012
We are left with Ron Paul. Sorry to break it to you Gina Lauden, but you lied about Dr. Paul on Cavuto on Ron’s foreign policy. Bet you don’t know where he gets his FP or what it really is. You claim to be TEA. but don’t know what the FP of the only conservative running. Not good. Ron comes with a huge bonus. He is also a true & consistent Constitutionalist.
Ron’s FP;
Wise,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/fisk5.html
Same as Founders
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul413.html
Original FP
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/fff-video.html
Combat Veterans For Ron Paul:
http://cvrp2012.com/2012/01/08/the-ron-paul-effect-2/comment-page-1/#comment-616
Ron’s poll results blacked out.
http://cvrp2012.com/2012/01/29/r3volution-blackout/
http://cvrp2012.com/2012/01/08/the-ron-paul-effect-2/
The troops choice.
http://cvrp2012.com/2012/01/31/choice-of-the-troops/
So you like Ron Paul except on foreign policy.
http://tinyurl.com/6s489v6SamFox
patriotsoul
February 22, 2012
This is a fact! I was furious that I had to pick a party as an election judge.
How does that affect my effectiveness?
Will I be a “target” come November?
What if I never signed in blood that I am of any party at any time in my life?
It’s about as bad as having to pick an online profile that can be tracked throughout the web, in order to make a comment!
Culture Vigilante
February 22, 2012
Perfectly defined. Yesterday’s question in examiner.com also addressed this, on a local level.
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-st-louis/what-is-the-definition-of-a-conservative-republican?utm_source=Web%20Site%20Users&utm_campaign=a008184270-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email
Time to quit acquiescing to establishment as they throw you occasional bones and then ignore you on other larger, and important issues. Stop supporting establishment.