Tea Party writer urges GOP ‘civil war’

December 27, 2012

By Michael

As reported in recent weeks here on SNN, the revolt against Republican leader John Boehner appears to be gaining momentum.


Indeed, many Tea Party types are fed up with the GOP elites who continually sell out the rank-and-file conservative voters who support the party. Perhaps this has contributed to the fact that a quarter of Republicans across the US now support secession and half of Georgia Republicans favour independence. The latest indication that conservatives within the GOP are ready and willingly to duke it out with their party’s moderate and liberal leaders comes from John Wiseman at Tea Party Nation. The title of his piece says it all: ‘Epiphanies From Last Week, Let’s Get The Inevitable GOP Civil War Underway.’ He writes:

Conservatives, of our many stripes make up 68% of the GOP voting bloc, while Moderate or Liberal Republicans only tally 32% of the party’s voters. The problem is that the smaller 32% make up the power base of the party, and they ain’t looking to change their positions to accommodate us pesky small government types. As a matter of fact, far from attempting to reach out to us, I have heard nothing but derision coming from them since Mitt Romney managed to so spectacularly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory 7 short weeks ago. They view us as losers, fringe elements of a knuckle dragging freak show, who’s [sic] votes are assumed, and voices disliked. From their perspective, we have no where else to go.

…The national Republican Brand right now is a mess. John Boehner and the party apparatchiks are trying their level best to cajole the rest of us, actual GOP voters, into falling in line and just going along with their message of Democrat Lite. They are telling us via every microphone in existence in this hemisphere, that we can not afford a Republican civil war at the moment, that the Obama agenda will move forward unopposed should we insist on a party that actually shares our values to represent us.

 I say, what’s the difference? If the Obama agenda moves forward as is anyhow, even with chosen leadership in tact, how on Earth is that any better? We need this civil war, between the Conservatives and the Moderates, and we should have it out as soon as possible. If the GOP does not survive, then so be it. They have long ago forsaken us all anyhow.
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