Establishment Republicans Break Their Own Rules in Opposing Amash

[jct74]

Establishment Republicans Break Their Own Rules in Opposing Amash

BY LOGAN ALBRIGHT
5 hours ago

Ever since the emergence of the tea party in 2009, the media narrative has been pre-written and ready to deploy at opportune times. Embodying the intense frustrations of ordinary Americans with so-called limited-government Republicans who were forever raising taxes, increasing spending, and incurring more debt, the tea party demanded that their representatives keep their promises, and adhere to principle over politics. Otherwise, when the next election cycle rolled around, they would be fully prepared to throw the bums out.

Not only did this seismic shift ruffle the feathers of Democrats and those who wanted to expand government in perpetuity, it left many establishment Republicans, who had long enjoyed their unchallenged incumbency, understandably peeved. The response was swift and brutal.

You tea party whacko birds are ruining the Party. You’re handing the elections to Democrats. How dare you challenge incumbents in primaries? After all, whose side are you really on?

We’ve heard it over and over again, repeated ad nauseum in the echo chamber that is the mainstream media, even as we’ve scored amazing victories and elected some of the most incredible, principled candidates the Congress has seen in generations.

One of these figures is a young congressman from Michigan named Justin Amash. Steeped in the ideology of Austrian economics and a true belief in limited government, Amash has arguably been the single most principled, pro-liberty voice in the House of Representatives. You would think that the Republican Party would be proud to have so fiery an advocate for all the things they claim to stand for.

You would think wrong.

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http://www.freedomworks.org/content/...opposing-amash

[William R]

bump

[kathy88]

Great read.

[jct74]

Glenn Beck Radio: Hypocritical Republicans supporting Justin Amash's liberal primary challenger



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTAgHFUQo-M

[Origanalist]

With "friends" like this........

[Lord Xar]

Love to have a network of a million or so Republicans -- freedom and liberty loving republicans and leverage the group to send a message to the GOP that if they try to primary freedom loving candidates, we'll switch to libertarian etc.. Probably not a bad idea - but we need to not allow the GOP to get away with this sort backstabbing bull$#@!.

[angelatc]

Love to have a network of a million or so Republicans -- freedom and liberty loving republicans and leverage the group to send a message to the GOP that if they try to primary freedom loving candidates, we'll switch to libertarian etc.. Probably not a bad idea - but we need to not allow the GOP to get away with this sort backstabbing bull$#@!.

The solution to that is to get involved with the party, and start voting them out of their positions of power. That's one reason I desperately want to see McMilllin take the Mike Rogers seat away from that wing of the party.

[NewRightLibertarian]

But we need to support establishment Republican politicians. It helps liberty and stuff

[angelatc]

But we need to support establishment Republican politicians. It helps liberty and stuff

Ron Paul talked about this once. There are ideologues (like McCain) and then there are politicians (like McConnell). McCain is the guy who would betray the majority of his own party in order to dispatch fighter plane somewhere. McConnell would sell out his mother just to please the party.

If the liberty movement becomes viable, guys like McConnell will be out there in the middle like he's always been one of them while McCain will snarl about them being hobbits.