Many people who are actual Conservatives (with a capital “C”) have “had it” with the staid old GOP representatives in Congress, to include (off the immediate top of my head) John McCain, John Boehner and now, Mitch McConnell via his newest insult proffered by a staffer named Brad Dayspring. See the Tweet above, slamming Conservative talk show host Mark Levin.
Levin responded here on Facebook, as reproduced below:
These sleazy intimidation tactics will not work
January 9, 2014 at 7:54am
Mitch McConnell’s National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) hit man, some idiot named Brad Dayspring, does not intimidate me and will not silence me with his sleazy inside-the-beltway tactics. (See link below.) In fact, I am more fired up than ever.
Liberty and Tyranny is nearly 5 years old, sold nearly 1.3 million copies, and was on the New York Times best-seller list for half a year during 2009. The Senate Conservative Fund (SCF) has been using the paperback version of the book in recent months to encourage donations in support of conservative candidates. This has nothing to do with best-seller lists that date back to 2009. I am told that the number of books distributed by the SCF represents about 3 percent of the total. In addition, the SCF worked directly with the publisher, not me, in making these arrangements, and SCF apparently received a deep discount because of the bulk purchase of the paperbacks as would others who use the book for promotion purposes. I am told this is typical.
Now, let me be clear. I hold McConnell and the chairman of the NRSC – Jerry Moran of Kansas – personally and politically accountable for the sleazy intimidation tactics of their current and former staffers. My opposition to McConnell’s re-election is underscored by pathetic behavior like this. Conservatives should not give a dime to the NRSC, money which is used to pay the salaries of these hit men and empower McConnell, et al.
I take Mark Levin to heart. I do not contribute to the NRSC. I do not contribute to the NRC. I gave that up roughly five years ago. I target my contributions to specific individuals because I do not trust the GOP. I predicate this upon having an actual memory. And the BZ phrase that goes something like this: “the best predictor of future behavior is past performance or the lack thereof.”
Further, as many people already realize, having read this blog, I am no longer a registered Republican. I am an Independent because the GOP has proven, time and again, that it has no spine, that it is clueless, that it is rudderless, that it is leader-less, and that it is too interested in being loved. It is too interested in being involved in compromise and bi-partisanship.
These days, visions of bi-partisanship and compromise involve, via the Demorats who are in control, voting and thinking precisely as the Demorats themselves. Anything less is heinous, racist, sexist, homophobic, ageist and any other -ist that Leftists can craft.
At the end of the day, in truth, Old School/Old Guard Republicans (OSOGRs) visit local DC watering holes and bend elbows with their good friends the Demorats — belly larfing and back-slapping with the stimulated vigor of having hosed the American Taxpayer another day, to their mutual and eternal pensional and future employment benefit.
I have had it with Republicans who propose caution and consideration and taciturn reflection predicated but upon caving and capitulation and a willingness to cast aside the basic and fundamental documents of this great nation.
Let there be no mistake: I am not a massive fan of Mark Levin. He writes well, he is an attorney, but I cannot physically listen to more than five minutes of his stridently-nasal and irritating voice and, clearly, he isn’t sufficiently strong in my local radio market to deserve a leading AM or PM Drive slot.
That said, I don’t doubt for a microsecond that he is a true Conservative in every form.
The American Media Maggots portray issues on the Right as the TEA Party vs all others. Let me be clear: I frequently do not agree with much of the various TEA Party formulations who, in my estimation, have lost their compass.
The current Demorat Mantra is this: “what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine unless you have the power to wrest it back from me.”
Given past history — when the GOP owned the House, the Senate and the White House — just what did they do with this power?
Nothing.
BZ
The House voted Wednesday to screw the military.
One widely supported provision would roll back a reduction in annual cost-of-living increases for wounded military personnel who retire early or for their surviving spouses. That language was part of the savings included in the budget compromise by Ryan and Murray enacted last month, money that was used to help soften cuts in other programs.
