This morning on Morning Joe aired on MSNBC, Donny Deutsch,
while addressing the Republican Party split, hinted at a salient point. The Republican
Party has two approaches to campaigning, which is the basis for the split. Let me explain it this way; some Republicans
campaign the way they would govern while others campaign to win elections. Look,
for example, at Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee and compare them to Pat
McCrory and Scott Walker. Then look at the trio who refer to themselves as the “Young
Guns”: Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Kevin
McCarthy. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee like most Tea Party candidates and office holders
are honest. The campaign as they would govern. They would shut the government
down to get their way. They would destroy social security and Medicare; they would
turn this country in a Ronald Reagan Plutocracy in a minute. This is obviously
not a winning strategy in a general election but is for a primary where they
can control the voters by gerrymandering districts, and voter suppression laws.
For the second example of a different breed of Republican,
look at Pat McCrory, Scott walkers, John Kasich, and Rick Snyder. They campaigned
in a dishonest manner; they lied their way into office—they are the worst kind
of liars. They campaign on a platform the
voters wanted to hear but as soon as they the voters elected them, they
governed in an extreme right wing manner; they governed as Ted Cruz or Mike Lee
would govern. The tragic story in North Carolina and Wisconsin, Michigan
and Ohio give clear evidence of the truth of this fact.
Then there is the third group: Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Kevin
McCarty. They tell half-truths because genetic Republicans concur with them,
even those for which it is against their own best interest—the “What’s the
matter with Kansas” crowd. These folks are followers of Ayn Rand. In their minds
eye view of the world, there are makers and takers. They see the business community
and Republicans as the John Wayne types of modern society, the Marlborough
cowboys. At the same time, they lie to the working people and tell them they
deserve a living wage and they, like everyone else, deplores welfare of any
kind. The truth is that they consider a living wage to be $7.25 an hour, it is
OK if tuition is out of reach of working families, it is OK if people don’t have
jobs because it lowers wages, and it is OK to hate unions because they protect
lazy workers.. If people receive government assistance in any form, they are
leaches; the 1% verses the 99% or in Romney’s eyes, they are the 47%. Of course,
leaches are lazy subhuman forms of humanity and deserve what they get. The have
to have someone to hate, some one who needs them to lead.
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