Kicking the Status Quo to the Curb — No More Beltway Bozos

In case anyone was wondering, or cares: I am not a Republican nor a Democrat. I don’t like either party. Never have. I am an independent.

I don’t like the Democrats because they are statists. They are for big government and more taxes. They are also for mob rule. They want a democratic society, not a Republic. That is a disastrous recipe. Big government always leads to tyranny, democracy lacks the limited government structure of a Republic, which makes it harder for corruption to prevail. Democrats seem to love corruption. They wallow in it like pigs in their own dung. That’s why they seek to undermine our limited-government constitution at every point. You can go back to Tammany Hall right up to today to see their disregard for the rule of law. Rangel and Waters were merely caught. They are far from outliers.

I dislike the Republicans because they don’t practice what they preach. They’re supposed to be the party of smaller government and lower taxes. But they are just like ’70s Democrats now. Aside from the Bush tax cuts, they’ve expanded government and spending to obscene levels. When the Democrats came into power they just made the Republicans look conservative by contrast.

Less terrible is still terrible. The Republicans share the blame for our debt. But what I really dislike about Republicans is how elitist they are. They cherry pick their primary candidates before the people can choose. They ram their picks through. The public is given a token choice, but the party rigs the results. A great example was the primary race this week. Delaware says it all.

Mike Castle was a weak RINO who, along with 23 other Republicans, voted to refer Dennis Kucinich’s motion to impeach George W. Bush to the judiciary committee in 2008. That move right there should be a clue he was a terrible pick to fight the Democrats. But the GOP put their money on him and they ran an incredibly vicious campaign against the tea party candidate, Christine O’Donnell. They ran all kinds of negative ads against her and robo-calls up to the last minute — but she clobbered Castle by eight points.

They tried to rig the results but the public is wise to them now. The message from the voters is clear. No more status quo candidates. No more beltway bozos.

The Republican National committee answered thusly: “We’re not going to give her any money. She can get the tea party to pay for her campaign.”

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They just don’t get it. The anger out there is about taking the government back from the beltway creeps on either side of the aisle. Status quo candidates will get kicked to the curb. The GOP had better get a clue that voters want government spending and size cut or they will get the chop next. This is not a joke.

The beltway bozos, who thought being like the Democrats was the way to win elections, are going to find out the hard way they were wrong. Already the Democrats are saying the Tea Party is moving the GOP too far to the right. Here is the Dems’ latest blather:

“Today the Republican Party has shown just how far right it has moved,” DNC Chairman Tim Kaine said in a written statement. “While Americans in Delaware and across the country are eager for both parties to work together toward solutions that move America forward, Delaware’s Tea Party Republicans have nominated a self-aggrandizing and divisive candidate who seeks to tear down the progress we’ve made to recover from failed Republican economic policies that took us to the brink of economic collapse.”

But privately they are quaking in fear, shivering in their booties. They know 2010 is over for them. Their only hope is to keep trying to make the tea party into a fringe movement. Their media lackies have been doing that for the last year and a half. It’s a tactic that is failing miserably. Now that the GOP is finding their chosen are getting mowed down, they may join the Dems and the press in trying to hurt the tea party.

But they will do that at their peril. The public has had enough. We’re almost at the point of busting into the Bastille. The voters are sending a message to Washington that business as usual is over. For the last year and a half Democrats have been telling the voters they don’t care what they want.

Now the voters are showing them the door. If the Republicans don’t wake up, they’ll be joining the Dems out in the cold.

2010 is a year of reckoning.