Who and/or What Are Establishment Republicans?

[TyroneSlothrop]

They vote "liberal" in the older, classical sense, not in the current progressive statist sense.

Don't leave home without it boo booi

 

[martybegan]

They vote "liberal" in the older, classical sense, not in the current progressive statist sense.

Don't leave home without it boo booi

Do you have a point for you post?

Probably not.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

 

[Wry Catcher]

This seems to be the hot term these days, but can anyone define it?

If so, please do.

Also, who are the Establishment Republicans in office? How about in the media? Can we get some names?

Establishment Republicans are moderate/centrist legislators who have all too often sided with Liberal Democrats rather than standing for Conservative ideals. The term is similar to RINO and means close to the aame thing.

The vast majority, anf almost entirety of the non-Tea Party Republican majority in Washington meet these criteria.

I have my doubts that the vast majority is in tune with liberal or progressive Democrats. And anyone who finds Objectivism and fiscal conservatism sane and safe is a fool. Fiscal responsibility is needed, not patching the roof is insane.

 

[Wry Catcher]

It's basically the non libertarian, non hard-core social conservative wing of the the Republican party. Corporatist is another good name.

Actually even the Libertarians qualify as Establishment Republicans as the tend to vote Liberal in many cases (ie... drug laws). I wish the Corporatist comment wasn't as true as it probably is, since I see no need for Corporate involvement in Government.

Corporations are people too (sarcasm).

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Starkey is an Establishment Republican, which is to say he unites with the Democrats to destroy the USA

I thought you guys have been swearing that Starkey isn't, and never was, a Republican. What changed?

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That's what I mean, for all intents and purposes, an Establishment Republican is a progressive

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Compromise that leads to the destruction of the way of life I hold dear is no virtue.

poor noble GOP Patriots LOL

 

[Anathema]

Compromise is a worthless concept? You must live in a hellish world.

Not at all. It's a world with two xoncepts, Right and Wrong, and no exceptions. That makes it a very nice, simple world.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

 

[longknife]

I think "Establishment Republicans" are the entrenched local and state party chairpersons along with their staffs. They in turn create the NRC with its vast bureaucracy @ Republican National Committee | GOP

These are the people who actually select the candidates we get to vote for. The pull the strings behind the scenes.

In addition, they are those political figures who have been around forever and have worked themselves into self-perpetuating positions of power where lobbyists kneel at their feet and beg to give them money to support their causes.

Are they "good" or "bad?"

That's up to you! If you sit back and let them do their will without standing up to them, you'll reap what you sow.

 

[Anathema]

Law and order when applied to something like Pot is a social conservative position, not a libertarian one. small "l" libertarians want the police to go after robbers, and murderers, not some hippie selling dime bags out of his backpack between hackey sack games.

Whereas Conservatives understand that CRIME, in all forms, must be harshly and constantly punished.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Whereas Conservatives understand that CRIME, in all forms, must be harshly and constantly punished.

Yeah OK you must have gotten into moonshine earlier...

 

[Anathema]

I have my doubts that the vast majority is in tune with liberal or progressive Democrats. And anyone who finds Objectivism and fiscal conservatism sane and safe is a fool. Fiscal responsibility is needed, not patching the roof is insane.

They continue to vote for and support the policies and legislation of the Libs/Dems.

Anyone who thinks we can spend our way out of debt is Insane. Especially spending on unconstitutional topics.

 

[defcon4]

So, essentially, people with some sense and willingness to compromise for the sake of the country as a whole. What demons.

Compromising away all freedom one step at a time... Dismantling the US brick by brick... It doesn't work like a flash flood washing river banks away but washing them away through slow erosion...

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Whereas Conservatives understand that CRIME, in all forms, must be harshly and constantly punished.

yeah you must be drunk

In this episode a white kid gets drunk kills four permanently disables another teen and walks off to do yoga ..real harsh dude

 

[Misty]

Starkey is an Establishment Republican, which is to say he unites with the Democrats to destroy the USA

Dead on. A republican who unites with democrats. And the party has been ruined by them.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Anyone who thinks we can spend our way out of debt is Insane. Especially spending on unconstitutional topics.

You mean like starting two wars and then giving unprecedented war time tax cuts and creating an unfunded Medicare part D...is that the fiscal prudence you seek you drunk

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

This seems to be the hot term these days, but can anyone define it?

If so, please do.

Also, who are the Establishment Republicans in office? How about in the media? Can we get some names?

Establishment Republicans are moderate/centrist legislators who have all too often sided with Liberal Democrats rather than standing for Conservative ideals. The term is similar to RINO and means close to the aame thing.

The vast majority, anf almost entirety of the non-Tea Party Republican majority in Washington meet these criteria.

I have my doubts that the vast majority is in tune with liberal or progressive Democrats. And anyone who finds Objectivism and fiscal conservatism sane and safe is a fool. Fiscal responsibility is needed, not patching the roof is insane.

Fiscal responsibility is needed, not patching the roof is insane.

Last year the Feds spent over $3.5 trillion.
If you can't patch the roof for less than that, you're probably using union labor.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Last year the Feds spent over $3.5 trillion.
If you can't patch the roof for less than that, you're probably using union labor.

No its not labor unions you dumb ass its spending trillions on contrived wars for profits