On Saturday, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin accused the Republican establishment of having no principles or vision. He blasted them for claiming they will "fight" President Barack Obama and his policies like Obamacare once they "win," even though past evidence has shown that they will not.

Levin said the though the establishment's "Win first, fight later" bumper sticker "passes as wise insight," the Republican establishment will "neither win nor fight when it comes to the left."

The radio host blasted Republicans for participating in "funding Obamacare while scheduling vote after vote and pretending to repeal it."

"That was supposed to mollify you. It was pure deceit. Every bit as deceitful as Obama's serial lies about keeping your health insurance if you wanted to," Levin wrote. "Having lied repeatedly about its own tactics, the GOP establishment became unhinged when Ted Cruz and Mike Lee exposed its fecklessness and dishonesty by insisting on waging a real procedural and substantive effort to slow or defund or do something about the most outrageous law in our lifetimes, Obamacare. Imagine that."

Instead of uniting behind Lee and Cruz, Levin said "the Senate leadership and its loyal fanatics sought to assassinate their character" and tried to get them to "keep their mouths shut" and "know their place."

And now that "Obamacare is marching through our health care system as Sherman marched through Georgia, reaching into one home and business after another," Levin said, the "mighty GOP leadership is at it again" by claiming that if "only 17% of the federal government hadn't been closed for 16 crucial days during the initial implementation of Obamacare," then the "American people would've been more focused on the launch of Obamacare, and these objections would have been raised or known earlier."

"Huh? In other words, by Cruz trying to focus the nation's attention on Obamacare and linking it to the last crucial budget and spending deadlines in a 21 hour floor speech before its actual launch, Cruz distracted the nation from... Obamacare?" Levin writes. "You have to hand it to the GOP establishment. They spin like the best of the Democrat left. More deceit."

Levin also asked what the Republican establishment would do if Republicans take control of the Senate.

"What exactly will Mitch McConnell and John McCain do about Obamacare, the basis for this new majority status? Will they use their complete control of the purse strings to confront Obama? Of course not," Levin writes. "Obama would say 'boo' and accuse them of extortion and threatening to shutdown the government. The leadership's cheerleaders would sing 'do nothing' like chorus line girls."

Levin then slammed Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for being the great establishment hope like Mitt Romney and John Mccain have been the past two election cycles.

"Yet, Christie refused to sign any of the briefs challenging Obamacare and is among a handful of GOP governors moving quickly to implement it," he writes. "As time will reveal, despite all the propaganda, he's another big government Republican bragging how he can get big government things done with a bipartisan majority! Wonderful! Rah- rah! Obamacare here forevever!"

Levin said "the truth is the members of the Republican old guard are all but useless. They wake up and engage when their own re-election is threatened and their precious hold on power is challenged. They are dug in, petty, and self-serving. They have no strategy or principled vision."

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/...r-Win-Nor-Fight

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Republicans did not (and still don't) have enough votes in the Senate to win the fights Levin envisions.

Senator Cruz proved that (and inadvertantly cost the GOP the governorship in VA).

Conversely, Magnificent Mitch McConnell orchestrated the sequester victory and stopped Manchin/Toomey in the Senate.

Meanwhile Mighty John Boehner has bottled-up amnesty in the House, despite Levin's claim that MJB would "cave" way back in June.

Levin is either really dense or he's just trying to inflame his audience.

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Quote: Cedric wrote in post #2

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Senator Cruz proved that (and inadvertantly cost the GOP the governorship in VA).

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And for those who live in Northern Virginia, the local industry, the largest employer, is government.

Cruz gave federal government employees living in NOVA reason to fear the GOP, the party with which Cruz in affiliated.

Had this election been in Colorado or Missouri I don't think Cruz's actions would have been determinitive.

But in Virginia, it spelled the margin of defeat for the GOP.

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Democratic predictions that the government shutdown would drag down Republicans didn't play out in Virginia, according to exit polls, a sign that the issue might not boost the party in 2014 as much as Democrats had hoped.

While Democrats won Virginia's gubernatorial election, exit polls show almost as many voters blame President Obama for the shutdown as blame House Republicans.

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Quote: Cedric wrote in post #7

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Don't believe the exit polls, Frank.

Believe me.

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #4

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What DID cost the GOP that seat is the fact that you pals Karl and Wrench stopped spending money in that race on purpose and there were no Ken ads on TV for the last two weeks.

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Quote: Eglman wrote in post #1

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On Saturday, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin accused the Republican establishment of having no principles or vision. He blasted them for claiming they will "fight" President Barack Obama and his policies like Obamacare once they "win," even though past evidence has shown that they will not.

Instead of uniting behind Lee and Cruz, Levin said "the Senate leadership and its loyal fanatics sought to assassinate their character" and tried to get them to "keep their mouths shut" and "know their place."

And now that "Obamacare is marching through our health care system as Sherman marched through Georgia, reaching into one home and business after another," Levin said,

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http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/gallup-cruz-ratings-drop/2013/10/11/id/530650

Gallup Poll: Sen. Ted Cruz's Ratings Plummet

… the Texas Republican has succeeded in gaining attention: 62 percent of Americans have an opinion of him now, up from 42 percent in June.


His net favorability rating — the percentage of those who view him favorably minus the percentage who view him unfavorably — is negative 10. In June, he was a positive 6 — meaning 6 percent had a more favorable view of him than unfavorable.


Now, 26 percent of Americans have a favorable view of Cruz and 36 percent an unfavorable view. In June, 24 percent had a favorable view and 18 percent an unfavorable view.

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Name Recognition: The shutdown tactic did wonders for Ted Cruz’s named recognition. Up by 20 percentage points from 42 percent in June to 62 percent after the shutdown tactic. However, a sudden huge jump in Name Recognition is not necessarily a good thing. …. Just ask Ariel Castro’s relatives.

Favorability: As a result of the shutdown tactics, Ted Cruz’s Favorability Rating crashed and burned. Before the shutdown tactic, among the 42% of Americans who had ever heard enough about him to even have an opinion, Ted Cruz had a Positive 6 Favorability Rating. That’s pretty good, actually. AFTER the shutdown tactic, in a matter of a few weeks, the Favorability Rating plummeted to a toxic NEGATIVE 10.

When any political personality or event is run up the flag pole and, within a few weeks, Favorability Rating goes from Positive 6 to NEGATIVE 10, that is a political fiasco of ObamaCare web site proportions. And Levin expected the GOP to embrace it in a suicidal bear hug?

In introducing himself to the majority of American voters, Ted Cruz screwed the pooch. Big time.

(36% of Americans with Unfavorable view) divided by (62% of America that knows enough about Ted Cruz to have an opinion) = (58% of all Americans that Ted Cruz has made an impression on have an UNFAVORABLE opinion of him after the shutdown strategy)

Think about that number.

Once Ted Cruz ran the shutdown tactic up the flag pole, 58% of all Americans that noticed the flag wanted to burn it, not salute it. Politically, those numbers are toxic.

So, what is Levin complaining about? That an obviously flawed strategy was not pushed and pushed and pushed?

Since Levin wants to use Civil War analogies, let’s go there.

Is Levin suggesting that General Ambrose Burnside should be seen as a role model with “fight” because, at Fredericksburg, Burnside got the Army of the Potomac slaughtered by sending assault wave after assault wave after assault wave up against Lee’s impregnable entrenched position on Marye's Heights?

Was Stonewall Jackson a coward for not wanting anything to do with a suicidal frontal attack on the entrenched Union positions at Chancellorsville? No. Jackson was smart. Colonel Levin, however, would have told his regiment that Jackson “had no fight”. “General Jackson wants to take a very long hike in the woods instead of fighting!” ..... That long hike in the woods by Jackson ended up in a Union rout.

Of course, Colonel Levin. Fredericksburg. Pickett’s Charge. The Japanese Banzai charges at Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal. It does not matter if you lose the battle. It does not even matter if you lose the war. All that matter is that you push and push a failed tactic just so that you can prove to your followers that you have “fight”. ……. Even if your huge cojones then become crab food the next morning.


The Japanese after repeated Banzai charges at Bloody Ridge, Guadalcanal.

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Ted Cruz was, whether he and the Democrats knew it or not, trying to save ObamaCare from itself

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"the Republican establishment will "neither win nor fight when it comes to the left.""

Of course they won't fight to win. Winning is NOT their job. Their reason to exist is to pretend to run against the left so we still have the illusion of a 2 party system,and to be in place in case of a freak accident where the formal leftist candidate actually loses so they can take up the reins of leftism to prevent some 2nd part outsider of getting the seat.

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And for those who live in Northern Virginia, the local industry, the largest employer, is government.

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #4

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What DID cost the GOP that seat is the fact that you pals Karl and Wrench stopped spending money in that race on purpose and there were no Ken ads on TV for the last two weeks.

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So, Cooch was out of cash for the last two weeks and yet he still managed to pull within several points of the heavily funded McAuliffe.

Sounds like he was poorly funded by the GOP to me and that was the cause of his loss.

Oh dear, the GOP really should stop blaming the Tea Party for their losses. A divided house cannot stand.

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