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    Can Conservatives Take Over the GOP?

    Can Conservatives Take Over the GOP?

    It began with Richard Nixon. He showed Republicans how to win elections and lose their soul, how to capitulate to statism and call it a “new kind of freedom.” Consequently the GOP is now a carbon copy of the Democrat Party.

    Throughout the seventies and eighties, neoconservative intellectuals eagerly fostered this “new kind of freedom” which gave Republicans an excuse to blank out on the reality of what they were doing. Led by the late Irving Kristol and big government luminaries like Harvard sociologist Patrick Moynihan and Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, these influential former socialists infiltrated the Republican Party like termites invading the support beams of one’s home. Their adoption of the name “neoconservatives” was merely a cover for wider acceptance. By the early 1990s they had eroded the sacred canons of conservatism with an amoral pragmatism devoid of respect for individual rights and freedom domestically, while fomenting a ruinous global hegemony internationally.

    In the November 1977 issue of The American Spectator, Irving Kristol told us that the laissez-faire vision of the Founders was a “doctrinaire fantasy.” Its ideals “make it inadequate…for a political community.” To adhere today to what Jefferson and Madison advocated is anachronistic foolishness, he felt. It must be phased out of our collective conscience.

    Capitalism and individual rights are dangerous institutions and must be constantly modified by a powerful state that redistributes wealth whenever necessary. In the eyes of Kristol and his followers, freedom, while desirable, is not a primary political value. Machiavelli had the better idea; expediency is the best way to rule. These intellectuals now lead the GOP.

    Despicable that the party of Taft and Goldwater would tolerate such open collectivism, but by the advent of the senior Bush regime in 1989, most Republicans were willing to look the other way. They had convinced themselves that freedom and the mega-state are somehow compatible if we wish them to be so. Kristol’s Machiavellians were established in high places and offered the GOP keys to entrenched power in Washington with their support. This, Republicans wanted badly – enough so that they were willing to ignore the founding principles of the nation and tolerate government usurpations that have enslaved millions throughout history. Consequently the GOP now promotes statism, inflation, wealth redistribution, open borders, and a police-the-world foreign policy.

    Can Freedom Be Saved?

    Can the conservative “freedom movement” be rescued from this tragedy of default? Can neoconservatives be exposed for their stealth and ideological treason to the American vision? Can the true freedom movement eventually restore the Republic? Yes, but it cannot be done with the Republican Party.

    The GOP is too tightly controlled by the neoconservative elites. What this means is that runaway government cannot be stopped by voting conservatives into Congress and “taking over the GOP” because those that we manage to elect ultimately cave in to the party’s neocon ideology. They may start out as Jimmy Stewart characters in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, full of idealism and fervor to reform, but they don’t stay that way.

    Here’s why. Newly elected Republicans to Congress soon see who has the power in the party and realize that going against the neoconservative elites would jeopardize their path to re-election. To run on substantive reforms designed to restore the Founders’ vision would ostracize them from the major donors of the Republican welfare-state establishment and bring criticism instead of praise from the neocon intellectuals. So they choose to appease the corporate donors, to support amnesty for illegals, to play ball with hegemonic foreign policy mavens, and to join with government expansionists. This is how they assure their re-election.

    Ideology and money control politics, and the neocons control both in the Republican Party via organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Hudson Institute, the Foreign Policy Initiative, and other highly influential institutions that have been built to dominance in Washington and New York over many decades.

    Thus ninety percent of incoming conservative congressmen eventually capitulate to the neocon agenda in order to attract the ideological and funding support that come from its promotional network of scholars, institute heads, and corporate/banking moguls. If not, such newcomers to Congress are abandoned by the party elites.

    Republican Rank and File Misguided

    So it is very naïve to think the Republican Party can be taken over merely by voting to send conservative candidates to Washington. To get control of the GOP, we will have to root out the powerful neocon intellectuals who promote the party’s vision. We will have to create a whole new array of banking moguls on Wall Street who respect Jefferson and Smith instead of Marx and Keynes. In short, we will have to create a whole new array ofintellectual elites to lead the GOP. Such a scholarly take-over will require 40-50 years to accomplish. America doesn’t have this kind of time. We need to challenge the tyrannical control that liberals and neocons have over America now!

    In other words it is impossible to change the structure of an institution without changing the source of its power – i.e., its intellectuals. Neocon intellectuals control the GOP by controlling Washington’s think tanks and Wall Street’s banks ideologically. Expecting incoming conservative legislators to seriously challenge these scholars is like expecting school girls to go up against Mafia lords. This is the major flaw of the Tea Party groups that wish to work “within the GOP.”

    Thus trying to take over the Republican Party by voting in more “conservative legislators” is a tragic waste of time. It will never stop America’s dictatorial drift. We have been attempting to do this for over four decades, and the freedom advocates we send to Washington continue to be bought off by the GOP’s neoconservative corruption as fast as we send them.

    Divorce from the Republicans Needed

    How then do we defeat this neocon corruption? Only by leaving the GOP and forming an alternative independent party with an independent candidate (as Ross Perot did in 1992). When a marriage becomes unworkable, wise spouses seek divorce. We in the political arena must do likewise. Our strength lies in the fact that our independent candidate will not be beholden to neocon intellectual and financial power. He will be beholden to the American people. Thus he can run on a campaign of substantive reform. He can tell the truth to the voters.

    America is now ready for the truth; it will find millions of takers.
    Americans for a Free Republic in Dallas, Texas www.afr.org has designed a strategy to bring about such a National Independent Party movement for 2016. It’s platform is comprised of Four Pillars of Reform for our tax, monetary, immigration, and foreign policy systems. These are crucial, substantive changes that must be implemented if the country is to survive and return to freedom. The leaders of both the Democrats and Republicans will oppose these reforms, but 50 percent of the American people will embrace them. That leaves 50 percent of American voters for the Democrats and Republicans to split between them, which spells victory for our National Independent Party.

    AFR has published a Special Report, “How Tea Party Patriots Can Break the Demopublican Monopoly and Win in 2016,” that explains the reforms in detail. It is a blueprint for the salvation of America and the permanent establishment of a free-market, conservative, patriot political party, which will replace the Republican Party by drawing four major voting blocks together – the true conservatives of the GOP, the vast body of patriotic independents, the libertarians, and the blue-collar Democrats.

    Our Special Report can be viewed here.

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    If the two party system is to survive we must stop the GOP move to the left, voting for RINO's must stop, we're wasting our votes for the single party we now have, we just continue to elect progressives and watching our country fail as a free society.
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    Matt Liponoga Posted date: November 16, 2013



    In 1962, Reagan famously said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.” He did not pretend that the party was something he could fix or something he still belonged to. He packed his bags and went on his way to a better alternative. At the time, that was the Republican party.
    The Republican party’s slogan goes, “Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men.” Republicans held all three branches of the government from 2000 to 2006. What did they do to make you more “free”?
    Last week I was furious with FOX News for calling Tea Party representatives, such as Rand Paul, RINOS, but then really got to thinking about it.
    Today as conservatives or libertarians we like to point fingers at the “bad” in the Republican party and say that they are RINOS (Republicans in Name Only). When you’ve become a minority within the party however, is it time to move on like Reagan, or do you continue to use the name Republican?
    In 2012, I put my full concentration on getting Barack Obama out of office and Mitt Romney in as many of us likely did. In fact, many of those reading right now would probably take George W. Bush back as president.
    Where would that leave us? With no more NSA spying, the TSA abolished, a balanced budget, no more war, a better economy, or stopping the monstrosity that is our federal government and the control in which they have acquired? No, this started before Obama, before Bush, and just continued through these two presidencies. It’s the term you may have heard referred to as “progressive.”
    So why are we still holding onto hope that the Republican party is something full of great representatives with the exception of a few “RINOS”?
    In fact, those that are true representatives of their constituents and defenders of the constitution such as Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Justin Amash, all have one thing in common; they’re all freshman senators and congressman. So are they not RINOS that don’t really fit into the Republican party? Or have they just not been there long enough to be bought yet?
    What I believe in is not what a majority of the Republican party’s elected officials believe in. When you hear people say that the Republican party is all about crony capitalism and war they are correct many times over. The democrats are, however, just as guilty of such.
    Both parties believe that they are the elite, that they hold power over you, and continue to write laws to govern you instead of protect your freedoms.
    In 2016, I won’t join the Republican party again if they decide to nominate another progressive such as Chris Christie. I will not become a cheerleader for someone or something I do not believe in just because they decided to put an “R” next to their name.
    The Democrats and Republicans have become nothing more than two cheeks of the same ass spewing the same $hit.
    I didn’t leave the Republican Party. The party left me.


    Matt Liponoga

    Matt is the editor of The Free Patriot and has strong libertarian values. He follows Austrian Economic values, believes in limited government, and works towards ending the progressive movement in both sides of the government.

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