GOP Statism To Prevail For the Foreseeable Future...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny Gee, what a surprise. As the old adage says, "the more things change the more they stay the same." SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The Republican Party establishment has withstood the tea-party revolution. Skip The 2012 meeting of the Republican national command shows just how little has actually changed in the Grand Old Party since the tea-party movement helped Republicans capture the U.S. House majority two years ago and announced that they were a powerful force in American politics. While tea-party activists have won county chairmanships and seats on state central committees, few (if any) activists have clinched slots on the Republican Party’s 168-member governing committee. That’s not to say that tea-partiers have disappeared or that they won’t get their moment in the sun — but it may take years for them to climb the party ladder the same way as everyone else. GOP elders sympathize with the movement’s ideas a...