Club for Growth

Founded in 1999, the Club for Growth is a fiscally conservative political organization and an affiliated political action committee that raises money for candidates -- AKA Republicans -- who support a low-tax and limited-government agenda. Because the group was about to use its club dues to support Pat Toomey in the Pennsylvania Republican primary against him, Arlen Sphincter bolted to the Democratic Party. The Club had dubbed Arlen a RINO -- Republican in Name Only. Now he's a DINO. And not the urbane, smoking, drinking Rat Packer Dean Martin. Too bad. Arlen is a Democrat in name only.

The Club for Growth hates moderate Republicans. Just ask the former Republican Senator from Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee. Maine's Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins cause the CFG to put their Club heads back in the darkening sky and howl like wolverines. It's as if those Gathering Storm zombies did too much testosterone and then set off to find their gay prey. See that chewed up bow tie by the side of the road? That's all that's left of poor old Lincoln Chafee.

Club for growth. Nothing says it better. It sounds like a Monty Python sketch. I picture those Capital One "What's in your wallet?" barbarians or those blue-faced Braveheart guys doing their creative destruction best, marauding, trampling new green shoots and thumping little baby seals. It's very Conan the Republican. Cudgel for creativity. Shillelaghs for peace.

After thirty years of an ascendant, dominant Republican Party, the club-like pendulum is swinging back from its far outer reach. In the next thirty years it will swing out wide the other way and the Democratic Party will peak then diminish. A strong moderate Republican Party might save the Democrats from themselves but not by trying tag it "the Democrat-Socialist Party," calling for secessions or tea-bagging its way into activism. Perhaps by the time the Dems are descendant again, there will be a viable third party waiting in the midpoint of the arc like a big brick wall to stop the inevitable oscillation once and for all and start a whole new movement.

 

 

Comments

[MinerSam]

Been thinking about this 3rd party idea.. Cause for one thing it might help stop feeling that I have to carry the Democratic Party on my shoulder...beacause the alternative (which each time comes back stronger) is an ugly death at the hands of psychological abusers (who call themselves "pro-life" after 10s of thousand of young woman died from back street abortions. "conservatives" after driving up 80% of the deabt we are in...It's like "Arbiet macht frie" (work will make you free) at the entrance to the concentration camps.

But more parties can also be a big mess.
If we did have a 3rd potty, what would it be? left wing? right wing? Centrists (anti mediocratists)?
And look what a mess a bunch of parties can be....if you look at a places like Israel: where there are 35 politcal parties. And meanwhile while 68% of Israelis have always objected to the expansion of West Bank settlements...and have been all for giving up that land for peace....But in order for a given pary to form a majority coalition, they needed to make deals with the religious party...who were the
only real proponents of those settements..

[MinerSam]

There may be an alrernative: Democrats get Mdia Trained by PR people who: Know history, georgraphy, tAnd see patters ...so they can teach, teach teach, the factst,facts, facts, NUANCE, CONTEXT, CONTEXT..Othewise I say 40 years? Never! Americans are not psychic...

This way they won't worry, worry, worry about the out of context lies, lies, lies lies of the Media Trained Republicans.

Steve of Club for Growth had a big platform on CNBC all these years, particularly on Kudlow
(...Cheeney's favorite show)

But the Twilight Zone of it all...is .Bill Moyers who repeatedly quotes, without attribution, Republican POVs..like their given, in passing, that "government" (sans "The") is automatically bad.

Some (da,da,da,da)s were (1) His giggling as a warning to viewers that he was about to critisize the Republicans.

But his Invation of the Body Snatchers show was When he said "people are saying..." as if normals said it about normality....and then showed/quoted Laura Ingram & Larry Kudlow... without attribution

Or when together w/an African American ((....from the Manhattan Institute ...another Club for Growth(!)) trashed the Attorney General's remarks that: We as a nation are cowards when dealing with our racism...especially Sundays in Churches.

THE***** PLAN ***** Obama laid out today deal w/various catetories of detainees (5 categories) deserves a Nobel Prize. But you wouldn't know it from Judy Woodroof, Blitzer...

But he should have given the speech YESTERDAY at NOON....Or AFTER Cheney!!

I'll take Arlen over Bill Neson