Mike Flynn has an insightful piece up at Breitbart – link also below. The terrible mistake both McConnell and Boehner are making is born of arrogance and an inability to see beyond Beltway politics. They’re busy patting themselves on the back for their relatively silly attempts at spanking groups like Heritage and Freedom Works. But if one puts ideology aside, what this betrays is their inability to see beyond said groups to the actual base those groups, not the GOP, have come to represent. In short, the GOP is too busy playing Beltway politics and increasingly out of touch with its very own grassroots base across the nation.

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What lobbyists like Van Dongen fail to appreciate, however, is that Boehner’s remarks were not so much against particular organizations as they were against the party’s base voters. The same voters who delivered the GOP into a House majority and acted as a bulwark against the most ambitious plans of the Obama Administration. Often, the activism of conservatives helped business groups block expensive and overbearing regulation. Van Dongen and other establishment figures take this for granted at their peril.

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Said Beltway GOP believes following the advice of large bi-coastal-based media outlets aka the mainstream media can lead them to some promised land in which they win elections and win them big. That’s not the case. All they are preparing to do is play into the Democrat’s strengths and ensure that they will lose. Republicans cannot and never will be better Democrats, than Democrats.

More via Business, GOP May Regret Attacking Tea Party. If McConnell and Boehner actually have a good case, instead of going to war with Beltway-based conservative groups, they should be trying to go over, or around them to make it and win the hearts and minds of more conservative GOP voters. That they aren’t able to do that, let alone even see and understand it is indicative of a political class completely out of touch with its actual base. Given their decision-making and actions, it’s fair to say that, at this point, these so called leaders simply don’t respect their own base, or recognize its ability to make informed decisions on its own without the help of this or that conservative group as intermediary.

Consequently, these arrogant political hacks pretending to be actual leaders of people may be well on their way to destroying the Republican Party. History will view them as an embarassment and if a new national spokesperson with genuine grassroots appeal doesn’t emerge soon, it may be too late to save the party of Lincoln.

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