Boehner confidant likens conservatives to right-wing Marxists

I had planned to comment today about Wednesday’s GOP debate. But after watching it I thought, “What’s the use in devoting a whole column to it when it can be summed up in a couple of paragraphs?”

The military-industrial complex should feel secure. Regardless of which faux-conservative takes the nomination, more money to the MIC and more wars are in our future.

For a while there, I wasn’t sure whether I was watching a campaign for U.S. president or Israel prime minister; and for some of the candidates I’m still not sure (Huckabee, Cruz, Rubio, Christie, particularly). But overall, there was much more concern expressed about protecting Israel than there was about protecting the U.S. from foreign invaders that are already here.

No talk about shrinking government. Little about reducing spending (but a lot about growing the military budget). Some passing lines about shifting tax burdens around (consumption tax, flat tax, tax on the wealthy), but no truths about taxes and the Federal Reserve. Israel good. Hillary, Obama, ISIS, Iran, Russia, China bad.

It was too much even for neocon Ann Coulter, who tweeted, “How to get applause from GOP doners: 1) Pledge to start a war 2) Talk about job creators 3) Denounce abortion 4) Cite Reagan 5) Cite Israel.”

Besides, I saw a news item about the move in Congress by some conservatives to oust John Boehner as House Weeper that caught my attention.

According to The Washington Post, a growing number of Republican lawmakers who support Boehner are fearing a backlash from conservative voters if they continue to support him.

Boehner confidant Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) described conservative voters who expect Congress to govern conservatively in interesting — if not oxymoronic — terms. From The Post:

“This is a continuation of the strange virus that’s running through the Republican Party, which I define as a weird form of right-wing Marxism where people are using Saul Alinsky-type tactics,” Nunes said, likening the conservatives to the late radical activist from the 1960s.

So expecting so-called conservatives to be conservative is akin to a “strange virus?” And in what world is Marxism right wing? Only in the District of Criminals.

Dear reader, that, in a nutshell, is what the Republican establishment thinks of the rank-and-file Republican voter. And that is why anti-establishment candidates like Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina are surging in the polls and have more support than the others combined.

Americans will suffer abuse only for so long. It seems the tipping point has been reached.

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