Backroom Report, Monday 9-8-08
She’s reenergized the Republican base and is causing sleepless nights for Barack Obama’s handlers… but there’s another story concerning John McCain’s pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate.
For decades the northeastern moderate wing of the GOP has controlled a sizeable chunk of the Republican Party’s national operations and has held a tight rein on it’s purse strings.
From Gerald Ford to George W. Bush, GOP presidential nominees have had to either be the pick of the northeastern moderates or the Republican nominee had to play by their rules after securing the nomination in order to have the campaign cash to mount a serious run against the Democrats… a case in point was Ronald Reagan.
Reagan dared to challenge incumbent Gerald Ford in 1976 for the GOP nomination and came close to wining. Ford went on to lose to Jimmy Carter that fall. Knowing that Reagan would be a leader for the GOP nod in 1980, the northeastern gang recruited former CIA director George H. W. Bush to run in the Republican Primary against Reagan. It was a horserace, but Reagan prevailed.
At this point the northeastern boys approached Reagan and basically told him he had to choose their boy Bush as VP or they would hold back their money men and Reagan wouldn’t stand a chance against Carter. Of course Reagan gave in and won the election… and eight years later George H. W. Bush followed Reagan as president.
The northeastern gang also gave us Bob Dole as the GOP nominee in 1996 and George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004… so which GOP candidate did they back with their massive fundraising machine this year? Mitt Romney
John McCain has never bowed at the alter of the northeasterners and this has been a factor in the difficulty McCain has had in raising money this year. McCain has been under immense pressure to select someone as his running mate who would be acceptable to the old establishment wing of his party, otherwise the well would remain dry… so what did maverick McCain do? He went in the complete opposite direction and selected Sarah Palin… definitely not a member of the good old northeastern boys club.
For the first time in many decades both the GOP nominee and VP pick are free from the reins of the GOP elite… McCain has called their bluff and now Sarah Palin has captivated America… and even though some of the money men are sitting on the sidelines, cash is now pouring into McCain’s campaign coffers.
A lot can happen over the next eight weeks…but if John McCain and Sarah Palin are victorious November 4th… control of the Republican Party will have been wrested away from those who have prevented the conservative revolution from taking flight these last 30 years.
Though I have much respect for John McCain’s service to our nation, I’ve never been a fan of him politically and had planned to vote for Bob Barr in protest. However with Sarah Palin on the GOP ticket, I’ll be in the McCain camp come November… and I bet a lot of other Republicans who were sitting this one out will be with McCain & Palin too.
For decades the northeastern moderate wing of the GOP has controlled a sizeable chunk of the Republican Party’s national operations and has held a tight rein on it’s purse strings.
From Gerald Ford to George W. Bush, GOP presidential nominees have had to either be the pick of the northeastern moderates or the Republican nominee had to play by their rules after securing the nomination in order to have the campaign cash to mount a serious run against the Democrats… a case in point was Ronald Reagan.
Reagan dared to challenge incumbent Gerald Ford in 1976 for the GOP nomination and came close to wining. Ford went on to lose to Jimmy Carter that fall. Knowing that Reagan would be a leader for the GOP nod in 1980, the northeastern gang recruited former CIA director George H. W. Bush to run in the Republican Primary against Reagan. It was a horserace, but Reagan prevailed.
At this point the northeastern boys approached Reagan and basically told him he had to choose their boy Bush as VP or they would hold back their money men and Reagan wouldn’t stand a chance against Carter. Of course Reagan gave in and won the election… and eight years later George H. W. Bush followed Reagan as president.
The northeastern gang also gave us Bob Dole as the GOP nominee in 1996 and George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004… so which GOP candidate did they back with their massive fundraising machine this year? Mitt Romney
John McCain has never bowed at the alter of the northeasterners and this has been a factor in the difficulty McCain has had in raising money this year. McCain has been under immense pressure to select someone as his running mate who would be acceptable to the old establishment wing of his party, otherwise the well would remain dry… so what did maverick McCain do? He went in the complete opposite direction and selected Sarah Palin… definitely not a member of the good old northeastern boys club.
For the first time in many decades both the GOP nominee and VP pick are free from the reins of the GOP elite… McCain has called their bluff and now Sarah Palin has captivated America… and even though some of the money men are sitting on the sidelines, cash is now pouring into McCain’s campaign coffers.
A lot can happen over the next eight weeks…but if John McCain and Sarah Palin are victorious November 4th… control of the Republican Party will have been wrested away from those who have prevented the conservative revolution from taking flight these last 30 years.
Though I have much respect for John McCain’s service to our nation, I’ve never been a fan of him politically and had planned to vote for Bob Barr in protest. However with Sarah Palin on the GOP ticket, I’ll be in the McCain camp come November… and I bet a lot of other Republicans who were sitting this one out will be with McCain & Palin too.
posted by Chuck Shiflett @ 11:22 PM
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