Conservatives Complaining About Establishment Republicans Again!!

Red Stick Rant (whose blog I like and If most Tea Party folks were like him I might actually show up at some of their events.) comments and links a post from one of the more looked at conservative blogs posted that rants how establishment republicans don't get it.

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Hello, GOP?? Anybody Home?

Red Stick Rant is right I think in his comments on the hopefuls but the great Governor of New Jersey to be quite honest is a little too young in his political career to be running for Prez. That is just my view.

However I want to comment on the link he links and make no mistake my complaints are not with Red Stick Rant but the person he links

I read that post a couple of days ago and I guess my reaction was YAWN. Yeah there are problems in the GOP that is for sure. But it does seem that a lot of Conservatives get worked up over races and people elected to the GOP in States they don't live in. I mean we can yell ESTABLISHMENT all we want but it most cases these people had to survive a primary and then they got elected. Most of those voters were not big wig out of touch Republicans. Sometimes we forget that in large part all politics is local and we cannot nationalize every race.

That being said what is the real problem. There are actually quite a good many Conservative Republicans up there in Congress but we never hear about them. I hate to say but the conservative blogsphere plays a part in that.

It seems we are very much focused on what conservative pundits say and think but not so much about what perhaps a conservative congressman from the flyover country thinks. We are focused on what Glenn Beck says and what his detractors say but on our elected conservatives that might have good ideas not so much. Why this is so I do not know. Once Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin run for office and have to lower themselves to actually ask for votes and go through the very ego deflating exercise of campaigning I might listen to them more.

The second point is people want to RUSH the process. THE GOP is out of power in two of the branches. There will be no magical leader to come to the forefront. We shall have clarity after the midterms as people run for Prez in the GOP. Right now we have largely had to be in a defensive posture. For the most part this defensive posture has been a lot more successful than I foresaw in my wildest dreams just a year and half ago.

My message to conservative blogs is this. If you want to make a difference and are concerned about leadership in the GOP then highlight the elected folks that are toiling away without anyone noticing them. They are there!! Look for them.

Let me give an example. In my home state of Louisiana we have THREE I repeat THREE of our GOP Congressmen that are Doctors. It would seem that they should have been a major voice in the recent Health Care bill debate that should have been promoted. However on the whole the conservative blogs did not on a consistent basis promote what they were talking about. It was Glenn Beck says this, Sean Hannity said this, I was listening to Rush today on the Health Care Bill, did you hear what that liberal (fill in the blank) at MSNBC was saying oh I hate that socialist!!.

When I have a chance to turn on C-Span I often see some very smart conservative GOP critters on there. They talk on issues from a to z but yet I never hear the conservative blogsphere promote them. They just keep talking about what unelected pundit says. Who cares!!

So while I agree the "establishment GOP" has some problems the conservative blogsphere needs to look themselves in the mirror too. If you want the Republican establishment to promote conservatives elected folks then maybe a good place to start is your own blog.