New York Times “
conservative” columnist David Brooks released Tuesday an all-out assault on grassroots conservatives, name-checking Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 96%
Newt Gingrich, Ben Carson, and Rush Limbaugh in the process.
“Basically,” writes Brooks, “the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism. Republicans came to see themselves as insurgents and revolutionaries, and every revolution tends toward anarchy and ends up devouring its own.”
Full-scale panic has now set in among members of the Republican establishment. Last week, the
Wall Street Journal lamented the “Republican crack-up” after
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
45%
dropped out of the Speakership race, whining, “The listless economy, the failure to repeal ObamaCare or secure the border – all these disappointments supposedly can be blamed on GOP leaders who don’t fight hard enough.”
Rep. Peter King (R-NY)
35%
said that Republicans were openly weeping in closets in the Capitol after McCarthy’s decision.
Now that establishment favorite
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
58%
appears to be short of the votes necessary to replace Speaker of the House
Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)
37%
, the Republican freak-out has reached epic proportions.
Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK)
46%
said, “His critics are not true conservatives. They are radical populists who neither understand nor accept the institutions, procedures and traditions that are the basis of constitutional governance.”
