After casting my vote earlier today, I walked away wondering why bother? In this post-Constitutional America, voting seems more futile with each new election. Our two political parties are morphing into one elite governing cabal, harboring nothing but contempt for the average tax-paying citizen.
 
Early on, the mid-term election cycle looked fairly positive for conservatives. We had several well-qualified, promising candidates challenging long-term RINOs in key races around the country. But caught off guard by the huge Virginia upset in June – when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was ousted by conservative David Brat – the establishment declared all-out war on the Tea Party.
 
For the next couple of months they ruthle$$ly attacked any serious challengers to their stale old GOP incumbents, particularly in Kansas (Milton Wolf vs. Sen. Pat Roberts), Kentucky (Matt Bevin vs. Sen. Mitch McConnell) and Tennessee (Joe Carr vs. Sen. Lamar Alexander), And the Mississippi primary was just a shameless display of deceit by Thad Cochran’s campaign against Chris McDaniel, a great conservative candidate.
 
And now, as I sit listening to Michigan returns roll in, increasing nauseated by hearing most newly elected Republicans tripping all over themselves to talk about reaching across the aisle, eager to be butt-kissing bi-partisans, it’s become painfully obvious that these RINOs stand for absolutely nothing. They have much more in common with Democrats than they’ll ever have with constitutional conservatives.
 
 
This excellent article from Mark Steyn about the senate race in his state of New Hampshire, further confirms that ugly reality, revealing the utter hypocrisy of the establishment GOP ~

I loathe what the Democratic Party has done these last few years and I dearly hope that today sees the dethroning of Harry Reid. I would also like to be represented in Washington by someone other than Senator Shaheen and Congresswoman Kuster. Nonetheless, I regard the Republican Party as a largely repulsive institution. Yesterday, one of the last of this season’s election flyers arrived at my Post Office from the GOP. It read:
 

SCOTT BROWN HAS A
STRONG RECORD OF FIGHTING
FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.
 
SCOTT IS PRO-CHOICE & SUPPORTS
ISSUES IMPORTANT TO WOMEN.

 
Now Scott Brown is certainly “pro-choice”, as is his right. It hasn’t been a big part of his campaign – he got a lot of traction from immigration, and from Jeanne Shaheen’s abysmal debate performances – and realistically, whatever one feels about abortion, today’s election results won’t make a whit of difference on the issue. Still, I’d have no objection to Mr Brown sending out campaign literature bragging about his position.
 
But this flyer came from the New Hampshire Republican State Committee.
The official position of the State Committee is that it is opposed to abortion. 😯

 
When you consider Steyn’s further assessment, this duplicity is truly outrageous ~

So when a pro-life State Committee sends out leaflets boasting about being pro-choice, they’re telling you that those two bolded words “we believe” (in their party platform) are meaningless when uttered by a New Hampshire Republican official. Why would what they claim to “believe” on Obamacare or debt or foreign policy be any more reliable? When a man tells you his word is bullsh*t, take him at it.
 
 
More revealingly, look at how the State Committee characterizes Brown’s position: The candidate is “pro-choice” and “supports issues important to women”. That’s Democrat framing: Opposition to abortion is part of the Republican war on women, etc. Furthermore, being “pro-choice” is evidence that Brown “has a strong record of fighting for what is right”. So it’s not just a policy dispute or a matter of personal conscience on which people of good faith can disagree. Being “pro-choice” is “what is right” – which presumably means being pro-life is what is wrong.

 
How much longer will they continue this charade of a two-party system?

 
Yet even in the face of this ever-expanding, arrogant oligarchy, we get this melodrama from Jon Huntsman Sr., former special assistant to President Richard Nixon (his son is the former Utah Governor): “The Tea Party has completely…ruined the Republican Party.” Seriously Jon?
 
Just as a sampling, there’s this inanity from a self-described “life- long Republican ~

Asked about a hypothetical matchup between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, Huntsman says he “not a great handicapper” but thinks Hillary “would be a fine President.”

 
Clearly dementia has set in.
 
Sorry Huntsman. If the Republican party has met its demise it wasn’t murder, it was suicide.