Who are the shot callers in both parties?

[bigrobmjca]

Hey guys,

I have a question. Since we all know that there is a hierarchy in both parties, Who are the shot callers? Are Reid and Pelosi the Democrat kingpins? Is Karl Rove a shot caller for the Republicans? I don't want to start a debate, but I'm just curious as to who the true power players are when it comes to politics? (I had a feeling that the establishment was behind Romney from day 1 last year) My guess would be that George Soros is a kingpin for the Democrats, and the Koch brothers are some of the Republican shot callers. Thanks

 

[Black_Zawisza]

I suspect that they're all corporate bigwigs in league with each other - Right or Left. I wouldn't be surprised their leaders weren't even household names.

 

[Ontologuy]

It's not so much who is a spokesperson for the party at a given momment.

It's which faction in the party is in power.

In the liberal Democrats, it's the Multi-Cultural Internationalists, obviously headed by the biggest MCI of all: President Obama.

In the conservative Republicans, it's the Corporate Global Expansionsists, of which Romney was a more vocal member of the CGEs.

These two factions, the MCIs and the CGEs, are the shot-calling factions in each of the two polarized wing-parties today, and others in the party are responsive to them.

 

[Rainman05]

Goldman Sachs calls the shot in both parties. Both parties serve the same interests.That is to say, their own selfish interests, at a personal level, each one.

 

[somebodyelse]

The incredible problem here is that I cannot satisfactorily answer your question. Such large political monopolies not having a de jure central leadership seem idiotic to me. I believe that political parties as such should have a proper party leader. One that is elected by the party members. Not and anarchistic rabble that are loosely tied together by members that hold high positions and vaugely similar ideals.