Posted on 11/14/2008 5:36:26 AM PST by shortstop
Frankly, I don’t give a damn about the Republican Party.
When a pair of shoes is worn out, I throw them away. If I can resole them, I do. If I can’t, they go in the trash. I don’t look back, I don’t mourn them, I just dump them.
Same for my political party.
If it helps me serve my country, fine. If it doesn’t, to hell with it.
It’s as simple as that.
And as the Republican Party lies in tatters on the ground, blown to smithereens by a philosophical suicide, it is no surprise that those who claim the right to put the pieces back together again are the very ones who pulled the trigger in the first place.
The Republican Party is dead because its body finally caught up to its soul.
The Republican Party got cancer and died. Its once-healthy heart was infiltrated and overwhelmed by the greed and lust for power of soulless people in positions of great authority. As it made compounding compromises with virtue it went from prom queen to town slut in record time.
It got lost in the woods of principle because it purposefully smashed its compass on a rock.
And the various plans for reconstructing the Republican Party seem written by the same pimps and pirates who destroyed it. The people who made the Republican Party stayed home on Election Day and the infiltrators who put it on the garbage heap claim now to be its caretakers and stewards.
And the Frankenstein of a party they want to cobble back together is nothing more than an impotent junior-Democrat party, not quite as socialist and not quite as oppressive and not quite as anti-American – but ultimately altogether as destructive of personal liberty and national character. They want a difference of degree, not of principle. They want to fight over the crumbs of power that fall from the jaws of an all-controlling government.
So to hell with them.
Either the Republican Party comes back closer to its roots, or it comes back without my vote or the votes of tens of millions of Americans just like me.
Americans who believe in individual liberty and self-reliance. Who’ve actually read the Constitution and know why this country was founded and how it was made great. Americans who are ashamed of the welfare line and resentful of Mr. Obama’s redistributive taxes. Americans who’ve sent generations of sons to defend this country and who today carry the burden of financially supporting it.
Americans who know that the government isn’t their mommy or their daddy and that freedom is more important than life, and immeasurably more important than a tax-rebate check or government health care.
The Republican Party can either stand for smaller government, lower taxes and freer people, or it can rot in hell.
The liberals on TV and the liberals in the Republican Party can laugh at that all they want. They can look down their noses at the rest of us all they wish, and they’ll keep getting more of what they got on Election Day. Real Republicans didn’t lose this election – they didn’t play this election. They stayed home, or they held their noses and voted for a man they admired but didn’t agree with.
Real Republicans gave their money and showed their support during the primary. By the time the general election came around, there was too much piss in the milkshake for them to have much of an appetite.
And to fix that the smart people want to unzip their pants and top it off.
Like I said, I don’t give a damn about the Republican Party. My family has been Republican since the election of 1860. We go back to Lincoln. But it’s never been about partisanship, it’s always been about patriotism. I’ve been a Republican because the Republican Party was good for America, because the Republican Party was a means to an end – a tool to defend the principles of American liberty.
And the Republican Party can either get back to that, or it can lie mummified in the pages of the history books.
It can continue its process of morphing into the me-too party, the perpetual lesser of two evils, or it can return to its roots – roots that are unashamedly conservative, that are unashamedly American, that are deep in the individualism and exceptionalism and liberty that made this country.
Or, like I said, it can go to hell.
I’ve scraped worse stuff off my shoes before, I won’t shed any tears over the death of this party. The day it sold out my values and my country – on everything from the deficit to illegal immigration to free pills for grama – it lost me. We gave the Republican Party the presidency and both houses of Congress, and it gave us the finger.
And now it wants a double dose of the poison that killed it. It wants to reconstruct itself as the antithesis of what it used to be. It wants to reject conservatives and conservatism. So let it. If the Republican bosses want to join the Democrats in making toilet paper of the Constitution, let them.
We don’t need them, but sometime and somewhere they’re going to need us.
And that’s when we’ll give them the finger.
Like we did last Tuesday.
We gave the Republican Party the presidency and both houses of Congress, and it gave us the finger.
Now, that's what I'm talkin' 'bout! ;)
We gave the Republican Party the presidency and both houses of Congress, and it gave us the finger.
The GOP has lost it’s “sole”................
I agree! The Republican Party is the worst party on the planet! Um, well except for all the other... </sarcasm>
Reach out? He has to be joking. These people will NEVER become conservatives. Neither will union workers, gays, feminists, welfare recipients, illegals, teachers, and the entire state of New York.
FORGET REACHING OUT!! TRY REACHING WITHIN!!
Conservative ideas won in this election, even in California.
The hell with them.
I'll vote for the Conservative on the ticket, if there is one. If not, I'll stay home.
Personally, I think the GOP will stay in the wilderness for quite a long time. I tried to help them but they scorned me. Now, let's see how they like it.
Well said, Mr. Lonsberry.
A few months back, I received a letter from the RNC, to which I have not sent any money in several years, asking me why I seemed to have “abandoned” the party.
I had a VERY fun time writing a response in which I defined the word “abandon” for them, detailed every issue they had abandoned me/us on, and told them they needed to look in an f’ing mirror.
The Republican Party is dead to me.
No offense, but it's Republicans like you who have handed the party to McCain and Schwarzenegger. You're not helping us.
There comes a time when one has to say that voting for the lesser of two evils is still evil. Bush and McCain were NOT conservative. The "me-too socialism" that the 'Pubbies adopted after they abandoned the Contract with America was at fault. Not conservatives.
McCain is still in the Senate. Go influence him. I'm with the author, the GOP can piss off.
He's talking about reaching out as a Repub; not a conservative.
As of 2008 Repub is Dem lite and conservatives are seeking a new home.
It's time for conservatives to strike out and form a new party. It'll take time and hardwork and it would probably be a few elections before we could field a Presidential Candidate but it could be done. It could be jumpstarted by asking what few real conservatives still survive in Congress to come aboard. Caucus with the Republicans when necessary and work constantly to recruit quality candidates.
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