Ben nailed it. Time for a massive cleanout.
“Ben nailed it. Time for a massive cleanout.”
This has been obvious since before the days of “compassionate conservatism”.
I keep coming back to the polls of last spring where the TEA party support came from a large contingent of folks who didn’t want Obamacare to interfere with their Medicare.
That’s not really an indicator of a conservative groundswell - opposing one socialist program because it would interfere with expectations for another.
I’m afraid that’s where we are - while the TEA party is decidedly more conservative than the GOP, where it really matters in government - cutting government spending, including the many socialist programs, I don’t think the TEA party represents that. That’s why the GOP continues to hang on decades past it’s last hint of Reagan conservative principle.
Until we get a groundswell that advocates with significant enough numbers to fundamentally alter what government does, conservatism is going nowhere - because it’s not a viable alternative to the status quo.
So we get the GOP, we get Romney, we get the status quo.