“Look at Megan McCain, Lake. She is the future of the GOP-E: A radical, leftist, pro-gay, pro-abortion feminist. And she is young and only just starting.”
Every election since Reagan, the party has gone farther and farther left. The demarcation of what is the political center has likewise moved left with it.
Compared to MR, McCain was a conservative zealot. The GOP has adopted the ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ philosophy of the left. For years they have edged off the conservative platform they themselves wrote. They as a party (shown by the likes/support for the Grahmm/Bhonner Republicans) have long wanted the cheap labor of illegals and any number of decidedly non-conservative outcomes. We have watched them be forced into one political corner after another by a base that sees things opposite of their ‘leadership’.
But now they are in a situation where they have what they believe is the ultimate rationalization as displayed by Lakeshark and others. Either vote for the man who will deliver unto them the things they’ve longed for or be stuck with the evil of Obama. They have used the lib philosophy of the invented crisis (invented as they pushed MR knowing he was unwanted/opposed) to create what is on the surface a catch 22 scenario for the resistive base.
But it isn’t.
The whole strategy rests on our belief in America. If Obama is reelected, it’s gone. Fair enough. But what “IS” America? Is it a place where illegals run free as a serf class for labor? Is it a place where we abandon sovrignity for a globalist worldview? Is it a place where crony is the prefered form of capitalism? Is it a place where we put the rights of gays over hetros and of children? Is it a place where abortion is an a’la carte menu choice at McClinic?
That’s not an America envisioned by the constitution. It’s not an America that has anything in common with the founding fathers. It’s not anything like the America we all grew up in just a few short decades ago.
That’s not America period. And it’s not a bastardization that any person who believes in good, evil right and wrong can honestly vote for.
I will vote for America as it was and should be again. And should enough ‘conservatives’ not take their heads out of their dark place, then so be it. America as it stood is well and truly over. That’s not hyperbole. That’s a by the amendments constitutional fact.
That is a great paragraph, NL. Awesome! Thanks.
And "McClinic" made me smile.
Amazing post! Must be widely quoted. You completely nailed it.