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.
Or move out.
Child. You will not be missed.
I never knew that the only alternative to pc bigotry was racist bigotry. Thanks for clearing that up for me. If you ever actually read a book, read anything by Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Walter Williams or Clarence Thomas and then tell me how black folks will "never be conservatives." Then again, with the racist ignorant cant that comes out of the conservative communities sometimes (hint hint) it is easy to see how hard it is for black people would think that all white people are just ignorant buffoons and not bother to venture outside the liberal plantation.
The CP are a bunch of isolationist nutjobs who want to surrender the world to al Qaeda and Herr Putin.
Fine. Better that than have the party dragged down to your level.
You seem very eager to see a lot of people leave the Republican party. You seem very eager to see people like Schwarzenegger serve as role models for what the Republican Party ought to be.
Pushing Left, are you?
Alienating any one who cares about Conservatism, are you?
You're not my kind of guy. I'm sure you're all broken up about that.
Philosophically I completely agree with this article, but there HAS to be a degree of practicality SOMEWHERE. I do NOT consider it “practical” to absorb liberal principles in order to “reach out and include”. It’s a wrongheaded strategy.
This election was lost, it now appears, by Repubs who stayed home. I will admit, that McCain wasn’t anything to jump and down about and that the threat of an Obama win was something I underestimated. But I also considered this the most important election since I began voting in 1972 (when I was a Dem) and the consequences of an Obama win unimaginable. Well, I guess we won’t have to imagine them much longer....we’ll get to live them.
That sounds like a good idea!
No, we need to leave the GOP. It is no longer associated with conservatism. Let the RINOS sink or swim on their own. It is the only way Conservatives will come back.
We can adjust some of the doctrine of the Constitution Party. The GOP is dead or dying. The CP as you like to call it, is young, fresh and conservative. What possible better brand is there, than our Constitution? It needs to be nourished and protected. The likes of Obama, Ayers, Alinsky, McCain, and sadly Bush, are destroying the freedoms documented in that God inspired paper. Let's not let it pass without a real fight!
Still, despite Willkie, Dewey, Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, GHWB, Dole (I still have a soft spot for Elizabeth.), and GWB, even Bill Weld, Swarzenegger, and Colin Powell, millions of Americans still believe in the Republican Party, just not nearly enough to counteract the mass of illegals soom to be legalized with the franchise.
Some people just naturally wake up more slowly than do others. ;)
It’s time for conservatives to strike out and form a new party.
Conservatives need to come together, but not to form a new party. They need to withdraw their votes from any party, and make candidates come to them for support.
Unless a party is put together, with a complete slate of good candidates, large amounts of cash, and good PR people at the start, it cannot succeed.
It May be too late to form any kind of new party.
My sentiments exactly!
I decided late to vote for McLAME, and I'm sorry now that I did. He proved himself completely unworthy of my vote, before,during, and after the election. In fact, if I had it to do over again, I probably wouldn't vote at all.
I firmly believe that the fix was in by both parties as to whom they were going to have as "our" choice of candidate, and the "we the people" were left thinking that it was "us" who made this horrible decision. I have to hand it to the "sell out" powers who run both parties; they tricked the populace again!
The only "fight" poor ole McLAME had left in him, was Sara Palin, and when it was all over, he even left her twisting in the wind.
This is not the GOP of Ronald Regan, and I don't want to be associated with it again, until every so called Moderate RINO is cast out of it, and it finds it's conservative breath again.
But not to worry, cause I'm not going to hold mine while waiting for that to happen.
When I first signed up I just assumed everyone here thought this way. I have to say I was disappointed to find that many here don't seem to think that way at all.
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