A Sea Change in at the top of government is not coming anytime soon.
The path to power defines who gets there.
The path to power in congress requires three things:
Longevity or getting reelected you have to be in congress for awhile to learn in ins and outs of party politics and build alliances,
Deal making or power brokering as in how to get what you want while giving someone else what they want while still appearing not too,
Finally visibility or name recognition; you have to be known by press and the people.
Unfortunately for we conservatives every one of these things pretty much necessitate spending tax dollars.
You bring home the bacon to get reelected (in most districts). You broker power by making deals to spend tax dollars. You get name recognition by bringing home the bacon and making deals. You write bills to either spend money or exempt some special interest from paying taxes or to punish some special interest by making them pay taxes or spend their money in some specific way.
Unless there is a revolution in the way the public decides who they will vote for representatives the type of people in the leadership is unlikely to change. There is hope along these lines especially in the West but it will have to gain strength in the rest of the country to make any inroads in the leadership.
It’s getting harder and harder to believe that the Republican Party can do anything for this country. The Republican Party has given us Bush, Sr., Dole, Bush, the Lesser, McCain, and, now, Romney. We have just had a Bush (Republican Party) appointee enable the largest tax increase in the history of humanity by turning the Constitution on its ear. Such Conservatism! Someone (was it Rush) called his action the most activist decision to date!
The Republican Party takes your vote, takes my vote, takes the votes of countless millions of like-minded Conservatives for granted, knowing we have no place to go. Conservatives are to the Republican Party what Welfare recipients are to the Democrat Party. Unfortunately, we are to blame. We don’t walk away. We keep coming back like the abused spouse who “just can’t see living without that man!”