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!”
But we are different.
The hope in the West that I spoke about is our path to success.
The Tea Party candidates are getting support from big money groups like the Club for Growth in primary challenges against old school deal maker republicans like Orrin Hatch in Utah. Hatch was challenged in a primary for the first time since 1976 and was forced to spend big to win.
Hatch may have won but others like Bob Bennett Have been turned out. I see this as our path to success. We must put up conservative candidates in the primaries and support them with our time and money.
This would help us in two ways. If our candidate wins or looses the primary we have more conservative candidates campaigning and putting conservative ideas before the voters (this will normalize conservative thinking in society). The Left has managed over the years to vilify conservative thought claiming that conservatives are selfish and mean. We need conservative candidates that put a positive voice to conservative thought and explain the evils of progressivism.
Second win or lose in the primary we will move the incumbent to the right because he will adopt some of the conservative’s policy ideas as a defensive measure. If we manage to get our candidate elected in the primary we are moving Congress to the Right. But win or loose this strategy advances our cause by putting pressure on the party to become more conservative.