Conservatives are going to have to face facts, the GOP has no desire to represent us and our future with the party looks pretty bleak.
Just the other night I saw some young republican leader on the History channel announcing that he’s gay and he wants to get married some day.
“But after the election, conservatives and liberty lovers need to stop talking about it, and start getting serious about cleaning house in the Republican Party at every level, or if prevented from doing so by GOP-E legerdemain, then creating a new Party that will represent the common man who is himself represented in the Republican base. If the GOP-E wants to keep the Republican Party as their own personal yacht, then maybe we should let them, while we build our own electoral speedboat.”
The writer has a good point here.
Excellent Article. Thank you. I am told by the elite Republicans, and others, that I MUST vote for Romney. I believe I was told the same thing in 2008 when McCain was definitely not my choice — MUST vote for him even though he wasn’t trying to be elected.
These elites have probably told me this every time I have voted for a president. All elections are MUST vote Republican elections. This way they force conservatives to vote the way the elites want. And we stay on the their plantation and say “Yes, Master.”
Pragmatism is superior to socialism
Right after conservatism gets slapped in the face one more time. This was a great article until this point.
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, "If not us, who? If not now, when?"
One of the most important things for conservatives to do is to “separate the sheep from the goats” in and in the proximity of the Republican party.
This does not mean just officeholders and candidates who are establishment RINOs, but also the legion of consultants, Beltway bandits, Hill Rats, lobbyists, spin doctors and pundits.
In effect, we need a 100-point worksheet for each and every one of these individuals, so that they can be rated from “conservative”, through “mixed”, to “entrenched party parasite” and “RINO”.
Importantly, it is *not* just a snapshot of what we think they currently are; but also a history of what they have been and done in the past.
The list also has to be broken down into “cardinal sins”, “ordinal sins”, “duplicity”, who they have formed alliances and enemies with (the company they keep), and willingness to compromise core values.
It would take quite a while to create such biographies, but the end result will be that, for example, when a conservative finally becomes president, he will know that certain Republican “fixtures”, are in fact malignant forces that will work against him.
He will not want them in his administration, or working for or being paid by the party, representing the party in public, or having their campaigns funded by the party.
This in turn will create an essential thing to political success: party discipline. You only hire people you can trust, and from the start they know that if they cross the line, they will not only be out on the street but will never work for the party again.