Mr. Tucker’s column is spot on except he is much too kind to the Bush’s. He doesn’t give them near enough of the credit they deserve for killing the conservative movement.
“He doesn’t give them near enough of the credit they deserve for killing the conservative movement.”
Was it the pro-abortion stance Bush took that did it for you? Or was it the pro-gay marriage stance he took? Or maybe it was his position that Terri Shiavo should die instead of being kept alive because that was the Christian thing to do. Or maybe it was his freeing of 50 million people from bondage that did it. Could have been putting Alito and Roberts on the Supreme Court.
Or maybe it was a Republican led congress that forgot the principles of 1994 and became Democrats and spent money like drunken sailors. Or maybe it was the same congress who pandered and took the money from lobbyists so they can be reelected.
The President didn’t let down conservatives. Congress let down the President and gave him no choice. However, I do give credit to a few members of Congress who stood up to the President and said no to Harriet Meirs, no to Dubai and fought tooth and nail to get a fence built despite congresses efforts to defund the fence.
Where were these politicians when we needed a Presidential candidate? Where were our “Conservative talk show hosts” to promote these candidates?
Without our own political party, Conservatives politically will be relegated to the trashheap of history. Republicans are now Democrats. Democrats are now Socialists. Only Conservatives remain the same.
Politically we are now a European system of Conservatives, Moderates and Socialists. We just haven’t woken up to that fact yet. The name Democrat & Repulican are just labels which the Democrats will gladly keep. We cannot afford to keep them. We have to speak up before it is too late.