Hasn’t anybody here heard the old expression: “Damning with faint praise?”
“Mr. Gingrich, show us what you have done to fight that [corruption], so that we can through relentless and sudden reform that is needed with a new President, that you can be the one to continue that reform. Now, if you haven’t been a fighter and successfully helped reform, well then you’re not going to get voted into office, and I’m saying that not specifically to Gingrich but to ANY of you, any of the candidates who have been a part of the problem, you’re NOT GOING TO GET MY SUPPORT, you’re not going to get most Independents’ and Conservatives’ support, you’re NOT GOING TO BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. We want to know WHAT YOU HAVE DONE to successfully fight for the reform and the anti-corruption practices that we need to adopt.”-- roughly transcribed from Sarah Palin comments at http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/12/video-of-governor-palins-interview-with-eric-bolling.html?nomobile
The question is, who can we back these days?
I have said for decades that the Republican party was moving so far to the Left, that it could be seen as a branch of the Democrat party. That was considered by many to be preposterous. They dismissed my comments, and me.
Sure enough, here we are smack dab in the middle of the nomination process running up to 2012, and it’s very difficult to find a dude or dudette that hasn’t acted like a Democrat on a number of occasions. And if we speak up about that, we’re accused of being the person who is out of line. Say what?
I am so sick of excuses.
We have a couple of folks who did seem to get Conservatism on economics or an even broader basis, but they had some flaws too. We had nobody that believed what we did that could run a good campaign and not trip over their own feet, even though I did show support for two of them. I was desperate. I wanted to support the best we had.
The Republican party exists in a shambles, somewhere in limbo between actual Conservatism, and full blown socialism. It’s only saving grace isn’t that it is rock solid on the issues, because it’s also considerably Leftist these days. It’s that the Democrat party has become an open cesspool of America haters, destroyers of free enterprise, and folks who think our way of life should be surrendered to Marx, Mohammad, or if per chance a mix of both can be found. True followers of Christ ARE NOT among them. Obama is their gold standard until they can find someone worse.
And so we back who we can, and the pool of those we can is almost gone.
Both sides show contempt for our founding fathers and our founding documents. Hardly anybody is both echoing their message and living in accordance with them. If they are, they’re also somewhat tainted by some strange behaviors that are rather off-putting as well.
There’s very little place for us to go anymore. I’m not even convinced there’s is a place.
If you truly do love this nation, respect it’s founding fathers, want to abide by the U. S. Constitution, and desire to see some of the amendments that were counter to it’s original intent done away with, you have nobody out there representing you.
We can’t even voice respect for the Christian God in public. We can’t even protect our own territory from occupation. We can’t even launch and sustain military efforts intended to destroy people and organizations that wish to destroy us. We can’t even defend and demand that our own culture be respected and preserved.
We act as if respect for our enemies will buy us peace.
Where is the party that represents our nation, wishes to defend it, wishes to see it thrive off into the future?
This nation is falling in on itself, and even many of the folks here on this forum don’t realize the degree to which this is true.
There is a void in this nation. Voids are always filled. Another party whose participants do get it, is going to arise. The Tea Party may get it’s act together and become that entity, or another better party will arise and take it’s place.
This WILL NOT continue.
Republican Party, you better hope for a population explosion, because anyone over thirty will be too smart to buy into your idiocy any longer. Thank God.
You are not representing us. We long for a return to respect for this nation, and you’re not leading the way. You’re dragging us down.
I am saying this as a as a person who registered Republican in 1969, and has voted straight Republican, former Republican (once), or has abstained (twice) ever since.
Get out of the beltway, get your act together, or get lost.