"Much of the socialism that has come out of Congress in the last two years is because the numbers are so close." You are repeating the Media mantra and myth that continues to confuse the public and the Republican leadership. Republicans have earned and continue to deserve the title of The Stupid Party.
When Republicans try to win votes from socialists, there are three predictable consequences:
- Socialists can tell the difference between Republicans and the real thing. With the occassional exception, they opt for the real thing.
- Solid conservative voters abandon Republicans who cater to the left.
- Even if the lefty Republicans win, they cannot move back to a conservative position or they will be crucified by the Media and defeated in their next election by lefty voters returning to the real thing and there will be no conservatives to fill the gap. Conservatives can tell the difference too, and will not vote for socialists.
The road to power for Republicans is not paved with socialism. The road to power is the path paved by Ronald Reagan and the Contract with America.
All the other roads of good intentions lead you know where. The socialists' paths lead to the edge of a cliff. You can take the fork in the road to the right or you can follow the lemmings. So far, it is one of the few choices that the socialists have not taken away. But that hasn't stopped network television election coverage of the Florida election returns or the Florida Supreme Court from trying.
That's all well and good, and yes, it would be nice to have a Reagan or a Gingrich rearing to go. But we don't. So you can make a choice. More of Leahy and no Bush judge nominees, or Orrin Hatch and a chance at bringing the bench back in the direction it was meant to be. The Senate is the key. The Republican party is the stupid party when it appeases the left, but it is also the stupid party when it says, "If I don't get everything my way right this minute, I'm going to take my vote and go home." That is a way to get Democrats FOREVER. And if you don't think there's a difference between Paul Wellstone and John McCain, then you need to study up. As Thomas Sowell says, it's all a matter of where you draw the line. Perhaps you draw the line before I do, but my line is closer to your line than the enemy's line. You can argue the purity of everything if you want, but in practice, we are just going to get ourselves into a position of NEVER having power. It's sort of like the postmodernists saying if a culture is not perfect, it is therefore bad.
Occasionally, we need to take the same tack as the Fabian Socialists. Only in the opposite direction.