I just want to take a minute to explain that the republican party IS NOT ran by true conservatives!How does this factor into the title of this post? Ill tell ya! Since Reagan(A true unabashedly conservative President) left office the republican party has struggled to find a leader that could promote conservatism as effectively as Reagan did. Newt Gingrich is the closest we have come and he did a great job of controlling Clinton but he wasnt good at letting the American people know that it was the republicans of 1994 that saved our economy and not Clinton.(thats probably why he was able to control Clinton-lol)
The republicans of 2000have done conservatism a great disservice.They spent money like drunken sailors and basically left their conservative principles at the door of the Capitol!They bought into this "centrist" mindset that has become the downfall of the conservative movement. They were basically liberals in conservative cloths.
From spending,global warming,immigration everything except the war on terror these men and women behaved like liberals.(see Roscos post "By Ted Nugent")What did it get them? NOTHING! Did the media cut them any slack because they compromised conservative principles and allowed the government to move decidedly left? NO!Did Mccain get any credit for REALLY REACHING ACROSS THE AISLE,compromising conservatism and moving to the center?NO!
Conservative "light" or liberal "light for that matter,doesnt appeal to the vast majority of Americans.our latest election PROVES that. Contrary to popular beliefe we are STILL A CENTER RIGHT country.
So why has liberalism gained so much momentum in past years?
The RHINOS have moved left(not center) to try and gain favor from the media and constituents.When they have compromised ,it wasnt true compromise,it was leaving conservative principles out of the equasion to pass "bi-partisan" legislation,in hopes of gaining favor of the media .Hindsight tells us that this was naive to say the least!What have we gained? We have lost an election,we still have a massive illegal immigrant problem,enviromentalist and unions continue to rape American manufacturing,conventional wisdom on abortion has grown to encompass allowing a child to die without medical care after a failed abortion and our budget deficit is out of control once again.
Answer me this.....ARE THESE CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES???????
Obama won an election on the "failed policies of the past eight years"!
Liberals OWN these policies and the RHINOS(Bush,Mccain,Schwartzenegger among others) have allowed the failings of these policies to be neatly strung around the neck of conservatism!MAKE NO MISTAKE! THESE ARE LIBERAL POLICIES THAT HAVE FAILED OUR NATION!BLINDLY IMPLEMENTED BY RHINO REPUBLICANS THAT BOUGHT INTO THIS FAILED IDEA OF "CENTRIST"GOVERNMENT. There is nothing centrist about it! its liberalism propagated under the guise of "bi-partisanship"! Compromise is fine as long as it means CONSERVATIVES compromise their principles!How naive Mccain must feel now after he staked the Presidency on a career of true "bi-partisanship"? John,It wasnt bi-partisan,they duped you into leaving your conservative principles at the door of negotiation all the while telling you it would garner you respect and possibly the White House! They played you like a fiddle!
The last TRUE LANDSLIDE election in this country was won by Ronald Wilson Reagan on a platform of Americanism and TRUE CONSERVATISM! We have the template on how to fix this country and win elections-WE JUST NEED TO STICK TO IT!
The good news is that the liberals can no longer hang the failings of their policies around conservatisms neck. They have the ball now and,regrettably,the nation will suffer for it,much as we did under Carter.I hope the republicans have a "farm team" of TRUE CONSERVATIVES that are ready to take the mantle when Obama fails us.Otherwise this nation will continue to succumb to liberalism as so many nations before us!
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