Posted by
darrel on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:39:21 PM
This is directed to the upper echelon of the Republican Party:
Well, you did it again, didn’t you? You forced a candidate on the conservative base that we couldn’t vote for in clear conscience. Remember 1996 when you made us hold our nose to vote for Bob Dole? Guess what; you just had a repeat performance. The only thing good that may have come out of this election is Sarah Palin being noticed by a larger segment of the population than she otherwise would have. If the party has any sense it will rally around her and other true conservatives like Bobby Jindal.
Before you force real conservatives to find another place to call home you had better look to cleaning your house of the phony conservatives who call themselves neo-cons. Reagan Republicans will not stand for the continual move toward the center that they have endorsed. Middle of the road is a good place for roadkill, and that is just what happened. You cannot continue to ride the yellow line and expect to come out ahead. Either get back into the right lane or go on to the left and expect that head on collision that is bound to happen.
After the 1994 Republican takeover of congress, conservative Americans expected something other than what happened. The “contract with America” is what convinced us that we were going to get the kind of reform that we have been hoping for. We didn’t count on the neo-cons keeping the contract from being enforced. We expected that with a majority in both houses that we would see smaller government and follow through on some campaign promises. When you still held a majority after 2000, and also the executive branch, there was no reason to expect what happened; an increase in the size and cost of government. What happened to the party that promised to eliminate government waste; to eliminate the Department of Education; to cut off funding to the National Endowment for the Arts; etc?
We began to start calling Republicans who “reached across the aisle” RINOS but instead what they are, is in reality the new Republican Party. Ronald Reagan was quoted to have said that he did not leave the Democratic Party, but that the Democratic Party left him. Guess what Republican Party leadership: you have left us!
We will welcome you back if you change your ways, but if not, we will look for a home elsewhere.