Posted by
Rob Banerjee on Saturday, October 11, 2008 1:31:59 PM
Less than four weeks left leading to the general election, GOP's fate hangs on limbo. The question remains: Will ultra liberal Al Franken beat Sen. Norm Coleman? Will Sen. Mitch McConnell lose his re-election? And where does Elizabeth Dole Stands in her re-election effort.
It seems like all of their fate has been sealed and Obama has already won the white house and will grab the helm of this nation with his three amigos Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Dick Durban. Only thing now left is the formality of the election and John McCain’s concession speech.
We as a republican and conservative need to ask ourselves: how did we fail so miserably.
But before we can do that we need to understand what is the 21st century version of the Republican Party and who do we have as our membesr and how they got us off the reservation.
Back in 1988 when G. H. W Bush ran against a weak candidate Mike Dukakis, GOP was a conservative through and through; and right after Ronald Reagan, GOP members knew and appreciated the core fundamental values of capitalism, free market economy and originalist interpretation of the Constitution.
Today with Barrack Obama an even weaker candidate than Dukakis and virtually unelectable is leading in the polls. Fortunately for us, Electoral College is not an average of Gallup, Zogby or Rasmussen polls and Obama and democrats still have to wait until the Election Day.
What we need between now and then is to understand our roots and modify our strategies. Today true conservatism is diluted by the mass induction of so-called conservative and moderate democrats who joined us for one or two conservative issues such as immigration, gun rights, or abortion, but they have never fully subscribed to the core fundamental values of the conservative philosophy of capitalism, national security, and free trade. Majority of these new GOP members contributed fuel to the flame ignited by the liberal media and brought about the insurrection against President Bush. In the name of dissent, they openly oppose to the measures required to secure our nation even at the expense of a prolong war. The same group opposed free trade, and ran to the government for help at the first sight of economic down turn.
These are the characteristics of socialism and not the Reagan conservatism or free market economy. The people of this country are not stupid when they realize that the difference between the GOP and the Dems are all but vanished and they are nothing but virtually two sides of the same coin “Socialism”, then it may be a good idea to vote for the side that promises more welfare and subsidies.
If the John McCain wants to win, he immediately needs to stop calling the Wall Street Executives greedy. He must be reminded that no one chooses Wall Street as a career because they were the top students out of a theological seminary. The greed of Wall Street brings shareholder value that is passed on to the main street and so the wheel of capitalism keeps rolling forward.
He needs to come out and oppose the pork filled bail-out plan, and promise to cut every spending bills he sees. He needs to remind the voters that, government in our life means going to bed every night with people like Barney Frank, Larry Craig, William Jefferson, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi. He must remind the voters that these people will not be trusted with our car keys or credit card numbers then why should we hand our country and our children’s future to them. John McCain and the GOP needs to, not run away from our conservative values but embrace them. And our responsibilities as conservatives are to educate our new members that registering as a GOP does not make us conservative but it’s the core fundamental values that we live by day to day make us who we are.
God Bless America!