Posted by
Glenn Flowers on Saturday, March 07, 2009 8:39:23 PM
There is much talk and debate in the Republican party leadership, elected officials, and, to a lesser degree, among the registered voters, as to what policies and agenda the party needs to adopt to gain support and to win elections. There are Republicans in the US Congress, state legislatures, and who are state executives who believe that the core values of conservatism, as expressed by Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. and Ronald Reagan, are no longer valid, popular, or embraced by the majority of American voters. They say, "the Reagan era is over", or that our party must move toward the center of the political spectrum in order to attract this or that voter group. The era of conservatism is passed, conservative values are centuries behind and are not in step with modern America they claim. After all, they say, the idea is to win elections. They use polls and demographic surveys to make the argument that the opposition party fails to attract the centrist groups and that the GOP should take advantage of this and redefine our platform to attract them on election day. To this I answer nonsense and BAULDERDASH!!
While the formal platform of the Democratic party gives one the notion that they are the party of equality, of the common man, for individual liberty and opportunity, for the best interests of the down trodden and those left behind in the progress of our nation, their policies and actions as government officials are, by design, contrary in every way to their public platform and the promises made by their candidates, and, even more so are the official actions, laws passed, and opinions expressed by their elected officials. The damage done to our nation by liberal, leftist Democrats in office and those who support them, is incalculable, undeniable by any reasonable person, and leaves those voting for them wondering why they never see the changes the Democrats promise.
The platform of the Conservative faction of the Republican party begins with these words, "We, The People of the United States", The only group the Conservatives declare allegiance to is the one who originally wrote those words and the words that follow them and those who, today, still live and die by that great document as the only acceptable law of the land.
Those Republicans who are trying to determine the future of the party, advocating a re-alignment this way or that, trying to modernize the thinking and popularity of conservatism are no more or less than liberals with a different grass skirt. True American patriots who know, understand, appreciate, and defend the Constitution for the exceptional, near perfect template for governement that it is, are, regardless of party affiliation, conservative minded Americans. Likewise, anyone declaring that the Constitution is just a piece of paper with more laws of men claiming divine inspiration, believeing it outdated and ripe for replacement are, whether registered democrat or republican, actually leftist liberals, unappreciative of and spoiled to the core by the fact that they have never seen their liberties in true peril, and have never had to earn or work to protect those rights themselves.
The Conservative movement should not have any confusion or disagreement as to the policies they will pursue, promises they make, or their voting record in office. If these promises of how they will govern are in accordance with the letter and intent of the Constitution and its founders it is worthy of support all the way into the voting booth and beyond. If you can not find the policies and ideas they express and support in the Constitution or in direct support of it, they are not to be taken as conservative, patriotic, or a choice for possible future governmental action. They are, instead, enemies of America being worthy of our contempt, disgust, opposition, and public rebuke. We need not be polite but, likewise, profanity, character assasination, and dishonesty are to be avoided at all costs as they serve only to render us invalid as they do the democrat political machine.
Truth, provable and factually indisputable; sincerity, humble and silently apparent; enthusiasm in and for the American opportunity; loyalty to the Constitution and the concept from which it was created; and the fierce, tireless, abject opposition of the leftist liberals as the enemy within should be the only platform of all patriotic Americans, and in all honesty, the Republican National Party.
Glenn Flowers