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Conservative Enablers

Chris Wallace asking a question sent in by Lucille Gallman: Did you vote for John McCain in the 2008 Presidential Election??

Rush Limbaugh: I did.

Lest you forget, it was November 8, 2006 when Limbaugh said. "I no longer have to carry the water for people who don't deserve it."

You carried it then and you'll continue to carry it.

Right here and right now I'm taking Limbaugh and all the rest to task. You are weak. And so long as you continue to enable moderation you shall be gifted with moderation!

This is precisely what the hierarchy of the party knows and hopes for. They know they can successfully play the lesser of two evils argument with the majority of people. When push comes to shove it becomes the "Well McCain or whomever isn't perfect but he's no Obama."

As long as people in a kneejerk sort of way continue to go back to the 11th commandment; "I'm going to vote for the party no matter what..." then the party will continue to drift.

Until you can get the 23rd congressional district scenario nationwide; where you've got a guy Doug Hoffman (I mean the man should get an award for Christ's sake) who tells himself "Ya know...I may cause the defeat of a Republican candidate but here's the thing I DON'T CARE!" That is precisely what would hold the feet to the fire for Republicans. It would thereby force the Republican candidate to adhere to the platform.

But I digress...it's your party and so you may do with it what you will. Those of us who are committed to actually moving this country in its intended and foundational direction understand this:

The party is merely the conduit to the message; the cause. And there is more than one way and one party in which to transport that message.

The REAL problem with the GOP

Granted when it comes to today's GOP, there are a flurry of problems of which they suffer (most notably one of credibility. It's pretty tough to vote yay on the Bush/Paulsen bailout only to then expect a platform when criticizing the same from the incoming administration). But that aside, the biggest problem with the GOP as I see it can be summed up in short with any one of the following captions:

Ron Paul v. Olympia Snowe
Ron Paul v. Susan Collins
Ron Paul v. Charles Grassley
Ron Paul v. Tim Pawlenty
Ron Paul v. Mike Huckabee
Ron Paul v. [pick your favorite moderate Republican]

As much as the Republican party pays homage to Ronald Reagan and an ever growing amount of lip service to Free Minds and Free Markets, Private Property, et al., let's be perfectly clear on this. The Republican party is no longer the party of Reagan (and certainly not Barry Goldwater).

Ron Paul, as you'll recall, was vilified by the Republican Party establishment during his 2008 presidential run. And for what? For disagreeing with the party's traditional orthodoxy on Iraq? Lest we forget there were a great many other notable conservatives in the classical sense (William Buckley, George Will, Charely Reese, Paul Craig Roberts, James Webb, etc.) opposed to, what they all correctly stated at the time and, what has since become an occupational venture. Paul was further vilified as a kook, a nutjob, for favoring the abolotion of the government's greatest monopoly The Department of Education as well as Medicare, the IRS, Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac, and of course the Federal Reserve.

That the Republican party establishment and a great many of its voters subsequently did so easily reject those ideas and the Constitutional Congressman from Texas is in part testament to their predicament.

The other, and much more profound part to that predicament is that while rejecting virtually every principle and idea and the man who espoused them, they were instead embracing en masse the complete and polar opposite (see the short list of the aforementioned) and throwing money and resources behind those individuals who would messenger them.

The GOP didn't head Paul's call for aboloshing the Department of Education it instead doubled its size. They didn't seek healthcare reform they added a prescription drug plan. And now, not only are they stuck with little if any credibility, they're stuck in large part with a flurry of individuals struggling to deliver a cohesive message, thought, or idea. All the while continuing to reject a man who, at present, has the greatest momentum, credibility and understanding of this fiscal crisis and without question the greatest opportunity of any of the "leading" 2012 hopefuls.