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Proud Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:08:51 PM
I write today in a depressed and angry mindset as a committed conservative. This is because the Republican Party has betrayed us and we have been “anointed” a frontrunner who left whatever conservative principles he had behind years ago. Our party establishment has become indistinguishable from the Democrat Party leadership and abandoned the conservative principles that led it and the country to greatness in favor of capitulating to the Democrats.
I am angry. And, my conservative friends, we need a revolution in our party.
Let’s start with John McCain. He clearly wants us to believe he’s a conservative. His ads brand him as the “True Conservative.” However, words mean nothing to me. Actions mean everything and McCain’s actions prove he is not a conservative. For example, we have that assault on the First Amendment, the McCain-Feingold Bill. We have that assault on our sovereignty, the McCain-Kennedy illegal immigration bill. Now there’s the assault on our pocketbook, the McCain-Lieberman bill that would raise how much the American family pays for gas by almost $1,000 per year to fight global warming. McCain also opposed the Bush tax cuts when they were passed. But he said supports the tax cuts now, Jessica! Yes, he’ll support them until he gets elected.
John McCain is not a conservative. But a President Clinton or President Obama would be worse. So, what’s a conservative to do?
Simple, we need to look beyond November. We need to look to the 2010 midterm elections and elect new blood into office. Conservatives need to kick the moderates in Congress out the door as soon as possible. So who needs to go?
Any senator or representative who believes we should pull out of Iraq, that our foreign policy should be subject to approval from the United Nations, that we should negotiate with Iran and North Korea, that the government should take care of us from the cradle to the grave (in other words, universal health care), that the American people’s money is better off in the government’s hands rather than the people’s needs to be voted out of office. Any elected official who doesn’t believe in the sanctity of life should have no place in the GOP or in our government.
We should also refuse to vote for anyone who believes in “comprehensive immigration reform.” It means the candidate won’t build the fence, won’t secure our borders and will grant amnesty the moment they can do it. The Republican establishment thinks that if it grants the illegal immigrants amnesty they’ll vote Republican in the next election. They are absolute fools! The immigrants will vote Democrat because they know the liberals will give them their free health care, education, and unemployment benefits at the average taxpayer’s expense.
In short, we need to vote out any Republican who capitulates to the Democrats’ demands and whose voting record supports bigger government, higher taxes, amnesty for illegal immigrants and the moral degradation of our country.
My friends, vote for whom you wish this November; after all, all our opinions, not just mine, will count on Election Day. But look to the future, to November 2010, and let’s take back our party and force McCain, if he gets elected, to be a conservative.