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Subject:
The Mutiny in the GOP
PPR
11/2/2009 8:07:48 AM
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| There's a battle going for the soul of the GOP. Moderates control the party. They will call themselves conservatives during an election year. Once elected, they abandon that conservative language and start using phrases like "compromise", "progressive", and "moderation." Instead of tax cut, defense increases, balanced budgets, and family values; they got prescription drugs, gay marriage, "war on the cheap", massive spending increases, massive deficits, and "no child left behind." All this came from GOP leaders in Washington.
Those leaders hoped to expand the party by appealing to moderates and liberals. What they failed to understand was that by moving the party left, they were moving away from their center of mass. Rather than expand the party, they are now has a much smaller party and are "wandering in wilderness." Those GOP leaders should have instead promoted the conservative values of their party to moderates (as Reagan and BO did).
We are now seeing a mutiny by conservatives.
"http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/scozzfava_hoffman_gop/2009/11/01/280110.html"
In a NY special election, a moderate and conservative candidate were both running. GOP members from across the nations funneled money to the conservative. The "moderate", for lack of funds, dropped out of the race and threw her support to the democrat.
There could not be a more clear example of why the party base is so reluctant to support these "moderate" Republicans. The GOP is going to have to offer real conservative candidates if it hopes to ever again appeal to their base (which is 40% of votes currently). |
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