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The nail is in the coffin ladies and gentlemen. Mitt Romney has dropped out of the race today. We are now looking at a McCain-Huckabee race. It doesn’t take a psychic to figure things out folks, McCain will be our nominee. The Republican party is going to nominate a shamnesty pushing moderate. This is it, the Republican party has become the Democratic party. We have sacrificed our moral values just to win votes. While I’m sure Independents are important I think Republicans should be thought of first.
Don’t get me wrong. I understand that the chances of Romney being able to catch back up to McCain is almost impossible. McCain is a candidate that represent a growing amount of left in the Republican party. On Super Tuesday I made the point that the Republican party has given up on the conservative movement. With this candidate and his crony Huckabee we are looking at the conversion of what we all used to fight for. At this moment we are looking at a lose-lose situation. How are we expected to vote for someone that doesn’t even belong in the party? This is politics and I am not surprised but you can guarantee a back lash. The Republican party has announced it’s defeat.
What has become of the “Grand Ol’ Party?” The Democratic party should be worshiping John McCain at this moment. The one man that is for illegal immigration, against the Bush tax cuts and created some of the most liberal bills with the most liberal Democrats is now “speaking” for the GOP. John McCain will effectively do what the DNC has been praying and working for during their entire existence; the destruction of the GOP. Think I’m mistaken? Think again. Don’t think for a second that the conservative voters will suck it up and accept a moderate liberal. We’re looking at Hillary or McCain, horrible or really bad. You pick.
McCain must start acting like a Republican if he expects anything out of me. It will take more than a little bit of pandering and a lot more than what he is doing now. Diplomacy does not work with people that aren’t interested in diplomacy. The Democratic party is not interested in coming to a compromise. They are only interested in getting what they want out of everything. John McCain is not the leader we need and not someone that will represent the Conservative party. We may need to change this websites title to “The Independent Conservative” because I don’t think this party deserves any of my support. I’m not going that far, yet.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I am one second away from removing myself as a “registered” Repbulican. I’m sick of them all. My candidate dropped out. I want to drop out also. Very, very disheartening to say the least.
The thought that JOHN MCCAIN is the representative of the Republican Party is just so mind blowing…….so surreal.
So scary.
Betsy
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February 7th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I am “leaving” the Republican party. I am not a registered Republican, but have voted Republican in every and all instances since 9/11. I will not vote for John McCain though. He tried to backdoor tha BS amnesty bill so the people wouldn’t have a say in it. I cannot vote for this man and I won’t vote for Hillary/Obamnation! Lets get a third party going now so we can affect the next election (we are too late on this one).
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February 7th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Yes, sad day. I do feel we lost our best ambassador for conservatism for the future. I’m still amazed at the vitriol still being spewed on the Internet about Romney. I like Hewitt’s suggestion that Romney now go and help other Republicans up for reelection to further his cred for 2012. Hope those Southern Baptists will come around to him in the future, but if Huckabee runs, it might be a problem.
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February 8th, 2008 at 1:28 am
There is a ton of blame to go around. Mostly the Republican establishment for abandoning any sense of party unity; this is an area where Democrats have always had us beat: all of their candidates and leaders have almost identical positions on virtually everything. We have guys all over the darn map, in a lame attempt to have a big tent.
Facts are, Ronald Reagan and George Bush I and II all won on the same ideas:
Lower taxes and regulations.
Robust National Defense.
Defense of human life and traditional Judeo/Christian American culture.
Of course the Bush presidents have been far from perfect. But they were elected on the above platform above all else.
Sadly, however, the “big tent” Republican party has allowed some of our major leaders to waver on the bedrock issues we care about. Sometimes severe ways! Actually, Rudy, for all of his problems, is in many ways more reliably conservative on more issues than McCain and Huckabee, but with the latter two guys (the ones we have left! Wow!) you have major questions about every single part of the conservative platform, with the exception of life issues with Huck.
With McCain you have a guy that is not totally off base on the main issues, yet is at best 50% were we need him to be. Not good enough my friends.
However, though the Republican establishment sellouts are largely responsible, there is more blame to go around.
I aim my sights at some of the conservative punditry. Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin (among other major figures) inexplicably failed to support Fred Thompson. This was particularly bad with Coulter, who ripped him for problems that, when compared to McCain, are peanuts. So you had a failure to rally around one of the finest conservative candidates (Based on POSITIONS! IDEAS!) I’ve seen in the last ten years. Worse yet, Fred is probably too old to make another run (I hope he continues his radio work and goes about the work of teaching conservatism, which is badly needed).
Other pundits, like Micheal Medved, seemed to flit from candidate to candidate, based purely on the latest polls or sometimes just a speech! I also put a very small amount of blame to Rush, Sean, and Mark Levin (the Big Three) for taking a little too long in advocating for Thompson and Romney (though I think Mark Levin was behind Thompson for quite awhile). Maybe it wouldn’t have mattered, but oh well.
I also lay the blame on our Southern conservative friends, who awarded Huckabee key victories on Super Tuesday. I’m a Christian, a pretty darn conservative one too, but any issues I might have with the Mormon church are not terribly relevant when it comes to a candidate that, at minimum, would have been a tremendous fiscal conservative, and at maximum could have been Reagan like (if he had lived up to his promises). I don’t know if Southern voters allowed Romney’s religion to matter or not, but it is hard to not see some of that effecting things.
However, now that I’m done complaining, let me be positive. We are faced with an impossible choice for President, and to each his own in regards to a very hard decision there. Yet there are plenty of reasons to pay attention.
1. Look at your congressional disctricts. Is there a liberal you can knock off? Or a good incumbent that needs support?
2. Ditto for Senators.
We can still help get our people in the legislature. We can still vote for good governors. Even mayors and local people!
And finally, and I understand this is an opinion that can get people mad at me, we need to fight off any urge as conservatives to try to start or support an existing third party. We are built, for better or for worse, on a two party system. The answer to to drag the Republican party kicking and screaming back to the right where they belong. Look at what an organization like MoveOn.org has done with Democrats. They took the “New Democrat” movement started by Bill Clinton and crushed it, and now the party is dominated by far left liberals.
We may lose this battle, but by continuing to work hard we can win the wars to come.
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