Republican Moderates

Recently there have been rumors pertaining to the demise of the Republican Party. I don't think they are rumors in that the Republican party has taken its conservative base for granted and is moving more and more to the left and in so doing they are becoming Democrat lite.

Despite the two recent catastrophic elections, 2006 and 2008, the Republicans believe that the way to win is to become more moderate this despite the fact that the selection of John McCain caused somewhere between 4-5 million conservatives to stay home on election day in 2008. Now we have a new team of light weights, Colon Powell and Tom Ridge, going on the road together with the primary purpose of destroying conservatism. Put these two moderate Republicans at the top of the ticket and you will see the end of the Republican party in 2012 and I would expect the creation of a new Conservative Party grounded in the classical liberalism of our Founders and Framers who gave us the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Those of you who believe that the thing Republicans must do is become more moderate, I would remind you that it is ideas that win the hearts and minds of the people. It was Ronald Reagan with his plan to destroy the evil empire of the USSR that got our attention in 1980. No one prior to Reagan had given a thought to destroying communism at its very heart. Reagan was a man with a simple plan, a plan that worked.

In 1994, Newt Gingrich comes along and does the unheard of, he makes House politics national and not local as so often had been attested to by supposed "smart politicians". The national news guys on NBC, ABC, and CBS, had their chins on the ground on election eve 1994,as the results came in with the Republican slaughter of the Democrats. Indeed, many felt the Democrats were finished.

What do the Republicans have to do today? They must return to the principles and values of this nation and devise a program around them. Why do you think so many of us are anti-abortion? Don't know? Well, let me remind you of this phrase, "... among those are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Life, you see, is an inalienable right. It is at the very core of the well being of this nation and as one gentleman told me recently, we will not be right until we settle the abortion issue and stop the slaughter of unborn babies.

Our Founding Fathers belived that the founding of America was not an accident. They believe that our nation came about because of the hand of God--divine intervention if you will. Yet since 1962, we have done our best to remove Him from our lives. There are those within our own nation who pray for our destruction and think a better world will evolve. Allow me to be so bold as to say that with the destruction of America, occurring because divine intervention has been withdrawn, will result in a vacuum that will not be filled and the rest of the world will be collapse.