The Demise of the Republican Party
The Chief, along with others, has previously posted on this issue, and no less than the WaPo has come out and proclaimed “No big deal, politics as usual”, noting an apparent decline in complaints about the Immigration Reform Bill Kennedy-McCainiac Mexican Migration Promotion Act. In one sense they may be right…
Congress’s week-long Memorial Day recess was expected to leave the bill in tatters. But with a week of action set to begin today, the legislation’s champions say they believe that the voices of opposition, especially from conservatives, represent a small segment of public opinion. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), who led negotiations on the bill for his party, said the flood of angry calls and protests that greeted the deal two weeks ago has since receded every day.
HELLOOOOO? How many times is someone going to call up? It stands to reason that the number of complaint calls would taper off as more and more people have already registered their discontent with the direction of this attack on our national sovereignty.
Meanwhile, the pot is still simmering, and the RINOS and others of their ilk are unwilling to accept the reality of the GOP sputtering along on one engine, getting ready to take that big nose-dive into the tarmac.
The firestorm of public outcry against the proposed immigration bill is testimony enough that the Senate and the House need to be reminded that selling out the nation is a very bad idea. There are very good reasons why nations have borders.
What a concept! Borders, language, culture!
The bill is just one more way the Republican Party demonstrated that it has been steadily abandoning its fundamental principles. In essence, the Party has stood for sovereignty, the free market, fiscal prudence, private property, and small government. It was a party that historically has been reluctant to be drawn into foreign wars.
This is what drives the Chief to distraction!
Victor Gold, who was a press aide to Barry Goldwater and a speechwriter in George H.W. Bush’s administration, has a new book out, The Invasion of the Party Snatchers, that is a virtual call for the death and reconstruction of the GOP:
Gold makes no bones about it. He wants the present GOP to die so it can be born again to its former principles. The elections of 2008 are likely to bring out masses of Democrats who feel rejuvenated by the failures and missteps of the White House and the GOP. The recently reported falloff of financial support for the GOP, estimated to be as high as forty percent, might actually suggest they’re doing something wrong.
More than a few Republicans who simply do not want to live in an America that intrudes into the most private decisions of people’s lives, that throws overboard the Constitutional protections of privacy, judicial protections, and whose elected representatives have engaged in an orgy of spending, are desperately seeking real conservative leadership.
Hear, hear!
Citing severe problems with the administration and Cong GOP on the immigration issue, the Prez’s recent reversal on GlowBull warming, Cong fiscal irresponsibility, and dubious appointments (Harriet Myers, Alberto Gonzales), lead to what more and more looks like an inevitable conclusion:
Gold reflects the widespread feeling that elected Republicans no longer have any regard for the voters. “I’d just like to know there were still Republican senators around who didn’t think of the people who elected them as knuckle-walking Pleistocene morons.” This can, of course, be extended to Democrats as well.
Gold warns that what has been passed off as a new kind of conservative politics under the aegis of the neo-cons and the pressures of evangelical groups is “merely a recycled model of the old Liberal politics that led to the decline and fall of the Democratic Party in the 1960s.”
We are left to wonder how long it will take for those who regard themselves as Republicans to desert today’s GOP, mostly by refusing to vote for its candidates,
F.E.T.E.