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Last night on Fox News, Greta VanSustren was interviewing Newt Gingrich. He said that Republicans need to accept “Gay Marriage”. It is here and legal in at least 15 states. We don’t have to agree with it, he said, but we have to accept it as the reality. Well, thanks Newt. And oh yes, thank you also for giving Obama the big stick in the form of “Bain Capital” that he beat Romney over the head with.(but I will get to that later)

I’d like to take Gingrich’s premise and apply it to the GOP. I am willing to accept the party for what it is. I don’t have to participate in its business(since I am a conservative I think that is ok with the party intelligentsia) but I have to accept the reality. So, here is what I need to come to terms with.

  • It is a party that can’t field a canidate to beat one of the all time worst presidents.
  • It is a party that contains a governor of a postage stamp size state who takes on the attitude of that his state and fiefdom comes first and the rest of the country can kiss his ass. As a result, he gave a self serving speech at the Republican convention, told the Republican canidate to stay the hell out of his tiny state when that canidate offered to help and then snuggled up to the  canidate’s political oppenent in the name of helping his state and completely ignoring the big political picture.
  • It is a party that engages in long primaries where the lead canidate tears the others a new one and roars like a lion. But when it comes time to fight the real enemy he or she is a kitten. His or her Republican opponents return the favor by doing opposition research such as Gingrich did with Bain Capital for Obama.
  • It is the party of John Boehner who instead of being a check and balance to the Executive Branch, bends over backward to cut deals with the president. After all, he is a Congressman of a blue state and wants to get reelected. And oh yes, I didn’t forget you Paul Ryan. You thought it was better to take lesser of two evils, and “kick the can down the road” by voting for the Tax Increase. Your reason, if you didn’t taxes would have gone up even more. Gee thanks bud, you saved me a nickel. Have  some drinks and a juicy steak… the american people are buying.
  • It’s a party that hires super consultants who say they can get the canidate votes that usually go to their opponent. All our guy or gal has to do is tell their base to go to hell. Which of course they do, only to find out that the votes they wanted will go to other side because, why  go for  go for Democrat Lite when you can get the straight stuff. And yes, Boehner even went farther to purge the party of conservatives by throwing the Conservative congress people out of some very powerful commitees. You see he has learned like we all have that when you are being mugged, you give the mugger everything he wants in the hope that he will spare your life. And sure enough, Boehner and Mconnell have given our Mugger in Chief everything he wants so that maybe their political hides could be spared.

Well, phew! This my friends is the state of our Grand Old Party. It is what it is and the majority of party members like it that way. It’s not going to change anytime soon. I know what you will ask me. “What choice do we have?” Why we need “keep our powder dry” “play our best hand” out manauever our opponents like you would in a game of chess, because as we all know Boehner, Mconnell and his ilk are Bobby Fischers when it comes to the great game of political chess. We saw their great prowess on display during the Fiscal Cliff deal talks.

So, with all this in mind, I encourage all of you Rhino supporters and surrenderers on this site to fire away at me. But, may I ask you to incude in your comments how you think the Republican Party is any different than the Democrat Party? I can help you out with a few sample answers.

  • We can be for a Flag burning ammendment. After all we need to shore up the “Cracker Vote.”
  • We are also for Amnesty. But one thing we will do is tell the “Illegal Aliens” that they better behave themselves or we will hold our collective breath until we turn purple.
  • We’ll have people like George Will and Bill Kristol and oh yes, O Reilly(the culture Warrior) bray about the negative messages in that “thar” rap music. And they will also lament our nations unwillingness to celebrate Christmas.
  • At election time we’ll talk about how hard work made this country great and how we all need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. Why just look back at the greatest generation! But we’ll still keep taxes for the producers high(that’s my name for the rich) we just won’t raise them any higher.
  • And oh yes, we will also bray about some government waste and how we’ll trim a little fat off the Bureacracy and keep costs low. But we will keep the structure pretty much intact. IE there were parts of Obamacare Romney liked.

Ok, that’s it. I am done. Remember, in the words of Dennis Miller, that’s  my opinion I could be wrong, Gotta go, John Galt is here. Plumely out!

COMMENTS

  • Viet71

    For what do Conservatives stand?

    I’ll say this: I’ll give up gay marriage for guns if there has to be a trade-off.

    We’re in the realm of what is ridiculous. Trade this for that.

    I’d trade gay marriage for guns.

    • keepcoolwithcoolidge

      In a heartbeat bud.

  • Spike

    Tell me again why its not time for a separate Conservative political party?

    • Kyle-MI

      Because it will only end up electing extreme liberal Democrats.

  • Notre Droite

    It’s time to kick these RINOs out, the conservative movement will be just fine without them. Talking about accepting Obamacare, gun control, or even gay marriage is just defeatist talk by those who would betray our principles. Jim DeMint said he would rather have 30 Republicans in the Senate who believe in our principles of freedom.

    • Jim_Riggs

      How will we know if we kicked them out or if they licked us out?

  • gman2442

    Spot on with just about everything, as Conservatives, we not only have to find a way to defeat the Democrats in 2014 but we also have to overcome the Rhino posers that are already in office.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    The basic reason our Party is not “conservative enough” is because there are not enough conservatives “in” the Party. In the precinct committeeman ranks. There’s about 400,000 of these “lowest level” slots in our Party, nationwide, but only about half of them are filled. The half that are filled are split about 50-50 between RINOs and conservatives. The PCs elect, directly or indirectly, all the Party officers at the local district, county, state and national committee levels. The RNC chairman is a reflection of the makeup of the Party at the precinct level.

    Conservatives. Redstaters. If you want a more conservative Party, become a voting member of the Party — a precinct committeeman.

    If conservatives filled up the 200,000 or so PC slots all across the country, then all those local, county, state and even the national committee could pass public resolutions condemning Boehner, McConnell and company for not fight for our liberties. And, when it came time for their next primary elections, we’d be in a much better, stronger position to help conservatives win those all-important, traditionally-very-low-turnout primary elections.

    Conservatives need to organize and unite locally for real political action inside the Party at your local Party committee meetings. Then we’ll be in the best position to change not only the Party but also the outcome of the primary elections.

    Organize and unite locally. Win locally and nationally.

    Thank you.
    ColdWarrior
    http://theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

  • commonsenseobserver

    It’s really scary when Chris Christie is the only candidate within 2 points of Hillary Clinton.

    Yet, you are too gloomy, and fail to consider the big picture, especially on the fiscal cliff deal, which you should know saved most people a lot more than a nickle, compared to current law. Seriously, you wanted House Republicans to threaten Obama with bigger tax increases and more people out of work and on welfare, than he even asked for? Something tells me he would have been pretty happy with that, especially with Republicans to blame and his second term secured.

    • plumely

      Obama is going to blame the Republicans no matter what they do. So, why not actually stand for something instead of getting down on our knees and groveling to the Messiah to please don’t raise our taxes any more. From the looks of things we got nothing in return for this aquiesence. If we don’t fight right now, when will we fight? A majority won’t matter when we have weak leaders who are unwilling to capitalize on it.

  • daniel22

    With an attitude like that of Newt Gingrich of we have to accept (fill in the blank) I cannot support the republican party. A line has to drawn somewhere and accepting things that I deem immoral on the terms of the opposition is just plain surrendering. Believe it when I say that Newt would have us “accept” on their terms as anything else would just be plain bigotry,(again this would be their argument). How far would this surrendering go is hard to say but I know enough that it would be pushed to the hilt.
    Our country, our republic was founded on Judeo-Christian values with the laws to match. It was meant for a moral people according to Franklin and he was correct. As recent history has repeatedly shown something can be legal but not necessarily moral. With that mindset ask yourself which is more important, political expediency or character? One carries with it the baggage of compromising ones values and beliefs the other a legacy for others to measure up against.
    The republican party has turned into progressive lite with the democrats leading the way to the destruction of the moral fiber of this country. We have to stand somewhere in this battle and the time is now. Both major parties have left their core constituencies behind for an agenda that does not bode well for anybody. Why should we continue to support such a party or such a system? Conservatives have been shut out or froze out of key policy making positions in the republican party do we continue to sit down shut up and contribute which is what they want?

  • trem

    The biggest problem with conservatives is that every single one of us thinks “conservative” means “someone who agrees with me 100% of the time”.