Posted by
TNconservative on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:14:45 AM
Something very unfortunate yet historical is happening in the Republican party.
The party is spilt between listening to the people and winning, or listening to the big whigs and losing.
The 2008 presidental election should have been all about the people, but the big whigs made it all about themselves. Because of this the GOP will lose the presidental election in 2008. IMO ofcourse, but I think its based off of a very realistic view.
The big whigs made sure that only a fellow big whig would win this nomination. Their first big whig choice was Rudy Guiliani which they tormented the people with for over a year before the primary ever happened. When it was clear that Guiliani couldn't win, they turned to their next choice big whig Mitt Romney the liberal who decided to say he was conservative right before running for president. Then when it was clear that Mitt Romney could not win because the people didn't want that liberal, they made sure that they were alteast going to get their third choice which was big whig John McCain. Fred Thompson was thrown in as the big whig in the people's conservative clothing, and was mainly there to ensure that no real people's conservative candidate would be able to be nominated.
Now all of these candidates were moderates and liberals because the GOP big whigs decided that going to the left is what they must do to win, even Fred Thompson who many will argue is conservative because of his people's conservative clothing, I think is clearly a moderate when taken a closer look at and compared with a real people's conservative like Duncan Hunter. So why did they do this?
To take care of themselves while they throw you under the bus. Thats business. You see, they got themselves into trouble with scandels and corruption issues and now rather than thinking of the people they are thinking of how to save their own necks.
Richard Nixon was involved in watergate which made republicans look bad, and caused them to lose mid-term elections and some of their power. And then Nixon resigned and his replacement Ford pardoned him from any punishments. While this may have saved their own necks, it made republicans look even worse and in 1976 Jimmy Carter became president with a democrat congress.
The big whigs will keep looking out for their own interests at the expense of the people. Just like now they want to nominate a presidental candidate who leans left, in hopes to win.
Republicans in the past had to take back their party from the whigs and make domestic and social issues a top priority. It proved to be a winner. That is what needs to happen now. Perhaps it means to reform the party rather than change from it. But certainly changing from must be an option if reforming is rejected.
I think its time to start over and go back to congress and get some real conservatives, not big whigs.