Self-Defeating GOP
The Election That Lost Itself
By D.W.

The Democrats now control the House of Representatives with ultra liberal Nancy Pelosi as the new speaker of the House, third in line for the Presidency. And they also have the Senate.

Who do we have to blame for this fiasco?

Why the Republican Party of course!

The Democrats didn’t win as much as the Republican’s lost. Maybe the GOP should have been more conservative and not upset their base as much.

As for myself, I didn’t vote in protest, but of course my district is a safe seat so I wasn’t risking much.

The Republican Party had squandered a historic opportunity to really push a conservative agenda and take the country down a great path. If they had listened to their base they could have focused on securing the border and intelligently dealing with the illegal immigration issue. If they listened to their base they would have been better able to control wasteful government spending.

And without promoting a viable energy policy, the big oil companies astronomically hiked up gasoline prices, which angered just about everyone.

The Republican’s have even abandoned their role as guardians of national security on a number of issues. They should have taken a hard line against the Dubai ports deal, which is something I am certain that we are going to regret later on. The deal angered average Americans who were paying attention because the thought of foreigners, let alone Arabs, controlling such vital infrastructure is simply appalling. The Republicans were asleep at the wheel on this issue when they should have towed the conservative line.

Allowing Denny Hastert to be the speaker of the house was also a bad idea as he was obviously not the best choice. His lack of moral leadership over the Mark Foley debacle and his dubious business dealings undermined his credibility. Lets be honest, he just doesn’t inspire confidence and their were plenty of other good candidates out there.

The GOP needs to do a better and more consistent job of policing their ranks internally. The party must conduct aggressive audits of the office holder’s affairs to identify and intervene in morally questionable behavior early on.

But more to the point, the party should never allow an office holder to be outed by the liberal press. The same goes for candidate selection, a Republican nominee doesn’t need to have a perfect past, but his recent behavior must be morally sound.

The Jack Abramoff scandal was also completely avoidable and Republicans who deal with scum like him aren’t real conservatives. Republicans would be well advised to shun lobbyists as much as possible and focus more on moral purity. Phony religious conservatives like Ralph Reed should be consistently identified and ousted from conservative movements. Christian Evangelicals who constitute much of the Republican base are genuinely angered by phony leaders who pay lip service to faith but fail to follow through.

The GOP must also remember that they don’t have control over the liberal media who will attack them at every available opportunity while giving the Democrats a big pass all of the time. The best way to counteract this is too maintain high moral standards and not present themselves as credible targets for scandal.

The Republican Party also acted like a bunch of pansies by waving off scandalous Democratic politicians when they should have attacked them as viciously as the liberals attacked Tom Delay.

What has really happened with liberal congressman William Jefferson with bribe money stuffed in his freezer?

I really haven’t heard anything about him lately even though his actions are in fact a big deal. He should have been demonized instead of protected by House speaker Hastert and other Republicans. The Democratic Party has the real culture of corruption but nobody is really pushing this fact out to the public.

The Democrats claim they won because the country wanted to go in a new direction and this may be so.

Of course they certainly aren’t going to lead us into the new direction we want; just the same old socialist and secular progressive agenda they believe in. They will pay lip service to national security but in the end, like many of the Republican’s in Congress, they are more concerned about power and wealth than doing what is actually best for the country.

The question to ask now is how can the Republican Party recover from this mess will and counter the all but certain Clinton and Obama ticket in 2008.

If the Democrats control the Presidency and Congress in 2008, there will be no going back. We will evolve into another form of a European welfare society and China will establish its role as the global hegemony, which it is very much ready and willing to do.

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