I’m fed up and I may leave the GOP and all Party politics
I don’t believe the problem is necessarily some deep-dark nefarious conspiracy for one-world government controlled by the Rothschild family or the Bilderbergs. It is simplar than that and as the old saying goes – when you hear the sound of hooves in the distance think horses and not zebras.
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) published their PORT HURON STATEMENT OF THE STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY in which they called for – paraphrasing here – co-opting one or both of the major political parties for social change, and I believe they have been phenomenally successful and we see that success in the GOP as well as the Democrat Party.
So, I may not only leave the Grand Ole Party but I may also under vote or just stay home altogether on Election Day in November. And yes, I know what that means. But at the end of the day it may not matter at all who is or is not elected to president this year.
I am the one who has cautioned patience for the past twenty years or so. I have admonished that we can only get out of our national nightmare the same way we got into it – incrementally. I am one of the ones who has always said to give the Republicans in Congress time because they could only do so much at once given minority status or weak majorities – including the presidency – and that they did, after all, have to win elections – that’s just a reality of our system.
I have always agreed with Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh and others that said we don’t need a third party but a rejuvenated Republican Party.
However, having said all of that for so many years, I feel that it’s time to put my big boy pant on and take an honest look at the evidence. To me that evidence clearly shows that a protracted 50 year struggle for a more conservative GOP is a failure.
Here is an excerpt from the American Thinker:
Last Thursday will be remembered as the day the Republican establishment unveiled its true face. We know they’ve just been inside the beltway too long. We expect their informed opinion to tilt in whatever direction keeps them on the cocktail circuit. That’s why many of us don’t pay a whole lot of attention to them. But to bring out John McCain and Bob Dole to give us advice on picking presidential candidates and have who we thought were “our” pundits treat it as gospel? Next they will tell us ObamaCare is not so bad. Oh wait, they’re already priming that pump.
Let’s face it, Reagan was an aberration. Before and since, can anyone truthfully say that the party has gone to the mat for conservative, TEA party values? Or has it been just lip service? Why is it always that when we seem to be inside the twenty on an issue that matters, such as cutting the size of government and holding it accountable, we can never score? Newt tried somewhat in the nineties, but was stabbed in the back by his own party. What happened when the Republicans had both houses and the presidency? What happened to the House of Representatives the TEA party put in office in 2010? Excuses. There always has been and there always will be excuses.
That, however, is not all of the evidence. Let’s take a look at the small county where I live, Brevard County, Florida – The Space Coast:
Brevard County has about half a million people and is a majority republican county. According to the local Supervisor of Elections, registered Republicans outnumber Democrats by more than 28,000.
Active Registered Voters as of 02/21/2012
Republicans: 156,349 Democrats: 127,580 Others: 78,343Total: 362,272
Consequently Republican politicians control most elected positions within the County. Of the five county commissioners 4 are Republican and 1 is a Democrat and yet the two political conservatives on the Board routinely lose votes by a 3 to 2 split with two Republicans routinely voting with the lone Democrat county commissioner. That leads to liberal spending projects and social engineering implementing U.N. and federal Agenda 21 items, big spending on so-called environmentally endangered lands, and worse. In spite of the Republican majority in our county and county government there is a decidedly liberal bent.
Although we have “Republicans” on our local school board, liberalism and a U.N. style curriculum including global warming, the International Baccalaureate and international human rights and all that entails permeate our schools as well. But if you ask a commissioner about it they defer and claim everything is the fault of our state legislators in Tallahassee or the feds in Washington. Apparently we don’t need the expense of a school board because they don’t claim to do, or be responsible for, anything. Like President Obama it’s all someone else’s fault. We should just have a superintendent that reports to the state legislature and the teacher’s union.
To add insult to injury, the president of the Florida Senate is from this county and is a Republican. Every single representative to Tallahassee from this County is a Republican and our two federal congressmen (Florida Districts 15 and 24) are Republican. And yet liberalism permeates our local government.
So, what’s the point of staying loyal to the GOP, working to elect GOP candidates or even ousting President Obama for that matter? Does it really make a hill of beans if a Republican president takes us off the socialist cliff at a slower pace than does Obama or if we elect GOP officials at the state and local level only to have a U.N. globalist agenda implemented anyway through our schools and county government?
I think it’s long past time for rank and file conservative Americans to rethink our strategy, including the so-called tea party movement. These are dangerous times indeed and dangerous times call for drastic measures. I have a few months to decide, but I may just stay home in November.
I understand that may be the liberal – progressive – goal to get people to tune out and quit. However, leaving the GOP and all party politics – even staying home in November – doesn’t equate to dropping out. Far from it.
