GOP moderates are the problem

I have been pointing out that the so-called moderate Repubicans to be the same as the Progressives who are running the Democrat Party. I have also been saying that the GOP leadership want conservative to be voters, but not part of the party leadership. Allen Keyes has support for that thought:

GOP leaders like to pretend they handpick left-leaning nominees for office out of some kind of political necessity. Anyone tempted to believe them should ponder the bizarre mess they created in the special election just held in New York's 23rd Congressional District. A seat that should have been a safe bet for the GOP is to be occupied by a Democrat instead, simply because the Steele/Boehner Republican bosses put up a candidate whose positions on the issues of Republican principle waved a contemptuous red flag in the face of the conservative moral constituency that is, in electoral terms, the bull elephant of the Republican herd. It was a choice so stupid that it awakened in me vigilant instincts from my days as a high-level Reagan appointee in the U.S. State Department, serving in the trenches of bureaucratic warfare. The personnel at State are generally of high caliber. When they produced a blatantly incompetent result, I made it a rule to assume, for tactical purposes, that someone intended it to happen (since no one as intelligent as the average FSO would do anything so stupid.) My task was to identify and thwart that source of bureaucratic opposition (often sadly within the staff or bureau I was responsible for).

With this rule in mind, what would we say of the events that just transpired in New York's 23rd? Well, some folks saw a reasonably safe GOP seat as a chance to slip a pro-abortion wolf into the Republican congressional fold. When GOP leaders like Michael Steele or John Boehner talk about wanting "moderates" in the GOP, they may not be paying lip service to tolerance for the sake of appearances. They may be stating their strategic political goal. Perhaps from their viewpoint, the deeply held conservative convictions of the grassroots core of conservative voters is like the critical mass of radioactive material needed to produce a nuclear fission reaction. These voters are indispensably necessary for the GOP's electoral success, but under no circumstances must their political activity be allowed to produce an explosion of authentic conservative results. Instead, every opportunity must be used to insert "moderates" into positions of influence who (like the control rods in a nuclear reactor) will absorb and channel conservative political energy to produce a controlled reaction that results in sustained political power for the party elite. The label "moderate," therefore, doesn't refer to candidates' political views (which on issues like abortion and homosexual marriage are anything but moderate). It refers to their political effect.

Keyes gives examples:

They backed Arlen Specter rather than the conservative, pro-life candidate being raised up by the conservative grass roots in Pennsylvania. They back Schwarzenegger rather than the conservative pro-life candidate being lifted up by the conservative grass roots in California. They back Trey Grayson rather than Bill Johnson, the Reagan conservative rising from among grassroots conservatives in Kentucky. Would these vanguard elitists rather have a crypto-Islamic, national socialist with a predilection for Caesarism (the alien-sounding term "czar" applied to Obama's unconstitutional White House dictators is just the Slavic rendering of Caesar) at the political helm than a genuine conservative who pays more than lip service to the belief in God and decent liberty that is characteristic of many American voters? The vanguard elitists sporting the Republican label happily gather and spend millions of dollars on the research and advertising needed to turn unappealing "moderate" mediocrities into viable candidates for office. Put behind conservatives really in tune with grassroots conviction, fewer resources would produce a more assured result, calling forth the conservative majority artfully installed for purposes of manipulation behind the contrived façade of the current two-party electoral sham. The whole point of the sham is to prevent that majority from realizing its true strength.

Seen from this perspective it is clear that the Obama faction's present ascendancy isn't mainly due to anything the leftist Democrats have achieved. It's due to what the false-flag "conservatives" of the Republican Party power structure have prevented true conservatives from achieving.

And that is exactly what played out in South Dakota's District 20 Senate seat during 2008. And Pat Powers was part of the problem. It is time for true conservatives to stop being fooled by the GOP elite and take matters into their own hands. Either conservatives are respected and given the reins of the GOP, or we need to move on.

Comments

[Tom]

Yes, please keep kicking moderates out of the Republican Party. That will make them a permanent minority party in this country and we can finally igmore all of their stupid ideas.

The reality is that both parties need moderates if they want to be in the majority. Democrats have accepted fiscally conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats into their caucus to get their current majoirity, though that sometimes leads to frustration. If Republicans want to be in the majority again, they will need to find moderate Republicans who can win moderate and liberal districts.

[Steve Sibson]

Tom,

Whats wrong with being American first. The Republican versus Demcorat feud is a distraction. The moderate label is a lie. Time to label Americans versus anti-American Progressives.

[Trent Dlugosh]

Sibby,

You constantly bring up Republicans vs Democrats and then when someone else does your only reply is to say "stop talking about Democrats vs. Republicans" I'm having a hard time following your argument there. Also, are you saying Republicans are Americans first? Because I have to say I think they are not. They are about themselves first. You can wrap yourself in the flag all you want, it doesn't make you American.