Posted by
King Vinyl on Sunday, March 01, 2009 5:15:00 PM
Conservatism is the reflection of our Constitution and how best to measure our systems role of government against it properly without distorting it out of context. The days of the "better then you GOP" have got to go, the days of the Republican being elected as superior to the message of Conservatism must end now.
Conservatism is not at all about allowing big businesses free reign to employ illegal aliens then trying to say the top 2% pay all the taxes. The top 2% own all the big businesses, even the ones that have been breaking immigration laws and turning middle class taxpayers into welfare check recipients.
I do not care CPAC mended the fence with Mike Huckabee, and forgiveness isn't out of the question either, but contricion is part of that deal for me. At last years CPAC convention they were on the Romney or Bust Campaign of 08' they didn't even let Mike speak like they did the others before they voted on who to back. CPAC members used a Clinton/CBS like strategy to make false political claims about the records of both Huckabee and Romney. But they also lied about something else, and that is what hurt the most. They spread the rumour that we secretly wanted John McCain as our candidate and created this false conspiricy Huckabee's campaign was about getting Romney out of the picture.
We who voted for Huckabee in 08' aren't all Baptist who can't leave the house without a Bible in hand. We didn't vote for him because Romney is a Mormon either. I have a similarly biased opinion of both religions but we are not voting on a pastor and vision of diety isn't the issue for all but the few who voted for either candidate. In the case of an Obama or Romney contest most would have felt the same way I did pulling the handle for McCain in the end the lessor of two evil contest is finally over.
The corruption of the lie consumed the AM talkers among them Rush Limbaugh, and as usual he is chief architect of what has become a parot like echo chamber that has become known as simply "talk-radio". There used to be such a variety on the airwaves I used to listen to half a dozen shows a day or so. I don't think I would ever hear the same topic delineated the same way twice unless it was the only topic of the day. Now listening to Hannity is like listening to Hannity quip Rush with callers. I love Rush and I trully mean that sincerely but he really struck a nerve with me on this because he refused to acknowledge the facts.
Romney never governed as a Conservative his record is pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-big government run healthcare and his state economy was at the bottom of the list when while the country was in a boom market. Huckabee was elected as govenor of one of the poorest states after Clinton ran it into the ground and he brought it back like Rush did to AM radio. The talkers only distorted and cherry picked from Huckabee's record after they couldn't continue to ignore his surge in the polls. All the while they reflected daily with Romney on how he came to see the conservative light of Reagan. It was like a "Weekend at Bernies" or an episode of "The Ghost Whisperer" how they intended to postumously annoint Romney as a true "conservative".
CPAC must be able to commit to real Conservatism if it ever hopes to be a real viable part of the GOP. The bottom line is that the true Conservative candidates got almost no recognition what so ever. My first choice was my former Congressman Tom Tancredo, he was completely over looked for saying what most of us think as "PC" as possible. Put simply he wanted a no tollerance approach on illegal entry into our country, an enhanced dialog with the Islamic extremist to create peace through ultimatum and a real business freindly environment to support growth. But we also had many other suitable choices like Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson...even Ron Paul would have been better than McCain but I digress.
We have now expericanced a host of better Conservative voices for our so called like minded agendas and we expect persons of that standard and caliber be backed by all organizations calling themselves conservative. The mainstream American media is ignoring the re-awakening of the conservative movement one that will back any ticket containing the names Palin,Jindal, Pence, or Stanford 110%.