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2009
Soap Box Archives The Demise of the Republican Party We hear so much about how the Republican Party needs to move to the center of the political spectrum, how they need to be a big tent party so the moderates can be included. I have the utmost respect for Colin Powell, but I must respectfully disagree with his assessment that most Americans want bigger government, more taxes and how the party should become more moderate. When you translate that into plain talk it means that Republicans should change their stand on a myriad of issues that have always been at the core of the Republican philosophy. What this all means is that there is a belief among some Republicans that they should be a carbon copy of the Democrat Party. In essence and for all practical purposes we'd be a one party nation, one monolithic political system that passes whatever it wants to and forces the American people to live with it. I would like to quote a trite but true phrase, "You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything," and that is basically what's happening to the Republican Party now. They are sitting on Capitol Hill shaking in their collective boots over the Sotomayor Supreme Court hearings. They're not worried about getting to the bottom of what this woman is all about and what kind of misery she can inflict on the American public in a lifetime of service on the Supreme Court. They're afraid of offending the moderates. In my humble opinion this vast group of moderates we keep hearing about is for all practical purposes non-existent. Either you're pro-abortion or you're anti-abortion. You're pro-gay marriage or you're anti-gay marriage. You want socialism or you don't want socialism. You want a bigger government or you don't want bigger government. Don't tell me that there are millions of people in this country who haven't already made up their mind about these issues. So where are all these moderates? What is going to kill the Republican Party is not offending moderates, it will be offending conservatives and not giving them a voice in government. They're the ones the Republican Party needs to be worried about chasing off. If somebody comes up with a third party candidate who is anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, supports small government, reasonable taxes, strong national defense, despises socialism, will protect my gun rights and has a deep and abiding respect for God and Jesus Christ, I will vote for him or her and I'll just bet a pair of silver spurs to a horseshoe nail that I'm not alone. The Republicans should just face the fact that these so called moderates are really liberals who aren't quite as far to the left as the George Sorros crowd but for the most part still stand against conservative principles. The Republican Party should become more conservative and more vocal about it if they want to survive in the long run. A California Congressman tried to slip a global warming bill through the back door the other day that gave people three years of unemployment payments, plus job training plus fifteen hundred dollars to help them make a move from one town to another. The government has taken over major ownership in the automobile business, which practically guarantees they will miserable failures. And what happened to the billions of dollars Obama has already given them? Does anybody besides me want to know? And if you like the U.S. Postal Service, the Internal Revenue Service, and the multi-million dollar fraud fiasco called Medicare you're going to love Obama's national healthcare plan. Folks, Obama and the Democrats are going to fall on their collective butts. Why? Because there is no way for what they're doing to work. Every day the government goes deeper in debt and tax revenues diminish. Obama promised not to raise taxes on anybody making less than a quarter of a million dollars a year. Well, if you believe that I've got some swamp property I'd like to sell you. Nobody wants our federal bonds anymore so, and this is the height of stupidity, the fed prints more money so the government can buy them. The bonds are basically worthless and it's like taking money out of one pocket and putting it in the other pocket, the one with the hole in it. The wealth of America is being poured down a black hole, never to be recovered if the insane present fiscal policies stay in play. I don't know if the Republican party has the mentality or the guts to stand above the fray until the obvious happens and the American people finally realize that America is on a one way track to the global poor house and that they're living in a country whose President cut the missile defense budget while lunatics in North Korea and Iran are developing long range missile capable of delivering nuclear war heads. I predict that Sonia Sotomayor is going to be confirmed to the Supreme Court for life without the American people ever knowing what she truly stands for, just because the Republican Senators don't love this country enough to put it ahead of their own and their party's interest. Maybe it would be better for the Republican Party to go head and disgust the conservatives in this nation enough that a genuine, viable, conservative third party would emerge. Then when this Democratic Shangri-la starts falling apart, there would be somebody credible to present a real alternative. What do you think? Pray for our troops, and for our country. God Bless America Charlie Daniels
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