Right POV

The Election of 2008
Where is the RNC at this time?

By: Sandra Price

There is no doubt in my mind that President Bush has changed the agenda of the Republican Party even more than his father managed to do. My problem is why did the GOP allow this to happen?

I'm sick and tired of the people interested in politics blaming everything on the Republican Party. There is no doubt that the party has fallen into near-total disrepair but could it be that the Party was hijacked by the social conservatives leaving the fiscal conservatives completely without an agenda?

In 1992 the party of limited government and a balanced budget took a heavy hit under President Bush 41 and after 4 years found himself out of a job. His One World Order crap was not destroyed and only put on hold for another chance at making an American empire over all the nations who had oil. Some of us even wonder if Bush 41 didn't groom Bush 43 to get even with the voters who rejected him in 1992. Come on, it was obvious! Don't whine now! It is too damn late.

In 2000 a deal was cut with the Christian Coalition to give them a ban on abortions, stem cell research and gay marriages. All they had to do was vote for the Governor of Texas, George W. Bush, and to get the Christians from coast to coast to register and vote for him. I do not understand why Christians need the government to direct their moral values. I remember when the Christians lived by their own values and were able to do a good job of it. What happened to their individual freedoms and choices?

But let's get off the past and look at the future of the Republican Party. We will have a choice on whether to keep the GOP focused on a growth of government based on social legislation or the old fashioned agenda of limited government and a balanced budget?

If the Democrats end up with a majority in the House and Senate in 2006, will they try for an Impeachment of Bush or will they try for a campaign of federal socialism? They have been whining about corporate growth, out-sourcing our manufacturing products and allowing our unskilled jobs to be filled by illegal aliens. They want to increase our federal taxes and try for a prohibition of lobbyists. They will work for a Federal Health plan that will cost the tax payers far more than the services provided. The Democrats seem to have their plans worked out except for how we legally can enter a war and then get out when it appears we are losing it.

Will the Democrats take full advantage of the Bush Administration's action that has made the POTUS the full authority over all decisions while we are at war? How can they not? Bush opened up a presidency handmade for a dictator.

Now, consider if you will, another Social Conservative to head up our Federal Government. The one thing the Conservatives can brag about is their appointing 2 Christian Supreme Court Judges. Part of the promises made to Falwell and Robertson are made with bells on but will that be enough? Will the prohibitions be finalized with the Supreme Court backing prohibitions against gay marriages, abortions and embryonic stem cell research? Will our end of life choices be taken from us and the churches use their influencing of the membership to allow the government to tell us when we must die?

If we elect a social conservative to replace Bush will we continue to force other nations to become democracies or we will bomb the crap out of them? Will we all be forced into praying instead of planning our futures in our own individual ways? Will we be talked into accepting Amnesty instead of planning for closed borders? Will our southwestern states reflect a Latino culture rather than American?

Is there no chance for a third option for America? Is there no middle ground to allow for all Americans to make their own choices in their family sizes? I have no problem living in a mixed neighborhood of Anglo/Latino mixture as long as it is my choice. Will our schools be forced into the busing mess that hit Los Angeles when a forced integration of schools nearly killed the academic standards of our public schools? We all saw the power of the May 1st boycott and busing will be next on their list of wants.

Is it too late to even discuss a Fiscal Conservative Party to cut back all this redundant federal authority and return our private lives to be lived as we desire? Would it be possible to ask a Fiscal Conservative Party to outline in detail when America will be forced into an armed conflict? Would a Fiscal Conservative Party leader be willing to have conferences to discuss how the schools can learn to teach reading and writing and leave out the entire social redesigning that has permeated into the classes in the last 15 years. I see no need to have a public school discuss homosexuality in any class. When our teenagers stop getting pregnant and the parents start taking responsibility for their sex education, we might even be able to overlook the use of condoms as a classroom subject.

Would it not be possible to return to a rational Republican National Committee Agenda before the whole damn party is slandered into extinction? If the American voters want legislated moral laws then have the RNC come out and say so. If the American voters want the limited government with a balanced budget and individual choices returned to all Americans, then let the RNC stand up for our freedoms. This building of a police state from the RNC has got to go! This phony high ground spouted by the Conservatives is fodder for the Democrats and they will take back our federal government and take us into socialism starting in 2006.

What I'm demanding is a clear agenda from the RNC to either stand up for our individual choices or be honest enough to say they want to issue our moral laws from the federal government. This is the way it sits at this time and it is obvious that the Bush Administration does not run an honest ship and Bush's appointees have not shown a hint of moral values.

At least force the RNC into admitting the hypocrisy found in the Social Conservatives and that America is not ready for a moral police state. Dump the Bush Administration but keep a new (old) Republican Party and restore our individual rights to all Americans.

If we don't return to a fiscal conservative agenda, the Democrats will walk all over anyone running as a Republican. Since Bush was elected the entire GOP has taken a terrible hit and it is time to rid the party of this horrible influence. There is no reason that all Americans can't live by their own set of values without Big Daddy overseeing our every action. I want to return to the GOP and work for their candidates as I have done for 50 years. The agenda of the last 6 years bears no resemblance to the Republican Party that I joined back in the early 50s.

I am not alone in my frustration with the actions of the GOP and millions of us do not want to be Democrats or even Libertarians. We want the reputation of the GOP restored to its former glory and success. In the last 6 years it has been tainted and insulted by voters who claim to be social conservatives and have pissed off all the older Republicans. I believe that the election in 2006 will indicate whether the GOP has any desire to return to the limited government and balanced budget of the original platform. If the house and senate is removed by irate voters will the Bush supporters step back and want to work for a more moderate agenda or will they simply go back to not voting at all?

The elections will be between the Christians and the secular voters and nobody seems to care about the Constitution. The last 6 years could be a learning situation if anyone is willing to recognize the major mistakes the Social Conservatives have made since electing Bush. A moderate Republican Party is not a call for Atheism but a call for a separation of church and state so that all Americans can be recognized as equals.

Even the Bush Administration can't control the obvious corruption found in every level of their fancy men in the White House. But again, nothing they have done has been as damaging to America as their destruction of the Republican Party.

The limited government has been tripled in size with little to show for the growth except an increase in corruption. The individual freedoms have been lost to the Patriot's Bill convincing all Americans that we need to spy on each other for our own protection. The personal responsibilities have dissolved into a list of Conservative laws that will remove any semblance of individual responsibilities.

Conservatives have gathered around Bush to such a point that anyone who dares to even mention the GOP platform of limited government is called a RINO and immediately castigated out of the presence of our leader.

The Bush Administration is at war with the Republican Party. It must be a Conservative Agenda or nothing. They will be fighting for their lives in November because their plan for world power is not a popular one. Their plans for our security are a hoax due to our open borders and the people know it! They have had 6 years to locate a better academic curriculum for our kids and have done nothing! I keep hoping this will come up in the Governor's meetings but Bush simply doesn't care.

Bush wants to go to war in Iran. If he has the House of Representatives behind him that is exactly what he will do. Are we Americans prepared to split our troops out of Iraq, as we did out of Afghanistan, and extend our war efforts to Iran? Are we willing to live with the threats of the leader of Iran?

I'm no Democrat but giving Bush his Congress could be the end of America. I am so sorry our Republican Party has been dissolved into a mass of non-voters with every indication that they do not have the desire to return. I would believe that 80% of the Republicans are religious but are not willing to force the issue on the American Voters. Having been a member of the GOP since 1953 and seeing what Bush has done to the party, makes me very cranky as an American voter.

Does wanting a limited government and a balanced budget seem so dangerous these days? Unless we can rebuild the Republican Party and take back our freedoms, we might as well give up and learn to live under a dictatorship.