Right POV

Where are We in 2006?
Republicans or Conservatives?

By: Sandra Price

Where are the Republicans in 2006? Did they die out completely after allowing the Contract with America to be manhandled by the Bush Administration? Did they turn in their chips and run from the religious right? Did they decide that Americans are not worth the trouble to train some character into their children? Was the whole plan under the Bush Administration to legislate the hell out of people to force them to behave?

I see Bush as a dictator who feels his association with God makes him responsible for the actions of every American under his leadership. He sets down plans to make women, gays and physically damaged people into second class citizens and will continue to direct their lives through future amendments to the Constitution. He feels it is un-American to allow women to choose the size of their family; gays must not be allowed to marry or adopt children; and people with spinal injuries must face them without stem cell therapy. I mean, we know this about President Bush and we also know he has redesigned the Republican Party to boot out the Moderates who still have hopes for a limited government, individual freedoms and personal responsibilities.

Had Bush not divided up the GOP in 2000, he would have walked away from the election against Gore. His entire campaign was based on his desire to legislate against the enormous number of minorities listed above. What he did not explain to the voters was his desire for empire-building by claiming to want to force democracy in the Middle East.

His dad ran on a revised Republican Platform that exposed this intrusion into the rest of the world and lost his election. The neocons had a bigger plan for America. They wanted an empire built on oil production and if America did not have the oil supplies, they knew where they could find it. But how could they sell the Governor of Texas to the people after his father had failed in his one term without a chance of winning a second? The great untapped non-voters were brought into the Republican Party with promises of faith based grants, a promise to prohibit abortions and gay marriages. Bush would have no chance at winning without the Conservative Christians.

To cover his wayward past he had to claim to be a born-again Christian and God forgave him for is sins. I did not believe the GOP would buy it, but they did. We were inundated with our sins that were totally out of control and we needed federal legislation pretty damn quick. The campaign prior to the 2000 election sounded like a revival meeting with men like Gary Bauer, Senator Smith from Maine, Alan Keyes and of course the newly reborn Bush having a go at how to literally legislate the hell out of the people. To my shock, it worked!

The real harm found with this new Administration was the death of the Republican Party. We have seen a constant assault on the laws found in the U.S. Constitution and a return of a threat to destroy the privacy offered to women with Roe v Wade. We have seen a rise of men like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell who have since turned away from Bush for not keeping his promise of the prohibitions against women's choices and gay marriages. Neither Christian leader has a problem with torturing prisoners or lying to the American people about WMDs in Iraq.

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.