Posted by
Sandra Lea Wise on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:01:31 PM
"I'm a conservative and I'm voting for Obama. I want to teach the
Republican Party a lesson." I'm hearing more and more of this nonsense
every day.
The reasons that conservatives give for this movement are
not new.
As long as I can remember, conservatives have been fighting with the
GOP. When they don't get their way, the remedy has been to sit out,
vote for a Third Party (example Perot) or vote for the Democrats.
Have these practices worked? Yes, they gave control of the House and
Senate to Democrats for 40 + years. They got Carter elected once and
Clinton elected twice.
Conservatives are powerful, they have the organization on the ground
and the GOP needs them to win. Conservatives dominate talk radio and
the blogs. The conservative movement against Bush has caused him to be
an unpopular president, has given us Pelosi and Reid, and is putting
the GOP at a great disadvantage this coming November.
The movement originally was about abortion. That is no longer the
case. If it were, then conservatives would be happy with President Bush
who appointed two conservative Supreme Court Justices. If it were, they
would support the pro-life candidate, McCain and shun the pro-abortion
candidate, Obama.
What is the movement about now? It seems to be about control. There
is no single issue that unites conservatives, except that they want
control of the GOP and if they don't get it they are willing to destroy
the country. It's the "scorched earth" concept. I hear it from talk radio,
from the blogs, etc. The thinking goes like this: Things will have to
get a whole lot worse before they get better. If Obama and the
Democrats control everything and the country goes to the dogs, then we
can finally get another Reagan.
I've heard this kind of argument for many years and things have
gotten a lot worse. Abortions continue to be performed. Marriage is no
longer between a man and a woman in some States and the trend towards
legalizing gay marriage will continue. Our schools are brainwashing our
youth with the liberal agenda. Liberal Judges overturn the will of the
people on a regular basis. Government spending continues to go up and
will expand much more rapidly under Obama and the Democrats. We could
lose the War on Terror and have attacks on our soil again.
How much worse must things get before conservatives can unite and work with the GOP rather than against it?
Sandra Lea Wise
Also see:
Thomas Sowell, Conservatives for Obama?