Sorry folks, but I have to keep beating this dead horse. The Republican Party is not a conservative political organization. The reason liberals and the far left continue perpetuating this myth is that the actions of timid and squishy Republicans – like George W. Bush and John McCain – tarnish the conservative movement by association. This is why the independent Tea Party movement is so been so effective - its strength is in the fact that it is not a "big tent" movement. Its size and strength is do to the fact there are no McCain-like squishes to dilute the Tea Party's conservative message. It is also why the media is desperate to present the Tea Party as a wing of the GOP.
The New York Times headline said it all, “GOP checks for a pulse, and finds one.” According to the story by Adam Nagourney:
Less than a year after an election that nearly wiped them out politically, conservatives are showing signs of life. They are still searching for new leaders and new ideas. Their victories have been more about taking advantage of President Obama’s missteps than advancing an agenda that can recapture large numbers of voters.
Wow, where do I begin? First, conservatives didn’t lose the last election. Squishy Republicans did. George W. Bush’s Democrat-lite “compassionate conservative” governing style, coupled with his no-win-wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, savaged his party, nearly destroying it. Sen. John McCain (a Bush clone) campaigned to continue these policies another four years. This hammered the final few nails in the Republican's coffin. Conservatives have been out of power within the Republican Party since 1988 – the year Reagan left the political stage. The country didn’t reject conservatism, it rejected the Bush dynasty and the their squishy clone from Arizona.
Second, the Times’ credits conservatives for “taking advantage” of Obama’s “missteps.” The president’s agenda to transform America into a morally and financially bankrupt left-wing banana republic is hardly a tactical stumble. That Americans are becoming aware of Obama’s socialism is not because conservatives are pointing it out, but because Americans recognize the dangerous and alien ideas moving from the ACORN manual and encroaching on their lives by way of congressional legislation. Americans are not rallying to conservatism for ideological reasons as much as they are for its common sense approach to living in the real world. The question is whether the squishy John McCains’ of the Republican Party are man enough to stand aside and stop serving as obstacles to the conservative backlash building in the country. Whether the GOP finds its pulse depends on whether it first can find its Reaganesque conservative soul.
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