By Mr. Curmudgeon
“I have not yet heard people in the Republican Party admit they have a problem. I have not seen a come-to-Jesus meeting. . . . ‘Hello, my name is the Republican Party and I've got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.’ . . . They need that moment,” said radio and Fox News host Glenn Beck in a speech before the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) convention. As hard as it may be to fathom, many mainstream Republicans seem unwilling to acknowledge how accommodating big-spending, liberty-quashing Democrats nearly obliterated the Republican Party, which even in the age of Obama is still viewed with suspicion by election-deciding independent voters. But, as Beck observed, McCain Republicans can’t quite “admit they have a problem.”
The Los Angeles Times reports, “More than half of (CPAC) respondents believe Republicans are within striking distance of taking back Congress, pollster Tony Fabrizio said, but participants are not necessarily happy with Republican Party leadership nor thrilled with the bench of presidential candidates.” The problem is the Republican leadership’s inability to think outside the box (coffin, really) in which they’ve locked their party. According to the Times, “…when hosts announced the results of the conference's presidential straw poll late Saturday, the audience went wild to hear the name of the winner: Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, former GOP candidate for the White House and prominent leader of the grass-roots libertarian movement.” It’s not a promising sign when the Republican base has nowhere to go but into the arms of a Libertarian or his runner-up: compassionate conservative Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts. No wonder conservatives and independents formed the insurgent Tea Party.
It remains to be seen if, as Glenn Beck says, McCain Republicans ever realize they’ve hit bottom and begin a twelve step rehabilitation program. Their party’s political fortunes depend on it if they expect to rout Obama’s Czarist government in 2010 and beyond.
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