The "DUMB" Party Acts As Predicted
By Tom DeWeese (01/09/07)
In the December issue of The DeWeese Report I closed my
article entitled: "Republicans Deserved To Lose," with these words:
"After the election debacle, Republican Party Chairman Ken Mehlman
said the party would study the results and learn from it. Will the
party come to the conclusion that it lost because it betrayed its
base? Nope. They will conduct a through study which will conclude that
the nation is just moving more toward the left and so too must the
party. They don't call the Republicans the dumb party for nothing!"
Now comes this message from Sarah Chamberlain Resnick,
executive director of the Republican Main Street Partnership: "The
American people made it clear that our party's decision to ignore the
middle of the American electorate was a disastrous one." Sigh.
So Ms Resnick, which part of the "middle" did Republicans
ignore?
- The 85% who demand the Republicans stop illegal immigration,
as the Republican Administration and Senate supports doing away with
border control all together?
- The 65% who oppose U.S. involvement in the United Nations,
as the Republican congress rejoined UNESCO?
- The overwhelming majority of Americans who are opposed to a
North American Union, now being secretly put in place by our
Republican president?
- The property owners who desperately seek action to stop
eminent domain to save their homes from the wrecking ball of private
developers, only to see Republican Senator Arlen Specter stop it?
- The majority of the Republican base which fought in the
trenches of local prescincts for 50 years to make Republicans the
majority party, expecting it to reduce the size and power of
government?
All of these are natural constituencies of the Republican
Party. All held out hope that a Republican majority would stand with
them. All were betrayed. But, according to Ms. Resnick, the dumb party
only lost because they "moved too far to the Right" and weren't more
like the Democrats. Astonishing.
Worse, the day after the election defeat, the "Republican"
president apparently learned nothing. His first words were of
encouragement that he could now work with the Democrats to pass his
amnesty guest workers scam that he failed to get past the Republican
House.
The Republicans want to blame the election on the war in Iraq.
But it wasn't about that. Had the Republicans stayed true in their old
positions of limited government and individual liberty, keeping down
spending and regulations; blocked efforts to intrude in our private
lives; supported a foreign policy that looked after American
interests; and protected our sovereign borders, then the loyal base
would have followed the Republicans over the abyss in the Iraq war.
Truth be told, if the Republican Party had stayed true
to its core beliefs, there never would have been an invasion and
occupation of a foreign land. That's not how true Republicans operate.
True Republicans don't use fear to put freedom in chains. True
Republicans don't use patriotic sounding names for laws that destroy
liberty. That's how the other side has always operated. It's what we
fought to stop. Republican betrayal has known no bounds.
Republicans could have been the majority party for 100
years if they had respected the Constitution and spent its time in
power restoring the Republic. That's what the "electorate" really
wants. Instead they squandered what may well be the last chance for
the liberty that brought us here in the first place. What a waste.
Tom DeWeese
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