Don’t you dare call me a Republican!

In between all the spam email I received today, I got a questionaire from the NRCC.  This one is entitled “2008 Congressional Platform Issues Survey”.  Unlike your typical boiler plate hype about how the NRCC is still looking out for us Republicans despite things like giving money to Lincoln Chafee and others of his ilk, this was a direct attempt to find out just how far from the conservative position they could be and still call themselves Republicans.   Most of the questions were worded to ask whether positions that are in my mind fundamental to the Republican Party should remain in the platform.   Some of the more questionable items apparently include, maintaining a strong military, lower taxes,  and securing our borders.  

I don’t know.  Maybe it’s me who is crazy and they just want to know that I’m still on board with them but that’s not the vibe I got from this.  I really got the impression that they are going to the base to find out whether the platform should move to the center.  Are we are supposed to approve of remaking the Republican Party to fit McCain’s candidacy?  From their email, “This survey, in short, will be the defining statement of the grassroots members of our Party, and will form the blueprint for our strategy throughout this presidential election year” and also “Today our nation faces critical issues that reach into every America home – including yours.  And you can and must have a say in how our Party and our leaders decide to confront and resolve such issues as extending today’s tax cuts, the war on terror, illegal immigration reform, reinstating the fairness doctrine, Social Security and Medicare reform, revising the tax code, meeting future energy demands, reining in government spending, and other vital matters.  With your direction and backing today, we can make certain that the Republican Party connects with America ’s voters and builds a broad-based national agenda around the fundamental issues and challenges that face our country today.”

To me, this is precisely what’s wrong with the Republican party.  If you go back and listen to Reagan, he will remind you that it’s the conservative ideals that Americans indentify with.   It’s those principles that Reagan put in the forefront and his success was do to his embrace of conservatism not his ability to hide it behind wishy washy rhetoric.  So many in our party seem to think the answer to success is to race to the middle and let conservatism, justice and real Americans be damned!   I’m here to tell them that they are wrong.

The final question on the NRCC survey reads “In one or two sentences please state what you believe the Republican Party’s greatest weaknesses are going into the 2008 campaigns.”  Forgive me that I couldn’t keep it to two sentences.  My answer..

The Republican Party’s biggest weakness is its failure to act like Republicans.  The Republican Congress has failed to reduce spending.  They have failed to secure our borders.  They have failed to make the case for the War on Terror and specifically the War in Iraq.  They have consistently supported candidates who do not represent the Republican Party’s historic platform.   John McCain is certainly no exception.  You would think that the NRCC could spot a RINO (Republican In Name Only) from a mile away and just say “NO”.  Apparently, the desire is not there.  The goal of preserving America for our children and our children’s children has been replaced with some backwards desire to win elections at the cost of appeasing the middle and leftist agendas they are supposed to thwart.

I for one am done contributing to the NRCC until they make it clear to me that RINOs are indeed an endangered species and have no place in the Republican Party.   From on, I am no longer calling myself a Republican and am choosing to refer my political philosophy more accurately as simply conservative.  I have news for the NRCC.   There are a lot more like me.

I’m sick to my stomach again.

I don’t know about the rest of you but I’m done apologizing for Americans.  Everyday I am reminded that the majority of my neighbors are uneducated, dishonest filth.  Don’t get me wrong.  I still love my country and my flag and the Republic for which it stands.  It’s just that each day that passes, the “country” and with it, ”it’s people” slide farther away precisely from what that used to mean.  Of course, there are still good people out there fighting the good fight and trying to pass on the much maligned heritage of America to their friends, their neighbors, and of course, their children.  

Maybe I just had a bad day or a bad week or a bad year, but I am again nearing my wit’s end.  Someone come and tell me a beautiful story of American kindness or heroism.   I need to be lifted up from the morass of disgust I feel.

This morning some guy had a heart attack swearing at me in his car because I was in his way for a moment as I let some other person back out of parking space.  Later on, I had a fellow customer in line at the checkout of a retail store demand a voluminous stream of accolades because he didn’t pocket the change I left on the counter as I left.   In my business, I dealt with two people today who made no bones about the fact they felt ethics and honesty were obstacles in their way and they had no intention of abiding my concerns with regard to truthfulness.   Then I turn on the news and am reminded of judges… “JUDGES” who think it’s ok to make their own laws.  “Laws” typically to prevent some sex offender-predator sicko from doing time or otherwise ensure that the law abiding public is at risk to freaks and felons.  I have had it. 

Look around people.  The mental disease of liberalism has reached pandemic levels.  The Democrat party has become nothing more than the party of racism through racial preferences, socialism through economic redistribution, entitlement through class warfare, not to mention “Utter Madness” on many levels including but not limited to: the outlawing profiling of criminals, the protection of child rapists, negotiating with evil dictators, the glorification of countless racebaiting demons, and so on.   The Republican party, while much better, is now merely a shell of itself.  Issue by Issue, it’s more concerned with compromise and apparently, surrender.  It is the proverbial “what is up is down” argument and its right here right now. 

Thank you to my fellow Patriots who recognize that its just and right to remain Patriotic and continue the battle.  To the rest of you, I beg of you, move away please.  I can’t take any more.