Posted by
Pasadena Phil on Sunday, February 10, 2008 10:22:38 AM
Now that the corrupt GOP establishment has succeeded in allowing non-Republican voters to cram a Democratic party Trojan horse down our throats, we conservatives need to rethink our relationship with the Republican party. No one seriously believes that any Republican can win in November, no less McCain. So why am I happy?
Actually I'm more relieved than happy. I'm am going to enjoy the rest of this year, uncomplicated by the endless vapid arguments over "unity for the sake of the party" that are sure to dominate here at Townhall. I made up my mind long ago on how I would vote in this eventuality, way back when I first started blogging so you RINOs can "talk to the hand". I have my Cuban cigar ready for the conservative victory in November. A conservative victory, not Republican. Stay with me.
As frustrating as is to watch our "conservative" media slowly surrender in dhimmitude to the liberal establishment, don't think for a moment that the conservative movement is dead or dying. This is just a long overdue and much needed weeding out process.
The UEP liberals are wasting no time in imposing their new political correctness requiring that conservatives always be described as extremists, bigots, absolutists, and so on. Interesting too how no one on Townhall's senior circuit is stepping up to defend Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin or Ann Coulter. Hey I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.
It's all part of a cascading collapse by people who have carved out careers for themselves as intermediaries between the assumed conservative leadership and conservative voters. Townhall is populated mostly by political operatives who track polls and write blogs trying to gauge and steer public opinion for the benefit of their GOP masters. These are not "ideas" people, just operatives. Now fearing irrelevance in a world where conservatism is supposedly dead, rather than fight for the cause, they have also been surrendering to liberal dhimmitude.
Most of us have long been warning RINOs that the days of holding our noses while voting for "the lesser of two evils" are over. That the GOP chose to ignore these warnings even after we shut down the Senate over the McCain/Bush/Kennedy amnesty bill demonstrates an astonishingly self-destructive arrogance. That they would then nominate the very architect of that obnoxious piece of legislation is unforgivable. Having now bet the farm that we will ultimately "come to our senses" and vote for McCain, they have provided us with the first opening for a landmark conservative victory: let's not vote for McCain.
Our votes are irrelevant to the outcome and besides, the world will not come to an end if a Democrat wins anymore than in 1992 when many of us eschewed Bush to vote for Perot. Trust me, America will be fine. We are not faced with extinction. We've had much worse presidents than either of the two Democrats running.
In fact, if you think about it, the GOP elites have handed us an eye-popping opportunity to prove that conservatism is NOT dead. We can turn the entire process on its head. The path to victory is so simple and obvious, it makes me pause to wonder why it took me to point it out. (What is WRONG with you guys?)
Visualizing victory: the plan. Enjoy the next ten months. No need to agonize. It is not conservatives who are in trouble but the GOP. The conservative movement will only be dead when we say it is. If the pitched battles here at RINO-heaven Townhall are any indication, conservatism is alive and well. We just need to refocus. Here's how.
Re-register as an unaffiliated independent! And get your Republican friends to do so too. The GOP is already borderline as a "major" party and they have already told us that although they want our votes, they don't want us. "Shut up and vote!" Re-registering would accelerate the decline of GOP registrations and send a sobering chill up their spines (no comment). McCain will be hamstrung to raise money or even be taken seriously.
Get everyone you know who is not registered to register as an unaffiliated independent. We need to demonstrate that we still have the enthusiasm and influence to grow our ranks.
Vote! Don't stay home! We need to demonstrate that we can beat the Republicans at getting out the vote. And don't buy into the "suicide" vote strategy. Vote for an independent candidate where it will count. This will dilute the UEP vote so that the winner fails to get anything close to a majority. No majority, no mandate. It would represent the most astounding reversal of fortunes in presidential politics in American history.
The MSM will be all over the story in trying to undermine McCain. Like always, they will have underestimated conservative voters and will be shocked when McCain comes in third. This would demonstrate that the conservative movement is stronger than ever, even stronger than when Reagan was president.
However, many conservatives are afflicted by a disturbing psychological disorder that prevents them from voting when they don't support the Republican candidate. It's as if they were being asked to commit some weird sexual perversion. Wake up and get over it! There is no law banning independent candidates from running nor voters from voting for them. We need to do exactly that in this election - for the conservative cause. There is only one way to break up a one-party system: make a mess of the electoral college by rallying in numbers behind a second party candidate.
George Washington and our other founding fathers faced a similar problem in the early years of the War of Independence. Most colonists just couldn't see themselves as anything other than Englishmen. They saw the war as a dispute between the colonial gentry and Mother England. Whatever the outcome, they expected that they would still be Englishmen. It took a Thomas Paine to find the words and arguments to bring the reality to life and persuade them to accept the struggle as their own as well. They soon embraced the concept of being Americans. Conservatives now need to stop thinking of themselves as Republicans and embrace being conservatives for its own sake.
There is also another odd similarity to the War of Independence. Just as 1776 began with King George declaring the American Colonies no longer being within the protection of the Crown, so too did conservatives find the GOP establishment declaring them to be no longer welcome in the party. As the colonists eventually embraced the concept of being Americans, so too must conservatives embrace the new reality and do what we have to do to grasp victory from the jaws of defeat. We may not have a Thomas Paine to articulate our cause, but our principles are not "radical" or "extreme" or otherwise "out of the mainstream". They are as American as apple pie. In fact, we are the only ones left who are fighting for the sovereignty of America and its independence.
For now, victory will not be defined by winning national elections but by confounding both wings of the United Establishment Party in their efforts to silence us. Just as the RNC confounded the will of the Republican voters by running several spoilers against Mitt Romney, we must return the favor by voting for an independent Ron Paul.
Our two-party system was designed to produce elections that deliver clear mandates. That hasn't happened since 1988 and even then, Bush turned his back on that mandate. Were Obama or Hillary to win with 38% of the vote with McCain finishing third, we would have weakened both parties while creating the chaos we need to gain the traction we never had in the GOP. That, my friends, would be a major victory for conservatism. Will you do it?
There is no need for conservatives to feel despair. Winning is within our grasp. All we have to do is believe it and vote for the independent candidate. McCain is going to lose anyway. By not voting for him, we diminish the prestige of both wings of the UEP. Let's do it.