Time to leave Reagan behind???

The Washington Times has a great article why the Republican Party is doomed. Jeb Bush said, "So our ideas need to be forward looking and relevant. I felt like there was a lot of nostalgia and the good old days in the [Republican] messaging." He then added, "From the conservative side, it's time for us to listen first, to learn a little bit, to upgrade our message a little bit, to not be nostalgic about the past because, you know, things do ebb and flow." Mitt Romney added, "Let's not underestimate the people of America; let's make sure and listen to the people of America ... listen to what they're feeling and get their ideas."

So, here we have a "Listening Tour" hosted by John McCain, Bobby Jindal, Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush. These four believe the Republican Party, based on their comments, need to redefine its message and create a forward looking platform, as well as listen to the American people. Really? Is that really what the Republicans need to do? I disagree. We had a Republican Party that properly opposed the Clinton Agenda in the 1990's. Americans rewarded the minority leadership with majority status under Newt Gingrich's 'Contract with America.' The Republicans kept that majority until 2006. Further losing seats in 2008. Obama did not win by a landslide victory; he received slightly more votes than George Bush did in 2004.

What Republicans are are disenchanted. For six years, Republicans never passed a balanced budget. For six years, Republicans never made permanent the tax cuts that let us keep more of our paycheck. For six years, Republicans let Democrats, the minority, control the agenda in Washington. We allowed Liberals to create airport security protocols which culminated with 80-year old white grandmas being patted down. We watched Republicans in Washington create Prescription Drug Coverage for Seniors [I didn't know we were for a massive new spending program that gives Seniors even more of an incentive to vote for government programs]. We watched as the President failed to never come up with a solution to winning in Iraq. We listened to ad nauseum Liberal arguments about how every policy decision would result in failure or some imagined horror and the Bush Administration did nothing to counter those arguments. When Republicans start acting like Democrats, they lose. Ask George H.W. Bush what happened to him when he raised taxes.

It's not that the Republicans need a new message, the proper message is that Conservatism works. However, what Republicans do need is Republican leadership with fortitude and ideological conviction. The problem with the Republican Party is that it's fractured. You have pseudo-Republicans like John McCain who won the Party nomination, and the guy never once challenged Obama on ideological grounds. Being the "Maverick" he "is," he didn't have ideological ground to stand on. How do you challenge a Marxist when you don't have ideological convictions? Let the Republicans move left; let them switch Parties and betray their true convictions like Arlen Spector. Let the Republican Party continue to destroy itself because they lack political conviction and fortitude.

However, let We the People form a new Political Party. A Party whose foundation and ideological conviction is liberty. We don't have liberty when we're tied down with ever increasing taxes and a hand of government that grows heavier by the year. We don't have liberty when we don't have secure borders and our laws are not enforced; that's anarchy. We don't have liberty when Liberals are charging us with hate speech. First Amendment anyone? We don't have liberty when McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Laws prevent us from speaking our minds within 30 or 60 days from an Election. Again, First Amendment anyone? We don't have liberty when government gives criminals the upper hand and law abiding Citizens suffer because of draconian "Assault Weapon Bans" and magazine limitations and bullet restrictions. We don't have freedom of religion when Liberal atheists and secularists strip our public squares of religious displays during Holidays. We need as radical an ideological mindset to counter the radical ideological mindset of this President and his regime. Vote for actual change. Vote for Liberation.