There is a tsunami coming. In nature tsunamis are hard to spot. They cover great distances as only a swell before coming ashore as a raging wall of water destroying everything in their path.
There is a political tsunami coming. The people in the path of the tsunami act like they do not even know it is coming. The signs are there.
Who is in front of this tsunami and who will be the victims of it?
The Republican Party sits squarely in front of this tsunami and it acts like it has no clue that it is coming.
Eric Erickson over at Redstate put out a blog today. The title was “Maybe we really do need a third party.”
Erickson states the obvious. Republicans claim to be the party of conservatism. Yet, when they get to Washington they act just the opposite.
Congressman John Mica is a great example. Despite his claims of being a conservative, he just sponsored and guided a budget busting transportation bill through the Congress. Then yesterday he flew to Washington so he could be there when his favorite Democrat, Barack Obama signed this budget-busting bill into law.
If the Republican Party is going to claim to be a party of conservatives, could we perhaps see some evidence of this?
I realize when the Party of Treason controls the White House and the Senate, there are limits on what can be done, but there are some things that can be done.
That is, they can be done if someone tries.
There are some very good elected Republicans. There are some really good conservatives who are in office. Unfortunately the Republican Party is dominated by big government statists. These people like to come home and tell us how conservative they are yet when they go back to Washington, they spend money like Democrats.
Mitt Romney is the best example of this.
Has anyone looked at his “Day One” plan on his website? He might as well subtitle it, “we don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution.”
First, he says he is going to use executive orders to kill Obamacare. Earth to Mitt Romney! Have you never read the Constitution? What you propose is as bad as Obama. Obamacare has been passed and is a law. Congress must repeal it! To say this will be done by executive order is simply continuing the expansion of the power of the President in explicit contravention of the Constitution.
Along with his executive orders to “replace” Obamacare, Mitt wants Federal Tort Reform. Hello Mitt, may I introduce you to the 7th and 10th Amendments.
Tort law and the regulation of licensed professions has always been the domain of the states not the Federal Government. If the Federal Government is going to over rule the tort laws of all 50 states, what else can they do? If they can do this, states are little more than lines on a map.
Texas tried what Romney proposes. What was the result? There were no savings. However there was one really big change. If a doctor injures you, you are simply out of luck. Lawyers in Texas will not take those type cases anymore. If the Doctor does something stupid like amputating the wrong leg or operating on the wrong organ, that is your problem. You can forget about being compensated for your injury or your day in court.
This is the problem with Republicans. They started the 2011 Congress with a reading of the Constitution. They promptly forgot all that they read. They ran in 2010 talking about how conservative they were. They talked about how they were going to fight Obama and fight to repeal Obamacare. They forgot about that too.
Conservatives are going to stay with the Republicans through 2012. We really have no choice. But there is a massive wave of dissatisfaction with the GOP. Conservatives want a conservative party. If the GOP does not want to be that party, fine. A lot of us are tired of fighting the establishment over this.
Conservatives do the heavy lifting. We carry the signs, work the campaign offices, watch the polls and we are the boots on the ground for the GOP.
We are tired of being ignored.
If the GOP does not pay attention, Mitt Romney may have something in common with Millard Fillmore.
Millard was the last President his party elected too.
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Permalink Reply by Edward Barton on Legalize marijuana....yep, you are a true Paulbot. Actually you'll be putting Obama back into office and I'm seriously questioning your party affiliation. Are you sure you're not a Liberal shill?
Permalink Reply by Terri Floyd on Only a nut would say legalize marijuana .. sorry but that is true.
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Permalink Reply by JOHN DELASAUX on Your write-in vote will ensure that Premier Obama stays in the White House.
Do the math -- a wasted vote is the same as a vote for Obama.
Is that what you really want?
Permalink Reply by Jack Ranck on Sorry but your logic is FALSE. Using YOUR logic, a Democrat can equally say that a write-in vote is a vote for Romney because it denies Obama a vote. Just because a TRUE Conservative isn't going to bow down to the ELITISTS in the Republican Party and vote for their RINO, doesn't mean the TRUE Conservative's non-vote, write-in vote or third-party vote is an invalid vote. When BOTH candidates of the major parties are BIG-GOVERNMENT candidates, someone wanting SMALL government is unwise to vote for either. Voting for the lesser of two evils is STILL voting for evil.
As for me, I served in the armed forces and fought for my right to vote for the candidate I choose. NO Mitt-Twit is going to bully me into supporting a RINO.
Permalink Reply by Terri Floyd on A wasted vote is the same as a vote for obama and that is a fact. I hate choosing the lessor of two evils..I do but I am also wise enough to know we have to get obama out because he is impossible... and just maybe Mitt can and will be convinced to swing to the right a little more.. That is our only hope as I see it at this time anyway.... God help us.
Permalink Reply by Jack Ranck on A vote for WRONG Paul is a vote for Iran to have nukes.
Permalink Reply by Terri Floyd on I believe a vote for Ron Paul is a vote for Iran to have nukes also and that scares me more than anything. It is too bad but true.
Permalink Reply by David J Edwards on Ronald Reagan was the oldest President ever elected at age 69. Next month Ron Paul turns 77. No matter how healthy he is now, no matter what age his ancestors reached, if a miracle happened and he got elected, the odds are high that ol' Ron Paul would die or become incapacitated by stroke or other illness while in office.
The candidate you ought to pay attention to is his VP running mate... if he has one.
The math of human aging makes any other approach irrational.
Permalink Reply by Barbara Jean Puszert on don't mean to be mean but..................................................you are a fairly lone voice crying in the wilderness, There are very few people on this site that you could PAY to vote for Ron Paul. He reminds me of the mean foster dad who comes home and for "just in case" calls his foster child in and beats him with a belt for anything he "might" have done that day. Nope no vote for Paul here
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