Posted by
Forgive My Patriotism on Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:48:59 AM
To those conservatives who have known all along that BigTent Republicanism was a doomed experiment from the beginning, and to those who have finally given up on it as a way to keep conservatism relevant, perhaps we can now begin speech about the rebuilding of the GOP from the ground up. There have been many references to this, but I have not seen any serious attempts to get the ball rolling.
The natural place to begin is with the platform. The Republican Party platform in the early nineties was a bullet list of principles and positions. Now it's a bunch of paragraphs listing the excuses and methods for compromising each of them. Delete! Delete! Delete!
First I believe we should seriously consider the fact that we actually imbue in our very speech and writing, the incredibility and guilt we are accused of by liberals. We speak in the PC of the day, and then complain that John McCain doesn't hit hard. We ask for a Teddy Roosevelt and get Marty Milktoast. We shun those who speak the truth openly because we are wanting to be what? Nice? We are nice, we care about liberals too. But speaking the truth is not mean. It's just been called that for so long that we become robotic to whatever fingerpointing we experience. We should stop negotiating around the insult of accusation and say what is right intelligently and forcefully. Stop being sorry for our races, sorry for not calling someone by their latest demanded moniker. We can be smart while we do it though. For example, in referring to Obama's communism, we don't call "a spade a spade". That just makes it too easy for someone to call us racist, whatever our own color. You call a communist a communist and then you explain what that means.
We should stop with the planning being handed to us in how we should be considering a new approach to our compromised conservatism and throw out the compromise altogether.
A new platform, supported with bold and intelligent speach. No compromise on the part of the part for each bulleted item, but demand compromise on the part of those who come to understand and support most of the platform.
1- Republicans are pro-life.
etc.
If you are a Republican but do not believe in the pro-life value, then you compromise your own beliefs and not expect the party to compromise to keep your votes.
more ranting later.