Posted by
Forgive My Patriotism on Saturday, January 31, 2009 5:50:16 PM
Liberals overtly calculate, and manipulate groups into compromising what is right for the sake of some other spiteful or selfish goal, or to avoid some fear. Anything to win.
Conservatism articulates values positions, educating people of its merits.
Republicans ran the presidential campaign on the former, assuming the group called “Right Wing” would still vote to preserve a sliver of a remnant of a memory of conservative principles in government. The Palin pick tried to counter our inevitable protest.
90% of blogs addressing the Conservative sit-out were dedicated to scolding us for our zealous ignorance. Blaming us if Democrats were elected.
The liberal tenets are the play-book again for the future in most “Remaking the GOP” blogs, where Conservatives should be realistic and fall in line. A group. No different than the Log Cabin Republicans. A few banners, some choice rally words is all it should take to get us back in line while nothing really changes.
But radio voices that actually educate are still being scolded by the calculators for being extreme. And conservatives are still fed the overwhelming message that conservatism is unrealistic and the 'mature' 'consensus' by the smart people is that compromise for the sake of the calculated numbers is the game.
If Republicans had been conservative over the last 30 years, we wouldn't have so many compromises on security, abortion, family, taxes, government power, borders, morals, foreign influence in our elections, and on and on. There's nothing left to conserve but the GOP itself. Every conservative issue is on a slippery-slope. Conservatives can now only 'hope' that one day the GOP will be in power again and won't do what they did with it the last times they were in power.
Based on how they treat us, they must calculate us in the following manner:
Liberal - NO
Nose Holder - NO
Willing to sit silently - NO
Category - SCOLD, APPEASE, MARGINALIZE, IGNORE.