Too Late for the GOP to Save the Fall Election!

Well, it was bound to happen sooner, or later. The “Conservative Voice” has finally posted an article I cannot agree with… not totally, anyway.

The title of the post is:

“Making the GOP Conservative Again, Vote Against Them”
by Warner Todd Huston

You can read the entire article at:

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/14401.html

Now, I DO agree that the Republican Party has never been a Conservative party. Not totally, anyway. Far from it, in fact. But where I disagree is… staying with a party that is no longer responsive to the Conservative agenda.

If Mr. Huston is correct, and I have no reason to doubt him, then 1/3 of the Party is Conservative. I’ll accept that. What I’d really like to know… is how much of that 1/3 is made up of “Southern Conservatives”?

You see… Southern Conservatives are different from your run of the mill Conservatives. Let me see if I can elucidate a bit.

To understand Southern Conservatives you must first understand that the vast majority of them are Evangelicals… or… they are influenced by Evangelical family connections. I am not. But… I was reared as an Evangelical and nearly my entire family is Evangelical.

Evangelicals tend to mix their politics with their religion. They can’t help themselves because it is the very nature of the Evangelical belief system that one must project one’s Christian ideals into every aspect of one’s life… the church, the job, the school, and one’s politics. That means taking your beliefs to the polls when election time comes around. And they do.

Now, this is the very reason Evangelicals/Southern Conservatives will not compromise. They can’t. It is against their religion. Evangelicals, consider it a sin, to compromise with anything which smacks of lying. Evangelical Republicans feel that is exactly what the Republican Party has done and they cannot support them. For them it is a sin to knowingly support a liar, or a Party, which traffics in lies. They will not compromise on this.

There is another extremely important part of the character of a Southerner, which is being overlooked. It is the Southern Code of Honor. This, folks, is not mythical. It is fact. Although not as strong as it has been in years past, it is still a way of life, to one degree or another, in the South. To question a Southerner’s honor is ask for a fist in the mouth, even today.

Southerners are accused of being hot-tempered and quick to fight. That’s true. But if you trace the cause of that red-hot anger back to its source you will almost always find that the question of honor was involved.

How does all of this endanger the Republican Party’s hold on the Congress and even the Presidency in’08?

Southern Conservatives are seething with anger at the Party for their lack of response on the illegal immigration crisis. It is the Southern states, especially those Southern states along the US/Mexican border… with the exception of North Carolina (North Carolina is fourth in the nation with the most illegal aliens of Mexican decent), which have been hit hardest by the influx of illegal aliens into our society. The Republican Party has rebuffed these state's concerns and pleas for enforcement of the laws currently on the books concerning illegal immigration. The Party’s refusal to support legislation, to secure the Southern border, has sealed the Southern Conservative vote and locked it away from the Republican Party.

This fall, and in ’08, Southern Conservatives will stay home. The Republican Party can choose to ignore this at their own peril. I’m here. I live here… in the South, and it is a BURNING issue!

We (Southern Conservatives) will not take our vote to the Democrat Party. Evangelicals view the Democrat Party as one step away for the Party of Satan. The Democrat Party is FOR everything their religion teaches them is a sin and, quite often, a deadly sin. No, the Democrats need not look for help from the Evangelicals.

The problem for the Republican Party is… they need the Conservatives to win. They need the Conservatives to retain power. Currently, they don’t have Conservative support. And, they’ll not get it back easily.

If the end result is that Democrats gain control of the US government again and drive the US into a collapse morally, militarily, financially, and religiously, then the fault will be lain at the foot of the GOP leaders who have failed as leaders either through ineptness, arrogance, or lack of intestinal fortitude.

In the meantime, calls for a strong third party are being heard from all corners of the US. A third party strong enough to swing elections one way, or the other, even though that third party may take decades to gain enough clout to claim control of a single house of Congress or the Presidency is almost assured.

Rest assured … if a Conservative Third Party forms it would shrink the rolls of both the current Republican Party and the Democrat Party. The Conservative Party cannot hope to draw enough support from the two parties to swing control to themselves (The Conservative Party) yet enough to have an extremely powerful influence on both parties and, most especially, the party which will win the seats of power.

Two things will result: One, the Party in control will be forced to constantly court the Conservative Party to maintain favor with, and support from, their voters… and two, the President will no longer be won by the candidate with a majority of the votes but the candidate with a plurality of votes… as was Bill Clinton. That means that a WINNING candidate will never have the support of the Majority, only that part of the Electorate he, or she, carried.

With all the above considered, the Conservatives will still not support the Republican Party this fall. Conservatives do not feel compelled to support a Party, which, as it has proven, may decide to ignore them any time it chooses. Nor do conservatives feel guilt for the disaster, which will result with a democrat take over of the US Government. Conservatives, especially Southern Conservatives, understand they answer, ultimately, to a higher power and they are obligated only to their religious convictions.

The long and the short of it is… the Republican Party is set for a chastising in November. It is too late to turn the ship around. This is going to be an old fashioned whupping and the Republican Party has done it to themselves.

Longstreet