Posted by
Patrick S. Adams on Friday, October 23, 2009 4:51:34 PM
Ronald Reagan has said all there needs to be said in 1975 address to CPAC. Those principals still ring true today. Why? Because there are certain constants in our Founders' vision for the United States. Knowing that the winds of tyranny would always blow when the resolve for freedom was at its most complacent mements, they instituted into our constitutional form of government one simple fundamental principle: that government should be limited.
It becomes the responsibility of each passing generation that this fundamental principle be maintained. If we and the generations to come do not repeatedly stand up for that one basic principal and its underlying tenet that human freedom comes from God, we are dead in the water.
Now there has been a lot of discussion about forming a third political party born out of frustration with the current state of GOP, particularly after election losses in 2006 & 2008. There is a mentality inside the beltway that Republicans can moderate its message and tone to attract liberals and centrists. They believe falsely in the inevitability of business as usual and still think we need to peddle questionable influence in a political landscape that is perceived to be becoming more and more liberal in order to survive.
This is inside the box thinking. And it is dangerous thinking. This thinking must be taken on within the confines of the party structure. We must not run from it. We must confront it.
Sarah Palin articulates clearly what is at stake for the Republican party in her
Facebook posting:
Our nation is at a crossroads, and this is once again a "time for choosing."
Political parties must stand for something. When Republicans were in the wilderness in the late 1970s, Ronald Reagan knew that the doctrine of "blurring the lines" between parties was not an appropriate way to win elections. Unfortunately, the Republican Party today has decided to choose a candidate (
Dede Scozzafava) who more than blurs the lines, and there is no real difference between the Democrat and the Republican in this race. This is why Doug Hoffman is running on the Conservative Party's ticket.
Republicans and conservatives around the country are sending an important message to the Republican establishment in their outstanding grassroots support for Doug Hoffman: no more politics as usual.
If creating a third party is not the way to go, then what do we do about a party that cost us two of the biggest elections in our history? The Republican party is not a bad party. It has just gone astray. A third party, like a public option in health care, would only drive the one party that (albeit imperfectly) has kept us viable all these years out of business.
Instead, we need to look at what the liberals did. Study how they slowly and steadily infiltrated the Democrat party from the 1960's until now. Did radical socialists need a third party to advance their agenda? The answer is obvious. And so, conservatives now must take up the mantle of doing something very important for the future of our republic.
If we are ever, EVER, going to take our country back, we need to take our party back first.
The Republican party IS the conservative party in America just as the Democrat party is the liberal party. Those who run from the contrast avoid the great Ronald Reagan's call for "raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people..."
The Republican party is Ronald Reagan's party. We are Ronald Reagan's people. We love a country that is without compare because Ronald Reagan was true to the spirit of our Founders and knew exactly what the role of government was. And when implemented properly, the Constitution worked - giving us the strongest period of peace time prosperity in history and protecting us from outside aggressors such as the Soviet Union.
I listen to all the discussions on the direction of America and the direction of the GOP and scratch my head thinking "if what Ronald Reagan did worked best, why mess with that?" Why not just take Reagan's principles and apply them to today's problems? The answer is that simple. Listen to Reagan. Listen to the TEA Party movement. Listen to Sarah Palin.
It's time to make the "RINO" an endangered species.
First we must take our party back. Then we can take our country back.