Brad Turner
The conservative ghost
By Brad Turner
I'm sitting here reading more news stories of the Foleygate episodes that seem to be suffocating Washington for most of the last week. Now we are hearing reports that the page in question was an 18 year old male, not the 16 year old male that was reported earlier in the week. This entire revelation could be damaging news to the Democrats who are exploiting this incident for political game because it makes them choice sides on an issue that they support. If an 18 year old male and a 52 year old male enter into a relationship, the Democrats normally support this and find nothing wrong with it. Apparently that belief changes when it is a sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives. The irony is weren't we told just 8 short years ago that a political leader's personal life and romances should remain just that?
Recent polling data (if you choose to believe it) suggests that the GOP majority in Washington is in serious jeopardy and the question arises if Foleygate will cause the majority to become a minority. Pollsters suggest it could, but they miss the underlying issue. It isn't Foleygate causing the GOP to perform badly in the polls, it's the fact the GOP has gotten so arrogant and unresponsive to it's conservative past and present they are losing the very people they claim to serve. The party has lost it's direction.
The GOP being behind in the polls has nothing to do with Foleygate. It has everything to do with a party who claims to care about the borders voting to build a 700 mile fence when the border is 2000 miles long. It's not granting amnesty to 12 million lawbreakers for fear of being labeled a bigot and a racist. The day law enforcement is trumped by political correctness we might as well fold our tent. If border security, as Senate Majority leader Bill Frist referenced when he said "It's time to secure the border with Mexico" is the real objective then serious reform needs to take place, but the GOP has nobody in leadership with the backbone to aggressively attack the problem. The spirit of Reagan is dead in the current leadership of the GOP.
Very little good I think can ever come from a loss, but I am becoming overly concerned that the only way to get the current Republican leadership back on track is for the real threat of liberalism to be exposed. The only way they would see that again is a Democrat majority in Congress. Granted, I don't want this and our country can't afford this. I just don't know what else will wake up the current Republican leadership out of this mindset that you can act like a liberal, but call yourself a conservative because you have an R next to your name.
The current leadership needs to be purged my friends. The days of wrapping yourself in the flag and declaring yourself a patriot while offering no substantial legislation to prove otherwise, needs to come to an end. We have had it. We are tired of the charade and want change in our leadership. We are tired of seeing no real difference between you and them. You have taken the trust we gave you and twisted it into some form of conservatism that we don't acknowledge or accept. You have molded yourself into a party of Democrat-Lite. People want to see a difference between the two parties and you have provided none.
Is it too late to win in November? That is tough to say. Right now it doesn't look good and if that does happen they can only blame themselves. If anything it gives us a chance to look at what the party needs to refocus on for the 2008 presidential election. It's not too late to offer a clear cut core conservative that offers a clear difference between the liberal opponent the Democrats will offer up to lead our country the next 4 years.
Somehow in the power halls of Washington the Republicans have forgotten what works, and what will keep them in power. We didn't elect you to make deals on the border. We didn't elect you to not extend the tax cuts. We didn't elect you to increase domestic spending while wrecking the deficit. Do you really expect us to believe this born-again conservatism you are trying to show a month before the election? We elected you because we believe the country needs more Alan Keyes, not Alan Dershowitz. Dr. Keyes has it right. It's time for a revolution at the voter box where we turn back the train of bureaucracy and refocus our sights on what this country was meant to be.
Looking at our country's current predicament, can we really afford to allow a liberal majority in Congress? Can we really risk having Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton decide which legislation should proceed through our chambers of Congress? The very thought should frighten our leadership into action, but sadly it has not. It is up to us to demand accountability and change at the voter booth. We have been ignored for long enough. Thankfully, our great system of democracy afforded to us by our forefathers gives us the opportunity to voice our frustration every few years and that time has come. Let's let them know we demand they recognize the conservative ghost from the past that made our party and our country great.
© Brad Turner
I'm sitting here reading more news stories of the Foleygate episodes that seem to be suffocating Washington for most of the last week. Now we are hearing reports that the page in question was an 18 year old male, not the 16 year old male that was reported earlier in the week. This entire revelation could be damaging news to the Democrats who are exploiting this incident for political game because it makes them choice sides on an issue that they support. If an 18 year old male and a 52 year old male enter into a relationship, the Democrats normally support this and find nothing wrong with it. Apparently that belief changes when it is a sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives. The irony is weren't we told just 8 short years ago that a political leader's personal life and romances should remain just that?
Recent polling data (if you choose to believe it) suggests that the GOP majority in Washington is in serious jeopardy and the question arises if Foleygate will cause the majority to become a minority. Pollsters suggest it could, but they miss the underlying issue. It isn't Foleygate causing the GOP to perform badly in the polls, it's the fact the GOP has gotten so arrogant and unresponsive to it's conservative past and present they are losing the very people they claim to serve. The party has lost it's direction.
The GOP being behind in the polls has nothing to do with Foleygate. It has everything to do with a party who claims to care about the borders voting to build a 700 mile fence when the border is 2000 miles long. It's not granting amnesty to 12 million lawbreakers for fear of being labeled a bigot and a racist. The day law enforcement is trumped by political correctness we might as well fold our tent. If border security, as Senate Majority leader Bill Frist referenced when he said "It's time to secure the border with Mexico" is the real objective then serious reform needs to take place, but the GOP has nobody in leadership with the backbone to aggressively attack the problem. The spirit of Reagan is dead in the current leadership of the GOP.
Very little good I think can ever come from a loss, but I am becoming overly concerned that the only way to get the current Republican leadership back on track is for the real threat of liberalism to be exposed. The only way they would see that again is a Democrat majority in Congress. Granted, I don't want this and our country can't afford this. I just don't know what else will wake up the current Republican leadership out of this mindset that you can act like a liberal, but call yourself a conservative because you have an R next to your name.
The current leadership needs to be purged my friends. The days of wrapping yourself in the flag and declaring yourself a patriot while offering no substantial legislation to prove otherwise, needs to come to an end. We have had it. We are tired of the charade and want change in our leadership. We are tired of seeing no real difference between you and them. You have taken the trust we gave you and twisted it into some form of conservatism that we don't acknowledge or accept. You have molded yourself into a party of Democrat-Lite. People want to see a difference between the two parties and you have provided none.
Is it too late to win in November? That is tough to say. Right now it doesn't look good and if that does happen they can only blame themselves. If anything it gives us a chance to look at what the party needs to refocus on for the 2008 presidential election. It's not too late to offer a clear cut core conservative that offers a clear difference between the liberal opponent the Democrats will offer up to lead our country the next 4 years.
Somehow in the power halls of Washington the Republicans have forgotten what works, and what will keep them in power. We didn't elect you to make deals on the border. We didn't elect you to not extend the tax cuts. We didn't elect you to increase domestic spending while wrecking the deficit. Do you really expect us to believe this born-again conservatism you are trying to show a month before the election? We elected you because we believe the country needs more Alan Keyes, not Alan Dershowitz. Dr. Keyes has it right. It's time for a revolution at the voter box where we turn back the train of bureaucracy and refocus our sights on what this country was meant to be.
Looking at our country's current predicament, can we really afford to allow a liberal majority in Congress? Can we really risk having Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton decide which legislation should proceed through our chambers of Congress? The very thought should frighten our leadership into action, but sadly it has not. It is up to us to demand accountability and change at the voter booth. We have been ignored for long enough. Thankfully, our great system of democracy afforded to us by our forefathers gives us the opportunity to voice our frustration every few years and that time has come. Let's let them know we demand they recognize the conservative ghost from the past that made our party and our country great.
© Brad Turner
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