From Eight Candidates One
Nominee
Written by JB Williams
©2007 USA
Republican voters need to familiarize themselves with the
concept of E Pluribus Unum
. Regardless of ideological
differences within the big tent of the Republican Party, from many, we must
become one in opposition to the Democratic Socialist movement currently in
command of today’s DNC.
Reasonably, Republicans have been using the primary process to
vet a new leader of the Republican Party for coming years. For the first time
since Reagan was elected in 1980, the party has no heir apparent, no President
running for re-election and no Vice President seeking the oval office.
And rightfully, after years of less than conservative
leadership from the nation’s conservative party, many Republican voters are
working to return their party to the conservative values that made the GOP
grand.
But have Republicans become unwitting devices of their own
division and defeat?
Like 1992, when conservative voters were angry and divided over
a broken "no new taxes" promise and overly "compassionate" liberal social
spending, conservatives are angry and divided again over record liberal social
spending, open borders, apologetic war strategies and defenseless tolerance for
leftist ideals.
Divided, the GOP will experience another 1992 set of results in
which Hillary Clinton, like her husband Bill, could become President of the
United States against the will of more than 57% of American voters, the
majority.
In 1992, 44.9 million Americans voted for Bill Clinton. But
58.8 million Americans voted against Bill Clinton, 13.8 million more and still,
Bill Clinton became president. Bill Clinton became President in 1992 with the
support of only 43% of American voters. The same thing can happen for Bill’s
wife Hillary in 2008, unless Republicans find a way to unite in
opposition.
The ideological divide within the Party
Two lessons Republicans had better pay attention to in 2008 is
the fact that Democrats can win any time Republicans are divided, and 2000 was
decided by less than 500 Florida votes. Every conservative vote will indeed
count in 2008, which means Republicans can not afford to leave a single
Republican voter at home on Election Day.
At present, the GOP is divided into three major ideological
groups and this schism within the party must be rectified or the party is doomed
to failure in 2008.
Group 1 - Socially Liberal Security Hawks
Often referred to as "moderates" or "RINOs," this group
currently sees the War on Terror as priority one and all other issues, in
particular social issues, as unrelated and at best, secondary.
As a result, they are happy to support a socially liberal
candidate so long as the candidate appears tough on terror. This group makes up
the base support for candidates Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and
John McCain, all of whom have dismal records on social issues like
abortion and gay activism, as well as illegal immigration.
Though popular in liberal leaning blue voting districts, all
three of these candidates leave social, Second Amendment conservatives and
illegal immigration foes in conservative red districts, out of the voting booth
on Election Day.
Group 2 – Fiscal and Individual Liberty
Isolationists
This is the smallest group within the Republican Party, but it
draws on campaign support from across the political aisle. Often referred to as
the "Libertarian" wing of the Republican Party, which supports both fiscal and
military isolationism and withdrawal from engagements on the world stage,
smaller government, less taxes, individual liberty to the extreme of anarchy,
with legalized drugs and prostitution for all.
This group makes up less than 5% of the Republican rank and
file and it is remnants of the failed Libertarian Party led by Libertarian
Republican Ron Paul, who is an international apologist, blame America
first, last and often anti-war activist and is supported by the same across
partisan lines.
This group, opposed by 95% of Republican voters, seeks to
re-define conservatism as some false "Jeffersonian" isolationism and by doing
so; they leave all national security conservatives and social conservatives out
of the voting booth on Election Day.
Group 3 – Fiscal, Social and National Security
Conservatives
This group has always been referred to as the "ideological
base" of the Republican Party and they are across-the-board conservatives. They
see liberal social policies as the root of all social ills and the cause of all
undesirable social spending and subsequent growth of the Nanny State.
They see apologetic foreign policy and sheepish diplomacy as
the cause of many diplomatic failures which end in undesirable military
conflicts and unacceptable international threats.
They see defeating terror networks abroad as the best means of
avoiding the need to confront terror at home. They are for pre-emptive
(preventive) or pro-active engagement with the world in order to confront
threats before they fully materialize. They are conservative in that whether
talking money, social ills or international threats, they seek to conserve,
preserve and protect all American principles and values.
This group drafted Senator Fred Thompson to champion
their values of Life, Liberty and Happiness through fiscal restraint, social
conscience, strong national sovereignty and security and a general sense of
traditional American principles across the board.
Those in this group leaning towards federal mandates to
legislate moral values seem to like Mike Huckabee, who has promised to
use the power of the federal government to enforce the unalienable Right to
Life, to bear Arms and protect traditional Marriage.
While Life, Liberty and traditional family values are at the
root of the conservative movement, using the federal government to mandate these
things by law is not a conservative value. The Tenth Amendment is a fundamental
tenet of conservatism, restoring power to the people and the states, not
micro-governing from on high in Washington DC.
Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo also represent many
in this group although both have somehow failed to capture the imagination of
conservative voters, making them highly unlikely winners in the nomination
process.
These candidates leave only the most hardened Ron Paul
supporters out of the voting booth on Election Day. All other Republican’s can
and will unite behind true conservatives working on true conservative values.
Thompson is the most likely winner in this group.
Not just the base, but the legitimate majority of the
GOP
While members of groups 1 and 2 will disagree, group 3 is in
fact the legitimate majority of the Republican Party and the conservative base
behind which the party must unite to win the White House in 2008.
Group 1 is maxed out at around 30% GOP support nationally.
Group 2 is maxed out at no more than 5% GOP support nationally and Group 3, base
conservatives, is currently running second in GOP support nationally and by no
means maxed out at all.
Group 3 and Group 2 will not support group 1 candidates due to
their liberal social positions and less than conservative past performances. But
many in Group 1 will support a group 3 candidate if nominated.
Neither Group 1 nor Group 3 will ever support the national
security insanity of group 2. But some in Group 2 will eventually support a real
conservative Group 3 candidate if nominated.
In the end, only Group 3 candidates that represent all
conservative voters can unite the party behind conservative
principles.
More importantly
Only Group 3 can provide a real alternative to Democratic
Socialists next November and lead the nation in a fully conservative direction
after the election.
Isn’t this what the Republican Party is supposed to be? - A
conservative party, leading the nation on conservative American values and
principles?
I’m not in the business of endorsing candidates. But I am in
the business of promoting and supporting conservative values and principles, as
well as writing on the political climate of the country I care dearly about.
If the GOP can’t unite behind conservative principles, it can’t
unite at all. If it can’t unite, if from many, we can’t become ONE in
conservative values, then we can’t win in 2008. 1992 history will repeat and
Republicans will find themselves completely out of power in 2008.
Doubt this reality at your own peril…