Alright.
So, everybody is up in arms over Arlen Specter. I suppose that’s a predictable reaction, but let’s be honest here. We need to get our priorities straight, and we also need to cut through the BS, here.
While I do understand the dismay of Senator Specter leaving from the standpoint of it giving the Democrats a 60-seat majority, which would essentially give President Obama the final piece of the puzzle he needs to be the fascist he truly is, there’s nothing we can do about it, and were going to have to weather the storm and shake this off. It’s going to be scary, and times are going to be tough, but we will survive this. We always do.
We have to put aside the blind emotion and look at this logically. Let’s not freak out and pretend that Arlen Specter was some kind of conservative lynchpin. Let me ask you this, my fellow conservatives, when was the last time that any of us sat back and said, “Oh, that Arlen Specter! He’s a leader! He’s the glue that holds us all together!”
We didn’t, did we?
No, I’ll tell you exactly what we did. The last time any of us really thought about Senator Specter, we were sitting here, mouths agape, saying, “What? He voted for a $787 billion dollar stimulus package? Why, that dirty sellout son of a…”
Yep. That’s what we did. So let’s cut the crap.
This is a good thing. It’s time to clean house. Arlen Specter is no skin off my back, nor should he be to anyone else. Who the hell cares? It’s obvious he’s a liar, because just six weeks ago he assured us that he wouldn’t change parties. Well, so much for that. Now, think about this for a moment. If we can’t trust him at his word with something as simple as that, how in the world can we trust him to vote conservatively on key issues?
Big news, kids! We can’t! If his stimulus vote didn’t wake us up, nothing will. Specter doesn’t care a bit about the conservative movement. Senator Specter is a liberal. Period. The simple fact is that he saw some polling data, and at this point it’s fairly clear that Pat Toomey will hand him his butt in the 2010 GOP Pennsylvania primary. As with most senators (and especially at his age) the only thing that Specter is interested in is power. If he loses his job, I’m sure that in his mind he will lose his very identity, and then he would most likely (and quite literally) wither and die.
We need to realize that we can take this “event” and turn it into the foundation of something great. In my experience, I have met and spoken to way too many people who use the GOP as focal point of concern, when they shouldn’t. That is like putting the cart before the horse. If we are so bound and determined to “fix” the GOP, conservatism should be the starting point. Does anybody remember what that is anymore? If we nominate and elect conservative candidates, the GOP is repaired by default. Got that? Conservatism first, GOP second. Now, before I get an email from some half-cocked idiot saying, “What are you saying? Are you saying we should abandon the GOP and start a third party or something? You’re a freak! We have to fix the party! Party! Party! Party!“
No, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m a registered Republican, OK? I get it. But we have to think of it like this. Imagine the GOP is a race car, okay? Well, you need fuel to make a race car run. Do you know what the fuel would be in this instance?
Conservatism!
That’s right, boys and girls, if we fill our GOP race car with the fuel of conservatism, it will take off like a shot, and no Democrats with their shoddy “Prius” of liberalism will ever catch us again. The model for victory is so simple. We’ve done it before, we can do it again. We just need to stop doing stupid things like nominating John McCain. (Stupid, stupid idea.) Actually, as if that wasn’t stupid enough, we had some Beltway geniuses floating the idea of Joe Lieberman for VP. You know who you are, and you are the dumbest people on earth this side of Meghan McCain. I know I’ve mentioned this before, and I’ve even written at length about it. But, it just infuriates me to the point where I can’t get it out of my head. The people who posited the idea of Joe Lieberman as VP need to be punched in the face, three times. Once for thinking it, and *twice* for saying it out loud.
Now, some people are in a knot over Chairman Steele coming out and saying, “If Senator Specter survives in the fall — get ready to go to the mat, baby, because we’re coming after you and taking you out.”
I think that’s great. It’s about time he stepped up and started being the man we all thought he could be, rather than just being some dumb bobble head, going after Rush Limbaugh while making the TV talk show rounds. Way to grow a set, Mr. Chairman. Now take us to the Promised Land.
Personally, I’m tired of this “Big Tent” garbage. We shouldn’t allow the media to paint pictures such as “If the GOP can’t keep a moderate like Arlen Specter, how can it be a national party? It makes me want to vomit. Senator Specter is as much a moderate as I am an Olympic sprinter. Again, cut the crap. It’s this big tent junk that got us here in the first place. Why do we relegate ourselves to being the party of the political career fast track? Don’t believe me? Take a look at Michael Bloomberg. Take a look at Arnold Schwarzenegger. If I have to explain any of that to you, we’re in a more hopeless position than I realize.
Hopefully, you “Beltway Brainiacs” Have learned something. Nobody likes moderates. Moderates don’t believe in anything. As much as it pains me to say it, the GOP deserved exactly what it got. Now, let’s stop being idiots and fly right. In fact, I would ask all Beltway “Conservative Intelligencia” pundits who can’t offer legitimate conservative solutions and opinions to either keep their mouths shut or to just go ahead and jump ship, because you’re screwing it up for the rest of us.
Pol or pundit, if you’re not a conservative, stop crowding up our space and take a walk we don’t need you, or want you. We have some rebuilding to do, and you’re in the way.
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