Over at NRO, Kathryn Lopez details the love/hate relationship conservatives have with George Bush in light of the immigration reform bill failure in the senate.
It's an interesting piece and one that has me wonder, shouldn't there be a truth in advertising law related to politics? The conventional wisdom is that the republican party is the conservative party. But the party is littered with liberals such as George Voinovich, Arlen Specter, Chuck Hagel and Olympia Snowe to true conservatives such as Mitch McConnell and John Thune.
Compare that the democratic party, you couldn't find a conservative in the party with a search warrant.
It's why I'm such a proponent of 1) term limits 2) a viable third party.
People say that term limits already exist, the voters just vote out the bums when we don't want them anymore. But I would offer that extended stays in either body of congress creates liberals by default.
Really, in Ohio, how is a conservative going to beat Voinovich in a gop primary? It's next to impossible. All he has to do is become a conservative for a year to placate "the base" so he can run as a conservative. He's in like silk.
Once one of these cretins establishes some longevity, it's all about cozying up with your chums in DC and less about governing on principle. It's totally how this whole immigration fiasco came to being. If conservatives hadn't raised their voices, these clowns would be over at the local DC social club bruising themselves from all the back slapping as they pulled another one over on the masses.
If we had a viable third party we could actually have some party discipline and accountability based on adherence to principle.
But Gordon, nobody would ever get a majority and therefore a mandate to govern.
I wouldn't be opposed to run off elections for congressman if that's what it would take to get rid of our current system.
The fact is, conservative ideology wins time after time in the idea war. I believe conservatives want somebody, anybody, to take the conservative fight to the street and yet we cannot find anyone in government willing to pick up that flag and run with it.
While I think rush Limbaugh is an ideological lightweight, he was at least the first person out there picking up the ball and taking it to the socialists and calling out country club republicans and RINO's for who they truly are, socialist in drag.
Wanted. One principled conservative needed for a congress/senate/presidential run... another socialist need not apply.
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