Conservatives: Time to Abandon the Republican Ship

 Conservatives: Time to Abandon the Republican Ship
North Star Writers Group ^ | May 9, 2008 | David Karki

Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 08:02:52 by Invisigoth

Sen. John McCain as the Republican presidential candidate doing everything he can to show how liberal he is, to the point where it’s very difficult to find any significant difference between him and the two Democratic candidates.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi running roughshod over House appropriation rules, trade agreements signed in good faith, and doing everything else in her power to run out the clock on this year until, presumably, a newly inaugurated President Obama or Hillary can sign everything President Bush would veto.

And last, but certainly most, a Republican Party that has gone completely supine and offers no opposition whatsoever. More often than not, they’re joining in just to get a small slice of the spending pie.

Add it all up, and you get a veritable horror movie for conservatives. Perhaps, over the past 20 years or so, there never was as much support in the GOP as we thought for conservative ideas. But certainly in this election cycle it has reached its nadir. It doesn’t seem like there is a single candidate, incumbent or challenger, who can run away from conservatism fast enough – Sen. McCain being the epitome of this trend. (That means that there is at least one thing for which he is a legitimate standard-bearer.)

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