Although the reasons why true conservatives should leave the RNC are manifold, they can all be condensed and represented within these five Key Reasons.
Reason 1: The Republican Party Has Lost Its Core Values
Reason 2: Republicans Lack Real Leadership or Vision
Reason 3: CP-USA will Provide a Genuine and Unambiguous Conservative Platform
Reason 4: CP-USA won’t Marginalize Conservatives
Reason 5: CP-USA will exert a much needed rightward pull on the body politic.
Reason 1: The Republican Party Has Lost Its Core Values
No one would have ever imagined that a Republican controlled Congress led by a Republican President could have ever outspent any modern era Democrat administration by fourfold in non-defense spending. During the past eight years the Republicans have: doubled the national debt; allowed Earmarks to explode; increased the budget deficit each year; let the trade deficit triple; seen more of our membership indicted or jailed for corruption than the previous 10 years combined; allowed illegal immigration to explode; failed to protect and defend US borders. In addition, Republicans have never filibustered or vetoed any spending bill no matter how pork-laden; failed to curb abortion-on-demand or late-term abortions; overseen rising national drug use; allowed the liberal media set our agenda and pick its candidates (John McCain); stood by while the homosexual agenda gained strength; and let school prayer and private school vouchers get squashed.
Reason 2: Republicans Lack Real Leadership or Vision
While giving credit for enacting the Bush tax cut, Republicans have not promulgated any far-reaching, bold or visionary legislative initiatives since the Newt Gingridge Contract For America. Nothing new about reducing America’s dependency on foreign oil (“Drill baby drill” is not an energy policy) or growing our renewable energy infrastructure. Nothing on stopping illegal immigration (Where is Tom Trancedo now?). Nothing on solving the growing health care problem. Nothing on improving education except for No Child Left Behind….a Ted Kennedy bill. At the risk of sounding like a New York Times editorial, Republicans have become risk averse and provincial.
Question: What current Republican politician really excites or motivates conservatives? John McCain? His time has come and gone. Sarah Palin? No gravitas…yet. Fred Thompson? Too tired. Mitt Romney? Maybe. There are more Republicans in jail on corruption charges than ready to step up and lead Republicans to victory let alone Conservatives. They certainly don’t have anyone ready to challenge the Messiah, Barack Obama.
While Reasons 1 and 2 outline a partial litany of valid reasons why Conservatives should leave the RNC, Reasons 3 – 5 provide the rationale for creating the CP-USA.
Reason 3: CP-USA Provides a Genuine and Unambiguous Conservative Platform
No matter what the main stream media, Arlen Specter and Colin Powell tell you, candidates who adhere to a solid conservative platform can – and do – win elections. John McCain lost for a myriad of reasons not the least of which was failing to energize the Conservative base. Even Sarah Palin’s pretty skirts couldn’t hide McCain’s long, less-than-conservative voting record (against the Bush tax cuts; McCain-Feingold; Amnesty for illegals, etc.).
CP-USA will appeal to a large, solid base of energized (and loyal) conservative voters because it will finally give voice to their long-held aspirations. Make no mistake, most Americans are actually conservative. Conservatives can then present a clear, genuine and robust agenda without regard to media musings and all those squishy RINO’s. God love ‘em but conservative Republicans (both of them) just don’t have the spine to withstand the negative media assaults or lack of RNC support.
A clear, common sense platform built on an unshakable conservative foundation will become a powerful political entity fully capable of withstanding the liberal whirlwinds racing across America today. “Build it and they will come.” In droves. Especially after a few years of the über Liberal Obama administration has the chance to shows its true colors.
Reason 4: CP-USA Won’t Marginalize Conservatives
The RNC has historically marginalized conservatives during election cycles and just flat out ignored them between in the off years. It is unconscionable that John McCain, the Republican Party nominee for President of the United States, supported giving amnesty, health care, SSN numbers and drivers licenses to illegal aliens. It is incredible that, until his last year, the Republican President never vetoed any of the pork-laden budgets most of which were crafted by a GOP led Congress.
Conservatives are required to compromise, suppress or conceal their principles to remain part of the Republican Party. They are forced go along to get along to appeal to that mythical “Big Tent”. Sadly, that Tent is now swarming with snakes (Liberal media), RINO’s (Moderate Republicans), donkeys (Democrats), coyotes (Illegal alien jockeys) and marshmallows (Independents). Instead of a politically harmonized party led by strong GOP elephants, the RNC has devolved into a weak, ineffective horde that looks like the bar scene crowd in the first Star Wars movie.
The CP-USA will stop all this nonsense by building a local, regional and national support base for conservatives. We will no longer be ignored, kept at arms length, held hostage or taken for granted by the RNC. Most importantly, however, CP-USA will create a legitimate and politically viable alternative to the RNC. And that’s the KEY point in this whole movement.
The four Reasons shown above illustrate why Conservatives should disown the rudderless and soft Republicans and made the case for creating the CP-USA. Reason five is logical conclusion that bundles them into a unified concept.
Reason 5: CP-USA will exert a much needed rightward pull on the body politic.
CP-USA gives conservatives a strong political support base (a Party) that allows them to formulate genuine conservative agendas and to articulate their views to the American people without reservation. The Party then creates the political environment that will encourage members to run for elected office and populate the halls of State legislators and the US Congress. We won’t win in anything in Berkeley or Hollywood but will be very powerful in other parts of California, most of Texas, Utah, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Georgia and hundreds of county seats in the rest of America’s fruited plains. One voter, one county, one Representative, one Senator….at a time.
Conservatives must change their mindset which wrongly assumes that gaining a majority is the only way to “win”. While CP-USA won’t initially necessarily garner majorities in any State or US Congress, it will gradually begin to exert a strong, constant rightward pull on America’s political landscape. Not only will CP-USA gradually become strong center of gravity on its own, it will also – irony of ironies – make the Republican Party better (See Reason 4).
At long last conservatives will be able to stand tall, hold their heads high, give unwavering voice their agenda and build a strong, durable conservative platform.