No really, I am seeing a new push to blame conservatives for the election results and a shaming of them for thinking their principles are worth standing up for. Some are saying that conservatives stayed home and it is solely their fault for the loss of the scores of Republicans across the nation. 

No I am serious, some people who I thought were smarter than that are now going to try to shame principled conservatives and cast blame for election losses squarely on their shoulders. 

I think over the (almost) 4 years of this blog, I have done a pretty darn good job trying to expose how Republicans going left loses them votes, so I am not going to go into that again. 

Let’s use one simple and tragic example of what they want us to do. 

George W. Bush. Now I am not ready to say he was the worst President ever, and it wasn’t him who destroyed the country, no he was just acting like a Democrat. And that’s the point. 

Bush was a Republican, but he governed like a Democrat, sans the tax increases. He increased spending exponentially. He expanded the size and scope of Government. Deficit, don’t get me started. He made more and more Americans dependent on Government. Oh sure it was carrot and stick tactics on most parts, but if he was a Democrat, no one would be complaining about anything, except for conservatives. But he did prevent a second round of terror attacks in America, a feet no one thought possible on September 12th, 2001. 

Now let’s take a look back at how the GOP got tossed out of relevance, shall we. History is fun, sometimes. 

In 2000 it was all about how conservatives have to prevent the liberal AL Gore from keeping the White House in Democrat hands. It worked, Bush won. Then in 2002 we sent scores of Republicans to join Bush in Congress and gave him majorities in both lawmaking bodies. 

Then in 2004 we sent Bush back to the Oval Office with more Congressional Republicans, growing the majorities. 

And then what happened? 

That’s right, all liberal hell broke loose, and under the Republican’s watch. 

Conservatives did show up then, and they felt burned after they won. Whose fault is that? Is it conservative’s fault that Bush and Congressional Republican made drunk Democrat sailors look like penny pinchers? 

Are we supposed to simply assume if we sent more Republicans to Washington that maybe we would do away with the K-Street project and stop the Rove tactic of stealing the Democrat issues through pandering policies? 

I’m sorry, I know some people think they are doing the right thing by trying to deflect the blame for why Republicans have faced 2 straight ass whoopings at the polls, but they are exposing themselves for the (sorry to say) hacks that they are. I am not interested in remaining on the cocktail party circuit. I was on it for a tad, but then my darn principles got in the way and I became an enemy for speaking the truth or at least being honest and candid.

It is a candidate of a party’s responsibility to build up his coalition. After conservatives got fooled twice in thinking George W. Bush was closer on the issues to Reagan than his father and we learned different, we woke up. 

You cannot expect conservatives to dig their own grave. We’re limited government and personal liberty conservatives. When the Republican is as left on these issues as the Democrat, with just marginal differences, we do say “why bother?”. And that;s our fault? Franken and Coleman were indistinguishable on global warming. McCain and Obama the same. And the similarities from candidate to candidate go on.  

Now not everyone did stay home as some think, but if you look at how Norm Coleman choked against Franken, don’t ya maybe wonder if Coleman’s campaign team is kicking itself for not listening to me? 

yes, Coleman pissed off his base numerous times. Amnesty, SCHIPs, Bailout, spending, ethanol, global warming, etc. Is that conservative’s fault? No seriously, is it our fault Coleman tried to thread the political needle and cut his own base off at the knees? 

Look at John McCain. We couldn’t have had a worse candidate than him. God bless him for his service in uniform, but as a Republican Senator John McCain has done more to marginalize the conservatives than he has for us. Pork? Yeah, thanks, you would blow through that $25-50 billion in a heartbeat on Amnesty programs and global warming ponzi schemes there Johnny.

And do you remember the one time that McCain looked truly impressed with himself and proud of a campaign line? It was when he was smearing Romney in the California debate with lies. That smug smirk still is burned into my brain. The guy takes more pride in trashing a Republican than he does against teh most liberal Democrat every to run for President. 

Had we had a real conservative who not only believed in the free market and limited Government principles, but would take that debate to the electorate, Obama would not be enrolling his kids in DC school today and Franken wouldn’t be packing for Washington. 

It was the war against conservative values that caused the Republicans losses, the problem is, some people aren’t willing to shed light on who lit the fuse on the bomb that took the GOP down. 

Yes, Republicans like Bush and the RINOs tore down the house that Reagan built and Gingrich expanded. It was left leaning Republicans who destroyed the gains they made. It was Republicans who demoralized the base and soured the public on the notion that Republicans would actually provide freedom, liberty, and the opportuinty for personal responsibility. And the final nail was the corruption. 

So as we begin this new year, we are once again forced, as conservatives, to have fellow Republicans blame us for the Democrat majorities and electoral wins. 

Would you put a tent up in your back yard and offer free food and lodging to a crack dealer? Of course not, it would be detrimental to you. Sooner or later the car would be missing and so would all your irreplaceable mementos. 

Until the Republican party understands that – until it can win over the people with no other place to go politically, there is no way that they can draw those skeptical of our ideas. 

The MNGOP leadership race is the perfect example of how some people are more interested in keeping their job (and shifting the responsibility for their own jobs on anyone but who collected the paycheck) onto people who thought the party stood for what it says it does. Lipservice to the platform during legislative sessions and in office, but simple quota based liberal lite apologetic strategy in September and October are what has put the GOP in the skeleton minorities across the nation. 

Party leaders have been more concerned about what Governor, Senator, Representative So-and-so think about them then they are about moving the conservative ball down the field of public opinion. 

Ron Carey, Tony Sutton, and the rest of the MNGOP Executive Committee are proof they are tone deaf to the grassroots. Yeah, I named names. They are just the public faces on the MNGOP establishment that aims only to maintain their own power. The grass roots made up of truly principled conservatives are the unwashed and not to be trusted. There are a couple of good eggs in the lot, but look at the results of what the party did this last election and what they are doing this very day. 

What happens tomorrow in Minnesota? Clue: It has nothing to do with Al Franken. 

The Legislature convenes and begins the process of closing a $6 Billion deficit. And what is the party doing about it? Are they putting out research and proposals for public consumption so that Minnesotans can call their Legislators and urge them to cut the waste? Are they working on educating voters how we got into the deficit mess? (ahem out of control spending under a Republican Gov?…. I’d give you a pass if you went on to point out how Democrats own the House and Senate, but you’d have to make the sale to the public and have it stick)

Are they using this monumental issue that will impact every single Minnesotan, one that is a hanging curve for fiscal conservatives, and reaching out to Minnesotans to ID and educate them? 

No. They are trying to save Coleman and have an excuse for spending millions on the whole Angry Al ad campaign. 

You want conservatives to show up and help, I got an idea for you. If workers are really dwindling in numbers and our help in the GOTV process is the sole excuse for why Democrats won big across the nation and state, then why don’t you try listening to us instead of lying to us, shaming us, and ignoring us? 

You think that principled conservatives are to blame, well maybe some of you pointing fingers had better look in the mirror.

I’m sorry, but I am just really getting tired of hearing people on the right who claim to be fighting for conservatism laying down cover fire for those responsible for the demise of the party that Reagan and Gingrich built. 

Yeah, that clearly lost us a handful of US Senate seats. 

No wait, maybe this one. 

Give me a break. Put down the cocktail party invites and consult with your conscious. You might be surprised what you once believed. 

If the Republican party, its candidates, and its elected officials cannot fight for true conservative values, the party is over, turn out the lights. There’s nothing we have that voters will buy.

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