Gingrich disappoints
Good article by Michelle Malkin outlining another instance where the Republican leadership is trying to force a poor candidate down our throats. The poor dolts can’t see the forest for the trees. What really disappointed me as I read the article was her mention that Newt Gingrich endorsed crappy candidate.
The Republican Party keeps putting up moderates against democrats. The moderates are so damn moderate that it’s hard to tell where they stop and where the Democrats start. No matter how many times this fails, or how many times we point out to them their failures, they keep on doing it.
In cases like the one Michelle is talking about, there is a perfectly good conservative candidate already in the race. Doug Hoffman is a Conservative Party candidate who is closing in on the Democrat leader. The R’s toss in their pick, Dede Scozzafava, a Republican in name only, to muddy up the race. Not only that, they get Newt to endorse Scozzafava.
I tend to like Newt, so I did some more reading. In the article at syracuse.com, I found this paragraph:
But Gingrich, who served as Speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999, wants to unite the party. He sees Scozzafava and the Upstate special election – the only House race in the nation this fall — as the best hope for Republicans to start a comeback and regain control of Congress.
As soon as I read that, I had a revalation – an epiphany! The Republican leadership, including Newt Gingrich, aren’t interested in Conservatives winning, or traditional values winning, or America winning. Yes, they like those things, but that’s not their main goal. Their main goal is REPUBLICANS WINNING. Doug Hoffman winning the NY23 race wouldn’t be a notch in the Republican’s belt, nor would it be the start of a Republican “comeback to regain control of Congress”.
I think where I went wrong was in assuming that all of us conservatives, both officially Republican and not, had the same vision – the same dream – to turn our country around, back to real traditional values. I forgot that even on our side of the aisle there are still those who are in it for the power it brings. A Hoffman win advances the Conservative cause, but it brings the Republican Party nothing. No power, no majorities, no campaign dollars.
Sorry, Newt. I thought you were in it for the cause, but apparently you’re more concerned about your Party than our country.
Quincy, IL
It’d be one thing if the moderates at least caused some moderation when they were in office. Then they could at least make the argument that we’re better off with them winning than with conservatives losing—half a loaf rather than none. But the last time Republicans did anything to slow the growth of government and centralization was in 1994, and that was because we DID kick out some moderates and elect some real conservatives who weren’t career politicians. Since then they’ve been trying to out-Democrat the Democrats, so except for a few issues like Supreme Court appointments, there’s not much point in electing them. There certainly isn’t any point in supporting them financially, when there are individual conservatives who could use support.