Mark Levin The RINOs made their bed ... jenkuznicki/2014/08/unity-with-the-lesser-of-two-evils/ Jen Kuznicki CONSERVATIVE WRITER Unity With The Lesser of Two Evils by JEN KUZNICKI on AUGUST 9, 2014 · COMMENTS (0) I left the Michigan Republican Party in early spring when their new tack was to nationally embarrass any social conservative left in the party. I left suddenly embarrassed to be seen with them. So, now is the grand time of the election year where the calls for unity fill the email boxes and stump speeches, and I am having a difficult time figuring out how the Republican Party has any integrity at all to come and beg for my, and anyone else’s, vote. I’m mindful that the Democrat Party is really, really awful. They try to get elected by saying their Republican opponent will take away the poor’s welfare and they’re a bunch of racist bigots. But then, the Barbours in Mississippi on behalf of Thad Cochran said the same thing about the conservative running against them in the primary, so I guess I’m confused, how can I say the Democrats are really awful, and not our own liberal leadership? Those attack ads against Chris McDaniel were not only racist, but not many mention that they treated human beings as if they are nothing more than slaves of the government. They said, vote for Thad Cochran, because McDaniel will take away your food stamps and Medicaid, meaning, the Republican who will keep you from breaking out of welfare is the only type of Republican suitable for you. Thad wants you to stay in your place, and your place is staying on the government dole, since you are unable to do better. That is not what a conservative thinks. A conservative believes that, given the chance at bettering themselves, a person will, as long as it is not easier to choose to let others do it for you. That means, if welfare pays more than work, you can’t expect more people to choose work. I want nothing to do with a party that tells people that their lot in life is to stay a victim of government. Welfare should be a hand up when times are impossible, but it should not be a way of life as Thad Cochran’s ads admitted. I went to a nearby tea party meeting last week, and sparred verbally with my State Representative. He and a paid staffer to my Congressman argued that the tea party should unite with the Republican Party, because we need to win in November. But then, when they say win, they mean the election, not the fight. Of the things we discussed, my State Representative had been called to the carpet for voting for an increase in the minimum wage. Members of the tea party and conservatives like me had scorched him and others for doing so. But he said, “but, did you know what the Democrats wanted?” The Democrats, predictably, wanted a higher minimum wage than the Republican-dominated House and Senate gave them, and that is why we can’t all get along. The Democrats ask for far more than what they will settle for. Republicans have fallen into the rut of accepting what they get, worried that any rebuke of Democrats will get them smeared in the press. The Republicans NEVER make a principled case of ANYTHING and gather their own politicians in caucus and sell them on sticking together for PRINCIPLE. They instead go to their corporate heads and ask them what they’ll take, and it screws the little guy EVERY TIME. The biggest problem that the preferred non-ideologue Republicans have, is that they do not understand what principles they should be defending. Many do not know what a principle is, and busy themselves with the “business” of government, which has been to do what the money tells you to. And since the Party is dominated by non-ideologue, non-partisan, unprincipled lobbyist lapdogs, (Mark Levin calls them Corporatists and I think it’s the best description thus far,) I have an idea. It might not help us get along, but at least you hacks won’t suffer from the debilitating effects of primary season. You Corporatists make the rules, why don’t you abolish primaries? You want unity, right? We conservatives constantly hear, “why can’t you unite behind us, the Democrat base always unites behind the Democrats, why can’t you?” So, here’s your chance. Abolish primaries, you can pick your next clean-cut corporatist and viola. Then, when you haven’t had any challenges at all, round about August you can come to us and say, vote for the Republican we picked and we can still say no. But, at least you didn’t have to spend any money on your loss. I have been reminded, time and time again, that the Republican Party is not a conservative party. Mark Levin reminds me, and Craig Shirley reminds me, and I know that. I know, I do. Especially in Michigan, I am reminded on a daily basis. Yet, I still see a way for the Republican Party to win over union members without making deals with union thugs. I still see ways that the average born-Democrat that goes to church on Sunday will vote for a conservative Republican Party. I still can think of arguments to use against the over-stretched welfare state, and ways in which most people will want to work toward a better life for themselves and their families. I see ways we can decrease the bureaucracy and expand the freedoms of most people. We should be arguing, not about how we are going to match the federal government’s allotment for our roads, but how we can be a self-sufficient state. We should be making plans that are outside the box, not using taxation to pick the winners and losers. But to tackle all of that, the Republican Party must break from its current direction, and that’s not likely. I wrote a piece the other day about why Romney lost. To be frank, the Reagan Democrats I know told me that he stands for everything they hate. He’s a suited, stiff, plastic Ken doll who will put the corporations first and the little guy second. That’s what they said, and growing up where I did, I knew exactly what they meant. I felt the same way when I joined the Republican Party. I’m not well off, I don’t play the stock market, I don’t run with that crowd, and I don’t belong. I’m too country, too rural, not polished, etc. But I do know what it means to be republican versus what it means to be democratic. We are supposed to be a republic. We are not supposed to be a democracy. Republics emphasize individual achievement. Democracies propagate mob rule, and if you were on the capitol lawn like I was, being shouted down and spat upon by union thugs during the Right To Work vote, you could see the mob-mentality that a democracy becomes. If you want more of that, and more violence to change policy, vote Democrat, because you admit there is no way to reason with people, and you further admit that people must be ruled. This week the RNC wouldn’t even hear resolutions about the censuring of Henry Barbour for those racist ads that his PAC paid for. No, the Republican Party is not conservative, and it wants nothing to do with the tea party. And if there are huge losses in November, as I and others have warned about, because of the reckless indecent and immoral ways in which the current corporatist leadership deals with half of their constituency, no one will be able to blame conservatives or the tea party. There can be no unity when the party doesn’t wish to build coalitions with, or at least appease their base. The Party has to change tactics and course. Conservatives are angry, yes, but also sad, because we see the potential in every human being, being laid to waste by the policies of the progressive, totalitarian left. We are also angry and sad about a party with such potential, being abused by the unprincipled men eager to swim in the cash generated by fleecing America. Conservatives know that there are dark days ahead for the country and the world while America is weakened by such men. Some may vote for the lesser of two evils and some won’t, but unity with a party that crosses the line of how they treat their own base, giving preferential treatment to who is supposedly their enemy, just ain’t gonna happen.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:54:22 +0000
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