Hindsight is 20/#@?! Part 3

The Final Article of a Series on America’s Inclination toward Communism

Soviet Dictator, and Marxist devotee, Vladimir Lenin, when remarking about the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto, said, “Communism is Socialism in a hurry.” Bear with me while I explain how this series of articles reviewing those 10 planks and America’s proclivity toward them (particularly Democrats), is not a call to depression, but rather, a call to action, energy, courage, and bravery – as informed citizens of the United States!

In a simpler world, we could simply read the eerie and irrefutable affinity between Karl Marx and Barak Obama’s worldview and revolt against the ugly demagoguery of the left, (who exploit the public ignorance of history by conjuring emotion-based appeals to enlarge the Almighty State) by joining and supporting the arch nemesis of the Democratic Party – the Grand Ole Party.  This act alone (again…in a more ideal world) would send us on path afresh to reclaim our identity as faith and family-loving free-marketeers, who champion SELF-GOVERNMENT (as opposed to civil-government), as did the framers of our Constitution!

Unfortunately, our choices in the current two-party system aren’t always that simple.

The essence of what makes any political party powerful, cohesive, and relevant to this country, is the fidelity of not only how the party is created, but the integrity and reliability of how it is maintained! This begs the question: How is the Republican Party formed? The answer: It is formed through the democratic vetting of opinions, which begins at Caucus time, and comes to fruition in county central committees speckling the landscape of our nation. It is born upon the back of the party members who spend their time, energy, money, and sweat in party-oriented volunteerism, to produce the very foundation upon which the identity of the Republican Party is built – the Republican PLATFORM!

In the light of how that platform has been treated by so-called “Republicans” in recent years, it is no wonder so many committee members routinely report: “We just can’t seem to generate volunteers to work the county fairs and parades!” or, “We can’t seem to recruit the younger generation! Everyone who works for us has silver hair!” or, most alarming, “We just can’t seem to raise enough money to mount the fierce campaign necessary to unseat that terrible incumbent!” and so on and so forth!!

Well, let me explain why it has been difficult for some (admittedly, not all) Republican committees to recruit TRUE growth in the G.O.P! When the party platform is shown disrespect by its own people and that party propels a pro-abortionist to the very top of its own leadership, as it did with the current Chairman of the G.O.P. Michael Steele – the party communicates a lack of integrity and a glaring disrespect for the overwhelming voice of the voting caucus who officially constructed the very platform upon which the brand “Republican” was allegedly made. The brand is sullied. Said party leadership makes a statement to the lifeblood of its own people (its majority of members), “thanks for all your time and work, but we’re willing to insult your principles in order to get a new breed of shallow people to join our party! Politics is a “numbers-game,” and we need more numbers in order to win.”

I contend that politics is a numbers game, indeed, and, with that said, there are only TWO kinds of “party growth:”

1)    The kind of “growth” where Republicans take their unbending, time-tested and proven conservative principles to the arena of ideas, share them with the people who currently embrace the wrong ideas, and, by doing so, convince them to join the Republican team.

2)    The kind of “growth” where Republicans take their unbending, time-tested and proven conservative truths, apologize for them and exchange them for bad ideas, so that we can get the people with the WRONG ideas to join our team.

Make no mistake about it! “Moderate Republicanism” and/or “Big-Tent Republicanism” is an appeal for the party to do the latter of those two options. At the close of the 2006 elections, the GOP was visibly rattled, absorbing significant losses across the nation. Despite the fact that a MAJORITY of Republicans who lost during that season were considered “moderate” Republicans (in contrast with 94 percent of the nation’s most “extreme” conservative congressmen who WERE re-elected), a hell-bent faction of “moderates” in the GOP wouldn’t allow what should have been a “teachable moment” to stop them from barreling forward toward yet another failure in 2008.

Initially, the GOP gave signs of an apparent determination to “re-invent” itself as a “big tent” party. While this term “big tent” appealed to the sensibilities of many good people (sounding warm, friendly, and welcoming), in the end, true conservatives came to realize it was code for something far from hospitable. Instead, a dark and ugly spirit of compromise took hold. A non-conservative “Republican” movement seized power and insisted on a course AWAY from the proven principles that had once made Republicans great. This movement produced a second failed attempt to garner independent votes by boosting John McCain to the front of the presidential ticket.

Point of fact: The only people who were excited about John McCain were those who either didn’t understand the value of authentic conservatism, or just weren’t authentic conservatives themselves, or both. For the rest of us, it was depressing. This explains why Sara Palin generated a swell of short-lived relief for the depressed conservative base.

So let the historical record show that option number two was chosen during the last two election cycles, that option number two was (and is) a miserable failure, and that option number two, if it is continued, reveals malignant stupidity within the Republican Party’s leadership as well as ensures a future filled with failure!

The good news for the Republican Party is this: with two seasons of great losses now chiseled upon the record of moderate republicanism, a new day has dawned. Between tea-parties, town-hall meetings, and central committee house-cleanings, conservatives are standing up again and returning the party to its roots. In coming elections, we will prevail and pull America from its path toward status as a “neo-communist nanny-state.”

Rev. Cary Gordon