‘If Not Now, When?’
by David Tatosian (11/16/08)
The Republican conservative umbrella seems to cover a dazzling array of individuals; from columnists at the NY Times to Republican Senatorial lyricists, to the sharia promoting Grover Norquist to that greatest of compassionate conservatives, George Bush.
So how come the only folks not permitted under that umbrella are conservatives themselves? The Republican Party is the conservative party right? Arguing against the national government’s institutionalized disregard for the constitution is a conservative position isn’t it? As is decrying the theft of taxpayer dollars to subsidize multinational corporations and an ever-expanding privileged class. And opposing the unequal application of the law to benefit this or that group so politicians can get a few votes is certainly based on sound conservative principle. Why no room under the umbrella for these truths and the conservatives who speak them? The truth is the truth is it not?
And yes we should have seen this coming. In defining himself as a “compassionate” conservative Bush not only signaled that he was “reaching out” to minorities, especially his illegal aliens, but was simultaneously distancing himself from all those reprehensibly uncompassionate conservatives. In fact conservatives got thrown under the bus eight years ago. Is it any wonder that conservatives are now viewed as intolerant, racist bigots and worse? This was no accident.
After their losses in 06’, the Republicans swore they would “reach out” to minorities. After their losses in the 08’ elections, when more minorities voted against them, Republicans are again promising to redouble their efforts to “reach out’ to minorities. Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal - “One of the most important shifts was Hispanic support for Democrats… If this trend continues, the GOP will find it difficult to regain the majority.” But Republicans need not despair. Rove suggests that victory can be had but it “will require leaders to emerge who give the right public face to the GOP.” A minority face?
That “compassionate conservatism”, having dismantled the remains of the Republican Party and relegated the American culture to just one of many within our own borders, continues apace. This is no accident.
It is a fact that conservatives have remained loyal to Republican politicians who have sold our liberties like drug addicts sell their family members’ possessions for a fix. And like drug addicts, when Republicans were called on this treachery conservatives got lies, promises and empty gestures in response.
Republicans can’t control themselves. Our lives and liberty are of no interest to them.
Yet reading conservative blogs, websites and pundits, the one thing that stands out is the assertion that Conservatism can only be saved by rebuilding and strengthening the Republican Party.
I find this attachment to a Republican Party that has marginalized conservatives to the point of vilification unwholesome.
Conservatism doesn’t need to be saved. It needs representation at the national level. To achieve that goal it must put its support and considerable resources behind conservative representatives committed to fellow conservatives and a conservative agenda. Not the go along to get along Republican agenda. Finding, supporting and electing our own is the key to our success.
Can anyone doubt the disproportionate amount of power that strategy has amassed for black nationalists, feminists, illegal alien supporters, homosexuals and Muslims?
Clearly the strategy works.
And the fact that the Democrats welcome their fellow traveler factions does not automatically make the Republican party a natural home for conservatives. True, there was a time when the Republican Party pretended conservatives were welcome, but they’re not pretending anymore are they?
This latest Republican defeat offers conservatives an opportunity to choose, promote and vote for conservatives from a Conservative Party whose base, grassroots movement and political/financial infrastructures already exist.
We don’t need the go along to get along Republicans. They need us.
That elusive “minority” vote they’re chasing will lead to more Republican defeats. Their continuing loses can lead to victories for our candidates if we are willing to fight as hard for our beliefs as those factions fight for theirs.
Are we to believe our lives are of no worth simply because these factions say so? I think not.
The factions insist skin color and genitalia trump talent and abilities, that the rights of illegal aliens trump the law and the rights of American citizens, that our tax dollars should go to whomever they choose, that we accept the imposition of an intolerant religion in the public sphere, workplace and schools and that their sexual preferences give them the right to push those preferences on elementary school children. We disagree. Adamantly.
Finally, the success of these groups is the result of the manipulation of perceived American guilt, the real decency of the American people and, appallingly, the manipulation of our children.
These tactics will fail spectacularly when applied to the outside forces arrayed against us.
Conservatives need to offer an alternative to that failure. They can do so with a viable Conservative Party.
I say again: if not now, when?
David Tatosian
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