John Boehner's a Jerk

John Boehner:  "I'm Collaborating As Fast As I Can"

This past week House Speaker John Boehner attacked the conservative wing of the Republican Party -- the "Tea Party" -- saying that "they lack all credibility."  Boehner was immediately praised to the skies by various Democrat and liberal spokesmen.  Dick Morris said that "Boehner Eats His Young" by castigating the very people responsible for his being a Congressman in the first place.

The truth is, John Boehner is to the GOP what the Vichy Government was to France in the 1940's.  He is a collaborator.  He likes the limelight, the praise from major media.  He wants to be seen as "responsible," as mischaracterized by the mainstream (Democrat) media, for the GOP's slow surrender to liberalism.

I would hope that we can kick Boehner's butt out ASAP.  I don't really care if there is a huge internecine fight for the "soul" of the GOP.  With our Vichy Republicans, we continue to lose our freedoms, our prosperity, our culture. Our nation continues its downward trend with increasing debt and decreasing credibility in a hostile world.  Supporting ideological wimps like Boehner accomplishes nothing.

If the Tea Party cannot take control of the Republican Party, then it is time to create a Third Party that advances conservative goals and candidates.  We may continue to lose the country, but I'd rather go down fighting than to submit to the slow death the GOP establishment seems to embrace.

Stacy McCain Does It Again! Live Blogs Conservative Win In Alaska

Stacy McCain, a professional reporter and highly successful blogger, is in Alaska where he live blogged the manual count of absentee ballots in the GOP senatorial primary election there.

A Tea Party candidate, a conservative Republican, one Joe Miller, had challenged the GOP establishment candidate, Senator Lisa Murkowski, a liberal.  The vote was close, but went to Miller.  Murkowski has conceded the race.

Read all about it here.

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For Broken-Hearted Conservatives: Roll With the Changes

Some common sense from Pajama Media news chief, VRWC Network's John Galt.

A Pox on the "Moderates"

In my next few essays, I will explore the types of candidates and issues the GOP must support in order to retake the United States from the Socialist Democrats.

Let's take the issue of "moderates." Moderates are pitched by the media as being cool-headed voters and politicians who avoid the hot-headed extremes of left and right, who are open to compromise and negotiation, who can see both sides of every issue and take a measured, thoughtful and reasoned approach to every question. There is an implication that if you aren't a "moderate" you must be a mindless zealot or fanatic.

What a crock. Moderates are indecisive, uninformed, ambivalent voters and politicians who can't make up their minds on any issue. They are fence-sitters without core beliefs or commitment to any real political philosophy. They are subject to the whims of political fads, hype and hoopla. Our goal in the GOP should not be to "appeal to the moderates," as if moderates have any specific view (their views are all over the map). Our goal with regard to moderates should be to convert them to full conservatism. Our strategy should not be to court them by appealing to their vanity as "reasoned" voters. Rather, we should seek to expose them for what they are, intellectually lazy individuals whose loyalties are subject to whatever political winds that blow.

For the record, both George W. Bush and John McCain are "moderate" Republicans. Neither has served or defended the Party well.

As John Hawkins at Right Wing News puts it:

It's worth noting that there is no "moderate" political party in the United States. When the American people go to the ballot box, we have a center-right nation choosing between the Republican Party and radical, left-wing socialists. A competent, conservative Republican Party will not only be more representative of its core supporters, it will win at the ballot box when it goes head to head with liberals. Look back to Reagan and the 1994 Revolution to see that principle in action. Now, look to 2006 and 2008 to see how an incompetent, "moderate" Republican Party does at the ballot box.

"Moderate" Republicans are those without a deep belief in the principles of their party and, in a fight, are unable or unwilling to defend them. That, no doubt, explains McCain's tepid performance engaging Obama in debate.

It also explains why Sarah Palin has a future in the GOP and the McCain staffers, who are now falsely blaming her for the defeat, do not.