Conservatives at CPAC Talking the Talk — But Can they Walk the Walk?
#64 Edward A:
“It seems Republicans are unable to work together. The classical Republicans apparently feel contempt for the social Republicans.”
They always have. If it weren’t for social republicans, (Conservatives), the GOP “party of Rockefeller” would have gone the way of the Whigs…and they know it.
After Nixon, Ford and Carter, the GOP fatcats in their genteel country-club environs looked beyond the gates and saw vile hordes of unwashed Hippies spouting Mao and Marx.
They freaked out, man, they had a very BAD trip.
So they came around to the other self-organized and long-established voting bloc in the country,the churchgoing, and pimped themselves out as the party of the counter-revolution…and it worked.
Ronald Reagan carried Barry Goldwater’s standard into the White house, not that of the Knickerbockers and their ilk.
“This is a party headed towards a fracturing in the days to come.”
McCain,(who was despised by Barry Goldwater, btw), showed that the Rockefellers’ Rich Man’s party can’t win the kewpie doll when they alienate the Conservative base.
If you think that taking a softer line on say, “Gay Marriage” is the ticket to the Oval Office, then kindly ‘splain what happenned with Prop 8 in California.
It flew in the face of the electorate’s values and beliefs and was shot down in flames…and look…there go the “No on 8″ flks running off to their favorite black-robed elitist to try thwarting the will of the people!
“Would this nation ever be ready for a third political party?”
I think we should see if it’s ready for TWO parties.
Faux-Marxist Statist Democrats,(and their craven appeasers), and Conservatives.
