I have been repeating this message in various threads, but unfortunately it is still appropriate. Very few conservatives understand just how much the GOP establishment hates conservatives. If they did understand, they would simply quit voting GOP and start their own party.
A buddy of mine started getting interested in local politics back in 1996 in Sarpy County, Nebraska (just outside of Omaha). He relayed an interesting story to me. He was attending a Republican meeting — caucus? sorry I don’t know the precise term — and all of a sudden, there was a hubbub going on at the door, with lots of folks in the audience hissing.
My buddy asked the lady sitting next to him, “What’s going on here?”
She snarled in response, “The ‘conservatives’ want a seat.” I guess maybe they may have been evangelicals as well, but don’t exactly recall.
Bear in mind: they were hissing and snarling at the very folks they expected to show up at the polls and vote the party line, at the very folks at whom they aim their money-raising solicitations. And this wasn’t some great Northeast bastion of liberalism, but Omaha By-God Nebraska; in the middle of the map of Middle America, Omaha is the bull’s eye.
There are two big-government parties in America, the difference between the two being that one of them, every election year, has to pretend to be a small-government party. A Democrat is never more sincere than when he says he wants to increase the size and power of Washington; a Republican is never less sincere than when he says he wants to diminish it.
