The End of Our Party?

by: Cons3rvative

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Watching the Republican party disintegrate before my eyes, I can't help wondering how we got here? The media certainly has some blame. They favor candidates, give them unequal airtime, cancel debates and spin their news depending on the candidate. Our so-called "experts"; Rush, Hannity, Coulter ect.. sold us first on Mitt Romney, who is clearly not a conservative and they portrayed Mike Huckabee, who is a true conservative, as a liberal.

The GOP Chair is also to blame. He is supposed to make sure our nomination process is fair, and that the candidates mirror our convictions in the first place. Luke Esser in Washington state, is a good example of a bad GOP leader by calling an uncounted election for McCain. Conservatives, like myself have been forced to support John McCain as our "presumptive nominee" and not given a choice. We are expected to fall in line, like robots and "coalesce" around McCain. I cannot, in good conscience, support him because his platform is based on war and killing the enemy, before right-to-life issues that are killing millions in America yearly. To me, and likely the average voter, he represents a name dropping, Washington fat-cat that will do more harm in the future to our country than good. I also think that we should stay in Iraq, but I

want a Republican leader to address abortion, fix our economy, protect the 2nd amendment, and protect our borders.

I'm watching helplessly as "the establishment" hijacks the voices and choices of my party to elect the candidate that we want. I watched in horror last night as McCain declared victory in Wisconsin, 3 minutes after the polls closed. I suspect it was timed so that the Washington voters, who were still voting, could hear it.

The GOP is sabotaging itself when it goes against the ideals and voices of the people it supposedly represents.

I want to see a Republican debate, and I want all attendees to be given equal airtime. One more debate between McCain, Huckabee and yes, Paul. I'm not for Ron Paul, but he and Huckabee deserve an equal national platform to express their ideas and let us, the people, decide who our nominee will be. Not the media, not the GOP, not the establishment politicians.

This is not a coronation!