Brent Bozell has a fine editorial today. In it he writes about Mark Levin and his new book Ameritopia. Near the end of Bozell's editorial he writes:
"On the campaign trail in 2008, Barack Obama proclaimed, "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming America." What did that mean? Now we know it meant a dramatic radicalization of the federal government. It meant a cronyism of the most corrupt sort, with hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money transferred to major donors while entire industries are overtaken by the federal government and their ownership then transferred to loyal unions. It meant hiring dozens of czars answerable only to the president to run the federal government. It meant circumventing the will of the legislative branch by unilaterally launching regulatory measures specifically rejected by Congress (Cap and Trade), while rejecting sacred, Constitutionally-mandated practices (recess appointments). Speaking of the Constitution, it is summarily ignored (Obamacare)."
Ben Shapiro also writes in his editorial that the time has come to "clean house" (as it were) in the Republican Party. He writes:
"The Republican Party is about to nominate Mitt Romney because it is a party in crisis. Instead of focusing on... Barack Obama, Republicans are idiotically focusing on their internal differences. Unlike the Democratic Party, which is largely united around certain key issues -- gay marriage, comprehensive sex education, abortion, higher taxes, more spending -- the Republican Party is all over the place. The Republican Party includes high-tax deficit hawks, and it includes low-tax supply-siders. It includes high-spending compassionate conservatives, and it includes low-spending small government types. It includes pro-gay marriage libertarians and pro-traditional marriage religious voters. It includes hard-line, anti-immigration believers and open-borders free marketers. It includes Ron Paul isolationists, George W. Bush Wilsonians and everything in between."
Why do we continue to shoot ourselves in the foot just as we are about to win? We have Obama and progressives on the ropes and we're letting them off without even hearing the bell! Why? Many of the promising candidates have left the road to the White House because the sniping and partisan politics have taken too large a toll on their families. Some left because they could find no traction and ended up spinning their wheels in the sands of time.
Jim Geraghty asks in his editorial this morning: "How dissatisfied are Republicans with the current field of presidential candidates?Sufficiently dissatisfied to flirt with a long-shot effort to draft Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, or Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan into the presidential race, despite the trio’s repeated statements that they’re not interested in running for the office.The discussions began a few weeks before the New Hampshire primary, when one Republican consultant, who has worked for conservative Republican presidential candidates in the past but who is unaffiliated this cycle, wondered if it would be possible to repeat the results of the 1964 primary."
If none of the current candidates are our cup of tea, why should we settle for luke-warm? We are not the 99%, we are conservatives, we are T.E.A. Partiers, we are Americans and we should demand our right to be represented by a true leader. Not a pretender.
