Posted by
Tonewah on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:16:00 PM
A quick apology to the readers who've noticed I haven't posted on Townhall in a while. I was having trouble posting to this site for a bit.
Super Tuesday has passed, and the results were less than expected for my candidate, Ron Paul. They were less than expected for Mitt Romney, as well. I think they were less than hoped for by the GOP in general. George Bush has cut a new path for the Republican party that is not heading in a direction that works. There are a few hard-headed people still following him into that blind alley, but most people are either abandoning that path, or leaving the party altogether. Until conservatives wake up and realize they need to get back to the principles upon which this country was founded, the party will continue to lose.
I think the problem lies in the party leadership. Good leaders recognize when they've made mistakes, or at least will take the time to assess any choices they've made to see if they were correct. McConnel seems clueless, and will not even listen to reason. He seems too full of himself to even consider the obvious possibility that he, and the party elite, are wrong. Bush exhibits very much the same behavior. I truly fear for conservatism with that kind of leadership.
The GOP is fracturing. Self-importance has taken the place of common sense and conservatism. Saying, "I'm not wrong" has become more important than the good of America. I hate to admit it, but we deserve it. We've blindly pushed whatever agenda our leaders pumped out, whether or not we totally agreed with it, just because we wanted to be right. Now we're paying for it.