Rush vs Steele

I'm not sorry that I voted for McCain, even though we all knew that he was a mediocre candidate at best. I would still rather have him in office than the Obama-Fuhrer for the simple reason that the Fascist-in-Chief is going to drive the country off a cliff as fast as he can. (Just look at how the markets are doing if you think otherwise.)

Having said this, I think Rush's point is well taken. The reason that we have lost in the last several election cycles is because of what liberal republicans have done to the republican brand.

It is important to remember that most people do not follow politics closely, so they only know what they see when they turn on the TV and see liberal republicans agreeing that, "yes we need big government and more regulation and taxes, just not as fast as the democrats want to go, and by the way, I really like it when I am interviewed by The New York Times."

Principled conservative leadership has been lacking for a long time and the results speak for themselves. Republicans won elections when, like Reagan or the congress of 94, they stood for the ideas of limited government and capitalism with everything that goes with those things and when they fought to put those ideas into practice. Loud, consistent and constant advocacy of principles is the only way that conservatives stay in office.

But when they start to act like liberals, the voters lose their interest in republicans. Our conservative elites in the party and many of the republican pundits who have now attached themselves to the beltway culture like barnacles, have failed to understand this, and therefore the reasons that we have reached the state we now find ourselves in. They were the ones who said that we needed to be more "moderate." It was their strategy that brought us the decimation of the party at the national level. They have lost their way and lost touch with the base of the party. And the base responded by rejecting them. Unfortunately, many of them can't quite seem to figure this out yet.

Ask yourself, why was Sarah Palin not at CPAC? Why was she not asked to deliver the response to the recent speech by the Obama-Furher? Is there a person who currently connects better to the base of the party?

The leaders in the republican party are currently estranged from base conservatives and afraid of their own shadows in the face of the democrats and the left wing media. Until they find the courage to stand for conservative ideas boldly and without apology, they will remain in their current subservient position.