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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (325208)	9/20/2009 8:48:21 AM
From: Tom Clarke	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794040

Thoughts from a half-black, bleeding-heart, ultra-libertarian, recently converted liberal. Saturday, September 19, 2009 The Problem with the GOP I’m a little irked at the Republicans. Actually, it’s more than a little. People (aka pop news media) are continually making comments about “will the GOP rally again?” “Who is going to be the leader of the party?” “Are they going to change their message?” Do any of these questions count for anything? I am starting to think they do not. The problem with the GOP is not leadership. It’s whether they have the ability to rise from the ashes. It’s not even the message. The problem with the GOP is action. They say one thing and do another. They aren’t actually conservatives. And I’m not talking about their hot button issues of abortion and gay marriage. If we tossed those two things out of the equation, Conservatives still fail to be conservative. They are bleeding us dry with taxes while they give themselves multiple raises a year. They actually consider voting for cockamamie legislation like Cap & Trade, the current version of the healthcare bill, multi-billion dollar bailouts without a fight! This might not be so bothersome if I hadn’t become a Conservative in the last six months and then found myself in the “extreme right wing” of the playing field. If I were to write up everything I thought about politics and what they should look like, no one would pay any attention to me – I’d be labeled an extremist. (They can’t rightly call me a racist towards half-black president, can they?) And it wouldn’t just be the Democrats who would be calling me names. Meghan McCain would probably think I was just as much of a freak as Rachel Maddow. Call me what you will, I’m somewhat biased towards the Constitution. I thought that was what made this country great? That we aren’t just a fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants Democracy. That we’re a Republic for a reason: to avoid the tyranny of the majority. Speculate if you must. If the GOP doesn’t start acting like the defenders of the Constitution and small government that they claim to be, we’re just going to find ourselves in an even bigger mess in 2016. God help us then. lamontenegro.blogspot.com