A note to the GOP leadership and all the establishment conservatives who will now begin telling us it’s our duty to rally around Mitt Romney
Don’t think it’s lost on us that you are the same people who were saying that a vote against debt ceiling increases would be a vote for Obama, and that to hold the line against further increases marked us as naive and unnuanced (right before the credit downgrade you pretended your capitulations would prevent); the same people who called us Hobbits for demanding the GOP stay good to its word on spending cuts, rather than fold yet again in the face of pressure from an activist media working on behalf of progressive Democrats; the same people who chide us about our desire for “purity” and a “True Conservative” when the fact is, all we really want is a nominee who, say, hasn’t implemented socialized health care or spoken earnestly about the necessity of regulating human exhalation or engaged in a full-throated defense of ethanol subsidies or warned against the heartlessness of not providing illegal aliens tuition waivers or or blamed the US for the deaths of 3000 citizens or joined in the populist attacks on capitalism such that they sound like caricatures from an Oliver Stone movie. That is, for all of you “electability conservatives,” don’t think it’s lost on us that you have once again taken our support for granted — that in your desire to win over “moderates” and “independents,” you’ve marginalized, diminished, and demonized your party’s base, sneering at those who won’t join you in rallying behind a man who rejected Reagan; that you’ve spent months since the 2010 elections chiding principled conservatives for their “extremism” and “fringe” beliefs in an effort to convince unprincipled middle voters that you really aren’t so bad and icky and heartless as the media is going to depict you no matter the Republican nominee; that you’ve chosen party over principle yet again. You’ve sold us out. And while you can offer any number of earnest rationalizations for doing so, the fact of the matter is, when push comes to shove, you simply aren’t prepared to fight for conservative beliefs — assuming you ever had them in the first place (some of you do, some don’t, and many, I’ve come to believe, haven’t the first idea what conservatism even is ). And though you’ll work to shame us for saying so, that won’t change the underlying truth. Have a nice day.
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A note to the GOP leadership and all the establishment conservatives who will now begin telling us it’s our duty to rally around Mitt Romney