By fitsnews – February 28, 2013This website made its break from the “Republican Party” a long time ago – as evidenced by our blistering criticism of George W. Bush and our unqualified rejection of Mitt Romney’s presidential nomination.
Or … did the GOP actually make its break from us?
Think about it … those of us who support limited government, individual liberty and free markets are simply not welcome in the Republican fold anymore, which is why it baffles us so many fiscal conservatives still see the GOP as something worth fighting for.
Anyway, columnist Steve Deace has penned a truly masterful piece for Brietbart.com which explores the GOP civil war between “the face of the establishment (former Bush strategist Karl Rove)” and the “conservative grassroots.”
Deace’s column is chock full of the voter data political strategists love to chew on, but here’s its salient graph …
The conservative base is mobilized on issues, not simply party affiliation. Rove used to know this when he was George W. Bush’s political guru, and even though Rove’s old boss delivered on almost nothing of substance policy-wise for conservatives in eight years, he at least knew enough to speak to many of our issues. Now the wolf is removing the sheep’s skin and brazenly showing Red Riding Hood his claws and fangs. The Republican Party isn’t even trying to patronize us anymore. Instead they’re saying the same things about us we used to only hear from the left. With friends like these, who needs Democrats?
Exactly …
“If Rove and his cabal win this internal party battle, they’ll still lose the war,” Deace concludes. “If their cynical brand of winning for winning’s sake and standing for nothing wins the day, they’ll simply finish off whatever is left of the Republican Party.”
Brilliant …
We sounded a similar theme in a recent column decrying the GOP’s escalating retreat …
“While claiming the mantle of ‘less government,’ the GOP has been a major part of America’s spending problem over the last decade,” we wrote. “Now the party of ‘lower taxes’ is seeing an increasing number of its members embrace tax hikes - not spending cuts – as the only way to pay for all that excess. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why America is so fucked. It’s not because a bunch of neo-fascists are driving the majority party further to the left – it’s because the minority party is matching this leftward march step for step, leaving its former principles further behind as it goes.”
All of which is why we’ve made no bones about what we want to happen to the GOP …
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