Posted by
JayPeriod on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:25:38 AM
As the campaign season rolls on, we keep hearing about the candidates "electability." There are candidates running in the Republican party who do not share the staunch conservative views that most in the party espouse. We are told by the moderates of the party that we should just overlook these "shortcomings" and look at who can actually win, and keep, the White House.
The problem with this is that it's conservative values that win elections. I've said it many times in this blog; when you look at where candidates stand when running for office, they always claim to have conservative views. Conservative positions win elections. Americans, by and large, espouse conservative views and they want candidates who hold those views.
As the agenda of the left moves further and further away from mainstream America, we need to stand firm in our demand for true conservative candidates. Moderates only weaken the party and show the rest of the country that there really is no difference between the parties. We cannot allow this to happen. As conservatives, we need to ensure that we protect America from the radicals on the far left who would slowly, painfully strip our culture of our values and morals.
We cannot allow our conservative positions on taxes, economic growth, family and person freedom and responsibility to be undermined. If we allow those within our own party to discard these key issues, we will erode the trust America has in itself.
We all want to see the affects of the last election undone. We must recognize, though, that it was not the war in Iraq or the selection of conservative, pro-life judges which caused America to turn it's back on the Republicans in Congress. It was the fact that those same Congressmen had failed to uphold conservative principles. The got soft on spending and allowed our country to shift toward socialism. They recoiled from their promise to reform a government fat from entitlement programs.
If we want to take our country back, it starts with taking our party back. There may be some good, strong men running for President who don't share our firm conservative views, but we can't forfeit those principles for a feigned "electability." We must put up a candidate who is strong on all conservative issues. We must show the difference between the right and the left, the good and the bad.