A View from the Altar

The voice of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is daytime talk radio where people like Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, Boortz, and others do their thing.  Here’s what I’m hearing lately: The GOP is dry-mouth scared that conservatives are going to abandon them this fall.  The fear is real and not at all unfounded.

The GOP has repeatedly sold out the Constitution in favor of compromise with the Democrats.  Most recently this was true of the TARP program, but it continues to be true of a wide variety of smaller but equally absurd spending programs.  What do Constitutional conservatives expect?  Speaking only for myself, I expect members of the House of Representatives to use the power of the purse to shrink back government to its Constitutional size.  For example, the government should never, ever write another check to National Public Radio, Planned Parenthood, ACORN, and a host of other enemies of America.  There is no Constitutional warrant for these expenditures.  Show me some stuff, HR members — and this isn’t difficult — just don’t write that check.

Constitutional conservatives want to pare back government’s regulatory overreach.  For example, John McCain (RINO – AZ) has introduced legislation to empower the FDA to start regulating vitamin supplements.  Baneful FDA influence explains why American-made pharmaceuticals that cost $2 in Communist China are $150 over here.  Now they want to do that for people who take vitamins?  Constitutional conservatives should be telling Mr. McCain, not just no but… with added emphasis no.

Slow-motion Euro-socialism oozing out of GOP leadership is why Constitutional conservatives have been flocking to the upstart Tea Party movement and are poised to abandon the GOP in droves.  The fear of that is having a good effect on the GOP.  Senate Republicans have fought ObamaCare® better than I’ve ever seen them fight anything.  That’s good, and I’m grateful for it.  But the history of the GOP leads me to believe the reformation will be short-lived.  That opinion is fairly widespread, I think, and that’s why Constitutional conservatives are like a big monster under the GOP bed.  If they dangle a finger or toe over the edge of the bed, the monster will drag them under.

Message to the GOP:  If you want ex-GOP members like me to vote your way in November, opposing ObamaCare® is a good start, but nowhere near enough.  Show me some evidence you’ve read the Constitution, understood it, and are committed to it this time.  Because I’m not interested in a temporary recess in galloping socialism.  I want to vote for people who will roll it back or die trying.

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