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Title: Does the Republican Party Have a Future?
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Townhall.com
URL Source: http://townhall.com/columnists/star ... -have-a-future-n1508199/page/2
Published: Feb 23, 2013
Author: Star Parker
Post Date: 2013-02-23 22:04:16 by Southern Style
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Views: 189
Comments: 7
February 23, 2013 The United States, from day one, was a project about principles and ideals. The super power that emerged and grew from the handful of colonists that began settling here was not the product of where those colonists happened to land, but the ideals and principles in their head and heart – applied in how they lived their lives. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to address one great blot on the nation’s founding legacy – the existence of slavery in a nation founded under the ideal of freedom under God. Runaway slave and self-educated abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass said “I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.” Douglass called Abraham Lincoln, America’s first Republican president, “emphatically the black man’s president.” When some thirty years ago I told the welfare officer to not bother showing up again at my home – when I decided that my own future would be based on the values of scripture, work, and personal responsibility - there was no doubt in my mind what party would become my political home. The party of “freedom and progress,” the party of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. But, as longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer once observed, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” It‘s no mystery why the Republican Party is having a hard time today. No matter how hard you squint and try to discern the values of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, or any values for that matter, in those now wielding the money and power at the top of the party, they’ve disappeared. These establishment Republican leaders and operatives are not about ideals and values but business – their own business. The Wall Street Journal reports that the latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office is that unemployment will “remain above 7.5 percent through next year. That would make 2014 the sixth consecutive year with a jobless rate that high, the longest stretch of such elevated unemployment in 70 years.” Yet the Republican presidential candidate in 2012 could not defeat the current occupant of the White House. In the party that is supposed to be about freedom and personal responsibility, party operatives want to blame everyone else for their own failures. Worse, they want to pin it on candidates who actually take seriously the traditional values of their party. Karl Rove would like to weed out candidates like former Missouri congressman Todd Akin. Akin, who was defeated by Democrat incumbent Claire McCaskill in the Senate race in Missouri, was a six term Republican congressman with a flawless conservative record. For most of 2012 he was ahead of McCaskill in the polls. Then, in August, he expressed himself poorly in an interview about abortion. Despite his apologies and efforts to clarify himself, his own party abandoned him. McCaskill ran ads, over and over, showing the Republican’s own candidate Mitt Romney questioning Akin’s qualifications. This race could have been saved. But the party elite wasted not a second to dump Akin because they were not comfortable with his conservative values to begin with. We’re living in a deeply troubled country today. Americans are looking for answers, not a political class feathering its own nest. There are tens of millions of conservative American patriots who seek an opposition party to represent their conviction that America will not get back on the path to strength and prosperity without restoration of freedom, limited government, free markets, and traditional values. Today’s big question is whether the Republican Party is going to be that opposition party. If not, it is not conservative values and convictions that will be abandoned. It will be the Republican Party. Does the Republican Party Have a Future?
By Star Parker
2/11/2013
Star Parker
Star Parker is founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of the newly revised Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can do About It.
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#1. To: Southern Style (#0)
As long as self-appointed kingmakers Bill Kristol and Karl Rove are allowed to have any say in the matter they will have what is left of the GOP chasing another neocon stooge to defeat in 2016.
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: X-15 (#1)
You're right about that! What a couple of losers. If politics operated like a business, in a free market, the Republicans would have gone bankrupt decades ago; shortly after the Democrats. As long as self-appointed kingmakers Bill Kristol and Karl Rove are allowed to have any say in the matter they will have what is left of the GOP chasing another neocon stooge to defeat in 2016.
“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice, and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the color of the skin…” -Malcolm X
#3. To: Southern Style (#0)
At a certain point, the two opposing powerhouses of Republican campaigns - namely Billionaires with a secret agenda and Teabaggers with secret neuroses - will have to duke it out for control of the party. While both of them have power, the Party will remain weak. If one of them comes out on top, the Party may begin to come out of the shadows -- not because either the Billionaires or the Teabaggers are better leaders but, having eliminated one of those fools, the remaining fool cannot stay in charge very long and the Party might actually be inherited by the rank and file voters.
#4. To: Southern Style (#0)
As long as retards, morons, and welfare seekers (voters) are allowed to determine America's future - both of these abominations called Party(s) will survive until the country itself is devoured.
We should all be livid. Stop acting like docile, mentally castrated pussies and grow a pair. It's time to get in their face. Why should we speak in hushed tones and act all polite when we are being raped every day?
#5. To: Southern Style (#0)
Yeah, like miscegenation. Does Parker's audience know it's white? You can be sure she knows it is. Worse, they want to pin it on candidates who actually take seriously the traditional values of their party.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#6. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#5)
Are you suggesting that non-whites are incapable of having traditional values? Does Parker's audience know it's white? You can be sure she knows it is.
“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice, and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the color of the skin…” -Malcolm X
#7. To: Southern Style (#6)
No. Next question?
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
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