10/04/2006: For the last 25 years, the Republican party–the GOP–has relied on religious conservatives–mostly evangelical Christians–as their mainstay every election season. Fueled by the Reagan Revolution, the conservatism of the GOP–smaller government, strong national defense, lower taxes, traditional values–was compatible with the worldview of most religious conservatives.
Compounding matters, the Democratic party (DNC) had embraced abortion rights, gay rights, higher taxes, secular socialism, and appeasement of the Soviet Union. While the DNC claimed to be pro-democracy, their aims were/are the same as that of Marx and Lenin. Only they had a veneer of democracy.
Ergo, religious conservatives found a common ally in the GOP. That was cemented in the revolution of 1994.
From 1981 until now–having Republican Presidents in 18 of the last 26 years, and Republicans in control of both houses of Congress for almost all of the last 12 years (controlling the Senate for 10 of them)–the GOP has had some successes:
- The Republicans ramrodded welfare reform–and forced Clinton to sign it in 1996.
- The Republicans–with Reagan and Bush 43–have cut taxes.
- The Republicans–under Reagan–won the Cold War.
- The Republicans–in the 1990s–kept Clinton’s social spending agenda at bay (which helped give us the surplus).
However…
- We are no closer to democratically resolving the issue of abortion than we were in 1973. Roe v. Wade is still intact in spite of seven Republican appointments to the Supreme Court. Of those GOP appointees, three–Souter, O’Connor, and Kennedy–voted to uphold Roe and were quite liberal.
- O’Connor even suggested subjecting our Constitutional interpretations to international legal precedents.
- Under the current President, spending has gone through the roof.
- A Republican President has put us in a war that he refuses to allow our troops to win.
- A Republican Congress–and President–lack the will to deal with the pressing issue of illegal immigration.
- Government has become the mother of all behemoths, on the watch of the GOP.
- The GOP is courting murderous regimes–Red China–in the interests of serving Big Business.
- A Republican Congress is now covering up child sexual abuse scandals.
Now, the GOP is touting Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Michael Bloomberg, George Pataki, and Mit Romney as the front-runners in 2008.
Against that backdrop, what’s a Christian conservative to do?
There was a time in which I would vote “against Democrats” rather than “for Republicans.” This was why I voted for Bush in 1992, Dole in 1996, and Dubya in 2000 and 2004.
This time, however, I am out of the “lesser of two evils” business.
Right now, the DNC and GOP are two drug-addicted whores standing on the street corner. They need your money to support their habits. They dress like beautiful women but–in reality–they are transvestites with AIDS.
The DNC whore will provide you government-funded condom, lube, kiss, handrails, and reach-around.
The GOP whore will provide you a lower-cost experience, but you’ll have to pay for the amenities yourself. Being the “stronger, bolder” whore, the GOP whore will also provide whips and chains. You’ll still have to pay for them, though.
My point: voting for the “lesser evil” means choosing to be screwed.
As for me, until the GOP cleans its house–purging the pederasts and perverts and their enablers, becoming the party of less government, national security and family values–they won’t be getting my vote.
Don’t get me wrong: I won’t support the Democrappers either. I’ll vote Libertarian, or not vote at all.
But the GOP will have to earn my vote.