NO to the New Republicans Group

Posted on January 4, 2010
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Web Page Review: The New Republicans Group (Facebook)

After spending some time reading the group founder’s position statement and numerous member comments, I have decided not to join that group.

While there appears to be some comments made by persons with a conservative viewpoint, there also seems to be a push towards moderate positions, where some comments rail that conservatism is not a Republican Party prerequisite. That has already been the construct for the last several years. We all have witnessed how that worked out in 2006 and 2008. Not so well.

One of the ‘youth oriented group’ founders states in his position synopsis, “…have started building a grassroots effort, one small step at a time, out of the electorate’s desire for pragmatism over partisanship.” I’m not sure what electorate he was referring to. The Democratic Party wins in the last two election cycles came on the heels of the most partisan Democratic Party candidate attack strategies I have witnessed in my lifetime. In all but a few of the Republican Party candidate strategies, where pragmatism was employed, the candidate lost. As this group portends to be a youth oriented group, I wonder how closely this group has been listening as their liberal to leftist college professors guided their thoughts on the general consensus of the electorate.

It is almost like these are the offspring of disaffected moderate to liberal Democrats that defected to the Republican Party through the eighties and nineties. Maybe they should defect back and try to dilute the progressive stranglehold on the Democratic Party, the way they diluted the conservative majority of the Republican Party fifteen-twenty years ago.

I know these like minded individuals are engaged in a feel good exercise of believing they are all going to get along. This is a lose-lose permanent minority strategy. It is no wonder why Politico acknowledged this group.

This is the kind of group that could splinter the Republican Party and lead to a third party movement. That would prove to be an unfortunate outcome, which in itself would cement another Democratic Party majority victory.

The Republican Party needs conservative candidates with clear positions that are a direct challenge to the progressive status quo. Moderate positions that can not be differentiated from opposition positions is a loser. John McCain was for Cap and Trade, closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, financial industry bailouts, mortgage bailouts and taxing employer health insurance benefits. Or was I just describing President Obama?