Death of Conservatism?

Well, the pundits, MSM types and others are singing the joys of a McCain candidacy for President. And last night, enough lazy Republicans afraid of doing any kind of intellectual thinking all but sealed the win for McCain. All they cared about was who the MEDIA was telling them could beat Hillary in November.

As a conservative, I found our field of candidates pretty weak overall. None was a 'true' principaled conservative. Romeny is by far the closest. But he looks to fight on, without much hope. The cards are stacked against him. Huckabee made a deal with McCain and will either end up VP or in his administration. He is staying in to thwart any movement for Romney by appealing to the Evangelicals and spewing carefully parsed anti-moron rhetoric - thus appealing to fear of a 'mormon'.

How did we get here? You can thank George Bush and the country club, martini sipping liberal RHINOs (Republicans in Name Only) who have pure comtempt and hatred of people like me - principaled conservatives. They have been trying for decades to marginalize and isolate us. We are the 'yahoos' of the Republican party. The 2006 election was the start of the end of Conservative influence in the party. Conservative powers houses - Rick Santorum and George Allen were lost. In fact, if George Allen had held on, he would be our nominee today. He would have cleaned the clocks of the other candidates in the field. But, it wasn't to be.

So, we will enter the November election with two left wing Republicans. Now you will see McCain's turn to the left. He has soldified his own view that he doesn't NEED conservatives for him to win. It is his belief that he can win without us.

He and his allies will be mistaken. Why appeal to moderate by trying to be more like Hillary or Obama? It won't work, never has. If you draw clear distinctions about your principals, you will win. You don't try to be more like your opponent.

The 2008 election will end up more like 1996 when another establishment candidate Bob Dole was destroyed by another Clinton.

If the ticket is indeed McCain/Huckabee, I may not vote for the first time in my life. I may write-in a candidate. We sure have come far from Reagan, and the 1994 Conservative sweep under Newt Gingrich.

Well done moderates, we'll be watching you, but not voting for you.

Here is a link to Mitt's speech on Super Tuesday

http://www.mittromney.com/News/Press-Releases/Super_Tuesday