Posted by
Anthony Rizzuto on Saturday, April 18, 2009 12:59:20 PM
After leading his boss to defeat, McCain Campaign chairman Steve Schmidt is now encouraging the Republican party to go even further in abandoning it's principles in order to increase support. Schmidt urged fellow Republicans on Friday to "warm up to gay rights and warned that the GOP risks becoming the "religious party" with its opposition to same-sex marriage." He went on to say "that Republicans need to reach out, not only to gay voters, but young voters and Hispanics." Let's cut to the chase, what Mr. Schimdt wants Republicans (read that conservatives) to do is: Support Gay marriage, support amnesty for illegals and cut deals with younger voters by giving them free tuition. Were the party to take his advice, what at that point would separate Republicans from Democrats? While we're at it why don't we disavow support for tax cuts, a strong defense, the family, and law enforcement? Better yet, why not dissolve the party altogether and become Democrats?
What Schmidt and others of his ilk are proposing is to follow rather than lead, the same way Republican members of the House and Senate chose to follow the traditions of tax and spend rather than what voters sent them there to do. Instead of conservatives abandoning their principles to the will of the mob, I would suggest Mr. Schmidt reach out to the other side completely and join the party that he is obviously more comfortable with. The last thing the party needs is another R.I.N.O who simply doesn't understand that the reason for it's losses in the last four years was the abandonment of it's core values.