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What the GOP Problem Is Not

11/8/2012

4 Comments

 
Since Tuesday's disaster, I've heard a lot of complaining. Hopeless or enraged, Republicans are proclaiming the end of all things--and everyone's got their favorite scapegoats.

Well, I strongly disagree with them--all of them. Let me clear up a few misconceptions:

1. We do not lack effort or enthusiasm. We lack a central vision; one that unites us and draws others.

2. We are not too Conservative or too Moderate. We are too divided.

3. There are not too few of us. There are too few who know they are us.

4. Our message is not terrible. It's just terribly inconsistent.
 
5. The problem is not the Republicans or Libertarians or Tea Party or Christian Right or Constitution Party. It's the utter lack of appreciation they have for one another.

6. The problem is not the Leftist Supreme Court. It's the Leftist electorate that produced it.

7. The problem is not shifting demographics. It's our lack of a central vision that appeals to all demographics.

8. The answer is neither to keep the same leaders nor get new ones, but rather to restore the movement they're trying to lead.

9. The problem is not our candidates failing to reach voters. It's our failure to teach voters.

Put simply, the current GOP base is divided, untrained, unfocused, unsure, unstrategic, and out of ideas. They feel lost; helpless amidst a mob of voters trampling them underfoot. They feel there's nowhere left to turn.

Are they right?

Believe me when I say this: Our party isn't finished. It's only finished if we continue on the same path. Furthermore, it was never going to survive on this path, and I'm surprised it lasted this long.

So might I suggest an exit ramp? Before abandoning this vehicle called "The GOP," can we try driving it in a new direction? Just once?

Here's my promise: If we exit onto a better path, the GOP will come roaring back in 2014. Of this I have no doubt--none at all. Over the next couple months, I plan to offer a central vision (which I've shared before) that unites us and draws others. I'm also offering a new strategy; one that stops the present trend and builds a much better base going forward. All of this will be foundational and trustworthy; no gimmicks, no marketing schemes, no power plays. Just real Conservatism applied in today's culture.

And all I ask is that Conservatives hear me out. That's it. 
 
The choice is ours. We can faint or flourish. We can whine or shine. Because as hopeless as everything may seem in the aftermath of Tuesday's slaughter, let me tell you what the GOP is not: A LOST CAUSE.

--Andy
4 Comments
Scott M. Peth
12/18/2012 07:06:45 am

So, I'm going to disagree with you a little bit here. The GOP is on their deathbed, and they have done it to themselves. The results from this last election appear to have validated my point. The only hope for this country, is for there to be another eight years of leadership from the Democrats after Obama's term has expired...it will be Hillary, and there will be nothing that the Conservatives can do about it. This country was saved before because of the socialist programs that were implemented by FDR during the Great Depression; programs such as the G.I. bill, of which, I know that you are familiar. Don't let your arrogance blind you from your ignorance my friend...Don't turn your back on those who supported and loved you...

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Andy
12/19/2012 12:19:28 pm

"Don't turn your back on those who supported and loved you..."--written at the end of a taunting, mocking, attack piece branding me as both arrogant and ignorant.

Thank you Scott, for encapsulating in the fewest words possible all the reasons why I departed from the Left.

For obvious reasons, I won't engage you in economic discussions or air our laundry in a public setting. I'll simply mention that in my seminars, I describe our family in the highest terms. I describe my father as the finest man I've ever known, my sister as the most compassionate person I've ever known, and the family as brilliant, charitable, ethical, extremely hard-working, and meticulously honest.

After saying these things, I'm often asked why we can't co-exist. I simply say our ideological differences are so great that sustained interaction is impossible. Naturally, your post offers a brief glimpse into the barriers I faced, so I probably won't have to explain that so much. Again, thank you.

Readers here can only view the nastiness of your political demeanor--and not the honorable way you live--so I advise you to stop posting on this site. You're only damaging the honest impressions I've shared regarding the family.

There's no need for that.

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Scott M. Peth
12/22/2012 05:39:09 am

So let me ask you this Uncle Andy, how am I supposed to get in touch with you? Families should never be torn apart by ideological differences. You have my email address, so it's on you I guess man.

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Andy
12/22/2012 07:42:38 am

Quite right, it shouldn't, but your post was a microcosm of what I endured for a quarter century.

You people on the hard left have no idea how much you either demand our silence or mob us when we express ourselves. You're so used to doing it, you don't understand the suffocating nature of your entire control-oriented dogma. You haven't the faintest clue what I went through--but then, you never asked.

I silence no one, control no one, and only seek the right for all people to make free choices and enjoy the rewards of their efforts and the lessons of their mistakes.

You and I have no common ground. You value people insomuch as they agree with you. I value them because they are people. I want them free. You want them controlled.

I didn't have a family. I had a bunch of people I admired, but watched from a distance. In the next room, they'd enjoy back-slapping agreement on their hatred for the right, while I had to choose between continued silence or, worse yet, all-out warfare on those few times I dared be myself.

Hard leftists can't accept the reality of what they're doing, AND THIS IS WHY THE POINT COMES WHEN THE ONLY WAY TO MAINTAIN ANY LEVEL OF PEACE IS TO SILENCE YOURSELF OR REMOVE YOURSELF FROM THE SITUATION.

Look at you. Every broken family has myriads of little things that went wrong, but you never asked my side on any of them. And yet, you come on my site and publicly mock the uncle you've never tolerated.

How sick the hard left can be. I'm only responding publicly this one last time so that all the other conservatives who have endured this same treatment in families or at work or in college classrooms or in their communities will see they aren't alone in their experience.

They're only alone if they stay where they're valued for agreeing, not being. I welcome them to come to a place where they'll be heard and valued, regardless of what they say.

It's called "America"--what little is left of it, anyway. I'd ask you to a visit, but you'd only want to control it. Your schools take tax dollars from people of all beliefs and then teach only one side. You want to remove the private ballot in union votes at work. You take people who have risked everything and worked ridiculous schedules to get where they are, and you "redistribute" their hard-earned wealth to your preferred voting blocs—stealing from one to buy votes from another. You set up an unelected, 15-member rationing board that will actually make decisions regarding which of our personal health choices are acceptable and affordable—for "the people," of course. Your president has spent us more than the cost of Hurricane Sandy into debt EVERY TWO WEEKS OF HIS ONGOING RULE, and yet you think the problem is the pittance we'd receive by raising taxes on job creators. Oh sure, THEY'RE the problem. You’re spending your own children into oblivion, and the only cuts you can tolerate are to national defense. You tell companies like Boeing where they can and can't build. You spend hundreds of millions spewing one-sided portrays of complex issues from the entertainment industry. You silence or mock your opponents when they DARE offer scientific opposition to your views on manmade global warming or oil and gas fracing. You reward illegal immigration to help eliminate your political rivals. You want the US military commanded by UN leadership for whom we can’t vote. You destroy hundreds of farms in central California to save a stupid fish on a planet where millions of species have gone extinct. Did you Liberals shed a single tear when all those families were destroyed? I could go on and on and on, but it all boils down to YOUR DESIRE TO CONTROL EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH YOU.

How many Obama signs did you have stolen or vandalized during this campaign, Scott? I had 10 Romney signs stolen or vandalized—mustn’t allow free expression, right? Virtually all voter fraud is committed by the left. The vast majority of crimes are committed by the left. Virtually all racist speech is spewed by the left. Violence at Tea Parties? None. But don’t try to be a conservative reporter covering a union or Occupy Wall Street event, right?

And why? Why does my family agree to be the intellectual defenders of all this?

ONE WORD: CONTROL.

My family is full of great people and my greatest wish is to become half the man my father is. But don’t tell me that I caused family division. Control causes division, Scott. It’s always control. That’s what has ended America and that’s what has ended my place in your family.

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