THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VI, Issue # 84, April 27, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
REPUBLICAN "MODERATES" ONLY ADVANCE LIBERALISM
By Christopher Adamo
FULL STORY:
Slowly, reluctantly, grassroots Conservatives are waking up to the fact that
their agenda is being systematically undermined and thwarted. Worse yet,
this is consistently happening at the hands of Republicans. The GOP controls
the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the White House. The
overwhelming majority of U.S. Supreme Court Justices are Republican appointees.
And Republicans hold the majority of state governorships. Yet the morally
bankrupt Leftwing Liberal political and social agenda of the counterculture relentlessly advances.
The upcoming primary election in Pennsylvania stands as a sterling example
of just what is wrong with the system, as well as the best (and perhaps the
only) means of fixing it.
Socalled “Republican” Senator Arlen Specter, an incumbent U.S. Senator seeking reelection and an unabashed opponent of
virtually every facet of Conservatism, now finds himself in a tight race
against State Senator Pat Toomey, who has steadfastly championed
Conservatism throughout his political life. Yet for all his devotion to
principle, Toomey has been virtually abandoned by Conservative organizations,
such as the College Republicans. President Bush is actively supporting
Specter, along with Conservative “lightning rod” Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania’s junior U.S. Senator.
In many respects, this situation bears a dismal similarity to the 1997 New
Jersey Governor’s race, in which ultra-Liberal “Republican” incumbent
Christine Todd Whitman would certainly have lost but for the prominent
social and moral Conservatives who rallied to her aid. In return Whitman,
once reelected, continued to press forward with her Liberal agenda. And when
Bret Schundler, a true Conservative, might likewise have benefited from a
call to solidarity by Whitman during his own 2001 bid for Governor, she
opted instead to deliver him a political “knife in the back,” helping to
ensure his defeat. If Specter wins, does anyone really expect him to act
differently?
Among Toomey’s contentions is that Specter has received support from radical
Leftist financier George Soros. Feeling the heat, Specter found it necessary
to call Rush Limbaugh’s radio program last week, in an attempt to vindicate
himself. Sounding rather “Clintonian,” Specter disputed a few of the
details, and generally feigned ignorance as to the nature and intent of the
Soros donation. Conspicuously absent from Specter’s hollow disclaimer was
any explanation of why a God-hating anti-American like George Soros would,
under any circumstances, feel comfortable assisting in the election of
someone like Specter. Clearly, Soros knows that, in Specter’s world, Liberal
ideology trumps party affiliation.
Things are apparently no better in Washington State. Congressman George
Nethercutt, another “moderate,” is being challenged in that state’s U.S.
Senate primary by Conservative Reed Davis. But the state’s Republican Party
is withholding assistance from Davis, on the grounds that he refuses to sign
a pledge to abide by the socalled “Eleventh Commandment.” Originally the
brainchild of Ronald Reagan, the “Eleventh Commandment” simply states that
one Republican candidate should never “attack” another.
Davis fully realizes that the final arbiters of what constitutes an “attack”
will be none other than the “moderate” insiders who run the Washington State
Republican Party. Moreover, just as the “Dole Republicans” perverted Reagan’s
“Big Tent” to lower party standards in hopes of making Liberals feel
welcome, the new “Eleventh Commandment” has been thoroughly distorted with
the intention of hamstringing Conservatives from confronting the Liberalism
of their “moderate” opponents.
In contrast, “moderates” are increasingly brazen in their efforts to derail
Conservative candidates who were not pre-selected by the party elite. This
they regularly do with impunity. Furthermore, “moderates” have a vested
interest in sabotaging Conservative candidacies. For, when such Conservatives
fall victim to these underhanded tactics and are defeated, it is the
“moderates” who most loudly trumpet the notion that Conservatism is a
“losing strategy.”
In recent years, “moderate” Republican Party operatives have become
extremely adept at convincing Conservatives to support Liberal candidates,
“for the good of the party,” ostensibly on a one-time basis. Invariably,
each successive situation is portrayed as a unique event, in which
Conservatives must “rise above” their own interests and look to the greater
good. And each time, they are rewarded with a candidate they helped elect,
who then proceeds to do everything possible to marginalize them.
During the past four years, the Republican dominated federal government has
implemented budget-busting Socialism, trampled the First Amendment, and
virtually abolished the nation’s southern border. Meanwhile, the Federal
Marriage Amendment is quietly being taken off life support, leaving a
foundational institution of Western civilization vulnerable to eventual
eradication. If Conservatives have any true intention of eventually
restoring the values they cherish, they had better resolve to support
individuals who are honestly committed to doing so.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
More on Conservative Political & Cultural Organizations
U.S. Constitutional Law & Political Philosophy
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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