THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 102, June 3, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE DEMISE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
By Alan Caruba
AMERICAN POLITICS, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, & SELLING OUT THE AMERICAN NATION: REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS
STEADILY ABANDONING THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY -- ABANDONING THE GOP'S
TRADITIONAL DEFENSE OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, THE NATIONAL INTEREST, THE FREE MARKET ECONOMY, PRIVATE
PROPERTY RIGHTS, & A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT LIMITED IN SIZE & POWER -- REPUBLICAN BETRAYAL OF
AMERICA ON THE CRITICAL ISSUE OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY & CONTROL OF OUR NATION'S BORDERS -- THE GOP'S
ENDORSEMENT OF THE PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS --
THE NEED FOR A TRULY CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP COALITION TO REJUVENATE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY & MAKE IT A
GENUINELY CONSERVATIVE PARTY THAT WILL EFFECTIVELY OPPOSE & DEFEAT THE LEFTWING LIBERALS IN THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
FULL STORY:
The firestorm of public outcry against the proposed immigration bill is testimony enough that the U.S. Senate and the U.S.
House of Representatives need to be reminded that selling out the nation is a very bad idea. There are very good reasons
why sovereign nation-states like the United States of America have borders.
The bill is just one more way the Republican Party demonstrated that it has been steadily abandoning its fundamental
principles. In essence, the Republican Party has stood for national sovereignty, the free market, fiscal prudence, private
property, and small government. It was a party that historically has been reluctant to be drawn into foreign wars.
In his new book, The Invasion of the Party Snatchers, Victor Gold who was a press aide to Barry Goldwater and a
speechwriter in George H.W. Bush’s administration, recalled the Republican rejection of Woodrow Wilson’s League of
Nations treaty in 1919. Gold reminds us that the GOP did not see the American nation as “peace-keeper for the planet”
because it saw that hubris as “the road to imperial ruin and war without end.”
Regarding George W. Bush’s preemptive war, Gold noted that, “…as to committing American troops to battle overseas,
until George H.W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in 1991, no Republican president since William McKinley in 1898
had initiated a war; nor, until Richard Nixon in 1969, had any Republican president opted to carry on a war initiated by a
Democratic president.”
Gold’s book is a scathing look at the depths to which the present Republican Party has fallen and the way George W.
Bush and his Vice President, Dick Cheney, have come to represent everything that Republicans have fought against from
the days when Lincoln first led the party.
Gold makes no bones about it. He wants the present GOP to die so it can be born again to its former principles. The
elections of 2008 are likely to bring out masses of Democrats who feel rejuvenated by the failures and missteps of the
White House and the GOP. The recently reported falloff of financial support for the GOP, estimated to be as high as forty
percent, might actually suggest they’re doing something wrong.
More than a few Republicans who simply do not want to live in an America that intrudes into the most private decisions
of people’s lives, that throws overboard the constitutional protections of privacy, judicial protections, and whose elected
representatives have engaged in an orgy of spending, are desperately seeking real Conservative leadership.
So far, however, the Republican candidate debates have more nearly resembled “The Weakest Link” than any promise of
a strong commitment to Conservative principles.
America has had its political dynasties, the Adams and the Roosevelt’s, but they have been few and I think most
Americans are wary of more Clintons. They are not likely to want any more Bushes after the last six years of the President’s
rejection of everything for which the Republican Party has stood.
The President has been utterly indifferent to the invasion of millions of Mexicans and others who have illegally crossed our
borders, placing all manner of burdens on native born and naturalized Americans. He has made it known that he is eager to
sign the proposed immigration “reform” law. This is a security and sovereignty issue of major proportions and it is a total
sell-out, whether it’s Democrats or Republicans voting for it.
As yet little known to the general public, the President has advocated a “North American Union” that would eliminate the
sovereignty of the United States, melding it with Canada and Mexico, to be run by bureaucrats along the lines of the
European Union. Its official name is the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” and it offers neither
security nor prosperity. This non-treaty’s staff is zealously pursuing this, squirreled away in the U.S. Department of
Commerce, far from the congressional oversight needed to thwart its “harmonizing” efforts to change our trade and other
regulations.
Bush has also turned to the Dark Green side, endorsing the utterly bogus “climate change” agenda that involves reducing
“greenhouse gas” emissions. The fact that 95% or more of greenhouse gases consist of water vapor continues to be
unreported and ignored by those who want to destroy the economies of industrial nations with “cap-and-trade” schemes.
Global warming? It’s the Sun. Get over it!
In the area of fiscal prudence, the GOP seems to have lost its wits. Looking back over his two terms in office, the President,
with support of the Republican Party, never vetoed a single spending bill in six years, until the most recent one that put a
timeline on further military engagement in Iraq.
The President’s selection of Harriet Myers as a U.S. Supreme Court nominee and then of Alberto Gonzalez as Attorney
General were suspect in the court of public opinion; the former withdrawing from consideration, the latter subject to much
criticism. His two Supreme Court choices, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, however,
are a counter-balance of good judgment.
Gold reflects the widespread feeling that elected Republicans no longer have any regard for the voters. “I’d just like to know
there were still Republican Senators around who didn’t think of the people who elected them as knuckle-walking Pleistocene
morons.” This can, of course, be extended to Democrats as well.
Gold warns that what has been passed off as a new kind of Conservative politics under the aegis of the neo-cons and the
pressures of evangelical groups is “merely a recycled model of the old Liberal politics that led to the decline and fall of the
Democratic Party in the 1960s.”
We are left to wonder how long it will take for those who regard themselves as Republicans to desert today’s GOP, mostly
by refusing to vote for its candidates, while waiting for new leadership to replace those that have eviscerated it.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition:
Elections, PACs, & Political Parties
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
United States Immigration, Assimilation, & National Security Policy:
Immigration into the U.S.A., Legal & Illegal Aliens,
& U.S. Border Control
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Fiscal Policy: Taxation & Government Spending
The U.S. Constitution & the American Economic Order:
Civil Liberties -- Private Property Rights
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Legal Issues, Lawyers, & America's Judiciary
Appointment of U.S. Federal Judges
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2007
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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