WaPo – “Free the GOP from Social Fundamentalists”

In the never-ending war between Progressive Liberalism and Social Conservatism it would seem the left has launched another volley against the right. Obviously feeling emboldened in the presence of their marxist savior they feel it is time to try, once again, to assimilate the GOP in to their fold by convincing the Republican party to cut away its largest base: Social Conservatives.

This isn’t a new tactic and the Left has been trying to find any way that they can to rid themselves of the constant conservative thorn in their side. So, now that The One has been elected to take the highest office they feel now is as good a time as any to start their all out attack upon the conservative crowd by convincing the rest of the GOP that they don’t need them. The only problem with that is that the Social Conservative base actually makes up the largest portion of the Republican party. Without Social Conservatives the rest of the GOP would basically just be, well, Democrat-Lite.

And that’s precisely what they want.

Following the conventional wisdom of the past two presidential elections, McCain tried mightily to assuage the Republican Party’s social-fundamentalist wing. His selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose social views are entirely aligned with that wing, as his running mate was clearly meant to demonstrate his commitment to that bloc. Yet while his choice did comfort those voters, it made many others uncomfortable.

So, by following the conventional wisdom of the last two elections McCain was wrong to try and persuade the social conservative crowd to support him? I wonder just how greatly McCain would have lost if he didn’t have what few Social conservatives actually went and pulled the lever for him.

In the wake of the Democrats’ landslide victory, and despite all evidence to the contrary, many in the GOP are arguing that John McCain was defeated because the social fundamentalists wouldn’t support him. They seem to be suffering from a political strain of Stockholm syndrome. They are identifying with the interests of their political captors and ignoring the views of the larger electorate. This has cost the Republican Party the votes of millions of people who don’t find a willingness to acquiesce to hostage-takers a positive trait in potential leaders.

Really? The most leftist, liberal state in the entire country just went out and voted to ban same-sex marriage and your actually going to sit there and actually claim that “Social Conservatism/Fundamentalism” was what caused the GOP to lose the Election? The passing of Proposition 8 is proof enough that most people in this country have a tendancy to lean towards the social aspect of conservatism when they are making a social decision. However, as those glorious exit polls (which you shove in everyones faces) will also show you, this election was not decided by people voting on their conscience or their beliefs in social fundamentalism.

The Economy decided this election. FISCAL Conservatism, supposedly one of the staple platforms of the GOP, was no where to be seen in the last eight years and the American people watched as their economy rose to one of its highest levels and then completely crashed to a halt in a matter of weeks. We have seen the largest percentage of government expansion EVER in the last eight years, and the GOP basically went on an all-out shopping spree in pork projects. The GOP began sealing their own fate when they abandoned the principles of fiscal and economic conservatism and took the people of America for granted. So, when the economy began to falter who was the people going to blame? The Democrats?

Well, it would have been easy to blame the democrats had it not been for the fact that the GOP  seemed to absolutely refuse to address any of the problems that had actually caused the economic crisis. The truth of what caused the economic crisis, as exit polls show was the most important deciding factor on the election, is out there and if anyone is willing to search for it or, oh, I dont know, ****ing REPORT IT they’ll find that the real blame can be traced back to the Clinton Administration, the retooling of the Community Reinvestment Act, Barney Frank, Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson (who were both Fannie Mae CEO’s during the time when FMae was cooking the books), Rahm Emanuel (Who was a board member at Freddie Mac when THEY were cooking the books), Chris “Countrywide” Dodd, and finally Barack Obama.

However, the Media refused to reveal any of that and continuously supported Barack Obama and the only stories they would run about the economic crisis were ones where the Democrats were, erroneously, trying to place all of the blame upon the Republican party. Also, it didn’t really help much that the GOP never tried to clear their name nor did they ever try to speak out against the accusation of blame.

The “Social Fundamentalist” section of the Republican Party, however, DID try to bring tons of issues to light to try and get McCain to fight back against Senator Obama. However, at every turn the “Moderates” told the GOP base to shut up and go away. When Palin was brought on board the GOP base was energized and began to find interest in the election once again, but whenever somebody tried to bring up the long list of dirty scams that the Democrat party was involved with, well, McCain would just brush it aside and act as if was never brought up.

Lets look at all of the issues that many of the Social Fundamentalists/Conservatives tried to bring to light and was largely ignored by their own candidate:

• ACORN Voting Scandals and Obama’s extensive association with ACORN
• Obama’s association with William Ayers
• Obama’s association with radical Pastor Jeremiah Wright
• Obama’s association with Rasheed Khalidi
• Obama’s experience or his drastically lacking thereof.
• Obama’s Socialist or Marxist views on Radicalism and Redistribution of Wealth (It took a plumber to finally get that moving)
• The fact that Obama never explained how he was going to give 95% of Americans a tax break when 45% of Americans don’t even pay taxes.
• McCain never confronted Obama on the fact that the Senator was the second largest receiever of campaign funds from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac just behind Chris Dodd.
• McCain never addressed the fradulant donation system that the Obama Campaign was using (and was proved to be using) to accept all those millions of dollars

Whenever we Social Conservatives tried to bring any of this to light the McCain campaign would ignore it and just go on as business as usual.

McCain didn’t lose because of the Social Fundamentalists, oh no, he lost because he ran a disasterous campaign and because he refused to address ANY of the issues that should have disqualified Senator Obama from ever becoming President. However, despite the cries from the Republican base (The fundamentalists as you call them) McCain ignored them and just continued on without them.

So, how can one possibly argue that the Social Conservatives/Fundamentalists cost McCain the election when the social cons were being ignored? The truth is they cant without sounding like a bunch of raging idiots.

UPDATE: HotAir now has something up about this piece. Morrissey is right: “Growth Through Dismemberment does not Work”.