Dakota Beacon

A lot of people have been asking themselves what we need the Republican Party for.  After all, the GOP used to be the balancing effect for the Democrat party.  It was the “loyal opposition”.  It provided a check on the influence and power of the other party.  It was supposed to be the voice of dissent when necessary.  Since the end of the Reagan administration, however, there have been few instances of dissent from the steamroller of Progressivism.  The Bush dynasty basically embodies this Progressivism, flavored with a neocon bent for interfering in other nations’ affairs.  To the extent they have indulged this instinct they have harmed our country and weakened us.

With the acquiescence of the Republicans on the “Gang of Eight” and their helpful little elves – small men and would-be leaders like John Hoeven or Bob Corker – we have a clear demonstration of the failure on the part of the GOP to provide any kind of leadership at all.  True, there have been a handful of real leaders, men like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, who thus far, have taken a stand in defense of our country, our borders and our culture.  But these people have had to buck the elites in their own party to do so and have found no support from the party leadership.  The truth is the Republican elite are the enemy – a stealth force which undermines debate on the most important issues of our time – and, in fact, all time for this nation.

As a Conservative and Constitutionalist, I would prefer the election of a Democrat to do Democrats’ work to that of a Republican who undertakes upon election to do Democrats’ work.  I have long advocated eschewing donation to party organizations in favor of financial contributions to individual candidates or consortiums that support candidates who stand firmly on principle.  I now have come to the realization that we must not only withdraw financial support from the Republican Party but must actually support the Democrat candidates when our only other option is a Republican In Name Only, for allowing this form of political body-snatching is the road to hell.

Immigration is an excellent example.  All we are asking is that someone that we’ve sent to Washington to defend us should stand up and say “close the border and defend it”.  Is that so extreme?  What other nation – name one – does not guard its own border?  Where can you go where you just walk across the border and flip off the unarmed border “guards”?  So there is nothing extraordinary about closing a border.  But look at these people!  The Democrats are staking out a position they believe is a practical political guarantee, a cynical stand to undermine and dilute the votes of American citizens who might be ready for a change.  The Republicans are tripping over themselves trying to out-do them.  They have consented to enter a bidding war that they cannot possibly win with the party who is already giving away the store.  But it’s our store they’re giving away. 

If you were being held up at gunpoint in your own home, vandals and burglars destroying and stealing your possessions right under your nose and the police show up and hold the door for them and help them load the truck would you feel betrayed?  Well, that is just about what is happening here, with Republican Senators and Congressmen convinced that they were elected to help the Democrats succeed with their mission.  On one issue after another.  Immigration might just have been the last straw.

Coincidentally, on the same day a sufficient number of Republicans took the Hoeven-Corker bait on immigration, the contest for the vacant seat of former Senator John Kerry took place.  This might be a bellwether to indicate the extent of the damage the elites and Progressives have done to the Republican Party.  In Massachusetts, back in 2009, Scott Brown won the Senate seat left open by the death of Ted Kennedy, to everyone’s surprise.  He won because he vowed to vote against Obamacare.  He, a Republican opposing the president’s signature legislation, won the seat held for decades by Ted Kennedy!  That was an indication of the revulsion in the populace against the statism they saw. 

The hopelessness of the Romney candidacy and the now revealed suppression of the Tea Party movement and the conservative vote by the federal government sealed Brown’s fate in 2012. Not to be discounted, in addition, is the open disgust people feel toward the betrayal they see in the Republican Party itself. 

Voters are beyond disgusted, in fact.   They no longer care to participate in the charade which is being played out as our country dies.  It is obscene and people are reacting to it.  Here, for example, is the story of Massachusetts voters this year:  In 2009, Scott Brown (R) won 51.9% of the vote, or 1,168,107.  His opponent, Martha Coakley, garnered 1,058,682 votes, for a total of 2,226,789 votes cast in the election.  Yesterday, Gabriel Gomez, running as a Republican who promised to carry water and run errands for Barack Obama more eagerly and more efficiently than any other elf in Massachussetts, won only 44.8% of the vote, with 525,080 votes to his opponent, Markey’s 642,988.  Their total, 99.6%, was 1,168,068.  The total, in other words, was less than Brown’s votes in 2009.  It is significant that Gomez promised voters he would outdo everyone else in the Senate in service to Obama and his agenda. 

So what does this tell us?  American citizens are screaming for relief – a secure border, relief from internal East German spy antics, Obamacare, more hopeless foreign entanglement, everything that’s going on domestically and abroad.  Yet only about half as many voters turned out yesterday as did in 2009.  Obviously, the people have given up on the system.  It is clear that they didn’t want Obama’s Little Helper, Gomez.  And yet no one really wanted the Democrat either.  This is a very clear indication that the Republican Party can no longer stand on its rotted foundation.  The Republican Party, for all intents and purposes, is no longer a major political party, even before Obama and his Gang of Eight decimate it with the immigration bill. 

I’ve heard many commentators advise that we “put a fork” in Marco Rubio for his efforts on behalf of Obama and the Democrats’ plan to eliminate the two party system.  But I would say that doesn’t go far enough.  For it isn’t just Rubio.  It is the elitists he desires so much to serve.  This party is bankrupt.  It no longer even pretends to stand for anything.  As such, it is an obstacle to repairing our country and restoring our freedom.  The Republican Party today is, in fact, freedom’s worst enemy.  Truly, all it would take now is for one of the few remaining true leaders – Cruz, Paul, Lee . . . you know who I mean . . . to stand up and declare himself for a different new party based on the founding principles and our Constitution, limited government, a resolution to stay out of the internal affairs of other nations and balanced budget, to close the book on the final chapter of the GOP.  It has had its day and that day was over yesterday.

Sally Morris is a former member of the Republican Party, both in North Dakota and in Minnesota.  Visit her website at http://fromtherampart.webs.com.