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Going after the GOP...
What’s wrong with the GOP? It’s a light version of the opposition.
Being high on grand and low on stand is not what America needs today. My party is dishearteningly persistent in positioning power, patronage and profit before principle. That matters, because in the absence of a party of principle, people naturally default to the party with the least principles. Donkey, Inc’s hollow promises of something for nothing are thus winning the struggle for America’s hearts and minds.
It’s not that Republicans have no principles. They just seem to also have an institutional predilection for ignoring or losing them. A cyber-trip to our national website reveals further impairment, kindergarten social media skills, along with no evidence of stated principles. From personal exposures in 2008, I know the Republican Party’s nine core principles were then buried in the deeper recesses of an equally uninspired website.
Republican principles are important because they reflect America’s roots. The nine can be summed up as a promise to be careful with other people’s liberty, life, property, and values – a mirror image of our Founding Father’s vision.
Unfortunately Republicans talk about liberty and then do things like champion permanence for the Patriot Act’s Constitutional indifferences. A great conservative thinker, Benjamin Franklin, warned us about the dangers of placing temporary safety before liberty. He’d recognize the insincerity of this elephant walk.
Republicans promote the sanctity of life and rightfully challenge a social model that’s aborted fifty-million children. We confusingly betray the sincerity of that mission by sacrificing our young in foolish police actions in corrupt foreign lands.
My party speaks to being careful with other people’s money, property, and resources, but embraces borrow and spend policies guaranteed to make government bigger and people smaller.
Republicans talk values, but routinely walk political expedience and moral cowardliness. The failure to protect our borders represents the second greatest act of cultural suicide in our country’s history. Out-of-control deficit spending remains firmly in first.
The Democratic Party, like all of history’s socialist pretenders, has permanently corrupted itself by seducing political mascots with expectations it can never fulfill. I remain a Republican because, in contrast, my party has lost its way, not its vision.
Republican recovery will occur at the local level. When party organizations begin holding their elected officials accountable for walking their talk. There’s still time for the elephant to remember and reliably stand for something that really is grand.
(400 words) Carl Mumpower is a practicing psychologist and a former U.S. congressional candidate and Asheville city council member. Contact him at drmumpower@thecandidconservative.com
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