The Jackuul Blog

Dear Republican Party.

Why are you so retarded today?

Your policies are a mess.  Your attacks on freedom are obscene.  Your ignorance is not bliss.  Your refusal to listen to the oldest of the old guard is your downfall.  You would rather pump god than policy, and you would rather restrict than gain.  What is wrong with you?

It is clear to me now that it is time for the Ron Paul revolution to reform the Republican Party with a message that works.  Spending, economics, and looking back at our forefathers.  States should have say over social issues, the federal government should be curtailed, and civil liberties are the most important thing.  Hammer these points, and I guarantee in 2012 we could have someone from the Paul school of thought in the White House.  As a life-long Republican (since I was able to vote in 2004 for the first time), I can say – Thank God we lost this time. We’ve lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency, and possibly one supreme court appointment. That’s fine by me.  Until the party returns to Barry Goldwater’s ideals, we are nothing but a shell of what we stood for.

We, as a party, are as charred and misguided as can be.  We let religion dominate our base, we let extremism paint our face, we let radicals who are for the suspension of civil liberties into our government in the name of almighty God.  We have lost our way as a political party, and because of that we have lost our ability to compete.  Unless we stop this stupidity with touting ‘Christian Values’ which would trump our constitution, we will never see a majority again.   We must abandon our social messages of restrictions and of Godliness – I don’t know when Moses descended from a hill and declared our party “God’s Party” – claiming such a blasphemy is worse than Democrats calling themselves the Party of the People.

We were the party that freed the slaves, that brought working laws into effect, that busted the big Trust companies that lead to economic security, that kept a level head, and that would have gotten us through the depression much faster than thirty three years had Hoover been re-elected.  Instead – today – Bush is no better than FDR when it comes to the economy, with an added edge of a massive budget that goes against our core party principals.  In fact, everything we have done since 1964 has been a downward spiral of what our party should be!

We have lost our way in a dark forest without a match.  We’re up a certain creek without a paddle.  We need to look back, look back at our history, at our legacy not as the Ultra-Right-Religious-Zealots… but as the real party of change.  As the party that was not afraid to say what needed to be said.  In fact, if our message was that all social issues should be handled by the states, we would have the upper ground on every social issue.  Abortion?  States should handle it.  Ban on human research?  States should handle it.  Social programs and Schools?  Those are a state’s right’s issue and the states should have control of their own destiny.

It is true that under Lincoln and later Davis we had to reign in some states that rebelled against us, however we never crossed the line into totally devaluing their abilities to run themselves.

We were the party of fiscal soundness and balanced budgets.  What have we become?  Tax and Spend Neo-Cons. Even the Tax-and-Spend liberals are aghast at our monetary policies.  Why do we settle for such things?  In all honesty our party was the party that ENDED wars.  Not prolonged them, and did not start them.  We got out of Korea, Vietnam, and ended the Cold War.

Where did we lose this message?   We lost it in the hearts and minds of the core who would rather ‘spread freedom’ than ‘protect freedom at home’.  There is always a risk to freedom, a risk that someone may attack us, a risk that someone may bomb a building, shoot up a school, or cause mayhem.  The bigger risk, however, is the curtailing of freedom in the name of safety.

We are such a lost cause and a lost party now, I cannot fathom what kind of future is ahead.  We do not need to be moderate!

We need to be sane!