Don't be Emo >>

Unfortunately, as the title suggests, this is becoming a problem in the Republican Party. In college, I hated this subset, caste, or whatever you want to call them. Their blasé and self-gratifying coolness that they wore with carefully mood-selected clothing seemed to suggest that the world just doesn’t understand them and that that they are special. The pretense of unsubtle subtlety; most see through it. 

Every movement has ‘em. There are people who buy mountains of Harley Davidson accouterments and never buy a hog, skateboarders afraid of a half-pipe, and political observers who describe themselves as Conservatives first, Republicans second, and then whiz on the elephant as much as possible to prove how unique and party-unrestrained they are. This achieves a lot since they decide to do it right when all the chips are in. I am sure Obama croons over these “Conservatives.”

In a scathing article a few days ago, Conservative Washington Post Syndicated Columnist Kathleen Parker, called for Governor Palin to step down as the Vice Presidential Nominee on the Republican ticket. This was misguided for five reasons:

1. McCain cannot change VPs this late in the race. It would be suicide to do so and would evidence floundering. The media would have a feeding frenzy. Suggesting so helps nothing at all.

2. Barack Obama is the most unqualified person to ever run for actual President (not just VP), in all of living political memory. Sarah Palin has expertise in oil and natural gas, executive expertise, ran a business, sided with the taxpayer in revolutionary ways, and bucked her own state party while blowing the whistle on an incumbent. Obama has…well… nothing. But he can talk about stuff pretty good! Good reasoning, Mrs. Parker!

3. Mrs. Parker, in her misguided folly, disregards Obama’s gross inadequacies in foreign policy, as a leader, and as a person, and also disregards Palin’s stellar record, and hinges her belief based upon two shoddy hostile interviewers. All of Obama’s teleprompter gaffes…ignored. 

4. Wittingly or unwittingly, these people play right into the hands to the progressive media, validating their vicious efforts with tangible results. Subsequently, they are arming an ideological foe and it does sorry obeisance to a self-fulfilling prophecy. 

5. In a coup de dolt, she gives free ammunition to the ideological left.

Kathleen Parker disobeyed Reagan’s 11th Commandment, which was predicated on the notion that the media will always be overtly hostile to our party, and so we must band together and not let them smell our blood. Judge and critique the party internally, but don’t sow the seeds of doubt at the last buildup. Not when some people are undecided, and not when it is so far to fall from going out on that limb. If you want to revolutionize your party, do it in a way that doesn’t empower the antithesis of everything you stand for--when it counts the most. Do it in the off seasons. Am I going to get the best candidate, perfectly tailored to me all the time, when I want it? No way! But whatever permutation the Republican or Conservative (whatever nomenclature you choose), if he/she shares the universal thread of faith, state’s rights, property rights, enterprise, defense, sovereignty, and the exceptionalism of the United States of America, quit your moaning. It’s too late for that. Doing so now is not only wasteful; it is a vote for the NeoSocialist behind the other podium.

Confession: Romney was my first choice, Huckabee second. I lost. But you know what? I’m not whining. Leave that to the Liberals. We are light-years better than those donkey softheads on our worst day! There is a genuinely frightening difference that should make these brayers, masquerading as die-hard party members posing dissatisfaction for coolness sake, realize what it is they are actually doing and into whose hands they are really playing. There are two choices this election, teams and phalanxes are forming up, and states are crystallizing their support for either side. It is coming down to the wire. Now, for you who would inveigh against your party this late in the game, I say to you: pick one and stop knocking what you pick. Quit the flakiness; does one policy difference on the GOP ticket acquit ushering in the welfare state on the other ticket? You must see by now that McCain denied Joe Lieberman the VP as an earnest gesture to a base. Since he held out the olive branch, I am not prepared to then sit in a corner and pout while promulgating the DNC talking points!

Palin is not out of her league, and in fact, I would like to adjourn this article by calling for Community Organizer Barack Obama to resign for the good of his party. After all, the charge legitimately sticks to him as the most radical, reckless, fiscally ambitious, and inexperienced candidate ever invented by Milton-Bradley.

How many Crats are going to heed my resignation call for Senator Obama? Probably none. 

So shape up conservatives. >>