The GOP: The amnesiatic party

This year’s GOP is lost, blindfolded and searching but it doesn’t remember what it needs or what it wants nor how to find it.  Sad.  Very sad.  But not only are they amnesiatic  they are also arrogant because we,  Somos Republicans,  approached them at nearly every turn during the past few years to tell them just what they needed.  They sneered and turned their bigoted noses up at our suggestions: court the Latino vote with “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.”  It’s the only way to win.

In the past I have written how the Party seems to have answered the question: “How far have we come from George W. Bush?” with a resounding, “Not far enough!!”  That is more evident than ever as we examine the results of the polling of Iowa and New Hampshire.   Clearly the election process is not over but this current behavior is very indicative of my assertion: “The GOP is amnesiatic….and does not remember who it is or what it stands for.”

Case in point: former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.  Not only has he been in campaign mode since before the last election that he lost so soundly, he has also changed his very image, one wonders how, so liberal as to be considered a moderate Democrat to hard line anti-establishment and anti-immigration hard line conservative Republican (never mind that his own father was a Mexican immigrant).   Somehow, I doubt the transformation when especially he has already demonstrated with fervency to be anti-Pro-Life and Pro-big government not unlike our pal, Barry Obama…you know, the socialist in the White House.   People in the GOP just can’t seem to remember those simple matters from only a few years ago.

Another example is our good friend from Texas, Dr. Ron Paul: the Crypto-libertarian.  Ron Paul is so weird and radical that although he has continuously running for President, literally, for decades, he has never won a primary race.  Until now.  He actually came in second to Romney in New Hampshire.  Imagine that: the Crypto-Democrat and the Crypto-Libertarian won in a Republican primary? How could this have happened?  Simple, they’ve both been running for years and years and the GOP either remembers nothing of what they really are or that GOP voters remember nothing of who they really are and what they believe.

It seems from these two, the crypto-Democrat and the Crypto-libertarian, that the GOP is not looking at who’s who or what’s what but who’s in the lead or “Who’s on second!!”

What about the other more conservative republican-like Republicans?  Gingrich, Perry and Santorum?

Santorum is a Republican and understands the reason morality is important in both our Constitution and our society but fails to articulate that.  He’s also a big spender, not a cost cutter, and although he’s a second generation American seems hell bent on making sure you never become an American too.

Perry, a former favorite of mine, although a smart guy, has come off like an idiot but more importantly is dishonest with his friends, takes credit for good things he didn’t do and does not under either the 10th Amendment nor the nature of our federal government and is ill suited to run it.   Further, when Perry question “the Heart” of Romney on the merits of the “Dream Act” in Texas, Perry withered like a flower while Romney slammed Perry like he’d just stolen his lunch money.   Perry was our only hope.

Then came Newt Gingrich.  The former House speaker and architect of the Republican revolution in the 1990′s is a History professor and surely he’d remember the past? Right?  Gingrich impressed me as taking the side of “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” in America and stood up for it although it might cost him politically.  I admired that but it has cost him.  Further, he made the mistake of endorsing the unconstitutional idea of an official language in America.  Something a real Republican would never do as it would be like surrendering the 2nd amendment too.   Gingrich knows the truth about these other men I’ve described but his punches seem more like critiques of their term papers rather than solid rebukes of their clear deviations from Republican ideals and principals.  When will the professor learn?

In the end, the GOP searches and searches and finds what it thinks it needs: a loser.  And our, Barry Obama, wins again and that is a serious problem for me.  The GOP is so lost and searching for charismatic leadership that someone like Bill Clinton, a governor from a southern state who once was Pro-Life and has a long history of adultery could easily win the GOP nomination, so long as no one remembers.   Imagine that: Obama vs Clinton II, the re-match.  Hillary would hate being left out.  Don’t tell Bill, though, ’cause he’d really do it….run as a Republican, I mean, ….Romney does.

Lauro Antonio Garza, MPO

Texas state director, Somos Republicans

January 11, 2012

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