Ron Paul left Congress last year but he didn't leave a void. POLITICO is saying that Justin Amash might be the new Ron Paul in the people's house. POLITICO also names Kentucky's Thomas Massie and Rand Paul, Raul Labrador, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee as part of the movement working to change the face of the GOP.
Amash says in the piece that
"This next generation of liberty Republicans...we’re interested in making sure that … we re-brand the Republican Party as a place that is welcoming to people from across the political spectrum and follows the founding principles of our country: limited government, economic freedom, individual liberty.”
Please read that again. Amash wants to re-brand the Republican Party as a place that is welcoming to people from "across the political spectrum". He doesn't say that those people need to embrace the Republican Platform, hold dear republican principles, honor the tradition and foundation of the Republican Party or become republicans. Rather he says that he wants the party to be more welcoming to people from "across the political spectrum" and that IN ADDITION his group wants the GOP to follow our founding principles.
Now I'm all on board with following our founding principles, but what Amash seems to forget in this kum ba yah comment is that we cannot let people from all across the "political" spectrum take over the Republican Party.
At one end of that spectrum are the skin-heads and neo-Nazis. At the other are atheists and those who favor partial birth abortion and have a socialist agenda. Now what might escape young Justin is the fact that in reality both ends of that spectrum came together once before in Germany in the 1930's. Why would we want to welcome any of that into the GOP?
Sometimes this garbage talk from the Ron Paul kids sounds good as the bong water bubbles but there are better reasons why the GOP needs to stand on its own and not become the flop house youth hostel for every vagabond from anywhere along the political spectrum.
A lot of bad things were done in the name of "limited government" and "individual liberty" over the years. Not that I am advocating for more government or less liberty, but don't forget that we fought a civil war in this country to guarantee liberty to African Americans as human beings against claims that telling slave owners what to do was "too much government" and interfered with "individual liberty". It was the Republican Party that won that war.
And don't forget the actions of southern democrats after that war all the way up into the 1960's who perpetuated a culture that denied African Americans the full rights of citizens under the doctrine of "separate but equal". Gun restrictions were imposed to deny African Americans the right to defend themselves from lynch mobs and it was the Republican party and its leaders that put an end to those policies.
Three fourths of the "nay" votes against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 came from the Democrats in the House. Today's gun control measures are supported by far more progressive democrats than any republicans and calls for more social welfare programs, the removal of religion from society replaced by worship of the government are all moves which have much more support from within the Democratic Party than the GOP. Why in the hell would we want to welcome those parts of the "political spectrum" into our party? We need to work tirelessly to marginalize, minimize and ostracize those political notions, not sit and contemplate the possibility that they might have merit.
Maybe the Ron Paul revolution is winning over the GOP, but I'd like to think that it is the part of that revolution which calls for an audit of the Federal Reserve, balanced budgets, less military adventurism, lower taxes, less wasteful spending and a mature approach to the problems of the future with a healthy respect for the history which we share.
But if kids like Amash want to transform the GOP into a commune for "anything goes", I say the sooner the GOP rids itself of those ideas the better.
You're upset with libertarians but are fine with NWO Bushes, warmongers who share your hatred of libertarians like McCain and Graham, and Obamacare pioneers?
Posted by: Tim | September 12, 2013 at 04:09 AM
Here here!
Posted by: K Elaine | April 03, 2013 at 07:40 AM