THE MYTH OF THE REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE

The voters should find amusing last week’s spat between the new chairman of the Republican National Committee and talk show entertainer Rush Limbaugh. Who really leads the Republican Party? Do we want either one of them?

The supposed controversy in the ranks of the True Conservative Believers illustrates why we shouldn’t take the Republicans seriously.

Limbaugh wants to preserve the America he remembers best and openly advocates Obama’s failure. He expresses horror that wealth that hasn’t even been created yet is already taxed. Limbaugh extols the Republican virtues of Fiscal responsibility, limited government and free markets.

We should remind him that past Republican administrations did nothing of the sort.


IT ISN'T SCHOOL BOOK HISTORY, BUT IT IS HISTORY NONETHELESS.

President Nixon expanded the government, expanded debt and put controls on the market to deal with inflation.

President Ford put controls on the market to deal with inflation.

Today’s horrified conservatives tend to invoke the memory of beloved President Reagan. He spoke articulately of so-called conservative values, but he was in deed all talk. His government expanded and so did his debt because he cut taxes for the rich.

President Bush the First raised taxes, expanded the military, and increased the deficit.

President Bush the Second expanded government in a false illusion of security, expanded government to curtail personal freedom, expanded the military, and increased the debt. In the closing months of his administration, the government bailed out corporations in an effort to save the free market. If all of that seems contradictory, it was contradictory. He was, however, rather like the rest of the Republican presidents in my lifetime.

In other words, the Republican Party in my lifetime has never shown any fiscal responsibility.
The Republicans talked about responsibility, but in my lifetime the trend has been more government and more debt, not less.


RIGHTASCENSION'S CALL TO ACTION

The Democrats and the Republicans take shots at each other and gripe about each other as if they are our only two choices. We have plenty of choices. We should not allow ourselves to be manipulated into one or two sets of choices when we have others that should be better.