Ignore the Anonymous Cowards

If the Republican party had any guts at all, they’d find out who these two Anonymous Senators are and publish their names. After all, if they have the guts to whinge to reporters about how the party needs to kick those Bible-thumping backwoods hick conservatives and embrace the warm tapioca of moderate Republicanism that’s won the party exactly no elections ever, they should have the guts to face the music.

That’s assuming they’re two different people. The whole theme of “forget Reagan, Palin’s a clueless cow, moderates for TEH WIN!” seems to pop up enough that it might not be coincidental.

And this guy, writing for the Formerly Moderate Voice, who thinks that the answer to Republican rebirth isn’t Palin but Nixon has the clear thought processes of someone who’s spent too much time in an enclosed building with open cleaning products around. He’s forgotten, in his zeal to get his hate-on for Palin, how her speech at the Republican National Convention was the only thing that moved John McCain ahead of Barack Obama during the entire election. McCain’s team lost the lead when they decided to stick Governor Palin in a broom closet for two weeks then haul her out to face two of the most partisan members of the MSM for nationally-televised interviews.

Sarah Palin didn’t cost John McCain the election. Anyone who hasn’t been huffing paint could have seen that. What cost McCain this election was his utter failure to take a strong stand on anything the voters cared about. All he ever really had was his threadbare “Maverick” merit badge and being right on the surge. Obviously that wasn’t going to do it, but he refused to reach out and grab an issue like the immensity and intrusiveness of government that was well within his reach but which would have required that he fight someone who wasn’t a conservative.

Before I believe that moderate politics is the way to go, someone’s going to have to show me how moderate politics has ever been embraced in this country by the majority of the voters. To be sure, we see plenty of polls that say that voters want bipartisanship and moderation, but every time they go to the polls, they vote for the guy who held on to his convictions and took the fight to his opponent.

Regardless, the Republicans will never win back the majority by listening to Senators too cowardly to put their names behind their moderate policies.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Conservatives, John McCain, Republicans, Sarah Palin

Category: Conservatism, The Republican Minority