As most of you know, I did not attend CPAC this year, mainly because I just could not afford to make the trek and because I have some personal issues with the whole idea. As they say, politics is local and parts of this sort of a meeting would just grate against me. Therefore, I will just write about the stuff that interests me. Being in the so-called “Social Class” that I am, going to a conference of this sort, listening to a bunch of rich, uppity, white people grovel at a black President and yowl on about big Government, all the while rattling their gold shekels and rubies would just drive me to the spirited beverage. Please note I have nothing against those who are of the wealthy class. In fact, I commend those who have attained such status by running and succeeded at an honest business. However, as someone who has no health insurance and has not had a “real day job” since 2005. I would find it very discomforting to sit and listen to people who have no money issues complain about those who do. In addition, I will confess, I am just not much a crowd person. I have said, jokingly of course, that I am the “Matt Drudge” of the Blog World — Everyone knows me, but no one has met me before.
This brings me to the big question, which I have gotten in the past. “If you are so against Conservative conferences, why are you on the right of the Blogosphere?” First off, let me say that I am not against any sort of Conservative conferences at all. Although I will say, that Sarah Palin was correct in her snubbing of CPAC. The President of the American Conservative Union should resign in disgrace. That is about all I will say about that little situation.
Now to what I wrote this article for, Ryan Sorba’s anti-gay rant, which you can see here:
Gabriel Malor over at Ace of Spades Blog wrote about this, although from an obviously Anti-Christian stance. As someone who is a twenty-six year veteran of the Christian Faith —- although as it says on my about me page, I do not claim to be a perfect representative of that Christian faith or a spokesperson for it. Let me simple say this, AllahPundit and Mr. Malor are correct in their assessments. The Republican Party got their “tails kicked” in the 2008 election, not because Barack Obama was some sort of awesome candidate. The Republican Party got their “Tails Kicked” because for one, they ran a mushy Moderate Candidate for President and as Glenn Beck rightly pointed out, because the Republican Party got horrifically addicted to spending. What troubles me though, is the fact than Glen Beck will yowl on about spending; but he will not say the obvious, that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are a big part of that spending. Before anyone says it — no, I am not going to pull a Lew Rockwell and say all wars are evil or anything stupid like that. I am fully aware of the reality of the war on terror. I am simply making an observation.
Having said the above, the Republican Party is in a unique situation. Eight years of George W. Bush’s moderate Conservatism, which included some rather humongous “drunken sailor spending,” has put the G.O.P. in quite the spot. Our Nation is in a fiscal mess, thanks to the irresponsible spending of the Bush Administration and now because of the Obama Administration continuation of that reckless and idiotic spending. What the Republican Party needs to do is concentrate on fiscal matters, and let the social Conservatives to fight the battle against Homosexuality themselves. If the Christian Conservatives went to fight against the gay community, let them do that themselves and leave the Republican Party out of it. Let me remind everyone, this is 2010, not 1984. As Pastor James Dobson correctly pointed out, and then quickly retreated from, the social Conservative fight of the 1980’s was simply a holding action —- A holding action that ultimately failed. This proves that which I have believed all along, that one cannot force the hand of morality by legislation or by political pressure. Something astutely observed by the late, great, Senator Barry Goldwater.
Let me wrap this article by saying this here. The Republican Party and the Conservative movement as a whole, needs to pick its battles. A Social Conservative battle is just not one that would be productive to the furtherance of the Republican Party and the Conservative movement as a whole. We need to focus on fiscal matters and get this Government spending to stop, otherwise, we could be in for a very rough time in the next coming years.