Part 2 -- Where Should We Go?

Christians and conservatives must move from The Republican Party into The Libertarian Party. This must be done IMMEDIATELY because time is a factor in party building, fund-raising, advertising, etc. Why this Party? Conservatives have long had problems with some platform items of The Libertarian Party. That said, three key points must be realized:

1) The Libertarian Party is the ONLY FULLY VIABLE national party that can be considered on par with the two main establishment parties. Of all the several alternative parties, it is the ONLY one that was on ALL 50 state ballots in this last election. The quickest route to having a replacement party in a 2-party-one-day-election system is to energize an existing viable one rather than to attempt to build a new one from scratch.

2) The original Founding Fathers were a mix of what we today would call conservatives and libertarians. Before they split into actual parties in 1800, these men, working together, wrote The Constitution, Bill of Rights, and The Federalist Papers. They fought a war together and built a country together. Today, we must recreate those same bonds in order to save the country they started. Wayne Allyn Root, who ran as the Vice Presidential candidate on the Libertarian ticket last November, calls himself a mix of conservative, libertarian, and just common sense views. More and more Libertarians are coming around to accepting the pragmatism and necessity of certain conservative ideas. So, an amalgam of ideologies will form the Party platform.

3) To the best of my knowledge, The Insiders, that is, the elitists, super bankers, and the all-around New World Orderists have not taken over The Libertarian Party as they have the two establishment parties. They have smuggly overlooked The Libertarian Party as unimportant and unworthy of their attention while they concentrated on controlling the two main parties. They have also kept their news media and "culture shapers" reinforcing in us the magnanimous virtue of "The Two Party System".

The Libertarian Party had it's best performance ever last November scoring about 6% nationwide. Norm Coleman (Republican) and Al Franken (Democrat) nearly tied at 42% each in Minnesota's Senate race. Where went the other 16% ? That went to the Libertarian candidate! That's pretty close to HALF of what the (eventual) winner got.

I hear more callers to the conservative talk shows begin to catch on to this sentiment and say that they will move over. But, sadly, a whole group of conservatives still hangs on to the belief that they can rebuild and reestablish the Republican Party. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity seem to form the core of that group. I admire them both, but they don't yet see that the horse has four broken legs. You don't try to glue it's legs back together; It's ready to be turned INTO glue! You just have to shoot it and move on!

Ronald Reagan said, "I didn't leave The Democrat Party. The Democrat Party left me." He meant that The Party moved too far left and that he came to realize that he had been a conservative all along. Still, he actually DID have to get up and MOVE! So do we and for the same reasons!

--Ray Curtis, Friday, June 5, 2009

Tomorrow: Part 3 -- The Political Stage

Part 1 -- Lessons Of Leaven

It is time for all Christians and conservatives to leave The Republican Party. It has long been under the control of the Rockefeller Wing, the so-called "Blue-Bloods" who have always been liberal and somewhat socialist. These have always hated the Christian Right and other true conservatives. The "Blue-Bloods" will NEVER cede leadership of The Party to those in The Party that they actually consider to be more of an enemy than they do the Democrats! The "Blue-Bloods" feel an affinity with liberal Democrats and SHOULD move to join them. We have seen this this Spring with Colin Powell and Arlen Specter. Most, though, will stay in The Party as they have a strong need to feel that they are at the head of something. They feel comfortable with the two-winged one-party system. And, they tolerate us (C. and C.s) ONLY because they need our votes every two years.

Our perspective has keep us in this joke-of-a-party for so long because of the fear that we have had no other place to go and that breaking with the Republican Libs would produce "The Unthinkable" -- Communist Party victories for The House, The Senate, The White House, and The Supreme Court. Well, now "The Unthinkable" has happened and it was the Republican Libs who brought it to us!

Jesus said, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees." Leaven, here in His picture, represents sin. He wanted His followers (sheep of the flock) to be unleavened, that is, pure. He went on to say that, "A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough." When you are trying to bake unleavened bread and you accidently spill some yeast (leaven) onto your lump of dough, you don't try to pick out every little speck of the contamination. Rather, you THROW AWAY THE LUMP and START OVER with a new lump! Likewise, our "Lumpy Party" has been contaminated by the "Blue-Bloods" and we must throw it out. We need a new, fresh Party to work with. And, this time, we must take steps to keep it pure. Beware the leaven of the "Blue-Bloods"!

--Ray Curtis, Thursday, June 4, 2009

Tomorrow: Part 2 -- Where Should we Go?