The progressive agenda is for an ever-tightening noose around the American people. Central control of everything that used to be local. Unlimited immigration. Blending of the US with Mexico. Love of Islam. Hatred of energy self sufficiency. Hatred of self sufficiency of any kind. Education that indoctrinates the young. Modern morality, not timeless values. Lip service to religious freedom while destroying it. A welfare state. Abortion on demand. Centralized health care and control of what care you can have. A progressive tax code thousands of pages long that punishes those who oppose you and rewards your friends. The notion of the Constitution as a quaint guidepost, a starting point for where we came from a long time ago, not as the rules that have to be followed today. That's crazy to them.
The GOPe differs with the Democrats on these things only along the margins. 33 percent or 38 percent tax rate. This or that tax credit. How many illegals to allow to stay. How quickly they can vote. The extent of environmental regulations. Whether we should house terrorists in Gitmo or try them in NY. Whether Catholic nuns have to pay for abortions. But on the big picture, they do not differ. The march of history is always, always to be in the progressive direction. Those, like us, who want to roll back the leviathan, who recognize that beginning with Wilson and FDR, the Feds, and continuing through to the present, the Federal government has broken free from the shackles of a limited government that the Constitution imposed and has imposed itself on the states that created it, are not of the same party or belief system as the progressives. So, whenever we pop up our heads, whether it is the movement of WF Buckley, Goldwater and Reagan, which was tamped down by the Bushes, or whether it is the Tea Party that arose in the wake of the earthquake caused by election of a true believing marxist, the progressives on both sides, Democrat and Republican, respond with vigor and viciousness.
Republicans never attack Democrats with the malice that they show towards conservatives. They argue with them. They fight us. They hate us. We are the people in "we the people" and they hold that document and us in contempt. They know, in their hearts, that "we the people" are the ones who can stop them if we act in time, and so they are erecting the leviathan (and bringing in new Americans) so that there will come a time when they can't be stopped.
Thus, I disagree that anything that happens in 2014 will cause the GOPe to enlist the support of conservatives in 2016. They would rather join the other side than allow that--which is what many of them would do if forced to choose between a Ted Cruz or a Hillary Clinton. If you don't want to be stuck with Romney or Jeb Bush in 2016, you better figure out another plan than staying home in 2014. That may be the best strategy for 2014 (I am all for letting McConnell and Lindsey lose, even if it means the Senate), but we still need to figure out the next step. And I have been convinced for a while that working through the GOP will not get us where we want to go.
That’s certainly true in the Pennsylvania governor’s race.