Self-destruct mode

It shouldn't surprise that a trickle of stories continues to drip from fawning Obamedia mouths about Sarah Palin and what a blight she was on the McCain campaign and that the fact she now is the face of the Republican Party signals the further demise of conservatism.

What really chaps me, though, is that just as much negativity now is coming from within the McCain campaign itself. The back-biting, the finger-pointing, the CYA ... it makes me want to hurl almost as much as hearing the Squeaker of the House's voice.

I've been saying (screaming) for three years that the only thing that will defeat conservatism is when conservatives stop being conservative. We've had our rearends handed to us in two straight national elections because of that more than anything else. Too many wearing the "R" next to their names have compromised, with Liberals specifically and against conservative principles generally.

I admire and respect John McCain's honor and service to this country. I backed him, contributed to his campaign and voted for him because I back the party. But at the risk of offending anyone, the man is not a conservative. As I've written and said since January, his most notable "achievements" this decade have been cloaked in compromise and have cut at the core of conservatism.

He became the Republican nominee, in large part, with the help of Democrats and so-called "moderates" in early primary states. He was the Leftist media's candidate of choice throughout the primaries. And now, according to every Liberal voice out there (because they did not gain a supermajority), he again will be the "bridge" Democrats expect to use in the Senate to advance their agenda.

Think about it. Of what other possible Republican nominee not named Chuck Hagel would that be said?

Compromise? When was the last time Democrats compromised? Besides, that is, when public opinion so vastly swayed them after 9/11 and this summer, when oil flirted with $150 per barrel and the nation screamed "Drill Here!"

They haven't. They've only moved further Left. And Republicans have, to a large degree, followed. They've wanted to be liked. They've wanted to get along. They've wanted to compromise.

And now, all this garbage continues to flow about Sarah Palin, and the worst of it is coming from the mouths of those inside the McCain campaign. Those who, like Liberals, don't hesitate to throw about the term "neo-con" and believe that "values" change with the times and, because they believe that, they gladly advance the notion that Reagan Conservatism is dead.

I say that notion is a load of what falls from a cow's behind. Reagan's success came not because he compromised conservative principles and moved to the center but because he drew the center to him.

I realize fully that speculation's worth generally is squat, but I will maintain to the grave that without Sarah Palin, this election would have resulted in ugliness of Dukakis and McGovern proportion. She was the only true conservative in this race. She stands for conservative principles. She doesn't compromise them.

Will she be a viable national candidate again? Who knows?

But I know one thing. If Republicans want to become viable again, rather than slipping even closer to the edge of irrelevancy, they better grow a spine and come back together under the banner of conservatism and fight for those principles.

For compromise with an unyielding adversary breeds capitulation.

(Imported from Nov. 7, 2008)