Someone please get me a box of tissues so that I can cry for the liberals. On second thought, they have done enough crying for themselves, and I don't think they need my tears. Any more of them and we may just have an earlier rise in sea levels than global warming experts have predicted. I never knew a group of people to whine so much after such a sweeping election victory.
Where shall I begin? I guess it seems appropriate to start with the recent outcry for Al Gore to put his name into the 2008 presidential race. Time magazine has even begun including him in an election watch despite the fact that he has given no solid indication that he is even considering running for president. This seems to me to be nothing more than a far-left push to gain retribution for a heart-breaking loss in the 2000 presidential election.
Do the liberals not understand our election system works to prevent the president being elected by popular vote? If they had their way, our entire system of government would be changed to coincide with victories for the Democrats. Perhaps we should have "packed" the Supreme Court to assure a victory for Al Gore in 2000. The liberals are having trouble moving on from an election that is nearly seven years gone -- maybe that's why they can't seem to do anything with their newfound power.
I do believe that Al Gore would wipe the floor with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. As far as that is concerned, perhaps I would like to see Al Gore in the presidential race of 2008. Maybe that's because clearly I'm no fan of Hillary.
If he runs again and loses in 2008, the left should finally understand that Gore is simply never going to be president, instead of subjecting the country to another four to eight years of "Gore-is-really-the-president" banter. With that being said, I must wonder how the Republican Party can possibly pull off a White House victory in 2008. I am a proud, conservative Republican. As of right now, I do not believe we can win in 2008 without a realignment of conservative values. But I truly believe that the majority of Americans align themselves with the ideology of the right.
When I say a "realignment" of values I mean a return to true beliefs of the once conservative Republican Party. The "strong on national security" stance alone cannot win us the White House in 2008. That ideology combined with our unyielding conservative backbone of social policy makes us nearly unbeatable.
The Democrats won in 2006 because of the G.O.P.'s failure in this area. With an "R" next to your name in 2006, you were pretty much fighting a losing battle. This is because of the tarnished reputation the Republicans are facing. The Mark Foley scandal, the Reverend Haggard issue, the Libby trials, and the list goes on. My party has lost touch with the winning formula they had such a brilliant handle on beginning with Newt Gingrich in 1994 and leading into the 2000 election. Sept. 11 catapulted the Republican government in a new direction of "national security," which has proven to be a losing platform. Americans no longer accept that stance as conditions in Iraq continue to decline.
I almost feel I have been neglected by my own party. What happened to our pro-life, God-centered, family values-oriented campaign that rallied Americans behind the G.O.P.?
Our political candidates have taken that winning formula and pushed it to the side. They have become out of touch with the most faithful conservative base with their attempts to appeal to the moderates. Without the core conservative vote wrapped up, the Republicans can pretty much forget about any significant victories in the future.
The left has found the weakness of the G.O.P., a weakness that once never existed. Without our hard-edged, conservative social values, the liberals will take over the entire government. As a proud conservative, I am certainly not willing to sit idly by and allow this takeover to occur.
We must return ourselves to the Republican Party so accurately denoted by Ronald Reagan: "Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15."
