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GOP demands loyalty
Posted By katie allison granju
… if you’ve ever become involved as a conservative activist with Republican politics in any way, shape, fashion, or form, you know that the one thing that the GOP asks of its conservative adherants is loyalty. There is a good reason for this-with rare exceptions, the Democrats fail to offer much in the way of conservative choices. Failure of a political candidate at any level who identifies himself or herself (whether directly on the party ticket, or indirectly in some local races where party can’t be identified) as a Republican to support the party’s choices, or at least not to publicly disparage them, is usually seen as an act comparable to the Brutus engaging in the plot to kill Julius Caesar…. Knowing that both the party and many conservative party activists place such a high premium on the loyalty of its active members, it is understandable that those members would now feel no obligation to get excited about a presidential nominee who has not shown himself to have any loyalty to the party or to the activists who have built it. It isn’t a question of whether McCain cast a vote that dissented from conservative orthodoxy, something that he has done many times. Lamar Alexander has done the same thing from time to time, but I have no problem helping Lamar’s re-election campaign. The reason is because when we’ve asked Lamar to stand with us, he has done so when it really mattered. The problem with John McCain is that he has shown himself willing not only to vote with Democrats, but perhaps to become one as long as it gets him to the White House. Literally, McCain has taken the attitude that “I will do what it takes to get what I want,” and loyally to the party that helped bring him to the dance can be thrown to the wind.
Mar 24th, 2008
