The GOP Needs to Stop Compromising and start Looking for the Next Conservative President

The GOP is not shy of Republican presidential candidates, and the GOP race is not lacking a few conservatives, but, the GOP doesn’t seem to want a conservative to replace President Obama. And therein lay the problem for Conservative Republican voters. The GOP needs to stop pushing for Democrats in GOP clothing as the presidential nominee and start looking for the next conservative president.

The GOP and Republican voters have a had a longing to reelect Ronald Reagan since 1988. Why shouldn’t Republicans, Reagan was a Conservative Republican who rescued this country from the disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter’s taxation and inflation. Reagan’s immigration amnesty policy was wrong, as are some other Republican candidates on this issue, but Reagan is still the twentieth-century’s Conservative Republican’s pride. Not to mention, Reagan had a following of Democrats still known as “Reagan Democrats.”  

Regardless of conservatives admiration for Reagan, there is one major hitch in the GOP’s longing to find another Reagan: there was only one Ronald Reagan and the GOP cannot resurrect him.  The Reagan era and the man are both gone and neither can return. That being said, Republicans should not compromise and nominate a Democrat-minded Republican, i.e. progressive, just to win the 2012 election and unseat Barack Obama.

Americans love specific presidents. Americans love leaders who fought to create and save this nation during crisis and made this nation great. This displays the deep desire many Americans have to preserve America to posterity. However, no matter the great extent to which Americans love certain presidents extends, America cannot go back in time and we Americans cannot clone those men.

Leave the cloning to Democrats. They have a terrible habit of resurrecting their Progressive Marxist/Communist leftist presidents. So please, let’s leave Mary Shelley and Frankenstein to the Democrats. The Democrats are experts at creating disasters and heaping failure and misfortune full-force on the nation. Thus, in the coming 2012 election, conservatives must stop trying to resurrect Ronald Reagan, stop trying to clone GOP Candidates into Ronald Reagan, and seek to elect an actual constitutional conservative candidate who will uphold the sovereign law of this land and protect this nation according to Article II of the Constitution.

And herein lay another dilemma for Conservative Republicans: The GOP is not allowing conservative candidates to inch their way too close to the nomination door. That does not include Congressman Ron Paul, the other left’s (Radical Libertarians) Jimmy Carter, who is obviously running for the presidency of Iran while gunning one foot shy of no government for America.

The GOP is determined to nominate the candidate desired by the GOP Machine. This has generated the negative view toward the GOP by Conservative Republican voters: The GOP pulled this “nomination” stunt in 2008 when the GOP decided Arizona Republican Senator John McCain was the only choice to go up against Illinois Senator Barack Obama. The problem with John McCain was not his Viet Nam POW record; Americans respect McCain’s service.  It is McCain’s political ideology, plus the fact that during the 2008 primaries there seemed to be no difference between John McCain and Senator Hillary Clinton. Simply put: if you put a blonde wig and a strand of pearls on John McCain, you had Hillary Clinton in better man’s drag.

Conservatives did not come close to Ronald Reagan in 2008, because we cannot resurrect Ronald Reagan, and we need to stop trying to clone him and find another conservative for 2012.

Conservatives need to remember the only reason John McCain received one, single, conservative vote was because the best man in the race happened to be the woman on McCain’s ticket—Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. Palin not only scared the daylights out of Democrats, she made the GOP Good Ole’ Boys insider club nervous. Palin’s conservative beliefs and values refused to be silent and let Americans fall for anymore of Washington’s political tactics (including the GOP’s compromising) driving America too close to socialism. Palin hit back with straight talk. She woke up an entire movement of conservatives who had been sitting silently by, never getting involved in politics, and simply accepting whatever, and whoever, the GOP told Republicans to vote for.

McCain was definitely a terrible choice for the GOP, which is why McCain knew he needed Palin. Despite Palin’s conservatism, too many voters fixated on McCain’s age rather than the fact McCain would be leaving office after one term and the 2012 presidency could very well go to a conservative Tea Party president so desired by the conservative movement. Still, McCain becoming the presidential nomination is entirely the GOP’s fault: The GOP did not permit Republicans any alternative candidate in the primaries. It was than John McCain and Mitt Romney or nothing at all when the GOP had the last say. The result; the GOP compromised Republicans in 2008—despite running the conservative Palin on the VP ticket—and the GOP helped give America Barack Obama.

And that leads to the present dilemma: the GOP is once again attempting to decide who the GOP nominee should be—Mitt Romney, the Progressive Teddy Roosevelt-style pseudo-Republican.

This time around the GOP favorite is no different than Barack Obama. Obama has his socialist mandated healthcare—Obamacar–and Romney has his Progressive Massachusetts healthcare plan that is no different than Obama’s collective medical conspiracy. After all, Romney’s advisors consulted with Obama when Obama drafted his socialist healthcare plan, so Romneycare is the GOP’s Obamacare.

So once again the GOP is pushing another Democrat in GOP clothing on Republicans. Only this time the Dem-Republican is Barack Obama with Jack Lord’s hair.

Making things worse, some conservative pundits have caved to Romney, despite the knowing, and admitting, Romney is too left-wing for to be a real Republican. The conservative Romney-pushers are justifying Romney’s political stances with the paltry excuse that “anyone is better than Obama.” What happened to not compromising our conservative core values? If any candidate is better than Obama, then we Republicans may as well nominate Casey Anthony as our GOP candidate and call it a day.

The Founding Fathers never compromised to create a nation. Jefferson risked his life to write and sign the Declaration–after long-pleading with the King for our nation’s freedom and the “Rights of Man” to be upheld before war broke out and the fight for independence became a revolution. The King placed a warrant for Jefferson’s arrest and demanded Jefferson be hanged for crimes against the crown. That did not stop Jefferson or the Americans who believed in liberty. The country was split between loyalists and Americans who agreed with Thomas Jefferson. Even after the war was won and America was still severely divided politically, the Founders never tossed the Constitution aside and said “Hey, let’s keep the high-taxation, high-inflation; non-competitive Articles of Confederation in place, after all, anything is better than parliament.” The Founders worked long and hard to find the best solution that would ensure this nation become a Constitutional Republic based on liberty. Compromise would have allowed for destructive amendments to be implemented in the Constitution, and our country might not have lasted through the nineteenth century.

Compromise never wins; it always ushers in destructive forces that eventually sneak in tyranny. Yet, the GOP refuses to acknowledge this fact and hold strong to its core roots and values. The GOP would rather compromise America in order that the GOP can contol the White House. The GOP is forgetting that if that power in the White House is not conservative, and does not hold true to the GOP’s roots, then that power is no different than the destructive power conservatives are trying to unseat.

Conservative voters need to remember:  While America is $15 trillion dollars in debt, the GOP wants to push its choice of nominee on Republican voters. Isn’t $15 trillion enough to make Conservative Republicans refuse to compromise America? Isn’t Obama’s and Democrat’s economic spending debacle enough for Conservative Republicans to say the GOP needs to stop compromising and start looking for the next conservative president?

What’s New With Lisa Richards and What Has She Been Writing Lately?

Dear Readers,

I have recently moved with my favorite editor to another newspaper featuring everything from News, Politics, Lifestyle, Advice, Reviews and Humor. I’m not letting the name of the paper out of the bag  just yet. You’ll all have to wait until the first story is published.

I will be expanding my writing from politics, feminism and the fight against Islam, to sharing my humorous stories about my life growing up in New England. The stories will feature true stories about my family’s vacations, the holidays, and the truth about how eccentric we New Englanders really are and what the rest of America doesn’t know about the prim and proper lives of the Tartan State of Connecticut:

1. The reason we Connecticut natives wear so much tartan is because it’s the law.  Technically it’s part of our State’s Fundamental Orders of 1639. Whether a Nutmegger likes all that plaid or not, the citizen of the Constitution State has no choice but to own at least one piece of tartan clothing. And the citizen must humiliate his or herself, in public, during the Christmas holidays, by wearing bright red tartan.

2. Every antique New England home has an attic. Today’s New England attics are used for storage, but that’s not why they were built. Everything you’ve heard about our attics is true.  We used to lock up our insane relatives in our attics until the politically correct worry-wart psychologists of the 20th century decided chaining your insane grandmother to a wall was somehow inhuman, despite the fact that your insane grandmother’s hobby included hatchets and rope. So, as a result of the do-gooders, we New Englanders have been presenting our insane relatives to the public for decades now, letting them roam the streets and shops as we sane relatives follow closely, keeping an eye on the crazy ones. Native New Englanders only notice other people’s crazy relatives. We New Englanders call our neighbor’s crazy mother insane, despite the fact that some of us used to have an uncle who went about town dressed like Jackie Kennedy with a five O’Clock shadow.

3. I will explain why many New England Psychiatrists need medication: we New Englanders drive our shrinks insane. Oh, but there’s just one thing: we never admit to the fact that we actually visit a shrink. Never discuss the fact you are having a nervous breakdown or mid-life crisis. The proper New Englander goes nuts the right way: we closet-drink, buy a mini skirt  for the family reunion when we women hit 60, and can’t handle the age, or, in the case of one of my Jackie Kennedy cross-dressing male relatives, buy an Oscar De’ La Renta ball gown for the family holiday party, and, have the utter audacity to look better than the 60 year-old aunt wearing the leather mini-skirt and sucking down Martinis for her mid-life crisis!

That’s just a sample.

I have years of stories to share with readers about my very proper, ultra right-wing, Conservative Republican Catholic/Baptist/Evangelical New England family. My family may be the epitome of “Leave it to Beaver” meets “The Philadelphia Story,” but our eccentricity bred  “Modern Family.”

For my political readers, I have not given up the political and historical writings, nor will I ever. Those columns will be featured solely on my web site, and occasionally in the paper.

I’ve been asked for years to write these stories down and put them in a book, but there was just one problem: all of the monied relatives were still alive and I would have been cut out of someone’s will, or possibly a few. Hey, I’m a capitalist, not a moron!

I look forward to this new venture I have chosen; it expands my writing talents and will give my readers a chance to see where my personality, politics and humor come from. I hope to entertain you all with humor, as well as heartwarming stories about my animal rescuing.

All the best,

Lisa Richards

America has become too occupied by the Occupy Movement’s Radicalism and not Islam’s Radical Threat

The media has become so preoccupied with a leftist movement of radical anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-capitalist, socialist demagogues akin to the loser section at Woodstock, that the threat of radical Islam is being completely ignored by Americans.

The Occupy Movement’s mix of clueless aspirants used by wealthy Hollywood and union elites, along with your average excrementing hippies whose lives revolve around protesting everything that subsidizes their protests, have done nothing but provide disruptive entertainment for Americans. Americans are occupied by a movement of useful idiots whose actions serve only to prove the left is immoral and incorrupt, and this entertainment poses a dire threat to the nation’s security: We Americans are not focusing on Islam.

The Occupy Movement has economic-inequality groupies convinced they must fight a war against wealth. This in turn has working Americans fighting against those fighting against wealth, despite the fact Utopian Marxists will always exist whether or not we live in a capitalist, socialist or feudal society. The truth is Americans need to stop providing the Occupy Movement its rock star status. Take the cameras off these stench-ridden brats who refuse to work for a living and put our eyes back on the real threat to America and the free world—Islam.

Yes, the Occupy Movement has turned dangerous: violence erupted in Oakland, California and the city is witnessing the destruction of local businesses by vandals. But, once given media glorification, doesn’t the left always use violence as their weapon? What would happen if the Occupy Movement was not given rock star status by the media?  If news cameras were not focused on anti-establishment thugs who consider everything that does not suit their way of thinking greedy, and media focus was placed were it is needed—Islam? The occupiers would not have the power to control city parks or become aggressive for attention. But news cameras are providing the Occupy Movement its power, and this attention and power is dangerous for America’s national security.

The media, as well as the American people focusing on the occupiers, simply enables the most treacherous movement—Islam.

Right now Palestinians are clamoring for statehood. If given this status, Israel’s land would be split apart and a large portion of Israel, including part of Jerusalem, would handed over to terror-funded people under UN protected status. Adding to that, Gaza’s Islamic Jihad, an organization supported by Iran, is preparing to attack Israel, and Hamas rival Fatah is joining Islamic Jihad. Then there is Iran, “the biggest threat to the United States in the Middle East, surpassing al-Qaida, which is down but not out,” and is attempting to acquire nuclear weapons.  As these ongoing threats to peace and freedom continue, Egypt is on the verge of becoming a Muslim Brotherhood-controlled nation and Turkey is considering the brutal Sharia Law as its rule. We Americans also face peril if we do not stop fixating on the Occupy Movement: we are not remembering what we said we would “Never Forget”—9/11. If America ignores Islam, as we did for too many years after the 1979 Hostage Crisis, the first World Trade Center bombing, Somalia, U.S. bombings of U.S. embassies, bases and warships, as well as recent failed attacks on U.S. soil, America will cope with another 9/11. If that happens, we will find ourselves once again asking that horrible question: “How did America miss the warning signs?”

Instead of concentrating on the Islamic threat, we are allowing ourselves to be occupied by a circus of nihilistic publicity whores who thrive on media attention while keeping our eyes off the warning signs.

Leftist activists have always thrived on media attention. Without media attention the Left would lose their movement. Islam on the other hand does not need cameras or media attention until Islamist terrorists strike and kill.  All the attention given to the Occupy Movement is giving Islam what it truly wants—privacy to plot and move in where it needs to place itself. That includes cites being occupied by leftist protestors who have no qualms about supporting and aiding terrorists—think the Gaza Flotilla and Code Pink’s supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.

Occupy Wall Street’s message is take down America’s free-market capitalist system (deemed as greed), despite the reality that capitalism and the free-market makes it possible for every American to attain whatever he or she so desires, including career protesting. The leftist movement always seeks to destroy all that is good, escape freedom, and move toward totalitarianism. There’s nothing new to that claim, it’s the leftist way of life. But fixating on this self-centered movement, versus one that seeks the annihilation of humanity, allows Islamic terrorism to gain momentum. And the media is providing an open door for this most dangerous totalitarian monster that has the power to ultimately destroy America and the West if it is ignored.

The more attention given to the occupiers, the more powerful the Occupy Movement becomes. In the meantime Islam is monetarily forgotten and that’s good for Islamic terrorists. The media doesn’t grasp nor care that its obsession with the Occupy Movement is enabling Islam and this fixation is a threat to America’s safety and existence.

But then again, the left would gladly hand Islam the keys to slip through America’s backdoor, and the Mainstream Media, which is leftist, refuses to point out this fact and say it’s time to turn off the cameras on the Occupy Movement and turn the attention back to America’s greatest threat—Islam. 

Americans are being entertained with an occupation that is hazardous to America’s safety. We cannot continue placing all of our attention on a self-centered anti-American movement that desires a leftist Utopia of Marxist Socialism. The left will always be leftist: it will always hate America, capitalism, and continue to seek the destruction of the state. And the left will continue using those ever-so hated capitalist provisions to further its political movement. Islam on the other hand does not care about the left’s ideology. Islam seeks one thing: the destruction of everything not Islamic for an Islamic world takeover, and that destruction includes the Occupy Movement, all of whom will be slaughtered along with everyone else if Islam gains the ability to conquer and destroy America and the West.

It’s time to take our focus off the Occupy Movement, stop giving those who hate everything that affords them their ability to protest, and start focusing on Islam’s movement against the world.