Business as usual for Republicans

I don't often discuss party politics, because I am mainly interested in principles, and am willing to accept any idea from either party, or a third party for that matter it it advances the goals of returning our nation to a Constitutional Republic. Unfortunately, the Democrat party lost me in 1978 when the radical leftists took over. The Republicans however have shown themselves to be gutless wonders, with the result that after their tenure in the majority in Congress, our country was even further from the Founders' vision. As a result, I am a man without a party,who did not see the selection of Michael Steele to the the RNC chairman as a positive step. Ken Blackwell would have been more to my taste.

Sandy Rios has a story today in Townhall.com entitled The Elephant in Lincoln's Once-Great Room. It is the story of Republicans, once again, pulling some shenanigans to put their favored candidate on the ballot instead of listening to the people and putting a principled conservative up. Go read the whole thing.

As Rush Limbaugh is fond of saying, wherever conservative ideas are tried, they work. But the Republican party seems embarrassed by us. They want a new base, the mushy middle, and conservatives they think will have nowhere else to go. Unfortunately for them, conservatives can stay at home, as many did rather than vote for McCain. It seems conservatives will have to apply that lesson again until they get it.

Update: For more on what conservatives are thinking see Q and O here. Eric Cantor has touted himself as "conservative" but from this it seems he must be comparing himself to Dennis Kucinich.