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"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
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Author:  Bob Webster
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Date:  July 30, 2014
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Topic category:  Elections - Politics, Polling, etc.

The Electoral Legacy of the GOP's Spineless Leadership

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory appears to be the guiding new doctrine of the Republican Party. How else to explain the behavior of national Republican campaign committees and the Republican National Committee?

As a long-time supporter of the conservative Republican principles of Constitutional Governance, Sustainable Fiscal Policy, and Free-Market Economics, I have regularly given financial support to the Republican National Committee (RNC), the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).

No more.

Each election cycle reveals the national GOP leadership is becoming less and less supportive of basic Republican principles. Witness Kentucky's Mitch McConnell (clear favorite for the title "Buffoon of the Senate") and his openly declared war on fundamental Republican principles as advocated by the national Tea Party movement. The behavior of feckless members of Congress like McConnell, McCain, Cochran and Boehner, working together with other so-called "leaders" of the national GOP, strongly suggests they believe elections are really for gaining and holding political power. By failing to take effective action to assure members of Congress "support and defend the Constitution of the United States" and "bear true faith and allegiance to the same" as they are sworn to do each time they are elected, GOP members of Congress betray their evident lack of concern for saving our Constitutional Republic in the face of a Marxist onslaught of repeated constitutional violations spearheaded by the Obama Administration.

Republican "leaders" reveal their incompetence when they cannot effectively stand up to:  (1) repeated lies and illicit activities of the current administration (IRS, NSA abuses for partisan political purposes); (2) repeated and gross obstructions of justice ("lost" IRS emails, withheld "Fast & Furious" materials, failures to uphold border security); (3) the president's failure to "faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States" (Dept. of Justice selectively failing to prosecute cases on political grounds, failure to adhere to provisions of federal law, attempting to rewrite federal law beyond his scope of authority, filling vacancies without Senate's confirmation in violation of our Constitution); and, (4) the president's failure to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" (ignoring Article I, Section 8 and 10th Amendment limitations of federal power, repeated violations of constitutional authority).

But perhaps even worse than this incompetence is the dishonesty that these so-called Republicans trot out each election cycle with their talk of being "conservative" and supportive of "conservative principles" when all they're really trying to do is fool their constituents into electing them to yet another term in office.

So it is with this background that I found it somewhat annoying (to say the least) when I received the following email solicitation from the RNC's Treasurer, Tony Parker:

Here is my response to Mr. Parker:

If real Republicans want to save their country from the Marxist Obama Administration's Cloward-Piven steamroller, they had better start putting real Republican candidates up for election.

Failing to regenerate the Republican Party with the principles upon which it was founded will lead to dominance of the Democrat-Marxist Party as typified by the current administration.

The day may rapidly be approaching when a new party must be formed to support traditional American principles of honesty, constitutional governance, sustainable fiscal policy and the opportunities provided by a free-market based economy. It may well come to a new party being the only alternative for disaffected Republicans, traditional Democrats, and the host of Independents who are fed up with both current political parties.

Bob Webster
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Notes: 

Oath of office for all members of Congress:

I [name] do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

Oath of office for President of the United States:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Biography - Bob Webster

Author of "Looking Out the Window", an evidence-based examination of the "climate change" issue, Bob Webster, is a 12th-generation descendent of both the Darte family (Connecticut, 1630s) and the Webster family (Massachusetts, 1630s). He is a descendant of Daniel Webster's father, Revolutionary War patriot Ebenezer Webster, who served with General Washington. Bob has always had a strong interest in early American history, our Constitution, U.S. politics, and law. Politically he is a constitutional republican with objectivist and libertarian roots. He has faith in the ultimate triumph of truth and reason over deception and emotion. He is a strong believer in our Constitution as written and views the abandonment of constitutional restraint by the regressive Progressive movement as a great danger to our Republic. His favorite novel is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and believes it should be required reading for all high school students so they can appreciate the cost of tolerating the growth of unconstitutional crushingly powerful central government. He strongly believes, as our Constitution enshrines, that the interests of the individual should be held superior to the interests of the state.

A lifelong interest in meteorology and climatology spurred his strong interest in science. Bob earned his degree in Mathematics at Virginia Tech, graduating in 1964.


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