PrintFebruary 19, 2011
The Bright Line
After the election of Barack Obama many conservatives saw little reason to support the Republican Party. McCain was only the most recent and perhaps the most obnoxious Republican nominee to treat conservatives like pariahs. Since the Great Depression, Republicans had only nominated two conservatives to be president, Goldwater and Reagan. Before Phyllis Schally wrote her stirring book, A Choice Not an Echo, in 1964, Republicans had nominated RINOs at seven straight conventions. How bad had it been? Since 1920, two Republican presidents, Eisenhower and Hoover, had actually been courted by Democrats to be their party's presidential nominee. 1940 Republican Party nominee Wendell Willkie had supported FDR as a delegate to the Democratic Party's 1932 convention. The pox of RINOs is not new. After 2008 conservatives wanted a bright, clear line of principles. On one side put those who wish America to slide into a stupor of...(Read Full Article)
