Some House Democrats Won by Running as Conservatives

This is perhaps the most frustrating aspect of last Tuesday’s election, the fact that some Democrats won by campaigning on traditional Republican issues.

Some of the incoming Democrats oppose the government financial bailout, for example, but also support gun rights and some form of tax cuts – traditionally conservative and Republican views.

 While I support any Democrat who holds these “traditionally conservative and Republican views” I understand that if they want to win re-election and have the support of the Democrat party when it is time for re-election that they will be pressured to tow the party line. If they do not fall in line with the leadership they will fall out of favor and will not be helped when it is time for them to face the voters.

 Don’t get me wrong, I hope that these Democrats will hold true to their campaign promises, it will only help to hold back President-elect Obama’s radical left agenda, I just feel as though the leadership will put so much pressure on them that they will succumb to it.

 But what I really find frustrating is that in the cases where conservative Democrats prevailed over the moderate Republicans who are in the same mold as John McCain, is that if only Republicans held true to their conservative beliefs we would have never sunk to this level. Democrats out conservated conservatives. If these Republicans ran as conservatives and won there would be no pressure from above for them to “change”, they could have stalled the radical left agenda that is coming. But democrats one upped them and even if these conservative Democrats are legitimate conservatives the pressure from the far left leadership will trump their beliefs. Or they will be gone.

 Republican candidates moved to a more moderate position because they thought that it would be a key to helping them win. The reason that they thought this was a winning idea is because John McCain was the Republican nominee and he made his name by bucking Republicans every chance he got. McCain set the mold that led to the Republican’s defeat.

 There is a lesson to learn here, and that is that Republicans can win if they run as conservatives, this moderate shit is a loser. Republicans need to come back to the fold and listen to conservatives or the conservatives will continue to say screw you, you deserve to lose.

 It is time for the Republican candidates to listen to us, we are your base, stop abandoning us. Stop being ashamed of us, without us you can’t win.

 This election proved that.