RNC to Draft a Resolution Calling President Bush a Socialist

 I have been here defending President Bush for almost two years through thick and thin. During the whole amnesty for illegal immigrants fiasco I jumped ship, there was no defending such a deplorable bill. But I came back, that is until the bailout fiasco.

 That is when I left the president for good. Perhaps I am not being fair to myself with that statement, I did not leave the president, he left me, or rather, my position on the government’s role in the private sector.  I will not be defending him here any more. He sold out the party and the country.

 I have been condemning the bailout bill as socialization. The government has nationalized (taken over) several industries in manner that would make  Hugo Chavez proud. So proud in fact that Chavez mocked the president for finally realizing that socialism is the wave of the future. Talk about embarrassing!

 Now the RNC is drafting a resolution to condemn the bailout bill and also calling President Bush a socialist, as well as congressional Republicans who also went along with this foolhardy bailout bill. The RNC is using this issue to try to reconnect with their core voters, people like me who are totally upset and disgusted with the actions of the president and the party in regards to this bailout bill and nationalization of the economy, Wall Street, the mortgage industry, and most recently, the auto industry.

We can’t be a party of small government, free markets and low taxes while supporting bailouts and nationalizing industries, which lead to big government, socialism and high taxes at the expense of individual liberty and freedoms

 Now that is music to my ears. Let’s just hope that the conservatives in the party are able to retake the leadership positions on the party and restore Republicans as the party of limited government.

 This is the issue that caused John McCain to lost the election. After running as the candidate who would cut spending and oppose earmarks he ran to Washington to sign the pork filled, spend-a-holic bailout bill portraying himself as the opposite of who he was running as. Republicans who felt that a conservative couldn’t win in the current political environment nominated a RINO, a Democrat lite, and when voters are faced with voting for a Democrat-lite or the real deal, they will choose the real deal.

 Hopefully Republican leaders are now realizing this and are in the process of becoming the party of conservatism once again.

If enacted, the resolution would put the party on record opposing the $700 billion bailout of the financial sector, which passed Congress with Republican support and was signed by Mr. Bush, and opposing the bailout of the auto industry

 This is a winning position with voters across the board and on both sides of the aisle. Something like 75% of all voters think that the bailout bill is wrong. The RNC can hope to capitalize on this by taking the position that a true conservative would have had in the first place. In fairness to congressional Republicans, they did oppose bailing out the auto industry but they were overruled, or should I say, undermined, by the president.

 The RNC realizes that this whole issue was the final undoing of the Republican chances of winning the White House and now they are positioning themselves for the 2010 election. The RNC resolution will also condemn president-elect Obama’s new New Deal.

The resolution also opposes President-elect Obama’s proposed public works program and supports conservative alternatives,” while encouraging the RNC “to engage in vigorous public policy debates consistent with our party platform

 While president-elect Obama has a plan to further the socialization of America it is important that we never forget that the current path toward socialism was started by President Bush. We must not forget it and the RNC must not forget it. We cannot have another John McCain as our next nominee for president.

 Hopefully the RNC is going to get us back on track and on the path of true conservatism, they are off to a promising start with this resolution. It will be interesting to see if it goes anywhere. Maybe conservatives have learned their lesson from the last election. I hope so, time is running out, we need to take back our country from the socialists before it is too late. If it isn’t already.

 Here is the text of the resolution:

WHEREAS, the Bank Bailout Bill effectively nationalized the Nation’s banking system, giving the United States non-voting warrants from participating financial institutions, and moving our free market based economy another dangerous step closer toward socialism; and WHEREAS, what was needed, and is still needed, to fix the banking industry is not a bailout, but rather a commitment to fiscal responsibility.

 Fiscal responsibility, that is the tune that rings true every time. The RNC claims that they are ready for a fight on this issue, I hope that they are. The Republican party is in disarray and looking for direction. There is an internal battle in the party in terms of the direction the party should turn.

 This is our chance for conservatives to take the party back. We have to.