I'm in Big Trouble

I woke up this morning with a terrible depression buried somewhere deep in my mind. Oh well, a hot cup of coffee usually, following feeding the critters (to shut them up) should remove it. I let the dog out in the backyard and watched her clear the whole yard of whatever bogeymen dogs search for. After the demanding squalling of 2 cats, who are convinced that they would starve to death without their breakfast NOW, immediately fell back to sleep. I usually find this amusing, but not this morning. I let the dog in and thanked her for her vigilance and she too fell asleep.

I take my coffee into my office; sit in front of my monitor and the depression surfaces with a bang! I'm in trouble and I can't do a thing about it!

For 50 years I have been a card-carrying, dedicated, active member of the Republican Party. I have done fund-raising, gathered signatures for my candidates, volunteered at headquarters, walked the precincts for "my man," cried with them when they lost and cheered them when they won. My calendar has always been cleared for this activity and every two years would clean a spot in my office and put up my sign "Let the Games Begin."

When I moved into my home months ago I gave away my collection of political pins, signs, bumper stickers that announced to the world that my party stood for "Liberty, Freedom, Less Government, Lower Taxes. Etc." Moving to a new state would mean a new collection.

I started remembering how much fun the elections were. I even dressed up one of my daughters as a Goldwater girl and she rode an elephant down Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica. Even though we didn't win many of these elections we had a clear picture of what we were selling, as did the many friends that we made and kept active continued for many years. I belonged to at least 9 GOP clubs through the years and used their mailing lists to get out the ballot issues to those who cared.

What hit me this morning was that it is all gone! There is no more Republican party that even vaguely resembles the GOP that I worked for all those years.

The good honest candidates have been replaced with manipulators who have lost their mission of reducing the government, and their whole plan of tax cuts is based on playing with numbers to fool the voters. Any half-wit can figure out that cutting government programs is the only honest way of cutting costs for the taxpayer.

When did my party go too far in the policy changes? Hmm, let me think. I thought Reagan was a good president. He certainly seemed trustworthy. He used all the right slogans -- Liberty, Freedom -- and he carried the fight against Communism to victory. I always felt he spent too much money but he said the right things and the right time.

In 1992 after 4 years of George Bush as President, the Republican Party started to crumble. Taxes were too high, our schools were losing their standards and little in the way of good legislation was being discussed in the house/senate. I had a really difficult time with Bush's re-election when I began hearing terms like One World government, Tri-Lateral commission, and even that old enemy, the United Nations, was rising up again. NAFTA and GATT were the new guys in town and we didn't like the sound of those at all. None of this sat right with me and I attended my first Perot Rally.

Here was the old Republican party but under a new name. United We Stand swallowed me in after months of heartbreaking guilt of turning my back on my party.

The GOP was fractured by Perot. The GOP had forgotten its voters and thought all was well until they lost the election. What caused this defeat? The GOP was now a part of a global organization and no longer responsible for self-government! I.e., we were being sold out to the One World Power brokers. Our trade agreements were no longer profitable to our businesses and our trade debt was growing out of control. Perot spotted this and Bush shrugged.

In 1972 the Supreme Court allowed abortion to be performed in clean hospitals instead of clinics in Mexico and back alleys. The women that I knew sighed quietly with relief. In 1992 the GOP swore to overthrow this decision thereby losing millions of women voters. Clinton won and the GOP blamed the media and took no responsibility for the defeat.

There was a glimmer of hope in 1994 when Newt Gingrich organized the Contract with America. Hoorah! Some leadership at last! I went on the Internet at this time and was able to follow all this and celebrate when the voters recognized a tiny part of the old party was back. Two years later they brought Dole out of mothballs and put the GOP platform on the Internet. Big Mistake!!

More government programs, more involvement in other countries (many who were unfriendly) more involvement in the United Nations and the corker, a Constitutional Amendment making abortions a federal crime! The GOP was threatening our women with a murder charge. Big Mistake!

The Democrat who was running for re-election was just pitiful. In normal circumstances he would have been defeated by a dog in the street. Again the GOP did nothing, lost again and blamed the media.

In 1998 all our worst fears about Clinton were brought into focus. Impeachment wasn't strong enough for most of us and many of us (GOP, of course) put our heads together to try to help the GOP get its act together in 2000. We wrote up a top 10 list for the GOP to use for the future of America. We faxed it to all the various political leaders including Perot's Reform Party. Many thought it was neat and even Perot used it in a bulletin. Rush Limbaugh read it on radio and everyone who read it on Etherzone.com responded favorably.

The GOP leadership had other plans. They wanted a candidate who would go along with the One World Plan; continue the war on drugs that had reintroduced the crime syndicates all over America. A promise to replace the retiring Supreme Court judges with pro-lifers (to hell with the women) to hell with cutting the federal programs, to hell with the threat of Communist China taking the Panama Canal, to hell with them building a huge storage facility in the Bahamas, and to hell with China being given our defense secrets and finally to hell with American sovereignty! The RNC had found the candidate who fitted into the mold perfectly. George W. Bush would be their candidate in 2000.

So here it is, the GOP is now representing a larger more intrusive government! Freedom and Liberty? Not for our women. Tax cuts? No, just moving the numbers around to fool the voters.

When I woke up this morning I was hoping to find just a tiny piece of the Republican Party, and I couldn't do it. So my depression deepens and there's a good chance that the Liberals will return to the White House. Does it make any difference if his name is Gore or Bush? Not really.

I need a piece of chocolate to help me over this problem!!

Published in the October 2, 2000 issue of Ether Zone. Copyright © 2000 Ether Zone Online. Reposting permitted with this message intact.