Civil War in Iraq or in the GOP?



Has the world turned into a revolution among Nations and Sects? It is bad enough that our soldiers are in the middle of a terrible sectarian fight in Iraq but what about the people in America? Is our problem in America also a fight between the Liberals and the Conservatives? Should we not be returning to the two-party system that used to explain to all Americans that we all had a choice of whether we wanted the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats?

In searching for the agendas of each party it became fairly clear that the Republicans were Corporation-driven Capitalists and the Democrats were driven by the workforce unions in America. We managed to have a fair balance and often a less than friendly division between big business and the workers. It took both sides of the aisle to keep the balance between the two to make the system in America work.

In 1992 the Republicans under Bush 41 found the agenda was changed and our President began working for a one world order under American power. The GOP had never been particularly fond of the United Nations as we all felt it would destroy American Sovereignty. But to suddenly present a new Republican Party that became known as neoconservatives did not sit well with the GOP and Bush 41 lost his bid for reelection. Many of us were disturbed by this change of agenda and left the GOP dividing itself up between Ross Perot and the Libertarian Party.

I will never understand how any Republican could disregard the party that had been restored by President Ronald Reagan and let it be sucked into this neoconservative agenda of world power. The GOP did not take the 1992 defeat very well and began to reshape the agenda to bring the Republicans back. The RNC panicked and decided to approach the religious right and offered them faith based grants and a list of prohibitions to try to restore the morals of all Americans.

The background of the neoconservatives was developed by Eastern European Jews who wanted this American world power that would very likely stand up for Israel against the fire breathing Muslims who constantly threatened them. The way to sell this to the American people was to offer the religious right all the perks of promising Christian doctrines into our Federal Government.

Most of us older Republicans were not so fast to accept the promises made to Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and all the Christians leaders who had the power to direct their congregations to vote for this new Christian policy for the two following reasons:

Clinton was showing some bad decisions while in the White House and had brought with him some bad business connections. Clinton was overlooked by the media and most of us had to dig to find a reason to vote against him. When the blue dress was discovered and the world learned that he was bopping a young intern, the religious right jumped in to expose Clinton for his promiscuity. They showed no interest in his dealings with Communist China and giving away our Long Beach Naval Base but his personal and private actions drove the Religious Right nearly insane.

The second promise to the Religious Right was faith based grants handing the churches money from the American taxpayer. During the 2000 campaign Candidate Bush had a list of prohibitions that had been written up waiting for the opportunity to add Amendments to the Constitution and these prohibitions were exactly what Robertson, Falwell and Dobson demanded. The election turned out to be between Governor G. W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore. The problem was that the Republican Party had split in half as the funding of churches had been an action of illegal funding of religious institutions and could lose them their tax deductions as institutions of charity. They felt it was a chance they had to take and without the rest of the Republicans behind them they desperately needed the Christian voters.

There are still a lot of Americans who feel Bush did not win the election in 2000. Personally I have no idea what happened and not voting for either candidate just watched from outside the beltway. The election of 2000 and the way the Christians were manipulated into getting their memberships to vote for Bush bothered a lot of the Republicans. It became a huge rift in the RNC and in nearly every state who had at one time a workable GOP. The GOP never regained the number of voters after 2000. We saw a terrible change in the agenda and the first week Bush was in the White House he began to increase the size of government and the size of the federal budget.

With the development of the prohibitions trying to change our Constitution into listing what the American people must not do the government became distracted. :

No same sex marriages. No abortions at all. No research on embryonic stem cells. No allowing death with dignity for anyone. Prostitution, gambling, pornography and censorship of television and the internet; and there was even talk about prohibiting divorces in America. This split the Republican Party in half. Bush met with Robertson, Falwell and Haggard and firmed up his promises if they would push their members to register and vote for Bush and all the pro-life candidates running in 2004.

Bush won over Kerry that year but lost his Republican Party and in place he had only the Social Conservatives. People still whine that votes were manipulated to make Bush the winner but again I had no dog in that race and made up my mind to try and get the Republicans back as a united party of individual freedoms. The Christians would not let go and exploded on the internet labeling and insulting all and every Republican who dared to say anything derogatory about the Bush Administration. That was just step one in the dividing up of the Republican Party and it would get much worse before the voters woke up and tried to get the a new agenda under the Republican Party. Failing to do so, we saw a disaster in the 2006 mid term elections. The Conservatives learned nothing from their failure and continue to abuse and insult any Republican who dares to want individual freedoms. .

Here we are in 2007 and the GOP has never been so disenfranchised as ever before. President Bush 43 had managed to destroy the reputation of his Republican Party which is not exactly fair and true. He has shown a terrible level of corruption within his Conservatives in the Congress. Many of his own cabinet members are either indicted or will be. Most of the voters are furious they were tricked into voting for President Bush and then saw him pull some of the most unscrupulous actions ever in the White House.

The Democrats are having a field day watching the Conservatives destroying themselves under corruption. Apparently it is normal for the religious right to do anything to promote their agendas. Bush has hurt the GOP and the Religious Right in just 6 years of being the President.

But there is still the other half of the Republican Party who must stand up and get the GOP back on their agenda of limited government, individual freedoms and personal responsibilities. Can they do it? Will the powerful Conservatives and their religious backers allow it?

This will become a more damaging Civil War that we see in Baghdad. When our backs were turned the Conservatives turned into a tyrannical power behind a disreputable President. This happens a lot on this planet and it is a dirty shame our voters have not read history well enough to recognize just another cheap attempt to take over America. It will take one hell of a fight to get the Constitution back. It might even turn into a religious war in America. These Social Conservatives are not what the American voters believe they are. It is a movement based on forcing America to be a Christian nation. It will trash the Constitution and force an enormous police state over everyone.

I'm searching for a way to keep a balance in America between two successful political parties and firm them up with honest agendas without lying and manipulating the voters onto the wrong track. Is there any hope of putting our plans together in an open debate? Politics is ugly and dirty but since 2000 it has become more rotten than in any other time in my lifetime.

While we fight over Iraq and watch our brave young soldiers being sacrificed for some failed plan of Bush, I want to discuss seriously how we can restore some semblance of dignity back into our elections and government. The current status of the Conservatives is that they will never unite with the Republican Party. Can we do it without them? Do we even want to try? I'm hearing that the old Republican Party is not worth saving.

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