Why Republicans are Losing Ground

I’ve read much since the elections about why the republicans suffered so many losses. Some say it’s a lack of direction, some a lack of identity. I believe that it’s a combination of several factors.

First to blame for the losses is the fact that republicans are trying to be liberals. From the Law of the Sea Treaty (look it up) to the $700 billion bailout pushed through by W, what used to be a conservative party has taken a hard swing to the middle and then some. The swing was an attempt to pander to the ignorant masses and the entitlement population. There is no way that the republicans can beat the dems at this game. They’ve been doing it a lot longer and a lot louder. The GOP needs to return to it’s core values and educate the people as to why fiscal responsibility and small government are better for the nation in the long run.

Next in the blame line is the ignorant masses previously mentioned. As Alexander Tyler so beautifully put it:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”

Both presidential candidates were struggling to offer Americans the most entitlements, despite the fiscal impossibility of any of them. Your average citizen more than likely has no idea where the money for these programs/handouts comes from. All they know is that Obama promised them things, though I doubt most of them could even tell you what those things are. How can the GOP combat this tide of ignorance and entitlement voting? Education. The key lies in returning public schools to places of learning, as opposed to places to pump out factory workers and welfare recipients.

The media also contributed quite a bit to the republican losses this last election cycle. Anyone trying to tell you that the coverage was fair and balanced is either in the industry or on psychotropic medication. I know this sounds like another conservative rant about a media conspiracy, but even the media themselves have admitted to bias: Bias admission gets ‘no comment’ (there are other examples, I’ll leave those to you as a research exercise).

Last but not least, the republicans are to blame for the losses. For too long they have let the liberals get away with loudmouthed dirty politics. I’m not saying all republicans are angels. The GOP has more than its fair share of dirty tricksters, but anyone who doesn’t believe that they’ve let the democrats go unhindered for too long should listen to Harry Reid talk for 5 minutes. The solution to this problem is to challenge the democrats at every chance with facts and figures, not rhetoric and consolation.

The GOP has a tough road ahead of it. The party needs to take a long hard look at itself and decide what it wants to be.