The American Spectator

J David| 2.2.09 @ 11:04AM

Republicans, as a party, cease to exist apart from ideology, as it is their origin and the reason they have survived (though barely, now) to the present. There are two parties, effectively, in our system because the American mind-set is one of specialization, and boiling everything down to its simplest, most mass-produceable components.

*Conservative* Republicans represent conscientious adherence to founding principles of individual liberty, personal responsibility, small de-centralized gov't, vigorous national defense(the main reason for govt's existence, along with regulation of trade, immigration, and egalitarian judicial regulation), and the defense against an intrusive gov't in Constitutional protections of individuals.

The commie-libs are for division of segments of society and interest groups - from the Civil War on - against each other, to weaken individual rights, thus empowering gov't; destroying Constitutional protections, and using the various human lusts and innate flaws to weaken the moral fabric, for the same reasons...seen most clearly from Wilson onward. They have capitalized most on Darwinistic atheism, revelation to the masses that they can vote themselves money they did not earn, the moral relativism of self-worshiping secular humanism, and the intellectual and moral laziness that comes to generations that did not have to work for the riches and liberties their forebears have bequeathed to them.

Every culture WILL collapse...they all go through the same clearly traceable cycles, and those which gain the most power the fastest also lose it the fastest. No civilization in the history of the world survives God-hatred(and turning against Israel), main-line homosexual culture, the mass killing of its own offspring, and the rejection of reason/logic for subjective/emotional self-justification.

As the RINO Party, in the main has accepted, secular humanistic pragmatism (void of ideals, moral absolutes, and basic, proven principle) of submitting the welfare of the nation to the whims of the ignorant masses (and taking more individual liberties for each goody handed out), and to nefarious purposes of America-loathers on the Left, the country is now marking time to its final end...

Alan Brooks| 2.2.09 @ 11:38AM

Steele is black and that's that. game over.

we cant talk about it publicly, but Steele has job security, as will so many other black politicians and managers. it's the In thing.

Interloper| 2.2.09 @ 1:01PM

Heck, Steele hasn't even been able to support himself without handouts from the Republican Party of Maryland. He actually received a $5000 per month salary from the party while running for governor. Then there are the bankruptcies and millions in unpaid taxes. Somehow, the Republican dream of rugged, self-supporting individualism evaded him. Much like it does most Americans.

BUT, electing Katon Dawson chair of the NRC would have been a much worse fate as he tried to bring his country club's values to the rest of society. You all should be thanking Santa for your belated Christmas gift of merely an inept chairman.