What price victory?

In his latest column Dick Morris speculates that the Republicans will have to run an ad on Craigslist to find a candidate that they can support. Dick lists some of the presumptive Republican front runners and then lists the reasons that conservatives won't support them. For example:

Rudy Guiliani? Pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-gay rights, pro-immigration, pro-gun control Rudy? Righties will vote for him only if they have lobotomies first. Remember how the New York City Council prohibited the Boy Scouts from meeting on city property because they wouldn't let in gay scoutmasters? Rudy let it happen.

He similarly shoots down Mitt Romney, Newt and John McCain.

What you need to understand is that Morris is a liberal who is himself "pro-affirmative action, pro-gay rights (gay marriage), pro-(illegal)-immigration and pro-gun control". Morris only became a Republican because he got fired by Bill Clinton. Morris thinks that Rudy would be the ideal president because he is a hard line national security guy who would hold the line on taxes but be a screaming raving ultra left-wing barking moonbat in every other area.

In Morris' mind the villain in this drama is the Christian right:

Part of the problem is that the agenda of the evangelical side of the party has expanded beyond religious issues. Somehow, the Christian Right's litmus tests have widened to include opposition to illegal immigration, affirmative action and gun control along with antipathy to gay marriage and abortion.

In the flush of victories since 1980, the movement has come to expect candidates to toe the line of their agenda...and to reject those who don't.

But the Republicans have to nominate somebody and the Christian Right has to have a candidate. Who will it be? We don't have any idea, hence the want ad. Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is articulate, a former Baptist Minister and an innovator. He even lost 100 pounds. But another Arkansas governor? Give us a break!

Maybe Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas. Senator who? Or Rep. Duncan Hunter of California or former Virginia Gov. James Gilmore.

Quick, somebody run over to Shooting The Messenger and tell Fits that his Second Amendment activism makes him an Evangelical Christian. Then go tell the same to Aaron Zelman at Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.

Everything that Morris doesn't like he loads onto his favorite boogieman, the conservative Christian. Morris mentions the string of victories that the Right has enjoyed since the '80s. He should reflect on those victories.

The very issues which he is so desperate to throw overboard are the core issues which have defined the conservative movement and built a majority. The Republican defeat this past November was due to the Party's elected leaders abandoning those principles.

It is not enough to just fight the war on terror. The reason we desire to save the nation is so that we may live in it. And to do that we wish to preserve a quality of life that makes the sacrifices needed to protect the nation seem worthwhile. If we go down Morris's path and turn the country into a kind of Europe with testosterone what would be the point?

Does anyone out there think that if France or Belgium became just a little bit more muscular in regards to the Islamofascists that they would then become worth a thimble full of warm spit? We defend the country because it embodies our values. If we abandon those values in the interest of its defense we lose the war even if we win the battles.

The Party has its task cut out for it. We must find a true conservative who can win and then get behind him.