I have a better idea

Our friend over at The Pagan Temple took a look at the discontent simmering in the Republican party over the nomination of the insane left-winger John McCain and offered this suggestion:

There is always this option-

social conservatives can migrate over to the Democratic Party, and help me and my people oust the leftists. If we can get the leftists out, it would be a more natural fit anyway. Once they were gone, only a very few things would be required for you to be good Democrats.

1. Work for the interests of the common person and working man (in other words, yourselves for the most part) as opposed to kowtowing to the interest of the corporate and BIG business interests who are, after all, the same country club Republicans who have screwed all of you over today.

2. Learn to say Democratic Party instead of Democrat Party.

3. Let's turn those leftists who remain in the party into the "DINOS". Hopefully, in time all of them will accept our cordial invitation to move to the Green Party where they truly belong.

4. Once they are gone we can work to establish fair policies geared toward the legitimate rights and concerns of all Americans, including those of the business community (but definitely not limited to them).

I know this is going to be met with some howls, including probably by Lem. All I can say is, if it did happen, you would learn pretty quickly just how interested the Republican Party country club elites care about Christian values, abortion, and gun rights, etc.

A hint-it wouldn't be pretty.

First off I am perfectly aware that the RINO wing of the Republican party cares nothing for Christian values, the Second Amendment and the unborn. If fact they are actively embarrassed by the presence of Evangelical Christians, pro-lifers and gun rights activists in their party. The fact is that the Country Club Republicans are socially liberal, fiscally conservative and isolationist. The only reason they aren't Democrats is because they tend to be from management rather than labor and because they don't like the idea of going to party functions with people who aren't white and/or have dirt under their fingernails and don't know which fork to use.

Now to address your numbered points.

1 & 4 - Show me a Democrat party which understands that no poor person ever gave anyone a job but that rich people give millions of people jobs. Show me a Democrat party which believes that the person who earned the money is the best judge of how the money should be spent. Show me a Democrat party which believes that it is acceptable to tax money from an individual to pay for things which benefit the individual like the military, law enforcement (cops, courts and prisons) and infrastructure (roads, bridges, air and sea ports) but but never to subsidize another private individual. Show me a Democrat party which understands that no business ever paid taxes, they are just a cost of doing business which is passed on to the customer, and so will abolish all business taxes. Show me a Democrat party which understands that it is immoral to tax the estate of a dead person. Show me a Democrat party which understands that the social security system is nothing but a Ponzi scheme which would be a crime in the private sector and cannot survive and must be replaced with private retirement accounts. Show me a Democrat party which understands that there is no constitutional right to health care and therefore its provision is none of the federal government's business. Show me a Democrat party which understands that one of the very few legitimate functions of government is the protection of innocent life and that protecting the unborn from abortion and the disabled from euthanasia as well as executing cold blooded killers are all essential to that goal. Show me a Democrat party which understands that it is better to fight the Islamofascists on Middle Eastern soil rather than on American soil.

Show me that Democrat party and I'll consider joining.

2. How can you look at the Democrat party's primary process where you have a large number of so-called super delegates who are not elected but appointed and represent not the people but the party elite and whose function is to step in and set things "right" just in case the wretched and detestable people [spit] f**k up and nominate the wrong person and seriously think they deserve to be called Democratic?

3. Good luck. Seriously, if every presidential election for the rest of this nation's history was a contest between a Ronald Reagan type Republican and a JFK type Democrat (while the left-wingers and the paleoconservatives and greens and other assorted genetic defectives sat on the sidelines and gnashed their teeth) I'd be in heaven.

Patrick, you represent the last vestige of an American political economy which died in the chaos of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In the world you are trying to still live in organized labor was the West's greatest bastion of anti-communism. In that world the second thing Alexandr Solzhenitsyn did after being exiled from the USSR (the first was speak to a joint session of congress) was address the annual meeting of the AFL-CIO. In that world a Democrat president would stand before the American people and promise that the USA would "fight any foe" to defend freedom anywhere in the world and then prove he meant it by sending troops to far away Vietnam to help the elected government put down a communist uprising.

I am sorry. I am truly sorry, but that Democrat party is as dead as I'm trying to make the Republican party of Nelson Rockefeller. It is possible for that old Democrat party to make a comeback, if there are enough people who want it to, but where is the will to make that happen today? Today's Democrat party cast out Joe Lieberman and is busy choosing between a Marxist (Obama) and a Stalinist (Clinton) to be its nominee. What do you think that party would do to Harry Truman?

Patrick you and anyone else like you need to wake up and realize that this is 2008 not 1938 and help us sweep out the trash like John McCain and the Bush family. Then we can build an America around the principle that the only thing standing in the way of the unleashing to the enormous creative and productive potential of the American people is excessive government.