Stop The Madness

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Gotta agree with Beth here on the state of conservative bloggers and their sniping of Bush: (h/t Deep Down In Texas)

But bloggers? Bloggers, even on the right, tend to resemble Tigerhawk?s example of left-wing activists?doing a lot of shouting and sniping (even Bush-bashing) on a dizzying number of issues.

In other words, no message discipline.

So what?s the answer?

Stop right now with the attacks on Bush and the GOP. For God?s sake, there?s ENOUGH of that already on the left. There is a way to disagree without being destructive: Michelle Malkin disagrees often with Bush, but she generally doesn?t call him ?weak? or other such nonsense. The way to effect change is not to sit at a blog and say ?Bush is acting like a liberal again, bitch, bitch bitch.? I?ll use Malkin again here, since she has the most influence of conservative bloggers and is the link between us and the mainstream media: her method isn?t just bashing, she gives phone numbers and email addresses to which complaints can be directed along with the background of the story. Mindless bitching and generalizations do no good.

All the loud criticism and hand-wringing does is encourage people to stay home on Election Day (including Congressional elections). What COUNTS is votes. So you don?t like Bush?s immigration policy? Fine. He?s not running for re-election, but other Republicans are. Taking this issue (for example) and using it to paint the entire party as weak or ?not conservative? (or whatever) is dangerous business, because it encourages defection to honestly irrelevant and impotent third parties, if any political participation at all. (See also: Ross Perot, Ralph Nader.)

So you don?t think the GOP is conservative enough, or you don?t like everything they represent? OK, fine. Does the Democratic Party represent you better? Basically, that?s your choice right now?no third party, not Libertarian, not any?is going to suddenly gain national power any time soon, and you might as well play with the cards you?re dealt. What are the most important issues today? I submit that the War on Islamofascism and judicial activism are, and I doubt that many any would disagree. I repeat, you have two choices: the Democratic Party?s approach, or the Republican Party?s approach. Either get on board, or surrender to the other side.

This means not only cut the destructive sniping, it means?crucially?no more attempts on the life of the GOP. Specifically, withholding political contributions, and encouraging others to do the same. So you don?t want to give contributions to the RNC? Fine. Pick candidates running in 2006 that you like, and send money to their campaigns, then. Better yet, send money to those in tougher races. You may not be happy with the Republican Congress, but it?s a lot better than a Democratic Congress! Think: if Congress were controlled by Democrats, would we get any good judicial nominees confirmed?or even nominated? Wouldn?t Bush have to pick ?safer? nominees?

So you don?t like the Patriot Act, and you don?t like the current immigration policy? With a Democratic congress, you would likely have a weakened Patriot Act, but you could forget about immigration reform. Don?t forget about Guantanamo, while you?re at it. That would be history. And furthermore, imagine the Congressional meddling in military operations (see also: Vietnam).

Fed up with the current Federal budget? Me too. I think it?s a joke to imagine that the Democrats would do any better, though! So when I read something like this,

the GOP majority has been spending federal tax dollars like drunken sailors since 2001

I?m even more disgusted. Not because of the rate of spending, but because 1) war is expensive, duh, and 2) not ALL of the GOP slurs like a drunken sailor, and here?s one example:

Sen. Richard Shelby says it?s time for the federal government to go on a massive diet to pay for hurricane relief, and he?s willing to start by delaying many of the highway projects and other earmarks he lured for Alabama.

Good. Excellent. And note that while Mark Tapscott complains about the GOP as a whole ?losing its soul,? Michelle Malkin puts the target on specific offenders.

Basically, all I?m saying is we have to choose our battles. All I?ve seen lately is bitch, bitch, bitch on the Right, people saying things like ?why do we even have a Republican Congress?? Guess what: you?re not going to get your way on everything; politics is a game of compromise, like it or not. I?d be happy to have it all go my way, but I?m a realist. There are certain issues I simply don?t write about here that others do, and that?s because I know some things I have to let it go for the sake of the big picture. On those issues, I act, but I do it quietly, behind the scenes, if you will. There?s a reason why we have access to the phone numbers and email/postal addresses of the White House, our Senators and Representatives, and our Governors, and there ARE organizations who work those issues (i.e. the budget, immigration, etc.).

Is Bush perfect? Nope. Neither was Reagan nor any President for that matter. You will never find your own perfect President I’m sorry to say, who agrees with everything you believe and does every thing you want. Just won’t happen.

As I’ve said time and time again, I don’t agree with Bush on immigration nor his spending habits but can you imagine where we would be at if Gore was President? It makes me shudder to even think about it, what a disaster that would have been.

It does no good to snipe at Bush and Congress when we have enough of that coming from the moonbats. We need to stand united and defeat the schizoleft in 2006 and 2008. That is our goal, that is our mission. Unless you would be satisified with Hillary as our President.