The GOP has severe problems. The GOP bosses want to make a few minor adjustments and magically be back on track. That is not going to happen. Neither will the democrats self-destruct over the next 180 days, causing the American people to beg for the return of the good old days of GOP dominance.   The GOP must claw its way, inch by inch back to the mountain top. Unfortunately, there are people on top of that mountain now throwing rocks and rolling down boulders toward the struggling Repub’s.   What must be done to redirect the fortunes of the Republican Party?

First and foremost we need a real leader sitting in the RNC Chair and soon. A real leader, huh? Where do you get one of those? None of that commodity to be found in the GOP Hierarchy these days.   It’d have to be someone who would know how to attract back into the fold the massive numbers of estranged, disenfranchised “former” GOP voters that have been driven away over the past 7 years by the elitist hierarchy. So lets say we found a totally qualified, enlightened and tuned-in person and we put them in this RNC Chair and they had free reign. What would they do? 

Lets attempt to get to the root/essence of the Republican Party train wreck.

First, we must backtrack. Trace the foot prints back in time and determine where the GOP went wrong. Where did they run off course? Or where did they get snagged? Maybe they picked up some sort of parasite along the way? Or maybe all of the above.   I’m talking introspection. Intense self analysis of the Republican party. 

So what would we find? Well we traveled back in time to the late 1980’s.   Early 1989 to be exact where we have the first in a line of new-age, Ivy League University trained Presidents raising his right hand and taking the oath on 1/20/89. George H.W. Bush followed by W.J. Clinton (D) and him followed by George W. Bush. A whole string of ‘em. Trained and brainwashed to believe that wide open, unrestrained “global” free trade was the key to prosperity for the U.S. and the rest of the world. But you say, “hey wasn’t Clinton a democrat?”   Sure but he happily took the globalist baton from Bush 41’s hands and Bush 41 gladly passed it on. The same sort of exchange happened on 1/20/00 between Clinton and Bush 43. 

So you’re probably asking, “how do you make a connection between this global free trade stance and the demise of the GOP?” There’s a substantial connection, in my view. It has to do with the adoption, by the GOP, of internationalism. And the unintentional, I believe, tossing out of Nationalism because these two concepts can't coexist.  This “globalism”, this contamination,  slithered into the GOP by hitching a ride aboard Bush 41’s enthusiasm and total embrace for wide open global free trade. Now I’m not going to get into the wide spectrum and variations of internationalism and anti-nationalism, proletarian internationalism and globalization, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah! Most who read this have google. Google these terms yourself, please. I’m asking you to do this because once you involve yourself in a study of these terms the path is going to lead you straight  back to the source. One, Karl Marx.  Hence, this internationalism has  tainted and negatively influenced almost all  GOP decision and product especially since '00.   The Parasite took over.  The parasite pushed the GOP’s volition aside and took command.   It had little resistance.   

I can hear you now, “So now you’re calling George H.W. Bush a Marxist!  Bush 43 a Marxist!”  NO!  Not at all!   What I’m trying to say is that even strong willed and principled people who attend modern universities are ever so subtly influenced by the leftists controlling the curriculum.   And lets make no mistake, Marxism is alive and well in our institutions of higher learning.   So all of you “conservatives” who’ve attended these Universities, you might want to do a full body search for that little Marxist parasite that has leeched onto you. Its not difficult. You just have to know what you’re looking for and, once found, burn it off with a lit cigarette. Smarts a little but you’ll feel so much better. 

So, you say, “I still don’t see how this could negatively effect the GOP”. Ok. This is difficult for me. I won’t try to back up what I say at this time w/facts, figures, charts and graphs.  I’m no scholar of international affairs. But then neither are the 10 million plus former GOP voters who either Stayed at Home on 11/7/06 and 11/4/08 or they protest voted for some 3^rd party nut. This is how they think. So you elitists out there had better listen.  Most middle Americans are aware of GATT. They know of its “offspring” the WTO. They’re not against global trade!   But they feel that GATT has far outlived its usefulness. They believe that since WWII if emerging nations haven’t emerged, then they never will.  And regarding the WTO?  They feel that the 152 or so other members, like most nations in the world, would like to (and do) “stick it to” the U.S.   Jealous of our prosperity and dominance.  Basically, like the U.N., it’s the U.S. verses the rest of the world. Lets not be in denial about that.   So, these people in fly over country, these unwashed hicks believe that it would be best to begin to “distance ourselves” from these international orgs like the WTO and the UN.   Sever ties?   Certainly not.   But the relationship should “cool” dramatically. We should form our own WTO internally and deal with nations on trade issues   1 on 1. We’ll continue to have massive international trade and we’ll have better, more profitable/equitable trade deals. Our Trade Deficit will begin to shrink and will eventually turn into a Trade Surplus. Our last trade surplus? 1991. Right about the time Bush 41’s trade policies were kicking in.

The fact is our trade policies over the past 2 decades have caused the U.S. to lose, or be con’d out of much of its wealth.   A few here are getting rich but the Middle Class is diminishing a tiny increment at a time. And the folks in Middle America know it. And they know that the GOP is doing not one thing about it because most in the GOP Hierarchy are absolutely on board w/GATT, the WTO and this convoluted trade mess that we have. These elitist scoundrels don’t want change and they don’t even want discussion on the subject of trade.  Its strictly a black/white issue to them. They persist with the false dichotomy.   And obviously they don’t care if they lose votes over the issue, either.  I, personally, think they’re afraid of change. They don’t have a clue as to how to transition and they’re too arrogant to ask for help.    

I can assure you that Middle Americans are fiercely Nationalistic. It’s a New inclusive nationalism. A civic nationalism as opposed to some ethnic form and they want no part of internationalism.  They want their elected rep’s to put the good of the U.S. first in all  legislative and other decisions. World opinion is way, way down on the list of priorities as far as Middle America is concerned.  

This trade issue is also affecting our southern sovereign borders, too. Mexican truck drivers are barreling northward across our southern border without work visa’s, driving on U.S. taxpayer funded highways with inferior/ unsafe trucks. Simultaneously robbing jobs away from U.S. truckers.   If left unchecked the U.S. trucking industry will be a fraction of itself within 5 years. All major trucking companies will be operated out of high rises with truck yards located in northern Mexico.   President Bush and the republicans have pushed hard for this. And where was that Teamsters Union endorsement?   Not even close. Ronald Reagan valued that endorsement and acquired it both in ’80 and ’84.   The GOP has stabbed U.S. truckers in the back and twisted the blade. All because they had not the courage to renegotiate a small segment of Nafta.  

And because of their out of control globalist influences, the GOP has shamefully allowed our southern border to become seriously breeched.   U.S. citizens along border states are suffering. Not just border states. Illegal immigration has extended itself into all major cities of our nation.   The GOP had an opportunity and an obligation to stop it using existing laws and statutes but, egged on and financed by the seditious U.S. Chamber, they refused to do so. The U.S. taxpayer knows that he/she must carry the load and provide a safety net for our own nations poor but we never signed on to provide that same safety net for another nations poor!   The continuous and shameless pandering by the President toward Mexico and Central America caused many this election day, like on 11/7/06, to become exasperated and they simply dropped out of the process. 

Then there’s the issue of the Republican Doormats. Laying down and allowing the democrats, the “greenies” and the MSM walk over them and wipe their soiled feet on them. There’s no fight left in the GOP (except when it is directed toward their Base!). Every time the dem’s begin a little protest, here comes the Republicans ready and eager to sit at the “table of compromise”.   They’ve done this so much that their values have become watered down. Without substance. That was so evident every time John McCain got up to speak during this election cycle.   Nothing but meaningless, worn out dribble spilling out of his mouth. Not just McCain but most GOP spokes persons.   The Base wants our elected rep’s to do battle with these radical environmentalists and left leaning elements. Not agree with them or compromise with them.   The average middle American does not accept the hoax of  man made global warming/climate change.

Again, an enlightened RNC leader would have his/her finger on the pulse of the American Voter. They would know how to draw these millions of dormant but eligible voters back into the voting booth and do it in time for the 2010 midterms. Like a powerful magnet they’d pull votes back away from the democrats, too.    They’d know how to rebuild the Base & get it enthusiastic and motivated again. We saw some glimpses of that when Sarah Palin would take the platform. But for now the GOP is leaderless. Nothing will come together without an enlightened leader .   Already I’m seeing the false leaders trying to step in. The poison PaulPods are out in mass especially on the blogesphere. Why? Because none of our dynamic and true conservative leaders will step into the position.    There is a void.   That is creating  a vacuum. Something will be pulled in to fill that void. Let us hope and pray that someone with honor and integrity steps in to fill it. I think the first sign will be who sits in that RNC Chair.   That will be decided soon.   Let’s let the RNC know that we’re watching.    Darvin Dowdy