The moderates are taking the Specter conversion as a divine imperative. Quoth Olympia Snowe: "Ultimately, we're heading to having the smallest political tent in history, the way events have been unfolding," she said. "If the Republican Party fully intends to become a majority party in the future, it must move from the far right back toward the middle."
With all due disrespect to the moderates, I could not disagree more. The Republican Party won a resounding victory in 1994, only to betray the American people with a wave of moderate delinquency and inadequacy. I know this because, as a young Republican at the time, I worked for "fiscal conservatives" who became "moderates" rather than fight the good fight against government intrusion, spending, and growth. I know that bitter taste of the "Moderate Flu."
What now? The Republicans may be far right, bordering on fascism, on social issues, but, contrary to Senator Snowe's allegations, they are hardly hard right on spending, fiscal issues, or growth of FedGov. The "moderate" Bush Administration and a "moderate" Republican Congress gave us record deficits, an expensive war, a new cabinet branch for waste (Department of Fatherland Security), and took our rights away. In response, America took the GOP's power away.
In my humble opinion, people like Senators Snowe and Specter are what make the GOP unpalatable. They will only take stands against citizen rights and freedoms, and they have no guiding core of principles beyond short-term political expediency and their own survival. The GOP has plenty of that already. If anything, it needs to find something worthwhile behind which to stand. Today's GOP should be taking its guidance from Ron Paul and Pat Toomey, rather than from the traitor Specter and the fool Bush.