The conservative activist opines: "Since at least the end of the Reagan era, the
GOP's elitist faction leaders have been more and more inclined to join
their counterparts in the Democratic Party in open, adamant rejection of
the founders' vision of Creator-endowed humanity. In one way or
another, they have been implementing an understanding of politics
derived from the ungodly, soulless conception of human life common to
all the socialist ideologies."
Mr. Keyes continues: "With the success of Mitt Romney, the GOP's elitists mean openly to
confirm and consolidate the Party's abandonment of the Declaration
heritage that Lincoln's statesmanship established as the unequivocal
basis of our identity as a free people. In the 2012 election, Americans
are making a historic choice, but many are making it unbeknownst to
themselves. It is emphatically not the choice between Romney and Obama.
It's the choice quietly to accept the elitists' redefinition of
politics, which decisively abandons the basis in principle for
constitutional self-government; or to consider instead voting in the
only way that still offers an effective chance to affirm, at least in
principle, that we are a people determined never to surrender our
liberty."
Alan Keyes Op-Ed: A Catch-22 For Americans
