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| Star Parker is melancholic about the GOP's future |
Asks the conservative Republican commentator in Washington, D.C.: "In the party that is supposed to be about freedom and personal
responsibility, party operatives want to blame everyone else for their
own failures. Worse, they want to pin it on candidates who actually take seriously the traditional values of their party. Karl Rove would like to weed out candidates like former Missouri Rep. Todd Akin. Akin, who was defeated by Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill in
the U.S. Senate race in Missouri, was a six-term Republican congressman
with a flawless conservative record. For most of 2012 he was ahead of McCaskill in the polls. Then, in
August, he expressed himself poorly in an interview about abortion.
Despite his apologies and efforts to clarify himself, his own party
abandoned him. McCaskill ran ads, over and over, showing the Republican’s own
candidate Mitt Romney questioning Akin’s qualifications. This race could
have been saved. But the party elite wasted not a second dumping Akin
because they were not comfortable with his conservative values to begin
with."
More: "We’re living in a deeply troubled country today. Americans are
looking for answers, not a political class feathering its own nest. There are tens of millions of conservative American patriots who seek
an opposition party to represent their conviction that America will not
get back on the path to strength and prosperity without restoration of
freedom, limited government, free markets and traditional values. Today’s big question is whether the Republican Party is going to be that opposition party. If not, it is not conservative values and convictions that will be abandoned. It will be the Republican Party."
