Conservatives Cannot Play Blame Game Anymore in the GOP

I am a conservative pretty much and a Republican. Over the years though in many cases the constant rant of some in that faction "to take their toys home and leave" get tiresome to me.

I am pretty old fashioned about these things. I have a Reagan like view.

That is why I welcome this post Scozzafava Candidacy: Not the Fault of DC GOP

It appears to me that the folks in the comment section by and large really did not consider his points.

Here are a few excerpts
I’ve taken some heat for posts I’ve written on Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava versus conservative Doug Hoffman in NY-23. My posts have been misinterpreted as supportive of Scozzafava, which they truly were not. Blame that on me, as the posts weren’t clear enough about the thought process going on behind the scenes. But that’s less important than the issue at hand. My conservative credentials are intact. But how conservatives win the current civil war within the GOP is important to me. We must build the party up and become strong, not simply tear things down because we disagree with them.....

The GOP is not and has never been the conservative movement. The current battle should not be about decimation; it should be about control. Reagan, in his too often unheralded and underappreciated wisdom, knew that the key to victory was not in trying to leave or otherwise destroy the GOP, but in coming to dominate it democratically and with a reasonable hand. The Gipper’s wisdom may have been best evidenced in his promoting the “Eleventh Commandment” from the earliest days of his political campaigning:

The personal attacks against me during the primary finally became so heavy that the state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. It’s a rule I followed during that campaign and have ever since.......


When I listen to radio host Mark Levin talk about his old Reagan days, he doesn’t talk about the evils of liberalism or the tyranny of the state. Mostly he talks about going to work for Reagan, getting off his butt, and going out the door to do the time-consuming and often hard work of genuinely effective political campaigning. He talks about getting involved.

If grassroots conservatives have dropped the ball in some way, especially in the Northeast, it is that we haven’t done the hard work to take back the Republican Party from the ground up. To truly prevail we must do that.

It disappointed me to hear the Club for Growth’s Andy Roth blame RNC Chairman Michael Steele and the D.C. Republicans for giving us a Dede Scozzafava. He knows better than that, and he shouldn’t play that game simply to get his message across. Scozzafava got the nod based upon a state and local decision. It’s important for conservatives to understand how that came about.

It is not the D.C. GOP’s job to stab a state or local organization in the back, no matter what you may think. Money and support flow up and flow back down. A national political organization capable of winning elections can not afford to function any other way. Let’s stop playing games.................

And until conservatives around the country begin showing up when the media lights aren’t glaring or the final battle over a candidate is already underway, we’re going to continue to see a lot more candidates like Dede Scozzafava.
Show up and do the work if you really want to make a difference. Otherwise, you might just as well shut up for all the good effect you’ll have influencing the political future of this great land. Perhaps it’s time for more conservatives to start paying back in that sense, instead of whining and yelling about why the GOP is not paying off. What, besides maybe a small donation and a lot of criticism, have you given the GOP lately? Get involved. In politics, that and nothing else is the critical difference between victory and defeat.............


Amen