Take Your Big Tent And Stuff It

There are a lot of people in the media, as well as people who call themselves Conservatives, who are trying to tell us that the Republican Party needs to be more inclusive. They say that we need to have a big tent. What they really mean by this is that we must abandon all of our principles, accept all people, regardless of their ideas, and everything will be OK, as long as all the Conservatives in the big tent sit down and shut up. Their interest really lies in grabbing and maintaining their own power while furthering the Democratic agenda.

They tell us that we cannot win if we continue to hold fast to our core Conservative Principles, claiming that those principles are the reason why we have lost as much recently has we have, ignoring the fact that those who have lost the most have been those who have held our positions the least. But for the sake of this argument, let's go ahead and give them the (false) premise that we cannot win on our principles, what then? I say, fine, so be it. It's not a game, it's not about winning no matter what. It's all about which principles and positions will win out in the end. If we take a stand on our principles and lose, then fine, at least it's an honest defeat, but if we abandon our principles, and move left, and just go along with all of the Democrat agenda points, then we have lost already, even if we win.

Besides this, contrary to what some are trying to claim, Conservatives fully understand that we don't all have to be in agreement on every issue, but we are saying is that we must hold to those core principles that the Country was founded on. We can have the debate, we can argue our positions, in fact we welcome it, we love having the chance to explain what we believe and why, it's just that many people aren't listening. Many times this comes down to the fact that often the Statist position is easy to grasp, it's nearly always dishonest and virtually never does the good they claim it would do, but oh how it sounds good. Conservative positions usually take a little more work to explain and understand, but they actually work as advertised, and that's the difference.

I understand that the media keeps trying to tell Conservatives to sit down and shut up because they are committed to the leftist agenda, and want to further it at all cost, including the suppression of free speech. For those who call themselves Conservatives in one breath, while proving in the next that they are not, I can only assume that they are either narcissistic, hungering for the approval of the media and elitists, or power hungry, or just too dang lazy or stupid to articulate Conservative positions and principles.

So, back to my topic for this post, I mean it, take your big tent and stuff it!