Michael Steele Just Doesn't Get It!

I saw GOP Chairman Michael Steele speak yesterday about moving forward, not backward, and how the Republican Party needs to stop apologizing for past mistakes. It made me sick. The Republican Party does not need to move forward, it needs to move backward, back to Reagan. I am sick of the party trying to be inclusive. It reminds me of the church. The church is so busy trying to be inclusive that it loses its founding principles. The Republican Party is doing the same thing. They are trying to be so inclusive that it is not even recognizable any more. It has become no better than the Democratic Party. I am a Conservative, NOT a Republican! I have not changed my party affiliation officially, but I will no longer just vote the straight party ticket. I will be looking to individual candidates and will refuse to vote for anyone who stands for anything but the Constitution. My husband refused to vote for Susan Collins this past election. I, sadly, voted for her. He refused to mark her name because she did not stand for what he stands for. I am proud of him. I wish I could say the same. I felt that way about McCain and was not going to vote for him (I would not have voted for Obama either). But, because he chose Palin, I voted for him. My vote was more against Obama than it was FOR anyone. I never liked McCain. I respect what he went through in VietNam and he should be honored for his service, but that does not make him a good president. I can't believe that the Republican Party put him up as a candidate. He was no better than Hillary. Mind you, Obama is much worse than McCain, but not by much. He destroyed any credibility he had when he stopped his campaign and rushed to Washington to support the bail-outs. What?!!! I thought he was going to stand against the bail-outs. He might have had a shot in hell if he had done that, but no, he voted the same as any Democrat. It was disgusting!! I am tired of voting for the Republicans just because they are NOT the Democrats. The Republicans of late are no better. I want to be able to vote FOR something, not the lesser of the two evils, which is what we were faced with in the election last year. Since Steele doesn't get it, I don't know what we are going to do. If Republicans do not go back to their roots, then what is the alternative? I was hoping that Steele got it. He doesn't. Now what? This country is doomed if we do not find some way to get good candidates to run. Problem is, good people don't want to be put through the crap that the media puts them through just to run for public office. The best we can hope for is that the tea party movement will translate into votes for good local candidates and that from there, we can make the changes needed to move our country back to its principles. Either that, or we all move to Texas.