Republican “Moderates” Only Advance Liberalism

By Christopher G. Adamo

Slowly, reluctantly, grassroots conservatives are waking up to the fact that their agenda is being systematically undermined and thwarted. Worse yet, this is consistently happening at the hands of Republicans. The GOP controls the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the White House. The overwhelming majority of Supreme Court Justices are Republican appointees. And Republicans hold the majority of state governorships. Yet the moral bankruptcy of the counterculture relentlessly advances.

The upcoming primary election in Pennsylvania stands as a sterling example of just what is wrong with the system, as well as the best (and perhaps the only) means of fixing it.

Incumbent “Republican” Senator Arlen Specter, an unabashed opponent of virtually every facet of conservatism, now finds himself in a tight race against U.S. Representative Pat Toomey, who has steadfastly championed conservatism throughout his political life. Yet for all his devotion to principle, Toomey has been virtually abandoned by conservative organizations such as the College Republicans. President Bush is actively supporting Specter, along with conservative “lightning rod” Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania's junior Senator.

In many respects, this situation bears a dismal similarity to the 1997 New Jersey Governor's race, in which ultra-liberal “Republican” incumbent Christine Todd Whitman would certainly have lost but for the prominent social and moral conservatives who rallied to her aid. In return Whitman, once reelected, continued to press forward with her liberal agenda. And when Bret Schundler, a true conservative, might likewise have benefited from a call to solidarity by Whitman during his own 2001 bid for governor, she opted instead to deliver him a political “knife in the back,” helping to ensure his defeat. If Specter wins, does anyone really expect him to act differently?

Among Toomey's contentions is that Specter has received support from radical leftist financier George Soros. Feeling the heat, Specter found it necessary to call Rush Limbaugh's radio program last week, in an attempt to vindicate himself. Sounding rather “Clintonian,” Specter disputed a few of the details, and generally feigned ignorance as to the nature and intent of the Soros donation. Conspicuously absent from Specter's hollow disclaimer was any explanation of why a God-hating anti-American like George Soros would, under any circumstances, feel comfortable assisting in the election of someone like Specter. Clearly, Soros knows that in Specter's world, liberal ideology trumps party affiliation.

Things are apparently no better in Washington State. Congressman George Nethercutt, another “moderate,” is being challenged in that state's U.S. Senate primary by conservative Reed Davis. But the state's Republican Party is withholding assistance from Davis on the grounds that he refuses to sign a pledge to abide by the so-called “Eleventh Commandment.” Originally the brainchild of Ronald Reagan, the “Eleventh Commandment” simply states that one Republican candidate should never “attack” another.

Davis fully realizes that the final arbiters of what constitutes an “attack” will be none other than the “moderate” insiders who run the Washington Republican Party. Moreover, just as the “Dole Republicans” perverted Reagan's “Big Tent” to lower party standards in hopes of making liberals feel welcome, the new “Eleventh Commandment” has been thoroughly distorted with the intention of hamstringing conservatives from confronting the liberalism of their “moderate” opponents.

In contrast, “moderates” are increasingly brazen in their efforts to derail conservative candidates who were not pre-selected by the party elite. This they regularly do with impunity. Furthermore “moderates” have a vested interest in sabotaging conservative candidacies. For when such conservatives fall victim to these underhanded tactics and are defeated, it is the “moderates” who most loudly trumpet the notion that conservatism is a “losing strategy.”

In recent years, “moderate” Republican Party operatives have become extremely adept at convincing conservatives to support liberal candidates, “for the good of the party,” ostensibly on a one-time basis. Invariably, each successive situation is portrayed as a unique event, in which conservatives must “rise above” their own interests and look to the greater good. And each time, they are rewarded with a candidate they helped elect, who then proceeds to do everything possible to marginalize them.

During the past four years, the Republican dominated federal government has implemented budget-busting socialism, trampled the First Amendment, and virtually abolished the nation's southern border. Meanwhile, the Federal Marriage Amendment is quietly being taken off life support, leaving a foundational institution of Western civilization vulnerable to eventual eradication. If conservatives have any true intention of eventually restoring the values they cherish, they had better resolve to support individuals who are honestly committed to doing so.

Growing up during the turbulent decades of the ‘60's and ‘70's, Christopher  Adamo saw, to his dismay, the nation's moral foundations being destroyed  before his very eyes. But even then he was a staunch Conservative at heart,  and rejected outright the tenets of America's counterculture revolution.

 After a hitch in the Air Force, where he specialized in airborne  electro- optical systems, he pursued a career in the field of aerospace,  working for major defense contractors in California, Florida, and Colorado. But his career plans abruptly changed during the industry-wide downsizing that followed the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Presently he is working in the field of industrial instrumentation in the state of Wyoming. Concurrently, he has become involved in that state's political process, attending state GOP conventions as a delegate, and serving as a member of the Wyoming Republican Central Committee. He has also aided in the candidacies of local legislators and state senators, as well as a U.S. Senator and Congresswoman.

From 1993 to 1996, he edited and wrote for “The Wyoming Christian”, the state newsletter for Christian Coalition of Wyoming. During that period, he developed an acute awareness of the harm being done to Conservatism by liberal activists within the Republican Party as well as the Democrats. This remains a favorite theme of his articles, which now appear as a regular feature on GOPUSA.