THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOW

I am new to the Republican Party, having joined within the last two years because I believed the Republican Party best fit my conservative views. I have had no reason to regret that decision until very recently. Do I think I should go back to the Democrat party? Absolutely not! What I find so troublesome and indeed, worrisome, is the erosion of support for the President of the United States from within our own party.

George W. Bush has always been the villain of the Democrats and the mainstream media. When I joined the Republican Party I never expected Republican activists to join in this chorus of displeasure. Recently I attended a Republican Meeting and was shocked and saddened to hear prominent Republicans saying how disappointed they are with our President, how they fear that he has destroyed the Republican Party.

The two main issues of unhappiness seem to be the immigration bill and the increasing size of government. I was amazed that many of these Republican faithful were simply regurgitating the garbage spewed out by the mainstream media. " The immigration bill is bad for the country. The immigration bill grants amnesty to millions of illegal people. The immigration bill is the worst thing to ever hit this country. " Then they started on the size of government, the record deficits, the huge increase in government employees.

I found myself saying. Wait a minute. Have you read the immigration bill? Read it before you just decide that it is wrong for the whole country. Read it before you decide that it is amnesty. I’m not saying we can’t debate the issues, but this should always be an internal Republican debate, not an external family feud to amuse the Democrats and mainstream media. Most of all, we should all publicly support our President. Come on everyone, he hasn’t done such a bad job for us. Don’t let the liberals convince you otherwise.

I’m not suggesting that Republicans all across this land aren’t working as hard as they can to get ready for 2008. Most of the ones that I know certainly are. But it is disheartening to me, and I’m sure to many of the other hard workers, to hear columnists such as Peggy Noonan and politicians such as Newt Gingrich and Arlen Specter attacking our party and our President. It is also very unnecessary.

Especially troubling to me at the meeting that I attended the other day was the comment by one person that maybe we should just sit out the 2008 election. Our County Chairman, to his credit, said well that’s what you all evidently did in 2006 and it got us Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

Pay attention to the truth, not to the main stream media or the liberal Democrats. Visit internet sites that will tell you the truth, such as www.whitehouse.gov. Check out River West’s ideas relating to what the President has done and what he is doing, including her idea entitled “Overcoming Border Security and Immigration Reform of the 1986 Mistakes.”