Lessons from 2016 part 3: An open letter to the Republican Party

Source: Conservative Review | November 19, 2016 | Steve Deace

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Dear Republican Party:

Even though you certainly don’t deserve it, the American people have decided to give you one more chance — and mainly because they had no other option.

Just because she’s willing to procreate with you as the last man left alive to help sustain the species doesn’t mean she’s smitten. The 2016 election wasn’t a whirlwind romance between voters and the GOP. It only confirmed that necessity is the mother of invention.

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So congratulations, your “risk nothing, do nothing” strategy to wait out the Obama regime worked. You’re now running the show in Washington, D.C. But that also means the era of surrender caucus governance is over. It must be. There are no more straw men and no more excuses for why you won’t finally do something meaningful for the American people. No more progressive light.

You know, like the George W. Bush years.

Ah, yes, you remember them, don’t you? When you gave us more “guns and butter” than even Lyndon Johnson could have shaken a stick at? When you gave us easily the biggest ‘gubment’ we’ve ever had until the current Marxist occupying the White House was put in charge. It was the last time you had total control of Washington, D.C., and your chief “accomplishment” was inventing Medicare’s Part D and setting the stage for much of what followed under Barack Obama.

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Yet here’s the thing: Americans really have no idea what you truly stand for as an alternative. Other than the Contract With America and the early Reagan years, nobody has actually tried to govern conservatively. Which means people my age and younger either were too young to remember those days or weren’t even born yet. So it is high time to go big or go home.

You will be sent home by the American people if you don’t. Maybe this time for good. This could very well be the Republican Party’s last chance. If you don’t get it right this time, the Democrats will return with a vengeance, running someone more charismatic and less Caucasian than Hillary, albeit with Bernie Sanders’ ideas, to go for the progressive checkmate.

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Do it now, in 2017, while you have the momentum and before thoughts of playing prevent defense to curry re-election sink in. For we all know the only thing the prevent defense does is prevent you from winning.

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