What Conservatives Need To Do, Part I

(BZ Note: This will be the first in a continuing series of posts contemplating the future of Conservatism and the Republican Party, the purpose of which shall be to not only identify key problems but, more importantly, plan and plot and suggest future paths in order to set this nation on a course of not only merest survival, but thrival, prosperity, admiration, respect and power.

If this can be done within the current GOP, all is well; if this requires the abandonment of the GOP and the creation of a Third Party, I say: so be it.

These posts and the comments solicited thereby, will exist as a public record, so to speak -- a stream of consciousness, if you will -- of the necessary steps I believe must be taken in order to not only save this nation, but keep it safe, prosperous, powerful and sovereign. No matter how many enemies align themselves against it.)

If there is anything that was revealed to me in the past, say, two years, it is this: I am a Conservative first, and a Republican, so clearly now, second.

It pains me to realize such a conclusion.

My party seems to have abandoned me. I didn't diverge from it; it diverged from me. I can only, now, think of a mere handful of Republican politicians worthy of the title.

Moreover, it seems to me that, with some somewhat massive but separate differences, the two major parties, Republican and Democrat, tend to blend together at their very foundations, their very bases:

- They seek nought but power;

- They are whores for money;

- They will cover their collective asses on both sides of the aisle when it affects all of them;

- They wish The Political System to NEVER be exposed to the Light Of Day;

- They each know they could never have achieved that amount of power, deference, respect, accommodation, in any other job or venue;

It's never about the salary; it's about the future power derived from the position.

And even then, I have had to reassess my Conservative views in the midst of numerous realities adjudged.

Your job, now? Because without you, my readers, my thoughts, ideas and suggestions are diminished beside yours.

Give me your FIVE top priorities for a Conservative agenda. Not the GOP, not another party, but Conservatism in general.

What are YOUR top five priorities?

BZ

P.S.

I'll likely accommodate those and more into the new platform I am considering.