We went to our local Lincoln Day dinner last night and got a full dose of Republican politics.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lively time for the party with fresh candidates popping out of the woodwork everywhere you look.\u00a0 A lot of tea party energy was in evidence, however I sensed a retrenchment on the part of the GOP establishment.\u00a0 If they think they know best how to defeat the left, they \u201chave some \u2018splainin\u2019 to do\u201d about how their past leadership brought us a Democrat state government and two Democrat senators.\u00a0 Tea party candidates have no prospects as a third party, however it\u2019s unreasonable to expect GOP guardians to just morph into constitutional conservatives and incorporate tea party fundamentals.\u00a0 Conservative principles have been on the table all along and they weren\u2019t sufficiently compelling to the GOP the last time they had the majority.\u00a0 We will get Republicans elected next Fall because the left have scared the crap out of mainstream America with their Weather Underground\/Ayers\/Alinsky\/Muslim Brotherhood\/socialist revolution.\u00a0 But I worry that the self-interest of the GOP old guard will come before the \u201cself-evident truths we hold.\u201d\u00a0 Many battles lie ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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