Conservatism Must Survive This Election

Neither John McCain, nor Barak Obama are scions of American Conservatism. That was about the easiest statement ever made by a pundit, but it sets the stage for what comes next.

Regardless of who wins in November, conservatives will have a challenge on their hands. We will not be able to sit idle during a McCain administration and we will need to be ever active during an Obama administration. I am telling you this now to prepare you for what is ahead because Conservatism must survive this election.

John McCain is, by far, the most qualified candidate for President and the election is his to lose, in my opinion. Yet, his stance on illegal immigration, stem cell research, and climate change are things we are going to have to battle him on. The reason for this is clear enough, if you give it a moment to sink in.

George Bush ran on a national republican platform that was rather conservative. In 2004, that republican national platform was reaffirmed. Regardless of the constant bad press and the low polling numbers, I think history will tell a different tale of President Bush. We’ll have t wait and see if I am right on this, but there are fundamental conservative issues - the most important ones in my opinion, that George Bush has never wavered on. We have not had to fight the president on stem cells and cloning. Despite his momentary blindness on Shamnesty, Bush has pushed border first policies as long as I can remember and he only recently made public statements regarding “going green”, although he lives a rather green life in the White House and at his ranch in Crawford.

With John McCain in office, we won’t have the privilege of the current republican national platform. It will be changed to be more accepting of policies conservatives find unacceptable. If we can continue the conservative nature of our party platform, even though we have a less-than-conservative president, the probability that a conservative brush fire ignites again across America is not at risk.

Regardless of who wins in November, our work is only just starting. Don’t get complacent.