Webloggin » Giving Up - On Kathleen Parker

Another case of conservative columnist spending too much time patting herself on the back for saying what her peers at the Washington Post will pat her on the back for saying.

Personally I’m sick of cutsey columnists believing in themselves so much that they speak as if they are the official mouthpiece of conservatives. So when Kathleen Parker bashes the “low brow”, “evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP” she exemplifies the low brow attitude she is so fond of attacking from the safe confines at the Washington Post.

As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook or dismiss the gorilla in the pulpit.

Three little letters, great big problem: G-O-D.

I’m bathing in holy water as I type.

To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn’t soon cometh.

Simply put: Armband religion is killing the Republican Party. And, the truth — as long as we’re setting ourselves free — is that if one were to eavesdrop on private conversations among the party intelligentsia, one would hear precisely that.

The choir has become absurdly off-key, and many Republicans know it.

It seems to me that the Kathleen Parkers of the world are confused as to what defeated the GOP. It has nothing to do with religion unless of course you figure how Mike Huckabee worked with other moderates in the party to put repeat loser John McCain in the driver’s seat. People didn’t go to the poll booth rejecting the religious right; they went to the poll booth rejecting the GOP. Plain and simple. Armchair conservatives that stood for nothing but their own personal self interests. Rudderless rubes that decided against borders, language and yes, culture. Libs in a RHINO’s clothing. Blame John McCain.

In case Parker wasn’t paying attention, and I’m sure she was but just doesn’t get it, Barack Obama moved to the right, along with many other Democrats that suddenly found themselves in the mood to become religious at key moments, as did those that found patriotism just in time for the election.

It’s not brave to tow the liberal line at a liberally tainted newspaper. It’s convenient.

But I imagine it isn’t convenient to defend conservative principles when all your peers are patting themselves on the back for the express purpose of promoting liberalism. Kathleen Parker isn’t brave, she’s a populist. She felt left out and now wants in.

Suffice it to say, the Republican Party is largely comprised of white, married Christians. Anyone watching the two conventions last summer can’t have missed the stark differences: One party was brimming with energy, youth and diversity; the other felt like an annual Depends sales meeting.

With the exception of Miss Alaska, of course.

Even Sarah Palin has blamed Bush policies for the GOP loss. She’s not entirely wrong, but she’s also part of the problem. Her recent conjecture about whether to run for president in 2012 (does anyone really doubt she will?) speaks for itself:

“I’m like, okay, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is…. And if there is an open door in (20)12 or four years later, and if it’s something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door.”

Let’s do pray that God shows Alaska’s governor the door.

Parker is minutely correct here. The GOP is aged, and not in a good way. But that in no way means that we have to throw out conservative values and run for Homecoming Queen of the Hampton’s cocktail circuit in order to bring that sort of youthful aspect to the Republican party. We need to throw the old guard out, yes. But we need to do it because it has become the exclusive bastion for elitists and smarter than everyone else self serving double talkers that are single handedly destroying the party by the nature of their very existence.

In fact Parker can stuff her insults up her ass. My kids are conservative, listen to hip-hop and rock and enjoy all the benefits of the fun liberal crowd without the moonbat hatred of the military, the bullshit whining of victimization and the idiotic bashing of religion.

I spent the last week playing multiple jam sessions, jamming out to hours of Jack Johnshon and Dave Matthews, yet I felt no need to park my SUV, walk to work or blame America for its success. Nor did I spit on my religious neighbors. Gasp, I even talked to people that weren’t white, as I do every day. Does this mean I have to stop believing what I believe for the sake of blending in with Obamabots?

As for Parker’s mocking of Salin Palin all I can say is that Palin’s record speaks for itself. What has Parker or any of the other blowhards in the press accomplished in their lives that eclipses the accomplishments of Sarah Palin? Huh?

BTW, don’t call republicans “pubbies”. You sound like a fricken idiot.

Finally here’s Parker’s assessment of the GOP and why it lost, as if these numbers live in a vacuum, without any other context as to what helped Obama over the top such as a corrupt media, gobs of money and the faltering economy, which BTW is still faltering:

But, like it or not, we are a diverse nation, no longer predominantly white and Christian. The change Barack Obama promised has already occurred, which is why he won.

Among Jewish voters, 78 percent went for Obama. Sixty-six percent of under-30 voters did likewise. Forty-five percent of voters ages 18-29 are Democrats compared to just 26 percent Republican; in 2000, party affiliation was split almost evenly.

The young will get older, of course. Most eventually will marry, and some will become their parents. But nonwhites won’t get whiter. And the nonreligious won’t get religion through external conversion. It doesn’t work that way.

Given those facts, the future of the GOP looks dim and dimmer if it stays the present course. Either the Republican Party needs a new base — or the nation may need a new party.

I have a better idea. How about the base get new representation? Charismatic, young , diverse and decisive leaders that aren’t ashamed to be looked down on by Kathleen Parker and all her fair weather conservative buddies; the “wizards of smart” as Rush Limbaugh calls them.

If Parker wants to be such a conformist why doesn’t she simply join them? Oh wait, she just did.