Losing faith in the establishment

After Barack Obama's election, the liberal media had a hay-day speculating about the end of the Republican Party and how conservatism was gone forever. At the time it was frustrating to hear a death sentence on my party and my ideology pronounced by the journalists and pundits who have been hoping for our demise for decades. But now I am starting to agree with them, but for different reasons.

Liberals think that conservatism is dying because people no longer agree with conservative principles or hold conservative values. I think that conservatism is dying because conservatives are affraid to act like conservatives. Our leaders tuck their tails and play the game the way the liberals want because they have been without a leader since Gingrich left. If they speak out against abortion, they are called sexists. If they speak out against judicial activism in someone who happens to be Hispanic, they are called racists. If they fight huge government spending in times of economic crisis, they are called "The Party of No." They are constantly on the defensive when they stand up for conservative values, so they go with the flow and sell their values down the river.

On the other end of the spectrum, Fox News pushes against every single statement and expenditure made by Congress and the President. I hate to say it, but liberals had a point when they told Sean Hannity that George W. Bush spent just as many tax doallrs on his trips to the ranch as Obama did on his fancy New York date with Michelle. Zeroing in on such petty little things distracts from the fundamental issues that we face.

Please, stop apologizing for us and start speaking the language of middle America. Most people oppose the bailouts, the stimulus, silence toward North Korea, and government-run healthcare, so dn't be affraid to take that stand.