℞ for an Ailing Republican Party

℞ for an Ailing Republican Party

Mort and Pestle

 

There are times when we write something, or say something, when what we write or say comes back to bite us in our infernal regions…and this may well be one of those times.

Back in the third week of July, 2015, we posted an essay entitled the “Cancer of Division,” ( http://www.drewnickell.com/?p=9 ), where we discussed the peril posed by division within our country, and how this threat can lead us to our destruction as a nation. In it we also wrote:

“…a divided Republican Party, not to mention a third party run by ANY of them, will ensure that the next president will have a “D” after their name and, as things stand now, that president will be a former first lady and Secretary of State. Worse, these intra-party spats are pitting Republican voters against one another- a trend that is virtually orgasmic to Democrats who will unite behind their nominee, regardless…

…Since Republicans cannot do anything to heal the divisions that are the perverse progeny of Barack Obama, for so long as he remains president, they would be wise, instead, to resolve to unite as a Republican Party. They should call on ALL of their candidates to stop trashing one another (including Donald Trump, along with his own trashing of the others), and remember “the Gipper’s” eleventh commandment: “Thou shalt not insult another Republican”. Each of the candidates must resolve to support whoever the nominee is, regardless, because ANY one of them would be a far better president than ANY of the Democrats running today. Instead, they need heap their vitreous on Obama and Hillary and keep pounding away, day after day…”

Well, given the week that has just passed, we are feeling the bite from that which we wrote fifty-four weeks ago.

The not-quite-yet-to-be-reconciled-to-the-nomination-of -Donald-Trump Republican Party, is showing itself to be suffering from the detritus of its own division, especially when the “Republi-can’t” sector of the G.O.P. (namely, the Republican rattlesnakes who can’t rally ‘round the party’s nominee and have announced their support for Hillary Clinton, instead) is showing its infernal regions for all the world to see, and laugh at. Aided by a starving mainstream media, who is ready to seize upon anything that calls Trump’s candidacy into question, and thereby help to elect their queen to the presidency, there is a disease within the G.O.P. which, left unchecked, will ensure that Hillary Clinton is elected president.

It has been said of religion in general, and Christianity, specifically, that “the devil dances when division drives us to hate one another.”

Well, in the same manner, Hillary Clinton is dancing a happy jig, and will continue to do so each and every time a so-called Republican genuflects to her by their endorsement, while condemning their party’s nominee in the process. These turncoats include Meg Whitman, the former failed Republican candidate for California’s governorship, Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY), former Rep. Larry Pressler, (R-SD) and former George W. Bush administration apparatchiks Richard Armitage, Henry Paulson, and Brent Scowcroft. No doubt there will be others, including Bush’s first Secretary of State and former General Colin Powell. Couple in that same group, “Republi-can’ts” such as former candidates Lindsey Graham, John Kasich, Mitt Romney and the Bush family who refuse to lift a finger to ensure Hillary’s defeat, and therein lies the seeds of their own party’s demise.

Never mind the fact that any effort to assist Hillary Clinton in such a manner is nothing less than an absolute acceptance of continuing Barack Obama’s disastrous foreign policy, an embrace of all of the corruption that is the substance of Hillary Clinton’s criminal history, and an outright endorsement of activist liberal and legislating-from-the-bench justices that a President Hillary Clinton would nominate, who are bound and determined to undermine the United States Constitution at any and every opportunity to do so.

Such is the disease that ails the Republican Party, and there is only one prescription that can ward off the undesirable and, yes, life-threatening effects of this disease…and that prescription is UNITY.

Quite simply, Republicans must unite behind the candidacy of Donald Trump or the failure to do so will push our country into disaster, and will effectively destroy representative democracy and the Grand Old Party, forever.

 

-Drew Nickell, 6 August 2016

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