Leaving Loquacious Losers

The chattering classes were abuzz Sunday that a right-winger had stolen the Republican US Senate nomination in Delaware and another dreaded conservative had overturned a sacred moderate in Alaska. The talking heads were nearly certain these catastrophes spelt doom for GOP chances to regain the Senate (which had been portrayed as a long shot in any event, even before the primary victories of Miller and O'Donnell). But the dinosaur media cognoscenti have blissfully short memories and can not hearken back that it was Ronald Wilson Reagan who brought Republican power its heyday in the 1980s. The GOP flourished under someone who was no great compromiser but under a champion of principle, someone who never wavered from the political Right. The GOP reaches its apex not when it seeks to be the big tent and searches out least common denominator middle of the roaders (who tend to jump ship at the worst time) but finds eloquent messengers of the conservative ideal who bring the voters with them by force of the superior argument. A wishy washy centrist may gain a seat but what good is one more US Senator willing to join Obama on cap and trade or another shot of stimulus. Stand on your convictions conservatives, while Democrats take theirs to an appellate court.