Chairman Michael Steele,
Thank you for your reply. I appreciate your position and I do not envy the task that is ahead of you. Having said that, I must voice my concern.
Many Republicans I know are looking for a new party. They feel as if the party has left them. A dear friend wrote in an email, I am so frustrated with the party, I want to leave, but I do not know where to go. You stated in your response that those who agree with you 80 % are an ally. I would say that you and the leadership in the party are the ones out of sync with the rank and file.
I think the best way to sum up our frustration is, “You, that is the Republicans, are so afraid of the media and loosing elections that you are now and have been, trying to out Democrat the Democrats.” You are doing so by trying to counter offer what the Democrats offer as if we actually want it. It is time for the Republican leadership to regain cognitive abilities.
I have been one of those who have sat and yelled at the TV for years. April 15 found me and 7000 other fed up voters in Pioneer Square in Portland Oregon. When asked how many have protested before only about 20 percent shouted out. The rest were like me.
I have studied history, and the founders, and I must agree with what some are now postulating that both parties have moved down a continuum away from the constitution and towards tyranny. True that the while “Progressives, or mostly Democrats have lead the way, they have towed the Republican Party down the continuum with them. Both parties no longer represent the Republic or the principles of the founders.
Today, I am a member of a group that has grown to almost 700,000 people in just three months with no real marketing or membership drive. Our chapter started in March and we are only now legally organizing. We are mostly former Republicans. What is our message? It is a nonpartisan movement back towards original intent of the founders.
I am writing to you because this ground swell cannot be ignored. We are tired of lies, and misleading statements, we do not want a Republican version, better put, a watered down version of what the Democrats are offering. Tyranny or tyranny light is still tyranny. When we look at the Republican Party, we see Democrats. There is very little difference.
We are on the verge of losing our very freedoms. Our president denounced Christianity in front of the world while standing in a Muslim nation. Now, he states that America is one of the largest Muslim countries. He has done things that in our book are unconstitutional. Where does the constitution grant him power to confiscate private businesses and fire CEO’s or for that matter, force Universal healthcare on us? He is going to force us out of the energy we use and into the form of energy he wants. He is spending our money and grandchildren’s money without concern. He is allowing Black Panthers/thugs to intimidate voters. He is funding ACORN which is a Marxist organization. Call it/him what he is, a Socialist, a progressive socialist.
In response Republicans are offering tyranny light, excuse me, I mean a Republican plan for universal socialized healthcare. The Republican party no longer believes in REPUBLCANISM, but progressive social changes.
Why isn’t the party pursuing these matters in the courts? Why is Obama allowed to usurp states tenth amendment rights? This administration needs to be sued, and stopped dead in its tracks. We may not survive until 2012.
Many others and I feel Sarah Palin is more a man than many so-called men in the Republican Party are. It could be because she was raised in a state that still produces men instead of metro-sexual men.
Sincerely
Paul Vasquez M.ED
