Liberty Maven

After the latest “let’s eat our own” moment in the Republican Party by South Carolina’s Jim DeMint I have a suggestion for the GOP. Pssst… it has to do with Ron Paul.

First, here are DeMint’s scathing words (from CNN):

“We have to be honest, and there’s a lot of blame to go around, but I have to mention George Bush, and I have to mention Ted Stevens, and I’m afraid I even have to mention John McCain,” he said.

DeMint offered a long list of complaints about McCain’s record in the Senate and on the campaign trail.

“McCain, who is proponent of campaign finance reform that weakened party organizations and basically put George Soros in the driver’s seat,” DeMint said. “His proposal for amnesty for illegals. His support of global warming, cap-and-trade programs that will put another burden on our economy. And of course, his embrace of the bailout right before the election was probably the nail in our coffin this last election. And he has been an opponent of drilling in ANWR, at a time when energy is so important. It really didn’t fit the label, but he was our package.”

Bush and Stevens, he said, had corrupted the party brand by expanding the size of government and engaging in wasteful government spending. Had Republicans not strayed from their core beliefs in recent years, DeMint argued, the election results might have been different.

“Americans do prefer a traditional conservative government,” he said. “They just did not believe Republicans were going to give it to them.”

DeMint said he would introduce a Senate resolution next week to boot Stevens out of the Republican caucus, and “force votes” on Senate seniority rules that have allowed certain members to hold onto power. However, DeMint twice confused Ted Stevens with Ted Kennedy, drawing chuckles from the audience of Republicans, who hold neither senator in particularly high regard.

“One of our principles is that power corrupts, and you need to disperse it,” DeMint said. “And if our own party allows ourselves to be destroyed by this idea, and are not willing to stand up, then we have to change everyone at the top.”

Senator DeMint, I agree and have a suggestion for you. Put Ron Paul at the top, or at the very least, in some kind of leadership role. Once he’s there, listen to the man, and follow his example. He has the power to lead the Republican Party out of these dark days.

Of course, this is yet another hopeless dream. You won’t do such a thing. You, nor your party peers, have the guts. At the very least you have a severe lack of smell. The answer is right under your nose within your own party, but some kind of neo-conservative misfiring synapse is blocking your nose from smelling liberty.

Seek a doctor for what ails you. Seek Dr. Ron Paul.