Will conservatives teach America a lesson

“Conservatives, disappointed with an over spending congress, little progress on controlling illegal immigration and scandals, will stay home in droves on Nov 7th to teach the Republican Party a lesson.” If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it every MSM news broadcast for the last month.

Who knows, maybe the pundits are right in this case. Maybe a large portion of the conservative electorate will sit this election out to teach the Republican Party a lesson. That would be disappointing because the lesson being taught, while hurting the party for an election cycle or two, could do harm to the country for decades.

Take court appointments, for example. If the senate is flipped, what kind of judges will be confirmed over the next two years? Only judges like Clinton appointee John Koeltl will get confirmed in a Democrat controlled senate. Koeltl recently let jihadi co-conspirator Lynn Stewart off with a slap on the wrist in the form of a 28 month sentence, instead of the 30 years prosecutors had asked for. Stewart acted as a mule passing notes calling for chaos from her client Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman to his followers in Egypt. In addition to her work defending Islamo-terror-fascists who tried to blow up the World Trade Center 1993, Judge Koeltl sited Stewart’s work with the poor, the Black Panthers, and the Weathermen, to justify the light sentence. Sounds more like justification for a treason trial to me.

So conservatives can stay home to teach the Republican Party a lesson if they think that’s wise. Unfortunately, it’s the country that’s ultimately being given the lesson. And like a kid trapped in a failing inner city school, I just don’t know how much more schooling the nation can take. Politics is the art of the possible. Nobody gets everything they want. You have vote for the candidate that most closely approximates your views on the important issues of the day. Hold your nose if you must, but go vote.

UPDATE: Oh yeah, the time to throw an unresponsive member of your party overboard is during THE PRIMARY ELECTION not the general election where such an action is only sure to elect an even more unresponsive representative.