Can’t say enough amens to this!

“Two other leading lights for a troubled GOP are Govs. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. Before she became John McCain’s running mate, Mrs. Palin was best known for challenging her own state GOP to cure its spendthrift, corrupt ways. She unseated a sitting mayor in her first bid for office and became a giant killer by knocking off the high-handed, free-spending Gov. Frank Murkowski in a Republican primary.

Mr. Jindal is a boy wonder of the party. At 25, he was appointed to fix Louisiana’s failing Medicaid program, and succeeded. At 32, he lost a hard-fought campaign for governor but later landed a Congressional seat from which he criticized bureaucratic bungling in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Last year, after Katrina had destroyed Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s reputation, he won his second bid for the office by promising sweeping reform of Louisiana’s corrupt and inefficient government culture.

That Republicans are coalescing around these three governors is also revealing for who is not included. Several years ago Christie Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and EPA administrator, wrote a book called “It’s My Party Too.” She used that treatise to argue for the party to abandon its conservative roots. Even after two serious GOP drubbings at the polls, she has found no takers. Likewise, Lincoln Chaffee, the former Rhode Island Senator once labeled a “Republican in Name Only,” was still complaining last week to the Washington Post that “right-wing talk show hosts and the Ann Coulters and that ilk” never understood that the GOP needs people like him.

Maybe that’s because Republicans have looked closely at the election results. The country hasn’t so much moved left as it has abandoned a GOP that abandoned its own principles. In Ohio, Barack Obama actually won about 40,000 fewer votes than John Kerry did four years ago. Mr. Obama took Ohio only because John McCain pulled 350,000 fewer votes than George W. Bush did in 2004. Republicans and Republican-leaning voters stayed home.”

Which you’ll remember is exactly what I’ve been telling you. All this talk of “changing our ways” and morphing into a type of conservative “liberal-lite” in order to placate the electorate is bathtub water.

Remember that just four years ago we won the Presidency and increased our numbers in congress. We were on a roll and feeling good. So what happened? The party lurched left and tried to out liberal the liberals. From free-for-all citizenship plans to spend, spend and spend some more, Republicans lost their conservative core and thus lost their identity.

We’re NOT going to get back into power by being what Democrats are. We’re not going to win by losing our conservative heart and soul.

We must resist this move to give up the party to the RINOs who have been clamoring for us to melt into that great sea of “oneness” with voters, and simply get back to the root of conservatism which America embraced with Reagan. That which kept our side in power for the majority of the last 25 years.

This IS no time for RINOs!