Actually for once, Huckabee makes sense.

“(CNN) — Days after national Republicans launched a new campaign to broaden the party’s outreach, former upstart presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the GOP is at risk of becoming “irrelevant as the Whigs.”

In an interview with the California newspaper The Visalia Times-Delta, Huckabee said the GOP would only further decline in influence should it alienate social conservatives — largely considered the most energetic and loyal faction of the party.

“Throw the social conservatives the pro-life, pro-family people overboard and the Republican party will be as irrelevant as the Whigs,” he said in reference to the American political party that largely disbanded in the mid 1800s.

“They’ll basically be a party of gray-haired old men sitting around the country club puffing cigars, sipping brandy and wondering whatever happened to the country. That will be the end of the party,” he said in the interview published Thursday.

Huckabee’s comments come the same day former Vice President Dick Cheney warned his party’s leaders not to moderate their views as they launch an effort to regain control in the nation’s Capitol.

“The idea that we ought to moderate basically means we ought to fundamentally change our philosophy,” Cheney also said. “I for one am not pr

epared to do that, and I think most of us aren’t,” he told conservative talk-radio host Scott Hennen.”

Again, we do not need to change, but right now we have a marvelous opportunity to show just how “relevant” conservatism is and always will be. The liberal agenda is now in full swing and America is getting a first hand peek at what we have been shouting about for years.

He’s also right that the GOP needs to know what side it’s bread is buttered on. It’s not with wishy-washy moderates and RINOS but with the core social, evangelical base. The whole move the left has has broadcast through the media trying to convince us that we need “change”, is nothing more than a smokescreen to get the GOP to toss aside the core.

Won’t work. But they’ll keep trying.

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