As we approach the true beginning of the 2012 election cycle, the Republican slate of candidates is starting to take shape. Many among those who count themselves as Republicans hold great hope that 2012 will bring to an end a four year reign of irresponsible spending on social engineering issues that – if not by design, almost certainly on purpose – has led our country to a place of fiscal insolvency, national insecurity and diminished stature around the world. But regardless of who finally rounds out the slate of Conservative, Constitutionalist, Libertarian-leaning and Republican candidates in the official Republican field, we are still hobbled by a primary election process that frontloads the results to the Democrat and Progressive advantage.
Each year, the many candidates that vie for a position on the slates of the challenging parties to the incumbent party spend a great amount of time in the states of Iowa and New Hampshire. This reality includes any potential Republican and/or Conservative candidates, and yes there is a difference. But this reality, the reality of the cyclical trek to these two states begs a question, exclusively for those who stand opposed to the expansion of government, the decline of the Constitution and American sovereignty, and the advancement of Progressivism:
Why do Conservatives vying for the GOP nomination subject themselves, the party and the GOP constituency to the results, before all others, from two states that have traditionally voted for the Democrat in a majority of the presidential contests of the 20th and 21st Centuries? How does that divine the best candidate for the Republican Party?
Since 1988, Iowa has voted for the Democratcandidate in the Presidential Election by a margin of 5 to 1, the lone exception being in 2004 when they voted for George w, Bush, the attacks of September 11, 2001, still fresh in their minds. But that means that, minus the motivation of an attack on our homeland, they voted for Barack Obama, Al Gore, Bill Clinton – twice – and Michael Dukakis…Michael Dukakis!
New Hampshire is but a scant bit better, voting for the Democrat 4 to 1 since 1992, championing the likes of Barack Obama, John Kerry and Bill Clinton twice.
So, again I ask, why does the Republican National Committee continue to reward Blue states with undeniable influence in determining who the Republican candidate will be in the General Election by allowing them to establish the frontrunners for the GOP? Does this make any sense?
Part of the problem, I suspect, is that the establishmentarians of the national Republic Party hierarchy do not appreciate the peon voters dictating to them who the candidates will or will not be. The inside-the-beltway Republican leadership – and many times the many state Republican leadership apparatuses as well – are ensconced in the “pecking order” mindset; the “it’s his turn,” quid pro quo tenets of “good old boy” politics.
This in and of itself is a shame and it should cause great angst among true Conservatives and true Republicans.
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