It seems that conservative leaders have finally awoken to what I’ve been saying for years: that the Republican party is not Republican anymore. They’re big spenders, trade destroyers, coddlers of illegal immigrants, and have generally just been riding to power on voters’ visions of what Republicans used to be. Which makes the Republican party a bunch of big-scale liars, and makes the people that vote for them — at least the ones who think they’re still voting for the budget-minded, constitution-respecting party — gullible idiots. Yeah, that’s right…I’m not being nice, because few things piss me off more than when people blindly vote a party without paying attention to who they’re actually voting for. That goes for both sides of the fence.

If they were what they used to be, the Republican party might have my support, at least to a much greater degree than now. But since I started, oh, paying attention (straight-ticket voters: you should try it sometime) to what their overall platform has been in the last decade, there’s no chance in hell that most of them will get my vote. And they shouldn’t get yours either, is what many conservative leaders are saying, even if you’re conservative. Until they straighten up and start actually doing something that resembles what they say, and return to the more responsible party of the past, and start caring about the middle class, and stop raping our country’s coffers, they shouldn’t get anyone’s vote.