Watch my hand...

“I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth." -William F. Buckley Jr.

I find that so much of what Bill Buckley wrote needs to be required reading followed by some sort of oath of adherence by every single person with the big (R) associated with their name, whether they are voter or votee, appointer or appointee. Going one step further, some of them should immediately surrender their voter registration card and be issued a voting learner's permit that requires oversight and tutelage by a bonafide conservative, before screwing up anything else.

From the moment that John McCain was ordained by the media as Republican party presidential nominee, (well before me and 75% of the nation even had a chance to vote in a primary), it was clear the fix was in. Although I would have appreciated some semblance of the illusion that my vote mattered, many realized that some time wandering in the proverbial wilderness was likely. Conservatives had been kicked to the curb in order to court the new far left defined "middle-of-the-road" voter. (codewords for everybody not Republican) The thought being that the conservative base would be so terrified at the prospect of either Clinton or Obama, that they'd vote against either... not even needing to be concerned with who they were voting FOR.

That's when the RNC collectively abandoned the Republican base, political conservatism, and more importantly, responsibility and accountability to themselves.

All power surrendered to the Democrat party who are fulfilling every stereotypical tried and failed experiment of liberalism on steroids, the Republicans profess finding religion.

Now that they are politically toothless and have no alternative choice, they are loudly barking "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," and "really, there's nothing up my sleeve."

Meanwhile, we cannot continue to sit on the curb with out lower lip sticking out, watching. We must not only get in the game, we have to change the game by coming together and proudly returning to our core truths. Real truth belongs to neither party. Real truth cannot be redefined as anything else, no matter how loudly or "eloquently" the lie is told.