GOP leaders becoming too liberal

Dear editor:

During trial a prosecutor cross examined an expert witness for the defense. He asked if he agreed with a quote after reading it on the record. The expert answered, "No." The prosecutor replied, "Well, you wrote it! It's in your book!" Not only did the expert not agree with his own researched opinion, but he did not even recognize it. He was discredited.

How different from this "expert witness" are members of the GOP? Are we so unfamiliar with the platform that we discredit ourselves and undermine the course charted? I assert that our weakness is due more to ignorance than to infiltration by RINOs.

The GOP follows its platform about as closely as the federal government follows the Constitution.

The GOP has drifted left to the point that in 2008 Senator John McCain was the most "conservative" candidate it could offer.

McCain, more than Obama, was the catalyst for the grass roots revolution loosely organized under Tea Parties and 912 groups.

The GOP has lost credibility with conservatives. In this PC world the GOP has lowered its volume, and capitulated over and over. The base increasingly view the party as illegitimate and lacking conviction. Where there is disagreement the guardrails of the debate should be the platform. Party ambivalence toward the platform has created a sinkhole as members fall out of ranks and re-register as independents.

The GOP can either run hard in the guardrails, or be replaced by an authentically conservative, nationalistic third party.

-- Doug Traubel