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Will Republicans Be Their Own Worst Enemy? Philip V. Brennan In the face of all the gloomy forecasts that the Republican Party is about to be swept away in a gigantic tidal wave of Democratic votes and nothing can prevent that from happening next Tuesday, Dick Morris insists that the GOP's fate lies in their own hands: They can win ... all they have to do is vote Republican. According the Clintons' former top political adviser, a new Zogby poll revealed that the number of Republicans who plan to vote Republican has shrunken from the 75 percent that would guarantee their party a victory to 68 percent – not enough to stave off defeat. In the face of that grim statistic, fully 81 percent of Democratic voters plan to vote Democratic next Tuesday. As bad as that sounds, Morris sees a bright ray of sunshine peering from behind the clouds. "If the Republican base wants the Republicans to keep control of Congress, they will," he told Sean Hannity Monday night when appearing on Fox's "Hannity & Colmes" show. In other words, no matter how dark a picture the incredibly biased media paint, a GOP victory is in the cards if the Republican base shows up at the polls and votes for their party. Nothing the media or the Democrats can do can alter that picture. Republicans, not Democratic voters, will control the outcome. As Morris sees it – and he's a proven master of the art of locating the key factors involved in determining how and why people vote – if the GOP can motivate its base and hike the percentage of Republicans who will vote Republican next Tuesday from the present 68 percent back up to 75 percent, Capitol Hill will still be in the control of the GOP when the next Congress convenes in January. It's that simple. The only thing Republicans have to fear is Republicans themselves. Frankly, I don't know if getting the disaffected part of the GOP base to come home can be achieved in the few days remaining before November 7. It's a tall order. But it's not impossible, for a number of reasons.
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To begin with, there is the inherent nature of Republicans – the reason why the majority of Republicans are members of their party. They are believers. They are committed to preserving the republic they inherited and want to hand on to their children and grandchildren. They do not vote Republican because they believe the GOP will fight to secure all sorts of government handouts for them. They stand for principle. During the Cold War it was mostly Republicans who manned the walls against the Evil Empire, and it was a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, who refused to listen to the siren song of the Democrats and their media lackeys who demanded that the U.S. endlessly appease the Soviets no matter how greatly they provoked us. Instead he set about dismantling that Evil Empire, and it was his policies that in the end brought the Berlin wall – and the Communist empire – crashing down. Republicans are Republicans because they believe, with Ronald Reagan, that in war there is only one option: We win; they lose. Republicans are Republicans because they recognize the dangers of the Marxist schemes that underlie most Democratic Party programs. Republicans are Republicans because they understand that freedom and security always come at a cost, one they are always willing to pay if it will guarantee the safety of the American people and the survival of this constitutional republic. Republicans do not cut and run when the going gets tough, they just get going.
Republicans are Republicans because they place the welfare of their nation above their own petty concerns. Republicans are Republicans because they recognize snake oil when they see it being peddled by Democrats attempting to buy their votes with their own money. Republicans are Republicans because they have the peculiar notion that the money they earn belongs to them and not to a conglomeration of Democrat members of Congress and a host of bureaucrats in the federal government who, like vampires, live on the lifeblood of the taxpayers. The Democrats and their lackeys in the media don't understand the nature of Republican voters. They see them as a bunch of rubes at a traveling medicine show to whom they can peddle their Marxist snake oil cures. They are very apt to be surprised when they wake up on November 8 and find they have lost an election they thought was in the bag – an election that was decided by those disaffected Republicans who woke up on November 7, remembered why they were Republicans, and went to the polls to vote not for individual Republican candidates, or even for their party, but instead for the principles that made them Republicans in the first place.
Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association For Intelligence Officers.
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