Jay Valentine: Seduction on the Right

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In an American Thinker opinion piece, Jay Valentine details the differences between "movement conservatives" and what we here at TX4P call "conservative lite" politicians. Valentine warns that the conservative movement is getting sold a bill of goods by the latter:

We movement conservatives and the Tea Party are about to get rolled. We are going to get sucked in by candidates like Huckabee, who just realized the error of his ways in pardoning a criminal who murdered four Seattle police officers; Romney, who is a perfect reflection of whatever is going on in the body politic; and Gingrich, who uses every technical buzzword to convince people he is some kind of new idea machine.

Yet each, when the winds came in from the west, was quite different. Moderate, perhaps? Or nonpartisan? Or just a reflection of what they thought might get them elected.

Critical thinking demands that we remember these people in their milieu -- what were they in different times? When times were liberal, they were, well, less conservative. When the press said people demanded less partisanship, Newt and Hillary traveled and spoke together, almost holding hands.

It is time we realize that there are "movement conservatives" and there are opportunistic conservatives. Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and a host of emerging new candidates are movement conservatives.

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The changes needed in America require saying "no" in a big way and being vilified in the press. Our leaders need to be able to stand up to massive left-wing media resistance and not compromise the core.

This can be done only by a movement conservative.

Valentine argues that Gingrich, Romney, and Huckabee, if they manage to get elected, will not significantly change the direction of the country. But Gov. Palin, Rep. Bachmann and the Tea Party are, like Ronald Reagan, "the real deal" for real change. Read Jay Valentine's complete op-ed here.

h/t: roy y

- JP