The not 12 step program for GOPs

I opened this page to write a post on how conservatives were in denial about the fact that they are too far to the right for most of America, that conservatives like George Will, who wrote that conservatives "were punished not for pursuing but for forgetting conservatism," are wrong. I was going to attempt and probably fail to be witty by writing a 12 step program for conservative GOPs to get over it, so I looked up Alcoholics Anonymous' 12 step program for reference. What I had not known was that the criticism of this 12 step program is that it is religious, like some guy on a cloud is suddenly going to reach down and take away all of the things that drive a person to drink, all of the stress and heartache and despair. Instead of helping a person change the situation that is causing the drinking, magic will make it all better, like taking a pill (I'm sure Pfeizer is well on its way to developing the alcoholic pill if it hasn't already.)

That being said, I don't want to put the conservative GOPs through a 12 step program. I don't believe in mind control. I want to help them change the situation that put them into their minority status. I want to help them overcome their denial that America is simply not as far right as they envision it to be. Sure, it may lean to the right, and yeah, we all acknowledge that Democrats were not elected because they were Democrats but were elected because they were not Republicans, but this country is not as far right as the losers deluded. I mean, South Dakota voted against the anti-choice law, and if a state who voted 60+% for Bush turns down a chance to make abortion illegal, that should tell the cons something.

So, conservative GOPs, listen up. The people of this great nation are not full of the hatred you preach. We liked Will and Grace and we like skin on television. We aren't afraid of nude statues, and we believe that without science, our nation will fall into decline. We believe that life matters in between birth and death, that war must be fought as a last resort, that we must do all in our power to cure people of horrible diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and that includes doing research on embryonic stem cells. We believe that the middle class is the backbone of this country and don't want to be indentured servants of the wealthy, who will do whatever it takes for profits, regardless of the cost to the quality of life. We believe that all people deserve equal opportunity and that students shouldn't enter the workforce with the chains of a lifetime of debt around their ankles. We believe in globalization, yes, we do, but we believe that unbridled corporatism is ruining our country and leaving us with an unskilled workforce left with jobs at Walmart because the skilled jobs went elsewhere.

GOPs, welcome to the real America. You pushed your moderates out instead of embracing the center, where most of America resides, and you lost. So quit denying that conservatives lost for not being conservative enough. You lost for being too conservative, if anything. Your tent was too small, and you've paid the price.

Oh, and there was the twin killing of Iraq and corruption, but that's a whole other fish...