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On the farm, we would say: “It’s too late to close the barn door when the horse is out.” However, most farmers possessed wisdom and common sense. They learned from the experience that until you secure the barn door you will have no control of your horse.
As more and more South Carolinians have migrated from the farms to the urban areas, compromised with the influx of humanity from elsewhere, and pursued more entertainment and escape from stressful reality, we seem to have parted with some of that wisdom and common sense.
In the political arena, Republicans in state government have stubbornly left the door open for non-Republicans to literally steal Republican primary election victories. We have seen it happen in Greenville County Republican primary elections, and now we have seen the opponents of conservative Republicans determine the winner in a South Carolina presidential preference primary election, and thereby determine who South Carolina’s Republican Convention delegates will support for the nomination of their party’s candidate for President of the United States.
The question remaining is this: Will South Carolina grass-roots conservative Republicans learn from this brutal lesson, or will they continue to support state elected officials who intentionally “leave the barn door open” and allow primary elections in South Carolina to continue to be perverted.
Unless conservatives insist that their elected officials “close the barn door” while Republicans control both the South Carolina House and Senate and the Governor’s office, conservatives in the Palmetto State will become an ignored minority in the political arena. They will simply become a tool of the liberal northeast Republican establishment to be manipulated and used as liberal Democrats manipulate and use their minorities.
It is too late for this election cycle. This “horse is already out of the barn.” South Carolina has had a major role in giving a pass and a boost to the most liberal Republican in the presidential race and a Democrat with the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate. Barack Obama’s voting record is to the left of both Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy.
Will Barack Obama be the vehicle for bringing to fruition Nikita Kruchev’s prediction that Marxists and socialists would take over America from within?
Have South Carolina voters moved drastically to the left, or have Southerners once again been “flim-flamed” and played for fools?
A columnist for the liberal Washington Post on Fox News Sunday afternoon laughed about Sen. John McCain campaigning as a conservative candidate and observed that after McCain perceives that he has the Republican nomination locked up, that will be the last time you will hear him describe himself as conservative and pandering to conservatives, because he will make a sharp turn to the left where he has been and where he thinks he must be to have a chance of defeating either of the radical-left Democrats.
Sen. McCain, with 64 percent of the voters in the South Carolina Republican primary voting against him, was the winner. He won because the majority conservative vote was split three ways with Mitt Romney receiving the largest number of votes and sharing the remainder of the conservative vote with Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.
The critical question that will determine the future of the South Carolina Republican Party remains: Will conservative Republicans rise to the occasion and insist that the GOP – controlled legislature require registration by political party? The only hope is in a “Yes” answer, and the hour is late. The filing period for local, state and federal offices opens next month.
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