That's an interesting assumption, but wouldn't it also make it easier for conservatives to build their own unique brand? Why are you so wedded to remaining within the GOP construct, especially since they seem to have rejected your message?
First question: Sure, it will. It is an admonishment as much as a restatement of past error, once again. I would be remiss not to say so, but it still likely annoys those who will, once again, place their faith in voting for what they hope is a smaller dose of poison to the Republic rather than vote their conscience and, if America wants to OD on BS, let it.
Second question: I'm actually not clinging to the GOP. Oh, it's be nice if the whole party hierarchy had an epiphany and turned right, hard, and meant it, but I'm not holding my breath after repeated election cycles of promising Conservatives conservative action and those elected getting the brain wipe as they step under the Capitol Dome. It could save a lot of work to have an existing structure that size, but many of those who built that have opted out, dissatisfied with the direction those entrusted with steering the political direction of the Party have gone, not just in this, but in several election cycles.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, and there is a lot of shame, there.
I am all for building the Constitution Party into a viable force. Why? Well, because the Constitution is the core of the Party Platform, Original Intent and not howling religiosity Libertarians intent on competing for the same disaffected voters (to build
their Party) will gladly tell you is all there is. Please check the Party Platform out (elsewhere on this site) and see for yourself, if you are so inclined.
IMHO, Now, that's a direction to go in, mainly because it is back to the fundamental genome of our government, without some of the myriad lethal mutations which have occurred since it went into effect.
Most of our problems, though, are from ignoring the Constitution, more than changing it. Amending what we have will only go so far with a government which will already ignore the seminal document.
As for religion, that Government, like the men who crafted it, has moral foundations, too, but there remain the fundamental and enshrined Rights therein to protect even the right of the individual to be free of religious constraint, while still constrained by law, and there are even limits on the law.
The unifying concept is that mankind has been given fundamental Rights by his Creator, and that no human government can legitimately usurp those Rights. One need not necessarily believe in a creator to understand the philosophical necessity of a higher authority, a fundamental and universal concept of right vs wrong. Otherwise, why bother to govern at all? Just dig in and defend your family and stuff from all comers. The structure of that government was laid out, the Duties of and Limitations on the Federal Government specified, and the remainder of the power was to be in the hands of the States and the People.
It is a Government of far, far less Federal governance. Fewer laws, smaller government at the Federal Level, more power concentrated at the State level or returned to the people, and in practice as well as print, honoring those unalienable Rights.
What's not to like?
