I think many Democrats would welcome a smarter, more reasonable opposition party, but two decades of the Rush Limbaugh-Fox News echo chamber has transformed the Republican Party into something terrible. You shouldn’t take my word for it: Listen, instead, to Eric Garland, a conservative whose recent blog post has torn across liberal America’s Facebook feeds at the speed of sound. In an open letter to a Republican strategist, Garland explains that he is a conservative, and then he lays down the law.

How can I put this gently? My wife and I are not sensitive to your messaging, nor did we vote for the candidates you proposed for us this past Tuesday.

B-b-but, what? Aren’t we investors, hard-workin’ white folk surrounded by same in a manicured cul-de-sac, scared by a vision of economic collapse amidst the takers in a land of fewer givers? Didn’t Mitt Romney’s strong family, wealth, leadership history and chiseled chin give us the uncontrollable urge to high-five him into the White House?

No.

May I explain why not, purely for your education, such that you might be interested in winning an election on the national level at some point in the future? It bears pointing out that I should be your Low Hanging Fruit, the easy vote to get as opposed to, say, African-Americans, Latinos, or Asians – and you’re not even speaking well to me. The reasons why ought to concern you deeply.

It’s a long blog post laying out the main problems with the Republican Party as it stands right now. The problem is, I don’t think voices like Garland’s can be heard so long as Fox News remains as popular as it is right now. He will always be cursed as a liberal and a socialist and the reason why America died on November 6, 2012. (Garland addresses this argument in the piece.)

This is a reason why I think liberals should be skeptical about MSNBC’s rise in popularity. I freely admit to having a huge crush on Rachel Maddow, but when you’re in a position where you only hear what you want to hear, you eventually wind up living in an alternate reality. That’s a terrible thing, and it’s the curse of the modern Republican Party. It can happen to the Democratic Party, too.

8 replies on “A Conservative Explains How the Republican Party Abandoned Him”

  3. Wait, I see your point. Throughout the piece, he only identifies himself as the target demographic of the GOP, never specifically as a “conservative.” Got it.

  4. Good eye, rich bachelor — Garland clearly doesn’t identify as a conservative, only a prosperous caucasian. More hackery from Constant. And yet he wants Republicans to become “smarter.”

    Could Constant please post his SAT scores when we get a second?

  5. “when you’re in a position where you only hear what you want to hear, you eventually wind up living in an alternate reality.”

    Paul Constant certainly isn’t guilty of this, MSNBC certainly isn’t guilty of this, and Obama supporters are most certainly not guilty of this. It’s exclusively a Fox News problem, got it!

    Anyways, what did the Republicans have to gain by Romney’s victory? Nothing. They get everything they want from Obama, as he pisses his alleged agenda away to “compromise” with Republicans. The “compromise” doesn’t exist, and the filibuster isn’t a real problem, Obama has the exact same agenda: cut all forms of welfare. Republicans are going to continue to loose until they embrace Libertarianism again. Simply shouting “More War, Less Government” isn’t fooling anyone.

  6. The talking heads guarding the inhabitants of Bullsh*t Mountain from rejoining the world of the sane just won’t budge an inch will they? Fox News is a propaganda machine which dumbs down America by the day through disinformation and their slanted agendas. See their anchors spewing forth feces from their mouths in my visual homage to the network on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/10…

  7. Actually, the original posts from Mr. Garland stated the he and his wife were Republicans that voted Democrat this year (and he gave the reasons why). However, the website has been closed.

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