Last week we noted that one of the defining messages at the Conservative Political Action Conference was that Republicans have lost control of Congress and the White House not because the voters had rejected the conservative agenda, but because they GOP had failed to fully embrace that agenda.
You see, conservative principles can never and have never failed and so the GOP's political losses can only be attributed to the party's failure to adhere to those principles, leading to strange statements like the one made by Rep. Paul Ryan explaining that Democrats massive victories in the last two elections are proof that it is really conservative values that are winning.
This sort of logic also leads to odd statements such as this:
Former Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum says conservatives lost the majority in Washington because they were unethical, incompetent and unprincipled.
Santorum told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington that even though the media claims conservatism failed in 2008, it was “conservatives who failed conservatism and that failed America.”
He said the Republican Party became rife with dishonest politicians who claimed to carry the conservative mantle but were not willing to implement conservative principles.
I see. So it was all those unethical, incompetent and unprincipled “conservatives who failed conservatism" that were thrown out of office, causing the GOP to lose its majority in Congress and control of the White House?
An interesting theory, especially coming from Former Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum.
Is that how he lost his seat to a Democrat in 2006, by being an incompetent and dishonest politician who failed conservatism?
