I am Proud to be a Termite

I was reading a blog the other day that struck me as hard core truth.  The author compared the GOP to a house with termites.  The house seemed like a solid structure that has stood the test of many years– and this year wasn’t going to be any different, except for that it had termites.  Those little but mighty creatures that seem harmless until they start combining their forces.  I wish I would have been cleaver enough to make this anology of what has been happening to the Republican party.  While the party elite think everything is fine, the base of the party is telling a different story.  They are the termites who are finding strength in numbers and soon are not going to be silenced any more.

I am proud to be one of these termites, although I never thought I would be one.  I have been a proud Republican all of my life up until this year.  It started with the 2008 presidential election when the GOP basically chose politics over their own principles.  They cashed in their conservative values to the highest bidder and they left the candidates who represented the heart and soul of the party out to dry.  Republican Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said it best in his book From Hope to Highter Ground when he stated that “Republicans create a firing squad by forming a circle.”

I thought the discontent with the GOP would end after the presidential primary season was over, but not so.  This experience caused me to take a look at Iowa politics under a microscope, and I did not like what I saw there either.  The same problem:  the Republican party dismissing the social conservative base as being a nuisance and not important to their success anymore.  Most Republican politicians are too busy worrying about their political agendas and their wallets to support something called VALUES.  They don’t think they need us so, therefore, they have no reason to fight for us.  They think we will just fall in line, but not this termite.  If there is not a good house cleaning in the Iowa GOP of bad candidates, I have a feeling the termites will eventually bring down this ole house.