Charles Stricklin

The triumvirate of William F. Buckley, Jr., Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh have done more to shape and promote the ideology of Conservatism than anyone else in my lifetime.

We lost Reagan a few years back, and now we’ve lost Buckley.

Now, after the 106th-110th Congress, President George W. Bush and his father previous, Limbaugh heads up an ideology in exile. Now, a senator who voted against tax cuts, not once but twice, helped limit free speech, wanted to provide amnesty to illegal aliens and wanted/wants to further bankrupt the country on a hoax may claim to be “Conservative.”

If ever we needed you, William, it’s now.

NBA legend and RINO Charles Barkley just took a page from the John McCain book, “How Not to be Elected by Insulting Your Political Party’s Base: How to Adopt Positions Directly Counter to Your Own Party”.

Seriously, it’s time for a purge! Let’s jettison Barkley, Specter, Snowe, Collins, Schwarzenegger, and all the Bushes now when we’re effectively fighting a Conservative purge of our own in the guise of a nomination process.

Maybe we should form our own national Conservative Party and leave the GOP to die off as the Whigs before them. Or, better yet, maybe we should all re-register as Republicans (I left the party years ago in disgust), get involved in our state GOP leadership and start weeding imbeciles like Mr. Barkley out before they contaminate the party any further.

Idiot!

So, I see old Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning, predicting six more weeks of winter.

It’s a shame that Claude the Crawfish’s prediction was canceled this year, for all reasons, because of bad weather! That means all you Mardi Gars revelers out there will have to stand to the side of the road and yell for beads in cold, cold weather.