Leadership? What Leadership?

Red State this morning ran a piece titled "Shut Up" SEE HERE and it focused on commentary that the Republican party needs more voices speaking up and not just the voices of conservative talk radio. The article goes on to suggest that the real problem is lack of leadership. The current party leaders are playing cozy with the very forces that the conservative grassroots find so disturbing.

Lindsay Graham is the posterboy for this kind of collaboration on cap and trade which is the dumbest and most frankly totalitarian legislation to come down the pike in a long time. It's a huge energy tax flying false colors as some kind of environmentally responsible legislation about an environmental issue whose science isn't just suspect but is just plain wrong, a cover for the political action that it is being used to motivate.

We need leadership, but no leaders worth talking about seem to be on the horizon. All the usual suspects are too concerned to maintain their power. The result is a leadership vacuum that makes the Republican party largely impotent. The electorate in general doesn't know who to believe so they are currently believing no-one. We need principled leadership and not liberal-leftie-light which is what the so-called moderates offer. If you're going to hell in a handbasket, going more slowly isn't the answer. It's time to change course. Failing a change of course we might as well just run up the white flag or is it red flag? and declare "game over." Then the United States can fade into history as just one more failed experiment with liberty and freedom and the darkness of tyranny will once more descend upon us all.