Columnist: GOP must embrace conservatism

Lisa Mossie offers an excellent analysis of what's wrong with the Republican Party. By watering down its message to appeal to "moderates," the party has lost its focus ... and is losing elections.

The only way for the GOP to return to power is to embrace conservatism, Mossie argues in her latest column published in The Pottstown Mercury.

From Mossie's column:

Here's a memo to the GOP: You exist solely to win elections. These "safe," moderate candidates you have mincingly embraced, these entrenched incumbents: we're done with them. The worst has happened — we are utterly out of power. You can't scare us into voting for RINOs anymore.

True conservativism is hopeful and optimistic; it believes in the power of the individual and personal responsibility. It does not insult its constituency by claiming that only the superior mechanisms of an expanded state can offer the people happiness.

The time for half measures is over. It is time that the GOP embraced conservatism. They have nothing left to lose.

Read the full column at the newspaper's Web site.