MARCH 3, 2009 --

To the Republican Leadership:

Since 1995 I have been urging the GOP to respond to Democratic demagoguery, to be assertive, to act on the advice set forth in the first half of Federalist 57. My efforts to date, have been unavailing.

Meanwhile, the media (save for talk radio) openly serve as the semi-official organ of the Democrats.

Yahoo, February 26, carried a "fact check" on your claim that the administration's tax proposals will harm small businesses, commenting that your criticism reflects the GOP's policy of defending "the rich." Some "fact c heck."

And did you see the letters columns in The New York Times, February 26? Six letters commented on President Obama's Tuesday night address. The letters were either pro-Obama, anti-Bush or both. Not one letter criticized the president except for a few that suggested the president was not partisan enough.

I perceived the problem years ago -- Rush, Sean, Mark Levin, among others, have fairly recently recognized the difficulty: Republicans allow the left to walk all over them. (Is there no Republican capable of standing up to Rep. Barney Frank, for example?)

Why? Perhaps Republican congressmen fear that commitment to conservative populist principles will cost them elections.. But passivity, adopting a "Democrat-lite" stance, has not kept a majority of Republicans in the House and Senate,
has it?

And so, today we are ruled by neo-aristocrats. I would not describe our leftists as Marxist, unless the term is expanded to "money- mad Marxists" who, in the words of Federalist 57, seek the "ambitious sacrifice of the many to the aggrandizement of the few."

Had I the ability to be a political cartoonist, I would change the animals that currently symbolize the major party and the semi-major party to the tortoise (Democrats) and the hare (Republicans). Like the hare, the GOP was, since 1994, so certain of victory that it fell asleep while the Democrats just kept marching on to win the White House and both houses of Congress and become our rulers. Aristocrats of any stripe rule; they do not represent.

In the event this memo comes to your attention, feel free to contact LPR at the country's earliest convenience which, I have a hunch, is kind of soon.

David R. Zukerman
Proprietor
Lonely Pamphleteer Review