Top scholar: Here's why
GOP won't stop Obama
The GOP has lost its way
and conservatives should work to oust lousy incumbents in the Republican Party
– even in the general election – says prominent Vanderbilt professor Carol M.
Swain.
Swain, a lifelong
Democrat who left the Democratic Party after becoming a Christian, is far from
satisfied with the performance of the GOP. The author of “Be the People” sees Republicans too often holding a finger in the wind to
determine how regain power.
“The Republican Party has lost its way,” Swain
said. “I think it has an identity problem. It doesn’t know what it wants to be.
It believes it has to become the Democratic Party to stay in power. I believe
that’s a serious mistake.”
She added, “The Republican Party has not stood
up for the Constitution in Washington, as far as I’m concerned. All this noise
now about impeaching the president – they should have been screaming when the
president first started abusing executive privilege. I think the Republicans
have not stood up because they want to do it, too. When they’re in power, we’re
not going to get that much change
If Republicans do control all of Congress next
year, Swain said she will not be encouraged by rhetoric before or after
Election Day but by actions taken by those in office. She said the first step
to better leadership is holding current officeholders to account at the polls.
“Because the system is set up the way it is in
Tennessee and other parts of the country, there’s almost nothing the voters can
do,” she said. “I think that’s unfortunate. We have to have a system that’s
responsive and in which we can hold incumbents accountable.”
For Swain, accountability does not stop once the
primary votes are counted.
“In some of those cases, I think we have to do
the ultimate. Punish them in the November elections, even if means that our own
political party fails to win in that particular state. The only way to hold
politicians accountable is to hold them accountable all the way through the cycle,”
she said, noting the only voters can set the nation in a new direction.
“They need to wake up.”
Swain was born into poverty as one of 12
children. She was a married, teenage mother with two children who didn’t finish
high school.
However, she later received her GED and received
degrees from five different colleges and universities. Swain received her law
degree from Yale and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. As a
black woman raised in dire financial straits, she would seem likely to be a
solid Democrat. And she was, until life took her in a different direction.
“Like most blacks, I was born a Democrat and I
was a Democrat most of my life,” she explained. “In 2000, I had a Christian
conversion experience that sort of shifted me (politically) a little bit. I did
not align with the Republican Party until 2009, and it was bit by bit. At some
point, I decided I could no longer be a Democrat because of all the policy
stances that are contrary to Judeo-Christian values as I understand them.”
As she evolved politically, Swain had no
intention of becoming a public activist. She says it came about naturally.
“I never sought to be involved in politics, but
I see issues like immigration, the national surveillance, the national security
problems,” she said. “Often, I don’t hear people speaking out, and I believe
that part of my responsibility is to speak.
“I speak out about issues because I believe our
nation is at a critical point. I think we the people need to stand up, take
responsibility for the condition of the nation and we can’t point fingers at
other people. It’s our responsibility. It’s our country. We have to fight for
it.”
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