First, I have to qualify the afforementioned title. I am presently a conservative (very conservative) Republican. However, that has not always been the case. Like my parents and grandparents before me, I was initially a registered Democrat -- what one might call a Reagan Democrat. I had supported Nixon in '72, but backed Carter in '76 -- for whom I had high hopes, only to be greatly disappointed by a man whom I feel to have been the worst President in my lifetime (current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue excluded). I voted for Reagan in '80, but then turned left for a full decade, voting on personality rather than substance and policy before I finally came to my senses and left the party which I felt did not best represent the ideals and beliefs I'd then held. Having formerly, actually voted for the likes of Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis (it shames me to publically admit such now, but I feel it's necessary in order to let people know from whence I came), I now found myself longing for the days of Reagan (who, sadly, I never quite appreciated during his administration).

As stated above, my parents were Democrats into their late 50's, and all four of my grandparents life-long Democrats, but the Democratic party of 2009 is not the party of my parents or my grandparents, much less the party of Andrew Jackson. My grandparents would be rolling in their graves to see what has become of their party, and I seriously doubt they'd remain in that party, were they alive today.

Of course, I'm refering to the radical policies of our current Chief Executive, President Obama. While I was hoping he would turn out to be the person he'd campaigned as (even though I certainly did not vote for him), he has gone even further to the left than even I could've imagined or feared last November.

The most telling indicator of his views can be found among those he has appointed as personal advisors (or "czars"), most of whom comprise a Who's Who of the Most Radical Left -- including persons who believe that animals should be allowed rights to an attorney, the government should stipulate mandatory forced birth-control, or that the United States government was behind the 9/11 attacks.

To those of you who still refer to yourselves as Democrats, I ask -- "Is this the party into which you initially registered?"

"Does this best represent your ideals and beliefs?"

If not, why do you tolerate this from within your own ranks?

Seriously. This is not a rhetorical question.

While (in the past two decades, for the most part) I have always agreed more with those in my party than those outside of my party, I have always stood up against such when they stood in opposition to my views, and held them accountable for it.

Do those of you still in the Democratic party do the same? Or do you unashamedly accept everything which spews from your party's facial orifaces: good, bad and ugly?

Do these advisors of the President represent YOUR views or not?

And if not -- why do you sit idly by and say nothing to your representatives and President (whom you elected, and who is supposed to represent and work for you)?!?!

Silence implies consent.

Your silence tells the world that you endorse the policies and advisors of the President -- who, incidentally, are so far to the left, that even Hugo Chavez (by his own admission) finds himself to the right of the current administration.

Seriously, people. How can you stand by and allow the President of the United States to appoint personal advisors (czars) such as Van Jones, who believes that the United States government was behing the 9/11 attacks?! Does this honestly represent your view of what transpired eight years ago next week?! And if not, how can you allow your party, your government, your Constitution, your nation be dragged through the mud by those who do?

As Glenn Back asked today -- is it that the FBI isn't properly vetting these individuals (who are allowed into the White House and have the President's ear) or do these individuals actually reflect the thoughts and intended policies of our nation's Commander-in-Chief? It has to be one or the other. If there's a third solution, please, enlighten me.

Even if this were just a single inidividual, it would be frightening. That the President has chosen to surround himself with a multitiude of like-minded, extremists is indescribably troubling -- to say the least.

I'm shocked that no one in Congress is calling the President to account for these appointments. The Congress and the President work for and answer to the people of the United States. How can this be allowed to happen in this day and age? What has happened to our country? Have we no Winston Churchill's who will stand against their own party when their party is wrong, even if it means suffering the ostricism of that party (as Churchill had -- and suffered a decade in the wilderness, a pariah in his own party, before being redeemed by history and becoming the person most responsible for the salvation of Western civilization duirng WWII)?

Are all those in the Democratic party milquetoasts who blindly follow their leaders over the cliff to destruction like a herd of faithful lemmings? (And if you don't think there will be repercusions to the President's policies in next year's mid-term elections, prepare yourselves for a rude awakening in fourteen months.)

And just to underscore what should've already been blatantly obvious -- this has absolutely nothing to do with PARTY affiliation. It has nothing to do with Democrat or Republican (I've been and voted both). It has to do with the security, survival and very lifeblood of our nation.

For heaven's sake -- how can you stand by and say nothing while our Chief Executive is trampling the Constitution and appointing anarchists and lunatics as his personal advisors? Have you no respect for the office of the Presidency? Have no respect for the office of the Congress of the United States? Have you no respect for the Constitution, and the hundreds of thousands who've given their lives to protect our freedom, that you will stand silently by and say nothing while this President makes a mockery of everything this country stands for?

As I said, this has nothing to do with party. The President has disgraced the Democratic party -- the party of my parents and grandparents -- who were life-long Democrats, and would be rolling in their graves (along with the framers of the U.S. Constitution) if they could see what you've allowed to become of your party, today.

This is NOT the party of Andrew Jackson. This is NOT even the party of Woodrow Wilson, FDR, JFK or LBJ. Heaven help us -- this isn't even the party of Jimmy Carter, Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro.

Is this your party? Do you agree with the direction your party is taking this country, the policies and advisors of the current President?

If not, then when will you get up off your posteriors and demand your representives be accountable and stop this madness before it's too late and we all have a price to pay -- a price far higher than most of us can even imagine?

When will you get some temerity and stand up against this travesty and trampling of the United States Constitution, a Constitution which was paid for with the blood of the patriots?