What fight? Constitutional conservatives must join the fight now to unseat President Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. or his Democrat replacement.
I was hoping against hope Obama would win
During the last presidential election I was hoping against hope Obama would win. Yes, I was a constitutional-conservative Republican then, as I am now, and have been since soon after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As soon as it dawned on me that Lyndon Johnson would assume the presidency, I knew I could no longer be a Democrat.
The first and last time I voted for a Democrat
That election, which saw John F. Kennedy become our nation’s president, was the first election I was old enough to vote in and the last in which I voted for a Democrat. I was unable to vote in the last election; the one in which an unknown nobody, Barack Hussein Obama, become our president. The reason I was unable to vote is that I was living in the Philippines at the time and, even though I was properly registered in Orange County California as a Republican and had requested an absentee ballot in a timely manner, I did not receive a ballot for that election. And, no, it was not for lack of a good mailing address.
I used to think Georgia and some of the other states in the South—I was born and raised the South—were the best at working bureaucratic miracles. Not so. But that is a story for another time. Putting the best of all faces on the reason I did not receive an absentee ballot to vote in the last presidential election would be to say it was a California-style, bureaucratic miracle.
They took my right to vote away
In a way, I am glad someone in the Orange County election commission office saw fit not to send me a ballot for that election, because I fear I would have vote for McCain, even though I was sure that if he were elected, that would be the end of the Republican and, hence, conservative chances for national or state public office for many years to come, if not forever.
Looking back to that election and beyond, I am not so sure anymore that I want to see another Republican elected to public office.
Bill “I didn’t have sex with the girl” Clinton was the most conservative since Ronald Reagan
As disturbing and distasteful as the thought is, I believe Bill “I didn’t have sex with the girl” Clinton was the most conservative president we have had since Ronald Reagan, the all-time greatest constitutional-conservative Republican, and second greatest president ever, was in office. To simply call the other two Republicans, George “Read my lips” H. W. Bush and George “Dubya” W. Bush, economic liberals is to stretch the credulity to the breaking point. Ole “Read my lips” was an economic liberal, his son, “Dubya,” was an economic ultraliberal, and I don’t recall either of them vetoing many of the spending bills that came to their desks. Neither man cared much for constitutional niceties either, plus they were both entitlement enthusiasts. Put together, they gave us 12-years of economic liberal hell.
McCain would have been worse than the Bushes
No, the Bushes, as likeable, patriotic, and just in many of their decisions, as they were, they were not by any stretch constitutional conservatives. Sorry to say, I voted for both of them, because I saw them as the lesser of two evils.
Could John McCain be any worse than either of the Bushes? The answer is: yes. John McCain suffers from some of the same diseases that afflicts liberals. While he appears to be a cultural conservative, he appears insipid and a namby-pamby in the face of hard political and economic decisions and, like the Bushes, he is an F.D.R. New Deal-style spendthrift. And, to my knowledge, he, like Obama, has never run even the smallest business or had a job in the private sector.
Still Namby-Pamby McCain was and is a patriot
In his favor I will say John McCain service to his country as a naval aviator during the Vietnam War does recommend him and he certainly deserves our everlasting gratitude. His military service and heroism shows that at one time the man had a fire burning in his belly, but time has all but smothered that fire. Still, military service, of however much heroism, does not a president make, much less a constitutional-conservative president.
All of his experiences brought John McCain to a point in life that, had he been elected president, he might well have destroyed the Republican Party as the party of political conservatism.
We must stand up for what is right; we must join the fight now!
So where does that put us today? As I see it, unless the old guard Republicans in the House and Senate bow to the reality of the truths it has been shown by the modern-day Tea Party, the Republican Party will not win the coming presidential election. To counter that possibility, constitutional conservatives in the House and Senate must join with the Tea Party in supporting a common presidential candidate. Otherwise Obama will get his chance to finish bringing about the revolution his mentors: his father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.; Saul Alinsky, the community organizer, author of Rules for Radicals; and Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s United Church of Christ pastor for 12-years; and his other Marxist-socialists associates like Van Jones, the avowed communist; and Bill Ayers, the radical of the Weather Underground Organization faction of the Students for a Democratic Society, and professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education, have been working to bring to fruition for many years.
The time is now to join the fight for freedom and the American way
It is time. Let us join the fight now: today. We must elect a true constitutional-conservative, God-fearing president this time around, as this may be our last chance to save our God-given inalienable rights, our freedom, and the American way.
Agree or disagree?
Please favor the rest of us with your considered thoughts on this matter in comments.
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Where’s the Beef? or where’s the candidate to run against Obama.? The mainstream media will twist every thing his way during a campaign. The reason Clinton was “conservative”, was quite simple. The 1994 Republican Congressional victories. Taking Senate back next year is quite realistic. Where’s a Ronald Reagan. The end of the Cold War gave Clinton a chance to payoff some debts. Ironically Bush Senior used some of the Tax raise money to payoff some debt, too. Too bad, he never explained things to the American people. Also the Democratic Congress wouldn’t give him the Transportation Bill to tide things over until the High Tech-Personal Computer Age entered the economy. Just like the “Television Age” and “Automatic Transmission” for automobiles sparked the 1950′s General Eisenhower economic boon. Mr. Bush, Jr., meant well, but wasn’t a real conservative, nor an articulate speaker……lots of vice presidential candidates are available. For example Marco Rubio on the ticket could help bring in South Western States, but where’s the Top Man (or woman in 2016) next year……
Allan,
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I will go through it pretty much point-by-point, as if we were sitting together in a friendly tête-à-tête.
You asked where’s the beef, meaning a Ronald Reaganesque conservative to run against Obama or whoever the Democrats end up fielding. You make a good point. I see it as a blessing that the field is open at this juncture. It means there will be a more thorough winnowing process than usual in selecting a conservative candidate. You notice I did not say a Republican candidate. It remains to be seen if the old guard liberal Republicans will recognize the conservatism of the Tea Party inspired new Republican and independent electorate or if, heaven forbid, a new party will to come to the fore of necessity to carry the conservative banner.
I agree the mainstream media twists everything to help Obama. They are like a silly young school girl in love for the first time, and they, like her, are blind to his every fault.
Yes, the 1994 Republican Congressional victories did force a kicking-and-screaming, pragmatic Clinton to the political right. The point is, unlike the Bushes, he did it, he got it.
You caught me looking on the transportation bill. I don’t remember that episode.
I am not totally sold on Marco Rubio. Can’t put my finger on it but there is something there with him that I don’t trust. Maybe it was the troubles he had with how he funded his campaign expenses. As I recall, he avoided that issue.
I wonder if Paul Ryan would not be a good Reaganesque choice for president or possibly vice president, though I think his usefulness to the U.S. would be wasted as a vice president. Still vice president is a good training post. I am sure he will still be a good possibility in 8 years as well.
A third party would be good only if were 95% sure that Obama was having things his way and the polls showed big victory. Then a third party could be prepared for 2016..Paul Ryan for example would not fly on either coasts, neither could a Marco Rubio work as a Presidential candidate..However it should be remembered that the 1994 clinton needed re-elction in 1996. Ross Perot’s third party basically took away Republican votes..Bush Sr believed Saddam Hussien should not be removed, due to the vacuum of power it would leave. Also he believed a more “hands off” the former Jugoslavia area would be best. So, maybe Kosovo would be still part of Serbia, and not a Moslem State right now. Conjecture, but that would have probably brought Al Gore to the White House in 1996. So, imagine 9/11-2001 with Mr Gore apologizing for This country(USA).. The Electoral College way of election, nor even a Popular means of voting would not bring a victory, over Obama with, a Ryan, Bachmann, or any such conservative, midwestern type. In 2000, Hillary won by 200,000 votes over Lazio. Coincidently, the Harlem/black vote was almost 200,000 to 10,000 over Lazio. The same in California the Hispanic vote, has several questionable voters. so, the cushion in the top electoral vote states, is in place. A Donald Trump could possibly win the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut, triangle. A Marco Rubio on the ticket might add votes in California,New Mexico, or even get Colorado back in the Republican column..No third party can win this time around..
Allan,
Thanks again.
A third party is only a last resort which I do not think we will get to, but if, then, yes. No one of real value to America is going fly, as you put it, anywhere on the left coast, and probably not in the northeast part of the east coast.
I am not for intervention for any reason anywhere in the world except to protect our vital interests. We were terribly wrong to meddle in Jugoslavia. What we did in Kosovo was very bad.
Of course, we do not want that killer of many innocent Americans, Colonel Qaddafi, to remain as president in Libya. We should insist that some of his neighbors, who see his leaving to be in their best interests and whom we have help mightily with our foreign aid over the years, go in and take him out. And if they would not, we should cease all foreign aid to those countries in the future.
It galls me to say it, but we probably would have been better of with Al Gore as president than with Dubya, as Al’s policies would have shown us the way to the promise land then instead of our having to wade through the bigger government and more spending policies of Dubya’s last term and now Obama’s presidency before we could hope to find our way back to the promise land we had left behind with the end of Reagan’s last term.
If we cannot elect a real conservative who believes in the constitution the founding fathers intended, what is to become of us. Reagan won, didn’t he? And he will not be the last on his kind. We can and must elect constitutional conservatives all around in 2012. We cannot win while looking for failure.
I believe Lazio lost the election in New York the night he and Hillary debated when Lazio treated her with to harshly.