Strange Bedfellows

shibumi's brain | 9/10/2012 | shibumi

[shibumi]

The American public has been treated to the quadrennial celebration of the victory of banality over genius. Both major political parties have massed in a revelry of lipservice to the founding principles of this once great nation, as their very existence (in modern form) stands as a paradigm of exactly those base instincts of human nature that the Founders sought to guard against.

The Constitution was set in place as an affirmation of the Divinely endowed nature of Man. Understood by definition and implication was the responsibility of citizenship that came hand-in-glove with the autonomy of self-governance.

The nation grew and prospered for many years, reliant only on the work ethic, the sanctity of private property and the attendant generosity of a prosperous and ethical people. Of course, there were the mean spirited, the Scrooges and the Robber Barons. But their stories stand out as bad examples, rather than as the norm of American life.

We have been treated (and will continue to be for the following two plus months) to a parade of looters, many of whom have never actually had to produce anything of value, promising the vast underclass (which has supplanted the Great Middle Class) that they are the ones who will confiscate that which they did not make and supply this purloined wealth to those who also have produced nothing except an appetite for empty calories and toys for empty minds. (Insert here a mental image. A mother of several children from a random selection of "baby-daddies" with costly fingernails and hair extensions feeding her brood at McDonald's with an EBT card while texting on her Obamaphone.)

The choice in the national elections has been reduced (for her) to a question of who will procure the most goodies from your income and (for you) who will hurt you the least while doing it.

Neither party will offer candidates who would dare suggest that perhaps personal responsibility should come into play (on her part) or that what you own is somehow intrinsically yours (on your part.) Already one of the candidates, Paul Ryan, has been excoriated in the press for the mere suggestion that he might have found an idea or two with some merit in the works of Ayn Rand.

So until the Tea Party (or some other insurgent group) has had a chance to fundamentally transform the GOP, true Constitutional Conservatives are without a real voice in national politics. That is not to say that we are not a group to be reckoned with. We are however a group whose battle plan for this election must be one of expediency rather than idealism.

Many of us felt used and betrayed time and again as candidates with seemingly conservative credentials fell to the Romney Primary Juggernaut. Some of us have come to think of Willard as an enemy, only slightly less odious than The Enemy residing in the White House. We've been looking for ways to gin up enthusiasm for the upcoming campaign, but a bitter taste remains. How are we going to reconcile our conscience with what must be done to unseat The Usurper?

Let's take a moment to look at a lesson from history. I do not particularly like the often quoted saw "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." That would indicate that a basis for friendship might exist outside of the influence of the common enemy. I prefer to think of the enemy's enemies as just that - enemies. But enemies can also be useful allies.

Think for a moment how the WWII campaign in Europe would have gone had it not been for the Eastern Front. Countless Russians gave their lives and in so doing, strained the German resources to the breaking point. While the most perceptive of the Allied military leaders, like General Patton made good use of the Russian Front they also harbored no illusion that this somehow transformed the Communists into soul mates for the US. We could take a lesson here and remember that while today's tactic may be to use the vehicle of the Romney candidacy to uproot the greater evil, when it is all said and done, we'll drink that victory toast with both eyes open, staring in the face of our ally as "one son-of-a-bitch to another."

So throughout this orgy of Newspeak and Doublethink, keep your eyes on the prize. Give Romney his victory, and give him along with it a Congress filled with uncompromising idealists ...(Oh, wait ... first there would have to be some ...) Well, give him the most right leaning Congress possible.

And keep a close eye and a tight leash on President Marshall "Willard" Zhukhov.

[shibumi]

Good to hear from you!

(You’ve been kind of quiet lately, you know)

I pray daily for your health and well-being and I look forward to your next ball-busting post on FreeRepublic.