Posted on 02/09/2004 9:00:20 AM PST by truthandlife
This country is in a constitutional and moral crisis and the blind loyalty to the Republican Party has a lot to do with the problem. We have got to stop supporting a candidate just because he or she has an "R" before his or her name. The Republican platform is great, but if the Republicans only give it lip service, what good is it? Truth is the Christians who blindly support Republicanism over righteousness have blood all over their hands.
It is the moral and biblical duty of Christians to choose representatives of great moral character who fear God. It is then our job to support them in prayer and stand with them when they are persecuted. And when they become weak and want to compromise we hold their feet to the fire. If their fruit is different than their talk then we need to fire them and elect a new Christian.
Noah Webster stated "When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers "just men who will rule in the fear of God." The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes; Corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a Republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws."
We must put the blame at the feet of Christians for the crisis we find ourselves in today. The Republican Party is not going save America. And our blind loyalty to it is destroying us. The party has been infiltrated with baby killers, sodomites, fornicators promoters, big government socialism, big spending money grubbers, anti gun Marxists just to name a few. This blind loyalty has given the politician a blank check to do what ever he wants. He knows that no one will know or really care because it is all about winning.
To most Christians the elections are just about winning, not truth and righteousness. They have no idea how the candidate stands on the issues. Some are naive enough to think that because they are Republicans that they stand on the Republican platform. There is hardly a Republican out there that will write legislation to end the genocide of Americans let alone to monitor the industry. Most every Republican I have interviewed believes in civil unions with benefits using your money. Not a one I know has tried to impeach a tyrannical judge let alone reign in his jurisdiction, as stated in Article III section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. Matter of fact you can hardly tell the difference between a Democrat or a Republican, except the Bush administration has spent 25% more than the Clinton administration. Mr. Francis, chairman of the Republican Unity Coalition, (a homosexual lobby group) said in an interview with the New York Times, "There is not an anti-gay bone in his body". Talking about the President's body. In an article in Newsweek, December 29, 2003, President Bush was quoted as saying to the Muslim leader "Dr. al-Rubaie, I want you to convey this message to Mr. Sistani. Tell him that I pray to the same god he prays to…Tell Sistani I have nothing but praise for your religion." With all the bad Christian fruit Bush has displayed for the last 3 years, Christians still claim he is a Christian and a great president.
Both parties are taking us to a New World Order at mach speed while the see no evil, hear no evil Christians do nothing. This Blind Loyalty has gone to such an extreme that if anyone mentions something negative about a Republican politician, the Christians attack the messenger. They have forgotten that God says to stand for righteousness not Republicanism. Or maybe their preachers have never bothered to mention it.
If Christians are not salt and light, they are good for nothing. Every Christian will give an account on how he governed in this constitutional republic. What will the Lord Jesus Christ say, "Well done my good and faithful servant" or "their blood will I require at your hands"?
It is well past time to be loyal to Christ instead of the Republican Party. Time to stand for righteousness. It is time for a third party; the Constitution Party is the one I have in mind. Visit their website at www.constitutionparty.com. Check out their party platform and their candidates and you will see a big difference. Maybe if we practice tough love the Republican Party would repent and come back to its platform. But if not, duty is duty. Let righteousness ring!
If we lived in a parlimentary system, the Constitution Party might make some sense. Get enough red-meat conservatives together to get at least five percent of the vote and gain some seats in Parliment.
Of course, you would then need to form a coalition with other parties, and make compromises in order to be part of the ruling coalition. In our system, you make your compromises earlier rather than later to create a party that can win a majority of the votes in the election - but in both systems, they still have to be made - unless you can win an outright majority without other factions - which ain't gonna happen in 2004.
Nowadays, the hard-left and hard-right have about the same numbers and are loathe to cross over, so the battleground in the presidential election is to win the 20 percent or so who make up the mushy middle without losing too much on the flanks - Gore lost in 2000 because he lost more of his flank vote than Bush did. And the mushy middle rules elsewhere - the current alignment on SCOTUS allows frickin' Sandra Day O'Conner to set judicial policy as the swing vote between two factions. It sucks cheese, but it is the current reality.
Trust me, I feel the same pain on many days when I open up FR and see the latest spending proposals. But we also can influence the GOP from within - Bush agreed to spending limits after a near-mutiny from conservatives. And since we're not having a GOP primary this election, this is the time to yell the loudest, prior to the convention, so we get to lay some of the planks in the GOP platform. And that is one of only two platforms with any chance of enactment - so you can decide whether you want to build a pristine Constitution Party platform that is pleasing to look at but will never be used, or you can fight for as many planks as you can get with the GOP platform and then live with it until we can mint more conservatives.
In the end, you have to decide - who do you think the Bush Admin is going to listen to - folks who are unwilling to be part of a larger coalition if they don't get their way, or folks who will support a larger coalition if they get some of their way? You have to think long and hard as to whether you want to be inside or outside power.
Last I saw, Bush agreed to spending limits, after listening to top Congressional Republicans, who were listening to their grassroots. So we did get their attention.
I'm sick of these cargo-cult conservatives who want to run away from the real political process and whimper amongst themselves how great the country would be if some strong jack-booted Leader would force the people to respect the Constitution.
The fault is in the people, but what great propaganda it is to give them some one else to blame!
I am sure that eight years of Kerry and a Democratic congress will do wonders for everyone. Perhaps, after the new President appologises to Islamists as he has promised, raises taxes on the "rich", reunites us with the Europeans by signing the ICC and Kyoto accords, and takes the profits of the evil drug and healthcare industries by further limiting competition, then the forces of "true" conservatism will have won.
Can't be more clearly stated than that. I don't think she is running away from the political process.
In politics, winning is everything — for the Democrat Party, for the Republican Party....and for the Constitution Party. If you lose, you can't implement your agenda.
Yes! Let's follow the example of the far left for success!
Flush with excitement from garning 2.7 percent of the vote for Ralph Nader in the 2000 elections and denying Al Gore the presidency, they have pursued a convoluted antiwar agenda and taken over the primary process in 2004 to where the best candidate they can muster is a Massachusssets liberal who makes Ted Kennedy look conservative by comparison, thereby almost guaranteeing Bush the White House for four more years without even campaigning yet.
But at least their hearts are pure and untainted by that horrible compromising with moderates that is required to win the White House!
If the right wing takes five percent of the vote from Bush, that sure would show 'em!
Is there anything wrong with this?
Libertarians: Socially Liberal, fiscally conservative.
Republicans: Socially conservative, fiscally not-quite-as-conservative-as-they-ought-to-be.
But pushing Republicans to the Constitution Party is really just ceding power to far-left wackos.
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