Posted on 02/02/2008 1:05:56 PM PST by exit82
Today is February 2, 2008.
I am over fifty years old. I am a product of American values, observed and experienced in the 1950s and 1960s, and sorely tried in the Vietnam, Watergate, and Carter years of the 1970s, and again in the Clinton years of the 1990s.
This is the timeframe and events that formed my political worldview. I grew up when we still said a prayer and read Psalm 23 at the beginning of the school day. I remember doing the duck and cover in elementary school, to be safe in the event of a Cold War nuclear attack, even though being only 12 miles from NYC, the odds of surviving such an attack or its aftermath was just about a negative number. I remember the pride in America and its flag; the meaning of independence, especially on the Fourth of July. My father's parents were immigrants and my mother was an immigrant, and the old country was just that--the "old" country. Most of my uncles served in the US Army and Navy during WW2, while my father was a foreman in a defense plant. The prosperity,music, and the social fabric of America in the 1950s and 1960s are still a source of inspiration to me. Because of my parents' background, we always helped anyone in need that came our way. My parents would brook no discrimination, even when at the time it was common to discriminate on the basis of skin color. No, the promise of America was for everyone. Sometimes, only an immigrant can appreciate America's true value, as did my parents.
I remember well the Carter years, with its mind numbing cowardice in the face of dangers from the USSR and Iran, and how it caused us to doubt our greatness. And I remember a man named Ronald Reagan, and how he inspired an entire nation to rendevous with its destiny once again, and in an inconceivable turn of events, won the Cold War and knocked down the Berlin War without firing a single shot. His courage and belief in America inspired policies that freed all of Eastern Europe and kept budding Islamofascism at bay, all the while he was opposed and reviled by the Democrats, the America-haters and the Communists worldwide.
I remember the horror of the Clinton years, when a rapist and abuser of women was the Commander in Chief, aided and abetted by a power hungry woman who hated the military. I remember fighting for his impeachment, only to be betrayed by a Republican Senate that had no courage, or that was compromised by stolen FBI files and failed to discharge its lawful duty to remove a lawbreaking President who brought shame to the Oval Office. I remember recoiling in horror and shame when a six year old boy whose mother drowned in an attempt to bring him to freedom from Cuba was removed from a private home under the force of arms and returned to Fidel Castro.
I remember crying tears of gladness when our current President said the words of his Oath of Office on January 20, 2001, ending my personal nightmare, an eight year long nightmare, of having Bill and Hillary Clinton in the White House.
The events of these last seven years are nothing what I expected that cold, clear January morning. The events of September 11, 2001, the invasion of Iraq, the War on Terror, all of them returned me to the patriotic days of my youth. I saw a nation united in purpose for the first time in my adult life, as the nation had been torn since the Vietnam War.
But I saw a Republican President I believed in, and a Republican Party that was my home politically, shift in a slow, determined, unstoppable drift away from its principles, adopting the policies and views of the Democrats, to the point where we now face having as our Presidential candidate, John McCain, an enemy of conservatism, of Republican principles, and of American sovereignty.
As I pondered these things today, February 2, 2008, I have come to a very troubling observation.
We conservatives always had a home in the Republican Party. President Reagan even came here when the Democrat Party became too radical for him in the 1950s. We were the foundation of 12 years of the Reagan Bush era and we fought for the current President to give him eight years, even in the face of a national election being stolen from him.
But when our country was threatened by the prospect of a mass amnesty last May and June, allowing 20 million or more illegal immigrants to become defacto citizens by fiat, we erupted in a display of power that had Washington DC recoiling in terror. We derailed their plan to ensure the Balkanization of America by giving it 20 million more citizens who would not assimilate into the culture, and to ensure a cheap workforce, and to permanently undercut American worker's wages. Together with Global Warming and carbon credits, America could be brought to heel and managed.
We stopped McCain-Kennedy and its cousin, alright. But there was a price to pay for our insolence.
We, the America loving conservatives of the Republican Party, are no longer needed by this party. We are too narrow minded and old school. Flag waving and the supremacy of the American Way are passe. We are not inclusive. We are standing in the way of the elites in Washington DC from making their wet dreams a reality--making America an also-ran, not a super-power. America as a third world country, not as better than anyone else. An America that is afraid to face its Islamic enemies,that worries about what the world thinks about it, strangled in political correctness, surrendering its freedoms on a daily basis in the vain hope for security.
We keepers of the flame of American liberty are now the enemy. When Hillary labelled us the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, we took that has a label of pride. But now the Republican establishment has decreed that we are a conspiracy to be defeated within our own party, as we face the prospect of John McCain being rammed down our throats. John McCain, the Manchurian Candidate, the man who has betrayed every tenet of Republicanism in his quest for power,who has railed against conservatives at every turn, who is bound and determined to grant amnesty to 10% of Mexico's population now within our borders, he is the one being annointed by the elites as our candidate.
His job is not only to become the candidate of choice, but to be the means of the destruction of the power of the conservative base of the Republican Party.
Between McCain, Obama and Hillary, there isn't a dime's worth of difference in their political views. The Republican and Democrat established elites have melded into one entity, and they will win no matter who gets nominated or who wins the general election, especially if McCain is the nominee. All three believe in unlimited amnesty, an open border, cap and trade globaloney, giving rights to Gitmo detainees, and the restriction of free speech and gun rights.
The MSM is their collective cheerleader, actively working to marginalize us as a viable force for the America we visualize.
Many of us will vote Republican in November, only because we cannot, in good conscience, vote for Obama or Clinton. The Republican establishment knows this, and knows because we are principled, we can not do otherwise. Rather than enlist us to help, they are engaged in a policy of containment and neutering, because we stand in the way of their vision of America.
McCain as a candidate will be a disaster. The Republican establishment knows this. But they don't care, because the goal is not to win this election. It is to remove us from the political table, and for them to join with their Democrat brothers in the march toward an America subsevient to global interests. Sovereignty is treated as a quaint, outmoded concept, even by many Republican governors who are pushing the globaloney nonsense that will cripple this nation.
The perfect storm of American politics is converging in a bid to elect one of three horrible candidates, McCain,Obama, or Clinton, to be our next President. The odds are that the Republicans will not only lose with McCain, but they will lose even more of the House and Senate, enough to relegate Republicans to a minority status for decades to come.
Where are the national Republican leaders speaking out against where our party is heading? As one looks over the events of the last 15 years, since the ascension and improbable election of a no good, draft dodging, lying huckster like Bill Clinton to President, we have witnessed a snowballing reversal of American values and fortunes. With Clinton II on the horizon, we face a complete collapse of American values and soveriegnty and freedom with the "CHANGE" that is being promised for the electorate.
That "change" is starting right now for us. By Tuesday midnight, we will know if the fate the elites have decreed for us will become reality, if McCain is our candidate.
In the past few days, the lenses through which I view politics have changed in prescription. I see now that we are the enemy to our own party's leaders, whose leaders have decreed that our nominee will be the anti-conservative, anti-Republican candidate. The other candidates still open to us, Huckster, Romney and Paul each have their own problems with our values.
There are only a few short days to stop the McCain Screwball express. As we fought the impossible fight against McCain and amnesty last year, we have but a few days to influence our fellow conservatives and Republicans not to allow the predetermined outcome to occur.
I offer this screed in an attempt to understand what is going on today, to explain the inexplicable in what is occurring to our party and our chances for success in November against the second ascension of the corrupt Clinton Machine. I wish not to tell my fellow conservative who they should vote for, but I ask them not to vote for McCain.
Others, including the Republican establishment, have decreed for us who are candidate should be. American loving Republicans should reserve the right to make that choice.
Reminiscent of the closing scene of Orwell's Animal Farm, with the pigs and the humans all sitting together around the kitchen table.
Conservatives have no candidate anymore. When Fred left, it was all over for us. Just as the media and the establishment wanted.
The elites have engineered so that whoever is our candidate we get a glass not quite full. Our best option is a brokered convention. So on primary day. If you see an opportunity to split the vote do so. Make sure Huckabee wins some, Mitt Wins some, and McCain wins some. Don’t give any a victory that should be the plan.
Communism has been at the door step for a long time.
Many opratives were placed in key postions during the cold war.
Read this thread and see if you agree.
Editor: Cliff Kincaid
Associate Editor: Notra Trulock
2003 Report #
15 August 11, 2003
Of all the Hillary Clinton scandals and cover-ups, none is more significant than her attempt to whitewash her own personal transformation from Goldwater girl to Marxist. No mainstream media organization has examined how she is determined in her new book to keep people in the dark about what Hillary biographer, the late Barbara Olson, described as her “roots in Marxism.”
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hcvrillary.htm
It's Time for "Duncan Hunter, - Take Two!" "It's DUNCAN Time!"
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On Tuesday, I will vote for Romney. Not because he is what I want. But because he might be acceptable.
Barring a miracle, the unhinged socialist McCain will be the GOP nominee. I will never vote for him.
We are in a period where conservatives are in the wilderness. The power drunk Republican Congress of the Bush era, and the “compassionate” (aka. leftist) conservatism of GWB consign us to a time of minority status.
We will lick our wounds. And hopefully return redeemed.
If McCain is the standard-bearer, I will have nothing more to do with the Republican Party. Every family has a crazy uncle but you don’t nominate the crazy uncle for head of the household. The fact that the GOP is about to do that means the entire party will no longer receive a dime or a vote from me.
This is like the early disciples deciding that Judas was right and start following him. To me, that’s what the GOP is doing to themselves.
I remember crying tears of gladness when our current President said the words of his Oath of Office on January 20, 2001, ending my personal nightmare, an eight year long nightmare, of having Bill and Hillary Clinton in the White House.
>>>>>Imagine the tears we would cry if the Bush’s have to return the keys to Bubba and Shrillary next January!
Between McCain, Obama and Hillary, there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference in their political views. The Republican and Democrat established elites have melded into one entity, and they will win no matter who gets nominated or who wins the general election, especially if McCain is the nominee.
>>>>>At least with McCain we won’t pull out of Iraq irresponsibly, so in that regard he’s slightly...less worse? I can’t say “better”.
Here in Georgia I’ll vote Romney this Tuesday.
Thanks. That needed to be said, 100%
We stopped McCain-Kennedy and its cousin, alright. But there was a price to pay for our insolence.
I would agree with you that we are seeing the oligarchs make absolutely certain that there will be no more roadblocks to their new world order (whatever the flavor: NAFTA, GATT, LOST, etc). People can bitch and whine about Mitt Romney, but the absolute, raving hatred and loathing the GOP establishment and the media have directed at him tells me that he is not part of the game they are in on. The NAU will proceed after the bump in the road is effectively flattened once and for all.
You and I are the bump in the road.
Mr. niteowl77
Excellent article!
Also, not related to the campaign, but, in terms of numbers killed as a result, the internal liberal movement that is pushing abortion, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, and cloning is a greater threat to American lives than Islamic terrorists.
It’s not enough to tell conservatives not to vote for McCain. Unless conservatives unite behind the only candidate who can beat him, Mitt Romney, McCain will win the nomination while being voted against by a combined margin of two to one or more.
Everything you say is accurate; you are so right. It makes me ill to know the disaster these three traitors will create for my children and grand children’s futures. Everyone I know feels the same way. We discuss this crisis and shake our heads in total dismay. I liken this pathetic mess to early 1930’s Nazi Germany when the average German sat by while Hitler grew his murderous military machine. Those same people were then led off to their deaths. IMO, we are witnessing the beginning of the destruction of our security, our freedoms, our Constitution; the dismantling of our great military; and the invasion of our personal privacy not to leave out being overrun by illegal aliens and terrorist cells. The first order of business for each of these three pathetic and reprehensible candidates will be to limit our freedom of speech as we will be highly critical of their actions (overt and covert). You are witnessing the dismantling of this country as you knew it. The average brainwashed Liberal and RINO is clueless as to what destruction they have wrought.
This ain’t your father’s America. Hell, it ain’t America at all.
(Couldn't resist :-)
That's it in a nutshell.
And you can Huckabee to that list. He would be worse than the other 3 if that is possible.
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