Posted on 04/27/2016 9:45:57 AM PDT by Starman417
For the last eight years I’ve been shaking my head, simply bewildered that so many Americans could be so insane as to vote for Barack Obama for president. Not surprisingly, once Obama was ensconced in the White House things played out pretty much as predicted with virtually every month bringing new news of a faltering economy, a shrinking workforce and more government waste, intervention and tyranny. In 2012, after Fast and Furious, the IRS Tea Party scandal, Obamacare and, most of all, Benghazi, I was sure that Americans would rise up and throw out the anti American Obama and vote for the less than conservative, but exponentially superior Mittens Romney. Alas, the population spoke, and they doubled down on the fascist living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I was certain that year that if only a real conservative who could eloquently articulate the basic tenants of small government and fiscal responsibility had run he would have won by a landslide. After all, wasn’t it obvious that Barack Obama was the worst president in American history and the Democrats were rapidly devolving into open Socialism? But as we know, there was no such conservative running and Milquetoast Mitt was shellacked.
Now, in 2016 we find ourselves in an utterly different situation. We have a rock solid conservative running for the White House. Who can and does eloquently articulate the ideas behind our founding principles of limited government, individual liberty as well as the fundamental idea of American Exceptionalism. Yet, somehow he’s losing the GOP nomination fight… to a guy who’s a big government crony capitalist who has spent most of his life supporting Democrats and their liberal policies. Essentially he’s losing to a vapid populist whose idea of debating is throwing insults and lies around like confetti rather than providing substantive positions on practically any issue.
The next couple of weeks will tell the story, but the fact that we are at this point says a lot about the United States and the American people. That half the population are voting for an avowed socialist or a socialist in liberal clothing is sad. That one third of the remainder are actively supporting a populist candidate with little understanding of the issues at stake never mind the concepts of limited government, free markets and individual freedom upon which this country was founded, is disheartening.
The United States is not a democracy and never has been. We are a republic with a separation of powers and limited government that are unique in the history of government. It was that limited government and the companion individual liberties upon which the government is not to tread that created more prosperity for more people around the world than any government, state or entity in all of human history. Today all of that is in peril as almost 2/3 of the population are seemingly prepared to travel down a path of dismantling the limitations on government our Founding Fathers put in place.
After eight years under a president who decried the Constitution as a “Charter of negative liberties” the next president will have a choice. Either bring the progressive attack on the Constitution and freedom to a halt or pick up where Obama leaves off and continue down that path. Unfortunately, three of the four remaining candidates – John Kasich doesn’t count as a real candidate – are more than happy to jettison the Constitution and pander to the masses. Whether it’s Germany or Argentina or Venezuela, such populist movements rarely turn out well.
Populist movements share one underlying characteristic… they seek to harness the anger of the mob. Once the shackles of constitutional limits are thrown off, there is little to restrain government or the people other than the character of the leaders, and often that’s simply not enough. As Maximilien Robespierre learned, the consequences of doing so can be, shall we say, unforeseen… and unfortunate.
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I’m not going to even get to vote for the person I think would make the best President.
My Dad’s been gone for a few years now.
America’s politics are still led by elites, which is what the Founders intended.
However now they are evil elites.
A populist reset is about the only hope to regain sanity. This is not the founding model, but it is the only life saving model left.
I are not a leader if you can not get people to follow you.
Cruz has too few who will follow.
I believe the democrats want Trump to get the nomination. They are waiting for it and when he does they will bring forth the big guns and air all his dirty laundry. Many of his supporters will simply stay home come November.
Sadly this will lead to a democrat victory. Unless something (a miracle) can be pulled off by Cruz. I support Cruz and wish he could get the nomination. But I am a realist. Too many were won over by Trump’s loud mouth and rhetoric.
Trump has had months to study Hillary now and not everybody is this pessimistic.
“Trump has done liberal things” pales next to “Hillary says what does it matter to Benghazi etc.” She’s going to have her political head handed to her, and so will the Democrats in general.
Pure cattle feces.
Too bad he didn’t have a few years as an actor on a silly realty tv show to hook many low info types. It is what it is. GOD will give us the ruler or leader that he wants us to have. Good or bad. He has the plan.
Because Romney and McCain did so well
Who knew this could happen?
What laundry does Trump have that hasn’t been on reality TV?
There are many who may not know of his various wives and such, but it has been public knowledge for a long time.
Awfully poor manners for Trump to get more votes than anyone else in the race. Perhaps he should just step down.
It would not matter if Cruz were the reincarnation of Ronald Regan himself. Ted Cruz is not a natural born citizen of the United States and is unqualified to be president.
You simply cannot be a dual citizen and be a natural born citizen of the United States. The clause has always been, and will always be, meant to stop divided loyalties. That is the exact reason why Obama should have been disqualified. His daddy was a British loyal subject for crying out loud.
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Blogpimp speaks, and then stops abruptly. Screw him.
The miracle will be if Cruz can't pull that off because he has zero chance of beats Hillary. Did you notice the only place he gets more than 20% of the vote is in a caucus where the people have no say?
I prefer “bovine excrement”. It sounds more poetic. :-)
I thought Glenn Beck said that God sent Cruz to save us.
Since Glenn Beck never makes a mistake, I guess God did.
As close as I follow politics, I didn’t known or even thought about Trump having owned strip clubs until I heard it on the radio today.
It is going to be messy.
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