Posted on 03/02/2009 4:53:56 AM PST by Entrepreneur
Liberty is punch drunk. Every day she absorbs a frenzy of body blows from the Obama administration that are sure to result in knockout, of not permanent hospitalization or a coma.
Liberty is not the only lady under assault. Truth has been mugged and muzzled. She cannot be heard.
We no longer have a free press. The media is silent about the excesses, abuses, cronyism, and outright corruption of the Obama administration. The media has traded its traditional role of watchdog for lapdog. It uses its bandwidth lavishing praise and worship in a sickening display of, well, a sickening display.
The majority of Americans will never know what's happening until it's a fait accompli. Most Americans do not listen to talk radio. They do not read the American Thinker, National Review, Investor's Business Daily, and the Wall Street Journal. They don't visit Free Republic, MRC.org, IceCap.us, Townhall, or other websites trumpeting the truth.
And right now, conservatives lack a cogent voice to try and rally opposition. Lacking leadership, we're flailing about in icy waters of a marxist takeover of our country, holding tea parties that command passing local media coverage (if that), amid liberal guffaws. Republicans, as a rule, don't go to protests; they go to work.
Obama isn't trying to govern so much as he's trying to destroy the opposition and manipulate the press. That's been is modus operandi from the start. It's how an empty suit who can't be trusted in public without a teleprompter and who had less executive experience than a homeowners association president could wind up in the highest office in the land.
Obama is the beast. He's trying to destroy and silence the opposition with the same vigor he's using to destroy America's free enterprise system.
Obama is trying to position Limbaugh as the leader of the opposition. Why? I think it's because so many people have never listened to Rush and have a knee jerk negative reaction about him.
The truth is that Rush currently is the main voice in opposition to Obama's headlong pursuit of marxism in our time, but only because of the leadership vacuum. Rush is more comfortable and effective in the roll of cheerleader than leader. In a leader, we need someone who can command air time, who can organize the right, who can get the attention of the muddled middle long enough for them to pay attention to the destruction of the American way of life being wrought by Obama.
I look at the current field of "candidates." Many have been so skewered by the left's attack machine that they are mere caracatures. Will Palin and Jindal be able to overcome the damage of the coordinated media attacks? Possibly, but it will take time. Besides, both are governors and must attend to the needs of their states, not the national scene. Their time starts three years hence.
Economically, Romney appears to have the right stuff. Certainly the country would be in far better condition if Mitt were president than Obama the national socialist. Yet, if Romney can't seem to win over the right, how can he lead the opposition?
Because of the speed of Obama's marxism, we cannot wait for leader to establish conservative bona fides. We cannot delay at all. We cannot wait until the mid-term election. We need someone to step up NOW!
When I look over the GOP field, I see a mass of dwarves disagreeably elbowing each other. None have the stature or communication skills to combat the Obama/Soros media machine.
Then I remember Fred. Fred Thompson didn't fare well in the primaries. His heart didn't appear to be in it. He looked like a man who entered the race because people told him he should, not because he felt called. He looked like a man who would rather pursue his acting career and raise his young family. Voters sensed this and turned to others.
Fred's lack of heart is not a weakness. What kind of a man wants the power of the presidency? It requires a degree of meglomania that all but renders the candidate unfit to serve. The best president is the reluctant one, who would rather another was more qualified, but who recognizes history is thrusting the position upon him. He steps up out of duty, not desire for power or a narassistic thirst to be idolized.
If Fred Thompson would be persuaded that he has a duty to assume the mantle of oppositional leadership, he could rally the right and command the attention of the middle. There's already enough buyer's remorse among the moneyed that Fred could build an organzation to challenge the Soros funded MoveOn.org.
When Fred is on his game, he's unstoppable. He's the best communicator we've got. He has a commanding presence. He's got star quality. The camera loves him. He's exactly what we need to counter the deification of Obama by the left.
Thompson comes across as real. His genuineness is a perfect foil to Obama's falseness. His humility contrasts will with Obama's arrogance.
Fred could also unify the conservative movement. He's a true conservative who appeals to the fiscal and economic conservatives, the national security conservatives, and the social conservatives.
Would Fred be able to stop the onslaught? Maybe not, but at least he would shine a light on the cockroaches of the left, calling them out, letting people see what's being done in time to stem the tide at mid-terms and reverse the slide towards national socialism in 2012.
The question is what could persuade Fred to enter the fight? And if not Fred, then who?
FRed please help us!!!!!
Idolatry is a sin for a reason.
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Make that the “Announcements” sidebar.
Man, do I wish folks would quit pining for moderates and then wonder why Conservatism never gets a fair shake.
The writer loses all credibility right here, and that's where I stopped reading. Didn't even get to the part at this "Fred" dude, whoever he is.
The writer loses all credibility right here, and that's where I stopped reading. Didn't even get to the part about this "Fred" dude, whoever he is.
I missed that. I’ll have to find a station. Thanks!
That doesn't matter- He's just *not* a Conservative. He's a Baker moderate, right along with the Bush's and McCain. Granted, he *leans* a bit more federalist, and folks here like him for that... but he is no where near a Reaganite.
So much for "compassionate conservatism."
True conservatives would have saved the woman and made sure that her assailants lacked the equipment to try again.
I gave him $400, tithing from every paycheck to give him $100 a month.
What a waste.
He was never serious.
Because of him, I have decided never to give another dime to any politician.
They're all self-serving crooks.
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