“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Freedom. 2 Cor 3:17
We just found the rarest of rare endangered specie and that is the Republico Erectus or uncommonly known as a Republican with a spine. Most believed it had been extinct since 1980 but there was a sighting on the Senate floor this week named Rand Paul. This specimen will soon be killed and eaten as the other non-spine animals in Moscow on the Potomac engage in the hunt as was displayed within minutes of the sighting. The only problem they risk is if he will continue to fight and prove he is smarter than they are.
What if Rand Paul realizes that everything he has been told about politics is wrong? What if the American people are not put off by Conservatives who argue and hold up legislation? What if these people are starved for common sense ideas and real men willing to stand up for real ideas rather than the moderate marmalade which passes for GOP leadership? We had one guy finally stand up and say he was not afraid of the media or the powers on either side and single handedly changed the dialogue in the entire country.
Sure he picked a no lose issue of targeting Americans for missile assassination, but he was the only one in the Republican Party who was willing to fight it and still is. What kind of idiocy does it take to believe you have to agree with everything the Three Pillars of propaganda say to be taken serious by the group? It has been so long since anybody in the capital has had an original thought that they have learned to cower at the slightest hint of dissent or attack. They are so concerned about what their political image is they have forgotten what it is to stand on common principals. They are all so busy looking for the exit doors they have lost the concept of standing in the doorway. Fortunately for the country we got a couple glimpses of it this week.
The other miracle was the Sequestering of the Sequester. They allowed the deadline to pass and found out the sun still came up the next day and even had a bit of a rally in the stock market. When they heard from the President we would have the second Great Depression if the gummit was starved of five minutes of spending and it never happened as some blindfolds fell off of a few eyes. Not only did it not happen we have seen an increase in private sector jobs as well as a stock market rally. If this was done in a substantial way we would see a rally like we have never seen. Not exactly the Doomsday he and the Three Pillars predicted. It is amazing what happens when you see those hogs in the District of Corruption being put on a diet, even if it is a really fat man’s diet.
What we really saw was proof the media really is a paper tiger and when a politician stands on principles people notice and react positively. Of course the usual DC Dinosaurs of the establishment continue to cravenly cling to their irrelevancy since they have all the benefits for being good little Repubs. They are adored by the media as they continue to help promote the communist agenda as willing dupes. We watched as minutes after a heroic filibuster, Yawn McCain come out firing both working brain cells in an attempt to Palinize Rand Paul. We will soon be hearing how dumb he is and how he is an extremist when the only extreme position is targeting Americans from the air.
What they still don’t understand and their campaign managers will not tell them is this conflict will not cost them any votes and will actually give their base a reason to vote. The people in the middle who they are so anxious to court are not paying attention and likely have no idea there was targeting of Americans involved. What Rand did in this stand was bring activists to his side and differentiate himself from the rest of the Gutless Old Party. When you are an enemy of Yawn and Yawn Jr you have immediately made yourself a friend of the Tea Party wing which is where all the activists reside.
It took some courage to do what Rand Paul did although he is use to going against the grain of the Party. He is more of an outsider to begin with and has no need to toe the line like most Country Clubbers do. He will find he has more support now for his future election than he did a week ago as another boring Repub. He will likely see more votes in the future if he is willing to go against the campaign management consensus by not worrying about branding and pandering but standing up and governing. What we saw and he did was take a small step back from losing more of our freedom to standing up for our basic rights. He actually stood up to a dictator and said no which is the first time in four years it has happened and it worked.
Now the Party has a real problem. We now know what he did and the Sequester stand worked. Does the Party continue down the path of irrelevancy or does it allow its most “extreme” activists begin to take real stands for freedom to face the wrath of the paper tigers? Does the Party shake off the shackles of fear or does it stand up and speak out for freedom? These are real questions requiring real answers. So far over the last fifty years the consensus has been no, as we saw from the election results since Reagan with the exception of the Dem miscalculation in FL and the Tea Party rebellion.
What we have been doing isn’t working and there is no reason to believe it will work in the future so perhaps it is time to take a lesson from Rand and fight like your freedom depends on it.
Pray for America
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
Gotta plane to catch! Had to post a little early this morning.
Enjoy all the Jeb!
The Rand Paul filibuster did two major things:
1. It called out Obama and, due to it resonating in Twitterville and social media, it forced the WH/AG Holder to issue a response.
Paul kept the topic of the filibuster simple: Does the president have the authority to loose a drone strike on an American citizen on American soil without a warrant/court authorization?
The morning after, Holder responded: No.
2. It called out the old (emphasis on ‘old’) guard of the Grand OLD Party, a dozen of whom, by the way, were having dinner that evening with President Obama.
Paul shook them to their core. How dare he upset their comfy apple cart and cushy seats in the Senate? How dare he challenge Obama? How dare he — it wasn’t even a ‘legal’ filibuster, according to an early McCain comment.
Hours passed, as Paul slowly, methodically, coherently, talked, sans teleprompter, about the rights of Americans, about The Constitution, about the over-reach in presidential authority. Eventually, some fellow Senators joined in to ‘ask’ questions, thus giving Paul brief breaks.
It wasn’t until late in the evening that others, some from the House and some fellow Senators, realized this had turned into a BIG event in Twitterville. They got off their comfy seats and went to the Senate chamber, and joined in. [How many of them are up for reelection in 2014? That would be an interesting survey.]
Paul’s filibuster resonated. If he continues to make such headlines, he could become a real contender for 2016. That is what is shaking up the old guard GOPe and their ‘it’s his turn’ guy — who seems at the present to be Jeb Bush.
What if Rand Paul realizes that everything he has been told about politics is wrong? What if the American people are not put off by Conservatives who argue and hold up legislation? What if these people are starved for common sense ideas and real men willing to stand up for real ideas rather than the moderate marmalade which passes for GOP leadership? We had one guy finally stand up and say he was not afraid of the media or the powers on either side and single handedly changed the dialogue in the entire country.
As you well know, bray, the problem is that Paul has nowhere to go inside the Republican Party, which is owned lock, stock and barrel by unprincipled, corrupt elites like the Bush Crime Family and their hack Rove, or other professional appeasers like McChurian, et. al.
These Mensheviks are in business to pluck off little spoils the monster Demoviks drop by the wayside, and maybe win the Kremlin now and again, if that matters.
In any case, the government consumes yet more and more of the landscape, the population is now wildly ignorant, the wealth of the nation is being devoured by debt leading to destructive inflation, and there is NO ONE ANYWHERE NEAR the seat of power who can do anything about any of it.
Lacking a third party movement, we are heading for a Soviet-style collapse with government tanks turned to face the American people when their day of ruin arrives. Soon.
Great essay, bray!
My only fear about Rand Paul is that his father Ron has soiled the Paul name so badly that it will take several election cycles to resolve before the younger Rand Paul is taken seriously. He should be taken seriously as well. He has that heretofore thought lost credential of GUTS which are seldom seen in modern politics.
The RINO infiltration continues and whenever we can replace one of these weak kneed relics with a true conservative we should do so without even thinking twice.
One thing we need to remember that I discussed with many politicos during my 2,500 mile trip across much of Floriduh last week is that there remains no 100% candidates.
I repeat for the entire land of Freeperville to hear: hey Freepers there are:
no 100% Candidates in existence.
We need to copy a page from the dem communists and stick by our party even though it may not be
100%!!