Mitt Romney is proving to be a technician who exceeds most expectations in his ability to respond quickly and effectively to every assault made by Obama. Thank God. The consequences for conservatism and, therefore, for the nation are too dreary to contemplate if Obama should actually win this election.
If we lose, we lose everything. If Obama loses, the left loses its chance at everything for a season. The ultimate aim of Obama and his crowd is to fundamentally transform the American constitutional republic into a political entity unrecognizable by anyone who claims his legacy as an American. Every election victory attained by the left moves the political center of gravity two steps to the left. Every election victory attained by the right moves the political center of gravity one half step to the right. Eventually, the secular drift of accumulated elections transforms America into something alien and there is no going back.
At that point we will have heard the final answer of history to the question posed by the woman to Franklin on leaving the constitutional convention about the nature of the government the founders had created, "a Republic, madam, -if you can keep it."
If the image of a expanding glacier comes to mind, the image of a rising tide should also come to mind when one considers that the glacial drift of the political center of the country is borne on a flood of immigration. If the Republicans managed to stage a miraculous comeback after 2008 it will only be because Obama stumbled in overreach. The secular trends remain just as daunting and will prove just as difficult to overcome in 2016 as they were in 2008.
All this is by way of saying that it is good because it is indispensable that our technician win this election but it is necessary that Obamaism be exposed and repudiated in order to actually turn back history. Anything less means that the election of 2012 is nothing more than a tactical victory, a whistle stop on the track stretching to totalitarianism.
If we merely win this election and consider it only a mandate to tinker with our economic engine, we will ease back into our course of steady retreat which is brought us to the point in which America would elect a Manchurian Marxist. The entire federal structure from the conduct of elections to the mechanics of government and onto the very demographics of the electorate must be transformed according to conservative values. But more than that, Romney owes a duty to history and the history of his administration to win a mandate to be more than a mechanic who fixed the economic engine. He owes history a duty to expose Obama and repudiate Obama. All that Obama stands for should be repudiated. Without the mandate we will have moved but one half step.
We need a fundamental transformation of our own. Newt might have given it to us, but will Mitt?
