The Genius of Sam Donaldson

Old Sam Donaldson is back in the news. You remember Sam, don't you? Physically, he tends to remind one of an eagle. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to have the vision of one - particularly in regard to our future.

"It's the Tea Party and thinking of the Tea Party and people like that that are driving the Republicans out of contention as a national party. You cannot win nationally if you don't know something about the way the country's changed, and the Tea Party seems to think the country can go back 25 or 30 years. The greatest slogan that I hated during this last campaign was "We want to take back our country." Guys, it's not your country anymore - it's our country and you're part of it, but that thinking is going to defeat Republicans nationally if they don't get rid of it."

Obviously, Sam Donaldson has been exposed to Washington DC for too long, and has become infected with a malady all too common. Thisisnormalitiis.

Sam, are you saying that what we have going on in the nation's capitol is just fine? That the Tea Party needs to just shut up about lower taxes and decreasing our debt, because the majority of the country believes that high taxes and exploding debt is just wonderful?

I remember you, Sam. The fearless tormentor of Ronald Reagan. But, like Reagan, I am not overly impressed by your superior intellect. Please allow me the arrogance to point out a few things. I know I am only from fly-over country, and may lack your enlightenment, but I do believe there are a few salient points to be made.

it was the Republican Party trying to play it safe by nominating a weak middle-of-the-roader who failed to secure the base of his party and who failed to articulate the core principles that the Tea Party strives for. The candidate lost because he was weak.

It's not that simple. We ran Tea Party candidates like Mourdoch who rejected the GOP establishment and many of them didn't win. With some notable exceptions in deep red states such as Texas and Nebraska, at the statewide level the Tea Party candidates have tended to do extremely poorly. Disaster Tea Party candidates like O'Donnell, Angle, Buck, etc, probably prevented us from winning the Senate.

Demographics are rapidly going away from us. There are not enough productive white people moving to the Republican Party fast enough to offset ever increasing minority and dependent voters. Also we are losing younger generations by massive margins - huge majorities of these young people won't even consider the Republican brand because of our positions on social issues and a perception (mostly driven by the media and their Democrat allies) that our party is made up of a bunch of Akin types. It didn't help that so many social conservatives helped convince that idiot to stay in the race and hurt us all the way through. We laugh at the supposed "war on women" meme, but it worked well for the Democrats. We giggle at "the life of Julia", but it appeals strongly to single women voters (a demographic that is growing rapidly since fewer people marry early).

Our problems run deeper than the idea that we just aren't conservative enough. Gingrich just did a very good analysis of this and I'd encourage everyone to read it. If we don't change, no, we may not win the presidency for generations.

Poor Sam! His remarks reveal the same kind of thinking exhibited by this Administration, with its arrogant and superior attitude about so-called "progressive" ideas.

Long ago, a Freeper posted the Agenda of a 2002 meeting of so-called "intellectuals" in Chicago.

Note the participants in that conference are the major "players" in the headlines emanating from White House policy makers in 2012.

Picture this: a group of people who describe themselves as being "intellectuals," declaring of the conference: "It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society."

Nothing is so pitiful and shameful that, in a country whose document of liberty was authored by a true intellectual, and was said by him to be a mere representation of "the American mind" of 1776--in such a country, in 2002, after over 200 years of basking in the "light of liberty" first shed by that document--we now have a group of people sitting around in Chicago and plotting how their so-called "intellectual" efforts will play a role "in society." Consequences of their "role" are being played out now in the "society."

As Weaver said, "Ideas have consequences."

The ideas of 1776 resulted in more liberty and prosperity for more people over a longer period of time than ever had been experienced in the history of civilization!

The so-called "intellectuals" who occupy positions of excessive coercive power in Washington today may, if unstopped, precipitate another age of darkness in the world, where the ideas of liberty have been censored, and "other ideas" from other sources have been exalted.

Dr. Russell Kirk years ago warned of what T. S. Eliot had labeled a "new provincialism--the provinciality of time, imprisoning people in their own little present moments." Picture the participants of that Chicago conference, so-called "journalists" like Sam Donaldson, and we have a visual demonstration of Kirk's words.

The enduring and essential ideas of Creator-endowed individual liberty must be defended against the "redistributionist" ideas which precede and lead to tyranny in every society where they have been implemented.

Where is the Jeffersonian intellect of 2012 who is up to the task? Whose study of the founding ideas can equip him to help American youth discover and preserve the ideas of liberty for their posterity?"

Now, however, the Democrats' "media" strategy toward their targeted groups (Hispanic, African-American, women, elderly, etc.) turns such understanding upside-down. They present "regressive" ideas as "progressive," "backward" policies as "forward," and "down" as "up." On and on it goes, with useful idiots like Donaldson defending their upside-down views, and portraying citizens involved in the "TEA party movement" as dangerous.

It's a strategy which goes deep into the decades-long effort to "fundamentally change" America from its new and revolutionary foundations in Creator-endowed liberty backward into the Old World, and later Marxian, ideas of control by imaginary human grantors and protectors.

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