Upholding the Constitution: The Backbone of True Conservatism (Must Read)

This is a brilliant piece of writing. Ryan S. Walters is the type of intellect that is in league with the Chris McDaniel's campaign for US Senate (it hasn't died; it is still alive) and this deep and illuminating piece shows why Chris McDaniel should be in the US Senate and not Thad Cochran.

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This is indeed a must read. Thanks for posting.

The rest of this brilliant essay:

But it’s the use of the term “true conservatives,” and its juxtaposition with the Constitution, that has the establishment hacked off in a big way, which is why I will continue to use it regularly. For more on the distinction, see my MCD article The Great Mississippi Divide.

http://mississippiconservativedaily.com/2014/09/29/the-great-mississippi-divide-mcdaniel-republicans-vs-cochran-republicans/

Frank Corder of Y’all Politics is one who has attacked us on this issue, often chiding McDaniel supporters for believing “their sect alone” represents true conservatism by holding fast “to Reagan and the Constitution,” and who believe they “are the real American Patriots, fiscally, morally and politically speaking, and all other Republicans are RINOs who should be purged from the party.” But, according to Corder, they are doing nothing more than “peddling division and false hope.”

So, it’s “peddling division and false hope” if one stands on principle? It’s “continuing their hostage crisis,” another catchy Corder phrase, to want a limited government that adheres to the supreme law of the land? Whose side are these folks really on?

The attacks have also come from within. In a blog post last month, former McDaniel staffer Keith Plunkett made a truly astonishing statement when he wrote that he was “sick of people who want to wear the Constitution like body armor, while refusing to educate themselves as to the social responsibilities that make communities work and fulfills the promise of the God-given freedom that the Constitution recognizes.”

I was taken aback by such talk from someone who claimed to believe as we do. Social responsibilities? That sounds a lot like the progressive notion of social justice. The Constitution is not about that. In fact, it’s got nothing to do with it. It is one of the nation’s most important documents, one that defines the extent of the powers of the federal government and restricts it from violating the natural rights of the people.

Simply put, the Constitution is our body armor! It’s our only shield against the encroachments of government. Getting away from a strict construction of the Constitution, as we have, has put us in the mess we now find ourselves in, whether it’s runaway spending, government regulation and overreach, the welfare state, presidential wars, or Obamacare. Take your pick. They all flow from a violation of the Constitution.

We find ourselves in such sad shape because the Constitution has become a dead letter, and we all know it, at least those of us who are true conservatives. We all know the Democrats loathe the Constitution and many of them are on record as saying such.

But are Republicans, and I mean Establishment Republicans, any better? Sure, the GOP plays lip service to the Constitution, at least on occasion during campaign season or at a hometown gun rally, but once they are in office there’s little in the way of actually protecting it and re-asserting it’s authority.

When was the last time a Republican President opposed a policy because it was unconstitutional, who stood before the people and told them that he would veto any bill that violated that sacred document, the same one he was sworn to uphold? To find that, we might have to go all the way back to Calvin Coolidge, a man who mentioned the Constitution seven times in his Inaugural Address in 1925. Those days seem to be long gone.

Republicans routinely practice what I call Cafeteria Constitutionalism, where their allegiance to the Constitution is as if they were in a lunchroom line, picking and choosing what they want and what they don’t. “I’ll take a little General Welfare Clause, please, and a helping of Second Amendment but hold the Fourth. And, by all means, leave off Article One, Section Eight.”

This is what truly separates us from those who only pretend to be conservatives in order to get elected – a fealty to the Constitution. And it is a candidate’s respect for the Constitution that is the only true test of his conservative bona fides.

True conservatives understand that until we get candidates who truly believe in the Constitution, and start electing those candidates, our problems will only persist. We have longed for a candidate, any candidate for any office, who actually talks about the Constitution, and in Mississippi we were blessed to have one in Chris McDaniel. He was the only candidate who spoke about the federal government’s constitutional obligations and, most importantly, its limitations. The Constitution is so important to him that he even put it on the side of his campaign bus.

Remember, it was Chris McDaniel who stated publicly, and quite bravely I might add, that he believed the US Department of Education to be unconstitutional and recommended that it be closed. You just know the professional consultants listening to that one almost swallowed their tongues! But he said it because he believed it.

In fact, it used to be in the GOP platform, even when Uncle Haley was in charge, before the dark days of Karl Rove arrived. Yet Barbour attacked McDaniel for seeking an end to an agency that is clearly in violation of the Constitution.
During the late campaign, did Haley’s man Thad Cochran take any position that might cause any controversy? Did he ever discuss the Constitution? Did he ever say the government should be limited and remain within its constitutional boundaries? No. All we ever heard from Thad Cochran is how much public money he was spending and how we would all be back in the Stone Age without him and his ever-present hand in the public cookie jar. We won’t ever hear any thought-provoking discussion of the Constitution from him.

Yet it is this important question, adherence to the Constitution, that might be the issue that permanently splits the Republican Party. As constitutional scholar Mark Levin said this week on his radio show, if the establishment persists in its ill treatment of conservative and constitutionalist candidates, he might just leave the GOP and take millions with him. Indeed he just might, and the GOP better take notice.

Let us hope the Republican Party can be reformed to once again respect the Constitution. Our Constitution is not an outdated relic from the 18th century. It was crafted by the finest collection of minds in history, men who risked everything to provide the American people the best government ever devised. It has endured for over two centuries, and when strictly followed, transformed a country once derided as a joke into the mightiest on earth.

I can't say I never heard of Chris McDaniel, but I never really paid much attention to him ... he's from another state.

Having said that, It doesn't matter where we get our patriots ... get them we must

Thanx Hostage, for posting this

Can somebody post this. Webroot has blocked as a “malicious threat”. I don’t want or need any (more) viruses.

Ooops, should have read ALL the comments before posting. Thanks, job well done.

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I’m proud to be a McDaniel Republican and will write in Chris Nov. 4th. I’ve been a Conservative republican for 50+ years. To most in the GOP “Conservative” is not a word description with meaning but an obligatory campaign slogan. There is a “killer virus” in America that started with the progressives in the early 1900s and has continued to spread and now most of the GOP is infected.

Got a favor to ask you.

You know that writing in Chris McDaniel is a protest vote because it won’t be counted.

HOWEVER, ....

I read a couple of reports that if neither Cochran or Childers get 50% in the general coming up, then it goes to a state runoff in which McDaniel can be entered.

My favor is asking you to do a little research and see if the above holds water. Thanks.

I know write in votes won’t be counted but it counts for me. I was sure there was no runoff provision in Mississpi in partisan races but confirmed that with the office of the Secretary of State. Three candidates in the race, percentage doesn’t matter the one with the most votes win. I have no plans to vote for the Reform party candidate.

Thanks for the ping. Seems you are like great hunters and wait for the big ones before you shoot

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