Posted on 02/25/2015 1:36:31 PM PST by Kaslin
If the president's policies are indicative of his love for America, let's pray he begins hating our nation soon.
When former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said "I do not believe that the president loves America" at a dinner featuring Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker last week, my response was, "No duh!" So why were Republicans so quick to back away from his words? Whatever their reasoning, I assure you they do so at their own peril. If the GOP stands a chance of winning the White House in 2016 they'll need to learn to reframe the left's messaging. For instance, when the left attempts to silence Christians we must never relent in accusing them of censorship, bigotry and intolerance every time we step in front of a camera or microphone. Eventually we'll create linkage in the minds of our audience. People won't be able to listen to Democrats without associating words like "censorship" to their causes if our messaging remains singular and focused. With CPAC on the horizon now is as good a time as any to start.
Republicans must be savvy if they're going to lose an opportunity of a lifetime to go on offense against Democrats. Now isn't the time to shrink back from Mayor Giuliani's words, but rather it's time to use them as a clarion call-a springboard to address what Americans instinctively know, our president and today's Democrat policies are tearing this nation apart.
A person that loves this nation wouldn't say he wants to "fundamentally change America." President Obama's view of America can be likened to a woman who finds a good man, marries him, then proceeds to tell him everything he needs to change about himself in order to make her truly happy. Before you know it they're in counseling and their marriage is on life support. The woman doesn't realize what she had until he's gone. Liberals don't appreciate America's greatness and it'll be too late by the time they do. Therefore, it is incumbent upon those of us who do get it to lead the charge to save America.
In the words of a former mentor of mine, Brad Bright (son of Bill Bright, Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ), "Never react, always reframe!"
If the President were on trial for loving America would there be enough evidence to convict him? Can you recall heartfelt speeches or accolades attributed to America by this president? I can't. Would a man that loves America take cheap shots at its Judeo-Christian heritage, while attributing make-believe contributions to another religion for our founding that simply didn't occur? Would a man that loves America relegate the poor to perpetual poverty by sucking money out of the non-government working class that could've been used to employ them? Does a man that loves America nearly double its national debt thereby weakening our financial credibility and national security?
Furthermore, does a man that loves America send our bravest defenders to war with suicidal rules of engagement and dare not name their enemy, or clarify their mission? Would a man that loves America stack the Federal judiciary with activists intent on usurping the votes of everyday citizens? Would a man that loves America provide money to organizations like Planned Parenthood that are killing off future generations of Americans, especially minorities? Would a man that loves America invite strangers across our borders who don't care to assimilate? Would a man that loves America demand that our watchdogs-the media, pledge their allegiance to him rather than remain adversarial for us?
Would a man that loves America destroy the best healthcare system by presuming politicians know how to practice medicine better than doctors? Would a man that loves America embolden our foreign enemies, including those that potentially are an existential threat while simultaneously emasculating our allies? Would a man that loves America seek every opportunity to divide its inhabitants among racial lines? Would a man that loves America attend Jeremiah Wright's church for more than a week? I think you'd agree with me that the answer to all of these questions is a resounding "no!"
Right or wrong, in the political arena whomever frames the debate and controls the messaging typically wins the argument. Accepting the left's premise on any given issue can lead to a second place finish for the GOP in 2016. Frankly, I'm not sure if there will be an America if that happens.
Republicans won’t stand up to Rats because they are deathly afraid of being called names.
If 0bama loved America he would resign.
The whole point in the first place is that Rudy said “..I BELIEVE...”
He is a citizen of the U.S. and has a right to his own opinion, like it or not. (speaking to the media here)
Every time some Conservative is grilled about this by the leftist media, they should bring up how familiar this is getting to the Twilight Zone episode, “The Obsolete Man”.
“...You have no voice or opinion until the STATE gives you the right!...”
Barack Obama - America’s answer to Mao Tse Tung - loves only himself and power.
Rudy would have been a better president than Obama. No doubt where he stands on the issues. God bless him.
I believe that Obama not only does not love America, he despises the country. Why else would he say he wants to fundamentally transform it?
The media has the GOP in a box. The only way to challenge that situation is for all conservative politicians and spokespersons hew to the same narrative and don’t sell each other out on these kinds of issues. Liberalism is the ideology of the consistently stupid. We should push the stupid, but learn from the consistency.
/sarcasm
His love of America is worse than that of being loved by a woman who, having found in the pitiful state you were, will now seek to subsume your identity to her ideal, changing you into a new man, with no independence of thought and relegating you to an existence of co-dependency, making you yearn for your old wretched life and planning your escape...over and over again...
Until one day you come to the conclusion: “Just gonna have to knaw off my arm to get out of this trap...
It’s obvious that he despises America, and that is why he wants to fundamentally transform it
“The media has the GOP in a box.”
In actuality, the GOP ALLOWS itself to be in a box...
He is working day and night to turn us into a Third World hell hole. We are being conquered without a shot being fired.
Any criticism of our homosexual, Muslim, Kenyan President will get you labeled a homophobic, Islamophobic, racist bigot. In other words, Obama is an "Untouchable."
Obama has made it clear for years; he detests America and American Idealism.
Not even debatable.
I’m only surprised that the Lefties aren’t jumping up and saying, “So, what’s to love?”.
Since they agree with Obama.
Well, duh!
Every “workers” paradise, union supporting nanny-state ideologue will agree.
America sucks as long as the economy is “capitalist” and needs to be altered / at all costs / to a socialist-Marxist form of rule.
This is straight from the mouth of my NEA-member sister-in-law.
Republicans are afraid of calling evil by its name ever since the days of Joe McCarthy being pilloried in the press and mocked endlessly, creating the charge of “McCarthyism”, for calling out the Communists in the Department of Defense and the State Department.
Today we STILL have Communists in the Department of Defense and the State Department, to which we may now add large numbers of Islamic sympathizers, with whom they presently have joined forces in trying to emasculate that concept known as “the United States of America”.
They have been wildly successful.
Or, because they have the same mindset of more government equals more power for them and screw the citizens. Occam's Razor?
Obama may not love America... but he sure loves himself.
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