Don’t Shoot the Heretics

opinion | 05-12-2008 | brianbaldwin

[Brian_Baldwin]

The problem with Bush is that Americans became unhappy with his style of management. I never liked the “Big Tent” idea since I believed it really had less to do with being Big anything and more about having to wear check pants or you don’t belong in the tent. In fact, it wasn’t even a tent. It was a “club”.

But whatever the case, Bush was suppose to lead the “Big Tent” in the Republican Party in the first decade of this Century, but almost everyone, and not just conservatives, became alarmed at the way big walls between his Administration and the people started to emerge.

Bush never even stepped inside the big tent.

What Bush decided, was to build a big wall instead.

The conservatives are simply looking at a big wall.

I don’t think Bush is even, necessarily, angry or anything.

I could be wrong, but something is telling me that in part, he is sad. He never liked conservatives anyway, and now he is just sad and wants to put a few more bricks up on that wall that separates him from conservatives.

I hope not, there are still a few months left, he could make a difference. He could even decide that he is going to save the Republican Party by making this difference, by tearing down this wall and coming to conservatives.

Don’t be surprised, since I have met more than a few conservatives and Republicans, that is, the people, I would not be surprised at all if they forgave him and loved him for it, and that he could actually turn this thing around, and the Republicans can be strong and principled again.

Baseball was always important to him, and I am worried that what he really wants to do is watch baseball behind that big wall.

Essentially, it was the Bush wing of the Republican Party - which isn’t conservative - that damaged the Republican Party.

John McCain is suppose to be different from Bush, and perhaps on some “issues” he is.

To the check pants Republicans, which is what Bush was, is, and perhaps is going to die being, conservatives are heretics.

The check pants Republicans actually still believe they are the Republican Party, entitled and Pontific in nature. They actually think they can continue to snub conservatives. Remember the pathetic “Bushbots”?

The thing is, Bush never even liked the bots really. He’s a real family guy, and bots sort of make him nervous I think. Just baseball and stuff. That’s his thing. And Mexicans, who he thought loved him. And damn those heretics who won’t wear the check pants. Those, those . . . conservatives.

Bush is now a worse case example of this, but Bush isn’t running for President even if the Democrats try to pretend to make it so. Currently he is just waiting the final months of his term out as he sits around and makes sure the fence isn’t built.

He won’t build the fence, but he sure will build a wall.

The question is, will John McCain build the same wall?

Some folks say that, because John McCain cannot win the White House without conservatives, that what John McCain needs to do is to come to the conservatives. To go to them.

Hillary Clinton is getting the white blue-collar vote. I think that if Obama takes the Democratic nomination, one of the things McCain needs to do to win is to go to the working class blue collar folks who I think can pretty easily go for McCain instead of Obama.

All McCain needs to do is say the words – you know, “working class”, “blue collar workers”, shake the finger at China, and talk about creating jobs here in America and not exporting jobs to China and such.

He needs to talk about the “snobs” who are the “elite” supporters of Obama and such. In so many words.

He needs to say that the Democrats run the majority of Governorships, they control lock stock and barrel practically every major city in America, and they run the Senate, the House, they are the majority in Congress, in the State Assemblies, and they run everything and have since 2006, and it is THEY who COULD have, and CAN make a difference for our economy, but they have FAILED us, and FAILED America.

You see, you need to keep the message simple.

Some say that the message of conservatives is simple.

There is nothing wrong with simple.

And he needs conservatives. For sure.

Then he can win. Should he come to us, to conservatives?

Like, give some speech about abortion or something in front of some church elders, or perhaps met with Rush Limbaugh?

You know, I am not sure that will work.

I actually think that we, conservatives, need to go to him.

We need to get together, as just common people, and go directly to him. We need to do this now.

We need to do this now so that we can know NOW whether he is going to put up that wall between us and him. We will know right away, what does he REALLY think about the heretics? All we need to do is to go to him.

John McCain, we are told, is “set in his way”. That no one can change him.

I am not so sure about that.

In my life, I have known good and bad people. I can say, the ones who came and helped me when I really needed help, who were strong, well, when I also found out about their politics (even though they didn’t volunteer their politics to me), I found out that they were Republicans.

I am talking about the people. The Republicans. The conservatives. The ones which the “neocons” (is that what the check pants Republicans are called?) now think are the “heretics”.

One of the gifts that has come from the people is our Constitution, and the same people who keep the Constitution in special regards are also the same people who talk about the importance of tradition.

And the thing about the Republicans that I have known is, the Republican Party is strong when it is these people who have the voice - and the Republican Party is the strongest when it chooses to work through imperfect human beings, accepting their even limitations but being part of the people.

You can take the Constitution, lock yourself in a room, and then start copying it onto paper with an ink pen. You can copy it, and copy it, all day, and all night.

Until mountains of paper are stacked, the Constitution of the United States of America, and eventually “paint yourself into a corner” of the room with them all.

And what have you done? Achieved?

Unless you are inspired by the Constitution, you haven’t achieved anything.

So we need to be inspired and do something.

John McCain is the candidate.

And I think we need to go to him now and talk with him directly.

How do we do this?

Well, we put a posting on Free Republic. I am not volunteering this to be the post. It should not.

It should be written by some specific, long standing F.R. member, and posted anonymously.

And it should ask John McCain to directly respond to the post.

I am serious.

It should ask, “John McCain, we are going to you now through this medium of the people called the Free Republic. As you know, this is not something that is meaningless to conservatives of this nation. It is a very important collaborative tool of our age. And, we are approaching you directly . . .

. . . would you be willing to directly respond? Personally and directly?

. . . this posting will be very carefully monitored – there will be no room for insults from any participant.

. . . in fact, the purpose of the posting is not to even to ask you one single question about any issue.

. . . it is simply to see if you are behind a wall, or if you are not.

. . . all we want to see is if you will simply respond to us directly.

. . . you can say anything you want.

. . . you can simply give your standard response, the typical, formal, check pants way of saying things.

. . . but all we want to know is, are you even looking at us?

. . . are you even there?

. . . is there a wall?”

John McCain can make a difference for himself by becoming aware of who is “out there”. John McCain wants to go and talk to La Raza.

Will he talk to us?

So why not we just go to him. Just to see if he even is looking our way.

If he ever looks our way.

A formal invitation can be made. On the front page of Free Republic. Because Free Republic does matter. It is a very important forum. Those who know how to do these things, they can do it.

It is very likely that John McCain will not even respond.

In fact, that is a reason this might be a good idea.

It will formalize our thoughts about him.

And if he doesn’t, then I would guess a few talk show hosts might mention his lack of enthusiasm to build a Big Tent instead of a Wall.

Anyway, perhaps this is a waste of time. It’s now past midnight Eastern time. Who’s even awake? Just another vanity post I suppose.

John McCain never reads F.R. anyway. Right?

[BloodOrFreedom]

"I never liked the “Big Tent” idea since I believed it really had less to do with being Big anything and more about having to wear check pants or you don’t belong in the tent. In fact, it wasn’t even a tent. It was a “club”"

I am a fan of the "Speak softly and carry a big stick" policy, myself. But as for the "Big Tent", I think that is part of the source of the problem of RINOism