Posted on 02/05/2004 11:59:12 PM PST by goldstategop
Is The President So Important?
By Joseph Farah
Many readers took offense at my recent column skewering George W. Bush for policies that have demoralized Americans, leaving them feeling politics don't work and that they have no good options in the presidential election of 2004.
I'm sorry. I call them as I see them. I didn't support Bush in 2000 because I was confident he would pay little heed to the Constitution he swore an oath to uphold and that he would cater to special interests rather than the will of the people.
He exceeded even my worst expectations.
Now there are those who would blame me because John Kerry will become the next president.
Don't blame me. Blame Bush.
I am not supporting Kerry. Kerry is a creep.
But I cannot and will not support the lesser of two evils. My faith teaches me that light and dark don't mix. My faith teaches me I'm not to have anything to do with evil. I'm not supposed to compromise with it.
And, make no mistake, some of Bush's policies are evil:
encouraging more illegal aliens to come to the U.S. and accommodating those already here during a national security crisis;
approving increases in spending for the National Endowment for the Arts and its patently offensive programs;
creating new unconstitutional programs such as the one that launched the prescription-drug "benefits";
increasing funding to the Department of Education, rather than abolishing it;
outspending any of his predecessors and calling it "compassion."
I could go on and on. I will never support any politician who does those things. Never, never, never.
The critics, I think, are people who simply don't understand our unique form of government in America. They don't understand that we are supposed to be a self-governing people – not a people reliant on government to make our decisions and provide for us. They don't understand that we have a Constitution that sets us apart and strictly limits the power of government and that if it doesn't mean what it says, then we don't have anything special here in America. They don't understand that we are a nation of laws, not men.
And, most of all, they don't understand that who serves as the president of the United States is simply not all that important in the big scheme of things – unless, of course, we have a chance to elect a president like Ronald Reagan, whose 93rd birthday we celebrate today.
Some people – too many really – think of government and politics every four years. They consider it their sacred duty to vote for either a Democrat or Republican each presidential cycle and that to do anything else is a waste of a vote or worse. As long as we continue to choose between two bad options every four years we will never have a good choice, we will never have better alternatives.
Our nation is losing many of the attributes that made it great, made it special, made is different. This is far more important to consider than who will be the next president.
As long as the two major parties dominate politics in this country, and as long as they both take their constituencies for granted, there will be no improvement in this dire situation.
I believe those who cast votes for Kerry or Bush are the ones wasting their votes. We have an opportunity to do something historic in 2004, something important, something revolutionary.
We have a chance to take our country back from these politicians who have no principles, who don't really believe in the American dream, who care more about their own self-empowerment that in serving the will of the people and the rule of law.
Sit it out. Protest. Say, "I'm not going to take it any more." Build a third party that really represents you and your interests and that is committed to the Constitution. Do whatever your conscience dictates, but don't violate your principles and your conscience.
Believe me, there are more important things to do in 2004 than to obsess over which unworthy politician becomes president.
I am not supporting Kerry. Kerry is a creep.
But I cannot and will not support the lesser of two evils. My faith teaches me that light and dark don't mix. My faith teaches me I'm not to have anything to do with evil. I'm not supposed to compromise with it.
Joseph Farah says he's just stating the obvious. If there's any one to blame if the President loses, the buck stops with the occupant of the Oval Office. He thinks Kerry's a creep. More over, he thinks that as long as we have two parties who keep taking their constituencies for granted, America will never become as great as she can be. The point is Americans lives don't revolve around what happens in Washington and we should stop looking to politicians to fix all of our problems.
President Bush is evil huh??
As for his take on the revolutionary .. Stuff it!
I would suggest he reads the transcript of Alan Keyes interview on H&C.
Alan Keyes comes out in support of President Bush, denounces Democrats, "our survival is at stake!"
"COLMES: We continue with Alan Keyes. Ambassador Keyes, as a fiscal conservative, as a true conservative yourself, do you have some problems with the spending of this administration?
KEYES: Oh, I sure do -- and I wouldn't want to give the impression that I don't have other problems with this administration on some areas where I think that the president has fallen short of the kinds of things that I really think are needed in some areas.
But I also wouldn't want to give the impression that I think that anything can be more decisive for the American people right now than the question of our national survival in the face of the most insidious threat this nation has ever faced.
In the face of that, I think a lot of us are going to be putting our other issues behind those issues that have to do with the survival of this nation in wartime."
- 8 out of 8 budgets he signed "Increased spending" !
- Reagan signed the only military pay freeze in 40 years!
- Reagan gave amnesty to over a million Mexicans!
- Ran with his tail between his legs after the Beirut bombing!
- Appointed two of the most liberal SCOTUS judges in history!
- Lost the GOP Senate to the Rats!
The list goes on and on and adds up in the hundreds and if he were President Today we'd be bitiching like hell.
The point is we'll never get close to everything conservatives want in a President !
Politicians lives should revolve around what happens in America..
And, we need to start Telling Politicians HOW to fix our problems..
I honestly think politicians need to spend at least 75% of their time speaking and interacting with their constituents.
Presently, they spend 75% of their time just speaking TO us.. and not listening at all.
How about getting remotely close to anything we want in a President? I'd settle for that. I'm tired of that comment as though conservatives demand too much when you don't demand anything but an R evidently.
I feel pretty sure Bush will pull his fat out of the fire by Nov., maybe. I'm not so sure he will get any judges on the bench. It's not a big priority for him.
Go for it. Meanwhile the rest of us will do what is necessary to defeat the enemies of the Republic...by ousting the Democrats forever from power in this country, and by cleaning up our own house. Burning down our house is not a sane alternative.
When all is said and done you will have accomplished nothing constructive, Joe. Whining never accomplished a single positive thing in this world. Welcome to political irrelevency.
However, it sure seems to me that the Republicans advanced conservative principles much more effectivley under Clinton's watch than the massive retreat under Bush.
As someone has said on FR, "I'd rather face an honest enemy than a backstabbing 'friend.'"
The same can be said for Bush.
By signing the biggest medicare entitlement in history and throwing billions more at education, just to name two, Bush is against conservative principles and for liberalism.
Wouldn't you agree (of course not!)?
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