Well done :)
Posted on 11/14/2004 1:57:35 PM PST by CHARLITE
The reelection of President Bush has sent the Democratic Party reeling. How could a President with so many perceived negatives win with such relative ease? The economy is not fantastic, the War in Iraq is not universally popular, health care costs and fuel prices are rising, President Bush smirks and stutters, and the Redskins lost! Why is John Kerry not President today? Additionally, why, in a supposedly ideologically divided electorate, have Republicans defied political convention and steadily increased their majorities at both the Federal and State levels? The truth in undeniable. Americans are beginning to no longer vote in line with individual candidates’ positions on specific issues, but in accordance to their cultural and moral values.
Neither Presidential candidate made cultural values a major issue in their campaign. In fact, Bush made concerted efforts to downplay the same sex marriage and abortion issues, going so far as to give an eleventh hour endorsement of civil unions. Other than a few light weight questions at the debates, the selection of up to four Supreme Court Justices received no attention at all. It is no surprise that Republican and Democrat politicos alike are puzzled by exit poll results that showed concerns for cultural values on a par with the Wars in Iraq and terrorism and healthcare. The American people have taken talk of “family values” out of the arena of the sound bite and placed it front and center as the major issue of the day. The Culture War has begun.
Until now, the Liberal plan to warp America into its version of a European welfare state has advanced unimpeded. Political correctness has become a cultural norm, the forced indoctrination and dumbing down of our school children has become educational dogma, and an oligarchic activist judiciary has usurped the role of the legislature and systematically declared unconstitutional nearly every aspect of traditional American life. As the Liberal elites delighted in their cleverness at redefining the celebration of dysfunction as “tolerance” and oppression of Freedom of Speech as “fairness”, frustrated Americans turned to the only resource left to them, the ballot box.
This was not supposed to happen. The electorate was supposed to base their decisions on the 1000 dead soldiers in Iraq and $2 a gallon gas, not the Left’s 30 year history of duplicity. Now, the true face of liberalism is being exposed. Instead of accepting the loss and looking ahead to the next election, liberals have launched into a psychotic paroxysm of rage and insults unseen in American politics since the aftermath of the Civil War. Major Liberal authors have labeled the voters of “red” states as “ignorant”, “stupid”, and “backward” for doing nothing more than disagreeing with them. American citizens where not voting to protect their right to send a little girl to kindergarten wearing a small gold cross and not be suspended for “violating the separation of church and state”, but in words from the “Berkley Planet”, “the right to yell ‘faggot’ out of their pickups.” There are no words that can properly describe the depths of arrogance, intolerance, insularity and anti-Americanism this widespread response represents.
This is but the opening salvo in the liberals’ counter attack against the expressed will of the electorate. Most contemporary liberals began their political careers in their college days back in the 1960’s. In the ensuing decades, these liberals have successfully pushed their agenda in the expectation that they would pass the staff of their ever so coveted political power to a prefabricated second generation of indoctrinated proto-socialists to continue their work. The 21st Century was to be a new beginning and end. The end of the America the Left hates so badly because of their inability to socialize within it, and the beginning of the god-less, valueless, immoral culture they crave. Instead, they see their life long efforts failing.
The election has shown the Left they are not as successful as they had thought. Traditional American values, morals, and ethics have somehow survived all their stratagems far longer than they anticipated and their biological clocks are ticking. There is no second generation of Socialists because Americans have clung to their pesky habit of making up their own minds and raising their children as they see fit. Now, liberals must try to complete all their goals in the 10 to 15 years they have remaining as an active political force. Americans have seen nothing like what is about to come. Consider that all of the outrageous actions of the Left to date have been when they have perceived they are winning the Culture War and you will understand there will be no limit to the ferocity, deception, and hatred the Left will use in order to achieve their final victory.
Despite post election talk of bipartisanship, there will be none in Washington for the foreseeable future. The leftists who hijacked the Democratic Party in 1968 are realizing their core ideas, not specific policies, were rejected by the American voters. There will be no compromise from the Left because any concession would require they abandon their most fundamental beliefs. In order to cooperate, the left would first have to admit that they might be wrong in a few areas and the rest of America might have a few good points to offer. If one thing is certain about Liberals it is that they are far too arrogant to ever do this. And, even if they were willing to engage in a constructive dialogue, starting it off by calling your opponents a bunch of racist, illiterate, moonshine drinking morons who lack indoor plumbing is hardly the way to do it. Instead, the Democrats will increase their attempts to undermine our way of life, more aggressively pursue their agenda through the Courts, obstruct needed legislation and personally attack anyone who has the audacity to stand in their way.
The Culture War is no longer an idea, but a reality. For the sake of America’s future, it is a battle we must win.
Sure there are: "Air America." :)
Quite a bit of that "wrong track" rating might have been conservatives fearful that John Kerry was winning. The positive polling numbers seem to have increased markedly since the election.
RATs-sucks to be you.
Half the "wrong-trackers" think Bush is a leftist.
This is especially true of the MSM. Their news casts and headlines will be filled with even more vile accusations about the President and those who voted for his re-election. To do less woud be to acknowledge their failure to succeed in this election. The MSM, in partnership with the dnc, is working to destroy the moral fiber of this nation.
I can support a man I don't always agree with- I can't support a man I can't trust.
What is left out, is that he who shapes the battle, wins the battle. The constitutional majority in this country have been shaping this battle for at least the last 20 years as they have been developing their forces on the Internet and Talk Radio, and learning to win tactical skirmishes on CCW permits and holding down State taxes. The battlefield is the Media, in its entirety, and the percentage controlled by the Old Media (the 60's liberals) has been shrunk severely.
It is as if one side, the constitutionalists, were battle hardened veterans who recently developed aircraft, and the other side, the 60's leftists, were pampered armchair general province administrators who hadn't ridden into battle in their cavalry regiment for a decade, and didn't believe in that newfangled aircraft nonsense.
We have been bloodied and won some fights, and we accept the new technology with gusto, because it allows us to shatter the old cavalry and sweep them from the field. Now we have taken the remaining high ground (the election). Let the culture war begin!
And isn't it wonderful?
"it is a war we must win."
Actually, conservatives are already winning, albeit it very, very slowly. Look at the facts: crime has fallen to its lowest point in over 30 years, out-of-wedlock pregnancies are falling, the number of abortions is slipping, support for unialteral disarmament is way down, serving in the military is seen as honorable, the use of hard drugs is down (though marajuana use is up), the number of divorces is slowly falling, church attendance is rising. There is a chance that Roe vs. Wade will cease to be the law of the land in our lifetimes, something I never thought possible before.
The leftists believes that the future belong to them. Their conviction is so strong that they manage to instill pesimisim in the hearts of their oponents. But when the leftist projects collapse, like Soviet system did, the left gets bewildered and the right is surprised.
When they tell you that the clock of history cannot be turned back or that it follows the predicted pattern, do not believe it.
Oh yuk, the sight of the blue staters just turned my stomach, fortunately my breakfast was 4 hours ago. (I am in Pacific time zone.) Thanks for the pics anyway.
This article is close to being spot-on in its analysis of current America. Many have prayed for this victory and GW Bush has been the "lightening rod" in exposing those liberals who have been hiding in our mist. They knew what Bush represented and threw off their masks revealing as Michael Savage coined, "the enemy within".
With them exposed, now is the time to refute their boldness in trying to destroy those things we hold dear. America must and has awoken from the stupor imposed by these elitists. America is not a Euro social bastion for those who choose to live in a country they only show contempt for.
The Liberals do have power both real and perceived in wealth and media. Our country has a rich history filled with God fearing citizens and leaders, a source of strength unrealized by those who attack it. May God bless this mighty nation and the brave people who live here.
We have it, Dems don't...
False perception.
That's easy.
And what sent the Democrat Party reeling was the double whammy of sudden confrontation of the delusional with truth and a well-deserved backhanded bitchslap by the American people.
"GW Bush has been the "lightening rod" in exposing those liberals"
Actually, Bush has been very civil and decent to his political adversaries. He is careful to avoid demagoguery and personal attacks, even against those who demagogue and slander him. It's Bush's opponents who have hurled verbal lightning.
Perhaps lightning rod was misused, I meant the President is so strong in his convictions that he has driven the liberals to despair, kind've like in the Wizard of Oz with the cursing of Dorothy by the witch as she melted away in unbelief.
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