Posted on 02/02/2008 1:05:56 PM PST by exit82
Today is February 2, 2008.
I am over fifty years old. I am a product of American values, observed and experienced in the 1950s and 1960s, and sorely tried in the Vietnam, Watergate, and Carter years of the 1970s, and again in the Clinton years of the 1990s.
This is the timeframe and events that formed my political worldview. I grew up when we still said a prayer and read Psalm 23 at the beginning of the school day. I remember doing the duck and cover in elementary school, to be safe in the event of a Cold War nuclear attack, even though being only 12 miles from NYC, the odds of surviving such an attack or its aftermath was just about a negative number. I remember the pride in America and its flag; the meaning of independence, especially on the Fourth of July. My father's parents were immigrants and my mother was an immigrant, and the old country was just that--the "old" country. Most of my uncles served in the US Army and Navy during WW2, while my father was a foreman in a defense plant. The prosperity,music, and the social fabric of America in the 1950s and 1960s are still a source of inspiration to me. Because of my parents' background, we always helped anyone in need that came our way. My parents would brook no discrimination, even when at the time it was common to discriminate on the basis of skin color. No, the promise of America was for everyone. Sometimes, only an immigrant can appreciate America's true value, as did my parents.
I remember well the Carter years, with its mind numbing cowardice in the face of dangers from the USSR and Iran, and how it caused us to doubt our greatness. And I remember a man named Ronald Reagan, and how he inspired an entire nation to rendevous with its destiny once again, and in an inconceivable turn of events, won the Cold War and knocked down the Berlin War without firing a single shot. His courage and belief in America inspired policies that freed all of Eastern Europe and kept budding Islamofascism at bay, all the while he was opposed and reviled by the Democrats, the America-haters and the Communists worldwide.
I remember the horror of the Clinton years, when a rapist and abuser of women was the Commander in Chief, aided and abetted by a power hungry woman who hated the military. I remember fighting for his impeachment, only to be betrayed by a Republican Senate that had no courage, or that was compromised by stolen FBI files and failed to discharge its lawful duty to remove a lawbreaking President who brought shame to the Oval Office. I remember recoiling in horror and shame when a six year old boy whose mother drowned in an attempt to bring him to freedom from Cuba was removed from a private home under the force of arms and returned to Fidel Castro.
I remember crying tears of gladness when our current President said the words of his Oath of Office on January 20, 2001, ending my personal nightmare, an eight year long nightmare, of having Bill and Hillary Clinton in the White House.
The events of these last seven years are nothing what I expected that cold, clear January morning. The events of September 11, 2001, the invasion of Iraq, the War on Terror, all of them returned me to the patriotic days of my youth. I saw a nation united in purpose for the first time in my adult life, as the nation had been torn since the Vietnam War.
But I saw a Republican President I believed in, and a Republican Party that was my home politically, shift in a slow, determined, unstoppable drift away from its principles, adopting the policies and views of the Democrats, to the point where we now face having as our Presidential candidate, John McCain, an enemy of conservatism, of Republican principles, and of American sovereignty.
As I pondered these things today, February 2, 2008, I have come to a very troubling observation.
We conservatives always had a home in the Republican Party. President Reagan even came here when the Democrat Party became too radical for him in the 1950s. We were the foundation of 12 years of the Reagan Bush era and we fought for the current President to give him eight years, even in the face of a national election being stolen from him.
But when our country was threatened by the prospect of a mass amnesty last May and June, allowing 20 million or more illegal immigrants to become defacto citizens by fiat, we erupted in a display of power that had Washington DC recoiling in terror. We derailed their plan to ensure the Balkanization of America by giving it 20 million more citizens who would not assimilate into the culture, and to ensure a cheap workforce, and to permanently undercut American worker's wages. Together with Global Warming and carbon credits, America could be brought to heel and managed.
We stopped McCain-Kennedy and its cousin, alright. But there was a price to pay for our insolence.
We, the America loving conservatives of the Republican Party, are no longer needed by this party. We are too narrow minded and old school. Flag waving and the supremacy of the American Way are passe. We are not inclusive. We are standing in the way of the elites in Washington DC from making their wet dreams a reality--making America an also-ran, not a super-power. America as a third world country, not as better than anyone else. An America that is afraid to face its Islamic enemies,that worries about what the world thinks about it, strangled in political correctness, surrendering its freedoms on a daily basis in the vain hope for security.
We keepers of the flame of American liberty are now the enemy. When Hillary labelled us the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, we took that has a label of pride. But now the Republican establishment has decreed that we are a conspiracy to be defeated within our own party, as we face the prospect of John McCain being rammed down our throats. John McCain, the Manchurian Candidate, the man who has betrayed every tenet of Republicanism in his quest for power,who has railed against conservatives at every turn, who is bound and determined to grant amnesty to 10% of Mexico's population now within our borders, he is the one being annointed by the elites as our candidate.
His job is not only to become the candidate of choice, but to be the means of the destruction of the power of the conservative base of the Republican Party.
Between McCain, Obama and Hillary, there isn't a dime's worth of difference in their political views. The Republican and Democrat established elites have melded into one entity, and they will win no matter who gets nominated or who wins the general election, especially if McCain is the nominee. All three believe in unlimited amnesty, an open border, cap and trade globaloney, giving rights to Gitmo detainees, and the restriction of free speech and gun rights.
The MSM is their collective cheerleader, actively working to marginalize us as a viable force for the America we visualize.
Many of us will vote Republican in November, only because we cannot, in good conscience, vote for Obama or Clinton. The Republican establishment knows this, and knows because we are principled, we can not do otherwise. Rather than enlist us to help, they are engaged in a policy of containment and neutering, because we stand in the way of their vision of America.
McCain as a candidate will be a disaster. The Republican establishment knows this. But they don't care, because the goal is not to win this election. It is to remove us from the political table, and for them to join with their Democrat brothers in the march toward an America subsevient to global interests. Sovereignty is treated as a quaint, outmoded concept, even by many Republican governors who are pushing the globaloney nonsense that will cripple this nation.
The perfect storm of American politics is converging in a bid to elect one of three horrible candidates, McCain,Obama, or Clinton, to be our next President. The odds are that the Republicans will not only lose with McCain, but they will lose even more of the House and Senate, enough to relegate Republicans to a minority status for decades to come.
Where are the national Republican leaders speaking out against where our party is heading? As one looks over the events of the last 15 years, since the ascension and improbable election of a no good, draft dodging, lying huckster like Bill Clinton to President, we have witnessed a snowballing reversal of American values and fortunes. With Clinton II on the horizon, we face a complete collapse of American values and soveriegnty and freedom with the "CHANGE" that is being promised for the electorate.
That "change" is starting right now for us. By Tuesday midnight, we will know if the fate the elites have decreed for us will become reality, if McCain is our candidate.
In the past few days, the lenses through which I view politics have changed in prescription. I see now that we are the enemy to our own party's leaders, whose leaders have decreed that our nominee will be the anti-conservative, anti-Republican candidate. The other candidates still open to us, Huckster, Romney and Paul each have their own problems with our values.
There are only a few short days to stop the McCain Screwball express. As we fought the impossible fight against McCain and amnesty last year, we have but a few days to influence our fellow conservatives and Republicans not to allow the predetermined outcome to occur.
I offer this screed in an attempt to understand what is going on today, to explain the inexplicable in what is occurring to our party and our chances for success in November against the second ascension of the corrupt Clinton Machine. I wish not to tell my fellow conservative who they should vote for, but I ask them not to vote for McCain.
Others, including the Republican establishment, have decreed for us who are candidate should be. American loving Republicans should reserve the right to make that choice.
Your words echoed my feelings almost exactly.
To feel better, I bought and put-up a new American flag today.
That made me feel better ............. FRegards
I’m just a little further in age along than you.
The America we remember is worth fighting for.
We’re the adults now. And we have a say.
Let’s say to our friends why it is so important not to select the ordained candidate.
If we are to enter a Socialist period, let it not happen unopposed by us.
In school, we always had good manners. If we didn;t, our parents were sure to hear about it. Then we got punished.
My instructions when schoolbound were very clear-—I better not do anything to make the teacher contact home, because if that happened, my parents said they would side with the teacher.
It was tough to take on such a united front.
“I fear for my children and grandchildren. Whatever happens, we are headed for cruel times.”
Joe, on this thread and in my Freepmail, other Freepers are stating exactly what you are—they are concerned—very concerned— with the future of our country, and how it will negatively affect their kids and grandkids.
We were bequeathed something very special. Our parents have passed on, or are passing on, so we are the adults now.
It will be up to us to gather our courage and to fight back against what the elites have in mind for us and our posterity.
We can not look at their faces and say we can’t do it.
We can not look at ourselves in the mirror if we don’t fight.
Good for you, gonzo. I fly an American flag every day.
So does my 90 year old mother. Hers is the only flag on her street and for blocks around. She first put it out during the Vietnam War.
In my community, there are many who fly the US flag. It is a comforting sight to see.
That flag represents the best hope for us, our posterity, and the rest of the world. A lot of very good men died with that flag as their last conscious earthly vision.
It is one of the most beautiful things on this earth.
Long may it wave over a nation of free people.
Awesome post which beautifully articulates the feelings of so many of us. Thank you.
What a shame that liberals march & riot, while conservatives work so they can afford to....If McCain wins the nomination I would love nothing better than to participate in a large demonstration at the Republican convention.
As it is, I may simply mail my pitchfork to it.
Hunter was marginalized because he was a minor player in the big leagues.
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Well said - great post. I feel the same, although I didn’t arrive until 1972 and the cultural erosion was well under way; the incense, patchouli & other herbal essences were thick in my home growing up.
“As it is, I may simply mail my pitchfork to it.”
Maybe we can get a group rate from the USPS ;).
You have an interesting thesis about the economy being the second wave brewing out there.
What we have today is not what has classically termed a recession or a depression requiring an immediate infusion of $ 150 billion in cash to the citizenry.
It’s a rather blatant attempt for incumbents to claim they “did something” to save the evonmoy for their re-election campaigns this fall.
I don’t see how $ 150 billion is going to amount to anything other than a blip on the economy’s radar screen.
But the way this is being greenlighted with no holds barred makes one wonder what is really going on.
Interesting stuff on your link—good to know that the designated nominee is a stable, well speaking, even keeled man——NOT!
Monica, I look at 1992 as some kind of turning point in America.
When Bill CLinton ascended to the Presidency, the feebleness of George H. W. Bush’s campaign, the rise of Ross Perot and his subsequent flameout and then reinsertion in the campaign, something wildly wrong went on that year.
After 1992 the erosion intensified and the pace quickened noticeably.
It’s astonishing how incredibly successful the media is at cultural brainwashing. I grew up without television (hippy dad afraid of radiation.) and don’t watch as an adult, so it’s intense when I do. Just watched the Super Bowl and the condescending adverts for the gaming propositions really assumed a worldview that could only be acquired by letting the TV do the thinking for you. That if the cause is noble enough (i.e. “the children”), it is a righteous thing to redistribute the wealth of someone other than yourself.
I want to thank you for a really cogent analysis about the political ramifications of this present “economic crisis”, and how amnesty for illegals may be an important component influencing the whole debate.
That is a very unique and unusual connecting of the dots. It resounds within me that there is a lot of sense to it, because as we know, nothing in DC is ever what it seems.
Yes, there has to be something more. A Congress that has been at each other’s throats for the last 7 years suddenly having a Kumbaya moment is cause for suspicion of the highest order.
We absolutely have to keep an eye of what is happening in the other races. The need to link a pro-amnesty President, like John McCain, to a pro-Amnesty Senate is a good reason why McQueeg is being foisted upon us, to the detriment of the Republican Party.
When things don’t make sense, there is a good reason.
Again, thank you for your very cogent analysis and excellent observations.
Perhaps your upraising has given you a unique vantage point with which to observe the culture.
The last time our culture was so involved in the non-essentials was just before Sept. 2001. It seemed our culture was majoring on the minors to the nth degree, and the vacuousness of our entertainment, the PC culture, and the lack of morality in the popular culture had reached a new zenith.
Then we got a wake up call.
Kepp that unique vantage point. Much of what our society thinks is important is fluff. You are blessed to be able to see it so clearly.
Well, her scandals and cover-ups are so blatant and so criminal that sometimes it's difficult to decide which is most significant. From this perspective, her role in the murder of Vincent Foster (her longtime law partner and reputed former paramour) ranks as number one. There is no crime more significant than murder!
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