Posted on 11/13/2008 4:02:22 AM PST by LS
If I see one more "we are doomed" or "we'll never again win an election" thread I'm gonna puke!
ANY reader of American history knows that going back to the 1600s, EVERY generation has faced (yes) a similar challenge, every generation has thought it faced the "end of the colony/state/country.
*John Adams and the Federalists were certain that Thomas Jefferson would destroy the country he helped build, and forge an alliance with that "terrorist" country France.
*Both Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren said that the Missouri Compromise (that would be 1820, for those of you from Rio Linda) was "the death knell of the Union."
*All "men of standing" were certain that Andrew Jackson would destroy the nation---and thought he proved it when he allowed mobs into the White House to guzzle the wine stock while he high-tailed it out back to a nearby bar. Even Davy Crockett---hardly an effete snob---thought Jackson was going to destroy the country.
*EVERY major Republican except Lincoln thought they had permanently destroyed the Democrat Party by 1864. In fact, they had put into place such astonishing obstacles to the Dems EVER getting power that they were stunned when the Dems not only won congressional seats, but had to be swindled out of an election in 1876!
*The only way a Democrat even won the White House for 100 years was to either a) pretend to be a Republican (Cleveland---DINO); or to get the Republicans to fracture into two parties (Wilson in 1912).
*FDR put every obstacle to Republican elections in place from 1932-1944, and STILL couldn't prevent a Republican from being elected president in 1952, and it took a terrible TV debate and some fraud to keep Nixon out in 1960. It wouldn't have taken much, with a President Nixon in 1960, for Republicans to have held power throughout the 1970s.
Lenin took power in Russia with a mere 20,000 committed communists---smaller than my little Ohio township---in a nation of 160 MILLION. Commitment, determination, and above all, having an idea to fight for is the key to victory.
I'm going to end with a Bible story: Gideon was leading the Israelites against an enemy. He had an army of 30,000 and God said, "Too many! Your soldiers aren't all committed. Some are faint hearted, some are grumblers." God gave Gideon a test to eliminate 27,000 men from the ranks. With just 3,000, Gideon got ready to fight and God said, "Too many. There are still too many complainers, nay-sayers, men weak of faith." He gave Gideon another test, leaving Gideon with only 300. Then God said, "You are ready now to go and WIN." And he did.
If you are all through with your little hissy fits and "poor me/we'll never win another election" pity parties, I'm ready to join 299 of you to GO WIN.
This is no cause to be blase about relaxation of the laws, so that more women have more abortions.
Hey, this is a vanity!
(In before “already posted”)
I'm feeling better already.
“Fight on, my men . . .
I am hurt, but I am not slain;
I’ll lay me down and bleed a while,
And then I’ll rise and fight again.”
“The anticipation is alway more painful than the actual prick of the needle.”
Absolutely spot-on. We will recover from this. It was a meteoric rise for Obama, so it will be a calamitous fall for him, because he and the dem Congress will over-reach.
I saw the exact scenario in my backyard when my cat was about to reach for a tiny mouse who was up on his back legs facing an enemy many, many times his size. I grabbed the cat and rushed her into the house. When I went back outside the mouse was dead, WITHOUT EVEN A MARK ON IT. Shows you what fear can do. Our enemy is not beyond defeating. Read my tagline.
I'm not being blase about it. My point is - what does the law have to do with whether a woman chooses to have an abortion? If the woman chooses to have one she is going to regardless of the law. If she doesn't believe in abortion then she won't have on regardless of the law. I don't see how that is being blase.
We’re Doomed to see too many vanities and not enough Opuses, Opi, Opera. Hint, Hint.
The difficulty in obtaining one is a deterrent. Some women won't break the law. Some will want to know why the law prohibits abortion and will learn more. Maybe it's simple enough to say that a law protecting the human rights of the unborn can only serve to elevate us all.
If the woman chooses to have one she is going to regardless of the law.
So we've been told by the abortion industry. How does that law apply to other forms of murder? If a person chooses to kill their neighbor, they are going to do it regardless of the law, so why have laws against murder?
Ridiculous.
Plus, as I've said, the instructive nature of laws protecting the unborn: the point of the law is to deter the choice of murder.
Lenin was maestro of the cluster-frig. There was little success until Trotsky started the firing squads. Watching the kulaks fall instilled fear in the sheep and allowed the wolves to take control.
I point out to you that the whigs have not won an election in quite a while. The progressive party of Bob la Follett no longer exists. Ditto the Prohibition party. The Ku Klux Klan which was such a great force in the South at the time of reconstruction and again after the turn of the century, today has more FBI agents than true believers. So history reveals that it is indeed quite possible for a party or a movement to disappear.
Conservatism is not just a political philosophy but but political philosophy which comes out of a moral philosophy therefore it is less likely to disappear because it will not disappear from human nature. But that does not mean that the philosophy will ever again attain political power.
It is quite appropriate for us doom and gloomers to tell the movement that the glass is half empty and to say that not since the election of FDR in the midst of the Great Depression has fate arrayed a galaxy of forces so heavily against us and I am not excluding the election of 1964. This is the time for real fear of the loss of our liberties and the loss of our philosophy to spur the hard decisions which are necessary for survival. Keep John Boehner in office and count noses at the next election. Fail to put somebody in at the head of the Republican National Committee who is not a bomb thrower, and check the bank balance at the same time. Be prepared to read the Bill of Rights and weep.
I have listened to these damn fools on these very threads tell me how this was going to be a landslide for McCain. Those of us who saw this coming as long as two years ago have earned the right to speak out now. I will continue to speak out and tell conservatives and Republicans about the danger that still confronts us until I see one single step taken to repair our fortunes. So far I look in vain.
I get it.
Obama is the Phantom of the Opera.
I’ve already got a DON’T BLAME ME I VOTED FOR MCCAIN bumper sticker on my SUV.
I’m going to end with a Bible story: Gideon was leading the Israelites against an enemy. He had an army of 30,000 and God said, “Too many! Your soldiers aren’t all committed. Some are faint hearted, some are grumblers.” God gave Gideon a test to eliminate 27,000 men from the ranks. With just 3,000, Gideon got ready to fight and God said, “Too many. There are still too many complainers, nay-sayers, men weak of faith.” He gave Gideon another test, leaving Gideon with only 300. Then God said, “You are ready now to go and WIN.” And he did.
“I will continue to speak out and tell conservatives and Republicans about the danger that still confronts us until I see one single step taken to repair our fortunes.”
It is not the job of government to repair our fortunes.
I wish I shared your optimism. Short term, I see some swing of the pendulum back our way. This country is still more to the center than this election might lead us to believe and I also expect some buyers remorse at having handed so much power to not just the dems, but the far left loons.
Long term, I see far too much bleeding blue due to the ever increasing Latino vote. Anchor babies are coming of voting age and I expect some large number of new citizens under an Obama admin. Even downplaying this, demographics is still a big hit against the republicans.
Right you are, and good point. I didn’t want to get “too relibious.” Every time I bring up the Israelites in Goshen, when all of Egypt was in darkness but they had light, people call me a pollyanna.
Er, make that “too religious.”
Pollyanna anna doodle all day.
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