Posted on 05/27/2013 4:25:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
Some 25 years ago I changed my life.
A visit inside a church opened my eyes to the destructive life I was living, financed by welfare checks generously provided by American taxpayers.
I got off welfare, went to work, got politically active and became a Republican. I didn’t become a Republican because of what the party looked like. I became a Republican because of what the party stood for.
Individual freedom, traditional values, with a view that government’s role is to protect our freedom at home and abroad.
For the next 25 years I had to suffer indignities from liberals who could not fathom that a black could be a Republican because she actually embraced these values.
But now, we have a strange turn of events.
Liberals no longer feel on the run like they did in the 1980’s and 1990’s. They are running the show and they know it. So I hear less from them.
Now the indignities come from inside the party that I embraced 25 years ago.
It was always the Democrats that were about interest group politics.
Now Republicans have somehow concluded that their party’s woes are because it once stood for something. So the game plan is to morph into the Democrats’ step sister.
Whereas once Republican buzzwords were family and freedom now it is inclusion. The marching orders, according to the post-election RNC “autopsy” report, is outreach to blacks, Hispanics, gays, women, and Asians. It’s now about what the party looks like, not what it stands for.
Christian conservatives, once the answer, are now the problem.
Which brings us to Bishop E. W. Jackson.
Bishop Jackson is an outspoken black Christian conservative with a law degree from Harvard. He also was just selected as the nominee for Lt Governor of Virginia.
Although Republicans are talking about black outreach, it is not, unfortunately, blacks like Jackson that they have in mind.
He is outspoken about limited government and personal freedom, about the importance of family and traditional marriage, and about doing something about the scourge of abortion.
In other words, E.W. Jackson stands for everything that the Republican Party once stood for.
He’s making the Republicans of inclusion squirm.
The current Republican Lt. Governor of Virginia, Bill Bolling, immediately criticized his party for nominating Jackson, saying it will feed the “image of extremism” in the party.
Ronald Reagan used to say that the 11th commandment was to not speak ill of a fellow Republican.
That commandment has now been modified to permit it if that fellow Republican is a Christian conservative.
Certainly Jackson does not pull punches. But his statements about the government “plantation” are 100 percent true. It’s no accident that trillions of dollars in government programs have had zero impact on black poverty. But black single parent homes and out-of-wedlock births have tripled since the War on Poverty began in 1965.
A new Gallup poll shows dramatic shift in American attitudes on traditional morality. Fifty nine percent now say homosexual relations is acceptable, up 19 points from 2001; 60 percent say out-of-wedlock birth is okay, up 15 points from 2001; 68 percent say divorce is okay, up 9 points from 2001; and 14 percent are okay with polygamy, twice that of 2001.
The economy is sputtering at 2 percent growth, four points below the expected recovery growth rate from a deep recession, and our national debt is now greater than our GDP.
The country needs a bold alternative voice to wake it up. The conservative Ken Cuccinelli – E W Jackson ticket in Virginia is such a voice.
Will their party get behind them or pull the rug out like they’ve done to other conservatives in recent races? Will the Republican Party get back to what it once was about or will it become just another symptom of a nation in decline?
Ms. Parker is a remarkable woman, I and most of us agree with her on these points. Karl Rove must be spitting about this...
Good article
EW Jackson definitely not a Rove Republican. And, the GOP better start embracing the conservative base or the GOP will soon find itself the third of three parties
Great column by Parker. She clearly shows that the Republican Party is now part of the problem! Our nation desperately needs men like Jackson and yet there are those in our Party that are embarrassed by such men. But it’s not just Jackson. And this bias has existed for some time now.
Men like Alan West, Tim Scott have always been treated like a curious museum piece. There was never any love for Sarah Palin. The country club types in our Party have always hel Conservatives, especially Christians, in near total disdain.
Our country is rich with men like Jackson and West. We NEED leaders like Jackson, West, and Scott, Palin, people who fear God first. Right now guys like Rove and Prebuis are impediments.
Couldn’t agree more! Just as religion needs to find “ the old paths”, political parties need to as well!
A dedicated minority can make sure it always answers every poll. Their responses will seem to be far more than important would be otherwise thought by sheer numbers alone.
American society has not made any sharp turns on the issues identified in the article ~ that's just the NEA, AFSCME, NTEU and SEIU, plus GBLT oriented pressure groups, and maybe the DNC primary call list at work.
Let's say we have 5% of the country involved in just those few groups. If they always answer polls 100% of the time, and the average random sample poll has 1000 respondents, they'd provide 50 answers. The 9% normal response would come from the other 95% of the people sampled, and that'd provide 85 answers.
That'd give you 135 total answers with just the Democrat core being 35% of the total, and everybody else, including your ordinary run of the mill average Democrats and Republicans providing only 65% of the opinion.
Frankly, anyone who takes a dispassionate look at American society understands that morality does not change abruptly ~ but political issues do. 20 years ago the Democrats were not pro-gay marriage. Now the polls say they are ~ maybe even mandatory gay marriage.
50 years ago Democrats were pro national defense. Now the polls say they would rather open the borders up to the world ~ billions of people in fact. Seriously? They went from thinking highly of their own country and now they want to trash it? Or, is that more a result of faulty polling and easily misled (alcoholic and drug using) party leaders?
Bump for Bishop Jackson.
May America raise up tens of thousands like him.
Before it is too late.
bfl
Jackson is fantastic, and the libs hate him with a passion. We conservative Virginians love him. I preferred him over Cain as a Repub candidate for POTUS, but he didn’t have the experience.
Hopefully we can watch him get elected, then go on to becoming governor - then a solid candidate for Pres.
But, as Star said, the real wrath won’t be from the libs and media as much as the Carl Rove/McCain/Romney wing of the GOP. That will be his real hurdle.
I voted for EW Jackson on all 4 ballots at our convention.
Amen!
Star Parker is awesome.
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