Posted on 10/04/2014 6:20:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last week I wrote about why the 2014 election has generated the least amount of energy or buzz of any in my lifetime. Now I’m writing to make the case the 2014 election is far more important than many of us realize.
Sadly, not much remains of our precious constitutional republic. Pandora’s Box has been opened, and the Marxist progressive contagion is spreading. Loss of the rule of law, “too big to fail,” Obamacare, $17 trillion in debt, incentivized immorality, and political correctness are threatening to do what our foreign enemies could not—dismantle American Exceptionalism.
It’s rare in world history for a great nation to recover its virtue once it’s been lost, which is why I ultimately believe we have no hope to recover without revival. Similar to those historic Great Awakenings that gave birth to our liberty in the first place. In the meantime, we pray like it’s up to Him and we fight like it’s up to us.
Our ability to continue that fight with any expectation of winning could be on the line this year, because if the Republicans lose on November 4th all-out amnesty and an unprecedented onslaught against religious liberty/free speech will commence. And those are the only two fronts remaining that allow us to play offense and pushback against Obamaism in the future.
I write this as someone who is as critical and disdainful of the GOP establishment as any conservative commentator out there. However, with the Democrats’ evolution from a liberal party to a Marxist Leftist party now complete, they have proven there is nothing remaining in that party’s leadership that respects and reveres any of our first principles.
Evidence forthcoming.
This week Conservative Review debuted (full disclosure: I’m on the editorial team there), with the intent of holding Washington, D.C. accountable to conservative principles regardless of party. Check out our Liberty Scorecard for Democrats in the House and Senate. The score is calculated on each member’s 50 most important votes on fiscal, social, and defense issues over the last six years from a constitutional conservative perspective. The highest ranking Democrat in the Senate is Sen. Edward Markey, and he’s voted for American Exceptionalism only 18% of the time. No Democrats in the House have voted constitutionally more than 46 percent of the time.
Those paltry scores mean Democrats in Washington no longer just disagree with us on the application of our Constitution, they now oppose the Constitution itself.
Make no mistake, most of the Republican leadership is also pro-amnesty is as well. But our ability to hold their feet to the fire on the issue is the only reason the “gang of 8” scam didn’t happen last year, and we don’t have full-bore amnesty already. True, the Marxist in the White House may just do it via executive fiat regardless of November’s outcome, but there’s a far better chance of undoing amnesty in that scenario then if the lawlessness passes lawfully.
Why is holding the line on amnesty so important? It’s the greatest Democrat Party voter drive of all time. Register millions of more Democrat voters and every issue conservatives and libertarians prioritize is suddenly imperiled. Imagine exporting what’s happened to California post-1986 amnesty exported next to Texas, and then eventually the rest of the country. We won’t be able to win a national election in our lifetimes.
Game. Over.
Furthermore, religious liberty/free speech is the linchpin of our constitutional framework, because the Declaration of Independence articulates the vision that makes a people free: there is a God, our rights come from Him and not government, and therefore government’s only role is to protect/preserve those God-given rights.
Remove religious liberty/free speech from our society, and you remove from the public sphere the institution that equips our culture to acknowledge the God our rights come from. That means government becomes the source of our rights, not man made in the image of God, and what government giveth government can taketh away. Minus acknowledgement of God you have tyranny, because there is no power higher than government to hold government in check.
Good luck negotiating your freedom with a government that wants control. Welcome to human history pretty much everywhere else other than here.
Again, too many Republicans have gone soft on this issue, too. For example, the past two Republican presidential nominees urged Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to veto a bill that reaffirms the First Amendment earlier this year. But again, there are enough constitutional conservatives remaining in the GOP to hold the Democrats at bay for now, and the Democrats proved post-Hobby Lobby they oppose the First Amendment.
Finally, look at the lawlessness we’ve seen from Obamaism with a Republican-controlled House to (barely) hold him in check. Imagine what we’d see with Democrat control of the legislative branch, and Obama no longer restrained whatsoever by the will of the people. The only reason Obama hasn’t done executive amnesty already is Democrats on the ballot this year urged him not to before the election, out of fear it could create a voter backlash.
Making the feckless Ditch McConnell Senate Majority Leader isn’t a cause for celebration, but it does buy us some time in the hopes that come 2016 a true champion for liberty can be elected to the highest office in the land.
Bush?
The last hope to restore sanity and save civilization from the leftist window-lickers and muslim throw-backs?
Correct, but staying home or voting for some third party candidate will not restore sanity and save civilization
Go vote but keep the powder dry also.
Right, but voting for RINO's who vote for/enact/support/legislate Democrat party policy will.
(/barf....)
What’s at stake? Not a whole lot. The GOP doesn’t control the WH (and probably wont for a few generations even if it survives that long).
Now 2016 ... THAT’s an important election. The most important thing about that one is not the WH so much as holding back Dim Congressional gains.
Here is one possibility http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/klayman-files-for-deportation-of-barack-obama/
No. But outing for Uniparty RINOcrats will. In your dreams. Even now McCain is promising to get back to 60 votes and expediting Obama’s nominations.
Show me ONE CASE where the Republican Party has held Obama in check.
They HAVE NOT.
If John Boehner and the Republican House had one iota of Conservative Common Sense, they'd have realized long ago that they hold the checkbook, they appropriate the funds, they could've NOT FUNDED one single part of Obamacare and there would've been NOTHING Obama or Harry Reid could've done about it.
"File a lawsuit?" BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! Go ahead! It'll take YEARS for it to work it's way through the courts and still have the net effect of NOT FUNDING Obamacare for years.
Fact is this: The Republican Party in Congress hasn't challenged or stood their ground on a SINGLE ISSUE since 2006! That's before Obama was even elected!
So pardon me while I refuse to vote for a inept, incompetent, GOP-E dominated party that's not just good for nothing, it's a shell organization for the Democrat Party!
Those of you who want to keep voting for the corruption that is the R's and D's in Washington DC go right on ahead. You'll do it without me, and those of us who stick to our principles (something YOU and the Republican GOP-E know nothing about -- principles!)
FIRST PRIORITY:
ELECT CONSERVATIVES
If that fails
BOOT OUT THE DEMOCRATS
Barf on yourself
You’re wrong. The 2014 election is just as important as the 2016 election
Staying home, or voting for a third party candidate will not achieve that.
I agree.
That's why I always vote.
I tell people that their gripping cannot be taken seriously if they haven't voted.
then what is your solution (or suggest we do) oh wise one?
i keep seeing the argument, either STAY HOME NO VOTE, or GO VOTE, but NO RINO votes or NO Inde votes or def NO DEM votes, so i ask WHAT IS LEFT? WHAT TO DO? there are NO TRUE CONSERVATIVES in the majority of the upcoming elections? so i ask again WTH are we supposed to do!?!
Mike
I have never missed an election since the first time I voted in 1980 and I have never voted for a rat and never will. The same for my husband. We both registered in 1979
Loss of the rule of law
Over 5 years and counting all is caused by the democrat party.
I disagree. The most important election of our lifetime was the 2008 Republican Primary. When that was co-opted by the press and liberal Republicans, it was game over.
Incorrect.
But with liberals pretending to be Republicans, I'm not expecting much change.
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