Tattletale Pranks and Kindergarten Pursuits

12 September, 2008 | joanie-f

[joanie-f]

Most conservatives decry the ‘bread and circuses’ atmosphere of modern politics, principally because the consistent focus on meaningless pursuits takes the citizens’ focus away from the important issues … even crises … that must be considered, and faced, if we are to remain a free society.

Our Founders continually warned that liberty, and the republican form of government that is best suited to ensure it, can only be maintained through an informed citizenry.

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, are necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties.

Many of us consider the ‘bread and circuses’ nature of modern American society to be most frequently exhibited in our adulation of the Hollywood crowd, professional sports figures, and reality programming, the accumulation of creature comforts, the me-oriented nature of the citizenry, the need to ‘be entertained’, etc. … with an incremental de-emphasis on genuine heroes, the importance of personal character and responsibility, and a sense of civic duty ... which includes being educated about our history, and concerned about our future as a free society.

I completely agree that all of the above trends have increased in intensity over the past fifty years, and that, if they continue to gain momentum, our very lives, liberties and sovereignty as a nation are in grave danger.

A sub-level of this toxic trend has become glaringly apparent over the past few weeks of the election campaign.

Our republic is facing potentially deadly crises the likes of which there is no historical precedent:

• the specter of Islamic fascism
• the mass invasion of illegal immigrants across our borders
• the growing national debt and debasing of our currency
• the nationalization of an increasing number of businesses and services that were once private enterprise
• the growth of the entitlement mentality
• the disintegration of the nuclear family
• the burdensome tax structure
• the incremental, open-ended theft of our liberties and prosperity by the hoax known as ‘global warming/environmentalism'
• the economic and political power of trial lawyers over virtually every aspect of our lives
• the anti-capitalist crusade that permeates much of American politics/academia/media
• the purposeful dismantling of the finest healthcare system in the history of mankind, via the incremental imposition of socialist/universal health programs, the over-regulation of the insurance industry, the demonizing of drug companies, and the allowing, even encouraging, of frivolous lawsuits
• the protection under law of the murder of more than a million unborn children every year
• corruption, and the unbridled power of special interests, in the highest levels of government
• a judiciary that has usurped legislative powers and subjectively interprets the Constitution
• the incremental loss of religious freedom, and the gradual removal of God from the national conscience

... and on and on, ad infinitum ...

One would think that, with one of the (if not the) most crucial presidential elections in the history of our republic approaching in fewer than eight weeks, the crises mentioned above would be foremost on the minds of every American who intends to step into the voting booth on November 4th. And, even more importantly, one would think that the American media (the self-appointed purveyors of information and education) would be hard at work seeking, and reporting, the candidates’ opinions on, and proposed solutions to, all of the above.

Yet what do we predominantly see and hear in all of our media outlets? What are we being subliminally told is of utmost importance in this crucial election?

• whether one candidate did or did not call another candidate a pig
• whether one candidate does or does not know how many houses he owns
• Susan Sarandon’s, Tim Robbins’ or Matt Damon’s expert opinions of the candidates
• the various sticks-and-stones labels being applied to a candidate by members of the other party
• which candidate has agreed to appear on Saturday Night Live
• whether Russia is really visible from Alaska
• whether Todd Palin’s DUI of twenty-two years ago has any relevance to Sarah’s candidacy ... and on and on, ad infinitum ...

Many of my conservative friends, all of whom are true patriots, have voiced the opinion over the past few days that they are glad Barack Obama and the left are ‘getting a taste of their own medicine’ via the production of the new RNC ad that plays off of Obama’s lipstick/pig gaffe, and they are pleased with all of the attention his gaffe, whether innocent or purposeful, is receiving.

I could not possibly disagree more vehemently.

By producing such an ad, and even debating Obama’s intent – indeed, by even giving credence to this story – conservatives are accomplishing three fatal outcomes:

(1) they are legitimizing the bread and circus atmosphere in this election process
(2) they are stealing a worthless page out of the left’s playbook
(3) they are spending major campaign funds on nonsense advertising that would be better spent educating the public about issues of critical importance to our republic

On my list of 'Things I Want the Voting Public to Know about Barack Obama That the Media Aren't Reporting', there are 8,563 items ahead of the fact that he may (or may not) have referred to his opponent as a pig.

I think the McCain campaign, and the RNC, should be telling us about those 8,563 things in their campaign ads, and leave the lipstick remark to those who believe it has some importance in the grand scheme of things. The fact that they have wasted the donations of loyal Republicans on such nonsense is infuriating to me.

The media, academia, and the political left profit from such abject stupidity. It allows them to fill the airwaves with such drivel, and to scrupulously avoid discussion of Barack Obama’s dark, longstanding connections to anti-American zealots and his agenda to impose his Marxist/black separatist ideology on a populace that has been programmed to be preoccupied with ‘looking the other way’.

Half of the American electorate is ready to put such a man in the White House. And I believe that ninety percent of that group possesses no real knowledge of his infamous background or his ultra-left-leaning agenda.

Why have so many of our countrymen fallen into such an ignorant stupor? Because, for fifty years, we have allowed the leftists in the media, our institutions of ‘higher education’, and Hollywood to incrementally turn our focus away from the enemy within ... and toward tattletale pranks and kindergarten pursuits.

I don't give a rat's patoot what derogatory label one candidate may affix to another. What I do care about is whether that candidate intends to dismantle the noble foundations upon which my country was built.

And the media be damned.

We're going to pay a terrible price for allowing ourselves to be so pliant in the hands of those who most certainly do not have our best interests at heart.

~ joanie

[narses]

You have a choice EternalVigilance, the MOST pro-life ticket the GOP ha ever tendered or not. Choose. What will it be?

Obama Doesn’t Want His Daughters Punished with a Baby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNzmly28Bmg

CNN on Obama’s Infant Born Alive Act Rejection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPZCXcTwZPY

Jill Stanek on Obama and Born Alive Infant Protection Act (MUST SEE)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdbYjmbFzo

Obama Cover-up Revealed On Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Bill

http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/ObamaCoverup.html

Explosive Audio Found Obama arguing against BAIPA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDwNpgIUQc

Babies left to die!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdbYjmbFzo

[TigersEye]

Do you believe that states have a right to "legalize" murder?

That's not the point and you know it. All state's laws must comply with the Constitution, as per the Constitution, and the Constitution, properly interpreted, protects the right to life.

[narses]

You have a choice EternalVigilance, the MOST pro-life ticket the GOP has ever tendered or not. Choose. What will it be? Well? Are you letting your vision of the “perfect” prevent the “good” from working? Who did you want, Romney? Paul?

[EternalVigilance]

Now, who are you going to vote for this election?

I'll be voting for Independents Alan Keyes for President and Brian Rohrbough for Vice-President. I'll be voting for Republicans for the U.S. Senate and Congress, not because they're Republicans but because they are proven conservatives. Below that on the ballot I'm still looking the candidates over.

Are you going to sit there behind your keyboard and tell me that this isn't my right? Are you going to question my conscience's dictate that it is my duty before God to vote for the candidates that I believe will adhere to the fundamental godly premises that this nation was built on?

I very nearly don't recognize this place any more.

[EternalVigilance]

You have a choice EternalVigilance, the MOST pro-life ticket the GOP has ever tendered or not.

That's just an outright falsehood.

[EternalVigilance]

That's not the point and you know it. All state's laws must comply with the Constitution, as per the Constitution, and the Constitution, properly interpreted, protects the right to life.

What do you mean? The point I made is exactly the point that you proceeded to make.

[EternalVigilance]

In fact, you are ensuring a dramatic increase in their numbers.

Even if this were a numbers game, and it's not (the devil would be just as happy with one murdered child a year if the whole country is willing to serve evil to get the numbers that low) the fact is that the numbers of abortions in this country under Obama and McCain will be pretty much exactly the same. Neither one of them has any commitment to ending abortion in this country.

[narses]

“I very nearly don’t recognize this place any more.”

Really! That is because you confuse this with your own personal vision. Keyes? Way funny. He lost to Obama badly. Why? Because he is a lousy campaigner. Yet you will not only throw your own vote away (absolutely your right) you will come here and make water all over the best ticket the GOP has ever tendered on the issue of life. That is why your vision is so cloudy.

Maybe you need to start your own website? A working title might be “The Perfect Republic” or “My Private Perfection”. BTW, the odds of Keyes getting qualified on the ballot as an independent in enough states to even have a theoretical opportunity to win are somewhere between “slim” and “none”. Therefore your vote will be wasted in the extreme. But you knew that, didn’t you?

Now, I will ask, with respect, that you cease bashing the GOP candidates on this website. Capisce?

[EternalVigilance]

A President who will appoint judges who will not allow the voters to decide to ban any type of abortion, including partial birth abortion – who voted NO on prohibiting minors to cross state lines for abortions, who voted NO on notifying parents of such abortions, and who voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive.

And McCain voted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for Planned Parenthood. Arguments over degrees of evil just don't cut it. Evil is evil and Christians have a scriptural duty not to promote or support evil in any degree.

[EternalVigilance]

Now, I will ask, with respect, that you cease bashing the GOP candidates on this website. Capisce?

This is an independent conservative website, not a Republican website. How did you miss that simple fact?

[narses]

I said:

You have a choice EternalVigilance, the MOST pro-life ticket the GOP has ever tendered or not.

You replied:

That’s just an outright falsehood.

Again you are blind. You have chosen “...or not.” that is your choice. Claiming that my statement is a lie is wrong. Your choice - vote for McCain/Palin or don’t. It is a binary choice. You choose to vote against the McCain/Palin ticket. That makes you the opposition. Get it?

[EternalVigilance]

Why? Because he is a lousy campaigner.

Clinton, in worldly terms, was a great campaigner. So, did you support him?

[EternalVigilance]

That makes you the opposition. Get it?

Oh, I get it.

[TigersEye]

I think it's rather funny. The press has been trying to force her into defending herself as if she is the Pres. candidate. The 0bama campaign has fallen into that meme and has been attacking and defending on the same basis. Palin seems to be the only one who isn't confused about it but she gladly knocks their knuckle balls out of the park even though she's not up to bat. McCain has just stepped back and watched with a big smile on his face.

The more the press runs Palin vs 0bama the more the public is going to wonder if 0bama even knows what end of the ticket he's on. And the more the public will see that the press is a joke.

[narses]

“This is an independent conservative website, not a Republican website. How did you miss that simple fact?”

Well EternalVigilance, let’s ask the owner, shall we? The GOP has given us the most pro-life ticket ever. You have chosen to oppose them and attack them here on this website.

You have chosen to promote here on FreeRepublic a candidate (Alan Keyes) who LOST the race for GOP then switched to the Constitution Party and LOST again and then chose the route of true spoiler in the “independent” game.

Jim, is that what you want?

[EternalVigilance]

Again, your claim that this is “the most pro-life ticket ever” is an outright lie.

[EternalVigilance]

You have chosen to oppose them and attack them here on this website.

You're sounding like the whiners on the Left. I've simply pointed out how McCain and Palin egregiously depart from the Reagan pro-life personhood plank.

[TigersEye]

...but then, having read the thread replies before replying myself, I see nothing on the thread but defense of moderation, and the suggestion to the more Conservative voices hereon that they should be the ones to compromise.

Are you sure you have been reading this thread?

[narses]

“Again, your claim that this is “the most pro-life ticket ever” is an outright lie.”

Nope. Then again you keep calling me a liar, you keep attacking the poster of this thread, you keep attacking McCain and Palin. What is it that you think you are doing?

[EternalVigilance]

I would never attack joanie. She’s a wonderful person. Again you mischaracterize my remarks.