Principles vs. Politics: Conservatives in the Crossfire
By JB Williams (06/10/08)
At a time when American voters have been sold the bill of goods known as "Democratic Socialism," the nanny states promise to solve personal problems at the expense of freedom and liberty for the 50% of Americans who pay taxes, conservatives find themselves caught in the crossfire of a centrist campaign season.
What happens next may decide the foreseeable future of a nation on the brink of the worst possible kind of “change.”
Centrist McCain
Conservatives are angry over McCain’s less than conservative positions on numerous issues important to conservative voters. But running against the most extreme left member of the Senate, Barack Obama, they can expect McCain to continue his appeal to liberal Democrats, namely those who supported Hillary Clinton in the DNC primaries.
To win, McCain must carry most Republicans and some Democrats this fall. In order to do that, he must run a campaign that appeals to the centrists in both camps. This is where the rubber meets the road for conservatives, as McCain swaps conservative principles and values for political expediency, at a time when many conservatives are already fed up with political expediency over conservative principles.
Leftist Obama
No member of congress has a more solid record of opposing all American principles and values. Barack Obama is without doubt the most unqualified candidate ever to seek the Oval Office and even potential running mate Hillary Clinton has spent the last year and a half pointing that out to Democrat voters. But even worse, he is without question the most anti-American candidate to ever seek the most powerful office in the free world.
Under duress from party powers, Hillary Clinton has suspended her campaign. But she has not yet ended her candidacy, nor has she released her hard earned delegates to the Obama camp. She has made it very clear that she would like to be the Vice Presidential running mate, just in case Obama has an untimely Vince Foster moment, and maintaining her bargaining chips may help her in that effort.
But even an Obama-Clinton ticket may be more nightmare than dream.
Dream or Nightmare?
Symbolism over substance has been the hallmark of liberalism for decades. Some liberals are far more concerned with “making history” than with doing something in the interest of freedom and liberty for future generations. What better opportunity than to elect the nations first “black” (half black) president and “female” (feminazi) vice president all in one sweep?
But most liberals are just looking for the best leftist to represent their march towards democratic socialism, and both Obama and Clinton are field generals of the socialist revolution in America. Combined, they really do represent a “dream ticket” for American socialists.
That means that they also represent a “nightmare” for every other American, who still believes in personal freedom, individual liberty, self-determination and the unalienable right to Life itself.
A Nightmare of Another Sort
No self respecting American could ever support Obama for president. So, look how many self-loathing Americans are…
But McCain represents a nightmare of another sort. While McCain is far to the right of Obama, that ain’t saying much, since so was Karl Marx. Only Lenin and Stalin can be honestly described as left of Obama.
As a result, even McCain represents an undesirable shift leftward. Bush, the “compassionate” conservative has proven to be far left of those who elected him. McCain is left of Bush…
What’s a Conservative to Do?
Is McCain lying when he panders to the left on the Global Warming Scam, or on legalizing illegal migration, or on refusing to ask known terrorists when and where the next 9/11 might be in a serious way?
I’m afraid not… I believe that McCain actually buys into these and other insane left-wing notions. And that’s why he will likely have as many Democrat as Republican supporters this fall.
Democrats, who realize just how insane it is to run from the world wide war on terror and invite the war to our own streets by pandering to the most brutal international nuts, will not be able to vote for Obama or Clinton or both. They will vote for McCain by default, as will most centrist Republicans.
But where will the conservative base of the Republican Party be come November?
Limited Choices
Is teaching the RNC another Ross Perot lesson more important the keeping Obama out of the Oval Office?
There are two schools of thought among conservatives. The natural default position for most conservatives will be to conserve that which can be conserved in this election. They will reluctantly accept a McCain, whom they agree with only 65% of the time, as opposed to Obama whom they disagree with 1000% of the time.
But the other school of thought is that the time has come to throw America into shock treatment by allowing the worst candidate to ever seek the White House to spend four years destroying America so that the political pendulum will swing hard right after experiencing the disaster sure to follow the election of an anti-American socialist Muslim while at war with anti-American socialist Muslims around the globe.
Even I can make a sincere case for the second school of thought. Americans often have to be forced to action by extreme circumstances.
Had Bush come to the people on 9/10/01 and asked for their support in a preemptive strike against Al Qaeda, nobody would have offered any such support. But 24 hours later, with 3000 innocent American citizens dead, our financial centers in ruin and the Pentagon scrambling to get their arms around the greatest attack ever on American soil, Americans were in the mood for war.
That was almost seven years ago, a lifetime in America’s fast paced “what have you done for me lately” world. The focus on national security is all but gone. The average American voter has returned to life as usual in the absence of further attacks. Gifts from the federal treasury top the list of priorities once again.
What Principles?
Can throwing America under the bus in order to teach McCain and the RNC a lesson, be considered a conservative principled approach to the 2008 election? A selfish extremist approach, yes… but conservative or principled? NO!
It amounts to nothing more than a childish temper tantrum, unfortunately, with potentially disastrous consequences. It assumes that there will be something left to fix when Obama is finished and that is a really bad assumption.
People intent upon this strategy are not seeking to “conserve” anything. It is a destructive measure, a form of killing the cancer patient rather than cutting out or treating the cancer.
Even though it might feel good, or principled, the results will be neither. I have counted on conservatives to do the right thing all of my life and I hope America can still rely upon conservatives, even when they must do the less than desirable, in order to do the best available.
Liberals are known for their childish emotion driven tantrums. God help us if conservatives now suffer the same mental defect.
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