Posted by
David Smith on Friday, February 08, 2008 2:57:13 PM
I haven't been on topic much lately (States' Rights), but that is because so much is going on in the current election cycle, which is really just an extension of the last one, that I've felt compelled to comment on other topics.
Brian Fitzpatrick had a nice piece on Identity Group Politics at townhall earlier today that touches on some points that I have been thinking about lately. See if you can make the logical leap between his points and mine.
Mr. Fitzpatrick makes the point that Marxists in the 1920's and following determined that they could not win their war to change the American system by converting fatcat capitalists to their philosophy, so they targeted their children! And so we see University's today as breeding grounds for Socialists and their world view. See, you can say things a certain way, highlight a problem or perceived wrong a certain way and shed a whole different light on it than in another phrasing.
And that is what I'd like to discuss in relation to the present Presidential election. I mentioned the Democratic ploy of voting in Republican primaries with the intent of arriving at a Republican nominee more favorable to the Democratic candidate winning in the general election in a previous blog. We are seeing that at play in Sen. John McCain's campaign, from all sides!
Sen. McCain ain't conservative, no matter how much lipstick he puts on! (a pig in lipstick still being a pig, get it?) He has been the beneficiary of moderate Independents voting in their States' Republican Primaries, thus gaining the moderate vote, while the conservative (i.e. Republican) vote has be largely split between Governor Romney and Governor Huckabee.
Thus, the Presidential elections of 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 have been re-played in the Republican Primary of 2008. Remember than in 1992 and 1996, the conservative vote was split just enough by the presence of Ross Perot to result in a Democrat being elected, and likewise with the liberal vote in 2000 and 2004 due to Ralph Nader's presence. The only difference today is that Mike Huckabee has robbed the conservative evangelical Christian votes that Mitt Romney needed to be able to overcome this vast influx of Independent votes and Sen. McCain's campaign.
Independents are tired of both conservatives and liberals, so who else are they going to vote for in droves? Clinton and Obama are as Marxist as they come. And Huckabee is as socially conservative and economically dunce-ical as they come. That leaves a Mormon and a liberal Republican to choose from. No offense to Gov. Romney, but from the perspective of evangelicals and Independents, that's not much to choose from.
Now, I'm in Texas, and our Primary ain't (that's isn't) until March 4th, and I had totally intended on casting my ballot for team Romney. So much for that, huh? And that from a conservative evangelical Christian...with an MBA in Finance! I know that the economy is giving us trouble and we're more likely to have someone who has made his fortune in our economy accomplish anything for the betterment of the economy than someone who admits the economy is too much for him to comprehend (McCain), or a populist (Huckabee), thus my support for Romney.
An interesting side note...I spoke with a friend last night about my disappointment in my fellow Christians in their inability to see past Gov. Romney's religious beliefs. He rightly stated, "Yeah, I mean, he's more in line with their social beliefs than anyone else in the race!" And he understands the economy--go figure!
But that is why Gov. Huckabee went from zero to the Vice Presidency...he robbed evangelicals, and that took just enough support away from Romney that McCain gets to finally back into the nomination he has lusted for since 2000.
Now, remember that in 2000, George W. Bush rode the support of conservatives to the Republican nomination. No repeat performance by the most conservative fellow in the race, Romney, thanks to the combined efforts of McCain abandoning conservative principles the last 8 years on several major items, and Huckabee, who dumbed into the support of evangelicals based not on his understanding of the Constitution or the economy, but his seminary degree.
Nice.
And all the while, the media, trained in the Socialist University system, sits back and smiles, because they have steered support in the direction of McCain, the liberal Republican, while the Democratic Party dukes it out over who is going to be their Liberal nominee. Like Texas of old, it will be an election of the two Democratic Parties...the Liberal one, and the 'conservative' one, if you will.
But there will be no true Republican in this race. And Democrats will love that. For as Ann Coulter noted yesterday, "When given a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, the People will choose the Democrat."
There's some truth in the old bag. Much more than we're getting in the Republican Primary, where the State Republican Parties need to ban Independents from participating in their nominating primaries. Sorry! I am one. I am not a registered Republican, and I would give up the right to vote in a primary in order to assure that who I would be voting for in November truly represented my conservative values, and those of the Constitution.
For all the Socialists on the Democratic side stand for is Marx and the trampling of our Constitution, and that is something that I write about quite often here!