I am alive and kicking and the fall of conservatism will not necessarily change that.  But consider this. We only infrequently discuss the failing values of the leaders of conservatism, and therefore conservatism itself.  And the result is that we are all now ineffectually looking at the political landscape that affects our lives and our world, from the outside.  This is because we have learned to have little to say.  We are right, and a plurality of people agree with us, but because of "POLITICS", it's not how things are voted or focused.  What's right is not the issue, it's how to keep a fragment of values in this country, in the face of the onslaught.  We have been relegated to a voting block that is just one player.  And guess what?  This is what those who define conservatism think of us, "THEY WILL VOTE FOR US ANYWAY.  WHAT CHOICE HAVE THEY GOT."  That is what the Republican Party thinks of us now.  In other words, we only matter enough to get a bone once in a while.

But as a conservative guy on a computer, I'm still alive.  Just what would I need type here to get people to sit up and listen to what I have to say?  Everyone just keeps cheering on an 80% liberal just because he's not as bad as the other socialist.  That is where we stand.

I even see this compromise mentality from the big names on Townhall.  And despite this forum, if I wrote the best piece that says it all, still only a handful of real conservatives are going to agree with me and stand with me, while compromisers ridicule us for not chucking our values for some half losing strategy.  Just read the responses to some of my blogs.

I just want everyone to stop for one minute and evaluate how we got to this compromised situation with our Republican presidential candidates they way they are. 

I was a young man, but I remember saying to myself and others that conservatism is doomed when the Republican Party announced it would adopt the policy of Big Tent Republicanism. To make their foolish point, they went strait out and announced that they were going to seek the support of the Log Cabin Republicans.

From then on, members just got worse and worse and now many are either flat out liberals.  And the remainder stand around talking like math teachers. "Well - now - there - seems - ah - to - ah - be - ah - some - miscalculation.  We're - going - to - need - to - show - some - restraint - in - this."   Thinking - "big words, big words, that's what impresses people. They think we are really mature when we do this."
 
Even if I died (yes very extremist. sorry) like an American Revolutionary in the struggle to give my children a more free future, someone might notice.  But not enough. The list of martyrs is long and forgotten, and we don't even pay attention to them anymore. Just a simple few examples, Terry Shiavo, Ramos and Compion, Waco, Juanita Broaddrick, land owners with the preeble mouse, and on and on.  What happened to them?  Why couldn't we help them?  Conservatism failed them.  These are a very small recognizable few from an enormous list, and they are all liberal victories.   And liberal powers are not waning, but still growing daily.

The system is now innately anti-values, anti-God, anti-family, anti-hero, anti-freedom, and pro-perversion, pro-injustice, pro-defenselessness, pro-poverty, and all of it is touted as fair, righteous and noble.  And the Republican Party has gone along with all of this to avoid what?  Name-calling?  Ridicule?  Finger-pointing?  The conflict itself?  Losing their fortunes or their lives?  (Whoa!  Let's not get too extreme here Tanglelad.  This isn't the 18th century you know.  We do things differently nowadays.)

If we had a John Hancock, someone with some credibility in this fight who truly is willing to lay it all on the line, then we might be able to get people to sit up and listen. That's how it always works when it gets to this point of injustices and control of the people, their property and their means. There were plenty of these in the Revolution, that and God are the only reasons it worked.

Everyone can go back to their soap opera politics of compromise now.  But I can't.  I'm not right about all things, but I'm right about this.  I sometimes hear the question "What would Reagan do?"  I have to ask, "What would the founders do?"

Today, I would just get to hear this answer to all I've said:  "What do you expect us to do, march on Washington with a copy of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence taped to our guns?  The media would have a field day!"

I'm a conservative after the likes of Ben Franklin, George Washington, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock.  I know this because of the things I say out loud and in print.

Who are you in the likeness of?

Conservatism finds its place in how the liberals define us. We don't want to be seen as extremists. We don't want to be labeled as hypocrites or hateful.  I'm sorry for my color, I'm sorry Jesus offends you, I'm sorry I said "fat", I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!

But even among the Republican bastion for conservatives we are scolded for not knowing our place.  For standing on our principles we get told to shut up and sit down.

"You're going to make sure Obama wins if you don't vote McCain."

That mentality is the very reason we don't have someone up there who is a real conservative.  The Republican party used to rest on three legs.  Now it's sixteen china plates spinning on little sticks and there's no one interested in keeping them all up.

The compromise mentality that has gotten us here today will have these political calculators saying in 8 years "You're going to make sure Stalin wins if you don't vote for Hillary."

Everyone who continues down this line has no idea what it means to have principles and to stand firm in the faith.

It makes me want to say back to them, "Shut up and sit down. You're making me sick to my stomach!"

Comment on: Drexel Kleber, host of Kicking the Anthill

The Rise of Conservatism

I was a young man, but I remember saying to myself and others that we were doomed as a philosophy when the Republican Party announced it would adopt the policy of Big Tent Republicanism. To make their foolish point, they went strait out and announced that they were going to seek the support of the Log Cabin Republicans.

From then on, members just got worse and worse and now many are either flat out liberals or they have their tails between their legs saying, "Nancy, you can't get rid of all of us. That's not fair. Please!"

And the remainder stand around talking with all the charisma of math teachers. "Well - now - there - seems - ah - to - ah - be - ah - some - miscalculation. We're - ah - going - ah - to - need - to - show - some - restraint - in - this."   Thinking - "big words and high-brow speach, that's what impresses people. They think we are really mature when we do this."

Even with Congress at their lowest approval in history, the libs are still laughing their heads off. They are about to control congress, the white house, most federal judges, most governors, all the state houses and most towns and cities, and most of the media is still a giant socialist propaganda machine.

Wake up. They are going to crush conservatism in a fury of legal and police actions the moment they get into office.  Remember Waco and what that was an attempt to do?

They are not playing badminton here. They are going to be playing hardball and their verbal machines are prepared to provide a million reinterpretations of the law to accomplish it.

The hope-without-action plan of winsome conservatives is the epitome of a pipe-dream.

 

 

Comment on: Drexel Kleber, host of Kicking the Anthill

The Rise of Conservatism

The following documentary could not be found on Townhall.  It must just be that it hasn't reached enough conservative ears to actually find it's way here until now.  I know it has been ignored as a subject by both candidates, but it sure is on my mind.  And I submit that facing the truth no matter how painful, is a foundational tenet of conservatism.

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Coming soon to a theater near you.

In order to cast my SuperVote for president, the candidate and his running mate must have the following credentials:

1 - must be a man, unless the woman can fulfill all the other requisites.  (Thatcher, Maier, etc)
2 - must have a commanding presence.
3 - must be able to contend for themselves without the over-use of emotion, or equivocation.
4 - must have a commanding understanding of US and world history.
5 - must be willing to call what is evil, evil.  Perverted, perverted.  Unrighteous, unrighteous.  etc.
6 - must call Christ their king.
7 - must be willing to hold all legislation up to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and say, "No", whether they like it or not.
8 - must love their country and its people and place them first over anyone else in the world.
9 - must be willing to throw away government, and look at it as a daily, conservative revolution.
10 - must demand that we, in our national godlessness should err on the side of life.

These are not negotiable.  So all solicitations to change these or modify them in any way are not welcome.

Replies commending my fond but unrealistic look at the principles of dead heroes are not necessary.

Whichever candidates that are particularly interested in my vote, you should be prepared to at least fulfill these ten reasonable requirements.  I will be searching for this candidate until November of this year.

America is involved in the politics of the election and the media is involved in giving China credibility.
Russia has been trying to undercut Georgian territory since CIF was formed, and now they are killing Georgians.
There is a 3 foot by 5 foot poster of Che Guevera on the wall in my daughter's school.
There is a 3 foot by 5 foot poster of Che Guevera on the wall of many Obama campaign headquarters.
Obama is in the lead and the only candidate we have is a compromised and arrogant war hero who has nothing in common with most Americans let alone conservatives, and thinks he deserves the big chair.

Jamie Lynn Spears is a pregnant 16 year old.

And conservatives are still viewed by the media and the public as extremists.

As I ponder that question, I wonder what it means to be conservative.  I mean, doesn't 'uncompromising principles' fall under the category of conservatism?  Isn't it true that compromise and political calculation are liberal institutions?

How is this for conservatism, in case it hasn't been engraved in stone?   - Do what's right and let the chips fall where they may.

Or?  - If we get a worse government as a result of not allowing ourselves to become corrupt, then we have done what we are supposed to do, my conscience is good.  God will prevail.

Any of you out there who say "I'm a conservative, but I'll vote for a liberal to stop someone who is worse", those things in your hand are called a sickle and hammer.  The stuff you are losing is called your soul, your children, your earnings and your savings.  And the things you need to do are to pull your damn pants up and stop helping the Democratic and Republican left!