‘Not “Conservative” Enough?’
by JB Williams (11/19/08)
Under the myopic mantra of “not conservative enough,” the nation just rejected its best known American hero and real Washington watch-dog and elected the most inexperienced far left freshman member of the U.S. Senate, aka the elitist good ole boy network, as Commander-in-Chief.
Despite the fact that John McCain has a history of being “conservative” on 16 of 20 national issues (80%), according to too many “conservatives,” he was not conservative enough to gain their support in the 2008 general election, even after bringing conservative Washington outsider Sarah Palin aboard.
So, “conservatives” put Barack Hussein Obama and leftist Democrats in full control of all branches of the federal government, guaranteeing a free ride over the next four years for the most far left agenda in history. This, they saw as a “conservative” move…
McCain has a long record of being very “conservative” on the following issues…
* Abortion (The unalienable right to life)
* Affirmative Action (The unalienable right to individual liberty)
* School Prayer (Free religious expression)
* Death Penalty (The rule of law)
* Three Strike Sentencing (Firm enforcement)
* The Second Amendment (Gun rights)
* Private Health Care (not socialized medicine)
* Privatizing Social Security (Economic liberty)
* School Choice (Educational liberty)
* Drug Enforcement (Tough on crime)
* Less Punitive Taxation (Economic freedom)
* Free Trade (Expanding GDP)
* Local Community Based Welfare Assistance (End of the nanny state)
* Strengthened Military and National Security (National sovereignty and security)
* Strengthened Intelligence Operations (Defending America from all enemies)
* Winning the War on Terror (Keeping Americans safe)Conservatives had an opportunity to “conserve” American principles and values in all of these areas in the 2008 election and they decided not to conserve any of them. Instead, they voted “against” John McCain and put an administration in power which stands on the wrong side of all 16 issues.
McCain strayed from GOP family values in these four areas…
* Homosexual Rights (A state issue already handled by 28 states)
* The Global Warming Swindle (A matter of uncertain science)
* Immigration (A problem made worse by Reagan)
* Campaign Finance Reform (First Amendment Rights, but also a serious issue of corruption)Because McCain has been wrong on these four issues in the past, “conservatives” revolted against the GOP candidate in massive numbers and threw the other sixteen issues under the bus, many of which were of far greater priority than anything on this very short list.
On this basis, I charge that it is self-styled “conservatives” who are “not conservative enough” to protect and preserve the constitution of the United States of America today.
What were they thinking?
Some thought that Obama was as conservative as McCain. They will soon learn just how wrong they were.
Others clearly thought that the four issues McCain sided with the left on were of greater importance than the sixteen issues on which he opposed leftists.
Some didn’t know that McCain was 80% conservative on the issues, focused only on the four issues on which he was “not conservative enough.”
Some think that tossing the nation into a left-wing tailspin will result in a giant leap to the right in 2010 or 2012. They are willing to endure 2 to 4 years of Obammunism in the hopes that it will shock Americans back to their pro-American senses.
Others have trouble even defining what “conservative” means today.
In all cases, these self-styled “conservatives” were dead wrong in their judgments and the price of their gross ignorance will be heavy. Barack Hussein Obama is opposed to everything conservatives believe in and claim to care about and he will control ALL branches of the federal government. On the same list of national issues, Obama has voted moderate on only one of the twenty. He has the most far left voting record in the U.S. Senate on the other nineteen…
Blind Conservative Fantasies
Self-styled “conservatives” took three courses of action in the 2008 election.
* Huge numbers stayed home on Election Day
* A few drifted to multiple third party alternatives
* Many crossed over and voted for Obama in outright ignoranceOver 126 million votes were cast in the 2008 presidential contest, 4 million more than in 2004 and almost 20 million more than 2000.
Barack Hussein Obama won 66.7 million votes to McCain’s 58.2 million votes. The race was nowhere near close. Obama won with an 8,481,030 vote margin and yet almost no Obama voter can tell you exactly what they think Obama can or will do for them. “Change” is the only answer you will get and not even Obama himself can define that word.
It was a banner year for Democrat voter turnout. But some estimate that as many as 30% of registered Republicans simply didn’t even bother to show up on Election Day.
The Third Party Impact
All third party votes combined only equaled 1.3% of the national vote.
* Ralph Nader did the best with 697,251 - or .6% of the vote
* Libertarian Bob Barr was next with only 510,570 – or .4% of the vote
* Constitution Party’s Chuck Baldwin got 181,796 – or .1% of the vote
* Green Party’s McKinney got 152,292 – or .1% of the vote
* Write-in candidates totaled 103,418 – or less than .1% of the voteIf all of these 1,645,327 third party voters had voted for McCain, the race still would not have been close. Combined, they have the power (or lack thereof) of 1.3% of the voting population…
If you remove Nader and McKinney, neither of whom will ever get a single conservative voter, then the number shrinks to 692,366 alleged “conservative” voters, or only .5% of the national vote.
So, what impact did the third party initiatives have on the 2008 election cycle?
Like the MSM played a vital role in convincing Americans that Obama was black instead of Arab, a centrist instead of a communist, self-styled “conservative” wackos that number only .5% of the national vote, were very effective in the propaganda war against John McCain which left many Republicans convinced that a man who had been 80% or more conservative all of his life, was “not conservative enough” for them in 2008.
The baseless anti-Republican rhetoric throughout the campaign season confused a lot of Republican and even conservative Democrat voters into believing that there was no significant difference between John McCain and Barack Obama. How dead wrong they were… as they will soon learn the hard way.
As a result, a record number of Republican voters either stayed home or crossed party lines in revolt against a floundering GOP.
Not “Conservative” Enough?
People who refused to “conserve” 16 of 20 vital American issues when given the chance, have NO business defining the term “conservative,” especially when they number only .5% of the national vote.
Frankly, these are the kinds of “conservatives” that the Republican Party is better off without!
What is “Conservative” Enough?
The .5% of nutty so-called “conservative” extremists can’t even agree on what is or isn’t “conservative.” But they are few and as long as they remain myopic and outside of the mainstream discussion, they will remain irrelevant, so long as they are ignored by all others. Our only mistake in 2008 was not ignoring them in the general election… Internal dissent is for the primaries.
As the GOP – RNC is the official “conservative” Party in America; it is up to rank and file Republicans to define what it is to be “conservative.”
Clearly, RNC leadership has lost sight of founding party principles and values and heads must roll. Going forward, rank and file Republicans, true pro-American conservatives will have to redefine what the terms “conservative” and “Republican” mean in the 21 century.
Dictionary.com says that conservative is as follows…
1. disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
This line borders on ridiculous. Conditions are ever changing, as are institutions used to meet new challenges. No “conservative” opposes “change” in conditions or institutions. Change is a necessity of life. Nobody knows this better than conservatives. The question is what kinds of change? Not all change is necessary or for that matter, for the better.
2. having the power or tendency to conserve; preservative.
This line is much more accurately stated. To be “conservative” is to seek to “conserve” or “preserve” something of great value.
In the case of American conservatives, they are seeking to “conserve” and “preserve” some things of vital interest to America’s future existence, peace and prosperity.
Namely, those “unalienable” American rights to Life, individual Liberty and the unbridled individual pursuit of Happiness, as can only be defined by the individual, not voting blocs or some central power.
It is no more complicated than that. Individual liberty and happiness are of no value to anyone who is not first guaranteed a fundamental right to life itself. There is no “greater good” on earth than the greatness of individual freedom and liberty.
Conservatives understand this and they seek to protect and preserve these vital principles and values, along with the written rule of law established in the Constitution of the United States.
To be “conservative” is to respect and seek to “conserve” and “preserve” these things.
The founders made it possible to “change” any of them as changing times might demand. They provided for an amendment process through which “the people” are free to make any changes they like.
It is when congress or the courts overstep their limited powers and tread on “the people” and the constitution that conservatives rise up against such movements. You will witness this first hand as Obammunism struggles to gain a stranglehold on the people and their earned property.
Conservatives understand that in order to be free, we must defend the freedom of others, because no one can remain free in a vacuum, surrounded by the enslaved.
This is my definition of “conservative.” The Republican Party must return to these simple tenets to regain my support. I suspect that there are many Americans of all political stripes who would agree…
If so, this is the message that must be sent to RNC and GOP leadership and rank and file Republicans must retake control of their party leadership before they can regain control of anything else…
As for the .5% of voters who were too blind to see the difference between McCain and Obama, stay tuned… You will see the difference shortly!
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