As a registered Republican, I find myself — along with a percentage of my readers — predominantly disgusted with the Republican Party. It is one major reason I no longer contribute to the RNC and, instead, write checks solely to my local Conservative interests.
All politics is local.” -Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill
That in consideration, as my mind wanders this late Saturday night, the rain falling heavily outside, the first rain of my fall season — I reflect not only on John McCain’s current campaign but Republican politics for the, say, past eight years. And that is this:
Republicans won’t fight.
And I don’t know why.
This frustrates me, angers me, fills me with a sense of rage because, of those who know me, they realize I do not back down from a fight. I have no problem whatsoever with calling things as they are, with not becoming a doormat for the newest, hippest, most recent “thing.” I have no problem whatsoever utilizing the word “NO” in the strongest terms and backings possible.
If there’s one thing that I remember from my red-haired and -bearded high school Poli-Sci teacher at Fairmont East, Mr. Helms — and that history has reinforced election after election — it is this:
Democrats don’t win elections; Republicans lose them.
It was a truism then; it is a truism now.
I firmly believe this presidential election truly is McCain’s to win, if he would but pull out all the stops and go for the Demorat jugular. If he would but fight.
He’s already given up Michigan; that was a massive, massive, massive mistake. It set precedent; it sent verbal and non-verbal messages broadcast near and far, and that is this: I’m John McCain, and I won’t fight for what is mine.
Perhaps McCain thought that, because Detroit and, by extension, the entire state is unionized, it’s out of his hands.
I say: wrong. What Detroit workers want is consistency. Assurance. Remembrance. Not a bailout; they know they’re waaaaay down on the Food Chain. Just assurance that they’re not forgotten. That they “matter,” as Blue Collar workers, to the Republicans.
That, John, you’ll fight for them.
But you gave them up in a heartbeat.
Then, further, you sent Sarah Palin, the most fresh, the most energetic, the most nouveau and charismatic Republican to represent the party in years, to do battle with Joe Biden completely chained, fettered, restrained.
She “took one for the team” John, but she should never have to do that again. I, you, me, my readers, can all tell: she’s just waiting to be let loose. She’s more Conservative than you could ever hope to be. She knows it; you know it.
And still you keep her enslaved, chained, repressed.
I say this now, sir: to your own detriment and to the detriment of the entire electorate of this nation.
If you don’t come out swinging this next week, if you don’t take the fight right back to the Demorats, the MSM, the Defeatist Elitist Media, then you have essentially doomed Conservatism for many, many years to come.
The paradigm has changed; are you too old to recognize this? Is it pride? Is it a sense of misplaced decorum? Is it a sense of “gentlemen’s rules” five generations back? Is it a feeling of “they’ll play fair if I play fair” because — if you’re predicating your campaign upon anything even remotely resembling this philosophy — you’re “failing to plan” and, moreover, “planning to fail.”
Because there is NO restraint amongst the Demorats. No lie too bold. No half-truth not embraced. No courage allowed.
No fact left untrampled.
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” — Joseph Goebbels
This next week shall determine the entire election.
BZ
