The year of the Lord, Two Thousand and Eight is a year that will live in the minds of all those who love America.

The United States Constitution

“I’ll tip my hat to the new Constitution”- The Who

The U.S. Supreme Court made only a few changes to the Constitution this year in preparation for wholesale changes in the coming years. By making only small changes, public sentiment stays mute while the public wonders who the next “Biggest Loser” or “Survivor” will be.

Boumediene v. Bush (winner for WORST ruling EVER!)

First, why in the HELL is an Algerian Citizen who was captured on the field of battle able to file a lawsuit in the United States? Excellent question Jack, perhaps a liberal can answer that. The ruling, written by Justice Kennedy, gives the right of habeas corpus to TERRORISTS! How is this possible without Americans rioting in the streets? America, wake the heck up, this is your Supreme Court! I love Justice Scalia; his response to this ruling was “The NATION will live to regret what the Court has done today.” Justice Scalia, I hope we live to regret it…

The Supreme Court is the best way to pass socialism; these Judges have no one to answer to but GOD. What if they have no God, what is to keep them from ruling against you and me? Excellent question Jack, perhaps a liberal can answer that.

The Economy

“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

Well, well, well… I have said it before and I will say it repeatedly, those who lived before us have done everything there is to do, we must learn from their mistakes or we will be DOOMED to repeat them. It saddens me to quote Goebbels, but his quote is just as true today as it was when the Third Reich was around. The truth is the enemy of Socialism. Those in power will do everything to keep the public from knowing what is really happening. Remember, the economy was chugging along running like a champion until a few Democratic Senators saw in the Tea Leaves that Sarah Palin would become the next Vice President. Once they saw that, the election became “It’s the economy stupid”, but the economy was FINE. They talked it down, created runs on Banks and have moved us into a recession. This was the OCTOBER Surprise of all time! The election for the Presidency of the United States hinged on the economy of destruction created by the Axis of Taxes. Why on Earth would the Axes of Taxes destroy the economy and do so much harm to the people of the United States? Excellent question Jack, perhaps a liberal can answer that.

The War on Terror

“A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.” – Bill Clinton

The past year was a success against terror, no thanks to anyone with a D beside his or her name. Our military continues to open new cans of whoop-ass on those who use terror as their primary weapon against those they hate.

Iraq

How are we doing in Iraq?

Notice the lowering of the Graph; I am sure you still think hundreds of US Troops are dying in Iraq every day. The MSM refuses to give President Bush any credit for the war in Iraq. Only if something bad happens do they dare cover it. Why is that? Excellent question Jack, perhaps a liberal can answer that.

Our military is the most prepared, highest trained, and most advanced military in the history of the world, to bad ½ our population hates them…

Presidential Election

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook man.” – Joe Biden

Barrack Obama is the next President of the United States. He is my President and your President. That will not change, but we can fight his socialist agenda. It will take a fight. This guy is a 100% socialist. His record screams it, his words say it and his votes (when taken) show it. Do not be afraid of the man; be afraid of his manifesto. How did he win? He did not; the Republican Party gave it to him by handing us a candidate that WE HATE. Whom do we run next time? Lindsey Graham (GOD I hope not). How in the world do we take back our party? Excellent question Jack, perhaps a liberal can answer that!

What happens in 2009?

Terror Attacks world wide

More Taxes

Export of Communism by the USSR

American Politicians surrendering to Islam

Radio stations go silent with the reinstitution of the fairness doctrine

Garage Politics gets a prime time slot on Fox News

Happy New Year Everyone!

If I were one of those people who never read anything and always took the media at face value I would be inclined to believe wholeheartedly in the oft repeated assertion that our founding fathers were not only mean and selfish but also nearsighted and unable to comprehend the depth and breadth of the issues that would eventually face our nation.

Liberals tell us regularly in today’s world that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and the rest of the oppressive, hate filled founding fathers wrote our constitution based on their narrow and bigoted view of the world.  They weren’t prepared for jet planes, worldwide telecommunications, the internet or multiculturalism.  That document and those ideas were probably fine for them but we need new ideas and more flexible rules for our growing, more sensitive society.

HOGWASH!!

It was not our founding father’s understanding or prescience with regard to technology or infrastructure that made the founding documents so elegant.  It was not a Nostrodamus like view of our world today that gave them guidance as they constructed the greatest charter and laid the framework for the greatest nation on earth that was so profound.  Put most simply it was our founding father’s understanding of human nature, right and wrong, the human soul and the avarice of mankind that made them so brilliant.  It was their understanding of these things and their simple faith in the providential hand of God that brought us the freedoms and liberties we enjoy more than 200 years later.

In his 1st inaugural address George Washington said that “No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.”

Washington frequently acknowledged the hand of God in the affairs of men and did so with a zeal that would horrify those in politics today.  He frequently extolled the virtues that did and would continue to distiguish the American people in the “experiment” that we had undertaken.  He went on to state the following:

“since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity: Since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained: And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”

Not much there in common with men like Blagojevich, Frank, Kennedy, et al.

But the views of these men were also so much more prescient than just their understanding of our being a recipient of the providence and favor of Almighty God.  They knew, as well, that we would face myriad dangers and challenges to our state as a free and independent people.  In Washington’s farewell address he made the following point.

“The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.”

When our liberal friends cherry pick their statements to show, ostensibly, that the founding fathers were not quite so forward looking or thinking as they actually were they will steadfastly avoid such statements.  Washington’s own words put the lie to the assertion that they could not have known the troubles and complexities we face in today’s world.

Moreover, Washington cautioned us regarding the removal of morality and religion from our system.  His words ring perhaps more true today than they did in his own time but certainly no less so.

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

These statements and so many others of our founding fathers run in direct contradiction to our friends on the left.  These statements contradict the moral relativists and challenge the secular humanists with their foreshadowing nature.  The enemies of this nation want us to believe that the ideals and truths of our founders were little more than high minded rhetoric intended to rally the people and maintain the tight reins of control on the populace.

How can people with any intellectual honesty put forth an idea that postulates we are better off with rampant crime than with a society that adheres to peaceful and moral principles.  George Washington stated that such a person would “claim the tribute of patriotism” in vain.  I suppose that is one of the reasons that our secular-humanist, environmentalist, relativist friends labor so ardently at discrediting all vestiges of patriotism and American pride since they themselves can see no value in such “outmoded” feelings.

For my part I will take what was said by Alexis de Tocqueville to be far more telling and important than all the words of all the liberal intelligentsia from here to eternity.

“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

You ponder that one for a bit and get back to me when you make up your own mind.

I want to make certain that everyone knows right off the bat that I voted for George W. Bush twice.  I voted for him in 2000 because I truly believed he was a far superior option to Albert Gore.  I feel vindicated in that choice following the past eight years of en-VIRAL-MENTAL rants from senor Gore.  I voted for “W” in 2004 because A) I fully believed he was responsible for policies that prevented another attack on American soil and B) I would have voted for a goat that claimed to be a conservative if it had been running against Senator John “purple heart” Kerry.

Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way let’s clear the air on some very important issues.  We, the Republican Party, are out of power for a plethora of issues but the main reasons revolve around a very simple premise.  We have sold our souls, as a party, to pollsters, pundits and conventional wisdom.  I know that many on the conservative side of the aisle have beaten the idea of the Reagan revolution until they are blue in the face but it is a truth that needs repeating.  In the intervening years since Reagan left office we have forgotten every rule he taught us about politics in America.  We have succumbed to the lie, told ad nauseum by the liberal left and the spineless, blue-blood moderates in our own party, that the path to victory and governing authority is in the middle of the spectrum where we can best appeal to our opponents, moderates and the “sacred” undecideds.

Reagan put the lie to that entire postulation of political ignorance and did so in what should have been a resoundingly permanent fashion for our party.  What Reagan did not do, however, was eliminate the members of our party who harbored those views despite his success and the overwhelming success of his policies.

Reagan never shied away from traditional values; never compromised his principles or core values and he never feared the media or his opponents.  In short, Ronald Reagan never feared being a conservative and never lost his faith in the principles that make this country what it is.  Our current leadership in congress and the white house have involved themselves in policies and discussions with the opposition that can only benefit our opponents and absolutely cannot benefit our country.  Policies like no child left behind, the Medicare prescription drug benefit and the most recent venture of the federal government into the free market via the 750 billion dollar bailout are clearly policies designed to compromise with and garner favor with the left and buy votes.  The ill-advised immigration policy touted by this administration and those like John McCain have absolutely guaranteed that we will not regain power in the current climate of our society.

We lost in the most recent election despite the cries of those who warned us that we must curry favor with the left and the middle.  Those groups voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama despite our moderate and sometimes liberal overtures to garner their vote.

We must cease to compromise our principles.  The Republican Party in general and conservatives in particular must support candidates who are representative of our views.  If the incumbent is a RINO a moderate or a liberal then we need to find an opposing candidate who supports and pledges to work at implementing conservative, American policies.  We must stop shying away from the inevitable arguments that will come when we outright oppose the left.  We need more than anything to STOP sacrificing our principles on the altar of the pundits in order to win elections.

Ladies and gentlemen.  Conservative principles and policies are a winning issue.  The constitution is a winning issue.  Opposing gun bans, opposing abortion, supporting freedom and liberty, cheerleading for the greatest country ever conceived on the face of the earth, supporting traditional families, capitalism and smaller government are all winning issues that we must support.  In short, being an American is a winning issue and we need to get back to that truth.  Don’t buy the line that America needs to change to be more like Europe or some other part of the world.  Don’t fall prey to the falsehood that we need to be more conciliatory with the UN and the world’s dictators in order to succeed in the global economy.  We succeed there as we have for over two hundred years by being Americans and doing everything we do bigger, better and more efficiently than the competition.  We win by getting the government out of the way of the American people, unshackling our industry by sweeping away the constantly growing list of restrictive regulations and telling government bureaucrats to sit down, shut up and stay out of our way.

Stand up Common Patriots.  Tell your senator and representative that change is coming.  Let them know that they either get on board the conservative express or go home and get a new job in the environment that they are helping to wreck and we’ll get someone else to do the job they’re afraid to do.

The Common Patriot