Principles Over Principals
We Americans must never base our politics on heroes. Our country was founded on a proposition, not on personage. The great George Washington knew this and acted swiftly to thwart hero-worship. Our politics should reflect great ideas, not personalities.
Washington was glorified. Every man, woman, and child in the fledgling nation -- of every color and creed -- adored him and pleaded with him to be king, to be emperor, to be president for life. He rebuked their wishes and soberly reminded his fellow citizens that they just rid themselves of such folly. In this manner Washington exemplified the concept of principles over principals.
All it takes to discern the wisdom found within this essay's opening words is a casual critique of the current White House occupant. Has there ever been such an inexperienced, unprincipled, and underwhelming Chief Executive? Perhaps, but none readily come to mind.
Yet, Obama was celebrated as a savior, a great hope for the nation. He was the anointed one, the embodiment of promise. He was young, articulate, photogenic, and possessed a cornucopia of rhetoric to fit any occasion and any audience. To many, he was a celebrity, a star.
Which is the entire point, isn't it? We now know that the savior persona was craftily contrived by wealthy handlers. We now know that without the full support and covering shield of state-run media all of his many faults glaringly apparent today would have been just as glaringly apparent in 2008. We now know that the Obama regime demonstrates every day just how dangerous it is to put faith in an empty, rudderless personality rather than a principled visionary.
Principles matter
Those amongst you blessed with foresight understand that there is a battle raging for the future of America, a battle the thin-lipped Establishment GOP has absolutely no chance of winning. However, a GOP that serves as an honest advocate for an America based upon a moral foundation, liberty, and free enterprise is a proven winner. Why? Because poll after poll indicate that 70 percent of Americans -- regardless of party affiliation -- believe that free markets best promote opportunity for all, shared prosperity, and welfare for the truly needy.
People waste away when living off handouts, and flourish when they earn their way. Why else do parents challenge their children to build, create, innovate, learn, and dare? Socialism stifles the human spirit, and if the Republican Party can offer only a milder version than can the Democrat Party, then what's the point?
Which is why conservative principles are so much more important than a photogenic face. Reagan proved it, Thatcher proved it, and nobody's glamour boy, Republican Governor Chris Christie, is proving it in one of the nation's bluest states. It's the message and not the messenger. It's the delivered goods and not the delivery boy.
Listen and prosper
In a few scant weeks, there is a real chance to begin the restoration of our Constitutional Republic. For the first time in several years, the Republican Party has the opportunity to make amends for its abandonment of conservatism, and to re-embrace the First Principles that brought them their greatest historical successes as government leaders. After all, it was the GOP's abandonment of Conservatives, Libertarians, and the Christian Right that allowed Time Magazine to gleefully declare the Republican Party dead in 2006.
We conservatives need your GOP to begin the restoration. You Republicans need us to find your way back from insignificance. If only there were a Reagan amongst you to help you understand, the going would be easier. Oh, that's right ... the Establishment GOP despised President Ronald W. Reagan, too.
Listen well, all you Establishment, Blue-blood, and Country Club Republicans. Thanks to the prodigious efforts of Tea Party Movement, Libertarian, and Conservative activists, you have been given another chance. The very people to whom you look down your noses -- Rush, Palin, Levin, DeMint, Beck, Coburn, Breitbart, Bachmann, and too many other patriots to name -- have fought your battles and are winning them for you because you couldn't do it for yourselves.
They are winning because the 70 Percent American Majority approves. They are winning despite vicious, back-stabbing attacks from effete GOP elitists the likes of Kathleen Parker, David Brooks, and David Frum. You Republicans can win, too, if you return to the conservative principles you foolishly spurned.
Come back to traditional American values. Winning feels good.
Hype and Chains for 59 more days.