Posted by
GunnyG© on Friday, August 28, 2009 8:08:43 AM
One of the main missions of conservatives MUST BE to educate the masses on who and what we are. The leftist radicals, aided and abetted by the Lapdog media, keep pushing out Hitleresque propaganda on us evil mobster-like Conservatives who want to take away Granny's Social Security and chase Paco out of the country after whipping and branding him! So the Gunny was doing a little thinking on the who and what of we Constitutional Conservatives, we who are probably ALL that is standing in the way of the USA becoming a dictatorship style banana republic by, say, 2025. Enjoy.
The framers of the Constitution took for granted that a responsive and educated electorate would always be around, but unfortunately for America today, as Ben Franklin wrote: "When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic," and that is what is happening today. Ben Franklin was probably prophetic when he stated to a question: Woman: “Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied: “A republic if you can keep it.” Well, we’re fighting not only to keep what is left of the Republic but also fighting off the hordes of Peggy the Moochers aka Peggy Joseph, who think that money grows on a big money tree behind the Treasury and thus install idiots like Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and a horde of sniveling RINOs who vote only in THEIR self-interests and not in the best interests of the Republic. THAT, my friends, is the difference between a great politician and a crapulent one. A great politician could take one look at Obamacare, err, DrunkennedyCare, and say, “not no but HELL no,” yet we have purulent politicians like Reid, Pelosi, Snowe, Collins, S.P.E.C.T.R.E., Murtha, etc, who do what THEY think is best for us and NOT the will of the people. Are we sheep to be led around? Hell no. Those people are voted in to do THE PEOPLE’S BUSINESS and thus, the will of the people. D*mn their eyes for doing anything other than that.
BTW, thanks to the spendthrift, feckless, and stupid Republican Congress, and Presdient Bush, who refused to lead them, we now suffer under the demands of a narcissistic man-child, surrounded by radical leftist idiots, who would rather insult us than work with us. You right-wing mobsters, how DARE you fight against the wishes of the Anointed One, the very one Tweetybird Matthews called the Last Kennedy brother!?
Many of us are constitutional conservatives and by our very nature, we put liberty first while at the same time embracing moderation in extending the blessings under the Constitution to others, while working to preserve those rights and blessings for future generations. The moderation of SLOW change if you will, not the radical change espoused by liberalism that seeks radical change for the sake of change alone. We constitutional conservatives work to enforce the carefully defined responsibilities of the government, as written in the Constitution, while providing the largesse for a RESPONSIBLE government to perform their responsibilities effectively and thoroughly. Indeed, Obama has about a 50% undermanned Cabinet yet he’s made sure that his Unconstitutional “CommieCzars” are all fully staffed. Excuse the Gunny, buck, for that slam, as the thought of these unelected, unsupervised, and outside the Constitutional clowns makes the Gunny want to projectile vomit. A responsible government, as espoused by us and written about in the Constitution, (if they abided by it), draws its legitimacy from the consent of the people to govern them as it works to protect the individual from losing their rights from the tyranny of a popular majority.
In a nutshell, constitutional conservatives embrace the primacy of self-interest (keeping the fruits of one’s labor for example), but also, we understand the requirement to submit, in part, to a government that has, as it’s core mission, the preservation of the United States of America and the General Welfare of the people. This is accomplished by blending the will of the people in an intricate plan of representation, which disperses the power of government among the three branches of the Federal government as well as among state and local governments. That is the checks and balances set in place by a Constitution that has allowed this nation to prosper and grow since 1789.
No matter how one slices it, constitutional conservatives are a coalition of principle, note that many of us voted for Bob Barr KNOWING he would lose but that in the long run, it was better to have a radical leftist like Obama screwing us than a RINO like McCain, who has an “R” after his name, tainting our party even more! Our principles provide the surest ways for a strong nation with economic growth and opportunity for all. They are familiar as we’ve all discussed them before but here they are again: individual freedom, personal responsibility, a limited, energetic, and accountable government, economic opportunity, low taxes, limited entitlement programs, a strong military, solid foreign policy, and overall, secure borders and the rights therein for bona fide American citizens ONLY. These are the rights firmly entrenched in the Constitution and they stem not only from Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, but our own Founding Fathers. Do we sometimes bump heads over priorities, needs, and policies? Definitely? But we as constitutional conservatives, who follow and champion the above principles, can have a discourse on the best means to accomplish the task at hand, while conserving the political conditions that foster a hospitable climate to traditional values, beliefs, morality, faith, and the individuals who bring these to the table. In the short term and in the long term, constitutional conservatism is the ONLY WAY for conserving the political conditions that promote low taxes, free markets and competition, and the economic growth, economic opportunities, and economic strength that capitalistic free markets produce.
This form of belief, that is, constitutional conservatism, offers an agenda that conservatives and libertarians can both subscribe to. For example, we can champion health care reform that starts with tort reform and ends with free market solutions, but without the statist involved with it. We can champion an energy policy that allows us to drill and refine responsibly, looking out for the environment, giving us, as our goal, energy independence, again in a free market economy, but without the statist/leftist goal of an economically crippled nation, even as we seek alternative sources of energy. Both groups, libertarian and constitutional conservatives can rally around a foreign policy that recognizes the greatness of America, our national security needs, as well as advancing freedom overseas, but takes into account that WE come first and any resources left over can be shared. We can focus on keeping things like abortion and gay marriage OUT of the Federal Government’s purview and put the power BACK into the hands of the state governments where it belongs. If California wants gay marriage, fine. It may not be legal in, say Montana, but as long as they stay in California, they can live happily ever after. THAT is what the American experiment is all about. We must ensure that we fight illegal immigration but accept those who come in by the front door as well as ensuring that those we accept can contribute to the General Welfare (there’s that term again) of the United States, not detract from it. Unlike the radical leftists, WE embrace and indeed, hold dear, having school choice that gives low-income, inner-city families the ability to send their kids to classrooms where they can obtain a decent education and thus, further the nation when THEY take over. This includes ending liberal imposed speech codes that hamper thought and freedom of speech at university campuses. Quite possibly the biggest part of our agenda should be the demand that only judges who know, understand, and avow that their sole function in life is to interpret the Constitution as it is, not as they want it to be, nor should they bring “empathy” to the bench. That they are NOT there to legislate or make policy. The Constitution should always be the end deciding factor and the SCOTUS should be as UNEMPLOYED as possible.
There will be problems in both camps, there can be no doubt about it but if we, constitutional conservatives and libertarians unite, we can move these goals into a tangible platform from which we can speak from. This nation is still a conservative majority and conservatives believe in moderation as a personal value but with it as a governing value, the possibilities are endless. A nation where people can actually keep the fruits of their labor, without worrying about a federal government that seeks to rob Peter to pay Peggy Joseph aka Peggy the Moocher, and punishes their efforts vice rewarding them. A nation that deals with other nations from a position of benevolent power, not one where the POTUS bows like a sycophant to a Third World potentate. A nation where the person charts their course in life, pays the tolls along the way, and reaps the benefits (or penalties of their choices) in the end. A nation where those who can’t work are taken care of but where those who CAN work, i.e., the Oprah crowd, work for their living, not freeload off of the efforts of others. In other words, the United States of America as the Founding Fathers intended it to be. A Republic folks, if we can hold it.