THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XI, Issue # 70, March 5, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
OBAMA ATTEMPTS TO REWRITE CONSERVATISM
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE "DIVIDE & CONQUER" STRATEGY PRESIDENT OBAMA & HIS SUPPORTERS ARE EMPLOYING AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS:
REDEFINING CONSERVATISM & COLLABORATING WITH REPUBLICAN "MODERATES" IN ORDER TO NEUTRALIZE
ANY REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION TO OBAMA'S PLANS FOR MOVING AMERICA IRREVOCABLY TO THE LEFT -- EXECUTING A
COORDINATED EFFORT TO ATTACK & FRACTURE THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT & THEREBY SEAL OBAMA'S POLITICAL
SUPREMACY IN THE U.S.A. -- ATTEMPTS TO ISOLATE & MARGINALIZE RUSH LIMBAUGH -- SEEKING TO CREATE A
DISCONNECT BETWEEN CONSERVATISM & THE REPUBLICAN PARTY & TO PLACE THE GOP AT A PERMANENT POLITICAL
DISADVANTAGE AGAINST THE DEMOCRATS -- HOW OBAMA & HIS POLITICAL MACHINE MAY ALREADY HAVE BLUNDERED
& WEAKENED THEMSELVES
FULL STORY:
The “divide and conquer” strategy employed by the Democrats worked well against the
Republicans on far too many occasions in the past, particularly when the GOP
was under the sway of “moderates.” All too often, these crowd pleasers took
the Democrats' bait, attempting to ingratiate themselves with the voting
public by offering a second-rate imitation of the Democratic Party agenda. The
events of the past few weeks, when considered in their entirety, reveal that
Republicans are being set up to take another fall.
Barack Hussein Obama has purposefully inserted himself right into the middle of
Republican Party debate over its defining principles. His purpose in doing
so is to neutralize any Republican opposition to his plans of moving America
irrevocably to the Left. And like virtually every previous Democratic Party scheme,
he clearly cannot succeed without the help of Republican Liberals. But, while
Obama and the Democratic Party have too often benefited from their collaboration with Liberal Republicans, an
ideological Armageddon is brewing in the American political arena. Battle
lines are being drawn. A backlash against the disastrous Obama agenda may
well drive the GOP back to its Conservative roots.
Since his ascension to power, Barack Obama has been incessantly looking to
establish a network of useful idiots among the Republicans, both inside the
Beltway and among the punditry. As a critical building block of this
program, he needs to create a monopoly over the dissemination of information
which, in recognition of the very threat he and his kind pose to the future
of the country, the Founders specifically prohibited with their adoption of
the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Regardless, Obama is working
overtime to thwart their long-standing safeguards of freedom and justice.
And, as the Obama spawned attacks on every front indicate, he and his
political machine will stop at nothing in order to have their way.
The latest Obama tactic is blatantly obvious, but, more significantly, it is
extremely ominous, coming as it does from the national Chief Executive. Plainly
unsatisfied with merely holding the nation’s highest office, Obama is
executing a coordinated effort to attack and fracture the Conservative
movement, effectively sealing his political supremacy, if he is successful.
Americans throughout the political spectrum ought to be alarmed by such
behavior. In the long run, the power-hungry do not stop at party lines, nor
do they hold any regard for those quaint constitutional confines intended to
protect all citizens of the Republic.
The centerpiece of Obama’s assault on his opposition is, of course, the
recent brazen attempts to isolate and marginalize Rush Limbaugh. Obama knows
that real Conservatism, as espoused by Limbaugh, would bolster national
prosperity, while reinvigorating the GOP faithful who have been so
disillusioned by the Republican Party in recent years. In the past, whenever
Republicans followed a political template of real Conservatism, they reaped
enormous electoral successes. So, in order to avert that threat, Obama and
his minions have sought to create a disconnect between the two.
Not surprisingly, the predictable voices from the Liberal media are willing
to carry this water for him. Limbaugh’s usual media critics have been nearly
hysterical in the wake of his pronouncement that he wants Obama’s policies
to “fail.” Such a statement should be the only response of anyone who
understands the real consequences of Obama’s intentions to bury America’s
once vibrant system of free enterprise beneath the decomposing carrion of
socialism. Seeing the Obama White House engaged in a self-destructive
program of remolding America, Limbaugh understandably hopes the effort can
be defeated.
Media mouthpieces, in concert with Obama administration talking points, have
been incessantly demanding that every Republican appearing in front of a
camera either denounce Limbaugh for merely stating the obvious, or admit to
being in agreement with him.
Rather than dealing with his contention on its legitimate face value, the
Liberal Leftist attack machine has seized upon it as a weapon with which to bludgeon
every Republican into acquiescence and appeasement. If Rush Limbaugh can be
sufficiently vilified, to the point that invertebrate members of the
Republican Party determine him to be an embarrassment and disavow him as
such, the severance of real Conservatism from the GOP mainstream would place
the party at a permanent political disadvantage against the Democrats.
But the Obama White House may already have overstepped. America is not
unilaterally supportive of the incomprehensibly vast and exorbitantly
expensive “stimulus” package, the equally swollen and tainted Obama budget
proposal, or the dangers inherent in a socialist degeneration of the world’s
best health-care system. America does not rally to the possibility of an
ever-expanding government that saps the nation’s economic engine, in
exchange for empty promises of utopia that historically have only delivered
despair and squalor.
Interestingly, some puzzling demarcations have surfaced among Obama’s
previously monolithic support among the Liberal media. White House Press
Secretary and political hatchet man Robert Gibbs leveled personal attacks
against Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer, two reporters from CNBC (hardly a
bastion of Rightwing extremism) on account of their criticism of the
counterproductive spending practices of the White House and congressional
Democrats. Hard Left Senator Robert Byrd (Democrat -West Virginia) voiced his own concerns
regarding Obama’s over reaching effort to nationalize the U.S. economy.
Oblivious to all of this, the Obama attack machine has completely
miscalculated the effect of its Machiavellian plot against Limbaugh. It is
not merely a flamboyant radio personality with whom Obama must contend, but
the very principles of Conservatism itself that Limbaugh so boldly and
unwaveringly articulates. It is those Americans who cherish the memory of
Ronald Reagan’s “shining city on a hill,” and are thus increasingly resolved
to resurrect their country from the mire in which it currently exists.
Against such an adversary, the empty platitudes of Barack Obama cannot
prevail.
If Rush Limbaugh remains steadfast in his convictions and refuses to back
peddle from them (an absolute certainty given his track record on such
matters), Obama’s ongoing attacks will only serve to continually highlight
the stark contrast between America’s stellar economic past, and its bleak
future under the malignant influence of the current administration.
Americans, including many who bought into all of the drivel of “hope and
change” a few months ago, are becoming increasingly skeptical as they watch
the orgies of spending that continue inside the Beltway, while their savings
and freedoms dissipate into oblivion.
And when the sleeping giant of Reagan Conservatism reestablishes itself, its
members will know who among the Washington elite, on both sides of the
political aisle, stood for the great principles that once heralded national
prosperity, and who attempted to jump on the latest political bandwagon,
without consideration of the ensuing harm that would befall the nation.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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