THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 15, January 24, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
HILLARY CLINTON & THE DEMOCRATS
TELEGRAPH THEIR VULNERABILITIES
By Christopher G. Adamo
HOW THE DEMOCRATS CAN BE DEFEATED IN THE PRESIDENTIAL & CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF 2008: TRULY
CONSERVATIVE, PRO-AMERICA, & PRO-FAMILY REPUBLICANS RUN FOR & WIN NOMINATION IN THE 2008 REPUBLICAN
PRIMARIES &, AS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS & THE PRESIDENCY, HIGHLIGHT & EXPOSE THE
VULNERABILITIES OF THE DEMOCRATS -- CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS MUST FOCUS ON & CALL THE VOTERS'
ATTENTION TO THE LEFTWING LIBERALISM OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, INCLUDING THE DEMOCRATS' (1) TRIVIALIZING
& EVEN IGNORING PROVEN DANGERS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AT THE HANDS OF ISLAMISTS, (2) DEFEATISM REGARDING
THE WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM & REGARDING UNITED STATES POLICY IN IRAQ, (3) COLLABORATION WITH POLITICAL
ENVIRONMENTALISTS & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS IN THEIR DRIVE TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION
& THEREBY RUIN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, & (4) ADVOCACY OF ABORTION ON DEMAND & THE LEGITIMMIZATION OF
HOMOSEXUAL DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS AS "LEGAL MARRIAGES' -- REPUBLICAN LEADERS MUST TOSS OUT THE
UNINSPIRING "STRATEGY" OF COMPROMISE WITH & CAPITULATION TO THE DEMOCRATS' LIBERAL LEFTIST AGENDA,
CONSISTENTLY & PERSISTENTLY STRIVE TO BLOCK THAT AGENDA, & VIGOROUSLY EXPLOIT THE DEMOCRATS' LIABILITIES
FULL STORY:
As political forces align themselves in preparation for the 2008
presidential election, the Democratic Party, despite recent victories, finds
itself in hardly an enviable position. Consider only one of many ironies in
the party’s precariously disjointed philosophy.
According to those on the political Left, the biggest threat facing America is “global
warming,” about which only immediate and radical changes in our lifestyle
can prevent catastrophe. Yet the possibility of a continuation of Islamist
attacks on our homeland is a subject about which we can endlessly debate,
ignoring enormous breaches, and allowing Muslim terrorist captives any and
every legal loophole by which to gain their freedom and attack us once
again.
Trivializing and even ignoring proven dangers to the American people at the
hands of the Islamists is essentially the Democratic Party line (Does anyone remember
9-11?) On the other hand, any attempt to sustain American vigilance amounts
to the Republican fabrication of a “climate of fear.”
Meanwhile, ranting that the ecological sky is falling (or, at least, that the
oceans are rising and that we are all going to drown) constitutes reasoned
discussion and objective efforts to preserve and protect America’s future.
Such is the world, according to Democrats.
In every other area of debate, the Democrats stand on political ground that
is no less shaky. Now we are to believe that they are the party of the
American family, albeit their version of “family” can be made up of any
combination of two or more individuals of any gender or any “variation”
thereof. And Democrats, of course, are perennially “for the children,”
excepting those whom you decide to abort or offer up for dissection in the
latest fruitless effort to legitimize fetal stem cell research.
Unfortunately, between such a morally and intellectually bankrupt political
apparatus and control of the White House in two years, the only obstacle of
significance is the Republican Party. Conservative America registered its
disenchantment with the Republican agenda, insipid and compromised as it
was, last November by letting the Democrats take control of Congress.
Yet instead of recognizing how uninspiring a “strategy” of compromise and
capitulation is to the Conservative base of the Republican Party, an apparent majority of those
Republicans who remain in office seems to believe that even more compromise
and capitulation is the necessary remedy. Fearing accusations of
“partisanship” from the media and the Democrats, Republicans have indicated
their willingness to work with their political opposition.
On one issue after another, in which the Liberalism of the Left could be
highlighted between now and 2008, Republicans are running from the spotlight
and letting the Leftist agenda of the Democrats advance unchecked. And this
is a recipe for disaster.
Undoubtedly, the most frustrating aspect of Republican action (or, more
accurately, inaction) is the fact that they need not do so. Democrats
regularly show, by their own timidity in regards to such issues as the war
and America’s social climate, that they know such things to be liabilities.
Republicans could indeed exploit them for the betterment of the country and
for political gain, if only they possessed the vertebrae (and possibly other
body parts) needed to muster the courage to pursue them.
Abundant and scathing news stories not withstanding, it is President George W. Bush’s
unshakable resolve to stay the course in Iraq that has divided and
disoriented Congressional Democrats who had hoped to placate their far-Left
base by implementing an immediate course of withdrawal.
However, in the face of a President who shows some good old-fashioned
“spine,” at least in this one area of his policy, the Democrats dare not
indulge themselves in official defeatism and retreat. The contrast between
the two camps would ultimately prove devastating to them.
Likewise, the immovable pro-life advocacy, and the abundance of social mores
that it encompasses, perpetually threatens to stigmatize Democrats as
callous and indifferent to the most helpless and innocent among us. And
indeed they are. But they simply cannot prosper politically if perceived in
such a manner. Hence, a continuing series of acts and charades intended to
camouflage their real mindset.
On her inauguration/coronation day, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi surrounded herself with
grandchildren, not surprisingly earning adulations from a fawning press. But
more significantly, she has pursued a strategy of minimizing such past
actions as her staunch, pro-abortion voting record. And Hillary Clinton’s behavior
has amounted to no less of an attempt to disarm the opposition by pretending
to be somewhere in the “middle” regarding that issue, as well as virtually
all others.
By their obvious timidity at admitting who they truly are, the Democrats are
telling their would-be opponents where and how they can be beaten. Democrats
could not hope to carry off their current ruse during the 2008 contest for
the White House, if they find themselves contrasted against a truly
Conservative, pro-America, and pro-family Republican whom the voters know
they can trust as an unwavering advocate of such principles.
Now it only remains for that individual to announce a Republican candidacy
and persuade America that he is in the race until the end.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition
American Government & the U.S. Presidency
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
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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