THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume X, Issue # 123, May 15, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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"OPERATION CHAOS" FUELED BY REALITIES OF LIBERALISM
By Christopher G. Adamo
"OPERATION CHAOS": RUSH LIMBAUGH'S ATTEMPT TO EXPLOIT THE CURRENT DISCORD AMONG LIBERAL LEFTIST
DEMOCRATS -- SEEKING TO IGNITE THE SORDID TINDERBOX CREATED BY THE VERY NATURE OF LEFTWING LIBERALISM --
THE REALITIES OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LIBERALISM & THE MINDSET OF THE U.S. POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT --
HOW AMERICA'S CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC & ITS FOUNDING PRINCIPLES HAVE BEEN DEGRADED BY
CORRUPT POLITICIANS, & PARTICULARLY BY THE CURRENT CROP OF LIBERALS PERMEATING THE GOVERNMENT & THE
MEDIA
FULL STORY:
Chris Matthews, host of the MSNBC program “Hardball,” (a venue which rivals “Air America" in popularity) was on
his high horse last week castigating Conservatives who followed Rush Limbaugh’s directive to cross party lines and vote
for Hillary Clinton in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries. According to Matthews, they should be “ashamed of
themselves” for ostensibly sullying the alabaster institution of American democracy which, he reminded us, was bought by
“the Founding Fathers and all of the soldiers who fought for this country’s freedom,” et cetera, and should not be thus
trivialized.
In truth, it is Matthews and his kind who ought to be ashamed, first for his sanctimony, but even more so for his hypocrisy.
Matthews is able to conduct his program as he does because those same “Founding Fathers and soldiers” secured for the
citizens of this Republic the rights of a free press. The Founders well understood the critical importance of information in the
hands of the public as the ultimate check on government action.
Yet, Matthews, perhaps more than any other modern pundit, thoroughly trivializes this great institution by supplanting any
serious consideration and discussion of the current issues with his rapid-fire rudeness.
Moreover, the value of the press to a free people is contingent upon the dissemination of truth. However, the modern
Liberal media relentlessly seeks to suppress truth in order to present the “news” in a manner that might promote its
inarguably Leftist agenda. In so doing, it becomes little more than a willing propaganda wing for the Democratic Party. So
much for a worthy embodiment of the founding principles of the country.
Nevertheless, all of the sanctimony and phony outrage from Matthews and his kind is understandable, given their intense
frustration with Rush Limbaugh’s advocacy of Republican crossover voting, which he dubs “Operation Chaos.” That the
effort has continued to date, is proof of the disintegration of the nation’s governing principles, as evidenced chiefly among
the Democrats.
Free speech, even from so powerful an individual as Limbaugh, could do little to upset a well defined and established
political movement. And the current discord among the Democrats merely confirms that they can hardly claim to be such.
Against Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and their consuming ambition, the increasingly frantic calls for “reason” and
devotion to the Party above their individual interests, even when voiced by Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean,
are exercises in futility.
Rush Limbaugh, as a result of his insight and genius for analyzing the political landscape, clearly identified and seized the
opportunity to fan the flames of the current Democratic Party havoc. Ultimately however, it is the very nature of Liberalism
itself that created the sordid tinderbox for him to ignite. And, with each passing day that it continues, “Operation Chaos”
provides the nation with a excruciating glimpse into the realities of Liberalism and the mindset of the American political
Left.
Hardly anything new, this Liberal “crack up” has been coming for quite some time. But, to put it into proper perspective,
“democracy,” or our constitutional representative republic, should be considered as it was originally intended, and, then,
as it has been degraded at the hands of corrupt politicians in general, and the current crop of Liberals permeating the
government and the media.
To begin with, the Framers of the U.S. Constitution knew that self-government would only function among a people who
clearly understood that the welfare of the nation must supersede their own blind ambitions and interests. Thus all citizens
of the nation could actually have a stake in the process of elections as well as their outcomes. But, while this process was
under attack from the earliest days of our nation, its degradation has accelerated in recent years.
Ultimately, the fortunes of such a government will rise or fall in direct proportion to the honor and integrity of its
participants. Voters can go to the polls in “banana republics,” but the ballots they cast do not necessarily portend a bright
and glowing post-election future for their nations. Nor can the American electoral system provide any guarantee of a
worthy outcome as its process increasingly departs from the worthy manner in which it was originally devised. A few
recent examples present alarming evidence of how far things have descended.
Americans across the political spectrum well remember the pandemonium that ensued in Florida in the aftermath of the 2000
presidential election. Rarely mentioned by the Liberal media is that the overriding reason that matter was not settled with a
single recount was that Democratic Party operatives, including the Florida Supreme Court, were desperately seeking to
concoct a scheme by which to count votes from those areas of the state that might shift the outcome to Al Gore.
So ingrained is this manner of thinking among Democrats, that they are no longer even quiet about it. Hillary Clinton and
Barak Obama, as well as their cadre of supporters, even including Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean,
are openly pondering the inclusion and/or exclusion of the Florida and Michigan delegates in the upcoming Democratic
National Convention, based not on what is a proper assessment of the votes, but on which candidate might benefit from
the particular decision rendered. In the midst of such machinations, any regard for “the people” is of absolutely no
importance.
Meanwhile, both candidates continue to play their respective versions of the “race card,” proving to the public at large
what Conservative America has known for a very long time. In the minds of Liberals, “minorities” are highly valued only
insofar as they can be utilized to empower the “ruling class.”
So, while the Clinton camp points with palpable derision towards Obama’s nearly monolithic support from black voters as
proof that he cannot garner a win among the middle American electorate (read: white voters), Obama, likewise, reverts
immediately to some suggestion of prejudice among any opponents who find his brazen Leftist philosophy and
allegiances repulsive. In the end, each camp seeks to gain an edge in this theater of the contest on the basis of victimhood.
At the onset of this election cycle, one Democratic camp sought its place at the top on the basis of inevitability and
experience. The other made its case on stirring, but empty, oratory about “hope” and “change,” without a whit of
substance to the soaring words. Now the political and intellectual bankruptcy of each Democratic camp has been made
known to the American people, by the hands of the competing camp.
Neither saw any reason to put party or country ahead of its own ambitions. Nor could the party leadership persuade any of
its underlings to end the bloodbath by retooling the campaign season for a quick finish.
Eventually, this issue will be decided, but the damage to the Democratic Party facade during these past few months can
never be undone. Any “bloom” is long gone from either of these would-be “roses.” Liberalism, in its stark ugliness, is on
display for all America to see.
It is a crying shame that, in the face of what should be such a momentous opportunity for the GOP, John McCain is
squandering it by conducting his own “Operation Chaos” within the Republican Party.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition:
Elections, PACs, & Political Parties
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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