THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XII, Issue # 71, May 12, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
CONSERVATISM ON DEFENSE WILL ULTIMATELY LOSE
By Christopher G. Adamo
AMERICAN POLITICS, LEFTWING LIBERALISM, & THE CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION IN THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF
2010: LIBERAL LEFTISTS CAN BE SOUNDLY DEFEATED IN NOVEMBER ONLY BY A VIGOROUS & EFFECTIVE POLITICAL
OPPOSITION DEDICATED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATISM. THE CONSERVATIVE
OPPOSITION MUST BE RESOLUTE & UNITED & HAVE THE CLARITY OF ITS CONVICTIONS & THE COURAGE TO WAGE A
DECISIVE COUNTEROFFENSIVE AGAINST THE POLITICAL LEFT.
FULL STORY:
Seven years ago this month, President George W. Bush made his famed landing
on the Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln as it returned from a tour of duty
in the Middle East. An event that should have been heralded across the
nation as an unparalleled symbol of America’s might and vigor in the War on
Terror was then systematically dismembered and undermined by the Liberal
political establishment, both on Capitol Hill and in the major media.
Saddest of all, instead of fiercely confronting this Liberal Leftist betrayal of
America in the Left's obsessive efforts to gain political power, even at the expense
of the entire American nation, President Bush and the Republican establishment
refused to go on the attack. Eventually, they allowed the Liberal opposition
to completely frame the event as a “controversy,” and were soon dragged into
a debate over the intended meaning of the “Mission Accomplished” banner that
appeared behind Bush as he strode the deck of the Abraham Lincoln.
This sorry episode was a lost opportunity and a travesty on several fronts.
A presidential photo-op that was skillfully staged to bolster troop morale
and invigorate the American people regarding their latest victory in the
Terror War was subsequently reduced to Liberal accusations of an empty and
unfulfilled promise. Thereafter it could only inspire the enemies of this
nation and convince them that America's will to continue the fight was flagging and that a costly
and determined opposition to it, including the killing of American troops,
would eventually lead to a complete abandonment of the effort.
As such, the propaganda campaign represented nothing less than a willful
collaboration of the Liberal media with the Islamists, and should have been
portrayed to the American people in this manner. In the political arena,
such a flagrant display of anti-Americanism should have thoroughly
discredited in perpetuity all who participated. But, unwilling to play
hardball when doing so was critically necessary to the welfare of both the
Republican Party and the nation, Bush and his advisors resorted to “damage
control,” thus handing another strategic victory to a decidedly unworthy
opposition.
Far too much is at stake for such tepid and restrained behavior to persist.
America is at a crossroads, and unless drastic action is taken to reverse
the political direction in which the country is being dragged, the harm
inflicted on it may prove irreversible. No more latitude exists for even
small, incremental Liberal advances. Each new precept of the Obama agenda
represents another nail in the coffin of America’s former greatness.
Yet, the pattern continues unabated to this day. Liberals make the most
absurd statements, completely contradict those statements on subsequent
occasions, engage in the vilest pattern of political corruption, commit the
most egregious crimes, all with near total impunity because those on the
political Right are either too refined or too timid to accurately characterize their
deeds and take them to task. As a result, Liberals are emboldened to
shamelessly broaden their strategy.
Thus, after selling out the United States of America on numerous fronts, Bill Clinton
and Barack Obama can get in front of the cameras and accuse grassroots
Americans who attend “Tea Parties” of “sedition.” Clinton, who gave away
critical nuclear and missile technology to the Chinese in exchange for bags
of cash, and Obama, who sat for twenty-two years under the venomous ravings
of Jeremiah Wright and worked in concert with Bill Ayers, dare to cast
aspersions on real America. Hysterically expressing outrage at the slightest
suggestion that their own betrayals of the nation might be “unpatriotic,”
they wantonly accuse Americans who strive to maintain the integrity of the
nation they love of posing a threat to it.
Good is called “evil,” and evil is called “good.” So it will be with the
ensuing U.S. Supreme Court confirmation circus of Elena Kagan. From her lack of
judicial experience to her indifference to the U.S. Constitution to her sterling
Liberal pedigree, Kagan should be a non-starter. In the world of Washington
politics, where failed efforts to advance one’s ideology are perceived as
public humiliation, Obama should never have had the audacity to risk putting
forth such a nominee. Yet he did so, counting on a lack of dedication to
principle from his opposition.
He has recent history on his side. His previous nominee, Sonya Sotomayor,
was every bit the biased and incompetent embarrassment that Kagan will prove
to be. Sotomayor’s “wise Latina woman” statement, deriding the very
architects of the Constitution which, as an Associate Justice on the Supreme
Court, she then swore an oath to uphold, would have ended any prospects of a
Conservative who dared to espouse so extreme a tenet. Yet, she sailed through
the confirmation process with significant Republican support.
Nor was anybody surprised in the least that, since being seated on the high
court, decisions she has handed down, and every opinion she has expressed
have been far Left. It was totally to be expected.
Democrats could be sent scurrying for the tall grass by a concerted
Republican effort to reaffirm the concept that the job of any judge in this
nation’s high courts is not to seek avenues of implementing a political
agenda, but, rather, to uphold and maintain the integrity of American constitutional
law. John Roberts did exactly that during his confirmation process, when
pressed on his biases for or against “the little guy.” In the aftermath of
his blunt answer that, as a Supreme Court justice, such would not be his
purpose, but, rather, the preservation of constitutional principle, his
political opposition evaporated and his position on the Court was ultimately
confirmed.
Conservatives know the contents of the Liberal “handbook,” and how it will
be played out. And this includes the vulnerabilities inherent in the Liberal
game plan. With neither the electoral numbers nor the political momentum on
their side, Liberals can be soundly defeated this Fall by a principled
Conservative opposition, if it has the clarity of its convictions and the
courage to wage an effective counteroffensive. But despite the current
intensity of Conservative momentum, an agenda that risks a continuation of
the status quo will result in defeat.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics, Political Competition, & the Control of
Public Policy: Elections, Political Parties, Political Factions,
Ideologies, Special Interest Groups, & Political Corruption
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
U.S. Constitutional Law & Political Philosophy
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 has been active in Wyoming
politics for many years. Contact information, along with his archives, can be
found at www.chrisadamo.com
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