THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XIII, Issue # 65, March 9, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
HOW DEMOCRATS INTEND TO WIN BIG IN 2012
By Christopher G. Adamo
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS' STRATEGY FOR VICTORY IN THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS OF 2012: STILL EARLY ENOUGH IN THE 2012
ELECTION CYCLE FOR CONSERVATIVES TO RECOGNIZE THE NATURE OF THE BATTLE THAT AWAITS THEM, & TO TAKE THE
NECESSARY CORRECTIVE ACTION TO AVOID THE CATASTROPHE OF BOTH HOUSES OF THE U.S. CONGRESS BEING
CONTROLLED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY & ITS LIBERAL WING -- THE ABILITY OF CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS TO
PREVAIL IN THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS, AS WELL AS PREVENT A COMEBACK FOR PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN
OBAMA & HIS LIBERAL LEFTIST MINIONS -- THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT & THE CURRENT MOOD OF THE AMERICAN
VOTERS -- NO MORE FIASCOS OF RINO "MODERATION"
FULL STORY:
Throughout 2010, Liberals sought to diffuse Conservative momentum and comfort themselves with the notion that this
was not 1994, and therefore any repeat of the Republican landslide victory of that year was hardly an inevitability.
However, in the wake of last year’s elections, which easily eclipsed the Gingrich Revolution in scope and intensity, the
new Liberal rejoinder is that this era is indeed a repeat of those events that now portend recuperative gains for the
Democrats in the Congress in next year’s elections, as well as a resounding comeback for President Barack Obama.
Unfortunately, the Liberal Democrats' propaganda offensive has merit, and certain significant parallels do exist. Yet, it is
still early enough in the 2012 election cycle (Yes, that dreaded season is indeed prematurely upon us.) for Conservatives
to recognize the nature of the battle that awaits them, and to take the necessary corrective action to avoid such a
catastrophe. As has historically been the case, this contest is entirely theirs to win or lose. The ability of the
Republicans to prevail is entirely in their hands, and will ultimately be determined by their political spine, or lack thereof.
If present trends remain unchanged, the biggest campaign topic will be the economy. Republicans are uniquely
positioned at present to make even greater gains in the Congress than they achieved last fall, merely by contrasting
themselves against the Democrats' status quo. As a principled opposition to the outlandish spending practices of
Obama and his minions on Capitol Hill, Republicans could make the case that a new course needs to be charted, if the
country is to avoid financial calamity.
The down side of this situation, at least from a Beltway insider perspective, is that doing so requires serious and severe
budget cuts be implemented on short order. And that is a tack that the GOP has been pathetically inept at pursuing,
partly because they lack the collective resolve to confront the problem or face the certain firestorm that will ensue, and
partly because their whole approach to “governing” is so thoroughly jaded with Washington thinking.
President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party majorities of 2008 knew that if they could somehow drastically bloat
the budget beyond any previous proportions, the Republican response would be to treat the latest levels of government
waste as the new “baseline” from which they must therefore be compelled to operate. As a result, annual deficits, such as
the $170 billion of 2007, would henceforth be the stuff of ancient history. Since 2008, the Democrats have regularly run
deficits exceeding $1 trillion. Yet the Republicans are now loathe to keep their promise to cut even a hundred billion from
those exorbitant sums.
Having conceded the criminally outlandish premises of “TARP,” Obama’s “stimulus” slush fund, and the tectonic trend
of the federal government to continually grow its ranks and its financial coffers, the present Republican timidity on
reducing the budget only serves to dishearten those at the grassroots who held rallies during the past two years
demanding such reductions. Serious budget cutting would of course generate the predictable outcries from every
victimized special interest group. But failing to do so will surely cause a much sterner and louder response from Real
America, whose pockets are being summarily picked in order to fund the madness.
Pressing forward on another front, the political Left is once again playing the “race card,” making regular mention of
Obama's ethnicity as the real motivation for any opposition he faces, as was the case during Obama’s first campaign cycle.
By such means, Liberals intend to hamstring any Republican opponent from dealing directly with Obama’s manifold
fumblings and the glaring failures of his first term.
Thus, the innumerable episodes of groveling at the feet of foreign leaders, the abominable breaches of justice by Eric
Holder, Obama’s Attorney General, the flagrant trampling of constitutional limits on the scope of his office, the deliberate
and malicious undercutting of the nation’s economy, or the dangerous and pernicious prohibition of oil drilling in the Gulf
can hardly be candidly discussed in their full magnitude. Doing so would be interpreted as criticism “based on his race,”
and therefore taboo.
Abetted by their Liberal parrots in the “mainstream” media, Democrats have lately been playing the “hate card” virtually
non-stop, and are laying the necessary groundwork to ensure that those on the political Right are forced into an entirely
defensive posture, which is and has always been a guaranteed loser. And this effort has gone into overdrive ever since
the January 8, 2011, mass murder by the deranged gunman Jared Loughner in Tucson.
However, even before the tragedy in Arizona, the standard Democrat/media ruse has been to characterize any opposition
to their abhorrent agenda as some form of “hate.” Efforts to slow the ongoing holocaust of abortion are rebranded as
“hatred of women.” The drive to preserve the time-honored and unalterable definition of marriage is recast as “hatred of
homosexuals.” And attempts to shore up our national borders, a standard practice of any country in history that wanted
to preserve its culture and its national integrity, are decried as “hatred of those who look different from us.”
So, how can Conservatives hope to prevail in such a jaded environment? And more significantly, who will they find to
carry their banner, hopefully all the way to the White House? If they expect to navigate the course laid out for them by
the political Left, the answer is that absolutely nobody will fit the bill. A contest fought entirely on terms laid out by the
opposition is an exercise in futility. Avoiding any discussion of the sordid nature of the Liberal opposition, and focusing
instead entirely on “the issues” as defined by the Left, means campaigning against the utopia they invariably promise.
Moreover, a candidate who refuses to address the glaring hypocrisy and fraud of the Liberal opposition is exhibiting
moral cowardice cloaked in the sanctimony of “refraining from personal attacks.” Such politicians have historically gone
soft at critical junctures, once in office, and do not inspire confidence from the electorate, since they telegraph ahead of
time that they do not play to win. After the fiascos of Republican “moderation” during the last decade, voters are in no
mood for more of the same.
On the other hand, if the fervency of the past election cycle, as epitomized by the grassroots Conservatism of the “Tea
Party,” can remain on course and unfazed by the derision from the Liberal Leftist political establishment, it can continue
forward with unstoppable momentum. Self-assured Conservatives, who are unafraid to trumpet their cause and willing to
properly portray those on the Left whose deeds have damaged the nation, can carry their banner to victory, and offer the
nation a reprieve from the disastrous course of the past several years.
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.
Ethnic & Racial Politics in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Fiscal Policy: Taxation & Government Spending
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 resident of southeastern Wyoming. He has been involved in politics at the local and state
level for many years. His contact information and article archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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