THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 32, February 14, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
GOP "FRONTRUNNERS" & THE DIXIE CHICKS
By Christopher G. Adamo
AMERICAN POLITICS, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, & PREPARATIONS FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2008:
POLITICAL PRINCIPLES & MORAL VALUES VERSUS PRAGMATISM & POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY -- THE PROBLEM WITH THE
GOP'S NOMINATING A "MODERATE" (I.E., LIBERAL) AS ITS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN THE 2008 ELECTION -- WHAT
WILL BE THE PROBABLE CONSEQUENCE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADERSHIP'S TURNING IT'S BACK ON THE PARTY'S
CONSERVATIVE BASE & GIVING SHORT SHRIFT TO THE CONSERVATIVES' STRONGLY-HELD POLITICAL & SOCIAL
PRINCIPLES? WHAT WILL BE THE LIKELY RESULT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ELITE'S IGNORING THE CONCERNS &
VALUES OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT?
FULL STORY:
So many invaluable lessons can be gleaned from the spectacle of this year’s
thoroughly politicized Grammy Awards that it is difficult to know where to
begin. One in particular should be driven home to the GOP hierarchy, if they
have any intention whatsoever to listen or learn.
By far the biggest news coming out of the Grammys was the virtual “sweep” of
those awards taken by the Dixie Chicks. Yet the event should come as no
surprise, given the guiding philosophy of that segment of the recording
industry.
Though not as widely understood as Hollywood’s “Oscars,” the inner circle of
the recording business operates in a manner similar to the “Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.” Far from being the “vindication” of the
group’s Leftist ideology, as claimed by Liberals within the industry, along
with the Dixie Chicks themselves, the inordinate attention they received
simply proves the existence of a similar mindset among the industry’s
insiders.
America has grown weary and disgusted with incessant attempts by the
Hollywood counterculture to remold the nation into its own image. Were their
philosophies actually representative of the mainstream, movies such as
“Brokeback Mountain,” the predictable tale of “romance” between two gay
sheepherders, would indeed enjoy popularity commensurate with the enormous
publicity it received.
Instead, Americans remain frustratingly loyal to the traditional depictions
of courage, heroism and masculinity, which are genuinely reflective of America's traditional
values and the nation's roots.
Similarly, the Dixie Chicks repertoire has all but gone extinct among the
country music stations of the American heartland. And despite efforts by
recording industry “elites” to tell America otherwise, this situation will
assuredly remain unchanged by Sunday’s love fest.
Instead, those unenlightened country stations will go on playing the sort of
time-honored flag-waving, America celebrating fare that real Americans have
grown to love, and are not ready to abandon simply because Natalie Maines,
Jane Fonda, or Barbara Streisand tell them they should.
Oddly, those with the greatest need to comprehend the significance of this
episode are the current leadership of the Republican Party. For, although
Liberals generally ascribe to a “herd mentality” (perhaps “mob mentality” would be the
better descriptor) and therefore can be readily programmed and directed from
above, their counterparts on the political and cultural Right -- i.e., the true Conservatives -- are unshakably committed to a set of
guiding principles that transcend partisan politics and political ideology. And these Conservatives will remain immovable,
despite the most fervent efforts of amoral and unprincipled opportunists -- socalled "pragmatists" and "realists" -- to
persuade them otherwise. The principled Conservatives will not be moved by the Liberal Leftists and political opportunists, not even
by those in the Republican Party, much less by those that comprise the vast majority in the Democratic Party.
As the 2008 election campaign season opens, Republicans are told that their best hope
to succeed George Bush in 2008 must come from a field of only three
candidates -- John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Guiliani. According to the
“conventional wisdom” of GOP insiders, the Conservative base simply must rally to them,
since only one of these three can possibly win the Republican primaries to
be held early next year.
Yet, what is not being publicly admitted is that not any of three mentioned as
potential Republican presidential candidates -- McCain, Romney, and Guiliani -- has any
possible chance of winning in the general election.
Conservative America will neither accept a definition of its best interests
that has been dictated by a wholly "pragmatic," unprincipled party elite, nor will it be
stampeded into compliance merely out of an inordinate fear of Hillary
Clinton or Barak Obama. Such an approach is guaranteed to bring in
approximately forty percent of the vote and no more, which in turn
translates into a guarantee of defeat.
Yet, aside from an actual victory in 2008, Liberal Republicans have another
goal for their party. Rudy Guiliani in particular holds the best hope of GOP
“moderates” to fulfill their pathetic dreams of expunging, once and for all,
any vestiges of the despised “religious Right” from their midst. For in
order to support the likes of Guiliani, Christian Traditionalists, Christian Conservatives, would be
required to suspend (only temporarily of course), their heartfelt
convictions regarding the defining moral issues of the times.
Nevertheless, from that day forward, the party leadership would know without
any doubt that they need not ever take such “convictions” seriously again.
In a pinch, they could always rely on the “religious right” to go for even
the slight “lesser of two evils.” And henceforth, that is all they would
ever offer.
With their consistent blindness, these “moderates” remain ignorant of the
fact that, if expelled from the workings of the Republican Party, Christian
Conservatives would take with them not only their views, but also their
votes.
Of course, Conservative America is continually reminded of the significance
of the terrorist threat that it faces, and of Guiliani’s likely competence
in confronting that threat. But it is ludicrous to presume that America
could possibly remain steadfast against the incursion of militant Islam from
abroad if, within the nations borders, its moral and spiritual foundations
crumble.
Despite election cycle platitudes meant to appease the the Republican Party's Rightwing base,
Guiliani, and no less Romney or McCain, would seriously undermine that
critical line of defense. Such societal degradation constitutes an enabling
threat, ultimately greater than militant Islam itself.
The Conservative “grassroots” simply will not abandon its heartfelt concerns
in order to mindlessly devote itself to the interests of the “elites” within
the GOP. Republican Party leaders who believe they can force Conservatives to betray
such core principles, all for the sake of a single election, are “whistling
Dixie.”
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Morality, Decency, & Traditional American Family Values
Religion, Secularism, & America
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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