September 28, 2012 - 12:46 am
- It’s the Gas Prices, Stupid, by Paula Bolyard. Team Romney needs to get out of the coal weeds and stay focused on the issue that really matters to Ohio voters.
- An Economic Primer: Why Americans Won’t Invest in Themselves, by David P. Goldman. Barack Obama has turned us into our own worst enemies.
- Western Courts Bend to Islamic Practices, by David J. Rusin. Courts that yield to Islamic norms encourage Islamists and cast doubt on the future of equal rights and responsibilities under the law.
- Obama at the UN: The Speech That Had Nothing to Do With Anything, by Barry Rubin. His words did not remotely match the reality of the Middle East (or his record).
- Picture This: Netanyahu’s Clear Red Line Steals the 67th UNGA, by Bridget Johnson. Bibi: “Today, a great battle is being waged between the modern and the medieval.”
- The Five False Assumptions Behind Poll-Skewing , by Zombie. Amateur mass psychology as campaign strategy?
- [VIDEO] Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama Because He Gives Out Free Cell Phones, by Bryan Preston. Takers.
- Crazifornia: How California Is Committing Suicide, by Bookworm. Behold the handiwork of the leftist Rube Goldbergs wasting taxpayer money in the Golden State.
State of the Union, 28 Sep 2012–As we face he very real possibility of an Obama win, I would like to say that I honestly believe we have passed the point where the Founders would have been in say, 1770-3. In other words, many realizing there was a long-term serious problem that showed no signs of being resolved by a relenting of the power structure, but hope was still held. Having said that, I do think the Founders, as a generation, if plopped down today, would have already resorted to arms, though not yet declared independence, and that’s because I believe they finally revolted because many had long figured out where the Brits were going (“we will make America our little crony capitalist paradise for the benefit of us, not you, and you colonists will do as you are told–in all things whatsoever”) and were finally able to convince a sufficient number that no change was likely forthcoming from England–and because they were men who thought like owners and proprietors of something, not renters or employees, as we default to all too often. In other words, there was a real threat, and they were just ornerier than we are today. To our loss in the comparison. Some times you *should* be ornery.
Today, we have serious issues–moral, philosophical, economic, international, all interlinked– demanding serious changes and the only thing we are being told is how Romney made this or that gaffe. Well, nuts to that. If you people want to be ran over by a steamroller that is showing no desire or inclination to change course, continue as you have been doing. You’ll get that desire fulfilled.
National GOP folks winning office is just a stop-gap. Something else is needed.
I repeat again–national GOP elections are just a stop-gap, and in practice usually poor ones. There is nothing in the last twenty years to indicate that a Mitt Romney or DeLay or Boehner or Hastert or McConnell is in any way, shape, or form going to significantly alter the trajectory of the academia-activist-entertainment complex to the slightest iota–and that’s the thing powering the left. It’s their warp core.
We need something else, and we need it now.
And I say all this because elections *can* be immense opportunities to bring before the people things that challenge the conventional wisdom of the left and that cause the people to change their habits of thinking–but only if you in fact do things that *force* the people to think about that conventional wisdom.
With a month left, win or lose, the Republicans once again appear to be throwing away an opportunity to change a dynamic, as is their want. They are satisfied to merely graze on what public opinion exists, rather than the harder work of plowing and tilling needed to change it.
By trying to be “safe”, the national GOP continually risks all in the long run. Thus, they are not the answer, but a stop-gap.