Posted by
King Vinyl on Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:51:48 PM
In early 2008 talkradio's choice of presidential candidates former Mass. Govenor Mitt Romney dropped out of the race for the GOP nomination after a dismal showing in the Super Tuesdays primary races. Former Arkansas Govenor Mike Huckabee was all that stood in the way of Arizona Senator John McCain from taking a nomination by default. The Blog's were lit up with the claim that even though they didn't like him that we all had to rally behind McCain for the sake of party.
The reason they used was fear, fear that a contested convention would split a party already plagued with an unpopular president. Nothing could have been further from the truth in fact quite the opposite. So our usually wonderfully accurate media employed Clinton key phrase smear tactics in an effort to derail Mike Huckabee despite the fact that his conservative record outclassed Mitt Romney's by a country mile. It seems their new found lack of factual reasoning had spilled into an issolation over party identification a fever that broke the minute she took the stage.
Looking back at New York 23 is an awakeing of conscience that is being revealed not because of a race but as a result of the crowd it drew. A sign worth noting is that the other media has picked up on this trend and is now paddling it’s life raft toward our shores.
Newt Gingrich gave us a slight of hand politcal demonstration of why you don't put your neck on the block for the letter ‘R‘. While Sarah Palin is all the buzz from Oprah to her new book she has jaw dropping Liberals frozen in the headlights over her audacious rise from the mat of friendly fire.
Talk radio has evoloved itself from a instrument of quasi leadership to counselier of factual references as relevant to the topics de jour. What tripped up Republican majority status wasn’t about loosing anyones religion it was all about appeasing our platform's critics. The damaging effects of the “big tent” theory are only trumped by denial of true meaning of “separation of church and state”. The single biggest thing Rush, Glen and Sean do is to remind us of what we believe in as a nation and why. That doesn’t mean that they always agree or that they are always correct.
We don’t need a tent we; we need a leader. Ronald Reagan didn’t have a tent he had a voice of reason. He never stuck a wet finger into the political winds; he told them to stop and take notice. Our founders didn’t always rush into the room with the same ideas either. The ones we remember most challenged their own principles privately against their moral fiber. The “separation of church and state” is not an anti religious decree. It’s a defining principle of proper political representation of a constituentcy as a whole.
Democrats have purposefully distorted ‘church and state’ to allow their messianic agenda a foothold into moral conscience. They have turned morality on it’s head in the lu of their twisted take on reality.
I think Mike McConnell made a good point this weekend but I don’t think he went far enough when he stated we should swap Veterans Day with Memorial Day. Veterans Day is supposed to be day we generally recognize ones service to our nation in peace time and at war. Memorial Day is a day to remember those who lost their lives in service to our nation. But if one didn’t know any better it looks as if we celebrate the dead and lament the service of the living.
Now there are those who believe that the ‘Christian Right’, Independents, Libertarians or minority groups must all be catered to in order to increase our vote margins. When it is that very single issue isolationism that brings us to these divides. A successful GOP 2012 presidential candidate must be able to articulate the party platform without getting tripped up in analytical red tape. Just as no amount of logic minded thought should steer a man from his faith so to must no line of moralistic propaganda decide a matter otherwise unjust.