Posted by
Bert Chapman on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:15:15 PM
November 4, 1980 was an exciting and rewarding day for me. As an 18 year old, I cast my first presidential election vote. It was for Ronald Reagan and I also cast my first U.S. Senate vote for Dan Quayle and both achieved victory and began the Reagan Revolution which has profoundly shaped my political world view.
Yesterday, I saw the first member of my generation be a major party's presidential nominee. Because he does not share my values, I could not vote for him but I was honored to vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin. Sadly, my vote was not successful. Americans have let themselves be seduced by a fraudulent demagogue with empty and vainglorious promises of change masquerading as historically failed public policies reminiscent of LBJ's Great Society Liberalism, Jimmy Carter's stagflationary malise, infantile class warfare, and Neville Chamberlain-like appeasement of terrorist enemies.
Last year's election demonstrated that America seems to go into a petulant whining funk every 16 years as it did in 1976 and 1992. This childish behavior has resulted in our selecting a president who rails against real or perceived Republican presidential failures but does not bring substantive improvements in public policy. Obama's election last night represents a sign of a nation in serious intellectual regression and moral decline although California's endorsement of a ban against same sex marriage is a remarkably heartening exception. Those supporting Obama are, in many cases, economic, historical, political, moral, and dysfunctional ignoramuses who don't want to do the intellectual heavy lifting or live the morally responsible lives required to be productive citizens. They reflect the abject failure of much of our primary, secondary, and higher educational systems to effectively and properly educate the intelligent, discerning, and virtuous citizenry necessary for effective republican governance.
Many of these individuals let themselves be seduced by high flung rhetoric about change without bothering to scrutinize whether the change Obama seeks to bring will really improve their lives or make this a better country. They continue to cuddle Obama's warm milk rhetoric while they suckle up to the federal government's seemingly limitless fiscal nipple to achieve their physical and mental nourishment.
Ensuing years will see the dangerous consequences of Obama's election in social, economic, foreign, and national security policy as well as judicial appointments. I am looking forward to seeing the disillusionment of the idealistic dimwits supporting Obama as the reality of economic constraints, the U.S. Constitution, existing federal laws and regulations, international political, economic and military constraints, and the political realities of republican governance force Obama to make decisions which will be displeasing to his supporters in the Democratic Party's hard left. As conservatives, we should look forward to the opportunity to tell Obama's imbecilic followers "We told you so" when things go wrong and to ask them "Is this the change you wanted?" when you made your fateful choices on November 4, 2008.
Conservatives will have to make tough decisions regarding our future and I'll make suggestions for possible renewal in later blog postings. If Obama should, by providential circumstance, make a sound decision I'll applaud him for it. The Democrats can no longer engage in their demagogic pillorying of President Bush. They now hold the cards and when their abysmal failures to deliver on their lofty promises become manifest, we Conservatives need to ruthlessly expose them for the frauds that they are no matter how much they or their establishment media allies scream about our purported politics of personal destruction.