By Roger F. Gay
Shocking headline, I know. But I'm not just seeking attention.
Over the past few decades, we have been unable to slow the march of the Political Class toward absolute control. Big Media's insistence on classing Republican presidential candidates as “first tier” down to bottom guarantees that the race for the nomination will come down to the worst few. Even in such hopeless times, there is a classic American maneuver aimed at slowing the acceleration toward our ultimate demise.
It's based on the old “divide and conquer” strategy. We've often put one party in power in the White House and another in power in Congress and even divided power between the two Houses. Then our hope, at least for buying a bit more time, lies in discouraging too much friendly bi-partisan cooperation. It hasn't worked as well as it should lately. In the intoxicating Washington environment, RINOs and Dems fall quickly in love – both wanting to “get something done” and “compromising” their way right back onto the fast track to doom. Then came the Tea Party.
Let's just take another quick look at Big Media's “top-tier” candidates today.
We have Mitt Romney, who embraced HillaryCare after lengthy open analysis and debate led to an incontrovertible conclusion that it's a genuinely stupid idea. He's a guy who never met a federal dollar he didn't like to spend or a Constitutional liberty he didn't want to crush. He spent considerable time as Governor twisting arms to accelerate the cost and power of government. Constantly portraying himself as whatever kind of guy the audience is looking for makes him a highly competitive candidate among the other bunch of liars on the stage. I'll put that in my bottom tier, thank you; no matter how many times he mentions Ronald Reagan.
Rick Perry exploded into the national scene and has quickly managed to make global warming hysteria popular again. That's right. Statistics are up on public belief in catastrophic man-made global warming. Perry is the stereotype the left has been looking for – the poster child for doubting evolution and the left's big “climate science” scam for the same reasons; a representative of the “religious right” who doesn't believe in climate change because it's not in the Bible. If he wins the White House in 2012, Al Gore might have a shot in 2016 along with an entire army of Big Green Nazis to fill the seats in Congress.
A win by either of Big Media's Republican favorites would be catastrophic. Romney would continue down the far left fast-track while pretending to be a “fiscal conservative,” just as he did as governor of Massachusetts. It worked then and would likely have a chilling effect on protests against out-of-control government. Perry would wave his arms like an old-time revivalist and ask us to believe in – God knows what and only God knows why – heading only God knows where while handing big wins to the left in their propaganda wars. We've come too far to want to take ten steps back for any reason.
Naaaah, it's got me thinking. Let's just not do that.
Put more serious Tea Partiers in Congress. Bring Obama to a halt and spend a couple of years impeaching him. Then start in on Joe Biden if he's still there. That'll slow things down. Perhaps we'll even manage to make the point that members of the Political Class, even if elected president, are not above the law.
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Wow- unfortunately, this makes total sense.
ReplyDeleteAlso gives hope to those of us who believe a conservative victory becomes less and less possible. Given the fact that less than 50% of the population is required to pay fed. income tax, the possibility of a conservative pres.+ conservative congress may never again be possible. Smart thinking!