Vincent Fiore
Time for some political knee-capping
By Vincent Fiore
At times, there is a real need to step outside of one's box and do something totally foreign in regard to that person's natural inclination. This applies to political parties as well.
At last count, the U.S. has two major parties. One of them, the Democratic Party, has absolute power on Capitol Hill. The party's leaders run the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. In both houses of Congress, Democrats rule with comfortable margins.
And why not? George W. Bush wasn't even in Washington yet, let alone sworn in as the nation's 43rd president before Democrats started an organized chant of hate against him. A dutifully agenda-driven media merrily chanted along, as the "selected" or "illegitimate" president awaited inauguration day to begin his term in office.
The left never let up. Even when the events of 9/11 brought a nation to its knees, Bush essentially got a three-week reprieve from the Democrats' ceaseless attacks until they savaged him anew, for inaction against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban no less.
To make matters worse, Bush continued to parrot his "new tone" refrain — which just infuriated rank and file conservatives — as if the Democratic Party hierarchy would ascend to this higher plateau of political debate.
No. We are talking about the Democratic Party, a party that is rhetorically monosyllabic. Democrat Party leaders know of no other way but to be as verbally ugly as possible to their Republicans counterparts.
Be it eight years before, during, or even, I will venture, after Bush, the left has kept and will keep a steady cadence of hate against anything other than their policies, and of those Republican politicians who would presume to stand in their way.
And these days, when a few hardy souls decide to stand up to President Obama and company, out pop the GOP's "New Republicans."
Does anyone with a few brain cells to rub together believe that the likes of Christopher Buckley, David Frum, Peggy Noonan, or that paragon of republicanism, Colin Powell, represent anything other than the elitist (read as: liberal) northeast establishment that spawned them?
These are the people who will lead the "New Republican" Party? The very people who voted for Barack Obama? I guess I'm just one of those out-of-touch conservative throwbacks that haven't gotten the news that the age of Reaganism is dead.
Well, the age of Reagan is only dead to those who wish it so. What needs to happen is, quite simply, Mr. Powell and the rest of the "New Republican" Party spokesmen need to be sent packing. There is nothing lacking with tried and true conservatism. What is lacking is a full-throated and clear-voiced messenger to articulate its platforms.
That voice may belong to Sarah Palin, or that voice could very well come from Mitt Romney. It could be someone else who has yet to rise from a beleaguered yet recovering Republican Party.
But whoever steps up and becomes the GOP standard-bearer, know this: Democrats will not "spare the rod" if you'll pardon the phrase. Every candidate the GOP fields in 2010 and 1212 will be continually savaged and treated as a virus to be in turn eliminated by the Democrats, and predictably, the liberal media as well.
The GOP might want to listen to what then-candidate Obama said at a fundraiser in Philadelphia on June 13, 2008: "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."
And since Democrats have been bringing guns to political fights for years, I suggest the GOP bring not just "a" gun, but many guns.
Republicans will either grow a backbone when dealing in the blood sport of politics, or be permanently relegated to the political wilderness.
So the next time you hear some well-meaning Republican retread wax on about the need to grow the party by abandoning conservative principles for those of the left, simply show him the door.
In fact, open it for him, and let it hit'em in the rear for good measure. Surely, the last eight years have shown how serious the Democratic Party plays the game of politics. It is well past the time that the GOP turns the game around on Democrats and these well-meaning but fatuous "New Republicans" as well.
The time to do what has seemingly eluded Republicans these many years is fight, and fight to kill; politically that is.
© Vincent Fiore
July 15, 2009
At times, there is a real need to step outside of one's box and do something totally foreign in regard to that person's natural inclination. This applies to political parties as well.
At last count, the U.S. has two major parties. One of them, the Democratic Party, has absolute power on Capitol Hill. The party's leaders run the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. In both houses of Congress, Democrats rule with comfortable margins.
And why not? George W. Bush wasn't even in Washington yet, let alone sworn in as the nation's 43rd president before Democrats started an organized chant of hate against him. A dutifully agenda-driven media merrily chanted along, as the "selected" or "illegitimate" president awaited inauguration day to begin his term in office.
The left never let up. Even when the events of 9/11 brought a nation to its knees, Bush essentially got a three-week reprieve from the Democrats' ceaseless attacks until they savaged him anew, for inaction against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban no less.
To make matters worse, Bush continued to parrot his "new tone" refrain — which just infuriated rank and file conservatives — as if the Democratic Party hierarchy would ascend to this higher plateau of political debate.
No. We are talking about the Democratic Party, a party that is rhetorically monosyllabic. Democrat Party leaders know of no other way but to be as verbally ugly as possible to their Republicans counterparts.
Be it eight years before, during, or even, I will venture, after Bush, the left has kept and will keep a steady cadence of hate against anything other than their policies, and of those Republican politicians who would presume to stand in their way.
And these days, when a few hardy souls decide to stand up to President Obama and company, out pop the GOP's "New Republicans."
Does anyone with a few brain cells to rub together believe that the likes of Christopher Buckley, David Frum, Peggy Noonan, or that paragon of republicanism, Colin Powell, represent anything other than the elitist (read as: liberal) northeast establishment that spawned them?
These are the people who will lead the "New Republican" Party? The very people who voted for Barack Obama? I guess I'm just one of those out-of-touch conservative throwbacks that haven't gotten the news that the age of Reaganism is dead.
Well, the age of Reagan is only dead to those who wish it so. What needs to happen is, quite simply, Mr. Powell and the rest of the "New Republican" Party spokesmen need to be sent packing. There is nothing lacking with tried and true conservatism. What is lacking is a full-throated and clear-voiced messenger to articulate its platforms.
That voice may belong to Sarah Palin, or that voice could very well come from Mitt Romney. It could be someone else who has yet to rise from a beleaguered yet recovering Republican Party.
But whoever steps up and becomes the GOP standard-bearer, know this: Democrats will not "spare the rod" if you'll pardon the phrase. Every candidate the GOP fields in 2010 and 1212 will be continually savaged and treated as a virus to be in turn eliminated by the Democrats, and predictably, the liberal media as well.
The GOP might want to listen to what then-candidate Obama said at a fundraiser in Philadelphia on June 13, 2008: "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."
And since Democrats have been bringing guns to political fights for years, I suggest the GOP bring not just "a" gun, but many guns.
Republicans will either grow a backbone when dealing in the blood sport of politics, or be permanently relegated to the political wilderness.
So the next time you hear some well-meaning Republican retread wax on about the need to grow the party by abandoning conservative principles for those of the left, simply show him the door.
In fact, open it for him, and let it hit'em in the rear for good measure. Surely, the last eight years have shown how serious the Democratic Party plays the game of politics. It is well past the time that the GOP turns the game around on Democrats and these well-meaning but fatuous "New Republicans" as well.
The time to do what has seemingly eluded Republicans these many years is fight, and fight to kill; politically that is.
© Vincent Fiore
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