CARPE DIEM

For the first time, perhap ever, there is a real change for fundamental change in Washington.  Barack Obama ran on a promise of change, but in reality he merely accelerated the rapid slide toward socialism that started long ago.  What is remarkable is that real change is not limited to the United States.  All over the world, the electorate has finally been forced to acknowledge the complete and total failure of socialism.  Perhaps we needed a disaster like Barack Obama to wake people up from their decades long slumber.

Here are key events to consider:    

Bob Bennet, RINO, was defeated in the primary election in Utah.

Charlie Crist, RINO,  lost in the primary election in Florida.  He promptly decided he is now an independent and has proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, why he always was a RINO.

John McCain, RINO, managed to survive.  Recently it is increasingly hard to reconcile the John McCain who ran for President with the John McCain runing for re-election to the Senate. 

Lisa Murkowski, RINO, was defeated in the primary election in Utah

The Republican establishment candidate in Nevada lost.  Many people thought that would allow Harry Reid to keep his Senate Seat.  But, Sharron Angle now looks like she will win that race.

Mike Castle, the most liberal Republican in the House, is running to replace Joe Biden in the Senate from Delaware.  If the recent polls are accurate, he may not survive the primary election.  Christine O’Donnell, opposed by the Republican Establishment may just win. 

The main stream media thinks the Republicans are blowing their chance to win big this fall by passing over well established candidates for untested newcomers.  But, if they are wrong, we may see something more important that Republicans winning back the House and the Senate.  We may see Conservatives winning back the Republican Party.

Joe Miller won in Alaska because of the endorsement of Sarah Palin and the infusion of cash and a great media buy by the Tea Party Express.  These are the same people who got Sharron Angle the nomination in Nevada and are may just tip the scales in Delaware.   Democrats and the liberal left thought they had destroyed the Tea Party Express when they managed to pressure the Tea Party Express into having Mark Williams to resign for writing an admittedly racist article.   But, the Tea Party Express is far from dead and managed to pour over $200,000 into the Delaware primary.   One thing is clear, the Tea Party Express is pretty good at raising funds and are very effective at using it.  For the first time we are seeing some genuine hard hitting conservative ads and they are having a major impact on elections. 

Progressives, in both parties, have dominated the agenda for the past 50 years.  The only difference between the two parties was often measured only by the speed of the slide into socialism.  For this reason I am posting the following reminder of what conservatives really believe:

Barry Goldwater said it very well in 1964.  It’s too bad enough people weren’t listening:

  • I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is “needed” before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
    • The Conscience of A Conservative (1960), p. 15

Goldwater was 50 years ahead of his time!

His acceptance speech from 1964, in San Francisco, of all places, still resonates today!

  • I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue
    • Acceptance Speech – 1964                                                                                                                     
  • Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
    • Acceptance Speech 1964

Goldwater would be proud of the Tea Party movement today.  The Republican Party would be wise to just run on a platform to adopt the principles laid down by Barry Goldwater in 1960. 

TDM