Some people think that our most important President was George Washington.\u00a0 The theory is that Washington could have become a king, but instead he chose to leave office voluntarily resulting in a peaceful transfer of power.\u00a0 I personally think that John Adams was more important than George Washington.\u00a0 Washington was getting old and it appears he may have just wanted to retire. He chose John Adams to be the next President, so he was comfortable with the transfer of power.\u00a0 Washington had no children, so there was really never an option of him choosing a son or daughter to take over.\u00a0 This is not to criticize Washington; it is just to put his decision in perspective.<\/p>\n
But, John Adams did want to continue being President.\u00a0 Jefferson and Adams were vicious political opponents by the time of the 1800 election.\u00a0 Adams was bitter about the defeat and he thought Jefferson would be a terrible President.\u00a0 Yet, Adams voluntarily turned over power to Jefferson.\u00a0 In doing so, he established the tradition of a peaceful transfer of power, even when the results of the election are disappointing.<\/p>\n
In Wisconsin, we have the opposite result.\u00a0 The Republicans won control of the Assembly and the Senate.\u00a0 Scott Walker was elected Governor.\u00a0 Democrats were outraged because they strongly disagreed with the legislation proposed by Republicans.\u00a0 They have a right to feel that way, and they have a right to voice their opposition.\u00a0 But, unfortunately, all the Democratic Senators fled the state and the Democratic National Committee organized protests in an attempt to make it impossible for a peaceful transfer of power.\u00a0 They resorted to extortion in their desperate attempt to regain political power.\u00a0 The message sent by those Democrats is that elections only matter if they win.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Unfortunately, the main stream media, including Fox News, does not grasp the significance of this action.\u00a0 There are always a lot of people who are upset at the results of any election.\u00a0 There were a lot of conservatives who were horrified when the 2008 election gave huge majorities in both the House and the Senate to Democrats.\u00a0 They were even more concerned when Barack Obama was elected President of the United States.\u00a0 Many of them predicted, correctly, that Democrats would abuse this power to pass controversial legislation that would destroy our economy, nationalize health care and promote their radical left-wing agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In my opinion, we are paying a terrible price, worldwide, for putting Democrats in power.\u00a0\u00a0 But, the solution is to win the next election; it is not to disregard our democratic process because we don\u2019t like the results.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Today, people all over the Middle East are protesting their government.\u00a0 I am certain that many of them genuinely want freedom and democracy.\u00a0 I just hope they follow the example of John Adams and not the Wisconsin Democratic Party.\u00a0 Freedom is not flee<\/em>dom.<\/p>\n \u00a0TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some people think that our most important President was George Washington.\u00a0 The theory is that Washington could have become a king, but instead he chose to leave office voluntarily resulting in a peaceful transfer of power.\u00a0 I personally think that … Continue reading