I have always respected the right wing. Less government, more liberty. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Leave my doctor unmolested, thank you, and I’ll keep my money in my pocket. The armed forces should not be used as a photo shoot prop for overpaid, overvalued politicians. Vote for Obama! He’s for the army, but he’ll cut out a chunk of money that would go to certifying Marines or producing more weapons. Yup, this war will end in a hurry. I won’t fall for good-feeling words like, “hope” or, “change.” Stop generalizing and give me the game plan for your political agenda.
There’s an exception coming up. Could you feel it?
My problem with the right wing is this: we are fighting in the wrong arena. For the kind of change we are looking for, to demand our original liberties, to alter the course of an entire century’s-worth of government expansion, we must take matters into our own hands. That does not only mean voting for the right representatives, but to make our demands a social movement. I’m not talking about a few protesters dumping soda in a New York river, but thousands of people storming the national capital, a la MLK’s “I Have a Dream.” We have to work in a way in which we cannot be ignored by Socialist America. We have already seen 5-6 months of proof of the wheeling and dealing that Obama and his supporters are capable of: can’t get through Congress? Don’t worry about it! We have the bureaucracy in our back pocket! Inspector General suspicious of your antics? He was senile anyway. Check out the fly Obama just swatted!
This amount of power is rediculous. Each day the right wing lets it go in hopes of the next presidential election is another day that our liberties are shrinking. We do not have the next presidential election. We do not have tomorrow. We only have today. The right wing cannot set all its hopes on one person, who may or may not even win the next election. It is fickle and it is unrealistic.
I am embarrassed for the right wing. I am embarrassed of articles implying that God has left America because of its government, or that Christian politicians, or maybe just Sarah Palin, are going to turn this government around. God has not left America, nor will He ever. He is everywhere all the time, and last time I checked, He has never been intimidated by the workings of man. And yes, certain politicians are to blame for the current state of affairs in the government, but it is our fault also. As a people, we have been all too willing to look the other way or to watch and keep our mouths shut. Some of the worst abuses have come from politicians on our own side! This article makes me angry. I am appalled by the gall of Mr. Schwartz to assume he has all the details of Sarah Palin’s personal spiritual life and its reflection on her leadership. Never once did he source an interview with her explaining his statements. Finally, he advocates for fighting in the wrong arena, as I said before, which is funny because it hasn’t worked in the past. Who defined insanity as “Doing the same thing over again and expecting different results?”
Really, if the right wing and Sarah Palin were in a relationship, I’d say the right wing is that obnoxiously clingy girlfriend. And everyone knows what happens to those kinds of girlfriends: they get used, and they get dumped. Shall I say more, or was that picturesque enough?
Be careful, my fellow conservatives, how much you stake in political gambling. We’ve already lost a fortune. Don’t make us leave the table in shame.
4 Comments
July 14, 2009 at 12:41 am
Savage was among the first, if not the first, to label McCain a Manchurian candidate. Palin was the fall guy to take the fault of losing off of him. God forbid her from running in 2012. Social movements are like spiritual highs, here today gone tomorrow; King Jr’s speech came on the heels of 300 years of black slavery. Madison was right about factions, conservatism and right wingers are just two examples – there’s no political salvation in them either. The populace has its head too far up its hedonistic ass to realize the last great statesmen died in the 19th century…politicians seek their own agenda on the backs of the poor, statesmen seek the good of the whole. God may not have left individuals, but he sure as hell has lifted his protection off the country – economic, cultural, foreign attacks, weather problems, etc…the church gave science and social mores to government 200 years ago. Palin shot herself in the foot by opening her mouth and threw her political career under the bus by quitting halfway through one term as governor, typical woman crying foul b/c of *unfair* media scrutiny, christian feminist my ass. Iraq wants the U.S. out of its country, if Obama gets credit for ending that disgrace of a war I’ll scream. If American Thinker thinks Palin is God’s candidate, we should just move to Theocratic Iran.
July 14, 2009 at 10:50 am
We have a dopey “Blue Dog” Democrat congressman down here. He has won twice in a conservative area by telling the voters he’s for guns, against taxes and pro-life. But it turns out he is for all those things only as long as Nancy Pelosi doesn’t need his vote. Hence 2 weeks ago this mental giant voted for cap and trade! I called his office twice before the vote and his staff told me he “hadn’t made his mind up yet.” Then he tells the local radio guy that he was waiting to see what his constituents thought. So we melted his phone lines telling him how much we hated this bill and he STILL voted for it. Then he puts out this lame statement on how this bill is actually so good for us. All this vote accomplished was to make an activist out of me and LOTS of tea-partiers. We’re demonstrating at his local office on Friday.
Now if only he had someone running against him next time who wasn’t a certifiable flake. I think Uncle Babba should run!
July 14, 2009 at 4:06 pm
It’s time for civil disobedience and a nation wide strike. Let all but emergency personnel take 2 days off. They government will convulse like a crack addict. If they tax plastic bottles drink water, If they tax gasoline then just park your car; better yet drive 40 mph on the Interstate. They don’t give a rats rear end what you think. They know what’s best for you. It’s time to take off the gloves and stop being so decorous.
July 15, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Great post Hannah. Excellently thought through and written.
The Right is running around looking for their own version of a messiah and hoping someone saves them. As for Palin, the Left has successfully caricatured her as a twit. She will not make it out of the starting gate in 2012.
Both sides have boxed themselves into corners by not daring to vary from their platforms even in the face of common sense. It drives me crazy.