Saturday - February 02, 2008

Crivens, Part III - Tis a heavy thing, tae be under a geas

As usual, Rachel Lucas weighs in with some fine writing and delivers a WAKE UP slapdown to the VRWC anti-McCain temper tantrum of this past week. As usual she gets linked from Instapundit, and as usual Bill Whittle provides a really insightful comment.

Damn, I am so jealous. I want to be an internet insider too. Maybe if I was a better writer, or could at least generate some original content. Oh well, I’m just getting started with this bloggy stuff, so give me time.

I had the thought last night that the rabid reaction to McCain this week was akin to the piercing of a boil that has been growing for a long time. A very long time. All the way back to the 1972 oil embargo and the USA “losing” the Vietnam War (after our troops won every single major engagement they fought in and Nixon gave us Peace With Honor and brought the troops home). Frustrations and disappointment with a government that kept moving to the left and acting weak. Living through the embarrassment of Carter and the hostage crisis and his malaise speech (written by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews). It’s been a tough lifetime to be a Conservative in.

Sure, things were looking up when Reagan was in office. But let’s not forget the reality - that the media hammered him 24/7. That his economic policies - Reaganomics - would never work. That he was driving the nation into irreversible debt. That he was bringing on Armageddon and was going to get us all killed in a nuclear holocaust. That old folks, poor folks, and minorities would be left to starve. That he hated gays and thought they deserved the AIDS epidemic. A huge part of the population thought he was nuts. I knew people who were thrilled when he was shot, after being in office only a couple months. The far left was unhinged then too. Yet the economy moved into high gear and he was reelected in 1984. It took the media and the pundits nearly two decades to realize that he was one of our greatest Presidents ever, two decades during which your pointing out this now accepted wisdom got you labeled as a crackpot. Even when the poor old man left this mortal coil, the newsies were just about bleeding through their eyes because they were forced to say something nice about him.

1988 brought us George H.W. Bush and his “kinder and gentler nation” approach. Reagan-lite. 1991 seemed to be the peak of it all, with the decisive campaign in the Persian Gulf War. That was an amazing victory, but I remember screaming at my TV for them to finish the job and oust Hussein. Didn’t happen. After that it seemed like Mr. Bush just coasted along. He just wasn’t trying. And that brought us to the Clinton Years. Weakness followed weakness. And it became popular.

I’m not going to write about the Clintons. If you lived through it as a Conservative, then you know. Let’s just say that it wasn’t a happy time. And somehow, at the end, after all the scandals and disgraces and foolish policy, after all the dirty money schemes and corruption, we came to the 2000 election of Bush vs Gore. And the dishonorable fiasco of “chad”.

The past 7 years have been brutal. BDS on a daily basis. The War On Terror where “you’re either with us, or with the terrorists”, but we don’t seem to be fighting it that hard. Seriously. Yes, our troops are doing a superb job, and I love them for it. But they only go where they’re told to, and they do what they’re told to. From my Conservative viewpoint, the GWoT has been a rather weak willed affair. Remember Fallujah? “Fallujah delenda est”? I would have bombed the place flat in a day as an object lesson. Nope, that fight got put on hold for months. Until just after the next election. Amazing coincidence. Palestine? A weekend for the Marines, and it’s over. Forever. Nope. Instead we now have Condi doing her damnedest to give away the entire nation of Israel so that Bush II can have some kind of “peace legacy”. Like I said, there have been a lot of frustrations as everything has shifted to the left and the will of our leaders has leaked away. I’ll toss in the MSM, “fake but accurate”, bloggers in pajamas, and all the defeatist, treasonous diatribes by Harry Reid and Keith Olbermann and hundreds more like them. Theirs is the “popular wisdom” we’re up against every day. Being a Conservative has not been good for the blood pressure. Take it from me, I live in New Jersey. It really sucks being a Republican these days.

Now we come down to this election cycle. All of the Republican hoped-fors never even made it into the ring. Remember when we thought Colin Powell would make a wise, strong president? Remember when Condi came on the scene and we were all so very impressed by her intelligence and strengths? Neither one turned out to be what we thought. With no clear successor to Mr. Bush available, we went into this cycle (insanely early IMO, which only adds to the stress) with perhaps the biggest group of hopefuls ever. And at this point every single one of the real Conservatives has dropped out. Tancredo was for securing the borders but he turned out to be “a one note pony”. Hunter. Thompson. The other Thompson. All gone. Guiliani, gone. Huckabee, soon to fall off the edge and disappear. Ron Paul, who has some great ideas rattling around in his belfry but can’t express them without sounding unhinged. All the men we felt would stand up for What Is Right ... gone. It’s terrible. So we’re left with two choices: a left leaning RINO who might be crazy, who seems to have a huge amount of left wing money and staff, who has given us some of the worst legislation in modern history, and whom we do not at all believe has seen the light on illegal immigration. And then there’s oily Mitt Romney. Of the two, it looks to me like Mitt is “the lesser of two weevils” and that also adds to the frustration. I didn’t want to have to make that kind of choice this time. Not again. And now McCain, the current media darling, has opened up a modest lead in the primaries. One state. Which means, if you listen to the MSM and their Poll-A-Minute, that it’s all over, and he is the de facto nominee.

Horseshit.

But that horseshit may have been the pin that popped the balloon, the scalpel that lanced the boil. And all the puss and hot air has just burst out. We’ve all had our crazy moment now. Me too! Now I think we’re all feeling a bit better (I’m very glad that nobody is threatening to move to Canada. At least we’re not that stupid), so let’s get back to getting the job done. I’m going to push for Mitt now because I feel I have no other choice. He does have a lot of good qualities, and he has some good positions I can get behind. He isn’t perfect, but neither am I. So I’ll get on board.

And if Super Tuesday turns out to be All Johnny, All The Time, then I’ll have another conniption, but only for a short while because I can see it coming. Then I’ll join the (gag) Straight Talk Express and do what I can. Because, whatever else may be wrong with him, John McCain will not cave on the War on Terror, and those two on the other side - the Socialist and the Anti-Christ - will. Every other issue we can survive, work around, and correct later on. We can not give in to the islamofascists, ever. And that alone will make me vote for McCain if I have to in November.

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