Right and Wrong, Do They Matter?
There's an old saying that we are known by the company we keep.
In spite of the culture that wants to tell us that new is good and ideas and things that have been around for a while are just plan old fashioned, this statement has the same ring of truth it did when it was first uttered.
Of course we don't hear too much of this from the media and political elites who proclaim the purity of their messianic president who counts among his associates, past and present, a guy who bombed the Pentagon, a preacher who hates America, a Secretary of the Treasury who didn't pay his taxes and a thug former congressman from Chicago.
It must be difficult for Democrats to look through the prism of right and wrong when their dreams of national domination are so close at hand.
Some of us are not even sure they could find the prism if they waned to.
Minor missteps or major moral failures do not seem to be obstacles when long sought goals are within sight.
Despite claims to the contrary, we are in an era when the end justifies the means.
It's easy to criticize the Democrats, and many of us have been doing it for years.
We catch hold of any failure on their part, even down to the Vice President foolishly thinking JOBS is a three letter word.
The self-righteous among us, myself included, have to look at our reasons for our criticisms of Democratic idiosyncrasies.
Are we really upset with the moral failures of our opponents or is it just one more shoe to throw at people whose policies are so terribly wrong for our country? Are we taking the easy way out with personal attacks rather than actually explaining why our ideas are better? It is kind of the easy way out and the big government crowd provides us with so much material to personally abuse them.
I love Ann Coulter's writings and it's great fun to read and say nasty things about our oppressors, much like elementary school children telling embarrassing stories about their teacher.
However, like childhood tales, our nitpicking does little good.
Besides if we get into an insult contest, we conservatives toften loose.
Our responses tend to be more witty...
often going over the prejudiced head of our adversary, but theirs tend to be more visceral, unbounded by human decency or good taste at times.
We tend to come out second best in the publics' eyes because of the inherent checks built into the conservative and Judaeo-Christian character and mindset.
What then, do we consciously set aside our standards so we, too, can wish kidney failure on the target of our rage? Or do we stay on message as to why the bailouts, nationalized health care or any issue du jour is a bad idea.
The answer is, sort of.
Ron Paul tried this approach and he had some really good ideas.
But he was a little too professorial in his presentation to relate to Joe Sixpack who as been conditioned by sound bite journalism to expect answers in thirty second blocks.
Perhaps we need someone with his grasp of the issues and Ann Coulter's acid wit, combined with a little self deprecation so seldom seen in the political class, to be the spokesperson for the revitalized conservative movement.
A little humor goes a long way in making the hard truths we have to tell more palatable and easily absorbed.
Once we turn the corner where our understanding of the world becomes more common knowledge, we can honestly take on the personal shortcomings within the statist government.
Until then, we are just majoring in minors and the job won't get done.
Until then, even if the personal issues are cured but our direction does not change, we are still on a downward spiral as a nation.
Until then, let's go after those who would control every aspect of our lives with logic, passionate, humility AND humor.
In spite of the culture that wants to tell us that new is good and ideas and things that have been around for a while are just plan old fashioned, this statement has the same ring of truth it did when it was first uttered.
Of course we don't hear too much of this from the media and political elites who proclaim the purity of their messianic president who counts among his associates, past and present, a guy who bombed the Pentagon, a preacher who hates America, a Secretary of the Treasury who didn't pay his taxes and a thug former congressman from Chicago.
It must be difficult for Democrats to look through the prism of right and wrong when their dreams of national domination are so close at hand.
Some of us are not even sure they could find the prism if they waned to.
Minor missteps or major moral failures do not seem to be obstacles when long sought goals are within sight.
Despite claims to the contrary, we are in an era when the end justifies the means.
It's easy to criticize the Democrats, and many of us have been doing it for years.
We catch hold of any failure on their part, even down to the Vice President foolishly thinking JOBS is a three letter word.
The self-righteous among us, myself included, have to look at our reasons for our criticisms of Democratic idiosyncrasies.
Are we really upset with the moral failures of our opponents or is it just one more shoe to throw at people whose policies are so terribly wrong for our country? Are we taking the easy way out with personal attacks rather than actually explaining why our ideas are better? It is kind of the easy way out and the big government crowd provides us with so much material to personally abuse them.
I love Ann Coulter's writings and it's great fun to read and say nasty things about our oppressors, much like elementary school children telling embarrassing stories about their teacher.
However, like childhood tales, our nitpicking does little good.
Besides if we get into an insult contest, we conservatives toften loose.
Our responses tend to be more witty...
often going over the prejudiced head of our adversary, but theirs tend to be more visceral, unbounded by human decency or good taste at times.
We tend to come out second best in the publics' eyes because of the inherent checks built into the conservative and Judaeo-Christian character and mindset.
What then, do we consciously set aside our standards so we, too, can wish kidney failure on the target of our rage? Or do we stay on message as to why the bailouts, nationalized health care or any issue du jour is a bad idea.
The answer is, sort of.
Ron Paul tried this approach and he had some really good ideas.
But he was a little too professorial in his presentation to relate to Joe Sixpack who as been conditioned by sound bite journalism to expect answers in thirty second blocks.
Perhaps we need someone with his grasp of the issues and Ann Coulter's acid wit, combined with a little self deprecation so seldom seen in the political class, to be the spokesperson for the revitalized conservative movement.
A little humor goes a long way in making the hard truths we have to tell more palatable and easily absorbed.
Once we turn the corner where our understanding of the world becomes more common knowledge, we can honestly take on the personal shortcomings within the statist government.
Until then, we are just majoring in minors and the job won't get done.
Until then, even if the personal issues are cured but our direction does not change, we are still on a downward spiral as a nation.
Until then, let's go after those who would control every aspect of our lives with logic, passionate, humility AND humor.
