Sword and Sextant

As the punditocracy and liberal media cheer what they misinterpret as the death of conservatism, its useful to remind them what it is they know that they despise, most likely because it is beyond their comprehension.

Hannity is not the voice of my conservatism, as the entire movement is based on individualism. Same goes for Rush, Levin, and Beck. I’ll say that I was quite disgusted with a recent monologue where Sean said “If this… you aren’t a conservative.” Problem is, it was about 12 items long.

The entire state of mind boils down to a few things. Pay attention, now.

1. Respect for individual rights.
This entails keeping the government away from your life, but allowing it to enforce the law. It also leaves those who refuse to do their daily work to rot. It means a meritocracy, where the Kennedy’s could never happen, but where any man can rise up to greatness. You are the sum of your skills and work ethic.

2. Respect for capitalism.
This entails allowing the wants and needs of people to drive the economy, according to their free action. Again, laws are enforced to prevent corruption and cheating, but otherwise you may spend all your money on circus peanuts or retirement. Keeping the government away from this area is paramount to maintaining American life.

3. Staunch belief in accountability.
If you make riches, you bathe in the glow of your success. If you make a mess or break a law, you go down in flames. Its not just the American way, its the only way to happiness. Its why GOP scandal-causers get shooed from office immediately. You get punished for mistakes, regardless of whether you own up to them or not.

I will now give systemic examples of liberalism violating each of these tenets. Pencils up.

1. The government has allowed entitlement programs from liberals to create an underclass of society that lives in the shadows of liberalism. Under the streaming utopia they paint lies poverty-stricken, generational leeches that have been taught to suck at the teat, but not to milk a cow. Liberalism has destroyed the drive and ingenuity of these citizens, and offers not a chance to escape the cycle, but only richer payouts in return for votes. They have dehumanized these people, and they never speak of it.

2. The Obama administration has nationalized the banking system right out from under us. Even though they caused the financial crisis (the Guvamint and Obama, as he personally sued Citibank using the Community Reinvestment Act of 1979), they now feel as if the people who have shepherded the greatest economy in history are no longer qualified to do so, and that lawyers are the best bet for the job. They also now rob money from private equity firms, despite federal law that is upheld by the courts.

3. This is the easiest. Ted Kennedy is on the Senate. Robert Byrd is in the Senate. Bill Clinton was President for 8 years. JFK was President for a time. No one bats an eye. Barney Frank was caught having relations with an intern. William Jefferson was found with 500K in a deep freeze. Harry Reid is on tape accepting a bribe. Chris Dodd is embroiled in an insurance scandal that is not being covered in the least. John Edwards had a mistress he funneled campaign money to while his wife was battling cancer. Obama is connected to known terrorists and hate preachers. These people are not only unpunished, but lionized as the leaders of modern liberalism (excepting JFK, but he’s remembered for being ultracool, and not for being a shameless adulterer).

There you go. Tip your waitresses.

Gag me with a rolled-up Constitution. Not like we use the damn thing anymore, anyway.

Why on Earth are we prepared to let some other country decide whether OUR citizens are criminals? Why on Earth is our current fearministration claiming to want to look forward whilst letting the wheels turn on the most childish, fiercely partisan political reprisal in history, despite their own damn party leaders signing off on the “crimes” for years on end? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

John Bolton, one of the clearest voices on foreign policy in over a decade, has a few sage words for us to all consider:

The question here is not whether one agrees or disagrees with the advice the lawyers gave, or with their superiors’ operative decisions concerning interrogation techniques. Nor is it even whether one believes our Justice Department should launch criminal investigations into their actions. (I believe strongly that criminalizing policy disagreements is both inappropriate and destructive.)

(Emphasis mine.)

So, two things:

1) Disagreeing with a war/policy is now grounds for retroactive criminal hearings, despite Congressional approval at every turn, regardless of what they ever said. The budgets and votes continually passed both houses.

2) AG Holder is apparently going to allow Spain to tell us whether or not our own foreign policy is merited 6 six years after the fact. Why is Europe determined to destabilize the entire world every time someone pays a huge price for keeping the world from upheaval by whatever barbarians knock on the door?

(From disarmaments to the Non-Proliferation Treaty to the UN, Europe just loves to stuff every advantage they have over evil forces in the shitter whenever they can. What is the goddamn point of building defenses from those who would kill or enslave us if they’re just going to remove the deterrent forces once the sun shines again? This IS the parable of the grasshopper and ant in real life. While the Euro-grasshoppers dance and play in peace, the ants are building the safety nets, and trapping any threats. The grasshoppers now find out we had to kill some spiders to keep their playtime safe, and they’re going to throw their keepers in jail. When the next plague of locusts comes, though, the Churchills, FDRs, and GWBs of the world will be disgraced in jail. I’d say good luck when that happens, but the ants will always dutifully return and save the day at great cost to all, only to be stared down once more when the sun comes out. This has become the price of vigilance, apparently.)

Interesting and ironic that Spain is thinking about this. Of course, Spain got hit by a terrorist attack a few years back, while the US, piloted by the most hideous goblin President of all time, enjoyed peace on their borders. Even bullies understand use of force, but liberals in Europe, and those here cannot. Shoot and imprison the bad guys, and they are powerless. Simple.

If you have the flexible mind to comprehend such parallels, read through “The Gathering Storm” by Winston Churchill. Letting the Germans rearm has eerie familiarity with letting terrorists get a foothold in the world under the guise of their peaceful religion. (Of course, they follow one of the batshit crazy versions of Islam whose parallels in Christianity are continually laughed at and marginalized (rightly so) on television and print here in America, unless they are dangerous. In that case, we eradicate them, Waco-style. Waco didn’t go well, but that group needed to be stopped, in any case. Let us similarly stop the terrorists.)