The 2008 presidential election has been frustrating for conservatives indeed. John McCain refuses to embrace the conservative philosophy that government causes more problems than it can solve, nor does he grasp that "bi-partisanship" doesn't win elections - PARTISANSHIP does!
You either believe in your convictions, or you don't. "Bi-partisanship." is a myth.
Barack Obama doesn't have a problem being partisan. He openly discusses his "Robin Hood" economic theories, and refuses to denounce the anti-American, totalitarian, and communist agitators that encompass his inner circle. Sure, he's been effective in tactfully distancing himself from these people, but he openly endorses their beliefs and policies when he's discussing his own. Two in the same.
McCain's one saving grace has been Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. If he can't figure out why he's not leading in the polls, it's because he's not enough like her, and has tried too hard to make her more like him. Palin is a regular person, not part of the Washington Elite. Palin wasn't afraid to attack her own political party. Palin plays by her own rules, not by the rules of Washington. Actual conservatives, contrary to the party elite, actually like that! Real conservatives however, don't like politicians. That's why McCain's "suspend the campaign" stunt to run to Washington and act as the "Great Legislator," failed miserably.
Barack Obama, the 2-year Senator with significantly less experience than Sarah Palin, is finally feeling a little heat regarding his dangerous associations with ACORN's voter fraud, communist upbringing by "mentor" Frank Marshall Davis, training in Saul Alinsky's agitation politics, ties to brutal dictator Odinga, financial and political entanglements with convicted felon and political fixer Tony Rezko, communist blogger Mike Klonsky, and unrepentant anti-American terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn ... Unfortunately, the "heat" has been rather mild ... room temperature at best.
The mainstream media (MSM) has been as hesitant to investigate Obama's communist ties as a kid who just got called down to the principle's office. The MSM is so in the tank for Obama, it's not even worth carrying on about. They've simply lost their minds. But there's one question that remains in this election. A question with an answer that really won't surprise anyone, but an answer that all lovers of American and believers in liberty should be concerned about. Very concerned.
Senator John McCain was tortured by communists in defense of America. Senator Barack Obama not only pals around with communists, but offers proposals based in Marxist economic tradition. In spite of this ... Barack Obama's support continues to rise.
Why? Why haven't Obama's communist connections resonated with the American people here, in the land of the free, home of the brave?
Paul Kengor tackles this topic over at American Thinker. Below, I've included some of his thoughts from the article "Why Obama's Communist Connections Are Not Headlines." You can read the whole story by clicking on the title.
I have seen for quite some time that although we won the Cold War -- and defeated the Soviet communist empire -- America is vulnerable to varying degrees of collectivism, wealth redistribution, "creeping socialism" (Ronald Reagan's phrase), class-warfare rhetoric, and generally milder, more palatable (but still dangerous) forms of disguised Marxism. Why? How? The answer is simple: The history and truth about communism is not taught by our educators.
That total failure to remind and understand means that Americans are painfully vulnerable to repeat mistakes that should have been forever tossed onto the ash-heap of history.
Of all the lectures that I do around the country, none seem to rivet the audience as much as my discourse on the horrors of communism. In these lectures, which are usually connected to my books on Ronald Reagan, I do a 10-15 minute backgrounder on the crimes of communists-from their militant attacks on private property, on members of all religious faiths, and on basic civil liberties, to their total death toll of over 100 million bloodied, emaciated corpses in the 20th century.
As I do these presentations, the young people, especially on college campuses, are locked in, amazed at what they are hearing. I think they are especially struck that I always ground every fact and figure in reliable research and authorities -- books published by Harvard University Press and Yale University Press, quotes from the likes of Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel and Alexander Yakovlev, anti-Soviet appraisals from certain Cold War Democrats like Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy and even early liberals like Woodrow Wilson.
As the young people in my audience are fully engaged, hands in the air with question after question -- obviously hearing all of these things for the first time in their lives, from K-12 to college, as they are eager to inform me after my talk -- the professors often stare at me with contempt.
It is not so much that these professors approve of communism as much as they disapprove of -- actually, utterly despise -- anti-communism. They are anti-anti-communist more so than pro-communist. Conservatives need to understand this, so as to avoid broad-brushing and losing credibility. Sure, a lot of professors are Marxists, and many more share the Utopian goals of Marxism, but the vast majority are simply leftists.
What's more, aside from failing to instruct their students in the crass facts about communism's unprecedented destruction -- its purges, mass famines, show trials, killing fields, concentration camps -- these educators are negligent in failing to teach the essential, non-emotional, but crucial Econ 101 basics that contrast capitalism and communism and, thus, that get at the heart of how and why command economies simply do not work.
What does it all mean for November 2008? It means that millions of modern Americans, when they hear that Barack Obama has deep roots with communist radicals like Bill Ayers and Frank Marshall Davis, don't care; they don't get it. Moreover, the leftist establishment -- from academia to media to Hollywood -- will not help them get it. To the contrary, the left responds to these accusations by not only downplaying or dismissing them but by ridiculing or even vilifying them, given the left's reflexive anti-anti-communism. The left will create bad guys out of the anti-communists who are legitimately blowing the whistle on the real bad guys.
... those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. For decades now, we haven't taught the next generation what it needs to know from its immediate past.
Barack Obama's communist connections DO MATTER! In fact, they matter more than even your average conservative cares to admit. Think about it ...
Thanks to the Bush administration, the Department of Justice, Treasury, IRS and Executive branch have more power over "we the people" than ever before. Powers that reach far beyond what our Founder's intended. The financial system is being commandeered by the federal government right before our eyes. The Democrats are about to win a super-majority in Congress ... just connect the dots ... a lot more CHANGE than anyone cares to admit is coming to America.
Welcome to the Socialist Utopia of America!
