Tuesday, December 9, 2008

• Item by David Tatosian

After one suffers an embarrassing defeat one tends to reevaluate all aspects of one’s game. Fundamentals, preparation, execution, mistakes, overconfidence and a plethora of tangibles and intangibles inevitably loop in the minds eye till a solution; a plan to avoid further loss is devised.

Just so the Republicans, in their effort to avoid further loss have devised some plans for their future. Those plans include replicating Barack Hussein Obama’s internet army of the faithful, fielding fresh faced, younger Republican candidates (so as to capture the blunted imagination of the youth vote), formally renouncing any and all social conservative-traditionalist influences and pursuing a vigorous outreach campaign aimed at separatist minorities diametrically opposed to the American culture, people and society. 

Eight years of Bush’s disastrous power glide to the left and Republicans figure the best way to regain political power is to out liberal the liberals and out Democrat the Democrats.

I guess the Republican “go along to get along” principle has taken the next logical step to the “if you can’t beat em, join em” principle. What’s next? The “me so horny, me love you long time” principle?

Hope not, but I can’t discount the possibility.

I don’t mean to malign the Republicans unduly. They are, after all, no better or worse than those they reach across the aisle to. All are members of an exclusive club that tends to view non-members with no small measure of malice, distaste and fear.

In the best of times the club’s pilfering, arrogance, incompetence and dishonesty produces no immediate dire consequences and so their behavior is more or less overlooked.

But thanks to them we as a people, culture and nation are no longer in the best of times. (You’ll note that our financial difficulties haven’t stopped the club from throwing taxpayer dollars around.)

In fact, as a nation, culture and civilization we face an unpleasant and messy slide onto the scrap heap of history.

There are many reasons for this slide. One of them is the continued political support of taxpayer-funded programs designed to appease special interest groups who’ve declared themselves victimized.

These groups do very well for their members. And that’s the beginning, middle and end of it. They do very well for their members.

The club’s support of these groups confers privileged status (and billions of taxpayer dollars) upon a select group of American residents. By establishing that privileged class Democrats and Republicans promote the welfare of the few rather than the general welfare. They institutionalize divisiveness. They do all this for the promise of votes. Votes which, in the case of the Republicans, never materialize.

Equally disastrous is the never-ending flow of illegal aliens into this country. Those “good hearted people” with “strong family values” Bush invited to jump our border and who (according to Bush and the Republicans) we must now cater to because they are part of the largest and fastest growing minority in the nation.

I find the presence of illegal aliens who insist they have a right to be here and who discount my culture but demand I respect theirs to be offensive and burdensome. I find the political support that encourages that manufactured right and those absurd demands to be contemptible and again, divisive. 

I am not alone. Recent history shows that the one affront rank and file Americans will not suffer is the presence of these vociferous illegals in our towns, emergency rooms and jails.

One more contributing factor to our possible demise is the club’s stupid and cowardly response to the Islamic jihad being waged against us.

After 9/11, two wars and thousands of jihadi murders, club members express no curiosity and little concern about an enemy that has sworn to annihilate us. The sum total of their knowledge is “Islam is a religion of peace.” If someone suggests that Islam is demonstrably NOT a religion of peace our politicians start sounding like mouthpieces from CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations, a US government designated unindicted coconspirator engaged in diversity outreach programs to, among others, the law enforcement community in the US) leveling charges of bigotry and intolerance at whoever dared show them the facts. This is not just divisive it’s suicidal.

The three examples show a government, a political class supporting programs and policies that divide and weaken us, and an aversion to facts that will destroy us. There can be no other result.

And so in the fight for our nation, culture and society, a fight that calls for national commitment, fortitude and sacrifice, Republicans fight for no more than an increase in Republican membership in the beltway club.

Bid them a fond farewell and stand with those who can at least discern friend from foe and act accordingly.

These guys would electioneer and strategize on the way to their own beheading.

David Tatosian

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