Why I Don't Agree With Democrats

Yes, it's official, Romney's given up, too. We conservatives are just no match for pundits and the party's cognoscenti, all of whom obviously know better than I do what's best for me. Short of a full-blown revolt within the Republican Party that ends up with a brokered convention, I will be going into this presidential election with the thought that there is really no good choice and struggling mightily with how I should handle my vote for president. That is a first for me; even in '96 when it was Clinton vs. Dole, I had no compunction about voting for Dole, and he was pretty badly flawed. So this is going to be my last purely political post for a while, and I want to go out with a bang.

First, to all of you pundits talking about why this "move" by the Republican Party is so "necessary to the continued life of the party," GO SOAK YOUR HEAD. The Republican base doesn't want to "move;" we feel pretty good right where we are, thank you very much. You insult us for resisting this change, as though we're a bunch of idiots. I don't see why standing up for your principles, regardless of what other people think, is a bad thing. In fact, for the greater part of American history, a person who stood up for their principles was admired, even revered, and often went down as a hero in American history. There have even been good Democrats in the past, and yes, there have been bad Republicans. Why do you think George H. W. Bush has always been so routinely lambasted for his flip-flop on taxes? He didn't stand by his principles, and that has become his legacy. He was loved for his bold actions in the first Gulf War, but by giving up his principles, he has become one of the most notorious Republican presidents of recent history. His son has been mostly very consistent, even on unpopular issues such as immigration, but he has gotten himself in the most hot water with so many of his own supporters because he turned away from his principles. He has become one of the biggest-spending Republican presidents of all time, and we all know the Republican Party LOATHES big spending government-types. So many Republicans don't like John McCain because in many areas he does NOT represent the traditional principles of the Republican Party, principles that many consider traditional American values. In truth, what I feel are traditional Republican values actually DO represent those American values quite well: success from hard work is good, individual rights AND individual responsibility are good, individual freedom is good, lower taxes and smaller government are good, self-determination is good, free markets are good, competition is good, accountability is good, and America is good. Can any of you honestly claim that those items don't represent traditional American values? HONESTLY???

Second, Romney went out with class. Whether you agreed with him or not, he did the classy thing, said exactly what he needed to say, and will be long remembered by Republicans.

Third, I also think many believe that McCain isn't much different from Hillary Clinton: in other words, he'll say and do anything he needs to do to get elected. He's been a Republican maverick for years, and has spurned invitations from the annual CPAC for years, and yet THIS year he wants to come and speak. What's his record? Let's look, shall we? He has for years been in favor of loose immigration and amnesty, but NOW he thinks that was a mistake (i.e., he flip-flopped). He wants Guantanamo shut down (but "supports the troops strongly"). He supports research from stem-cells harvested from human embryos. He believes in man-made global warming. And he carries a great deal of that contempt and anger for those who question him and for those who don't agree with him. He has something of a temper, and he has spoken about conservatives (and even to conservatives) in some very unsavory terms. Most members of the mainstream media love him. Sound familiar? It doesn't surprise me that many conservatives (including Ann Coulter) have said they'd rather just vote for Hillary, since it seems a vote for McCain is just about the same damn thing.

Finally, the following is a brief manifesto of why I do not agree with Democrats. I've actually been thinking about this for a while. There's a lot of talk these days about political polarization in the U.S., and it got me to wondering why that is. So I started coming up with reasons why I don't like and don't trust Democrats with politics. It's going to be something like a loose list format, and we'll just go from there.

I do not agree with Democrats because...

...there is no problem a Democrat can't solve, if only s/he had more of your money.

...American history to a Democrat really began in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Before that event, which really ushered in America's "Great Enlightening" (read that, "the death of 200 years of true American spirit"), America was a horrible, racist, oppressive, warmongering, imperialist nation. Only with the advent of LSD, free love, rampant divorce and abortion, and a heavy enforcement of Democrat-sanctioned "individual rights" coupled with a lack of individual responsibility has the country realized the error of its ways.

...a Democrat has no ethical or moral problem with deriding the military, cutting its funding, and spitting on its soldiers. (See the previous entry for the reasoning.)

...to a Democrat, only violence by minorities against majorities is acceptable.

...Democrats believe personal success, financial or otherwise, makes you evil. Democrats believe this so strongly that they would rather remove any incentive to success than accept that success.

...a Democrat will tell you how broken government is, how messed up the justice system is, how misguided the government's efforts in the War on Terror are, yet still ask you to trust the government with something of critical importance, like healthcare or your retirement.

...a Democrat ALWAYS believe s/he knows better than you, on anything, period, and if you just accepted and acknowledged that fact, the world would be a much better place.

...Democrats never have anything nice to say, and can always find something to complain about. (The war for "justice" never ends for a Democrat; you can give him/her everything they ask for, and it still wouldn't be enough.)

...individual rights are highly valued by Democrats, unless they're YOUR rights.

...Democrats don't believe in borders, nations, or sovereignty. There are only those who agree with Democrats and those who don't. Along the same lines, there is no America to a Democrat; there are only those who vote for Democrats and those who don't. This is why Democrats are so happy to welcome in anyone who will vote Democrat, regardless of how many people they want to blow up or how many American jobs they want to take or how much government dole they want to steal, all the while bad-mouthing America and even raising the flag of whatever country they came from. (Remember, there are no countries to a Democrat, so that flag is meaningless, anyway.)

...to a Democrat, every stance on every issue is arbitrary and every position is relative. Call it "Clinton's Law of Political Relativity," if you like, after the Democrat family that discovered it. In physics, there are very few constants (e.g., the speed of light in a vacuum), and even then, physicists have discovered that those can be relative based on certain conditions (e.g., the speed of light is different in different media; light moves through water at a different speed than it does through air). Political Relativity also has few constants (e.g., minority "victim" status), which can be relative based on conditions (e.g., Clinton the white woman vs. Obama the black man). Finally, just like in physics, some of these constants and laws cannot be reconciled through any sort of calculations; Democrat "politicists" are starting to realize they live in the world of Political Quantum Mechanics.

...Democrats believe that rights made up from crazy inferences by judges out of vague terms of the Constitution are COMPLETELY undeniable and must be acknowledged by all, like the right to abortion (derived from some inferred "right to privacy,"...read the actual Roe v. Wade decision and you'll see what I mean) or the right of homosexuals to marry. Explicitly spelled out rights, however, like the right of the people to keep and bear arms, or the right of the states to handle their own affairs that are not specifically governed by the Constitution, are TOTALLY open to interpretation and can/should be invalidated at will.

...a Democrat will scream until s/he's blue in the face that marriage between two homosexuals is OK, but can't explain why marriage between a man and two women, or a woman and two men, would still be morally indefensible.

...to a Democrat, America is almost always in the wrong, even today, and we should just accept blame for every evil on the planet. Global warming, world hunger, homelessness, genocidal wars in Africa, the sex trade, slavery, violence in the Middle East, ALL are America's fault. Confess your sins and spend the rest of your life self-flagellating, America.

That's my list, and I'm sticking to it. I won't provide examples; Democrats provide a plethora of examples daily. If you find this post, you're new to my blog, and you agree, welcome and feel free to look around for a while. If you find this, you're new to my blog, and you disagree, welcome to you, too, you can still look around all you like, but understand that this is MY blog, not yours. Go ahead and hide behind the anonymity 99.9% of you will take, post your sarcastic comment, and move along to "bigger and better" things.