More accurately, the problem with conservatives in America.
As a Brit looking in from the outside, it seems to me that America is on a dangerous path and the fault really lies with American conservatives.
I don't blame President Obama and his socialist fellow travelers - Pelosi, Clinton, Biden, Reid, Blasio, etc. - they are only following the agenda that all socialists follow. Their programme is running according to schedule and form. Students of post-WWII European history will see the familiar pattern of subversion from within. Take over educational/teacher training colleges, promote public service (sic) unionization, push minority issues even against the overwhelming wishes of the majority, promote policies that facilitate the breakdown of 'traditional' families and values, make previously abnormal behaviour the new norm and over-favour such, over-arching this, push the 'state' into every nook and cranny of daily life with either some kind of welfare or regulation or law.
So, why blame the American Right? Well frankly because of the lack of focus.
Look at the recent shenanigans around the US budget. The deal that was worked out - a bi-partisan solution, we are told - sees an infinitesimally small reduction in overall spending but some of this falls on military veterans. To my mind this breaks a covenant that the US has had with its service personnel - you go and fight for us and we will take care of you. So we have Republican presidential hopeful (surely not still?) Rep. Paul Ryan, assisted by Republican Speaker John Boehner, pushing a bill that punishes military retirees. Think back 30 years or so and consider if any sordid backroom deal, whose members included Republicans, would have had this as part of the package.
Frankly speaking, the Democrats really don't need to push their agenda too aggressively, when their supposed opponents do such a good job on their behalf. And why do Ryan, Boehner et al do the Democrats job for them? Because they do not serve America, in spite of their oaths. They serve themselves. It is all about re-election and accumulating personal power and wealth.
WARNING TO REPUBLICANS - In any Bi-Partisan agreement you and your supporters (and your country) are being fooled. Bi-Partisanship is part of the process by which the socialists incrementally achieve their goals. They use this to move the discussion in their desired direction and keep on doing so. When you meet someone 'half-way' on something, then they are closer to their goal and you further from yours!
Think about the recent government shutdown - who won that? The Democrats did. Obama didn't give an inch and the Republicans folded. In saying Republicans I refer to the elected Republicans. I don't believe that Republicans in the country supported Boehner's capitulation nor do they support Ryan's shabby 'deal'.
So back to focus.
What are the 'hot' issues for Republicans, just now? Phil Robertson, of Duck Dynasty fame, is certainly up there and the homosexual lobby have taken a knock back on this one but they and their bigoted types, will be back! Hillary Clinton's abdication of responsibility for the deaths of 4 Americans in Benghazi, is there as well. Obamacare, with its almost daily new failures, is the gift that keeps on giving (consider that more people lost insurance coverage on 1/1/14 than managed to get the more expensive Obamacare cover and you will see what I mean).
What doesn't seem to be hot? How about, the economy? As in jobs, as in money in people's pockets. How is this not the issue that unites the American 'right' and provides the single focus on which the 'right' can campaign? $ Billions have been pumped into the economy but unemployment remains high. Those 'shovel ready' projects weren't as 'shovel ready' as people were led to believe.
In my darker, conspiracy-theory moments, I keep wondering if the Obama administration isn't quite pleased that they have these different mini 'scandals' going on as the opposition is spread thin and their inept handling of these issues and the economy is masked because the 'fire' from Republicans is not concentrated.
So, to borrow the phrase from Bill Clinton, 'it's the economy, stupid!' Republicans shouldn't allow themselves to get side-tracked by these other issues - yes, I do know they are important but if Republicans don't get the numbers elected to Congress then all of the commentary and tweeting and rallies will not change things, one bit.
At the same time, Republicans need to hold candidates to account and select and elect real Republicans.
Real Republicans? So no RINOs (Republicans in name only). From my perspective, those of the Tea Party persuasion most closely fit the bill. Candidates that understand that you cannot treat with leftist Democrats. That understand that the political spectrum must be shifted significantly to the right, just in order to recover the advances that have been made by the socialists in recent years.
I am afraid that I include the G.W Bush era in the left-sliding times. Former President Bush was 'right' on foreign issues but was not focused enough on US domestic issues and so allowed the leftist slide, that started under his father and accelerated under Clinton, to continue.
So my message for American conservatives is focus on a single issue that affects all Americans - the economy - don't follow the path taken by the UK Conservatives where pandering to minority groups, in an effort to appear more 'reasonable' has led them to promote same-sex marriage and continue to allow the 'state' to grow and to be dictated to by unelected European Commissioners (or commissars, is perhaps more accurate).
Remember, once the true 'right' have power, then you can pursue the impeachment of Obama and the imprisonment of Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder and the repeal of the hated Obamacare, until then the single most important task on which to focus, is getting the right people, selected and then elected.
As a Brit looking in from the outside, it seems to me that America is on a dangerous path and the fault really lies with American conservatives.
I don't blame President Obama and his socialist fellow travelers - Pelosi, Clinton, Biden, Reid, Blasio, etc. - they are only following the agenda that all socialists follow. Their programme is running according to schedule and form. Students of post-WWII European history will see the familiar pattern of subversion from within. Take over educational/teacher training colleges, promote public service (sic) unionization, push minority issues even against the overwhelming wishes of the majority, promote policies that facilitate the breakdown of 'traditional' families and values, make previously abnormal behaviour the new norm and over-favour such, over-arching this, push the 'state' into every nook and cranny of daily life with either some kind of welfare or regulation or law.
So, why blame the American Right? Well frankly because of the lack of focus.
Look at the recent shenanigans around the US budget. The deal that was worked out - a bi-partisan solution, we are told - sees an infinitesimally small reduction in overall spending but some of this falls on military veterans. To my mind this breaks a covenant that the US has had with its service personnel - you go and fight for us and we will take care of you. So we have Republican presidential hopeful (surely not still?) Rep. Paul Ryan, assisted by Republican Speaker John Boehner, pushing a bill that punishes military retirees. Think back 30 years or so and consider if any sordid backroom deal, whose members included Republicans, would have had this as part of the package.
Frankly speaking, the Democrats really don't need to push their agenda too aggressively, when their supposed opponents do such a good job on their behalf. And why do Ryan, Boehner et al do the Democrats job for them? Because they do not serve America, in spite of their oaths. They serve themselves. It is all about re-election and accumulating personal power and wealth.
WARNING TO REPUBLICANS - In any Bi-Partisan agreement you and your supporters (and your country) are being fooled. Bi-Partisanship is part of the process by which the socialists incrementally achieve their goals. They use this to move the discussion in their desired direction and keep on doing so. When you meet someone 'half-way' on something, then they are closer to their goal and you further from yours!
Think about the recent government shutdown - who won that? The Democrats did. Obama didn't give an inch and the Republicans folded. In saying Republicans I refer to the elected Republicans. I don't believe that Republicans in the country supported Boehner's capitulation nor do they support Ryan's shabby 'deal'.
So back to focus.
What are the 'hot' issues for Republicans, just now? Phil Robertson, of Duck Dynasty fame, is certainly up there and the homosexual lobby have taken a knock back on this one but they and their bigoted types, will be back! Hillary Clinton's abdication of responsibility for the deaths of 4 Americans in Benghazi, is there as well. Obamacare, with its almost daily new failures, is the gift that keeps on giving (consider that more people lost insurance coverage on 1/1/14 than managed to get the more expensive Obamacare cover and you will see what I mean).
What doesn't seem to be hot? How about, the economy? As in jobs, as in money in people's pockets. How is this not the issue that unites the American 'right' and provides the single focus on which the 'right' can campaign? $ Billions have been pumped into the economy but unemployment remains high. Those 'shovel ready' projects weren't as 'shovel ready' as people were led to believe.
In my darker, conspiracy-theory moments, I keep wondering if the Obama administration isn't quite pleased that they have these different mini 'scandals' going on as the opposition is spread thin and their inept handling of these issues and the economy is masked because the 'fire' from Republicans is not concentrated.
So, to borrow the phrase from Bill Clinton, 'it's the economy, stupid!' Republicans shouldn't allow themselves to get side-tracked by these other issues - yes, I do know they are important but if Republicans don't get the numbers elected to Congress then all of the commentary and tweeting and rallies will not change things, one bit.
At the same time, Republicans need to hold candidates to account and select and elect real Republicans.
Real Republicans? So no RINOs (Republicans in name only). From my perspective, those of the Tea Party persuasion most closely fit the bill. Candidates that understand that you cannot treat with leftist Democrats. That understand that the political spectrum must be shifted significantly to the right, just in order to recover the advances that have been made by the socialists in recent years.
I am afraid that I include the G.W Bush era in the left-sliding times. Former President Bush was 'right' on foreign issues but was not focused enough on US domestic issues and so allowed the leftist slide, that started under his father and accelerated under Clinton, to continue.
So my message for American conservatives is focus on a single issue that affects all Americans - the economy - don't follow the path taken by the UK Conservatives where pandering to minority groups, in an effort to appear more 'reasonable' has led them to promote same-sex marriage and continue to allow the 'state' to grow and to be dictated to by unelected European Commissioners (or commissars, is perhaps more accurate).
Remember, once the true 'right' have power, then you can pursue the impeachment of Obama and the imprisonment of Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder and the repeal of the hated Obamacare, until then the single most important task on which to focus, is getting the right people, selected and then elected.
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