THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XII, Issue # 77, May 19, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
MAY PRIMARIES & THE COMING ELECTORAL TSUNAMI
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE DEFEAT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY & THE LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICAL MACHINE IN THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS
OF NOVEMBER, 2010: THE CURRENT MOOD OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, THE CONSERVATIVE GROUNDSWELL, & THE
COMING ELECTORAL DISASTER FOR THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LEFT -- AMERICAN VOTERS RISING UP AGAINST THE
LIBERAL LEFTIST ENDEAVOR TO FULLY IMPLEMENT STATISM, SOCIALISM, & THE NANNY STATE IN THE U.S.A. -- FIERCE
DETERMINATION AMONG AVERAGE AMERICAN CITIZENS TO STAGE A BALLOT BOX REBELLION, OVERTHROW THE
LEFTISTS, & RETURN TO THE PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, & FREE
MARKET CAPITALISM
FULL STORY:
The spin began even before Primary Day, 2010. According to ABC News, it was an
“anti-incumbent” sentiment. Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Ed Rendell
tried to assign blame to the weather for the impending loss by Arlen
Specter, claiming, “The rain hurt. No doubt about it.”
But rain and sunshine notwithstanding, in several key May 18 primary races,
the mood of the general public has been unmistakable. It represents a clear
continuation of the bombshell that hit the Liberal establishment in
Massachusetts and across America in January when Republican Scott Brown
defeated Democrat Martha Coakley. The United States Senate seat held by the
late Edward Kennedy since 1962 was turned over to a Republican. Perhaps the
sun would not even rise the next day.
On May 8 at the Utah GOP Convention, incumbent Republican Senator Bob
Bennett, by all accounts a “good moderate,” was given the boot. Tim
Bridgewater and Mark Lee who defeated him (and who will face each other in a
June 22 primary election) are inarguably more Conservative and no darlings
of the Beltway insiders. Likewise, in the Kentucky Republican Primary, Rand
Paul, who is aptly described as the “Tea Party Candidate,” beat Trey
Grayson, whose allegiance was clearly with the Republican Party Establishment.
Liberal Democrats and career politicians in both parties are rattled.
According to their propaganda partners on the nightly news, the 2006 and
2008 elections exhibited a willful turning point for “mainstream” America,
which we were told had relegated individual liberty and self-reliance to the
ash heap of history, and was wholly embracing the brave new world of
socialism and the nanny state. How else could the installation of Nancy
Pelosi, Harry Reid, and eventually, Barack Obama as the leaders of the
U.S. national government possibly be interpreted?
In fact, it is by an entirely different set of forces that the situation
must be explained, and without the sweeping inconsistencies of the Liberal
Democrat/mainstream media “spin.” Unfortunately for the American political Left, it is altogether
unlikely that the mindless pragmatists of the Democratic Party will figure
this out before November. So, barring electoral fraud on a scale that
massively eclipses the antics of ACORN in 2008, the stage is set for an
electoral earthquake of unprecedented scale.
The events leading up to Primary Day, 2010, were hardly spawned by some
baseless “anti-incumbent” craze. Senseless fads among the grassroots cannot
honestly be deemed culpable in a trend of this magnitude. Nor has it been
random in its origins and direction. In fact, it was a refinement of the
very sentiments, expressed in a far different manner, that resulted in the
disasters of the past two major election cycles.
America is, and has long been, averse to the prospects of an incessantly
bloating and encroaching government. So when the Republican Party revealed
itself to be increasingly detached and indifferent to the principles for
which it was granted the majorities in both Houses of Congress in 1994, and
ultimately in the White House in 2000, the public backlash became
inevitable. However, rather than recognizing this attitude among the
electorate and responding positively to it, the Liberal Leftist political machine
seized on the situation as an opportunity to put the nanny state on the fast
track.
The plan was to implement such a colossal infrastructure of the socialist
state that it would overwhelm any who might have even the slightest
intention of ever dismantling it. Thereafter, irrespective of any tepid
attempts to rein it in, the statist juggernaut would remain in some form as
the new order for America in perpetuity, growing and metastasizing as such
monstrosities invariably do, and immune to the attacks of any who dare
oppose it.
Initially, it appeared that the scheme would work. Republicans, partly from
fear of the overblown Obama phenomenon, and partly out of their infuriating
willingness to accept the “Gospel according to the Beltway insiders,” were
reluctant at first to stridently oppose the Liberal Democratic agenda. Rather, they
sought to “fine tune” major Liberal Democratic initiatives in a “bipartisan” manner.
Yet, something unexpected began to occur in Heartland America. Those citizens
who knew from where their great country had come, and who now saw it being
wrenched from them, began to coalesce and speak out. As they did, they (and
any among the political class who dared face the truth) realized that this
was no transient mood swing. Rather, it reflected a mindset of fierce
determination among average citizens who were not ready to forfeit their
country.
In the face of mocking media coverage, wherein they were demeaned as “tea
baggers,” or castigated as “seditious” by the likes of Bill Clinton, the Tea
Party supporters pressed forward. Assembling in vast numbers in major
gatherings on April 15, July 4, and September 12 of 2009, they gathered to
tell both the national government and their less assertive fellow citizens of
their abhorrence for the unconstitutional actions by which America is being
transformed from its glorious founding.
Americans who have not been inoculated with the bilgewater of “political
correctness” well know of the blessings of liberty and prosperity bestowed
to them by their noble and industrious predecessors. And they well
understand the responsibility charged to them in the Declaration of
Independence, specifically that “whenever any form of government becomes
destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to
abolish it.”
This, therefore is the legacy of the modern “Tea Party” movement. It is
neither Democrat nor Republican. Rather, it is pro-Constitution and
therefore Conservative. No doubt, imposters and opportunists will seek to
hijack it in the upcoming months. Some already have. But doing so will not
be an easy trick.
This is not about personalities, but about principles. Those who can
credibly claim to uphold such things will be catapulted to the forefront of
the movement, and eventually to leadership positions in government. And any
who seek to offer lip service in town meetings or at election time, with no
real intention of following through, once they assume office, will soon find
themselves following in the footsteps of Bob Bennett, Trey Grayson, and
Arlen Specter.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics, Political Competition, & the Control of
Public Policy: Elections, Political Parties, Political Factions,
Ideologies, Special Interest Groups, & Political Corruption
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who has been active in Wyoming
politics for many years. Contact information, along with his archives, can
be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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