THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VI, Issue # 186, August 20, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
IT'S NEVER "JUST ABOUT SEX"
By Christopher G. Adamo
FULL STORY:
New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey is embroiled in a sex-related scandal that threatens to drive him from office. However, in
contrast to Bill Clinton’s transgressions, the Democratic Party’s key operatives see advantages to his removal. So, unlike Clinton,
McGreevey will likely take the fall.
Unfortunately, the New Jersey Democratic Party political machine is not concerned with cleaning up this mess, but is, instead,
immersed in the business of maintaining its stranglehold on that state’s political power apparatus. With the complicity of a
sympathetic media, the real issues at stake aren’t even being addressed. Instead, discussion centers on when McGreevey should
resign, and this from a standpoint of which particular political faction might stand to gain or lose as a result of his decision.
Against a backdrop of this era of international terrorism, being perpetrated by people whose ideology advocates America’s total
annihilation, the situation takes on a much greater significance. Furthermore, this debacle needs to be considered insofar as it
reflects on the numerous scandals that entangled the Clinton Presidency.
To begin with, McGreevey didn’t merely engage in reprehensible and immoral behavior while holding high office. Sadly, such
conduct is no longer, in and of itself, considered noteworthy. Rather, the controversy involves the fact that he hired Golan Cipel
from Israel, ostensibly to serve as New Jersey’s Homeland Security Advisor, despite his total lack of qualifications for the job. It
has since become apparent that McGreevey’s obvious intended purpose for Cipel was as nothing more than a taxpayer-funded
homosexual concubine.
By hiring an unqualified individual to fulfill such a critically important position, McGreevey left the needs of that position
completely vacant in order to indulge his own personal interests. Thus, the security of the people of New Jersey was
fundamentally compromised because of a public official’s willingness to pursue his lascivious desires, with no regard for public
safety.
Fortunately, al-Qa'ida was either unaware of or unable to take advantage of this breech in New Jersey’s statewide line of defense.
Otherwise, McGreevey might bear some responsibility for attacks against Newark or Trenton. But the fact that this particular door
was left open, at least at the state level, should give citizens cause for great alarm.
America has yet to recover from the constant humiliation of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. But more significantly, during the 1990’s,
the Clinton White House primarily structured its policy-making in order to fend off backlash from illicit sexual exploits and other
scandals. Clearly, any hostile foreign entity could recognize the signs of a chief executive who regularly compromised national
security in order to pursue his personal interests, both physical and ideological.
It was only too late that America came to the grim realization that someone was watching, assessing our weaknesses, and waiting to
strike. That the Clinton political machine has not yet mended its ways became painfully obvious from the recent actions of Jamie
Gorelick on the 9-11 Commission, who diligently endeavored to prevent a thorough examination of her own complicity in the
breakdown of America’s intelligence capability.
Likewise, the devious conduct of former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger points to a further effort at destroying official
evidence of major lapses in the protection of the American homeland during the Clinton years. And with no one ever held
accountable, precedent is being set for another administration of Liberal ideologues and lechers to once again engage in such
mischief with impunity.
Despite constant claims by his defenders that Bill Clinton’s vile behavior was a “private matter,” the manner in which it eroded
America’s ability to protect itself eventually became apparent. A decade of inexcusable criminal gambling with the nation’s safety
ultimately caught up with America, and resulted in the unforgettable horror of 9-11.
Fortunately for the people of New Jersey, Tom Ridge and John Ashcroft have remained on the job. Otherwise, the consequences for
McGreevey’s indefensible risk-taking could have been much more severe.
Nevertheless, the political “sleight of hand” continues unabated. As with the dubious 2002 New Jersey Senate race, where retired
Senator Frank Lautenberg was suddenly substituted for Robert Torricelli (whose campaign was obviously failing), New Jersey
voters, are expected to dutifully line up like sheep, election after election, and vote according to the dictates of the Garden State’s
Democratic Party's political machine. Should they wonder why their taxes keep going up, their schools continue to deteriorate, their
cities become ever more grim, and any possibilities of correcting the situation fade altogether from the realm of possibility?
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition
American Government & the U.S. Presidency
Morality, Decency, & Traditional American Values
Terrorism & American Homeland Security
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian. Adamo maintains his own Internet website, which is located at
www.chrisadamo.com.
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