THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 74, April 26, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
TUMULTOUS EVENTS & REPUBLICAN FORTUNES
By Christopher G. Adamo
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, PUBLIC POLICY AGENDAS, & AMERICAN PARTISAN POLITICS: LIBERALISM,
CONSERVATISM, & THE 2008 ELECTION -- WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MUST DO IN ORDER TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY &
CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITIES IN 2008: REMAIN FIRM IN UPHOLDING THE RULE OF LAW, CONSTITUTIONALISM,
FEDERALISM, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY & JUSTICE UNDER LAW, & THE OTHER FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF THE AMERICAN
REPUBLIC -- UNEQUIVOCALLY SUPPORT MEASURES TO ENSURE AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY, U.S. BORDER CONTROL,
STRICT ENFORCEMENT OF U.S. IMMIGRATION LAWS, AMERICAN HOMELAND SECURITY, VICTORY IN THE WAR AGAINST
ISLAMISM, & PROTECTION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST & ELSEWHERE -- REMAIN LOYAL TO
& STEADFASTLY SUPPORT THOSE THINGS THAT BOLSTERED THE CONSERVATIVE WING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY --
REJECT SOCALLED "MODERATE REPUBLICANS" & THEIR PROPOSED COMPRISES WITH DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERALISM --
UNMISTAKABLY DEFINE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS THE PARTY OF AMERICANISM & HIGH PRINCIPLE & AS A SHARP
CONTRAST & CLEAR ALTERNATIVE TO THE INCREASING LEFTWING LIBERAL TILT OF THE DEMOCRATS
FULL STORY:
It has been a week of upheaval on several fronts. And in its wake, the GOP stands to gain significant ground with the voting
population, but only if it can properly depict current happenings against the backdrop of traditional Republican principle.
By far the most horrendous occurrence was the mass murder of thirty-two students and professors at Virginia Tech by lone
gunman Cho Seung-Hui. Certainly, no decent individual should be attempting to make political hay of any sort out of the
unfathomable carnage and brutality that fell upon that institution. Rather, all respectable Republicans should be loudly
decrying the shameless Liberal effort to do just that.
Almost exactly twelve years prior to the Virginia Tech shootings, Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb at the Alfred Murrah
Federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 innocent men, women, and children.
The collapsing rubble from the building had hardly settled on its victims before then President Bill Clinton was in front of the
cameras, almost gleefully going through a “laundry list” of political opponents on whom he disgracefully sought to fix blame
for the disaster. Upon his re-election in 1996, he actually credited the Oklahoma City bombing as the “turning point” of his
previously beleaguered first term in office.
In a similarly despicable manner, the death tolls had not yet reached their awful finality at Virginia Tech last week before all of
the usual Liberal Leftist mouthpieces in the media were venting their diatribe against gun ownership. Clearly, they saw little
real tragedy in the occurrence and no value in the humanity represented by those numbers, other than their use as a political
tool.
In the Liberal world, the event might prove invaluable in furthering an agenda of disarming Americans, thus making everyone
as vulnerable to any lone crazy, as were the hapless students and teachers at Virginia Tech.
Official Republican response should certainly not be to answer in kind, by sidetracking the entire situation onto a debate
about gun ownership, though the facts and history clearly bear in their favor. Instead, they ought to relentlessly pound the
point that those on the political Left perceive no situation, regardless of how devastating it is to their fellow Americans, as
anything other than fodder for their insatiable political appetite.
On another front, the United States Supreme Court finally opted to act within the framework of the U.S. Constitution,
upholding America's fundamental law and thereby acting in accord with the principle that defending the Constitution
against ideological passions, special interests, and pressure politics should be the Court's proper function. In the
Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood decision, the Supreme Court sustained a 2003 ban on the gruesome procedure
known as “partial-birth” abortion.
To nobody’s great surprise, Liberals have ever since been howling about the injustice of protecting perfectly healthy and
viable unborn children from brutal slaughter, and allowing them the gift of life, since, by doing so, their mothers may face
inconvenience and adversity.
Nevertheless, a decisive majority of Americans recognize this procedure for what it is, and abhor it as such. As a result,
Liberal efforts to instill panic about the “loss of women’s rights,” and thereby rally the people to the Democratic Party and
its candidates for government office will ultimately backfire on the Democrats, but only if confronted by a resolved and
unshakeable Republican willingness to stand by the Supreme Court decision.
A Republican Party that remains firm on the founding principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (with “life”
listed first for obvious reasons) could use this occasion to loudly trumpet the inherent contrast that exists between itself
and the Democrats.
It is just such a clear distinction that has consistently benefited Republican electoral prospects in recent decades. And,
despite various media “spins” on the situation, it was the very lack of such defining differences that spelled doom for
Republican prospects in the congressional election last November.
Elsewhere, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Democrat - Nevada) once again sought to destroy the morale of
American military personnel, and indeed all Americans who recognize the unavoidable nature of the war on Islamic
terrorism. In a display of unswerving devotion to the Democratic Party’s anti-war/anti-America base, Reid flatly asserted
that the war in Iraq “is lost.”
In his April 24 column, commentator David Limbaugh presciently asks how the Democrats “would behave differently if
they were trying to dispirit our troops and embolden the enemy.” Indeed, it is difficult to imagine anything more effective
that an Al-Qa'ida leader might offer the insurgents to best inspire them to persevere in their efforts to drive the United
States out of Iraq.
With the 2008 presidential election campaign season looming, Republicans stand to make great gains as a result of this
pattern of abominable Liberal Leftist behavior. Yet, it is critical to this effort that they remain loyal to those things that
bolstered the Conservative wing of the party. Only by so doing can they unmistakably define themselves as a clear
alternative to the increasing Leftwing Liberal tilt of the Democrats.
Among the chief contenders for the White House, this contrast would be best borne, by far, by former Tennessee
Senator Fred Thompson. Of those with a large current showing in the polls, only Thompson can highlight his own past
Conservatism with no excuses or back peddling. Thompson merely needs to loudly proclaim the things for which he has
stood and allow the opposition, in all of its hysteria, to make his case for him.
Rudy Guiliani, on the other hand, finds himself on the wrong side of two of the three currently dominating controversies,
having staunchly supported both partial-birth abortion and gun control throughout his political life.
Being far too entrenched as a Liberal, Guiliani amazingly seeks to appeal to Conservative America on the basis that, unlike
those who shift to the political Right for electability purposes, he remains committed to his Liberal mindset. In essence,
Conservative America is asked to accept the absurd notion that Rudy’s unwavering devotion to such defining principles
of Liberalism somehow make him less of a Liberal than those who waffle and pander.
Ultimately, this strategy promises to be no more convincing to the voting public than Hillary Clinton and her latest
bumbling foray into “Ebonics.”
With Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama the likely Democratic Party nominee for the office of President, and in the face of the
stark realities currently facing America, a great opportunity presents itself to the GOP. But the Republican Party can only
hope to reap any political gain by remaining steadfast in its Conservatism.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition:
Elections, PACs, & Political Parties
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
The Fifth Column -- America's Internal Enemies:
Disloyalty, Subversion, Sedition, & Treason
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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 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.
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