The Patriot's Flag

Today I am flying the South Carolina State flag. A Patriot Flag I fly when politics are relatively quiet. John McCain handily lost his bid to be President of the United States … and maybe, in the long run, that was a good thing.

Politically Quiet

There is an excellent column you should read in the Washington Examiner. Diana West has expressed my personal point-of-view nearly perfectly.  You should read it HERE to see how closely this matches with your philosophy. Her post is titled, “I voted for John McCain but I’m glad he lost.”  Now there’s a mouthful from a conservative … but upon reflection, I believe she is absolutely correct:

Diana West. (Excerpt): That’s because only out of ashes may the phoenix be reborn. The liberal-lite frustrations of a McCain administration would have smoldered on the Right but lit few fires, dampening the possibility of real post-Bush regeneration.

From Bush’s compassionate conservatism” (read: liberalism) to McCain’s compassionate bipartisanship (read: more liberalism), the nation would have continued to drift in the wrong direction. The “good” thing about the economy-crashing, military-breaking, ideologically mind-blowing Obama administration is that it puts us on a collision course that just might force Americans to bail and start over better. Metaphorically speaking.

This is probably the best article on this subject I have seen. All Conservatives are distressed that Obama won the election, but if you step back and look at a longer time line (instead of seeing the summer’s rise in temperature and believing in global warming) … it was the best thing that could happen. Don’t look at “these four years” … look in terms of 8 or 12 years.  We would have gotten Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” (slippery step to the left) on steroids. Had McCain won, Cap and Trade would have been a law by now, Copenhagen may have turned out differently.

For a real conservative,  McCain is WORSE than the radical Democrats. How can I say that? Simple, McCain was another “baby step” to the left. You say, he’s better than Obama. No, to Conservatism, he was more dangerous, because he would have made all his moves “in the spirit of Conservatism” . John McCain would have been an ongoing attack on Conservatism.  We don’t need any more “just a little more left baby steps.” The federal government slowly drifts, one baby step at a time, toward the left. Almost not noticeable … until you step back and look at a longer time line … look at the past 30 years … on the longer time line, you see it clearly.  I’ve written about that HERE: Take back the baby steps! So now we have OBAMA. [screaming heard in the background!]. However with the election of Obama and with his radical progressivism, Communist-leaning Czars and all,  in full view, we have something else:

WE HAVE A LIBERTY BELL RINGING LOUDLY WAKING UP THE POPULATION.

The alarm has been sounded … under McCain, the alarm would have been silent. Now REAL battle lines are being drawn, Americans …in droves … are buying up Constitution study books and going to classes, forming and joining Tea Party groups. Democrats are literally on the “run.” Virginia, New Jersey and even Massachusetts were CONSERVATIVE victories. It is becoming obvious that we are going to PUSH THEM BACK HARD in this next election and in the process maybe many “on-the-fence Independents” who voted for HOPE AND CHANGE and a bunch of numb Republicans that stayed home will at last hear the alarm and  STAND UP FOR SOMETHING AND DO SOMETHING RIGHT for a change.

It is unfortunate we needed to get Obama to wake up, the damage he has done may not be recoverable.  But America was sleeping soundly and allowing a Left-Biased news media lull them into making a huge mistake.  American people tend to sleep as the attack is coming (as with Pearl Harbor, where lives were lost because we slept) … but eventually, they wake up … and Americans tend to wake very angry when they realized they’ve been deceived! The “disaster of Obama” is  the wake-up call for Conservatism. On the longer time line, he was exactly what this country needed. The “baby steps to the left had to stop!” As Diana West said:

….only out of ashes may the [conservative] phoenix be reborn

So I’m glad McCain lost. And hopefully he will lose his bid to become Senator of Arizona again.

• About Sarah: It is too bad Sarah Palin has to support him … and rightfully she does. She will get a shot at the Presidency because of John McCain, the press would have had a field day with Palin throwing McCain under the bus … they could have attacked her trustworthiness and she would have looked a lot like a Democrat … doing what she needed to do to get elected instead of doing the correct and moral thing.  Should McCain lose the primary, watch how quickly she throws her support to the remaining “conservative” candidate.

A Republican Lesson Learned? John McCain is the poster boy for what is wrong with the Republican Party, and why they so disastrously lost their power over the past few years.  The “base” of the Republican Party is conservative … and when the party drifts left, the conservatives get off the train.  The “moderates” (lefties) in the party got their way and got McCain for a candidate … and “moderation” LOST the election.  If the Republicans want to be back in power, they are going to have to swing to the right and accidentally swerve into the power of their base.

If McCain loses the primary, it would be another excellent indicator to the Republican Party.  We don’t want your “moderation” it is “progressivism in a Republican cloak.”  And if the Republican Clubs in South Carolina don’t line up an attack the “progressivism” of Lindsey Graham, then the Obama Dictatorship will be strengthened.  Its time to get angry and take the Republican Party back from the moderates who have given us Obama.

Doug S.C. Flag - Relatively Calm