Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
~ Jesus
And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him [Jesus] unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
~ Judas
From this point forward I will no longer refer to myself as a Republican. Why?
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me! I became a conservative 21 years ago in the early autumn of 1988 while a graduate student at Harvard. Coincidentally, a young Barack Obama had that same year also matriculated to Harvard, being formerly educated by such communist and socialist luminaries as Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the fundamental rudiments of nation annihilation.
The narrative of how I became a conservative can be found in this previous column.
Twenty years ago as a neophyte conservative I had an inexplicable feeling of unease as I entered the polling booth to cast my first Republican vote for Bush 41. Something in the air was amiss … but what? Now I know through maturity and hindsight that Bush 41 wasn’t a true conservative, neither was Clinton that followed him, nor Bush 41’s son, Bush 43, that followed him. All of these American presidents over the past 20 years who frequently imitated the style, words and rhetoric of Ronald Reagan were in effect impostors. Today, America is paying a terrible price for electing such inept, phony leaders.
My ideological mentor and conservative intellectual Michael Savage often says on his radio program summarizing the past election that Bush 43, the GOP leadership, the RNC and John McCain all “greased the skids for Obama to win the election. Not one of them ever came on my program because they are all cowards!” The words of Savage are true, painfully true. Since Reagan retired there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrat Party, made up of proud socialists, and the Republican Party, who are socialists-lite. Obama didn’t drive America to the brink of the Great Depression, Part II alone; he had 20 years of socialism-lite from Bush 41, Clinton and Bush 43 as a foundation.
Twenty years ago when Bush 41 assumed the presidency, virtually all of America had hoped that this leader would continue the “Reagan Revolution,” where Reagan’s comprehensive sweep of the electorate won him 43 states in 1980 and 49 states in 1984. The American people arguably wanted Reagan’s successor to even sharpen the anti-federalist mandate and do many more great things Reagan didn’t have the time or the vision to accomplish, like bringing black people back into the party of Abraham Lincoln and further dismantling the bloated government bureaucracy and welfare state that his predecessors, like Carter, Nixon, LBJ, FDR and Woodrow Wilson, had previously erected.
Twenty years ago I knew the fix was in with the GOP, as seemingly every Republican mimicked the words of Reagan, but virtually none of them followed his words or consistently defended his policies and political ideology. This shameless duplicity by the GOP brought to mind the words of Jesus who 2,000 years ago likewise castigated the corrupt, phony religious and civic leaders of his day – the Sadducees, Pharisees, Herodians, scribes and lawyers, condemning them all as hell-bound hypocrites, saying, Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
Like Jesus, so it was with Reagan. Today we have one craven, incompetent, unremarkable politician after another ascend to the Parthenon of power only to quickly become corrupt and devolve into a pathetic, me-too Democrat socialism. The other day I even heard the incredible assertion by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele in a major address: “The era of apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over. It is done. The time for trying to fix or focus on the past [i.e., Reaganism] has ended.”
Enter Judas the traitor, Judas the opportunist, Judas the craven, careerist politician that would sell his own grandmother’s wig if it would give him a two-point spike in the polls.
Since Bush 41 succeeded Reagan in January 1989 these 20 years have more or less been the Golden Age of the Judas in the GOP and RNC politics, which is why Americans have elected that greatest Judas in modern politics, B. Hussein Obama, who at the time of this writing has nationalized Wall Street, private corporations, banks, the home mortgage industry, plans to nationalize health care and will soon become the de facto CEO of Chrysler and GM (General Motors) which in essence should be renamed “OM” (Obama Motors).
Remember during the election the throngs of people who cheered for Obama, adored Obama, obeyed Obama, worshipped Obama? People the communist dictator Vladimir Lenin about 100 years ago derisively called “useful idiots.” If we didn’t live in a lobotomized society dominated by propaganda newspeak and political doublespeak, the GOP (Grand Old Party) would more accurately be called the GIP (Grand Irrelevant Party). If the Republicans don’t want to become the Whig Party of the 21st century, they had better stop mouthing and aping the words of President Reagan and begin to promote real leaders who earnestly live the words of Reagan in thought, word and deed.
Let’s look at the voting public from a logical perspective. It is human nature for people to vote for an authentic leader (Obama) versus an inauthentic me-too socialist party like the Republican Party. In other words, people will always vote for real leader rather than a “moderate” or pretender.
Jesus, Reagan or Judas — which precedent figure would be most appropriate in defining the GOP’s legacy over the past 20 years? The answer is obvious. Reagan said, “Trust, but verify.” Therefore, let all Americans who earnestly love this country arise and purge the Republican Party of every Judas and Neville Chamberlain and eventually return America to be what Reagan poignantly called a shining city on a hill.
