The Next Arlen Specter
Date: July 17th, 2010
Category: Ideology of Freedom
By Robert Ringer
There you go again, Lindsey. The most liberal Republican in the Senate (just a shade more so than his pal Mush McCain) seems intent on being the last best hope for an Obama-directed police state. Fortunately, the odds are that he will fail … at least for now.
As the whole world now knows, RINO Lindsey Graham recently told New York Times Magazine, “The problem with the Tea Party, I think it’s just unsustainable because they can never come up with a coherent vision for governing the country. It will die out.”
Bingo! Without realizing it, Lindsey, you gave yourself away. Tea-party people have no vision for governing because they don’t want to be governed. They want to be left alone! Got that? Probably not, because most of those who live in the Congressional glass bubble are incapable of relating to what goes on in the outside world.
The tea-party people have no vision? Are you kidding me? It’s the clearest vision of government I’ve seen in my lifetime. And the central focus of that vision is an antiquated little concept known as freedom. You’ve heard about freedom, haven’t you? You know … do what you want, when you want, how you want – and it’s none of the government’s business!
Graham’s South Carolina peer, Jim DeMint, responded to Graham’s breathtaking comments with, “The tea party is just the tip of the iceberg of an American awakening.” Double bingo! Senator DeMint has it absolutely right. I’ve been saying for more than a year now that if elections are actually held in 2010 – and even allowing for the standard massive voter fraud on the part of the left – Republicans are going to win more seats than the most optimistic media projections, and win by bigger margins than anyone is now projecting.
Clearly, Graham has absolutely no clue as what the tea-party movement is all about. How is that possible in this day and age of Fox News and the Internet? Easy. He spends all his time in a club called Congress. He’s not evil; he’s not (totally) stupid or ignorant; he’s not (totally) naïve. He’s simply been in the Congressional glass bubble too long.
What’s puzzling to me is that names like Bob McDonnell (Virginia), Chris Christie (New Jersey), and Scott Brown (Massachusetts) seem not to have made any registration at all on the minds of politicians like Graham, McCain, and a majority of those in the Democratic Party. They have totally missed the message: It’s the freedom, stupid.
The crowds at the tea-party gatherings are impressive, but, like DeMint, I doubt they represent much more than a small fraction of the number of people who want the government to get out of their lives – who want politicians to understand that they have no authority to redistribute wealth or engage in social engineering. None. Zip. That’s not what “promoting the general welfare” was intended to mean.
But the Lindsey Graham’s don’t get it because throughout their careers they have operated on the assumption that people actually want to be governed. Psst – they don’t. Even progressives don’t want to be governed. They want to do the governing, of course, but they don’t want to be governed. Which is a nice way of saying they want to call the shots in a police state.
Lindsey Graham absolutely loves governing, which shows up in such statements as, “Everything I’m doing now in terms of talking about climate, talking about immigration, talking about Gitmo is completely opposite of where the Tea Party movement’s at.” Stupid is as stupid says.
But the coup de grace for Graham’s progressive comments is, “I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.” In other words, he wants the one-party system (Demopublican Party) to continue on undisturbed.
Graham must have gotten his idiotic remark from Mush McCain’s daughter, Meghan, who boldly describes herself as a “progressive Republican” – at the same time that her old man is trying to convince voters he’s a hard-core conservative! Little wonder, though, since father Mush has repeatedly said that the original American progressive, Teddy Roosevelt, is his hero.
If the Republicans want to save their party from extinction, I believe they must stop kidding themselves and put into motion The Final Solution: Encourage Graham, McCain, and other clubby “me-too’s” to join Arlen Specter and exit, stage right, into the waiting arms of the Democratic Party. Don’t try to reason with them; don’t try to humor them; don’t try to cure them. Progressivism is entrenched in their brains.
The tea-party people have made it clear that the treacherous policy of “compromising” (i.e., giving in) is no longer acceptable, but that’s not enough. They must get rid of the stench, once and for all. As a now-forgotten student of human nature once pointed out, you’ll never smell like a rose if you roll in a dunghill.
I hope we survive as a semi-free nation long enough to have elections in 2014, because if we do, loquacious Lindsey will get firsthand evidence that the tea-party people forgot to die out – because he will be out. Mark it down that I said it on this date. I don’t make predictions often, but this one is too easy to pass up.
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July 17th, 2010 at 11:38 am
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July 17th, 2010 at 11:59 am
We spend half our year in South Carolina and half in the socialist state of Wisconsin. Graham and his ilk don’t want to govern, they actually want to rule
I have long defined moderates as those who stand for nothing and will therefore fall for anything. As a claque they helped install this charlatan who would be emperor driven by decades of guilt with a promise of change
Change to what? Why more government, of course. Change will begin only by liquidating most of the government we now have, and it will happen, either by the ballot box or citizen’s coup
July 17th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
I love the tea party movement, but it makes some real mistakes in candidate choice. Sharon Angle be perhaps the worst. The leading Republican candidate before Sharon’s Tea Party rise would surely have beaten the despicable Reid. It is doubtful that Sharon will.
The election of Scott Brown has certainly been a Republican disaster. His obsequious approach to the President is RHINO at its best.
And, speaking of Lindsey Graham, he has been far right of the silly old wonmen from Maine, i.e., Snowe and Collins, who have made a practice of sellinhg out their party and their nation.
I am astounded that neither you, Newsmax, Fox News, or the Republican Senate leadership have launched an attack on these two. They gave us the horrible health care bill, and with Brown’s help, a new bank bill that is only slightly less bad than the health care bill.
The problem with ideological enthusiasm is that it is often neither pragmatic or impirical.
July 17th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Lindsey Graham “naive”? No!
“Stupid”? Absolutely!
“Evil”? I hope not, but???
July 18th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Robert,
I ask you, how can a nation’s people remain unified and at relative peace with itself as a whole, when there is such a totally growing disconnect from the people leading and making decisions for those citizens and the people themselves being adversely affected by the decisions of this fractionally small number of decision makers? I also wonder how this candidate for the Supreme Court of the United States could still be acceptable to a majority of Americans unless the majority of Americans are also completely out of touch with the basically time honored principles of our basic foundational laws established at our conception, or these polls are just blatantly false and manipulative?
Case in point….
July 15, 2010
Americans Favor Confirming Kagan to High Court, 44% to 34%
Would be first recent nominee to win approval with less than majority public support
by Jeffrey M. Jones
PRINCETON, NJ — More Americans want the Senate to vote for rather than against Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court, but the percentage in favor is less than a majority. Support for Kagan’s confirmation remains essentially the same as it was before her June confirmation hearings.
2010 May-July Trend: As You May Know, Solicitor General Elena Kagan Is the Person Nominated to Serve on the Supreme Court. Would You Like to See the Senate Vote in Favor of Kagan Serving on the Supreme Court, or Not?
Typically, support for nominees does not change much after their hearings. Instead, Gallup usually finds increases in the percentage of Americans opposed and decreases in the percentage with no opinion. The percentage without an opinion on the Kagan nomination was the same before and after her hearings, which may indicate these were not widely followed by the average American.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Kagan’s nomination next week, with the full Senate voting later this summer. Kagan is expected to be confirmed, given the Senate’s large Democratic majority.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/141329/Americans-Favor-Confirming-Kagan-High-Court.aspx?utm_source=tagrss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_term=USA
How can one explain a Ted Kennedy, a Robert Byrd, an Arlen Specter, or even a Lindsey Graham and not believe that something has gone inexplicably and terribly wrong with our political system and even more so with the values and perceptions of too many Americans to allow, and to have allowed, these so called “representatives” remain in office repeatedly?