Conservatives are supposed to win the Iowa Straw Poll, but the bad news is Bachmann is already running backward...and will lose her base because of it. by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Monday, August 15, 2011
Michelle Bachmann narrowly defeated Ron Paul in the Iowa Straw Poll, while others lagged way behind. Perhaps the largest surprise was just how poorly former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich did. In the low single digits, one can only see him staying in the race to keep his name in the public eye for a possible VP shot, or for some senior policy position in the coming Republican White House.
But, for Bachmann, her appearance on Sunday's national talk shows was less than stirring for her consevative base. She ducked questions related to her social conservatism. The real problem for the Republicans is they don't seem to understand this is an election about the heart and soul of America. Are we a Christian nation? Are we America, I mean the America formed from people who left a failing Europe ? Do we still want to be different from the rest of the world, even if we are not the number one Super Power? Has globalism devoured our national identity? There are just so many core questions, and equivocation means essential agreement with Obama's sociology and socialist policies.
Michelle must be advised by the same people who advise all DC politicians. There are not Heartland Americans; they are not Southern Americans, or Main Street Americans. They see God in His place, outside the Beltway, and nowhere near the White House or the government agencies of America. Michelle, like many many conservatives, when faced with some success refuse to understand where that success came from. They simply don't believe God is influential in elective politics, or they set aside their core beliefs in order to win an election. They may believe that once elected they can return to their core beliefs...but they won't.
Michelle let me give you a strategy tip; You can't win over the RINO's, the Blue bloods, the East Coast Republicans. The key to your victory is your ability to convince first a majority of Republicans that our nation needs a whole new Christian - conservative direction. We are failing because of our values, not because of anything else. It is our materialism, our willingness to run an unlimited credit card, our consumerism which is destroying the American dream.
Ronald Reagan may have been a very unique modern personality and national leader. Whether it was because of World War II, or the life he lived, or some deep faith in God, Ronald Reagan actually believed what he said. His philsophical foundation was not mobile, maliable to the political situation. His course was set, his definitions clear. Ronald Reagan had a rock solid, simple but clear vision of the condition of the world, and what had to be done. He did not waiver. His purpose, his methods, his words seemed startling and scary at the time he said them. "Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall." Words said to the leader of the only other Super power on the planet. Even conservatives like myself were shook by the words. Reagan had drawn a line in the sand for the whole world to see. And his refusal to negotiate away the possibility of developing Star Wars technology, lifting the world to a higher level of nuclear tension was a huge gamble. Some called it lunacy.
But as one former President, Richard Nixon once wrote; the higher the risk, the greater the potential gain. Within three years of the Ronald Reagan's Presidency the Cold War was over.
We are at another crossroads, one that is not about budgets and debt ceilings. This cross roads is about what America is.
Do we believe in God as a people? Are we Christian? Is the party over? Or, are we ready to go back to our roots?
This isn't just about religion, it's about reality. Paul Krugman one of the architects of today's financial America said on a CNN News show that to stimulate the economy we may have to pay people to dig holes and fill them in! This from America's best and brightest?! He did not talk about a new American business model. He did not talk about energy self-sufficiency, or about taking back the American market place. He talked about government debt-financed projeccts. He denied that big money, corporations, etc were withholding investment because they had no idea what was going to happen with Obama Care or the government's massive imbalance. He literally was speaking as if he knew nothing of economics, nothing of capitalism. He literally said we could just print more money and should include inflation as a factor to ease or reduce the value of long term interest payments. (Bet China loved hearing that.) He did not mention one private sector solution. This from a graduate of Yale and MIT and a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
I sat watching Krugman thinking the lunatics are in charge! And I also wondered are any Democrats, I mean real people Democrats, watching any of this? Are my countrymen buying this? Are they that delusional? The Ivy Leaguers who think they can control all aspects of life seem to have forgotten about other forces outside their control. They seem totally oblivious to war. They really seem to believe that they have their hands on all the throttles, all the controls.
Meanwhile the People's Republic of China is critical of US debt policies. The problem with the economic - centric policies we have been following since the end of the Cold War is that they seem to presume that an integrated world economy will trump religion, history, nationalism, and thus build some kind of earthly utopia without serious wars. We just divide the world up, give everyone something to do, and well that ought to do it. The problem is we are men, not God. We do well if we can keep our own homes straight. But here, because of technology we think we can plan a global economy. When planning economies on that large scale violates every tenent of capitalism and free market economics.
Bottom line folks, socialism didn't work in any countries, and it ain't gonna work in the world. And further, there are small irritants like what is occurring in the Middle East, and what isn't reported around the world which provide real opportunities for massive wars...like maybe Pakistan and India for one?
Our next President must be American! They must think American, not global. They can't worry about HIV in Africa, or Greece's failing budgetary woes. They need to think about our nation, and about what it needs to survive and prosper. We have the people, the resources and the oceans God gave us. What we need is God and His inspriation. We need to go to Him. I am not writing this as an evangelist, I am writing as someone who believes in the original America, in the original Constitution concept of limited federal power and State's Rights. The Civil War eliminated slavery, a horrid American mistake and that was good. But the right of secession was an important restraint on the federal government, and it is one which could help reverse this out of control federal government approaching 17 trillion dollars in national debt.
We do need another Ronald Reagan. We do need a leader confident in their personal faith in God, and through that sure of their course for America. I believe Sarah Palin is that person. I had hoped Michelle Bachmann might be of the same fold. Guess we'll see.
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