The Political Inquirer

Sigh. The “conservative” Jonah Goldberg (National Review) has finally come out in the open and admitted he’s not a true conservative by any stretch of the imagination. Instead of redefining conservatism as Goldwater-esque, he has decided it is best to accept the McCain ideology and wants McCain to reach across the isle to a Democrat for the vice presidency. I refuse to take any more of this and hereby disown anyone who makes such an idea as a traitor to freedom. It isn’t about Democrats being “bad”, it’s that Goldberg is accepting McCain as the nominee! I don’t care if you are going to hold your nose (if you’re Republican) and vote for McCain or not, the fact is that McCain is the antithesis of everything Republican conservatism should stand for. Sure, Reagan was a conservative in rhetoric only, but McCain openly admits to being a global warming nutjob government expander. A traitor to every principle conservatives have fought for. And now, at the end, through all the sifting we did in the primary season on trying to show people why Giuliani and Romney and Huckabee were not conservatives, these people in the primaries go out and pick McCain as the nominee. The one out of the entire pack who actually admits to being a liberal and flanders it around as his “maverick” status.

Give me a break.

The fact that so many Republicans will still vote for McCain tells me that every Republican that does so has no backbone, no principle, and deserves every loss and every bad thing that comes our way with a Clinton or Obama presidency. Heck, McCain is going to be more of a “Democrat” than the Democrats! If McCain wins this election, it will spell the end of the Republican Party, the end of Conservatism, and the beginning of a long line of Democrat presidents. Probably thirty five or so years worth.

Where’s the hope? It’s in the real conservatives that stick it out and refuse to vote for McCain. John Derbyshire (also from National Review) ponders why there isn’t anything exciting for conservatives in this election cycle and probably not in the next one, either. Derbyshire points out that there is nothing for conservatives despite their rhetoric. We constantly see:

• “Tax Cuts”, with Republicans giving us huge deficits and more spending, comlpetely defeating the purpose.
• Fear of the “Evil Islamists” as a replacement for fighting the USSR. America will never be “Islamified” if we don’t let it, there is no reason to be waging constant war on an Empire that will never exist nor can it truly harm us.
• The “Christian” nominees don’t even pay much homage to their religion yet you see the Religious Right swoon over McCain like he’s the godly Saint from Arizona

So Derbyshire continues:

What else do Movement conservatives care about? Reducing the size of the federal government? Ha ha ha ha ha! Patriotism? Take your pick: A candidate who sits mute in his pew while his minister and friend damns America, or a candidate who places so little value on citizenship, he favors giving it to anyone who walks uninvited into our country and asks for it.

It’s true. McCain is little more than a traitor to the country, giving no care for our laws, wanting to expand the size of government, and he even voted against the Bush tax cuts. Look, I don’t think the Bush tax cuts were exactly “fair”, but I argue for elimination of all taxes–so I’ll take what I can get for anyone who can get it.

By this standard, this campaign has offered us two inspirational political futures: Barack Obama’s, and Ron Paul’s.

I agree with this statement. There are only two ways for American politics to go at this point if current trends continue–Obama’s or Paul’s. If Obama wins the presidency, it will go his way. We will see everything conservatives have fought against, a “trust” restored in the presidency proclaimed from the four corners of the earth by the Left, and Rightists acting like Obama is the devil instead of attacking their own candidate (as they should be doing). We are at a crossroads–do we let McCain win and kill conservatism, making way for Obama in the next election (if he can’t pull it off this time)? Do we let Hillary win and let the status quo continue? If Obama wins, there will be a change in the political landscape, but not for the good. Where then, do we turn? Derbyshire knows:

The fire lit by Ron Paul, and the masses of young people who have flocked to warm their hands at it, are easier for a conservative to understand. I might agree, as some of my colleagues murmur, that some updating and culling is in order, but Dr. Paul’s main message is heartily, full-throatedly, unapologetically conservative, in a way we have not seen for a long time. It’s not going anywhere this season, nor likely the next, but the Paul campaign offers proof that conservatism is still alive and can still find converts among the thoughtful young. In the gathering gloom of failure and despair, that’s something to lift the spirits a little.

Whether you agree with him or not, you must realize that Ron Paul’s message is the message that will win in the future. Never in the past twenty years have we seen such energetic crowds coming to meet Ron Paul–sure, it was only a million votes or so cast for the man, but that’s a start. A depressing start, but at least someone spoke the truth about the financial system, the war, the Democrats and the Republicans. Democrats must learn to accept the free market, Republicans must stop arguing for wars that former Democrat party members that switched to the Republicans (Neoconservatives) want to fight.

We are at a crossroads, and conservatism, American ideology, and the fate of Western Civilization hangs in the brink. Are we to keep the status quo and slide into destruction or turn around at the last second and restore classic liberalism to this country? Our problem is that conservatives are fighting for socialism. War socialism in the guise of fighting Islam. Islam cannot be fought with bullets and bombs, but only with ideas and other religions.

If we continue down this path, conservative Republicans will wake up one day and realize they have brought socialism on this country. Or perhaps not, they’ve been deceived for so long.