Posted by
Theron on Friday, November 14, 2008 2:35:24 PM
It was election night 2008 and the American people had just chosen. Specifically, eight million more people chose Barack Obama over John McCain; just enough of a margin to allow the winners to call it a landslide and the losers to call it a catastrophe.
The truly conservative shuddered when the numbers finally came in: Barack Hussein Obama had done it. He had fooled the people, or so we told ourselves, and we'll be reaping the consequences of a socialist president for the next 60 years. "Democracy is doomed!" ran through more than one mind that night.
Now, as Obama's (non)policy is taking shape, that might not be too far fetched. The steps the new Democratic majority will take in the first year of Obama's "rule" will tell much. In the mean time, let's not jump to conclusions.
We still have that wonderful document called the Constitution; and hopefully this new government will at
least try to honor it.
I have my doubts because as we all know that power corrupts, but there are still people on both sides of America that revere the Constitution. Maybe there is still hope with a lowercase "O", after all?
As a strictly racial achievement, I’m happy for African
Americans; they’ve waited a long time for this. Even though I think that many
of them voted for Obama just because he was part black and not because of the
issues, they have nonetheless finally shattered the highest glass ceiling in the world. For that I wept for joy on election night!
Now, as the excitement wears off and the real world comes back into view, we need to get down to business:
If you’re a conservative,
cheer up!
We’ve been here before and we’ll not only get through it just fine, we will thrive.
The liberals
have gotten nearly everything they wanted, so there goes their last excuse for
any failure to lead. Now they’re going to have to figure out how to come
through on all their outrageous promises and it’s going to be fun to watch!
It’s a time to examine our core values, strengthen those
that are good and trash those that are baseless. We need to go back to our
roots and find what it is that we stand for and then stand firm on it.
Moderation is fast becoming the catch phrase for the uber "middle ground" in America, but the disaster would be complete if we adopted this stance as our core doctrine.
We must re-discover the values of conservatism, dust them off and put them up for everyone to see.
After a few years of the moral relativism of the Obama administration, the emptiness of amorality will be in full swing and there will be in vogue a search for meaningfulness and principle sweeping the scene.
We'd better be ready with the right answers.
It’s a time to learn how to be a strong conservative
minority opposition without being complainers or blame shifters. Let’s show
those overgrown liberal crybabies who’ve been whining about Bush for eight years how to be the underdog
with dignity and style!
It’s also a time of great opportunity for level headed young
people with solid morals to show initiative and bring some fresh air to the
conservative cause.
We must learn to value opinions that are contrary to ours for the benefit of perspective. Just because we don't agree with someone does not mean that we dishonor them and their ideas. As if on cue, the radical homosexual activists currently protesting the passing of California Proposition 8 are trying to do just the opposite; they want to get a hateful reaction out of conservatives who don't agree with them. Don't give them that chance.
We all must learn to value opposing viewpoints without having to come in agreement with them, because very soon we might not be able to express opposing viewpoints at all.
So on that note, I offer my Post Election Conservative Declaration of Values:
- Barack
Hussein Obama (hereafter “Obama” in this document) is now my president,
not my king. I will give honor to him as his office requires, but will
hold him firmly accountable for everything he does.
- Since
he is unproven, I will give Obama a chance to prove to me his character
and his honesty.
- I will
give Obama a chance to soften his decidedly hard left outlook by reaching
out to the 55,821,650 people who voted against him.
- I will
not blindly give my trust to Obama, but will thoroughly examine every
action he takes while in office and sound an alarm when and if he violates
the constitution.
- If
Obama violates the constitution and does not deviate from said
unconstitutional course when made legally aware, I pledge my full and
complete support to any effort of impeachment and forced removal from
office.
- I will
pray for the President and other leaders in our government.
- I
reserve the right to refer to him by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama,
in the few conversations I plan on having about him.
- I will
freely live my faith in an authentic fashion and will share it with others
in a loving way.
- I will
be socially and politically proactive, freely speaking my mind on issues I
deem important and will NOT live in fear of a reprisal by my government. If
reprisals do come, I will denounce them with every means available to me on
the basis of patriotic principle.
- I will
fully support and campaign to uphold our right to keep and bear arms.
- I will
fully and to the best of my ability work to honorably end the national disgrace of
abortion.
- I will
be wise in my use of finances and invest accordingly, knowing the methods
and social motives behind the conglomerates where my investment goes.
- I will
not speak pointless evil of my leaders, but will speak the truth in kindness.
- I will not let people with viewpoints opposite mine steal my joy; and will go about my everyday life with a new sense of purpose and
urgency, knowing that every word I speak and action I take is a down
payment on eternity.