Posted by
Bryn T. Jones on Friday, January 09, 2009 10:58:40 PM
In the not too distant past folks in the Bill Clinton campaign maligned George H. W. Bush with the slogan, "It's the economy, stupid!" It worked because it condescends to the other side and, without saying it, tells everyone that side doesn't get it. By answering, "I know, I know," Mr. Bush would have been on the defensive, trying to catch up to a position Bill had already staked out. By denying the economic sense about the country, Bush seemed aloof.
We live in worse times than those. Our economy is facing ever mounting attacks from the Global Warming Fanatics who impose regulation upon regulation against companies in the name of Saving The Planet. During this onslaught, we face record numbers of people amongst us that buy into the notion that the Government can fix everything and that we the people should sit back and let it. This combination is toxic.
America was founded on the principle of the rugged individual. America is the land of the frontier. While the star-spangled imagery is certainly flawed, it isn't meant to portray reality, only an ideal. That ideal is what is currently being discarded by those in power. The Republicans have handed the Democrats this country on a silver platter because of the manipulative tactics of the Left. Spin-doctors like
Carville have systematically used slogans and sound-bytes to bully Republicans and conservatives into apologizing. They get help from the media who will jump on any anti-Christian, anti-conservative scandal and let it run with little to no scrutiny. We witnessed the bitter hazing of Sarah Palin this fall because she had the audacity to be a conservative woman who was proud of her role as a working mom in an ordinary American household (on the last frontier, I might add). In short, the leftists in the media and the Democratic party wish to kill the American spirit of individualism because it stands in the way of their government power grab.
What conservatives everywhere need to master is the use of words in turning the debate back on the liberals. For instance, our dollar is weak because our debt is so large. Our manufacturing is down and we hold fewer and fewer assets. Our country is indebted to our enemies. And yet, our government tells us we need to spend more to get out of our current crisis. Aparently, if bad money management is the problem, getting rid of more money is the solution. Or, as Glenn Beck and his guest Vince Flynn noted, it's like telling someone with food poisoning that the only way to get better is to eat more of the rancid peanuts.
Our battle cry should be to tell Obama and the Democrats, "It's the dollar, stupid!" The more we spend ourselves into oblivion the lower our dollar will dive until it sits at the bottom with the peso. To have strong buying power, we need to balance the budget, not break it. We need to eliminate our debt, not grow it. We need to foster more production through business friendly tax codes, not punish it off of our shores.
With the new congress convening, let's call on them to do what we do in hard times--cut back!