Terri Hillhouse
Will we still be a two-party country after 2004?
By Terri Hillhouse
No, I'm not counting Republican chickens before they've hatched, even though we in conservative circles recognize that the Democrats have moved so far to the left that they are about to step off the edge of the known world of American politics. And what's more, they all seem powerless to stop their own demise.
Everyone right of center has always known that the Clintonites would lead us to utter destruction. Little did we suspect that they might do in their own party before they finished destroying America.
The Clinton's personal brand of politics has been so utterly devoid of morality, as well as ready to engage in personal destruction and in the selling out of American values, that it has created a constituency among it's far left wing that is willing to support any tactic or any candidate, the loonier the better, as long as they have a chance of wresting power away from George Bush.
This is a political philosophy that has so corrupted the Democrat National Committee, under the leadership of Clinton political hack Terry McAuliffe, that it is willing to give the choosing of a United States president over to financing by foreign interests in the name of "winning" at any cost. It is a philosophy so corrupt that the driving emotion behind its agenda is hatred of a sitting president in time of war. It is a philosophy so bizarre that it has worked its candidates into a position of having to hope, no not just hope, but actively campaign for bad things to befall America in order to score points with an electorate that seems all too eager to follow this sick way of thinking.
Just look at the kind of statements that come from the anti-war leading Democrat, Howard Dean. According to the Associated Press the good doctor expressed his great concern for the eventual disposition of the man who killed nearly 3,000 Americans in September of 2001, in the following way, "I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials." Doesn't it just warm the cockles of your heart to know that the old fashioned Dr. Dean is so concerned with justice for this cowardly slayer of innocent Americans?
Before your heart overheats you should know that Dean later reversed himself, again, when he said "As a president, I would have to defend the process of the rule of law. But as an American, I want to make sure he gets the death penalty he deserves." No doubt he was pounced on by a staffer with more sense than he has.
This is the same Dr. Dean who wants to appeal to young men in the south with confederate flags on their pickup trucks. When that statement fell so memorably flat it was imperative that he find another with which to woo the southern vote. And so to whom did he turn but to Jesus Christ. Perhaps the season reminded him that many people in the southern states actually believe in God.
Dr. Dean has suddenly found religion even though he left the Episcopal church over a private property dispute concerning a bike path saying ''Churches are institutions that are about doing the work of God on earth, and I didn't think [opposing the bike path] was very Godlike and thought it was hypocritical of me to be a member of such an institution.'' He since joined the Congregational denomination even though he attends it no more than he did his former one. This from a man whose wife and children have always practiced the Jewish faith and who earlier in his marriage considered converting the entire family to the Unitarian faith. The good doctor's brand of religion seems unlikely to earn him many points among true believers in the south or any other part of the country.
And let us not forget for a moment his mind boggling, breath stopping, statement that "We've gotten rid of him [Saddam Hussein], and I suppose that's a good thing." Or his April 2003 declaration that "We won't always have the strongest military."
On the face of it, this is surely good news for the Republican Party and for conservatives everywhere, or is it?
Let's take a look at who is really getting left out in the cold. One might immediately jump to the conclusion that it is Independents and moderate Democrats but one would be wrong.
Nature abhors a vacuum and so the Republican Party has also moved to the left to occupy the ground that used to be held by a more moderate Democrat Party represented by such as the soon to be retired Zell Miller and as well as current candidates Dick Gephardt and Joe Lieberman.
We now find that it is Republicans who are giving us not only huge tax cuts but also huge spending increases in the areas of government entitlements. You have only to revisit the recent prescription drug/Medicare bill to realize how true this is.
While it may strain the credulity of some Independents and former Democrats to vote Republican for the first time, they will assuredly feel right at home in today's GOP once they brush themselves off and realize what they are getting, for today's Republican Party is most assuredly not your father's Grand Ol' Party.
And so we are left to ask, will we still have a two party political system after the 2004 election and will we thrive as a country if we don't?
© Terri Hillhouse
No, I'm not counting Republican chickens before they've hatched, even though we in conservative circles recognize that the Democrats have moved so far to the left that they are about to step off the edge of the known world of American politics. And what's more, they all seem powerless to stop their own demise.
Everyone right of center has always known that the Clintonites would lead us to utter destruction. Little did we suspect that they might do in their own party before they finished destroying America.
The Clinton's personal brand of politics has been so utterly devoid of morality, as well as ready to engage in personal destruction and in the selling out of American values, that it has created a constituency among it's far left wing that is willing to support any tactic or any candidate, the loonier the better, as long as they have a chance of wresting power away from George Bush.
This is a political philosophy that has so corrupted the Democrat National Committee, under the leadership of Clinton political hack Terry McAuliffe, that it is willing to give the choosing of a United States president over to financing by foreign interests in the name of "winning" at any cost. It is a philosophy so corrupt that the driving emotion behind its agenda is hatred of a sitting president in time of war. It is a philosophy so bizarre that it has worked its candidates into a position of having to hope, no not just hope, but actively campaign for bad things to befall America in order to score points with an electorate that seems all too eager to follow this sick way of thinking.
Just look at the kind of statements that come from the anti-war leading Democrat, Howard Dean. According to the Associated Press the good doctor expressed his great concern for the eventual disposition of the man who killed nearly 3,000 Americans in September of 2001, in the following way, "I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials." Doesn't it just warm the cockles of your heart to know that the old fashioned Dr. Dean is so concerned with justice for this cowardly slayer of innocent Americans?
Before your heart overheats you should know that Dean later reversed himself, again, when he said "As a president, I would have to defend the process of the rule of law. But as an American, I want to make sure he gets the death penalty he deserves." No doubt he was pounced on by a staffer with more sense than he has.
This is the same Dr. Dean who wants to appeal to young men in the south with confederate flags on their pickup trucks. When that statement fell so memorably flat it was imperative that he find another with which to woo the southern vote. And so to whom did he turn but to Jesus Christ. Perhaps the season reminded him that many people in the southern states actually believe in God.
Dr. Dean has suddenly found religion even though he left the Episcopal church over a private property dispute concerning a bike path saying ''Churches are institutions that are about doing the work of God on earth, and I didn't think [opposing the bike path] was very Godlike and thought it was hypocritical of me to be a member of such an institution.'' He since joined the Congregational denomination even though he attends it no more than he did his former one. This from a man whose wife and children have always practiced the Jewish faith and who earlier in his marriage considered converting the entire family to the Unitarian faith. The good doctor's brand of religion seems unlikely to earn him many points among true believers in the south or any other part of the country.
And let us not forget for a moment his mind boggling, breath stopping, statement that "We've gotten rid of him [Saddam Hussein], and I suppose that's a good thing." Or his April 2003 declaration that "We won't always have the strongest military."
On the face of it, this is surely good news for the Republican Party and for conservatives everywhere, or is it?
Let's take a look at who is really getting left out in the cold. One might immediately jump to the conclusion that it is Independents and moderate Democrats but one would be wrong.
Nature abhors a vacuum and so the Republican Party has also moved to the left to occupy the ground that used to be held by a more moderate Democrat Party represented by such as the soon to be retired Zell Miller and as well as current candidates Dick Gephardt and Joe Lieberman.
We now find that it is Republicans who are giving us not only huge tax cuts but also huge spending increases in the areas of government entitlements. You have only to revisit the recent prescription drug/Medicare bill to realize how true this is.
While it may strain the credulity of some Independents and former Democrats to vote Republican for the first time, they will assuredly feel right at home in today's GOP once they brush themselves off and realize what they are getting, for today's Republican Party is most assuredly not your father's Grand Ol' Party.
And so we are left to ask, will we still have a two party political system after the 2004 election and will we thrive as a country if we don't?
© Terri Hillhouse
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