Who Can Define “Divisive”? Raise Your Hand
Deborah Venable
01/30/11
Okay,
time for the mama bear to take some of the kids off to the woodshed. The only kids I’m interested in disciplining
now are the conservative kids – forget about the liberals. They are a lost cause by definition
anyway.
Conservatives
should know better than to lend credence to anything the liberal, progressive
media has to say, especially about one of their own, but more and more of them
seem to be making that very big mistake.
Just mention Sarah Palin in a group of (supposedly) conservatives, and
see what happens. Okay, kids, I know
most of you have been educated in the liberal brainwashing mills of higher
education, right along with your liberal and progressive brethren, but I can’t
cut you any slack here. This is far too
important!
I
would expect you to have a better than average command of the English language,
though, if you are going to call yourselves conservatives. I’m finding out that this must not be so,
however. In reading and listening to
conservative media these days, I am finding a recurring theme. Whether the particular article (or hit
piece) comes off as pro or con Sarah Palin, the reaction to it always carries
the lament that goes something like this: “But she is just too divisive.” Divisive?
Sarah Palin? Are you kidding me?
John
McCain will go down in history for one thing, if nothing else. He was smart enough to choose her as his
running mate in 2008! Far from being
divisive, then, she went on to place more votes on conservative ballots for
McCain than anything else he could have done to get them! That, boys and girls, is the opposite of
divisive!
So
why do we suppose that there are so many so-called conservatives in the know,
who may pretend to like Palin for her popularity with the American people, her
natural charisma, her ability to attract and please a crowd, and many other
compliments they may heap upon her, but then follow that all up with, “but she
is far too divisive, and therefore, unelectable” – why is that? Everything she has run for so far, except as
second name on the top ticket, she WAS elected! And if McCain’s own campaign had not sabotaged her at every turn,
she would have probably pulled THAT one out of the fire too!
Yep,
some of you big mouth conservative brats have gotten too big for your britches
and, perhaps, just need a sound thrashing in the wood shed. You are obviously reacting to Sarah Palin
exactly like her political opponents want you to. They were the ones, after all, that coined the “Palin is
divisive” line over two years ago!
Phase
Two:
Michelle
Bachmann is a Balloon Head
Okay,
folks, while breathlessly awaiting the SOTU, (cough, cough) which turned out to
be a canned speech of gumbo from past Obama “great oratory” over the last two
years – including from last year’s SOTU, another topic came up about another
conservative woman, Michelle Bachmann, who is very much (dare I say it) in the
crosshairs of talking heads today. Might
have to include a few liberals in this trip to the woodshed, simply because
your ignorance is threatening to clog your circulation and the thrashing might
help! (Note to Chris Matthews - that
may be where your leg tingles actually come from.) It’s either that, or go eat some hot peppers man – this is
serious!
In
trying to defend America’s founding in the concept of individual freedom,
recently in a speech in Iowa, Michelle tried to give a crash course in how
slavery came to an end here and why.
Obviously it fell on ignorant ears as Chris Matthews rushed to point out
that slavery didn’t end with the Founders – that indeed many of them owned
slaves. That is quite a lot like trying
to score a touchdown in a football game by running the ball down the field
outside the bounds. It really doesn’t
count because of the rules. Bachmann
was talking about the setup for the end to slavery – you know, Chris, back when
the “rule book” otherwise known as the Constitution was actually written.
In
asking the question, (paraphrased) “Will freedom in America end with this
generation?” Michelle was actually making a very valid point that went right
over the heads of her detractors.
Even
after our Founders had put in place the very documents that would lead to our
successful self-rule, they knew and they warned that it would take patriotic
diligence to keep this country free and snatch liberty from the jaws of
despotism in future generations. The
slavery issue was very much at the forefront of debate during the writing of
the Constitution, and the assignment of three-fifths as the enumeration for
slaves was actually instrumental in leading to the downfall of legal slavery in
America. But don’t expect the
force-fed, liberal education crowd to catch on to that. Their history was not learned THAT way. Here is the Matthews on-air rant if you are interested.
At
one point in this clip, notice how Sal Russo, co-founder of Tea Party Express,
tried to make the point that the end of slavery in America was not so finite as
Matthews tried to suggest.
Anyway,
while liberals are masters at changing the subject at hand, they will never be
able to grasp the big picture of any issue, unless and until they cease to be
liberals. Period. The subject at hand is the liberal’s
insistence on government expansion to “fix” America’s problems. This country was NOT designed that way, but
rather with consideration for the exact opposite philosophy. You tell me if we would have ever known as
much freedom in this country if the Founders had failed to install the
Constitution. If they had insisted on
outlawing slavery at the time of the country’s founding, we would not BE a
country now. It doesn’t take a lot of
reading of actual history to come to that conclusion. The Founders, instead, trusted individual people – future
generations – to right that wrong.
Liberals
think such an idea is a misplaced trust I guess.
I
am sure that the same “divisive” label has been leveled at Bachmann and any
other conservative who dares try to define the importance of understanding
limited government as key in self governance, and it is truly sad when
Americans just don’t get that, but it is reprehensible when so-called
conservatives refuse to embrace it.
That is truly a woodshed moment!
Here
is an afterthought in this whole discussion for you to chew on. Both Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann are
bright, articulate, passionate women, who care about their children. People like that will always strike fear in
the hearts of those who wish only for someone else to do their jobs for them –
that of securing their children’s futures while making an easier life for
themselves. Don’t tell me how empty
headed and unelectable these women are, and don’t try to tell me that they are
divisive. Common sense and political
victory go hand-in-hand in a successful self-governing society. Otherwise, you end up with the overbearing
government we have now – a continuing barrage of stuff rammed down our throats
that we don’t want.
Before
I am accused of a partisan rant here, let me just say that there are many
politicians, who wear the R label behind their names, whom I would never
support, even for the office of dogcatcher.
There have been some in the past, who wore the D label, whom I greatly
admired. Presently, though, none come
to mind. The Democrat Party has been
captured in total, and the Republican Party is currently under the same
assault. It is bad enough that the
field of good, conservative politicians is so sparse without the added threat
of nefarious commentary coming dressed in sheep’s clothing.
The
conservative view of limited government espoused in articulate language is
anything but divisive or un-American.
The courage required to take the national stage in defense of our
heritage and warning of the danger of ignoring it needs to be admired and
portrayed with optimism – not ridiculed and deemed empty headed or divisive –
certainly not from an elitist, bunch of so-called insiders looking down their
noses at those brave souls just because they happen to come from mainstream
American families and communities.
Okay,
kids, suck it up and get back to work.
This woodshed is getting hot!