Those who want to know why Republicans will lose in 2008 should ask Senator John McCain. McCain has demonstrated uncanny consistency changing the subject whenever someone asks a legitimate question on core social issues. This is the fatal shortcoming for both Senator McCain, and the G.O.P. as well.
An analysis of his speech given at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) convention last week does not speak volumes indicating a Republican victory in 2008. [see http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24891]
The most remarkable aspect of his speech is the long list of core social kitchen-table issues important to mainstream America that are not even mentioned in his speech. The words marriage, illegitimacy, wedlock (and out-of-wedlock), gay marriage, same-sex marriage, single mother(hood), and domestic violence were missing entirely from his platform of promises.
The only word of interest — “reform” — occurs just once in his talk — albeit what he was referring to remains a mystery. Says McCain: ”I will fight for the line item veto, and I will not permit any expansion whatsoever of the entitlement programs that are bankrupting us. On the contrary, I intend to reform those programs so that government is no longer in that habit of making promises to Americans it does not have the means to keep”.
McCain has never weighed in on core social reform issues in the past. His complete lack of spine fighting the war on marriage, waged by our own federal government against its own people, is tantamount to pretending that the war on terror can be won by doing nothing more than promising to win it and then changing the subject to something more convenient.
Approximately half of Americans are trapped on the field of the war on marriage. Some demand more welfare than is economically possible, the rest are stripped to their skivvies and then locked up. It all starts with the American Bar Association, our $700-billion-per-year HHS budget, and making women think they can do better by marrying Uncle Sam instead of having a husband or marrying the father of their children.
McCain is wrong merely offering “free market solutions” as a response to Democrat’s call for socialized medicine. “Free market solutions” are essentially what we have now. The buyers who cannot afford health insurance are largely single-mothers. This structural problem must be reversed – by restoring a free marriage market. The only alternative is socialized health care. Republicans have one possible choice: take up “Marriage Values” and restore a “Marriage Economy”, or eventually give in to public opinion and Democrat demands. The fact is this: when federal government ends permanent entitlement of divorce and illegitimacy, three-quarters of our health care problems will abate naturally.
McCain is also wrong about appointing judges to the federal bench “who are intent on achieving political changes that the American people cannot be convinced to accept through the election of their representatives.” This is where Roe v. Wade came from. Activist courts are not the answer. In any event, activist courts could never undo the damage done to marriage by federal spending. It is ludicrous, and an abdication of legislative and executive constitutional responsibility, to believe that marriage would ever be put back together from the bench. In light of previous comments he has made about divorce at whistle stops, this certainly appears to be what Mr. McCain has in mind.
McCain did make a sage comment, perhaps precognizing his own loss next November: “Often elections in this country are fought within the margins of small differences.” The margin of difference between Democrats and Republicans is about as wide and deep as the Cooley dam. The abysmal lack of solutions that Republicans have offered puts them in a tremendous one-down position.
As we have seen over the past decade, Republicans will continue losing seats in Congress. The party of so-called “compassionate conservatives” without a message that actually brings about restoration of the American family – giving most everyone what they want and need – simply does not register with even the most uniformed voters. There are, however, a lot of voters who will give in to expansionist socialist cries about the poverty and health problems of children and single mothers, crime, domestic violence, violence against women, and child support arrearages. Obama’s message is honed and prepared to slice and dice any candidate the Republicans put up against him.
Social conservatives and mainstreamers brought about the “family values” landslide of 1994 by nationwide hard work of the grassroots. In 2008, the landslide is going the other way: the G.O.P. is dumping dirt on anyone who cares about “Marriage Values” and restoring a competitive “Marriage Economy” in America.
For those who still do not understand the keystone importance of establishing a “marriage economy”, let me describe it very simply. Cuba and China have strong family values. Both China and Cuba socialized business many years ago, and became very poor countries. China de-socialized business with the end of Maoism, and is now taking us to the cleaners in world markets. We are losing our competitiveness sinking under the weight of social expenditures that do little but create more social problems, taxes, and a comparatively weak work force. The key to American economic success in the 21st century depends decisively on the establishment of a “Marriage Economy”.
Political scientists and pundits who think I am incorrect about this should recognize that this article will still be here after the elections. It is better to warn them now so they have the opportunity to change course before next November. Obviously, such an awakening is quite unlikely to happen this late in the election cycle.
Perhaps after the elections, when the G.O.P. learns that it cannot win on “business as usual” they will be falling all over themselves to find out what “Marriage Values” and the “Marriage Economy” are all about. We will be ready to work with them when they are really ready to “Change America”.
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David R. Usher is Senior Policy Analyst for the True Equality Network, and President of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, Missouri Coalition
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Artfldgr said,
and what makes you think that the attitudes and the laws and the tax abatements and tons of other things needing to converge to that was not helped by judicial use of cash to fund this thing and that thing?
is maoism dead? is communism dead?
the marraige laws are the marraige laws of communism… no fault divorce, state schools, etc… you can even point to the school situation to progressive education and dewey (who was found to be working for which country?)
for dead ideologies, we sure are suffering a lot from their increase here.
in case you havent noticed, there are ZERO countries without socialism of some sort. and that means no countries state is not willing to not listen to their people and steal from them. and in no country is there the ability to excise the deasease as there are too many in need of it.
to get rid of this machine is to then ask the next candidate to actually cause a large unemployment problem. socialist programs are like ticks on a moose. each new one latches on and takes its little bit. and the moose cant get rid of them.
our political system has no means of getting rid of such an infection. even less can we get rid of such with our perverted way of seeing things, in which subversion is a held up as a duty.
in other words, the infection is designed to lead to a totalitarian state, and unless the state does some decidely not nice things (like a mccarthy), there really is no way to stop the end result, as there is no way to clean house.
totalitarian states can do things that free states cant. one thing they can do that free states cant is change their complete fucntioning based on the needs of a very few. however, unless the leaders have changed, and are totally unrelated to the old system, all they are doing is what is pragmatic to win. they can close shop and shut it down tomorrow by command and then what? we think in terms of caring for everyone, but we are judeo christian, were everyone is unique and a special individual. thats not the view from other ideologies, particularly socialism, which sees man as an animal (which is why ID is getting an attack), and the masses as a herd that is owned by the state.
the state in the west has been moving to more and more control of the population for their own good. after all, once you allow the state to do that for socialism, where is the limit? all statements as to limit are based on assumptions and nothing else. what if the people who are at the front dont have those limits?
eventually like a lot of the people in england now thing churchill is a myth (see the recent press), eventually, we will believe that there are no good families… eventually, when we are all raised like oliver, and indoctrinated, and minimally educated… we will never even have knowlege of families, we sure wont be able to see families as the haves will not associate with the have nots as they do when everyone are individuals.
unless we find ourselves again, and push back, nothing is going to stop this slide. any one notice how much the goals of the current slide are very much the same points that aldous huxley wrote about in his fiction (?). that the ideals being pushed constantly dont reflect what the majority wants when asked in a meaningful way?
havent you realized that we could improve the education system in america in one year, by just going back to what schools were like before the ‘revolution’?
read the history of Rome in detail… especially the last years…
who was it that said that history doesnt repeat, it hiccups?
no one can fix the marraige situation because we cant remove the ticks. either something knocks our senses back (which immigration being so high the past 30 years wouldnt let work either), or we will decline till we no longer can choose to be productive.
if the women here werent willing to let the state bribe them into hurting their kids, destroying their families, destroying their own posterity, and more (even if its by no longer having family and such helping them make better choices in partners, and how their new mating strategies lead to the outcomes). none of this could or would hve happened.
if men actually had the control over women that they claimed, nothing would have gone forward. end of story. mr fredan would have said no, and the book wouldnt have gotten written. the system wouldnt have opened up.
until we stop getting sold on end results, and allow that to justify these means… its not going to stop.
no one in this country, believes the things they need to believe to survive, or to even preserve a way of life. they cant push back and stop whats happening if they have no place to stand.
remember though, technically our hands are in the hands of the women. a group of people that decide how tall they will be each day, need more clothes just to address that fact… have relationships with their clothing that they believe is majical. the wonder bra, the mystic, the what not… they dont think its silly, but thats because they never thought of the wonder jock strap or boxer! they are the ones that believe that rubbing themselves with crushed foods, will make them prettier (care for an aloe avocado, wrap with a cucumber rinse?), a left over from when food was equivalent to wealth. this group that could be convinced to smoke as an act of liberation, then think that stopping smoking is an act of liberation. that starve themselves trying to look like a greek ideal of boy wearing a dress to make a gay designer happy (or havcent they noticed the abnormal waists, the male jaws, the small breasts, etc? guess not). that as a group, believe they are psychic. oh, and are being led to marital bliss and utopian lives by a bunch of sociopathic misfits posing as movement leaders, of whom they take their orders from through the magazines that they read that are run by them for the purpose of disseminating the political view of these same leaders.
yup.. i can see change around the corner…
February 11, 2008 at 8:28 pm
The Vicar said,
February 12, 2008 at 11:58 am
jackal1994 said,
in case you havent noticed, there are ZERO countries without socialism of some sort. and that means no countries state is not willing to not listen to their people and steal from them. and in no country is there the ability to excise the disease as there are too many in need of it.
to get rid of this machine is to then ask the next candidate to actually cause a large unemployment problem. socialist programs are like ticks on a moose. each new one latches on and takes its little bit. and the moose cant get rid of them. ”
I’m not so sure that’s true. I have heard but not validated that if we reduced government spending to what it was 10 years ago we could get by without an income tax.
Regardless, if the government suddenly disbanded 80% of domestic and military programs (based on spending), then cut taxes by the same amount you would be infusing cash back into the private sector. I think the people who were previously parasites would probably be able to find employment in the new parasite-cleansed economy.
February 12, 2008 at 7:59 pm