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The Republican Party has gone back to its roots, and the Tree of Liberty is dying.
This entry was posted on Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:24 AM and is filed under uncategorized.
I have been and still am a supporter of Ron Paul, not so much for and of the man, but for the ideals and strict embodiment of what is right and wrong that he portrays and I believe he holds to be true.
Ron Paul has consistently stated that he wanted the Republican Party to "get back to its roots", I am pretty sure he meant what the party stood far in the 50's, 60's, and 80's, I left off the era of Nixon,
( he may have been one of the first neo-conservatives in my opinion, the fact that Henry Kissinger was his Sec. of State goes a long way to adding credence to this belief ). (neo-conservatives = old democrats that took over the republican party) In those times the Republican party stood in a pretty stark contrast to the liberal ( just look at them now, they were tame back then), democrats. They were for smaller government, local control of local issues, and NON-INTERVENTIONALIST foreign policy (this means it isn't Americas responsibility to police and tell the rest of the world what to do).
A democrat president Woodrow Wilson, got us into World War I,
( read up on the silly ass polices that he instituted such has openly pressing to have American citizens travel through a war zone on British armed ships even after Germany stated that all British ships were the enemy) he also signed and lobbied through the federal reserve act. Also lobbied for extremely punitive terms in the Versailles Treaty that later allowed for Hitler to come to power in a pissed of Germany. The fractional reserve banking system that the federal reserve act started up anew (go back and study up on the whig party and the republican party at the time of lincoln thats where all this will end up, so be patient while I get there), led to the Great Depression, when we got........
Franklin D. Roosevelt, a democrat that can be blamed for most any modern big government program, even the Kudzu that we have everywhere we don't want it. Roosevelt near about single handedly started up that ultimate entangling alliance we know as the united nations. Also there is a most convincing argument that if Roosevelt had not sold arms to China , (a violation of our own neutrality laws) coordinated a trade boycott, and frozen assets of the Japanese in the U.S. starting in 1937, well before Japan signed the Tripartite pact with Germany and Italy, that Japan would have never attacked Pearl Harbor, and we would have possibly been able to avoid World War II.
Then we get to democrat Harry S. Truman who got us into the Korean War using the unConstitutional argument that Roosevelt's united nations nullified the American Constitution's requirement that Congress declare war, (more parenthesis; we have not declared a war since world war II and we have not won a war since then ether, this is convenient for the folks that want the war, because with no set enemy, no concrete purpose, and no one to sign a peace treaty with, it can go on indefinitely, which connects back to Wilson's Federal reserve act and the great boom a war economy can supposedly create).
Next we had JFK who was actually pretty conservative, and even wanted to have the US Treasury print our own currency instead of the Federal Reserve. He got shot you know.
Then we had Lydon Baines Johnson, who took up where Roosevelt left off, and if it is a big government program Roosevelt didn't start up, you can blame it on Johnson, example Medicare, and the Federal government screwing around with education, and of course fighting France's war in Vietnam.
Jimmy Carter, near about the worst one we ever had. The democrats got taken over by the marxist, and socialist. A far cry from Andrew Jackson.
All during this time except for Nixon, the republican party stood for all the things I listed in the third paragraph, and more, they were a Constitutional party, a party that believed that the rule of law, and not that the whim of the guy who was president was all powerful. They were a party that believed in individual liberty, low taxes, and freedom not only to succeed, but the freedom to fail, and not have the government bail you out. They believed in equality of opportunity not equality of results.
Now the republicans have been taken over by the old democrats. Last night I watched a roll call vote of the republican party where they nominated a man that has more in common with Carter, Johnson, Roosevelt, and Wilson than he has in common with Jefferson
( Thomas not George), or Robert Taft, Coolidge, or Reagan.
I watched them nominate a "maverick" that was in the running to be John Kerry's Vice President, a man that has his name on some of the most liberal legislation in the last 20 years, a member of the keating 5, a man that sees no problem with us being in a foreign country for a 100 year occupation, a man that thinks that borrowing money we don't have from other countries with no hope of being able to pay it back is sound financial policy, a man that last year at this time the same folks that love him now said he was too liberal and too apt to fly off of the handle to be seriously considered for president.
I saw Joseph Liberman, Al Gores VP choice give a speech at the republican convention. "Republicans" think this is great.
Winston has put the past down the memory hole to be incinerated and we let him do it, we helped him do it ( read the book 1984).
The republicans speak of a big tent that has plenty of room in it, guess what there is no room for real conservatives or libertarians.
George Bush fooled me twice, he fooled all of us who called our selves republicans or did he?
Did George Bush and his administration and now John McCain fool us or have they just taken the republican party back to its roots.
The republican party came out of the old Whig party, the party of the the federalist, the ones that wanted a strong central government and a central banking system, the ones that did not want local decisions to be made locally, the ones who wanted to allocate tax money taken from the citizenry and give it to private business, the party that believed in the Alien and Sedition laws, the party that invaded a sovereign nation, and then instituted a puppet government over that nation for the next 30 years, ( See the war of Northern Aggression).
I am sorry Dr. Paul but the republican party has been taken back to its roots, and we never even had a chance to jump of the falling tree before it hit the ground.
I am no longer a republican. Dr. Paul why not join me.
P.S. Unless Bob Barr really convinces me that he repudiates a lot of what he did as a congressman, and gets rid of Wayne Allen Root on the ticket,Idon't see myself as a libertarian ( in the party sense) ether.
Sarah Palin seems pretty good, but she isn't running for president.
Chuck Baldwin the Constitution party candidate looks the best right now.
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