I answered the phone, this morning, to hear a voice telling me that she was with some Republican Party organization, and that it was urgent that I help support the party in order to oppose Obama’s policies. “Why?,” I asked. “It seems to me that Obama is doing a pretty good job continuing the basic policies undertaken by the Bush administration.” (I normally devote no time to such calls, but I was in a good mood this morning and decided to listen to her pleas.) To her suggestion that there were fundamental distinctions between “liberals” and “conservatives,” I responded that these two groups “are but two wings of the same bird of prey. They are each devoted to controlling and despoiling the American people.”
I went on to inform her of my earlier political background: an official of a state GOP organization; my activity in the Goldwater movement; being part of my state’s delegation to the 1964 Republican National Convention,…all of which combined to cause me to stop voting decades ago.
This woman then suggested that it was important to help the Republicans promote their “core conservative values.” “What are those values?,” I inquired? “Under George W. Bush they represented the escalation of war, a police state, the use of government power to help destroy a free-market system, and the promotion of an empire.” I added that “the only elected Republican I have seen who advocates and supports a consistent set of principles on behalf of peace and liberty is Ron Paul, a man whom the Republican Party organization worked feverishly to keep from being heard during last year’s presidential debates.”
- Click – The lady went away!
