TIME FOR SOME POLITICAL KNEE-CAPPING

The following article by Vincent Fiore is well worth sharing:

TIME FOR SOME POLITICAL KNEE-CAPPING
by Vincent Fiore - July 15, 2009 - www.RenewAmerica.com

At times, there is a real need to step outside of one's box and do something totally foreign in regard to that person's natural inclination. This applies to political parties as well.

At last count, the U.S. has two major parties. One of them, the Democratic Party, has absolute power on Capitol Hill. The party's leaders run the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. In both houses of Congress, Democrats rule with comfortable margins.

And why not? George W. Bush wasn't even in Washington yet, let alone sworn in as the nation's 43rd president before Democrats started an organized chant of hate against him. A dutifully agenda-driven media merrily chanted along, as the "selected" or "illegitimate" president awaited inauguration day to begin his term in office.

The left never let up. Even when the events of 9/11 brought a nation to its knees, Bush essentially got a three-week reprieve from the Democrats' ceaseless attacks until they savaged him anew, for inaction against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban no less.

To make matters worse, Bush continued to parrot his "new tone" refrain — which just infuriated rank and file conservatives — as if the Democratic Party hierarchy would ascend to this higher plateau of political debate.

No. We are talking about the Democratic Party, a party that is rhetorically monosyllabic. Democrat Party leaders know of no other way but to be as verbally ugly as possible to their Republicans counterparts.

Be it eight years before, during, or even, I will venture, after Bush, the left has kept and will keep a steady cadence of hate against anything other than their policies, and of those Republican politicians who would presume to stand in their way.

And these days, when a few hardy souls decide to stand up to President Obama and company, out pop the GOP's "New Republicans."

Does anyone with a few brain cells to rub together believe that the likes of Christopher Buckley, David Frum, Peggy Noonan, or that paragon of republicanism, Colin Powell, represent anything other than the elitist (read as: liberal) northeast establishment that spawned them?

These are the people who will lead the "New Republican" Party? The very people who voted for Barack Obama? I guess I'm just one of those out-of-touch conservative throwbacks that haven't gotten the news that the age of Reaganism is dead.

Well, the age of Reagan is only dead to those who wish it so. What needs to happen is, quite simply, Mr. Powell and the rest of the "New Republican" Party spokesmen need to be sent packing. There is nothing lacking with tried and true conservatism. What is lacking is a full-throated and clear-voiced messenger to articulate its platforms.

That voice may belong to Sarah Palin, or that voice could very well come from Mitt Romney. It could be someone else who has yet to rise from a beleaguered yet recovering Republican Party.

But whoever steps up and becomes the GOP standard-bearer, know this: Democrats will not "spare the rod" if you'll pardon the phrase. Every candidate the GOP fields in 2010 and 1212 will be continually savaged and treated as a virus to be in turn eliminated by the Democrats, and predictably, the liberal media as well.

The GOP might want to listen to what then-candidate Obama said at a fundraiser in Philadelphia on June 13, 2008: "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."

And since Democrats have been bringing guns to political fights for years, I suggest the GOP bring not just "a" gun, but many guns.

Republicans will either grow a backbone when dealing in the blood sport of politics, or be permanently relegated to the political wilderness.

So the next time you hear some well-meaning Republican retread wax on about the need to grow the party by abandoning conservative principles for those of the left, simply show him the door.

In fact, open it for him, and let it hit'em in the rear for good measure. Surely, the last eight years have shown how serious the Democratic Party plays the game of politics. It is well past the time that the GOP turns the game around on Democrats and these well-meaning but fatuous "New Republicans" as well.

The time to do what has seemingly eluded Republicans these many years is fight, and fight to kill; politically that is. (End of Article)

SARAH....SARAH....SARAH

"Could it be that she is God's vessel for such a time as this?"\

A modern day Esther?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA.....

OUR AMERICA
Weekly devotional by Barbara Sanders

Deuteronomy 4:7 "For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?"
We call her “America, the Beautiful”, land of the free and home of the brave.

1. I remember Lady Bird Johnson on her drive to “Beautify America”. She truly believed that America was a beautiful place in which to live, to bring up our children, and she wanted others to see what she saw within our great nation. She strived to have the roadways beautified, and America, as a whole, cleaned to perfection. Did she make it?

2. We are called the 'land of the free'. Our freedom is slowly but surely being eroded, and so quietly, that most of the public doesn't realize how many freedoms he or she has already lost. The government, which is to be 'by the people, for the people', has become so large, that it's mostly bigwigs working for interest groups. The individual American has gotten lost in the shuffle. We elect the representatives of the people to vote our conscience, only to have them cave into the big interest groups.

3. And, to the part about the “home of the brave”; just how brave are we? We owe a debt to those of our society who served in all the Wars for the freedom of our country. They will forever be esteemed in high regard. But, as a whole, we have lost lots of our bravery. We didn't stand up against poverty, and passed the Welfare bill. America should have been helping her own to get out of poverty, rather than making a way out of working for some.. Many needed the help at the time, but we shouldn’t be footing the bill for life.

Then, along came the adversity to school prayer; actually, it was adversity to God, Himself - let's face it! Did we open our mouths and make ourselves known? No, we kept our lips tight, and God was removed from the schools, resulting in what you now know as the fight for 'separation of church and state'. Folks, I'm here to tell you that we didn't only separate 'church and state'; we separated God from the children that we so dearly love! Many of our children will never hear the Word - many will never dart in the door of a church. Now, we have come to the point where, if you say that you 'ask God to help' you through all your problems in life, work, etc., then you have overstepped your boundaries, and are no longer fit to occupy a government job! I ask you, people, when are these atrocities going to stop, and we put GOD back in HIS place?

In one song, it speaks of "God shed His grace on thee". How long do you think that GOD is going to freely pour His Grace on a nation that has repeatedly turned their backs on Him? Does He have to give us grace of mercy? Law hasn't been made and can't be made that would put God as one disobeying LAW, if he chose fit to not display the grace and mercy that we have so long expected of Him. I believe He will certainly let grace and mercy flow freely to 'his people', but perhaps not to the nation as a whole, unless we conform our belief in ONE GOD, by returning to 'His laws' and obeying those commandments. He's a just God, but One with Whom it doesn't pay to play around.

God asked, many times, in the Bible, "How long"? To Pharaoh - 'how long will you refuse to humble yourself before me?' To Moses, 'how long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws'? 'How long will your people continue to provoke me?' To the people of America, He is probably saying, "How long"?

Heavenly Father, how long will You let this nation escape, unless it returns to You? Help us, as a nation, realize that only through You will we gain back that which we have lost, the respect that we once had from all nations. Help us to become truly America, the land of the free! In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.