By Douglas V. Gibbs
Note: I would like to extend a special invitation to my liberal readers to read this entire article (that means from start to finish), rather than reading a couple lines and assuming you know what the rest says. . .
Thank you for stopping by. Feel free to park and stay a while. My journey has led me here, to this spot, on the verge of running for local office, overlooking a dangerous and harrowing road, should I let it be the path I take. If you don't mind I'd like to sit and ponder for a while.
The sign post up ahead shows that my next stop may be political office. Before the bend in the road to a summit in local politics is an election, and just prior to that is the campaign. I am getting ready to form my election committee, and the road ahead is covered with pot holes and dips. So, before I elect to journey down that path, I thought I'd sit and reflect for a moment.
I recently announced that I fully intend to run for City Council in the fine city of Murrieta, California. I am a long time resident, and have had a number of meetings with members of a few local groups, assemblies, and political action committees. They have offered their support and assistance, and I am forever grateful.
One of the individuals I have had the honor to speak with assures me that as a "limited government" guy, and the fact that I plan to run in support of three local initiatives that will be on the ballot in November that reflect my support of limiting principles, I have an excellent chance of winning.
The opposition is fierce. One of the participants, who shares my last name, used to be mayor, as a matter of fact. All of the candidates, in short, are seasoned veterans with plenty of education and elite smugness running through their veins, fully capable of stooping to a level of using unsavory tactics to win. I hope that I am wrong, but politics is an animal best approached with a whip and chair in hand, despite claims of being tame.
Past experience as a parliamentarian is my limited offering of experience.
My inexperience is my advantage.
The people of Murrieta, like the citizens of the United States, are sick and tired of the usual suspects of politicians, and an ever-expanding governmental system. This is a part of the reason the people voted for Barack Obama. Not because of his policies, not because the voters felt Obama had an abundance of experience, but because Barack Obama promised to be something different. Barry promised to break the cycle of "politics as usual," and to represent the little guy. He assured us he'd be our voice in the sea of political mayhem.
Barack Obama's numbers are plummeting not only because people have realized he is a typical, lying, conniving politician, but also because his policies are nothing like he originally proclaimed (well, they are, but you had to read between the lines to figure it out). He, and the Congressional Democrats, are taking this nation down a path to complete liberal lunacy, and to fundamentally change the American form of government.
One way to stop the bleeding is to quickly apply a tourniquet. That is what November is about. We must vote into Congressional power the Republican Party so that we can stop the madness, and then hold those Republicans accountable once they are in office.
The problem, however, is that the rotting cesspool of political lust for power and prestige exists in the Republican Party just as much as it does in the Democrat Party, so the question becomes, "How do we ultimately stop the madness that plagues our political system?"
The answer is simple, and it resides at the local level.
City and County politics are the same as state and federal politics, just on a smaller scale. The same corruption haunts the system, and the same elitism exists. A smug attitude prevails, elevating the politicians to some level in the clouds, making them believe they know better than the people what is better for the people. And these are the folks from whose pool the future leaders of America comes from.
Garbage In, Garbage Out.
They don't understand that the money they spend does not belong to them. It is our money, and they are supposed to be our representatives. The problem, however, exists at all levels of government, but to fix it, we must gain back control from top to bottom, starting at the local level. If we don't gain control of our local governments, we won't take back the states; and if we don't take back the states, liberalism will continue to transform this nation into something the founding fathers never intended, thus directing ourselves onto a destructive path of unsustainable crony capitalism, and welfare statism.
It must stop now. We must take a stand here. Our revolution to take back America has begun.
When I announced my plans to run for City Council a couple days ago a number of liberal readers of this site became giddy with excitement. One even exclaimed that he has the Email addresses of my opponents, and that this "will be awesome."
Why is this awesome if he hates my political positions so much?
The answer is obvious.
Hard left liberals are unable to win in a debate on policy. They are bankrupt in the arena of ideas. So, in order to win anything, they must resort to two tactics. First, as politicians, they must run on a platform less radical than what they fully intend to initiate. Second, they destroy the opposition with continuous attacks, misrepresentations, and low-down strategies that boggle the mind - much like Obama has used in his political career. They take everything you say and break it down to try to use it against you, even if the context is lost, and regardless of the fact you never actually said what they claim you said. If you say, for example, that you believe the welfare system creates a culture of dependency, they will say you said "All poor people are lazy." Of course you never said such a thing, but by proclaiming that welfare creates dependency you are implying that those dependent on entitlement programs lack the initiative to take care of themselves independently, and that is criminal enough to the leftist on the attack.
Never mind the fact that in the long run entitlement programs never help the poor get out of the cycle of poverty, and that the number of poor is increasing as a result of our growing welfare state. But the facts mean nothing to these people, their goal is destroy the opposition, not debate reality, nor admit that their liberal policies are actually destructive in nature.
One of these liberals is convinced that I believe there is a Muslim with a rifle hiding behind every bush just waiting to leap out to kill every American he can. The liberal I am referring to bases this thought on what he believes to be his astute observation of a fictional piece I wrote from the point of view of a fictional character suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
I guess the liberal isn't bright enough to distinguish between fiction and reality.
Another goes around telling people I got kicked out of college, which is not true. I received a "B" in a class where I had performed at my usual "A" level, and a part of the reason I believed I was docked was because of the fact that I had corrected the professor in class, and because the man espoused his communist beliefs in class and I challenged him on it. When I took my case to the Dean my appeal was rejected, and that distasteful episode was one of the many reasons I left that particular institution of higher learning.
Hardly a case of being "kicked out."
One of the liberal left's favorites, though, is when I wrote that in war we must be willing to fight the enemy, destroy a few cities, and turn sand to glass. I was illustrating the attitude of American Forces in World War II, and I wrote that piece out of frustration of Bush's ridiculous rules of engagement that were not allowing our troops to fight the war in Iraq, and Afghanistan, as I believed it needed to be fought.
War is not a preferable activity, and I believe that every American shares the belief that if the world had no war, it would be a much better place. But the reality is ideologies exist that are based on destructive teachings, and when faced with such ideologies, it is the responsibility, and obligation, of freedom-loving peoples to battle, and defeat, such enemies. Americans, since our taste for war is short-lived when going to the battlefield becomes necessary, prefer our military engagements to be precise and concise. Politically correct warfare only drags out military campaigns, and endangers the lives of our troops while giving the enemy a slight ray of hope of victory. Either we go in with the full intention of winning the war swiftly, being willing to use all options of our arsenal available, or we have no business being on the battlefield in the first place.
This is why Obama's declaration of when America is willing to use nuclear weapons was such a dangerous thing. War is a massive game of poker, and Barack Obama's announcement of limited nuclear use was the idiot's way of showing our hand. The enemy must believe we are crazy enough to nuke them, should they take any action against the United States, that way they will think twice before striking. That is why such a swift response after 9/11 was so important. It showed the enemy that we were true to our word. Attack America, and we will unite to ensure you pay the consequences, and that you won't attack America again.
By placing a policy on the table showing when we are willing to use our nuclear weapons, as Obama has, we are telling our enemies how far they can go before we retaliate. It doesn't matter if we weren't really willing to nuke a country for attacking us with biological weapons, for example. We want them to believe we would be willing to nuke them for such an attack, even if they themselves have no nuclear capabilities. That is how you keep the bad guys honest. If they fear retaliation, they will think twice before attacking the United States. Obama took that off the table. The enemy no longer fears that if we go on a war footing we are willing to be swift, precise, destroy a few cities, and turn sand into glass. Fear is a peacemaker, and Obama compromised it.
How vile must the little minds of liberalism be to get excited when someone they disagree with, like myself, decides to run for local office because it gives them the opportunity to destroy my character, and assist the opposition in launching a smear campaign? How small must you be to decide to attack from a different state through the Internet someone for simply holding different beliefs than yourself? Why can't you argue policy? Why won't you enter the arena of ideas, and leave the disgusting sleaze of smear politics behind?
The answers are all the same: Because that is how vile the Left truly is. Obama did not win the presidency, or any of his previous elections, on policy. He won by destroying the competition personally.
During the presidential election the Democrats, and the liberal media, concentrated their efforts on smearing Bush, and anyone who dared to associated themselves with any Bush policy. They made it so that the GOP went around trying to be careful of what they said, essentially taking the bite away from the dog, and the claws away from the cat. The Left has no problem destroying political careers with their attacks. They have to, because in the arena of ideas, they would never be able to win because when it comes to ideas that are beneficial, they are totally bankrupt.
Think about it. When it comes to National Security, the Left sides with the policy of defeatism. With the issue of taxation, they argue in support of higher taxes. They promote bigger government, and align themselves with forces that are historically enemies of liberty. The Left bribed and paid off fellow Democrats to get the Health Care legislation passed, but would have been on a war footing if the GOP had dared sink to such a level of corruption. They protected their fellow Democrat, Jefferson, when his freezer was found full of dirty money, yet destroyed the career of Tom DeLay without ever getting a conviction. They attack Family Values, and offer decay instead. When it comes to abortion the Left sides with death. When our best ally, Israel, decided to build additional living spaces in their capital city of Jerusalem, the liberals went on a rampage demanding that we make the Jewish nation stop what it is doing in its own country, after arguing that by going to war against Terrorism we are sticking our nose into other country's business. They demonize our allies while giving concessions to our enemies. They call supporters of the U.S. Constitution radical extremists, and accuse dissent as being a form of sedition, while conveniently forgetting their vehemence during their anti-Bush marches only a few years before, and conveniently not recognizing that at that time the Right's attitude was not one to accuse them of sedition, or extremism, but to praise the American system for being one of freedom that allows even those folks to protest the government in such a distasteful manner.
The American Liberal knows he is in bed with destructive forces, dark ideas, and political lunacy. If Democrats were to run an honest campaign, and were willing to lay it all out on their platform, they would never be elected again. That is why they resort to bribes, dirty politics, and the destruction of individuals. They can't honestly win in the arena of ideas, so they set out to eliminate the competition by any means necessary.
This is why I believe I will win my City Council seat in November. I believe in limiting the powers of the government, and I am not one of those leaches that call themselves politicians. I am one of you. I am a citizen, and I am ready to take a stand. All I ask is that you stand with me.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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