“If Barack Obama wins this election, the Republican Party as we know it is finished,” Bryan Fischer Of American Family Association said. “It is dead, it is toast, you can stick a fork in it.”
Bryan Fischer, of the American Family Association, a conservative Christian group, slammed Mitt Romney on Friday for running a “lackluster campaign” void of any ideas and accused the campaign of “putting a bag over” vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s head.
“Mitt Romney right now should be leading by 10 or 15 points and the fact that he’s not is Mitt Romney’s problem,” Fischer told reporters at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. “It’s because he’s running such a lackluster campaign that has been so vague on ideas. What plan is he offering the American people?”
The host of the talk radio show “Focal Point” went on to say that the Republican Party’s conservative base lit up upon Ryan’s appointment to the presidential ticket. But instead of embracing the Wisconsin congressman’s vision and ideas, the Romney campaign chose to “put a sock in Paul Ryan’s mouth.”
“The biggest mistake is they put a bag over Paul Ryan’s head,” Fischer said, responding to a question from The Huffington Post on where the Romney campaign had gone wrong. “That’s the biggest mistake they made — they put a sock in Paul Ryan’s mouth.”
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The problem is that “we the people” have been conditioned to expect our politicians to lead us. We elect charismatic orators. But it is ideas that built this nation and ideas should lead us forward. The people are supposed to run this country. The words “lead” and “leader” do not appear in the Constitution. The President’s job is to execute the Office of President of the United States, and to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. President Obama and Democrats want to change the Constitution, not preserve, protect and defend it. The conditioning has gone on so long now that our politicians believe they are our leaders, and they believe they are supposed to be leaders. But they are supposed to be preservers, protectors and defenders.
Our political process has been warped into a process where a politician is someone who can identify a constituency and speak to that constituency with oratory and rhetoric that rev up that constituency. Honesty, truth, integrity, character are gone. It has become an incredibly selfish, narcissistic process. We and Romney should NOT be asking “are you better off now than you were 4 years ago.” The correct question is: is the country better off now than it was 4 years ago? As JFK said, “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
A populist leader is a dangerous thing for a democracy. That is how dictators get elected. The founders of this country knew that. They had studied their history. Thus they established checks and balances and separations of powers, which power hungry populist politicians have progressively weakened. We should be electing executives and legislators, not charismatic orators and power hungry, greedy career politicians.
Did you read the small book from the 1950’s by Eric Hoffer titled, “The True Believer.” If you haven’t, it will be enlightening.
The populist leader shifts positions based on polls and surveys of his constituents. And so we see Romney and Obama evolving…and believing they are leaders. Instead of Bain Capital being about Romney and the successes of a rich man, he should turn that around and explain how Bain Capital’s activities were good for the country.
Ron Paul is not in the mold of the populist leader, and he gets less than 15% of the vote. He is a principled citizen, a politician come lately … as were John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and so forth. They didn’t study and identify constituencies. They studied and identified ideas.
We have over-extended our power and outlasted our welcome for many decades by building overseas military bases. The U.S. is acting like an empire. Imagine having drones overhead and knowing that those drones are carrying missiles and bombs, and someone thousands of miles away has their finger on the trigger. It’s straight out of Orwell’s book “1984?…constant wars…we are there. We built that!
Thirty thousand, 30,000! unmanned drones are scheduled to be flying in the U.S. skies soon…looking at you. We won’t find out if they are armed until one crashes. Americans can now be held (as a result of the 2011 and 2012 NDAA passed by Congress and signed by Obama) by the U.S. military for an indefinite period without trial, or legal due course, for the SUSPICION of association with terrorist activity. A federal judge has placed an injunction to prevent that clause in NDAA from being implemented. But our current President is already defying another federal court order regarding off-shore oil leases and is protecting his Attorney General who has been charged with contempt of Congress- for the first time ever. The President can order us killed by drone without trial, as has happened to at least one American so far. Be careful which web sites you visit. It’s not just a problem with Obama. Congressman Allen West of Florida signed it and supports it; he is as anti-Obama as one finds. As President Bill Clinton said after impeachment about his perjury in the Monica Lewinsky, “I did it because I could.”
There is no question that radical Islam is out to conquer the world for Allah. Their mission has not changed since Muhammad’s Muslim forces from Medina invaded Mecca in 630 AD. That was the second battle between Medina and Mecca within two years after signing a 10 year truce between them. Leave them alone and they will fight forever among themselves. Meanwhile, we retreat, circle the wagons, maintain secrecy (profile and expel radical Muslims), build a strong defense, and build the capability and the undoubted will to strike back with force that would set the attacker back at least a generation. Our country today is unable to tolerate the common sense task of profiling Muslims, and therefore peaceful Muslims don’t trust that we would protect them if they stood up against their radical brothers. And they are absolutely right about that.
Our military in Afghanistan is not even allowed by their senior officers to profile their supposedly friendly Afghan military trainees for fear of offending them. We paint our Medivac copters and vehicles differently, clearly mark them with Red Crosses, and send them out unarmed to rescue our wounded. Taliban and Al Qaida shoot them down. There is major dissension in our own ranks between military stationed in the field and their superior officers and politicians, and that is just starting to come out. We are on a fool’s errand, led by a bunch of arrogant fools. We are in grave danger.