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Monday, January 25, 2010

Putting "Country First"?

This point comes approximately 1 year or 2 too late but who cares:

You shall remember that during the dreadful campaign of 2008, the lackluster Republican Nominee, John McCain's campiagn slogan was "Country First" below a military-esque star logo.

Over time the hypocritical absurdity and audacity of McCain making "Country First" his official campiagn slogan has only become more and more apparent. It's no mystery why he choose "Country First" because McCain wanted to play up the only issue his pollsters said he did well next to Obama on: national security.

"Country First" doesn't imply as much as says and promises and proclaims, at once, that John McCain is the kind of Presidential candiate who would never put his campaign ahead of his, ya' know......country.

The kind of politician that puts "Country First" is the kind candiate who wouldn't back a policy that was bad for the country just because they think it will, say, help them win a descive amount of votes among a certain voting bloc in the Arizona, er, i mean, nation's electorate. Like those white male Republican politicians from states with large latino populations like George W. Bush who back amnesty, a policy that is terrible for America in every way, because there political guru's tell them that if they do they can gain a extra slice of the latino vote that will prove descive in the upcoming election, kinda right? This reminds me, why did John McCain go to that Hispanic Caucus luncheon immediatly following the his defeat to Barak Obama and have a breakdown grabbing the microphone to accuse latinos of "betraying" him after all the "sacrifices" he made for them. What could McCain have meant by "sacrifices"? I mean, what did he do for hispanics that sacrificied his popularity with other (more patriotic-minded)? It's a real mystery.

And ya' know, John McCain was really putting politics second and "Country First" when he picked Sara Palin to be his running mate. Because, McCain decided to put stretagic political consideration to the side and just pick the most qualfied person in America for the job of VP when he choose Palin.
Sure, McCain could've picked some airhead who Republican pollsters and campiagn gurus like Karl Rove thought would poll we and help him out with a certain segment of the populations like women or hispanics but when it came time to pick a VP nominee John said,

"I do not care, do you understand me?, I repeat, I do not care if it's not good for our campaign I've got to pick the most qualified person for the job of Vice President, someone who knows the most about the world, whose read the great philosphers and historians, whose shown a profound understanding of the issues for years, some one with not just a brillant mind, there are lots of those, but the most brillant mind, someone who doesn't just know who Martin Van Buren's Secretary of State was but knows his whole biography let alone his name and thats why I've decided to pick Sarah Palin. I know that you guys are going to say that, 'she's too cerebreal! She's too intellectual! She'll never connect, let alone, relate with the common man!' or tell me that 'She's another Adlai Stevenson!'. But, look, I'll say it one time only: Sara Palin may not be the most attractive person that we could've picked, sure she doesn't exactly have sex appeal and sure she's a little plump and sure, theres more than a few wrinkles on her brow but shes got the most brillant mind of any politician in the United States. She may not prove to be the best for me poltically, but she's the best qualified for Vice President, for 2nd in command and I'm pointing country first!...For if, god forbid, I pass while in the White House, my friends, I want to know, I want to go to bed at night knowing, that I will have left for my beloved nations sake, not some airhead Republican who looks good but who hasn't a clue who Edmund Burke is but rather the most capable and equipt and eurdite American (available to me right now) in my place, as commander and chief of the United States of America. Lets face it my friends, I am well into my 7th decade and I still have cancer that at the moment lies dormant but at any time can return and put me 6 feet deep, when I picked VP, unlike Obama, I could very well be picking my succescor as President and thus I have a duty to place politics to the side and pick Sara Palin."

My List of Best Conservatives

Would you like to know how I formulated this list? The list is based on two variables: influence and righteousness. Thus if I were ranking conservatives by who is the best on the issues and stating their views I might include myself in this list and Christopher Hitchens wouldn't be in it at all but that would to boring like being a communist.

1. Steve Sailer

2. Patrick J. Buchanan

3. Micheal Savage

3. Paul Gottfried

4. John Derbyshire

5. Peter Brimelow

6.Mitt Romney

6. Peter Hitchens

7. George Will

8. Antonin Scalia

9. Peter Schiff

10. Thomas Sowell

11. David Frum
David Frum has some defects on some of the policies he wants (give in on carbon taxes, etc.) but thats not his self-realized role in the GOP. Frum has taken on a crucial crusade, he was and remains the leading and sometimes, seemingly, the only Republican critiquing Sara Palin during the 2008 campaign. Quite simply he pointed out the obvious, or what should have been ovbious truth about Palin, that she was a yokel, a embarssment and catosphere for the GOP that reinforced all the worst sterotypes of the right that Bush had enforced for 8 years in which the GOP became a laughingstock because Bush like Palin can't speak and is not up to far for high office intelllectually. Frum wants to David Cameron-ize the Republican Party in a sense which is to say he wants to
reform the Republican Partys terribly managed image from jesus-freak, unsophisticated, uncultured, anti-intellectual yokels to smartly dressed conservative urbanites with nice suites and Evelyn Waugh by the bedside which is the image of the new Tories lead by David Cameron. This is crucial because the current GOP image has blocked the conversion of millions of Americans, paticularily young people and city slickers to the right for converting to the party of Palin and Bush is social society and too embarsing for millions who would move right otherwise. If America woke up tommorow to find a GOP, un-changed policy wise, but which looked like, dressed-like, was as clearly euridite as the British Conservative Party I gaurnetee that in the course of 6 months of re-adjustment tens of millions of Americans, mostly located in urban areas and under 35, would quitely move to the right. This would entail, there being no Sara Palin, no George Bush as face of the GOP but David Frums insteads (he is, in person the model of what the new Republican showuld look like). It would mean that rather than old, dreary, senile, out of touch, old geezers with white hair like John McCain and Newt Gingrich running the GOP and always having a monopoly on the nomination that conservatives in their 40's who look like David Cameron or Scott Brown should be the GOP presidential candiates. This is the good part of Frum's rigetous crusade there are just a few down sides policy wise. Frum seems to make dumb moves to the left on the enviorment, taxes, and so fourth (though this might not be as bad as I describe it, anyways its not anywhere near the fore front of his crusade). David has also been notable on the right side of history when it comes to immigration which is more important than one might think considering that David Frum has kind of supplanted David Brooks as the favriote or preffered Republican of the Left which is usually a indiment of a respective Republican's oppurtinism but with David is the product of the very image-related subjects that I write of. Frum, as i say knows how to do what the GOp needs to learn how to do, and what Sara Palin doesn't know or try to do, which is how to talk to not just the left, the young, the upper middle class, the urban, the well educated who revile the ignorance of Sara Palin.

12. Christopher Hitchens
So Christopher Hitchens makes the list because, although he is wrong on foreign policy, religon and much else and is a intertionalist to the bone, he has morphed in the last 10 years into one of the best critiques of the more masochist elements on the left. He is read by the media and political and ruling classes so his influence is huge. If anything he is injects a crucial self-conciousness into the left that makes the Democratic Party ignore the Nation magazine (his former employer somehow) more which is always a good thing. He has admirable integrity and has displayed it by recently checking movements and groups on the left that need checking especially by a polemcist with the gifts of Hitchens, recent victims include: the religous Global Warming movement, the inane-sheep like audience of the Daily Show, Al Franken, Obama worship, the leftist pussyfooters who won't even try to stop jihadist terrorists in airports, etc. He also has been the most brillant critique of anti-Americanism and sympathy for jihadism on the left.