Political Masturbation

OK we all know what masturbation is and being a family man no need to go further with any descriptions. It is a good analogy when I look at politics today. The individual feels self gratification but no actual good is done.

The left has been practicing this for years. Going back to Ronald Reagan who ever seems to be the leader of Republicans and conservative becomes responsible for anything bad that happens. They voted for Ralph Nader and effectively elected George W. Bush. Libertarians and other third parties do this as a matter of course. Their precious principles are massaged even if we end up with a much worse candidate. Ross Perot joined in and arguably elected Bill Clinton.

One political movement had been immune to this until now. Conservatives seemed principled even when a perfect candidate didn't exist. George W. Bush is not a perfect conservative, but has enjoyed conservative support. With candidate after candidate leaving the Republican race we are getting angry deluded conservatives. John McCain is the object of the vitriol. For the record I am not a McCain supporter. His record is being distorted horribly. I have heard he is in favor of a North American Union. I have heard he will raise taxes. I have heard he will open the borders. I have heard he will expand government. None of these things are true. I am not going to spend much time defending him because there are enough web sites doing that. and probably better than I could.

My problem is the anger. I have heard Glenn Beck say he would vote for Hillary rather than McCain. I have heard Rush Limbaugh quoted similarly. One of two people are going to be president. Either the Republican or the Democrat. Neither identity is known yet, but if McCain is the candidate on the right and Conservatives have a snit, either Hillary Clinton or Barak Obama will be the President of the US. That means judges that are clones of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, that means leftists in the cabinet, that means a friendly signature if a bill comes out that will nationalize health care and nearly 20% of the private economy.

If being a conservative means I have to go into a snit because Ronald Reagan isn't coming back to life, than count me out!!! I love the memory of Ronald Reagan, but we have to pick a current candidate not our ideal candidate. I wrote a piece a year ago outlining my perfect candidate and stated at that time that I knew that person didn't exist today. Get over it, vote the the person imperfect or not that most closely fits your vision of America.

A long time ago Bill Buckley was a lone voice for conservative values. I was very young but I don't remember reading that he voted for McGovern because a perfect conservative didn't exist. Slowly conservative values built a following. I was personally inspired to be a conservative by Jack Kemp. Many conservatives came to their belief by people like Newt Gingrich. These people spoke, persuaded, cajoled but one thing they didn't do was quit. They didn't take their ball and go home. They went on pursuading. Maybe some of our voices should put aside their egos and run for office. Senator Limbaugh? Congressman Beck? Govenor Hewitt? None of them have any plans to run. Maybe they should. We need some elected officials that can enunciate conservative values. There is a dearth of them right now. Maybe that is because there are so many other ways to make a living in politics without running. We need good men and women and we need them now. Your country needs you.

To my follow conservative, grow up, be adults and don't follow the tactics of the left wing 'netroots'.