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CONSTITUTION IN CRISIS

Needed: A party the founders would join

Exclusive: Alan Keyes urges true conservatives to stop playing in 'the GOP sandbox'

Published: 17 hours ago
by Alan Keyes
Once a high-level Reagan-era diplomat, Alan Keyes is a long-time leader in the conservative movement. He is well-known as a staunch pro-life champion and an eloquent advocate of the constitutional republic, including respect for the moral basis of liberty and self-government. He has worked to promote an approach to politics based on the initiative of citizens of goodwill consonant with the with the principles of God-endowed natural right.

This piece was occasioned by Colin Powell’s recent remarks on “Meet the Press” peddling the lie that the GOP lost the last two presidential elections because conservative voters are racists who have forced the party to become too conservative.

His deceitful diatribe unequivocally confirms what I’ve said for years to people who approach me with the thought that I or any other principled conservatives have any reason whatsoever to support Powell for president or anything else. He is, and has always been, a loyal servant of the leftist elitist faction. Of course, he has been promoted and celebrated by its GOP wing, which served him up in prime time at the Republican convention in 1996, for a speech in which he proudly paraded his pro-abortion views. That occasion lingers in my mind as a good example of what has been the sham nature of the GOP pretty much since Reagan left office. As one of the competitors for the GOP’s nomination for president, I was there. As Powell spoke, the images that went out to America-at-large gave the impression of people enthusiastically applauding. But I saw firsthand the repressed consternation that characterized the response Powell received from the preponderance of the largely pro-life conservative rank-and-file delegates overall.

This is the dichotomy characteristic of the GOP. The party now exists mainly so that the GOP’s crypto-socialist leaders (Powell, McCain, Romney, Boehner and others like them) can facilitate the elitist faction’s anti-constitutional agenda by co-opting and dissipating the energy of conservative grass-roots voters. Such voters want to conserve America’s constitutional heritage of God-endowed rights and self-government, but the GOP leadership wants to promote the leftist view that people dedicated to conserving that American heritage are racists. Powell speaks for this leadership. His appearance on “Meet the Press” is aimed at preparing the ground for their planned offensive against the GOP’s voter base.

Powell also went out of his way to speak with contempt of people he snidely dismissed as “birthers.” As I’ve pointed out repeatedly, the issue of Obama’s eligibility is about the natural-law basis of the American republic and the rational thinking that justifies the people’s right to self-government.

When Powell and the other henchmen of the elitist faction demean people who demand that the Constitution’s “natural born citizen” language be taken seriously, their aim is to undermine respect for the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land. They promote the tyrannical view that the government can pick and choose which constitutional provisions will be respected and which will be swept aside. Once accepted, this removes all constraints on the use and abuse of the powers of government. The result is tyranny, which has always been the real point of the elitist campaign of senseless ridicule and snide dismissal against anyone who raises the issue of whether Obama is constitutionally eligible to be president. Now the same tactics are being deployed to sweep aside the First Amendment’s protection for the free exercise of religion and the Second Amendment’s recognition of the people’s responsibility as individuals to keep about themselves the equipment they need for the defense of liberty.

From Day 1 of Obama’s occupation of the White House the elitist faction has aimed at subverting respect for the authority of the Constitution and the oath that requires U.S. officials to uphold, protect and defend it. In the months ahead, what has all along been a covert war against the Constitution’s provisions and principles will become an open offensive. The boldly subversive declamations of Obama’s inaugural address, Biden’s public statements about using executive orders to circumvent the constitutional prerogatives of the U.S. Congress and the ruthless exploitation of random violence as an excuse for disarming the people make it plain that Obama’s second term is intended to be the final offensive that sweeps America’s constitutional republic onto the ash heap of history.

What Colin Powell’s complicity with Obama punctuates, however, is the fact that the GOP’s elitist faction leadership are the fifth column of this planned coup d’état. Some years ago I posted an article on my blog about “fifth column conservatives bent on making sure no one is moved to united political action to thwart the coup before it is too late.” Tragically, instead of heeding my warnings about the imperative need for principled conservatives to get out from under their control, people accepted the self-defeated view that there is no politics for America outside the sham party system. The results suggest that, at least in the political realm, what America desperately needs right now is a revival of its protestant spirit. For those who wait upon the Lord know better than to act as if any merely human institution deserves their absolute allegiance, especially when it comes to matters that involve the unalienable rights arising from their obligations to Him.

In his latest WND column, Christopher Monckton accurately says that “the Republicans have become as irrelevant to politics in the United States as the dotty but costly causes Obama loves.” He predicts that Obama’s stubborn push toward socialism “marks the end of the socialist / communist / fascist left as a global political force.” Unless principled conservatives stop dissipating their time and energy in the GOP sandbox, however, the bankruptcy of the left won’t mean its demise. Hollow power (like that of the later Roman emperors, or the Turkish Empire in the early 20th century) can oppress people for a long time when they lack the faith and courage to challenge it. Is this the plight of America’s conservatives today? Like King Lear in Shakespeare’s famous play, they bluster angrily but leave their political fate, and that of their country, in the hands of people who have repeatedly betrayed and abused their trust, and who are openly preparing to do so again.

America urgently needs a conservative party true to the Christian and authentically federalist principles on which it was founded. A governing majority of the people are still loyal to those principles. What they lack is a political standard round which to rally in order to reclaim and conserve their God-endowed liberty. When will they leave the elitist faction henchmen in the moribund GOP alone in their house of sand and fog? When will they build a political ark suitable for a people of faith, who are willing and able to deserve the decent freedom God endows?

Needed: A party the founders would join

Is It Time To Give Up?

November 7, 2012 - Elections, Our Future - Tagged: #2012 election #Tea Party #Obama #Romney - 6 comments


So President Obama has been reelected, Democrats have retained the Senate, Republicans have retained the House. What are our options? Do we demand a violent revolution? No. Do we advocate political violence? Of course not. We are not union thugs, anarchist, or communists/socialist OWS supporters. We are advocates for liberty, natural rights, fiscal responsibility, limited government, and democratic elections.

The Declaration of Independence puts forth the litmus test for when a people must act outside of their political institutions to bring about change. This litmus test requires that the political problems not be of light and transient causes and also that there is no other recourse. We are not to that point yet. We may not like these electoral outcomes, we may disagree with some controversial laws, but we can still address these issues through our republican forms of government. We can still address these issues with our electoral will.

Our nation is hurtling towards fiscal insolvency. For political reasons, many have focused on the dire consequences of our failure to not amend our fiscal path, but few have spent time defining where the line of no return is. This is because if people do not feel the urgency of a crisis, they are unlikely to make difficult decisions to address it. The truth is we have time, but the truth is that the longer we wait, the harder it will be.

I am a Marine, I do not have the luxury of tossing my hands in the air and giving up. I have a 2 year old nephew, and will have children of my own in the next few years. Those children deserve to be advocated for and they deserve to have their future defended from generational theft. More importantly we owe it to every man and woman that has ever worn a military uniform, especially those who have been killed in action, or severely wounded, to dig in and stand up for their sacrifice.

So what do we do now? How do we move forward? We focus on the things that a majority of Americans agree with. We focus on free markets, fiscal responsibility, natural rights, limited government. On these issues we win big. If we stick to these issues, we win, and we win because the arguments for these things are so solid, and backed by such a mountain of academic evidence and research, that no rational person can counter or argue against them.

If we fail to stick to these issues, if we get sidetracked by conspiracy theories, or periphery issues, we will continue to be branded by our political opponents in ways that will cost us support or perceived legitimacy. This does not mean that individually we sacrifice our principles. What it means is that we put our best foot forward, or in strategic terms, we know when to hold em and when to fold em. We need to treat Obama objectively, give him credit when and where it is deserved, and treat him humanely and respectfully where he is wrong. If we are fair and objective, we will win over Americans

We know where we can win, so we need to stand up, now more than ever, and push our message. That message must be a message of calm, confident, logic, not hatred, extremism, or reactionary emotion. This election does not change the fact that our principles are right, now we need to make sure America knows it. We do not give up, we do not quit, we do not move to another country. This is our country.

In political life there are no permanent victories, nor are there permanent defeats. If we want to win, we must advocate for all Americans, whether they are a man or a woman, gay or straight, black or white, Christian, Jewish, or Muslim, rich or poor. We advocate for the natural rights of all people, for a limited government that applies to all people, for free markets that benefits all people, for a tax system that benefits all people. If we defend these founding principles and if we sincerely push for them to apply to all Americans as the founders desired, then we will advance the cause of liberty.

This is not the time to be depressed, sad, dejected, or apathetic. If you feel like giving up hope for this nation, that’s fine, but first I demand that you go to your nearest Veterans Administration Hospital and find a severely wounded veteran, look him/her in the eye, and then explain to them that although they had the courage to advance towards enemy fire to fight for your freedom, you think it is all hopeless and no longer see a point of standing up for what is right. Do that, and you are off the hook, you can go live in a cave somewhere. For the rest of us, tomorrow is merely day 1 of taking back our future by making the moral case for liberty, by making the moral case for free enterprise, by making the moral case for federalism, by making the moral case for the Constitution. Stick to these issues and we will win. Now get to it.

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