Rants and Raves

I began this post as a comment in response to the comments on Polianiac  but the rant took me away and it quickly became a post of its own. Check out Polianiac’s blog to get caught up with the debate, and feel free to respond here or there. This response was to Jason’s comment, which I am unsure if I can repost here, so I will simply begin. 

I think we are all tired of both Clinton and Bush. Clinton was president during a great economy. Great. It had absolutely nothing to do with him, but if people want to credit him for it then fine. We can argue economic policy and cite the leading experts until we’re blue in the face, but the fact is that none of them can agree in those areas because there are too many political statements to be made. Clinton cut military jobs, raised taxes, increased the size of government programs, and generally annoyed the crap out of me with his playboy approach at the presidency. But that’s just me.

Bush kept the country safe after 9-11. For that, I give him great credit in addition to my thanks and admiration. At least he had what it took to take action when we were attacked instead of simply ignoring it like Clinton did. If Clinton had possessed the gumption to break away from the party for a few minutes and act like an American president, the war would have began under his watch instead of Bush. Would it have begun in Iraq? Who knows? The intelligence said that Iraq was a good place to start, but Al Qa’ida infests so many countries like a plague that it could have began in a number of locations.  

Liberals love to say that the wars we are fighting are for nothing, or that Bush sent the troops in for the oil because he’s a huge oil tycoon, blah blah blah, I saw it all on the Communist News Network. Say what you will, but until you have read the intelligence reports(that even Obama wants to send troops into Afghanistan for) and sat in the chair to make the decision of how best to defend against terrorists who hide in camps scattered around the world, training young boys to hate Americans to the death, the whole load of crap is just more rhetoric to be tossed about and scattered to the wind.

The fact is that it is anyone’s right as free Americans do say the things they wish to say and either back them up or spin the facts so that they look like something akin to real proof. That right is continually preserved by the blood and the backbones of the very soldiers who are the targets for their scorn, and if you ask those fighting men and women who they voted for, the vast majority never sided with Barack Obama, contrary to the so-called media pollsters that sat and waited around for enough Barack supporters to filter through to justify turning the cameras on.

But Bush didn’t stick to the principles that I voted him in for. By the end of his latest term, he has chosen to bow to the socialists as though the New Deal was something that actually helped the country instead of prolonging the great depression. What I think we are all looking for is a politician who can stick to a set of principles for a change. Our ideas of what those principles are might vary greatly, but the best leaders in history have been those who didn’t care about being popular. They only wanted to make the right decisions for America and preserve the Republic for which they stood. Personally, I would rather vote for a left wing politician who stands clear on issues and has good reasons to back them up than for a right wing politician who regurgitates the same old wishy-washy euphemisms, rhetoric, and red herrings that everyone else in Washington loves to confuse their voters with.

And, yes, I am a right wing conservative and a Christian to boot. I believe that the courage and values in an American president were rarely so clear as they were in Ronald Reagan, who defiantly spit in the face of dictators and communists that starved their people while their bellies burst from their own gluttony. Reagan stood for what was moral and just, and to the birds with the constant dissenters who could never be happy or reach agreement about an issue. Reagan was respected. He was feared by his enemies. And it was his values and policies that got the country booming like it never has before, after the failed socialist experiment that Carter put us through.

If ever a presidential candidate arises with those same clear principles and attitude, who is willing to back statements with real facts, and strives to speak clearly so that Americans understand the reasoning behind them, I believe that we can arise from our current state of affairs and become again the great nation that is quickly fading in the murkiness. Until then, we are stuck with what we are stuck with, and it is our own citizens who put us there because “he’s a powerful speaker” or “I have to side with my race or gender.” Maybe someday, we’ll realize that there is significantly more to a leader than looks and words.

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