"Any man
who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by
letting the Government take care of him; better take
a closer look at the American Indian."----- Henry Ford
As I get deeper into my twilight
years, I realize that it’s inevitable that one of these days the party will
end. There will be a morning when there isn't any more tomorrow, no special
occasions to celebrate with friends, no more phone calls just to shoot the
breeze, and of course no more time to spend with the grandkids. It would seem that one of the more important
things to do before that morning comes, is to let your family and friends know
that you care for them, in part by finding simple ways to let them know your
heartfelt beliefs and the guiding principles of your life, so that they can
always say, "He was my friend and I knew where he stood." So, just in case I'm gone tomorrow morning,
please know this:
I voted against LBJ, who, while
perhaps a competent rural Texas politician, was totally lost in the big league
of national and international politics.
While giving us the failed “War on Poverty”, and the equally disastrous
Vietnam War, he felt that, like Hitler, he was oh-so much-more knowledgeable
about military affairs than his Generals, and wound-up with the same result
that Hitler got.
I voted against Jimmy Carter, who,
while possessing a mouthful of teeth, a naval academy education, and a peanut
farm, seemed totally lost in the entire world of politics, doing little more
than piously bleating “Peace in our time”.
Carter gave us amnesty for Vietnam War draft evaders, an energy crises,
the Chrysler bailout, and the Iran hostage crisis. Small wonder he didn’t get reelected.
Ronald Reagan I liked, warts and
all, and I did vote for him, twice. Say
what you will about the Iran-Contra affair and the upward spiraling national
budget on his watch, he did engineer the economic collapse of the USSR, and the
end of the Cold War.
I voted for Bush the Elder, a good
man who tried hard, and who made two really major mistakes. His boastful “No New Taxes” promise was the
first, while stopping half way to Baghdad and victory in the first Iraq War was
definitely a world-class screw-up.
The “Bill and Hill” dog and pony
show just had to be one of the worst disasters ever to hit the American
political arena, and did most certainly did not get my vote in either
election! Despite his apparently high approval
rating, Bill gave us NAFTA, Travelgate, the Whitewater affair, the war in
Yugoslavia, Monica Lewinski, a string of lies that has yet to end, and last but
not least an impeachment circus.
President Reagan thought so highly of Presidential Honor and Prestige
that he refused to wear his preferred jeans and cowboy boots to work every day,
opting instead for a suit and tie, the coat of which he never removed while in
the Oval Office. Slick Willie on the
other hand thought so little of that same office that he apparently had kneepads
issued to White House interns! Hillary
in the meantime somehow managed to antagonize just about everybody on the White
House staff and then tried to swipe half the furnishing when she moved out!
I voted for Bush the Younger,
another good man who tried hard.
Unfortunately he had an incredible run of bad luck, and was completely
overrun by a mad stampede of world events that he had absolutely no control
over.
As to the present day; I twice voted against the
individual described by one pundit as “the incompetent, lying, flip-flopping,
insincere, double-talking, radical socialist, terrorist excusing, bleeding
heart, narcissistic, militarily inept, scientific and economic moron currently
living in the White House!” “Nuff said
about this guy.
What comes next I really don’t
know, as that’s for the upcoming election to decide. But so far I’m not real impressed with the current crop of
candidates from either party. On one side
we’ve got an incompetent Vice-President running against an avowed socialist,
and an old woman with delusions of grandeur.
On the other side of the aisle there are a couple on nonentities, a
Doctor who really should stay with medicine, a guy that wants to start a family
tradition of becoming President, and a really rich guy who thinks he can solve
any problem by firing everybody in sight.
(He’s also the only one that even begins to make any sense, which is
plenty scary in itself!)
For the moment the primary argument
amongst these candidates centers on gun control, lack thereof. Face it folks, most politicians don’t seem to
realize that denying people the right to defend themselves only means that we
can passively sit around and wait to be killed by some madman. (Such as what happened on 9-11 when a few
suicidal Arabs armed with box cutters of all things, took over some
airliners and killed a few thousand defenseless Americans.) The recent case of one nut going out and
killing nine innocent (and again defenseless) people made all the headlines for
days on end. The fact that a hundred
plus million American gun owners didn’t shoot anybody on that sad day wasn’t
even mentioned. Demanding more gun
control laws because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having
yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids! It takes a particular type of stupid to
actually believe that those same criminals will obey new gun laws, considering
that they completely ignore the old laws!
In the interest of controlling my
blood pressure, I’m not even going to begin discussing our liberal politician’s
current war on American values!
What we need in this country is
fewer laws, and a lot more justice.
Political tags
- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal,
conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides
politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no
such desire.
