"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword...A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is." George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
May 11, 2016
By: Linda Case Gibbons
Doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result? That's the definition of insanity, and the Republican Party.
For eight years the man in the White House who promised us Change, has more than delivered. And the Republican-controlled Congress has done nothing.
If Thomas Jefferson walked the streets of our country today, he wouldn't recognize the country he helped to found, and he would be appalled at how far we have deviated from the rule of law.
He would observe that "bathrooms" are now a federal government concern, and that it has become okay to sue nuns because their religious beliefs conflict with government mandated healthcare.
Shortly out of a bitterly waged war with England, fought by gallant Americans, Jefferson would be surprised that army deserters are regaled at the White House, while the mothers of fallen war heroes in Benghazi are called liars.
He'd view with shock, videos of thugs burning American cities to the ground and calling for police to be fried "like bacon," the same thugs who are then supported by the elected officials of that city, and heralded "with pride" in a president's commencement address to the youth of our country.
Accustomed as he would be with the use of candles for illumination, Jefferson would wonder why the federal government wants to make energy more costly for its citizens. Why it wants to put miners and coal mines out of business.
He would wonder at a president who encourages illegal immigrants to break our laws, and pour across our porous borders, to work, to vote and to enjoy a level of life most Americans themselves can no longer afford.
"Why would a country that defeated England in a war for their independence apologize to any country for anything," he would ask when he heard the president apologizing for America.
But he would see that for eight years, apologies have been the order of the day, handed out by none other than the leader of the Western World, to America's enemies.
And elected officials did nothing to stop him.
So why are American voters so angry? Why do they support Donald Trump?
Jefferson would know why, although Trump's success is a question which still puzzles the media every day. It has for nearly a year. And they really don't know the answer. But if they read their own print media or watched their own TV programming, they would realize they have been guilty of political correctness to a dangerous degree. And the American people are fed up.
They would see that they have helped a president who has set his cap for destruction of America.
But don't just blame the media or even the president. The Republican Do Nothing Party has earned its share of blame.
After The Donald emerged as the GOP presumptive nominee for president, the Republican Party rallied and found its mojo, not to help elect a candidate of the people, but to stop him.
They are a messy, angry bunch.
They are so angry and hypocritical that they would rather end up with Hillary Clinton and even more "Obama Strategies" than support a candidate they personally don't want.
Paul Ryan's one of them. Dana Perino another. Perino, a Bush mouthpiece, has scowled on FOX News ever since Trump first declared his candidacy.
Weekly Standard's Steve Hayes can't say enough bad things about Trump when appearing as a panelist on FOX's Bret Baier each evening. And Karl Rove still thinks George Bush is in the White House.
The real story, though, is the irrelevant Mitt Romney.
Romney has threatened a number of tactics, including encouraging a guy, Oklahoma Sen. Ben Sasse, to be a third party candidate.
Is it any wonder Mitt lost the presidential race twice?
Another "conservative," Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol is insulted at the notion of Donald Trump heading "his party."
"I think there will be an independent candidate," Kristol told CNN's Don Lemon. "I think a Republican of integrity and honor, who, people like me, will feel comfortable voting for."
Of course, because, after all, isn't voting for a president to head a government "Of the people, by the people and for the people," all about what Bill Kristol feels comfortable with? Or Romney? Or Dana Perino?
Luckily "real conservative Republicans" have the answer. They, including Perino and Glenn Beck, are travelling to California to meet with Mark Zuckerberg, you know the guy who censors conservative news on his brain child, Facebook, to talk about conservatism.
I have no words.
I think the Declaration of Independence says it best. There does come a time, "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another."
For us, that means severing the ties that connect us to phony conservatives in the Republican Establishment, like the ones trying to derail the people's choice.
Hold the line, America.