Justice Dakota
02/18/2012I became a Republican because of President Ronald W. Reagan (during my teens), and because my subsequent study of political and economic history demanded that I intellectually embrace American Conservatism as the best ideology for continued American Greatness. That type of conservatism, however, is not embraced by the majority of post-Reagan Republican Presidential candidates. Not Bush, not Dole, not Bush, not McCain, and not the majority of the pack this time around.
Republican primary voters appear to have abandoned American political and economic conservative theory. (I am so lonely.)
A word to the wise (and to the talking heads of the "Real Conservative Movement (RCM))", Reagan was not a Social Conservative Ideologue!
Who turned Reagan into Aunt Bee, and when did this happen? Was it former Speaker Newt Gingrich? Was it Kenneth Starr? Was it Monica Lewinsky? Maybe it was Pat Robertson's presidential bid? Who the hell turned the Republican Party (at the Primary process) into the Amish Party?
Was Newt going after President Bill Clinton because of Lewinsky while he was having an affair with a staffer? Did Starr seem to smugly enjoy the illicit SEXUAL secrets of Clinton while attempting to prosecute him?
Did Pat Robertson believe God wanted him to be President until he failed to become President -- then God changed His mind? We know that a significant number of Republican Primary voters tend to be hard-core Christian Evangelicals and Fundamentalists.
We also know that nine of our Founding Fathers were Freemasons (including Benjamin Franklin, Grand Master of Pennsylvania), and that George Washington became a Mason in 1752. Washington had this to say about Masonry:
"Flattering as it may be to the human mind, and truly honorable as it is to receive from our fellow citizens testimonies of approbation for exertions to promote the public welfare, it is
not less pleasing to know that the milder virtues of the heart are highly respected by a Society whose liberal principles must be founded in the immutable laws of truth and justice.
To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished that the conduct of every member of the Fraternity, as well as those publications that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the great object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race." George Washington
We also know that many "Conservative Republican Evangelicals and Fundamentalists (CREFs)" agree with Pat Robertson's view on Masonry (In his book, In The New World Order, Robertson warns readers that Freemasonry is an evil, Luciferian conspiracy).
Now, you don't have to be intellectual and/or a genius to appreciate the internal contradictions CREFs experience when they proclaim that our Founding Fathers intended for the United States to be a Christian Nation. If George Washington was a candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 2012, would CREFs consider the "Father of our Country" evil and Luciferian? Ouch!
How did the CREFs mess up the Republican Party so much when the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is so clear: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...." and Article VI specifies that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the
United States"?
CREFs love to talk about our Founding Fathers and our Constitution. But do they enjoy mythology more than reality? I don't know ... Can someone tell me who or what destroyed American Conservatism? I know that it was not William F. Buckley Jr., that's for sure!
Is it possible that contemporary, conservative religious practice is destroying American Political and Economic Conservatism -- and the Republican Party? Again, I too struggle
with ironies ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/18/us-usa-campaign-santorum-idUSTRE81H0M220120218
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