Monday, June 8, 2009
Conservatives, Do The Right Thing!
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"I can't believe you voted for the white guy!" Obama fanatics are incredulous when they meet me. I am a conservative white woman with bi-racial sons and a black ex-husband. And yes, I did not vote for the black guy.
"Last time I checked, choosing one person over another because of his skin color is racism," I explain. "I think it's great we have a black guy as president, he's just not the right black guy. I vote for someone based on his or her beliefs and character, not color." Obama lovers are aghast, they are stunned, they don't know what to say, for about 5 seconds... and then it begins, as it always does, the abusive, insulting, left-wing liberal diarrhea-of-the-mouth tongue-lashing and character-bashing against poor little moi!
It's okay, I'm used to it by now. My four white siblings all voted for B.O. (my favorite presidential nickname, for the obvious olfactory reference), and they are my harshest critics. In emails, at family functions, even on my Facebook wall, they deride me, chastise me, insult me. In their self-admittedly arch-leftist minds, I am racist, stupid, brainwashed, delusional, irrational or clearly "off my meds," because I didn't vote for the black guy.
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My ex-husband (the right black guy for 12 years) didn't vote for B.O. either. Like me, he believes in a small, fiscally-frugal government that serves the will of the people, not the alternative that the left is cramming down our throats. My ex can articulately express his politically incorrect (for a black guy) conservative point of view. I love and admire him for that. I wish I could say the same for my siblings. None of them will discuss the issues...they just sling mud at my intelligence, my character and my sanity.
Why? Do they not have "the capacity to think through the details," as Austin Hill, columnist for Townhall.com proposes? Hmmn... my siblings are all bright and college-educated. They have worked in the upper echelons of corporate America, they have been entrepreneurs, they have even been politicians. I venture to say it's not their brain capacity or problem-solving ability or intelligence... it's simply the fact that they've been as brainwashed by the left as they think I've been brainwashed by the right.
Stalemate. We're both in the same boat. So what can Conservatives do? Ask the mothers of the world. When someone slings mud at us, they taught us not to sling back. We were told not to lower ourselves to their level. We must rise above it. We tell them what's wrong with what they're doing and remind them to "do the right thing." We explain what the RIGHT thing is, we explain why it's right, we hold firm to our belief in right and wrong. Bullies eventually lose, because even they, ultimately, learn that what they are doing is wrong, not right.
Each of us needs to stand up for conservatism and speak out about what we believe in. Here's what I tell people:
I want the small, fiscally-sound government our Founding Fathers envisioned; specifically, a government that serves us, not enslaves us; a government that works for us, not makes us work for them. I want my government to give me the opportunity to pursue happiness as I define it, not how the government defines it. I want my government to allow me and my sons to thank our Creator anywhere and in any way we like, not how and where the government says we can. I want my government to let me own a gun so I can protect myself, my sons and my friends from people who want to kill us in our homes, our schools and our workplaces. I want my government to secure our borders now, and then enforce our immigration laws by looking for, arresting and deporting people who have entered our country illegally. I want my government to decrease our dependence on foreign oil by allowing us to drill for more oil here, now. I want my government to let me choose the best schools for my sons, not tell me where they have to go. I want our government to abolish its current income tax system that punishes American citizens for how much money we earn and replace it with a consumptive (sales) tax on the money everyone in America spends (which includes illegal aliens and tourists). Finally, I want my government to live and breathe and exhibit daily the beliefs our Founding Fathers preserved forever in our Constitution and in our Declaration of Independence.
Until we have that, I will not be shy, I will not be cajoled, I will not be embarrassed or ridiculed or shamed into submission. I will continue to express my conservative beliefs and my desire for a government that does the right thing. I invite my fellow conservatives to join me in our collective freedom of expression, and I invite liberals to join in discussing the kind of government they want. But no mudslinging, no name-calling and no insults, please. I know your mama didn't raise you to act like that.
