The 2010 mid-term campaign season is now upon America, and none too soon.
With two weeks still to go before his term reaches the one-year mark, the
damage Barack Obama has inflicted on this nation is almost incomprehensible.
Among those who recognize the degree to which the former greatness of the
country is being obliterated, the congressional elections of this coming
November represent the best hope of stopping the devastation.
The mood of Heartland America is grim but determined. Too many people
fought, bled, froze, and died on the world’s great battlefields in titanic
struggles to uphold and preserve this great nation for it to be passively
relinquished to the decrepit perversity of the political left. Liberals may
sanctimoniously insist that they hold the “politically correct” high ground,
and they may reinforce that claim with their dominance of the network news,
academia, and the entertainment industry. But that does not grant them
unbridled authority to lay the nation to waste through their agenda.
The liberal political establishment has nonetheless sought to do just that,
in a headlong rush to move national norms and standards as far to the left
as can possibly be achieved. Ever since Inauguration Day 2009, Marxist
leftists are being deployed into key positions from which they are
undermining great institutions, entangling once-private industries under the
control and even the ownership of the out-of-control Federal Government, and
amassing as much of the nation’s wealth as they can seize.
Such relentless outrages against the constitutional fabric of this nation do
not sit well with a great majority of its citizens, who have organized and
are increasingly dedicated to the restoration of their country. Indifferent
to the derision with which they are characterized by the self-anointed
“ruling class,” they willingly face such firestorms in repeated efforts to
make known their absolute disapproval of the direction in which their
country is being taken.
This enormous groundswell portends an impending calamity for the Democrat
Party this coming fall, and Democrats with any foresight are already
responding accordingly. Already, several key Senate Democrats, including
Chris Dodd of Connecticut, Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, have announced
their plans to retire, rather than seek reelection in difficult, uphill
campaigns. Similar rumblings are being heard from the House of
Representatives.
Congressman Parker Griffith of Alabama switched from Democrat to Republican,
in an unprecedented move that changed his status from majority party to
minority. Yet he can clearly see that the political fortunes of the
Democrats are looking dismal as they press relentlessly onward with their
socialist remake of America. And he wants no part of it.
All of these events signal a good turn of events for the GOP. However, such
a sea change is still far from being a certainty. And despite America’s
anger over the devastation wrought on it by the Democrats, the most critical
component of any Republican resurgence, a bold and concise program to repair
and restore the shredded fabric of the nation, remains conspicuous by its
total absence in any Republican electoral strategy.
Unfortunately, if the experiences of recent years are an indication,
Republican “elitists” will once again revert to their standard plan of
attempting to gain electoral advantage solely on the basis of how badly the
Democrats are doing. This approach has not served them particularly well in
the past. But in the current political climate, the backlash against it
would be disastrous.
Americans, who on a daily basis are increasingly appalled at the wreckage
being inflicted on their homeland by its own “leadership,” are in no mood to
accept mere window dressing on the problem. A political party that merely
continues operations within the devastation can expect to be reviled by “We
the People” to the same degree as the party that caused the destruction in
the first place.
In the fall of 1994, America made just such a hard right turn away from the
impending downward spiral promised by the ultra-liberal Clinton
Administration. The Republican “takeover” of both houses of Congress was
truly historic, and held the promise of a major course correction for the
nation. Unfortunately, those at the epicenter of this event, such as Newt
Gingrich, newly empowered as Republican Speaker of the House, squandered
their window of opportunity in maddening and futile attempts to build
consensus and commonality with their vanquished rivals.
Such collegiality may have seemed a lofty objective to Beltway insiders, but
it was not the spoil of victory sought by those many Americans at the
grassroots who had struggled to make the situation possible. From their
perspective, this was a major triumph in an ongoing war for the future of
their country. As it became apparent that the Republican Party would
increasingly revert to “business as usual,” the disillusioned public
abandoned the party, culminating in the disastrous election cycles of 2006
and 2008.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, despite his frequent
lapses in judgment, has assessed the current situation with piercing
accuracy. He warns that the Republicans may not make the gains necessary
this fall to seize majority status in the Congress unless they return to the
principles espoused by such luminaries as Ronald Reagan and forcefully
engage the opposition.
It is far from sufficient for them to merely represent a milder alternative
to the Democrats. Those who will gain the confidence and loyalty of today’s
electorate must have a plan to undo the damage currently being done to the
nation. They must be able to convince the people of their understanding of
just how dire the current situation has become, and they must demonstrate
their willingness to fight as if the very future of the nation is at stake,
which it inarguably is.
‘Christopher G. Adamo has been active in Wyoming politics for many years and is a managing partner in Best American Buy (www.bestamericanbuy.com), an e-commerce business that markets American made products including the incomparable Abigail Adams Bedspread Set from Bates Mills. Contact information for Chris Adamo, and his archives, can be found at https://www.chrisadamo.com’