Conservatives Must Coalesce

The TEA Party movement has been a highly successful movement. Since the election of Barack Hussein Obama as president in November 2008, local groups have sprung up all across Wisconsin and the entire country, protesting the high-speed plunge off the cliff of independent American exceptionalism into a socialistic society of commandand- control government. We hate it. We don’t want it. And we let everybody know about how we feel about it. We held up the healthcare bill for more than half a year. Tax and Take (formerly Cap and Tax) has been held up in the Senate since last summer. And our own Wisconsin Senate disbanded without passing ANY of the myriad of disastrous pieces of legislation they considered in the last session.

Great work. Now it’s time to get to the change.

In any society governed by democratically elected bodies there are two and only two poles of thought; a Right Pole and a Left Pole. Conservatives as we are known here in the USA are attracted to the Right Pole of individual liberty and responsibility, free enterprise, and low taxation. The Right Pole embraces the smallest, most limited government possible to ensure rule of law and protection from external enemies. The philosophy of the Right Pole is thus necessarily God-centered; the rights of man and the laws of morality required to ensure their preservation do not come from man but a higher power. This idea allows these virtues to transcend the lives of individual people and generations. We all know what’s at the Left Pole – command and control government cultivating crony capitalism (which isn’t capitalism at all) eventually and inevitably leading to a totalitarian state. The Left Pole is necessarily a Godless state; the rights of man and laws of morality are provided by a select group of “experts” or “authorities” which knows best for everyone else. There is no freedom or choice at the Left Pole.

The Democrat Party has been on a high-speed train to the Left Pole since they were given the keys to all facets of all levels of government in 2008. They have shown everyone exactly who they are and exactly what they intend to do. Someone who cannot see this now exercises willful ignorance or embraces what they are doing. Any individual of integrity who embraces personal freedom still associating themselves with this party defies logic. Why Sheriff David Clarke or Representative Bob Ziegelbauer, both men of conservative bent and exemplary record, continue to associate with the Democrats I cannot explain. Their actions, rhetoric and ideology have nothing in common with what the Democrat Party continues to force upon us.

This leads us to the Republican Party. The Republic established in America by our Forefathers inevitably led to the two party system that has been at work ever since. There are only two political poles; thus a party must embrace one or the other. We aren’t some kind of parlimentary system requiring a coalition government. European governments are not God-centered and thus you have a number of competing parties dancing around the Left Pole essentially accomplishing nothing and doing nothing except stealing money from their enemies and giving it to their friends. Unfortunately, over the last decade the situation here in America was not much different. The Republican Party decided to move away from the Right Pole to embrace some of these seductive elements of political power like crony capitalism with the flawed ideology of Compassionate Conservatism behind it all. What a train wreck!

The inevitable strengthening of the Democrat Party from these pursuits of the Republicans made election 2008 what it was. The Pillage-the-Country-to-Stuff- Our-Pockets-and-Our-Friends- Too bill, rightly mislabeled the Stimulus bill in traditional leftist nomenclature, could not have created a more complete picture of what the Democrat Party is today. It also showed the Republicans exactly what they never want to become. And today, thanks to Mr. Obama and the other Democrats in power, the Republican Party has confessed its sins, engaged in its penance and is spreading the doctrine of a God-centered approach of much, much smaller government ensuring individual liberty and a free market path to prosperity. In other words, back to constitutional government. We need to go no further than New Jersey or Arizona to see this truth in action.

So what does all this mean to the TEA Party in Wisconsin? Simple. Embrace the Republicans. The Republican Party provides the best conduit at present by which we can effect political change now and in the future. The candidates assembled by the Republicans for our next set of elections are truly a welcome change. Scott Walker, Republican endorsed candidate for Governor, takes us as close to the Right Pole as a politician in this state has ever taken us before. Dave Westlake and Ron Johnson, the two candidates left vying for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, are both staunch conservatives and PART OF THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT! Both have earned our support and deserve it. Let the best man win and support your candidate with all you’ve got. But the winner of this primary must get support from all of us. Progressives and Leftists are the enemy and Russ Feingold has certainly demonstrated he’s one of them. Let’s not waste our time fighting amongst ourselves over issues that frankly have little relevance to the big picture and the life-or-death task at hand. The infighting can only embolden our adversaries and weaken our cause.

I believe we need to join our local GOP and help facilitate the election of as many GOP candidates as possible. By joining the party, TEA Party members will be able to directly affect the direction of the party, ensuring the focus on conservative values and ideology. The Progressives have gotten where they are today through infiltration of the educational system coupled with the destruction of Judeo-Christian morality, the removal of God from the public square, along with perversion of word meaning and rhetoric control via the doctrine of political correctness. They dominate most local governments and have held the largest cities hostage for several decades. For our movement to be successful in the long-term, we must take this fight to the streets of our towns and cities and gain political control of these local governments and school boards. By joining with the existing infrastructure of the local GOP, we can all work to get conservative-minded people in these local positions where we can truly revolutionize the direction this country is going. Only then will we win the culture war which will always be at the center of this effort.