As I’m sure everyone in the blogosphere knows, Left and Right, we are in the middle of an increasingly fierce partisan battle over the socialization of the healthcare system pushed forth by Obama and San Fran Nan. What some Republicans and Democrats have done, aided by the Council of Catholic Bishops is craft provisions within this bill that essentially add the Hyde Amendment to this bill, further ensuring that no federal dollars will be used in this bill to fund abortion. Many Democrats are willing to concede the point of abortion for the purpose of getting this bill through. However, there are enough Democrats that are wedded to the abortion lobby that they are willing to kill the entire healthcare bill in order to ensure that abortion on demand is covered in the socialization of the healthcare bill. The Church of course, stands against any bill that provides abortion, and is willing to deny Catholic politicians Communion, the holiest of rites for spouting their pro-choice viewpoints in the face of Catholic teaching.

This point about abortion is a non-negotiable point for Catholics who wish to remain in good standing with the Church; the sanctity of life is not for convenience, or something that is optional. Therefore, how can Notre Dame, the nation’s largest and most visible Catholic University, consider hiring pro-choice candidate Brian Kelly. Is Coach Kelly an excellent football coach? His record certainly points to it, but his positions are unacceptable for Notre Dame. If abortion is such an important issue that the Vatican would see fit to intervene (rightly so, I would add, especially considering that this is an overhaul that will affect the next generation for life), than how can the coach of the largest Catholic University be a pro-choice “Catholic”? I bring up this point about the Church because the Church, like political parties, recognizes that there are significant hills to die on, and one of those hills is in the fight for the lives of the unborn. We so often speak about the idea of a big tent within the GOP, but as we know, if you expand a tent too wide, all of the poles will eventually fall.

Like the Church, it is necessary to call out the RINOs, and the fake conservative Ds, who pretend to be one thing but do another.  Christ tell us “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” It is not enough for us to give lip service to abortion, and talk about it in blogs and in our friends, but we must hold the politicians responsible who insist on grotesquely distorting the value of human life, wherever we see it, whether it is in the football field of Notre Dame, or in the hallowed halls of the Capitol. It is not enough to celebrate passing an overhaul of the healthcare system or winning a college football championship if you have sacrificed your principles to get there. Indeed what do you benefit to gain the whole world and lose your soul? Some say not to turn this into a battle over abortion and then state that their is nothing that social conservatives can do in terms of legislative policy. We can stand athwart history yelling stop, as Buckley advised us to so many years ago. Many Catholics would rather see Notre Dame lose 100000 games in a row than to lose its Catholic identity, the same way that many conservatives would rather see nothing at all pass than any healthcare reform that aids and abets killing the unborn. Our time to fight is now on all fronts, and like Dylan Thomas advised us, we will not go gentle into this good night. Let us rage, rage against the dying of the Light!

As anyone who is not living under a rock knows, Governor Palin wrote a book about her experiences as McCain’s VP, as well as about family and life. While the mere fact that the woman who is unable to read can write a book was news to the Left, the fact that it shed some light on why her role as VP was botched has driven the far Left and the Republican Left completely insane, much like anything that might make the unfortunate mistake of mentioning Governor Palin’s name these days. Whenever you hear Sarah! mentioned in the MSM, or even in mainstream conservative circles, you can be sure that it will be accompanied by some kind of derision or sarcasm from the press, who see her as a dumb Alaskan hick leading the stupid Christians and fringe nutcases by the collar. But unfortunately for the Left, their psychology surrounding Sarah is quite clear; to quote The Dark Knight (one of the best and most conservative movies made in this decade) “the fact that they’re trying to kill you means you’re getting to them.” And that my friends is the problem with Sarah!-she has exposed the Left and is seizing the leadership mantle of the Right, and while putting a sexy fresh face on the conservative movement.

What Sarah has done by embracing the Tea Party movement, and the conservative movement is divide the party. She has drawn a line in the sand and stated clearly, and unabashedly that she stands with the conservative wing of the conservative party, and that it is more important for us to be a party with values and principles, than a party that is willing to stand for anything and fall for everything. This is the key to revitalizing the Republican Party-as much as some of us would at times want to pack our balls and go home, the only way for conservatism to have a political voice is within the structure of the Republican Party. Thus, we need to take our party back from the McCain wing of the party that wishes to tell us, like they told Sarah, to sit down, shut up, and bat our eyelashes for the cameras. Unfortunately for McCain and his minions, Sarah is a better reflection for the GOP than he is, based on the Rasmussen Report that 59 percent of Republicans believe that Sarah! best reflects our values, compared with the fact that 74 percent of folks in the GOP think that the Republicrats in Washington are out of touch with their base.  A new leader brings a new direction, and the fear that the fat cats could lose their place in the Washington elite and actually ::gasp:: be held accountable for their voting comes as a shock to most of the Congressional GOP. So why attack and address the message, when it is far easier to attack the messenger?

Governor Palin has promised to take the Republican Party in a new direction, one that Gingrich, McCain and their wing of the party are bound and determined not to take it. While Gingrich tells We the People to lie down and take a liberal being shoved down our throats, Palin advises us to stand up and fight. And as McCain goes from state to state, campaigning and fighting for liberal Republican candidates to stop the growing conservative movement within the party, Palin endorses the conservative candidates and speaks and campaigns on their behalf. It is no wonder that Mark Kirk, former McCainiac and aspiring Senator has written Palin, begging for her endorsement. NY23 has changed the game for Sarah Palin-she is no longer the former governor who resigned to early for a book deal. Sarah! is now shaping the party, and deciding who is worthy of the blessing (and GOTV soldiers) of the movement. Dede’s kiss of death was just the beginning.

We know know from Going Rogue that McCain and his people tried to muzzle Sarah, and control her throughout the campaign, a campaign that would have been further lost without her. We know that Sarah can energize crowds, decide an election and provide a boost or boon to a candidate who does not meet the conservative standards that she has help set within the party. The real problem that the Leftists have with Sarah is that she is Rudy without the legendary snarl. Sarah is a fighter, and one who is unwilling to back down to the folks who want to put her in a corner as a folksy but airheaded politician whose greatest accomplishment is being able to see Russia from her house. I admit, I orginially thought that the 2008 blunders were too much-until I started listening to what she had to say. The woman is conservative as it gets, and more importantly, she is willing to fight for the conservative cause, something that not even Fred ::ducks EPUS gunshot:: is willing to do. Considering this former Fredhead can become a Sarahcudda trooper, the question is not how do you solve a problem like Sarah; for the conservative movement, it is how many matches do we need for someone willing to pick up Reagan’s torch? It’s time to go rogue and make a differenec in our party and in our country. I asked a couple weeks ago where was our Leonidas? Perhaps our Spartan was a woman all long. You betcha!

Today when I was in church, the Gospel Acclamation was Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, and one of the things that my priest addressed in his Homily was injustice. One of the ways we feel the presence of God is our anger to injustice and our feelings of resistance towards the presence of evil. My boys were baptized today in the Catholic Church, as I was as a young boy, and all of that is creating a path of walking in the light, though we may be surrounded by the wicked. Christ teaches us to value our principles of righteousness and justice over the popular and often wicked ways of the world. We are called upon to be children of Christ by living our lives through His teachings, which is to reject sin every time that Satan and his lies are presented to us, remembering that it means nothing to gain the world and lose our souls.

What does this have to do with the state of the Republican Party today? Today we witnessed the unsurprising McCain like move of Scozzafava endorsing the Democrat, reaching around across the aisle to endorse the candidate who would best represent the district blah blah blah. As usual a McCainiac has come to stab conservatives directly in the chest, only to have the media and party leaders question the fact that conservatives are moving the party further to the right at the detriment of the party. However, under a closer examination, it has nothing to do with the party being taken over by extremists as much as it does that it is past time that a conservative party becomes taken over by conservatives. This is not a time for bowing down to the Democrats on bended knee as McCain and the Republican Main Street Leadership would have us do. This is a time, to quote Phylis Schafly, for the party to offer a choice, rather than an echo.

Scozzafava is the straw that broke the camel’s back in terms of who we are as a party. Many in leadership want us to be like Howard Dean, all things to all people depending on the region. I say that principle has not worked for the Republican Party; the more we have expanded the Big Tent as Karl Rove said, the more that conservatism has suffered. The liberals in the GOP have owned the party, and we spend far too much of our time covering liberals like McCain, Lapdog Lindsey and the stimulus voting Maine girls and not enough time advancing a comprehensive conservative agenda.

There are a concrete set of tested and true principles that are and should be non negotiable within the GOP-all of which revolve around the idea that the Judeo-Christian society and family are the best ways to create a strong America. This goes deeper than hot button issues of abortion and marriage; although those are important issues included in our party’s framework, it comes down to the way we view our society. We believe that the family is the focal point of our society, and whether it is through the use of increasing private and religous education or protecting the sanctity of life, we must provide an alternative to the liberal secular agenda.  We know of course that liberals believe that knuckle dragging Christians are incapable of raising successful children and must be indoctrinated by the village elders who believe that teaching God is dead and moral relativism is somehow more neutral than teaching that God is great, and there is a clear difference between good and evil.

As conservatives, we know that there is a difference between good and evil, and that as conservatives we are called upon for the greater good. We are not afraid to show our children the greatness of God, why should we deny this in front of our party and our nation? We must not put a few votes over the principle of saving the fabric of our society. Remember what Christ has taught us.

If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” (Mark 8:34-38)

It’s time to close this big Tent and rebuild this party as Reagan, the greatest and most conservative President of our time showed us how-within the principles of freedom, justice and the American way. We will stand and fight, not because we are dividers, but because we offer a clear alternative of society, one where we will stand up and fight for our children’s society. The tent has only room for principle, not party. Let us stand up for the family, and for our country from the McCains and Pelosis, for they are one and the same. We will do it ad majorem dei gloriam-for the greater Glory of God.

Cross posted at The Minority Report

We have reached the point, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, where there is a full blown war going on in America. We are in the middle of a war for America’s heart and soul, a war that has implications from the coasts to flyover country, land of the bitter, God-Loving gun clingers. However, many on the Left accuse us as conservatives, of ignoring the inner city, and ignoring, in particular the African-American community. They believe that we should be promoting their increases in education subsidies that have proven to do nothing in terms of raising the quality of education, or supporting their War on Poverty that has not moved the number of Americans living in poverty by a full percent in forty years. Liberals are content to believe that their secular, big government programs and ideology are what the African-American family needs, despite the fact that the 40 years of LBJ’s Great Society have proved to be anything but great for African-American society. Once again, the true solution comes not from the village elders top down solutions, but from ground up, conservative values, including the most important value, which is the value of life.

The past couple of times that I have written, I have talked about the disintegration of American society, aided by the moral relativism of our times. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the African-American community, where Black women are 5 times more likely than white women to have an abortion. However, this is only the beginning of the abortion holocaust that occurs in the Black community. It is not simply the fact that a disproportional number of Black women seek out abortions, but the question of why Planned Parenthood puts a disproportionate number of clinics in African-American neighborhoods. While we certainly have heard the shaky argument that the reason that more Black women have abortions is the lack of contraceptives, the real issue has yet to be discussed-that this was the vision of Margaret Sanger, noted eugenicist, Nazi sympathizer and founder of Planned Parenthood who believed that abortion was to be used to stamp out undesirable races. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not an issue of choice, this is an issue of targeted genocide.

The Center for Disease Control found in their most recent report that “Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005, according to the CDC.  During that same year, according to the CDC, a total of 198,385 blacks nationwide died from heart disease, cancer, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide, and chronic lower respiratory diseases combined.  These were the seven leading causes of death for black Americans that year. So what do we get from the race hustlers, the NAACP, the Jesse’s and Al’s, the first Black President on this issue? Deafening silence. The reason for their silence is because abortion is one of the problems, but is not the main disease. The disease is the breakdown of social, intellectual and cultural capital within the African-American community, which comes out of the breakdown of the African-American family.

When we look at statistics like the fact that over 1500 Blacks are killed by abortion each day, they are mind numbing, but unfortunately, hardly surprising given the state of the Black community. When you have 70 percent of children being born out of wedlock, with 60 percent never seeing a father, is it a surprise that this is a community being adversely affecting by the moral relativism of the village elders? These are the dark days envisioned by the Moynihan report, in which Senator Moynihan famously declared “At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.” This remains true today, with the high rates of homicide, abortion, drug abuse and crime within the African-American community being attributable to the lack of a familial structure that existed pre-1964, when African-Americans made the greatest progess in African-American society. It is not the village, along with the big government subsidies that Blacks need, but the a strong family and communal structure looking to lead  with good examples, rather than with good looks.

The shift in thinking is not simply with acknowledging the problem, but with offering a different solution. It is not enough as pro-family, pro-life conservatives to acknowledge that there is a disease effecting Black America, but we must be willing to step up with our own anecdote. My solution is to engage to rebuild a broken community from the bottom up, rather than top down. Marriage must be at the forefront of the community, and it is something that must be rebuilt, by encouraging marriage, rather than simple cohabitation. Mentorship programs helping fathers realize their roles within the family structure as well as church and pro-life activism seeking to include men within our ranks as positive examples of doing the right thing is infectious. Life begins at conception, but does not end there; if we are to convince more women to choose life, we must convince more men of the necessity of choosing life as well-the lives of their children. As Obama declares swine flu a national health hazard one could only wish that he could see the real health hazard going on in the Black community. One could only hope for his priorities to change-the lives of a dying generation depend on it, and all of us.

As promised, your favorite Black Conservative returns with a vengeance to the blogging world, like Sarah Palin, EPU, David Hinz, janis, bsimpson, Gamecock, AceInTx, and all of my blogging friends proud to be conservative and not Republican. I took a non voluntary break due to my inability to prevent ordering gaps in my internet service, only to find that the political world is turning upside down, and the Party still does not get it, begging the question, will they ever get it? All over the country, from California to New York, we have the chance to change the makeup of the Republican Party from a party that appeases the Left to one that actively opposes the liberal agenda. Not only can we change the party, but polls show across the board that the term conservative is up even as Republican remains down in the age of Obama. And what does the Party have to say about this-Shut up, and get in line.

The latest example? NY23, where Doug Hoffman, a credible and conservative challenger running under the banner of the Conservative Party being endorsed by Sarah Palin, former VP of what used to be the opposition party to the Left’s agenda. NY23 being a solid R district, it is certainly one of the districts where we should be pushing the most conservative candidate, rather than the squishiest moderate who will maverick as soon as the New York Times comes calling. 2009 and 2010 seem to be banner years for conservatives, who have a chance to repeat 1994 if we could muster up the chance to fight. In a year of irony, Newt Gingrich plays Efialtis, the traitor who shows the Persians the path to victory by standing with the moderates, and kneeling to the party establishment, which wants us, the common people to kneel to it as a false god.

As I said, this is happening all over the country, with the party establishment countrywide working for the moderates and against conservatives who have an equal chance to win. We see it with Mr. Hoffman in New York, we see it happening with Marco Rubio in Florida, and we see it happening with Chuck Devore in California. Here in Michigan, we have a fighting chance of getting a true conservative as governor with Mike Cox, the attorney general proving that Michigan will elect conservatives if given the chance. However more often than not, the Republican Party has presented itself as Xerses, the Persian God, planning to take over and step over those who are unwilling to knee, as most of us are. We are the men who have carried the party on our back, blogging, fighting, joining committees and working as precinct captains for the Republican Party. And what is our thanks? They spit in our faces and work to remake the party to look like John McCain(McCain Party). However, it is not as though this should be surprising given McCain’s recent pledge to help Kirk in Illinois, Crist in Florida, and a host of other candidates around the country hijack our party and swing it to the Left and become liberals while the Democrats march towards socialism.

It is time for conservatives to stand and fight for what we believe in, against the Left of both parties. This is not a time for us to appease our enemies, as Obama and McCain continue the march towards Gomorrah. This is a time for the brave 300 to rise up and fight against the tyranny for liberty. This is about more than just an election, this is about the future of our nation. We have seen that simply having an R after your name is not enough. Giving the country to the McCainiacs would be almost as bad as giving it to the Obamas. Liberalism in the name of maverickism or socialism hardly sounds like a choice. Out of control spending with nods towards earmarks (which really isnt much when you look at the whole of our budget), abortion on demand, the eradication of the family and the church as the building block of society, and the breaking of America as a superpower and the end of American exceptionalism. The liberals and socialists want to break America and rob it of greatness to appease our enemies and the countries they want as our friends. They believe that if only we gave away our healthcare and taxed our rich and our businesses to another country, and eliminated God and guns folks would like us more.

Every great army has had a great leader, be it a great general (Patreaus will never betray us, hoo-ra) or a great commander in chief (George W. Bush, you had your problems, but security of America was never one of them). Where is our leader who will fight for our values? That leader is inside of all of us, the Tea Party goers, the town hall protesters, the 9/12 marchers. Obama says that we get in line and do what we are told, and Gingrich who is unable to lift his spear and fight with us tells us to get in line for the Republican Party. If we lose, we lose with glory, we lose with principle, we lose with honor. But by God, we must fight. We must fight so we can hold our heads high and tell our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren that there is an America that we believe in, an America that believes in liberty, freedom, and justice. Conservatives cannot stand and wait for a Leonidas to lead us, because right now we have none but ourselves. Pawlenty is an establishment fraud and a coward, Fred gets bored too easily and Sarah couldn’t even finish being governor. That puts me in the shaky position of looking at Huckabee who has backed conservatives like Rubio, called out the bailouts, and being moving and staying to the Right since 2008. But the real conservative fighter is within all of us, who will not let the Obamas and McCains tell us to kneel. Between Death and Surrender, there is an easy choice. Spartans never retreat, never surrender. America is worth fighting for.

It has of course, been a long while since I have blogged on a regular basis; in fact it was only this week that I have begun re-establishing my presence on RedState, reborn from BlackRepub to BlackConservative, the name I hold today. When I first began blogging, four years ago, I was simply here, on Redstate.org (smile) as a Republican, looking for someplace to vent in the midst of two extremely liberal colleges (Texas and Wesleyan). I made my bones as a libertarian, railing against both the Left and Right,  fancying myself as an all knowing McCain like Maverick conservative, more concerned about appearing above all pro-free market regardless of the moral implications of that free market. As someone who cut their political teeth during the Bush years, I wrongly assumed that the failures of the Bush administration were due to the social conservative movement stranglehold on the administration, forcing President Bush to turn a blind eye to fiscal issues.

Four years later, we have a new president, and I, aided by the births of my two wonderful, healthy (and at times overactive) boys, see a new purpose in life, and within my mission inside of the GOP. While I hold firm in my belief that the free market is the answer to our fiscal problems, it is impossible to look at the fiscal problems without also addressing the moral crisis that America faces in the age of Obama. I once was a moral relativist myself, having adopted the libertarian stance that the government should stay out of all affairs and let the people govern themselves. This is not a stance that I have abandoned; however it must be noted that one persons freedom should not be allowed to trample on someone else’s. While the Left believes in the village of Big Government overseeing the bitter, clinging people in flyover country, I know that it is not a village and all purposeful Big Brother government that the people need, but the family. While I once viewed this as the talk of radical Christian fundamentalists, it has become abundantly clear under Obama that the family is under attack.

Many of my socially conservative friends told me that I would become more socially conservative as I grew older with my two sons. I scoffed then, but I look now and see the need for a return to moral values and sensibilities as I worry about what kind of world that I am sending my children off to, both in the sense of school, and in the sense of morality around them. The problem is not the Christian Right attempting to foist a morality on the United States,a s I previously believed, but a need to defend our way of life from the liberal left which would seek to destroy our institutions in the name of the “common good”. I of course, can turn to the arguments for both abortion and gay marriage to confirm this moral decay. Liberals want us to turn a blind eye to both abortion and gay marriage because they are convenient for adults. The need to get rid of something out of a matter of convenience is simply the way things are supposed to be done according to today’s leftist. It is not a question of whether it is right or wrong for a woman to kill something living inside of her, it is simply a question of whether this decision makes the woman happy and feel better about her place in society. The same goes with marriage: it does not matter that marriage is created for the purpose of a family, and raising children within that marriage; in today’s society, marriage has shifted from being about children, to a societal need to confirm a sexual relationship between two adults. Since Walmart marriage for convenience is already on the table, it is no surprise that with this we are also treated to no fault, easy out divorce which makes it easier to get out of a marriage than it does to break a contract for chicken feed.

But really BlackCon, why should you care? Why should it matter what two loving couples choose to do within the walls of their own home? Shouldn’t we, as conservatives support freedom and liberty? I know these are the counter arguments, because I once made them in a diary on Redstate where I made the conservative case for gay marriage. However, my road to Damascus has been paved with light, in seeing that it is not a case where both parties are able to co-exist peacefully. Marriage is only the tip of the iceberg in which the liberals have used to seek and destroy the family. We have already seen how the gay rights agenda has begun the breakdown of Christian society, which would be more than happy to live in peace, undisturbed by the government. But when liberal insist on Christians adopting the gay agenda, that is when we are called to fight back for our own things. This has begun in Massachussetts, where the Catholic Church was forced to close because it would not adopt to gay couples in Catholic Charities. How long before Christian Churches would be stripped of their tax exempt status and sued for refusing to marry gay couples? How long before Catholic and Christian schools would be sued for discrimination for refusing to allow “Heather has two mommies” in their kindergarten classrooms? And what’s more, how is this appropriate material to begin discussing with kindergarterners in the first place?

The proof is in the pudding of the Obama administration, which employs a man who believes the Earth would be better without people, a man who believes in forced sterilization and abortions, a weather underground terrorist, someone who believed 9/11 was government conspiracy, and most recently, the Safe School Czar who wants to “queer the elementary schools”, has a goal of promoting the homosexual agenda within the classroom, and encouraged a child to continue to seek sex with older men as long as he is sure to wear a condom. The President who told us that personnel is policy, and to judge him by the people he surrounds himself with, has presented this statement to America: the age of morality is over, and the age of moral relativism has begun.

This is unfortunate not only for all Americans, but especially for African-Americans, who are the hardest hit among dysfunctional families, and because of this, unsurprisingly, are most affected by crime, abusive relationships, teenage pregnancy, and of course, a disproportional amount of abortions. Where people like former Senator Santorum stood up and addressed this with among other things, the Welfare Reform act, from Obama, Black America has been treated as if it does not exist other than when it is necessary for a photo op. Obama claims to believe that the key to Black America’s success is through the creation of stronger families, and yet gives all of the power to the Left which seeks to destroy the family that even he claims to understand is the key to success for the impovershed.

So where does that leave us as a party? It leaves us to take up the mantle of the family, because this is no time for hyphenated conservatism. Too many of us, myself included, sat back like fat cats in the Bush years, all too content to fight amongst ourselves while we were certain we were marching towards a permanent Republican majority. We must remember that our 90 percent friends are not our 10 percent enemies, in every single facet of conservatism. We must throw out the liberal McCainiacs, who seek the moral relativism of accomplishment and praise over principled leadership and moral stands. If we are to die like Leonidas and the 300 Spartans, let us make a glorious stand for conservatism, for we know that a new army of conservative Spartans is coming. Now is no time to appease and kneel to our liberal enemies in the name of compromise. We will fight, we will fight, we will fight. Because in the end, it is not our village that is under attack, but our families. And our children deserve it.

As some of you may or may not have noticed, I have been absent from the blogosphere for the past 2 months, doing some political soul searching as a Presidential election came and went past me. A variety of reasons caused me to go on this hiatus, but I have returned because I have been able to conclude that I still have something worthwhile to add to the blogosphere. The first time that I ever blogged 3 years ago and was recommended was when I blogged about the subject of race. Since then we have seen one of the most racially diverse administrations leave and make way for the first African-American President of the United States. This makes me proud, because we are moving towards a country that has realized Dr. King’s dream of seeing men for the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. However, this has especially meant something for me as a Black conservative libertarian; as the guy who has spent the last year in politics disagreeing with everyone, Obama’s candidacy and Presidency has put race in the forefront of the conversation like nothing else in my entire generation. This does not have to be a bad thing, except it is a terrible thing for the Republican Party, mainly because although the GOP was the party of abolition and civil rights, Republicans and conservatives have no idea how to begin or participate in a discussion about race relations.

I admire Republicans for many things, among them a commitment to a color blind society; however in order to bring that society about, the GOP has to understand the world that we live in is a world of identity politics, and to ignore them is something that the party will do to it’s own peril. Case in point, this whole Magic Negro nonsense that was caused by Chip Saltsman, who is running for the chairman of the RNC. Mr. Saltsman was giving out a CD, which of the 44 songs that were on it, included the song, “Barack the Magic Negro.” Republicans, as usual ran around like chickens with their heads cut off, with some ignoring it, some saying it was offensive, and some complaining that this whole thing was taken out of context, and was a parody done on Rush Limbaugh. All of this provides a gross miscalculation of the fact that Barack the Magic Negro is an offensive portrayal, and I don’t care who said it first or what color they were. More importantly, and what some people do not seem to get is that when the GOP does stupid things like this, it undermines the credibility gap that is already low for Republicans among Blacks and Latinos. If Mr. Saltsman were to get the RNC nod (and for the record, I don’t think he will), he would spend the first month answering questions about this stupid CD track. It is not why it was done, it is the fact that it was done that showed a lack of common sense that has already been sorely missing while Republicans were in the majority that we cannot have if we ever plan to break out of minority status.

The Republicans need a fresh face, and more importantly, they need someone who can go to the inner city, into the Black community, and into the Latino community and talk about why Blacks should vote for conservative measures. The old adage of talking “white” is something that has been addressed by Black conservatives, and indeed by President Obama himself in his 2004 DNC convention speech, referring to the need to say that a Black boy reading a book is not acting white. Republicans must emphasize the real issues in the Black community, not just socially conservative issues, but the real issues that are plaguing the lower class in urban environments. We must push for better schools, more accountability from teachers and parents, and a commitment to clean up the streets. We need to fight for true conservative reforms, like ending the drug war, which is locking up kids and wrecking their lives for doing non violent drug offenses. We need to improve the economy by breaking the stranglehold the unions have in keeping more jobs from coming into the city, and we must push things like cutting the corporate tax, cutting the business tax, and cutting the capital gains tax to bring businesses into the cities where unemployment is highest in a state. Not only that, we need to recruit African American candidates in our deep red states, where they will win, not just on the Blue/Purple states where a D tide will doom them. A start would be nominating Michael Steele to the post of RNC chairman, because he is someone who knows how to speak to everyone, and he knows how to talk about race without sounding like a stuffed suit Republican who is there because he has to be; Michael Steele is a man for all of the people who is always there because he wants to be. Conservatism is not dead, but with President Obama in office, the GOP has completely ceded the mantle on race. It is time to seize the day, or be permanently relegated to a white talking party shouting at a Magic Negro.

Crossposted at TheMinorityReport and www.modernconservative.com

“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”-Barry Goldwater

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In Tuesday’s edition of TownHall, Pat Buchanan warns us all again of the JOOOOOOOOOOOOS coming to take over the Republican Party, aiming for their continued control of the GOP, and most importantly, VP candidate Sarah Palin.

[http://townhall.com/Columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2008/09/16/the_neocons_palin_project?page=2](http://townhall.com/Columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2008/09/16/the_neocons_palin_project?page=2)

Buchanan asserts Yet, on Tuesday, Palin was behind closed doors with Joe Lieberman and officials of the Israeli lobby AIPAC. There, according to The Washington Post, Palin took and passed her oral exams…AIPAC’s mission, like that of Likud, is to goad America into launching air and missile strikes on any and all Iranian nuclear facilities. In other words, the Jews have gotten to Palin, just as they have gotten to Bush. Good to know that Buchanan is still ranting and raving about the evils of the Jews, and it makes me happier every day that I no longer read TownHall because of this jerk. In case anyone still wondered why the party couldn’t get behind Paul this season, see exhibit A.

“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”-President Ronald Wilson Reagan

<p>The United States is rapidly moving towards the 2008 national elections, ushering in a new era in politics. However, before opening a new chapter, it is necessary to first close the chapter on the old book, and reflect on the past eight years where the Republicans have held the Presidency, the House of Representatives, and the Senate for the majority of George W. Bush’s term in office. Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, you need not look any further than my title to realize how I, as a conservative feel about the Bush years. Many conservatives, myself included got into the trap of believing that George W. Bush would serve the Republican party well, that he would be a president very similar to Reagan, in the same way that while they never connected with the elites, they both always connected well with the American people. Unfortunately, not only was President Bush not like Reagan, but he completely dismantled the Reagan legacy of conservatism for socially conservative, big government populism. Before we move forward, we must understand what we are moving forward from, which is the Bush years that were a complete failure for conservatism and for the Republican Party. </p>

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Many people say that seven is supposed to be a lucky number, something that you carry around with you like a rabbit’s foot, or that jersey you always wear when your team really needs that big victory. But tomorrow, seven has a much more sobering and somber meaning; Thursday marks the 7th year anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Some people certainly will ask the question, when are we going to let this go? Why even talk about September 11th, when all it will do will be reopening those old wounds? My answer to that is that we must talk about it, and we must reflect on that day, because for my generation, September 11th will forever be the life altering event that occurs to every generation, much like Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy and King assassinations were beforehand.

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Many people say that seven is supposed to be a lucky number, something that you carry around with you like a rabbit’s foot, or that jersey you always wear when your team really needs that big victory. But tomorrow, seven has a much more sobering and somber meaning; Thursday marks the 7th year anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Some people certainly will ask the question, when are we going to let this go? Why even talk about September 11th, when all it will do will be reopening those old wounds? My answer to that is that we must talk about it, and we must reflect on that day, because for my generation, September 11th will forever be the life altering event that occurs to every generation, much like Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy and King assassinations were beforehand.

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There has been a lot of talk about race and identity politics during this campaign, perhaps more than any other political campaign in history. The media and pundits are showing this election as a classic case of the old America vs. the new America, the crusty old white guy against the young, hip, cosmopolitan Black candidate. However, this is not a blog about the media’s tingle in the leg that they get for Obama, or even the Obamessiah himself. I want to talk about Obama’s hopeandchangeandhopeandchange and their effects on Obama’s supposed base of the urban poor. And so because I love a political fistfight like John Edwards loves his campaign staffers, I would like to take this opportunity to take on Senator Hopeandchange in his own arena, which is change from the way things are traditionally done in Washington. It has been revealed that in every arena from his policies to his rhetoric to his Vice President, that Obama is nothing more than the same socialist candidate with the same failed policies from the 1960s that the Democrats trot out every year to run for president, fire up their base and leave on the short end of the stick, howling about disenfranchisement and stolen votes.

Many of my friends have asked me why I cannot support Obama. I am not driven by social issues, and indeed I would even say I am socially liberal. And after all, what’s wrong with change? That my friends, is a fair and accurate question that ought to be posed to the Senator himself. Since Obama clinched the nomination, he has been running for his life towards the political center, seeking to grasp the same independent right leaning voters that have eluded the Democrats for five out of the last seven elections. But one would think that the Boy Wonder could win simply with his base of young and Black voters just as his did in the primaries, especially considering that these were the only two groups that bought into his message that he was going to be different from every other politician. However, when he talks, the only change that Obama is delivering is the skin color of the man delivering the same message.

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Much has been made recently of liberal network CNN’s decision to showcase a program called “Black in America”. In this age of constant political correctness as well as extreme liberal bias, this was a documentary that posed as factual news while merely serving as intellectual masturbation for the Political Left. In arguments that have been rebutted time and time again by Black intellectuals from Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and even liberal Black columnist Juan Williams, the Left is still content to maintain the facts that African-Americans are in a financial rut because of the catastrophic effects of slavery. This caused me to take a deep breath rather than screaming, and wonder to myself, really? In 2008, generations who have not even known segregation, let alone slavery are suffering from the adverse effects of something that occurred over 200 years ago. And so because the argument that Blacks are affected because of racial instability in consistently made on the Left to the point where many repeat these arguments as known facts, it has become necessary to look at where the Left chooses to fight its battles; as long as the GOP and conservatives are unwilling to have the conversation about race in the name of forgoing the acknowledgement of identity, we will cede ground to the Left and the Democratic Party to continue to brainwash generation after generation.

Up first is the idea of education, one of my favorite battering rams to use against the Left. Many people argue that it is the poor financial status of the schools that causes schools in predominantly African-American neighborhoods to do poorly. Many liberals point to the fact that as long as schools are financed based on property taxes, there will continue to be a large achievement gap between Blacks and whites and Asians. Ah, but there is a key, insomuch that this is not simply a Black-White achievement gap; rather this is an achievement gap between Blacks, Whites and Asians. In addition, African-Americans even trail Latinos who have to overcome a language barrier to achieve in school, and who have a mean income very similar to African-Americans. So what it comes down to is not property taxes, but the ability of the public school system to monopolize the free market unlike any other business in the country. While there is a problem with the coddling and swaddling of African-American students by liberals, the real problem is the lack of choice within the public school system through the great equalizer of our society, the free market. This is where the Democrats prove themselves to be so dangerous, because while they talk about the evil of big business controlling the little guy, they are in charge of the biggest business of all-the public school system and the teachers unions, who vehemently oppose anything that would challenge their status as protected radicals who are given a free ride to indoctrinate children with whatever agenda comes to their minds that particular day. School choice would allow schools to actually function as legitimate businesses, in the sense of performing or being closed, rather than continuing to act as a shadow business benefiting only the employers and not the customers. This is brought up because schools are the first blow when we talk about inequality between the races, but by going point by point, it is not schools but liberalism that is killing African-Americans.

Since its inception as we define liberalism in the 1960s, liberalism has been the most destructive factor for African-Americans in the United States. It began with the beginning of the welfare state and LBJ’s “Great Society”, which destroyed the Black family by replacing fathers with Uncle Sam and focusing on shipping a busload of African-American kids to all white schools rather than focusing on educating all skin colors of children. The welfare state which began in the 1960s, is the single most responsible factor for the destruction of African-Americans, because rather than giving African-Americans more responsibility in lieu of the progress Blacks had made in terms of integrating and fully functioning as equal citizens of American society, the government negated these accomplishments by implementing affirmative action, showing the world that Blacks were not able to achieve on merit; rather Blacks must be included to meet racial quotas, and constantly be questioned on whether there really was a more deserving person to get their job, place in school, or house. The Honorable Justice Clarence Thomas mentions this in his book, My Grandfather’s Son, that his degree in Yale was treated almost as invalid because there was the sentiment that he received it not on merit, but based on the color of his skin. And the final blow on Blacks and liberalism comes in the denunciation of the Moynihan Report, which reports that the Black family is in a crisis, as racist conservative diatribe. Here is where liberals make their bread and butter, and where the line between liberalism and fascism becomes blurred in the way that this becomes a shibboleth to liberals, that any disagreement on the basis of race becomes racist and just as importantly, conservative. The entire goal is to change their opponent from a disagreeing human to a monster, in which only they can conquer. And that is how liberalism functions today in 2008.

We see the swirling of liberalism in fascism from everything from their talk about race to their leader, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. This is one of the most important points that must be made, because Obama is, and never will be the candidate of African-Americans. Obama is much more dangerous because he is the candidate of the American Far Left, which includes everyone from Jesse Jackson to Bill Ayers, to more violent radical anarchist groups. And Obama is the cultural icon of fascism, who says things like he is the symbol of the possibility of America returning to her best traditions. Like the fascists who preceded him, Obama seeks to become more than a man running for President; Obama wishes to become a symbol of something bigger. These signs began early in his campaign with his constant talk to his supporters that “we are the change that we’ve been waiting for”, evoking the image of a Messiah rather than a President. Like the fascists of the past, the media is there to consistently reinforce their message from Chris Matthews indicating that Obama gives him a “tingle up his leg”, to anchors comparing him to the last sainted President, John F Kennedy, talking of how someone like Obama comes along only “once in a century.” The media has been for Obama another tool to reinforce his message of Messianic deliverance for America. And true to the legacy of the Left, Obama has already struck with the tone of race, accusing America of not wanting to support someone who doesn’t look like the other guys on the dollar bills; ie old and white. Long hailed as a disadvantage Obama knows he can frame his race as an advantage, offering whites ailed with centuries of guilt a way out; a vote in exchange for liberation from decades of claims of racism. Now, a simple I’m not racist because I voted for Obama will expunge all whites who wish to worship at the holy altar of Saint Obama, and he will deliver us the change that we have been waiting for. While Obama stokes the flames for a race war, he has attempted to blindside us with another war; the war of the fascist Left on an unsuspecting public. It is up to us to beat the Left on both fronts.