Thank You, Martha
It’s all over the news. Martha Coakley has gone negative. The Democrat Senate candidate’s new ad “Who Is Scott Brown, Really?” concludes, “We can’t afford a Republican like Scott Brown”. “Republican” seems to be the operative word – in the radio version of the ad, it is repeated 6 times, each time with more contempt than the last. Apparently she believes that the 48% of the voters who support her opponent don’t know that he is a Republican. Once she educates them as to this deplorable fact, they will no doubt switch their allegiance to her in droves.
What does it mean, anyway, to be a Republican?
It means belonging to the party of Abraham Lincoln. Honest Abe led America through its bloodiest war so that, as he said at Gettysburg, “this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.” Believing that “if slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong,” he signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freeing the slaves in large parts of the Union.
It means belonging to the party of Dwight Eisenhower. As Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Ike led the Armies of Freedom in eradicating Fascism from most of that continent. As President, he ordered the 101st Airborne Division to protect nine black students from those who would use violence to keep them out of a formerly all-white school. The soldiers faced down the mob and escorted the six girls and three boys safely into Little Rock Central High.
It means belonging to the party of Ronald Reagan. The Gipper was elected President at the conclusion of a decade that saw a hundred million people lose their freedom to proxies of Soviet Russia. Ignoring the ridicule of the left-wing wine and cheese set, Reagan stood up to the Russians, bringing about the collapse of the Evil Empire and the end of the Cold War. He told us to be eternally vigilant: “Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction,” he said. “We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.”
At this point, you may be thinking, “Sure, the GOP ended slavery, segregation, and Communism. But what have they done recently?”
It’s true, in the last decade, the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Reagan lost its way. As their most recent standard-bearer, John McCain, said, “We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us. We lost the trust of the American people.” And because of that, the party also lost the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.
But, oh, what a comeback!
Just as Reagan warned us, freedom is now on the verge of extinction. The Democrats are planning to take away our freedom to make our own health care choices; instead the bureaucrats at the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research will tell us what’s best for us. They’re planning to take away our freedom to make agreements with our employers about how much we will earn; instead the Compensation Czar will tell us how much we can have. They’re planning to take away our freedom to choose how we spend what we earn; instead the Internal Revenue Service will confiscate it from us with massive new taxes (Don’t believe me? Check out: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012802939.html, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124476565985708427.html, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124588837560750781.html )
In this environment, being a Republican means belonging to the party of the 40 Senators who are standing up to the Democrats and blocking their plans to bring government into every area of our lives. Although they don’t even have enough seats to sustain a filibuster, they’ve slowed the Federal takeover of health care by at least half a year, forcing the Dems to put other plans such as Cap and Tax on the back burner.
So thank you, Martha, for informing the public that Scott Brown is a Republican. You pay him a great compliment, and I’m sure he is grateful.
What does it mean, anyway, to be a Republican?
It means belonging to the party of Abraham Lincoln. Honest Abe led America through its bloodiest war so that, as he said at Gettysburg, “this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.” Believing that “if slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong,” he signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freeing the slaves in large parts of the Union.
It means belonging to the party of Dwight Eisenhower. As Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Ike led the Armies of Freedom in eradicating Fascism from most of that continent. As President, he ordered the 101st Airborne Division to protect nine black students from those who would use violence to keep them out of a formerly all-white school. The soldiers faced down the mob and escorted the six girls and three boys safely into Little Rock Central High.
It means belonging to the party of Ronald Reagan. The Gipper was elected President at the conclusion of a decade that saw a hundred million people lose their freedom to proxies of Soviet Russia. Ignoring the ridicule of the left-wing wine and cheese set, Reagan stood up to the Russians, bringing about the collapse of the Evil Empire and the end of the Cold War. He told us to be eternally vigilant: “Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction,” he said. “We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.”
At this point, you may be thinking, “Sure, the GOP ended slavery, segregation, and Communism. But what have they done recently?”
It’s true, in the last decade, the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Reagan lost its way. As their most recent standard-bearer, John McCain, said, “We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us. We lost the trust of the American people.” And because of that, the party also lost the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.
But, oh, what a comeback!
Just as Reagan warned us, freedom is now on the verge of extinction. The Democrats are planning to take away our freedom to make our own health care choices; instead the bureaucrats at the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research will tell us what’s best for us. They’re planning to take away our freedom to make agreements with our employers about how much we will earn; instead the Compensation Czar will tell us how much we can have. They’re planning to take away our freedom to choose how we spend what we earn; instead the Internal Revenue Service will confiscate it from us with massive new taxes (Don’t believe me? Check out: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012802939.html, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124476565985708427.html, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124588837560750781.html )
In this environment, being a Republican means belonging to the party of the 40 Senators who are standing up to the Democrats and blocking their plans to bring government into every area of our lives. Although they don’t even have enough seats to sustain a filibuster, they’ve slowed the Federal takeover of health care by at least half a year, forcing the Dems to put other plans such as Cap and Tax on the back burner.
So thank you, Martha, for informing the public that Scott Brown is a Republican. You pay him a great compliment, and I’m sure he is grateful.
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