An Important Note on Election 2009

[David Bozeman]

Conservatives are hailing last night's election victories -- we haven't enjoyed a night like this in quite some time. Economic security still dominates public discussion, so much so that even some on the right are misinterpreting the results. Radio host Neal Boortz was lamenting this morning that he is tired of this litmus test over abortion. Certainly, some have argued that the Conservative Party candidate in upstate New York spoke out too much on social issues when voters are concerned about the economy. Later, the Libertarian Party's 2008 vice-presidential nominee was advising Republicans to drop social issues such as gay marriage and abortion and focus instead on economic and big-government concerns.

Forgive my poor research, I don't even know this man's name -- and I am a former Libertarian Party chairman! When I want advice on how to win, the candidates of the Libertarian Party are not exactly the first people I run to. Nonethess, these social issues have, indeed, dropped to second-tier status since the economy tanked, but I can tell you this, Mr. Boortz and all you libertarians -- abortion may be an annoying litmus test to you, but to millions of Americans it's about saving the lives of babies. Period. Sorry to build voter turnout over such trivia. And another thing -- and you know I'm right -- if the Republican Party nominates a pro-choicer for president in 2012, the conservative base will stay home or vote third party (and NOT Libertarian), recession or no recession.

As for gay marriage, some on the right regard it as a side issue, a distraction from the larger fight against big government. Just so you know, millions of Americans regard traditional marriage as a unique institution worth saving, and they instinctively know that it is the bedrock of a free -- yes, libertarians, a FREE -- society. Traditionally, families care for one another and for other families, and once you start chipping away at the moral and legal definitions of family, ANYTHING goes. In the ensuing social anarchy, there is one reliable institution that will be glad to instill order and dependency -- government. We have seen it in socially liberal Europe, and we have seen it in the United States. If you want strong units of individuals reliant on themselves and each other, then stand up for traditional marriage.

Political observers have told us for years that the Republican Party and conservatism can survive only by purging themselves of those annoying social conservatives, when the truth is just the opposite. Those who have stood firm for God and life -- Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin to name a few -- are the most popular and beloved figures on the Right and they have kept us, at the very least, viable. Because unemployement is high and government too big, now is not the time to go wobbly. Furthermore, while victories in Virginia and New Jersey are reasons to celebrate, voters in the blue state of Maine saw fit to affirm traditional marriage with a respectable 53% of the vote.

[Black N Right]

Right on David. I am so sick of these dunderheads telling me abortion is a non-issue. Are you kidding me? Okay when they start rounding up conservatives in Camp FEMA, you tell me how life issues are a non-issue! When your freedom of speech is demolished and they are killing you and your family members left and right you tell me how life issues are a non-issue! You go tell that woman in China who is trying to escape the gov't because she has the audacity to be pregnant with a girl that abortion is a non-issue! Because that is exactly where we are headed. Once life at its beginning is granted "not human" it doesn't take long before the rest of us are granted "non human" either! Abortion is the only thing worth fighting and dying for. I am not dying for money. I am not dying for oil! I am not dying for anything but family, liberty and God because that is all that truly matters in this world and the sooner they learn that the better!