The news from Washington, D.C. has not been good for the
president and his party this week. With his personal approval
numbers dipping below 50 per cent for the first time since his
election, public support for his signature programs dwindling
rapidly and a Blue Dog rebellion among Democrats in Congress,
things are not going as planned for Barack Obama and friends.
Yet “independent” pollster John Zogby has seen fit to
opine that it is the Republican Party that may be “teetering
on the brink” of extinction, noting that it is “swimming against
the tide of demography.” Now I may not be an expert on the fine
art of polling, but the fact that Nancy Pelosi et al. are trying
to push through a vote on so-called healthcare reform before the
August recess tells me that they fear hearing the wrath of the
people when they descend from their ivory towers and return home.
Still, Zogby does have a point: the Republican Party, in its
usual state of inexplicable inertia has chosen to retreat and
pander rather than to speak to its conservative base and to those
who might otherwise be attracted to it. Instead of trying to draw
Latinos and other immigrants to the party by trumpeting the
differences between it and the Democrats, Republicans merely show
themselves to be weak and meek imitators of same. Add to this the
media’s long and constant disinformation campaign — that
Republicans hate immigrants and minorities — and it must be
acknowledged that a problem does exist.
So how can the Grand Old Party stem the tide and attract these
burgeoning demographic groups? By getting someone — Sarah, are
you listening? — to stand up and say something along the
following line to all Americans and in particular to those
legally seeking to become citizens:
We welcome all you who have come to these blessed shores in
search of a better way of life for you and for your posterity;
you who seek the American dream. And guess what? We are the folks
who can still see that dream and the ways in which it might yet
be attained by those who desire it.
The Democrats have been engaged in the decades-old pursuit of
trashing that dream here at home and around the world — indeed,
our current president has made a cottage industry out of it. Yet
still you come; so your beliefs must be more in line with those
who share your dream rather than those who disparage it.
In seeking to undermine the America you came here to find,
Democrats are in the process of nationalizing the industries that
are the engine of our economic prosperity. Their attachment to
socialism — a failed economic system that many of you fled from
— is a malady that, if left unchecked, will take us all down.
Not content only to go after the industries themselves, they have
managed to create a culture that stifles initiative among our
young people and others whom they need to keep as second-class
citizens, and therefore welcome seekers of government largesse.
They are undermining our morals by insisting that there are no
objective truths; that everyone should define right and wrong
based on their own perceived victimhood; that the belief that
America has been a force for good in the world is just so much
hokum. The notion of personal responsibility that made this
country good and great cannot survive without truths that are
self-evident. It is the Republican Party that still
supports the idea of American exceptionalism; a belief you
apparently share or you wouldn’t be here.
Similarly, those on the left seek to use your children by keeping
them immersed in a culture that you risked everything to escape,
by encouraging them to live the rest of their lives on the
outside of the American dream; still speaking the language of
their past rather than achieving proficiency in the language of
their future. Again, by keeping you and your children as
victimized outsiders, they can keep you from assimilating into
the kind of Americans who braved the oceans before you to make
this country great.
American liberals have sought to remove God from our national
identity; the God most of you Hispanics and Haitians still
worship with reverence, awe and thanksgiving for your delivery
from the poverty and despair of your homelands. They seek to
limit the size of your population by encouraging you to deny your
faith and join a party that openly and aggressively promotes the
murder of your unborn children; an abominable sin that in itself
should preclude your identification with them.
In short, the Democratic Party represents most everything that
you are not; worse, they seek to destroy everything that you came
here to find. Indeed, if left to their own devices they would
turn America into the banana republics and third-world nations
many of you happily left behind.
So be true to the dreams and aspirations that drew you to this
beautiful and bounteous land. Side with the people who share
those dreams and don’t be afraid to shout with them from the
rooftops, “May God continue to bless America.”
