For the last 8 years I have heard all the Republican factions bellyache and whine about presidential candidates. He’s too fiscally liberal or he is too socially conservative or he endorsed this person last year or he’s too Christian or too Mormon…it doesn’t stop, and thus, our country has been taken to the brink of ruin by a socialist regime hell bent on the fundamental transformation of the USA. It has to end. Now. Not 4 years from now. 2016 is the year that we elect a Conservative to the White House, or it is the year that our grandkids will learn about as the moment in time that the USA became beyond saving.
What follows are 5 must have “tent posts” of our big tent party. I am all for inclusion, but these five critical stances must be there for a candidate to get my vote. Beyond these five, I am willing to look past pretty much anything to get the self aggrandizing progressive liberals out of DC.
1.Must be for shrinking government.
There are many ways that our current politicians grow government each year in the name of “listening to their constituents”. Many see decisions that are made as the lesser of two evils or a necessary step to make things right again. I am here to tell you that is all crap. 100% of it. Gay marriage is a great example. The government has NO right to financially incentivize relationships. Are you aware of why the whole “marriage licensing” started? It was to prevent blacks and whites from marrying each other. Yet, here we are in 2015…not debating how we can take existing straight marriage away from government regulation, but how we can add to existing government overreach by adding all of the gay marriages. It all sounds nice and good to everyone…”tolerance and “equality,” right? What about NOT tolerating government adding to their already bloated regulatory control our very love life? It is a travesty of epic proportions, but in the name of fairness, here we sit, waiting for SCOTUS to interpret the Constitution and tell us that marriage is a fundamental right…FROM GOVERNMENT. Newsflash folks, rights are given by God..not man.
2. Must be for the sanctity of life.
This isn’t debatable for me. Life starts at conception. End of story. Stop bullying me and telling me that because I don’t have a uterus I am not allowed to say that killing babies is wrong. That is more evil than anything I can imagine on this earth. The worst part? The further we get from Roe v. Wade, the more liberals try to add to the list of acceptable child murder. It is to the point now that a child can be partially born and then punctured in the brain with a needle full of poison, killed and removed at full term. How is this even debatable? How can liberals sleep at night knowing that they are killing helpless children that have no say in the matter. The real choice would be if the baby had a say. When that happens, I will be pro choice.
3. Must recognize, name and be ready to destroy muslim extremism.
It is frightening how far our dear leader will go to NOT name the evil that we are facing in ISIS. These people don’t want jobs or to be left alone…they want to brutally murder all those who do not believe as they do. They are Muslim extremists and they are killing in the name of their god Allah. They are the ONLY major religion that has not gone through a reformation period and thus are still crucifying those whom they deem different, stoning and beheading gay men and women and brutally beating, killing and raping women for any number of reasons. This is a brutal and evil people that must be destroyed from the face of the earth. Not dealt with through sanctions or put to work in careers that will help them provide for their families. MANY of these vile men and women come from incredible wealth and are not in need of a jobs program. In the 80’s when we heard something gross, Wayne and Garth taught us about the word “hurl”. Today, when I hear disgusting political rhetoric, I want to “Harf”.
4. Must use the US Constitution as a filter.
Except for the Bible, I do not know another document that is capable of living and breathing and changing with the times like the US Constitution. Our founding fathers saw the evils that we would one day face because they lived through much of it in England and knew what the telltale warning signs were. The document they put together allows a form of government, that when adhered to, has natural checks and balances and keeps one man or a group of men from rising up in a dictatorial fashion and usurping authority they do not deserve or need. We have a list of fundamental rights that are given to us by our creator and a bill of rights that help us deal with crooked men that would rule over us in an evil fashion. This document has the capability of being placed over almost any modern day issue and unveiling clarity that we would otherwise struggle to see. It is a modern day Solomon, but in written form. The wise words contained in this document show us exactly how to live in a way that we can remain free and in line with good and right actions. If a candidate has no use for the constitution, or if they see the bill of rights as a list of negative liberties as our current president does, I have no use for them in a position of power and they can move along and work for a bank or consultant firm far away from the house on Pennsylvania Avenue that holds the most powerful man in the world for 4-8 years.
5. Must recognize the existence of moral absolutes.
One reason we are headed so steeply toward complete ruin as a nation is that we have abolished the idea of moral absolutes. There is right and there is wrong folks. You do have an obligation to adhere to certain social norms and not violate morays and forays of our society in order to remain free in said society. We have devolved into a culture of “whatever feels good is right for me”. Newsflash…even if you don’t believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, the Ten Commandments are still mighty fine rules to live your life by. You saying that something is right doesn’t make it so. In fact, SCOTUS saying something is right doesn’t make it so. If I call duck a bluejay, that doesn’t make it so. I know that moral absolutes are inconvenient to those that simply wish to do as they please, but that doesn’t make them any less real.
So, bottom line, after you get past these 5 elements, the rest is preference. We CANNOT so damage current Republican candidates that, if they do receive the nomination, they are worthless in the general election based on something that doesn’t fit into one of the 5 categories above. Let’s take the White House back before they install a bell that will call all in the land to Muslim prayer time and get a real conservative put in there FIRST, then we can worry about the minute details of their conservatism.