Whitaker's Current Articles August 16, 2003
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Fun Quote:
"We have a balanced ticket. I am
Catholic. My running mate is anti-Catholic."
-- Congressman John Schmitz, 1972 American
Party candidate for president
The
Red Herring is Dead, Long Live the Red Herring!
For decades the crime rate rocketed upward and
liberals were openly the friends of "the so-called criminals."
Did conservatives use this fact to make the public realize that
liberals were their enemies? No way.
Every time crime was mentioned liberals
screamed "Gun Control!" So instead of saying liberals were
openly pro-criminal, conservatives debated what liberals wanted to
talk about, which was gun control.
If any conservative pointed out that liberals
always took the side of criminals against the public, respectable
conservatives insisted that liberals loved the people dearly and
were good people.
So nobody blamed liberals for the crime rate
everybody was afraid of and the only people who got blamed for
anything was the conservatives who got blame for all the guns out
there.
Even liberals are now aware of how many
leftists just plain hate Americans. Everybody knows
liberals have been pro-criminal and anti-American for decades.
Even Bill Press recently said it was good the leading Democratic
candidate, the former governor of Vermont, was not "one of the
anti-gun nuts."
So the red herring that prevented conservatives
from mentioning the leftist pro-criminal record has gone down.
So what is the red herring now?
The death penalty is the new liberal red
herring. That's what the left wants to talk about, so that's
what the right talks about.
The Most Important Liberal Victories
are the Ones Conservatives Never Saw Happening
Decades ago, conservatives never blamed
liberals for being openly pro-criminal. The liberal
media wanted to talk about gun control, so conservatives who became
media spokesmen talked about two things: 1) gun control and 2) what
nice people the liberals were.
But somebody did use the crime issue the right
way. Someone did attack politicians for being pro-criminal.
Guess who?
The left, of course.
Criminals never had a greater friend in public
life than New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug. She fought
as hard to get as many repeat felons back on the streets as any
other liberal ever did.
One day in the early 1970s Bella Abzug
and some other leftist women decided they would become The Women's
Movement. So they held a press conference and declared they
represented Women's Rights. One thing they denounced was
all the rapes that were being committed by repeat rapists who were
being putting back on the streets. They said, and I am
not joking here, that repeat rapists were on the streets because men
were to blame.
One day Bella Abzug was fighting to get every
repeat felon back on the streets and the next day she was screaming
about all these repeat rapists who were on the streets.
So did conservatives make a laughing stock of that?
Of course not. Not a single conservative
spokesman even mentioned it. Abzug was a leftist and she wanted
to talk about an Equal Rights Amendment, so what
conservatives, ALL the conservatives, talked about was the Equal
Rights Amendment. Abzug's pro-criminal record never came up.
Early in the Viet-Nam War, Bella Abzug had
gone down to Cuba to worship Castro. While she was there the
Cubans showed films of American planes being shot down over North
Viet Nam. Abzug and her fellow Patriotic Liberals cheered and
clapped loudly.
National Review mentioned that Bella had
worshipped Castro and cheered at the death of America pilots, but it
stopped there. Every conservative spokesman will tell
you that Bella may have made some honest mistakes, but she was a
True Patriot, like all liberals.
Respectable conservatives gave the crime issue
to the liberals from the word go. They surrendered the
whole battle before the argument started.
Conservatives
Led the Fight to Make California Liberal
I have to keep repeating points until some dumbass
conservative spokesman finally realizes how useful they are.
Let me give you an example.
Pat Buchanan used to support open borders. He joined all the
other conservatives in saying that that "free enterprise means the
free movement of goods AND LABOR."
But the reason labor moves out of Mexico is
because Mexico is a political disaster. If those laborers move
to a country which is not a political disaster, they become the people
of their new country. So they turn the country they move into into
the same political disaster they came from.
I tried desperately to get conservatives to
face this obvious fact. But they kept repeating,
"free enterprise requires the free movement of goods AND LABOR."
Open borders forever! I wanted to grab them by ears and shout
into their faces, "You idiot, labor VOTES!"
So conservatives talked about free enterprise
and worked to bring in all the
anti-free enterprise immigrants they could.
I tried for years to talked to those morons
about reality. I gave a paper at a major economic conference
with a Nobel Prize-winning economist in the audience in which I
pointed out, in more technical language, that if politically stupid
people come up, they ruin the economy. No one disagreed.
Conservatives kept repeating that "free
enterprise means the free movement of goods AND LABOR."
In 1982 I put together "The New Right Papers" for the
world's third largest publisher just so I could make this one point
in it. I finally got the respectable conservatives' attention.
Free enterprise finally had a good argument against the "Free enterprise requires the
free movement of goods AND LABOR" argument. This helped a lot
in making National Review and other respectable conservatives oppose
immigration.
Being against importing leftists always made
political sense, but the argument was needed. Arguments
matter. Ideas matter. And there is nothing that is as hard as getting conservatives to accept a good idea.
Conservatives take all their arguments from
what liberals say. And liberals never approve anything that
would be a good idea for conservatives.
So conservatives fought for open borders for
decades. Again they surrendered the real fight without
conservatives even knowing it was going on, and now the biggest
state in the Union is a leftist bastion and the left's minority base
is large and growing.
Respectable Conservatives Quietly
Gave the Supreme Court to Liberals
In 1968 the Supreme Court struck down all state intermarriage laws and the Catholic bishops and main line conservatives .
all applauded wildly. All of the states that had adopted the Constitution enforced laws against miscegenation.
In order to strike down all state anti-miscegenation laws the Court just openly ignored what the Founding Fathers intended
and everybody knew it.
Conservatives and Catholic bishops were in their glory when they praised the Supreme Court for its decision striking down
miscegenation laws. Every time they praised that decision, liberals patted them on the head and told them what great
anti-racists they were. Conservative live for liberal praise.
Liberal praise is also what Catholics who have an inferiority complex live for.
So in 1973 the Supreme Court invented the right to abortion. Bishops went ballistic. Conservatives went ballistic.
This year the Supreme Court struck down all state sodomy laws and conservatives went ballistic. "What happened,"
they screamed, "To the Original Intent of the Founding Fathers?"
I want to grab them by the ears and shout in their faces, "YOU happened to it!"
Conservatives gave up original intent so they could get liberals praise for being anti-racist. They also gave up their
constitutional principles without a fight.
They also gave up on the membership of the Supreme Court without a fight. Now they are asking what happened there, too.
Conservatives blindly backed Bush Senior for President. He put the most liberal member on the Supreme Court, Justice
Souter.
The Court is split with four conservatives against four solid liberals, one of whom is Justice Souter.
And who is the one who votes half liberal and half conservative? Bush Senior's other appointee, Justice O'Connor.
Conservatives gave up the Supreme Court without a fight, and now they are whining and crying.
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