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No other nonliberal is going to mention
this, so I will:
The press is saying that Bush, Junior, has it WON!
In polls, a matchup between Bush, Jr. and Al Gore
has Bush, the Republican moderate, winning hands
down.
Back in 1992, right up until the Republican Convention,
the media were announcing that polls showed that
George Bush, Senior, would beat any Democratic candidate
hands down. As soon as the nomination was over,
Bush's popularity began to collapse.
In 1996, right up until the Republican Convention,
the press was announcing poll after poll that showed
that the moderate Robert Dole had it won against
Clinton.
So here we go again. Once again, the press tells
us that each moderate will have the Democrat beat
in all the polls.
Until the Convention.
Come November, the moderate will lose like he always
does. Same thing will happen in 2004. The same thing
will happen in 2008. Respectable conservatives have
no memory at all. That's what makes them respectable.
This will keep happening until even Republicans
get tired of losing.
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Last year, the State Newspaper conducted
a campaign to get the old antimiscegenation language
removed from the state constitution. The State did
not allow a word of opposition to appear in its
pages. When I objected to this, a lot of people
busted a gut about it. They told me to just be quiet,
it didn't matter.
They told me to just be quiet, because if I didn't
liberals would say I was being a RACIST.
They said just be quiet, it didn't matter anyway.
Just let it pass, they said, and that would be the
end of it.
But many, many years of experience in politics have
taught me this: when liberals spend that much effort
on something, that is NEVER the end of it.
I keep warning
people that our failure to denounce the State's
newspapers' censorship of all opposition to removing
the antimiscegenation provisions from the state
constitution last November would cost us. In its
lead editorial for Friday, February 26, The State
newspaper began a campaign to cut off all state
aid for students attending conservative Bob Jones
University. Bob Jones University discourages interracial
dating and interracial marriage. The State points
out that the voters of South Carolina ENDORSED interracial
dating and interracial marriage by voting for the
provision to remove the antimiscegenation provision
from the state constitution in November of 1998!
I told you so.
Back in November, all our "conservative"
leaders were telling me we dare not oppose that
antimiscegenation vote, because that would get us
declared racists. I said that, if that provision
passed, liberals would use it and use it and use
it. Please look at my October 24 article, "Liberal
Spores," which explains how liberals routinely
get what they want by saying they want no more,
and then surface and push for more a little later.
Please look at my January 2 article, "Censorship
Pays," which describes what ELSE liberals
will be demanding because we did not oppose removing
that antimiscegenation provision. Those who did
NOT openly oppose this provision in terror of the
"racist" label, which is pretty well everybody,
have no right whatever to complain when the media
blank them out. The media blanked out any debate
on this provision, and nobody said a word.
As I have explained before, that is why the left
always protects the rights of Communists. They know
that if they allow the right to terrify anyone by
yelling "Communist," they will have to
spend the rest of their lives explaining how their
opinions are not like Communist views. The right
lets the left scare them with the label "racist,"
and the respectable right always abandons anyone
the left chooses to call "racist."
So naturally, the left uses the label "racist"
ALL THE TIME. They used it here to justify outright
censorship, and no one objected.
So from now on, in order to get any media exposure,
you are going to have to explain why no one can
call you a racist.
You are going to have to explain this in public
despite the fact that you will not be allowed to
say anything in the media.
And our silence last November endorsed this.
I explained this in my October 3 article, "Respectable
Conservatives - They're Just Bureaucrats"
and in my September 26 article, "Respectable
Conservatives Kill Their Wounded."
How many readers are willing to state that Bob Jones
is the last conservative institution liberals are
going to use this pro-miscegenation vote to attack?
Please note I use the term "promiscegenation."
But wasn't removing that provision just a little
piece of housecleaning, since the federal court
had already knocked it down? Isn't that what they
assured us last November?
That was last November. Now The State has announced
that that vote was PROmiscegeneation. The State
has announced that the voters of South Carolina
didn't just do a little housecleaning, they approved
of miscegenation and interracial dating.
That little myth didn't last long, did it?
As long as we can be terrified into cowardly silence
by the word racist, or by shouts of "anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews,"
or by any other label, you can forget about your
right to speak.
What goes around comes around. When you are dealing
with people like the liberals, and you do not stand
up for others' right to speak, it will soon be your
turn.
But what about the old dodge that racists are just
leftists, so we should join liberals in suppressing
them? As I explained before, this is an old line,
and liberals love it. It is so old William Buckley
used it all the time. Buckley wanted liberals to
approve of him, so he said he would jump in and
destroy anybody liberals denounced as racists.
In return, Buckley wanted liberals to denounce Communists
and prevent outright Communists from getting lead
editorial status in top American newspapers. Liberals
laughed at him and went right on with what they
were doing. Buckley, as always when liberals insist
on something, went along with them.
The result of this effort is that liberals never
have to explain why they have the right to be heard,
no matter how pro-Communist their views might be.
No respectable conservative ever mentions that antiwar
protests in the 1960s always had Communist flags
in them. We all agreed the left had a right to do
that.
Only the right has to jump under the table and gibber
its apologies when its masters shout the right words.
Only the right has to spend a major portion of its
limited media space explaining what it is NOT.
All for lack of guts.
The left is actually terribly, terribly weak. The
only thing that keeps it going is our leaders' lack
of brains and courage.
A question: how many South Carolina conservatives
are willing to bet this is the last time The State
newspaper will use that promiscegenation vote to
denounce South Carolina conservatives like Bob Jones
University?
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Being divorced, my brother decided to go
back to the Methodist church in the small town he was
doctoring in. The first thing he ran into was the church
campaign to get the Confederate flag down from the state
capitol building.
I got a quick look on television at those ministers marching
down Main Street to demand that the Confederate flag be
taken off of the state capitol building.
I noticed that lots of them had the backward collar. This
indicated they were largely mainline ministers, that is,
preachers from big churches like the Methodists, Episcopalians,
and so forth. They had that serious, constipated look
on their faces that big church preachers get when they
are really feeling righteous.
You could see that these preachers were feeling really
good.
Instead of being embarrassed speaking for a religion they
don't really believe in, they are getting to march for
a cause they could brag about at a New York City cocktail
party.
Ah! The Good Old Days, the '60's! Back then the guys in
the backward collars got to be Young Radicals, and they
marched in parades with Communist flags and hippies and
New Yorkers and even Harvard professors. Those preachers
and priests on Main Street had that Sixties Look on their
faces as they marched for a Fashionable Cause. That look
is a combination of suppressed ecstasy and incipient seasickness.
I used to see it a lot in the 1960s. They marched for
any leftist cause back then. But now all they have left
is the Confederate flag.
They no longer march for other leftist causes because
it cost them too much back then.
In the old days before infomercials, television stations
used to do something you young people have probably never
heard of.
It was called "signing off."
All the television stations would sign off with "The
Star Spangled Banner."
Except the one Jesse Helms worked for. It signed off with
"Dixie."
Before signing off, a station would usually have a minister
or a rabbi give a five-minute talk. In the 1960s, a fairly
normal one went like this:
The cleric got on and announced he was going to talk about
prayer. He held up a leftist picket sign and said, "This
is a prayer." It was the 1960s, and he was being
"with it," "hip," "the times
they is a-changing," and so forth.
There is something pathetic about priests and preachers
who try to be cool.
Back in the 1960s, all the main line churches decided
they would be "with it." They went for all the
trendy political progressivism, they had guitars in the
churches, man, they were Supercool!
The mainline church leadership was hard leftist. These
churches were part of the far-left national Council of
Churches, which supported the even farther left World
Council of Churches. This latter group did nice things
like supporting Communist guerilla movements.
While the mainline Protestant churches pushed to the activist
left, their membership started dropping like a rock.
Each of the mainline Protestant churches that went on
the Social Progress bandwagon in the 1960s dropped from
a quarter to a third of their membership, while the population
of the United States increased by a quarter.
Quite a drop.
But even this actually understated the stream of people
out of the Social Progress Churches of the 1960s. I noticed
this in my own family. My grandfather was a Methodist
circuit rider, my sister was a director of religious education
in the Methodist Church.
Then the Methodist Church went "politically progressive."
It was exactly like the Democratic Party my family had
supported for generations. We did not leave the Democratic
Party; the Democratic Party left us.
In exactly the same way, the Methodist Church left us.
But not all of us OFFICIALLY LEFT the Methodist Church.
Those who do the counting only count the ones who go to
the trouble of quitting. There were five of us, and two
of us left their "church letters" in the Methodist
Church. They weren't counted in the outflow, though they
were very much a part of it.
Those two remained officially Methodists, and remained
part of the millions who -- at least officially -- stayed
with that church.
It was the other three of us who OFFICIALLY left Methodism.
For every person who officially left the new Social Progress
churches of the 1960s, there was at least one other person
who remained a member simply because he never went to
church. Since he didn't bother to quit, he stayed on the
official rolls.
The heavy drop in membership caused by churches trying
to be trendy was TWICE as great as the drop they had thought
it was! Slowly, the lesson got through the skull of some
of the most pathetic people alive -- liberal clerics.
It only took the libs twenty years or so to catch on.
The problem was that hip and With It Guys who were in
holy orders were getting what amounted to middle-age crazies.
They were too hip to believe in God, and it embarrassed
them that people thought they were serious about something
as old-fashioned as God. So they made a big show of trendy
liberal politics, as the anti-Confederate flag marches
in Columbia do today.
But now they've at least changed the image. After just
a couple of decades, these bright and "with it"
hipsters began to actually realize that their membership
had been falling fast for twenty years. Education pays!
Now the godless minister is unhip. Nowadays we see mainline
churches inviting people to come and hear about GOD! Even
the advertisements on television for mainline churches
talk about the Bible.
If you didn't live through the sixties, you probably can't
imagine what a change that is.
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