To: Bill who wrote (59711 ) 11/5/2011 6:03:16 PM From: joseffy 3 Recommendations Respond to of 103300 If conservatives allow a black man to be media-lynched we have lost our core values November 5th, 2011 By James Lewis coachisright.com Herman Cain does not have an automatic ticket to the Republican nomination. Nobody does. But Cain deserves to be heard like any other candidate, without being persecuted and witch-hunted by the mob media. Conservatives have stood by while two magnificent women candidates, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman, were trashed, insulted, threatened, and verbally abused by leftist mudslingers over months and even years. Today, the radical leftist media expect to pick both candidates, Republicans and Democrats, and they will stop at almost nothing to get their way. This transforms American politics into a one party political machine. Mobocracy could injure the American experiment beyond healing. If conservatives allow a black man to be lynched by the professional reputation-killers of the radical left we should be deeply ashamed of ourselves. We owe our candidates open-minded consideration, even if they are …. Mormons. To bow to what Justice Clarence Thomas rightly called “a high-tech lynch mob” — again — is to surrender to media harassment and totalitarianism . If that kind of surrender doesn’t stick in your craw you’ve missed the point of American history, our resistance to political tyranny. In our own worst times lynch mobs did run wild, at some times and places. The Civil War was fought to preserve the Union and to abolish slavery. The Civil Rights Acts received more Republican than Democrat votes in Congress, because the Democrats were beholden to the Dixiecrats. Abe Lincoln was the first Republican president and Lincoln was a fervent believer in the American experiment and our founder’s beliefs. Conservatives in the Anglo-American tradition have always hated lynch mobs. Edmund Burke’s wrote one of our foundational books Reflections on the Revolution in France. Burke compares parliamentary conservatism to the lynch mobs of France — which led to the tyranny and imperial aggression of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon’s conquests triggered two centuries of European vendettas, as Germans and French whipped up one war of revenge after another. Nothing is more inimical to conservatism than mob politics. That’s why Americans ultimately felt compelled to stand against the mob demagogues of the Nazis and Soviets. It’s in our DNA. The brute fact is that today, American and Western politics have again fallen into the hands of demagogues , who conduct real and virtual mob assaults through the media each and every day. You know it and I know it. When good and innocent people are routinely abused as “racist,” “sexist,” “Islamophobic,” “scientifically ignorant,” and the other leftist vulgarities , we are seeing nothing but that ancient mob mentality again. The European Union is run by a leftist cabal that owes no allegiance to its own citizens. Europe’s power class has turned rogue and the concrete results are suicidal. The EU is lurching from crisis to crisis, and by importing 52 million easily radicalized Muslims it has in effect signed its death warrant. Europe can no longer defend itself, because it has eaten its seed corn to feed the welfare state. America is well on the way, if we cannot stop the slide. Herman Cain is a courageous black conservative, and deserves our respect and admiration for that alone; add all his other qualifications and he’s the most experienced, viable black candidate on the Republican side since the 19th century. He is far better qualified to make wise economic decisions than any candidate on the left. Cain could single-handedly overcome the clichéd slanders dropped by the left against conservatives and Republicans, simply by being who he is. The current assault on Cain’s good name flips the burden of proof to the defense; they assume guilt before innocence. None of those scurrilous charges have been proven. Even if they were, they’d be laughable compared to Chappaquiddick , Bill Clinton’s serial abuse of women, and Barney Frank’s gay prostitution racket, run from his own basement in Boston. Conservatives should have high standards; but not suicidal ones. Nevertheless, Some conservatives have simply surrender to the mob. Sadly, prominent Republicans like Karl Rove are all too happy to stab conservative Republicans in the back. Such people have surrendered before a fight. They are weak reeds, and conservative stalwarts like Maggie Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill would treat them with contempt. Beyond the practicalities, conservatives should just be sickened by the witch hunt against Herman Cain. These are not our values. Conservatism stands for civilization. The left stands for anarchy, robbery, and a precipitous decline in our values. They must be stopped.