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Why Y2K will be the most pivotal, crucial, momentous vote in generations. Your whole life, you've heard about the importance of voting. You no doubt know that millions upon millions of inhabitants in the world today do not have a vote. You realize that most of humanity throughout history has had no say as to who governed them. And unless you attended public schools very recently (in which the history of the United States was replaced with the history of the oppression of women) you know the Founding Fathers changed all that. You've had it drummed into your heads since childhood how valuable your vote is. But I'm going to tell you something, folks. We are at the cusp of one of those periods in which that vote becomes more than valuable; it becomes critical. It will determine the survival of the nation. That's not hyperbole. I don't engage in alarmism or scare tactics. I don't tell you that the Democrats are going to starve your grandparents to death the way the Democrats tell you the Republicans will. I don't warn you that the Democrats are going to kill your children the way the Democrats warn you the Republicans will. I don't claim that the Democrats are bought and paid for by tobacco companies hellbent on giving kids lung cancer before they reach age 18, or that they're in the thrall of the NRA hellbent on making sure as many children brandish guns in school as possible - the way Democrats do. No, I'm telling you that the vote you cast in 2000 could make or break the republic because it is a hard, cold fact. The next election will be one of the most crucial elections in many, many years because all three branches of government hang in the balance. In addition to control of the Executive branch and both houses of Congress, your vote will determine the shape of the judiciary for a generation. Whoever wins the White House is likely to make as many as three Supreme Court nominations ---as well as scores of picks for the federal bench. The truth is, we simply cannot survive four more years of liberalism. It's as simple as that. Do you think politicians are too eager to make new laws that encroach on your freedom? Do you see that those same politicians act reluctant to enforce the laws already on the books? Are you of the belief that incidents such as the Columbine massacre are at least partly the result of a climate of moral chaos; a lack of discipline, standards, and the teaching of right an wrong? Do you agree with Daniel Patrick Moynihan the retiring liberal Senator of New York, that partial-birth abortion is "infanticide"? Do you want more thinkers like Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, who believe in following the original intent of the Founders in interpreting the Constitution? Do you care that allowing the design of our most advanced nuclear warhead to fall into the hands of the Chi-Coms has threatened our national security? Do you believe that the U.S. military has been deployed in too many places around the world for Meals-on-Wheels operations? Do you fear that our forces are spread too thin and are using up armaments that ought to be ready for genuine threats to the United States in the future? Are you concerned that the plague of victimology is spreading to more and more Americans, who see themselves as helpless, oppressed, and unable to rely on themselves? Do you worry that with the ever-continuing and cancerous growth of government, your Constitutional rights are diminishing? Are you concerned about freedom of speech for those who disagree with liberals? Do you see the great American institutions being corrupted and infected by the insidious spread of dependency? If your answers to any of these questions is "yes" then you had better take great care before casting you next vote for President. Four years under Gore will make every one of these very serious problems much, much worse. Guaranteed. Yet there is an unsettling trend taking place amongst some conservatives - a lack of confidence in conservatism. For a long time now, many on the right have lamented the fact that Ronald Reagan is no longer available for public office. They started believing the liberal propaganda that Reagan's success was solely due to the magnetism of his personality. Everybody liked his smile. He was America's grandfather. That's why he was re-elected in a landslide with 49 states. It didn't have anything to do with his ideas or his policies. Without Ronald Reagan, many of these geniuses worry that conservatives won't win again - even for dog catcher -because the public at large doesn't subscribe to conservative principles. They are convinced that voters merely liked the way Reagan, the actor, made them feel. So the question is no longer, "How do we win?" but, "How do we lose like good conservatives?" Now let me tell you something. I don't want to have anything whatsoever to do with that kind exercise in futility. I am not a gloom-and-doomer; I am not defeatist. There is too much at stake this time around to be seduced by such negativity. Some people out there think there is some kind of honor connected to losing. Baloney. There is no value in losing. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Losing means four more years of serious damage to our institutions, our families, our schools, our religious and political expression, our legal system, our property rights, our wallets, and the freedoms we enjoy. We simply can't afford to let that happen. Some Americans realize this. Sen. Robert Smith of New Hampshire is a man for whom I have great admiration. But you didn't see any ground swell of support last summer when he announced that he had stopped being a Republican. He would instead seek the Presidency as an Independent. "I have come to the cold realization that the Republican Party is more interested in winning elections than supporting the principles of the platform," Smith announced. His exit from the GOP did not stem from contempt of fellow Republicans or from anger, Smith said. Rather, "It is a decision of conscience." Sen. Smith withdrew from the presidential race. Precious few wanted to jump aboard his independent bandwagon. Apparently, even those agreeing with this strong pro-lifer on the issues didn't think he had much of chance of winning. And now Sen. Smith has rejoined the party he left. Coincidentally, there was a Senate chairmanship which just opened on the Environment and Public Works Committee due to the recent death of John Chafee. Sen. Smith asked for - and received - the Senate Republican leadership's permission to have his seniority privileges back, so that he could become chairman. Sen. Smith's short-lived kamikaze mission did not end up accomplishing very much. Losing never does. Others of you are looking forward to voting for Patrick J. Buchanan, newly of the Reform Party. Pat has been vilified, called a "Hitler lover" by Donald Trump - who himself joined the Reform Party's New York affiliate. But to those of you who want to feel good pulling the lever for Pat, let me give you a warning that you ought to take heed of. You want to pretend that a third party candidate can win, when he can't. It's fantasyland. That's right. I've said it. There is about as much chance of a third party candidate winning the White House in the year 2000 as there is of Bill Clinton telling the truth in a judicial proceeding. When you pretend otherwise, when you vote with your spleen instead of your brain, you don't just make yourself feel all warm and fizzy that you voted for someone who's 100 percent pure on the issue that's near and dear to you, let's say abortion. You help elect the liberal Democrat - AlGore - who's going to spend the next four years fighting pro-lifers, signing pro-choice executive orders and appointing pro-choice judges. If you don't like settling for half a loaf; that's fine when it only affects your own life. But not when it means the whole country has to endure what will be 12 straight years of liberal control of the White House for the first time since FDR. Not when what you are doing in casting your vote is the exact opposite of what you intended to do. Not when that vote for a third party amounts to a vote for the Democrats. Just look at what awaits the next President. There will almost certainly be three vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court during the next four-year presidential term of office. One of them may very well be the seat of the aging William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States. Can you imagine what it will mean for an unreconstructed 1960s liberal like Al Gore to appoint the Chief Justice? Just think who it might be. Mario Cuomo? Lawrence Tribe? Alan Dershowitz? Hillary Clinton? Whoever it is, you can bet your Equal Protection Clause he or she will make Earl Warren's tenure as Chief Justice in the fifties and sixties look moderate. How would you like to have Naomi Wolf as Secretary of Education in the next Administration? The feminist authorette until recently was getting paid a heap big $15,000 a month to save the Gore campaign from Gore. Her paychecks were separated and delivered through multiple channels so that word would not get out that she was on board. And no wonder why. Wolf's latest book is entitled Promiscuities and it recommends, among other things, that schools teach pupils how to masturbate. And you thought we got rid of Joycelyn Elders, didn't you? After the Gore campaign failed to keep its $15,000 feminist under wraps, the Vice Genius defended her position. "She's a valued adviser, and she'll remain one," Gore said. Wolf is said to work mostly with Gore's daughter, Karenna Gore Schiff, in getting Generation X attracted to Gore via the Internet. One of Wolf's goals has been to get Gore seen more as a virulent, testosterone-charged "Alpha Male" rather than the vegetation that always seems to be part of Bill Clinton's staged backdrop. Thus my new name for the Vice Perpetrator: Alpha Gore. If the idea of little Johnny or Judy studying masturbation in school isn't enough to make you rethink your third-party vote, think about your wallet. If Bill Clinton in 1992 canceled his promised middle-class tax cut because the deficit was bigger than he expected, just imagine what another liberal Democrat in the White House will say when today's imaginary budget "surpluses" vanish from the government's cooked books. You're going to get a full-scale push for huge tax increases. That top income tax rate of 39.6 percent is going to start to look mighty low when the politics of budget deficits returns. So is the capital gains tax recently lowered by the Republican Congress. And that pro-fiimily per-child tax credit that just recently came into effect? Well, it takes a village to raise a child, not a tax break. That village is called Washington, D.C. and the village coffers are getting kind of low. So cough up. While Washington will claim to need more of your money, the liberals running the White House will be screaming ever louder that there's too much in politics. And that the thing to do about that is bring an end to so called "independent expenditures" -which means an end to people's freedom to buy airtime on television to get their point of view across. This push is clearly unconstitutional in its violation of freedom of speech. Moreover, it would be a dagger at the heart of conservatism, because those commercials that independent groups spend money to place on television are a counterweight to the influence of the liberal-controlled media at election time. A post-campaign-finance-reform election campaign would consist of even more monolithic media in favor of the Democrats. Republican victories would soon become minor miracles. Then there is our security in an increasingly dangerous world. If you believe that we really are "a Republic, not an Empire" - as Pat Buchanan has entitled his most recent book - then you've got to do all in your power to keep a Democrat from becoming the next Commander-in-Chief. And voting third party isn't the way to do that. It's the Democrats who want to entangle us in places where we have no national interest. It's Democrats who cheapen the price of American blood - allowing our soldiers, for instance, to be dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. Are our troops risking their lives for this country? Or the United Nations? And what are we doing getting directly involved in centuries-old ethnic disputes in Europe? We are a superpower that is running out of cruise missiles because we use them for things like blowing up aspirin factories in the Sudan. It was recently reported that even within the Clinton Administration officials were doubtful that the target was really a chemical weapons factory. But while the target may have been wrong, the timing was perfect, knocking Monica Lewinsky's grand jury testimony off the front pages. Clinton has been deploying troops like mad, more than any other President of the post-war era. We're deploying troops, using weapons and armaments at a record pace, and we're not replacing any. We have a President who in the past has confessed that he loathes the military. He's got advisers like Strobe Talbott, who has written that he believes the day will come when there is an end to nations, a day when we all become citizens of the world - no doubt ruled by people like Strobe Talbott. What all this means is that the next President is going to have to preside over a Reaganesque rebuilding of our defenses, after eight years of military misadventure and neglect. He is also going to have to face a China that now has the stolen design of our most advanced W-88 warhead, and the nuclear devices for it to carry and the rockets which can reach our shores. No, my friends. The year 2000 will be no time to waste votes. Not when there is so much cleaning up to be done. And not when there is so much damage that a Democrat could do over the next four years. Twelve years in a row of liberal appointments to the federal courts would be a disaster that would take many Republican presidential terms to remedy. And in the meantime, those courts would be enacting all the legislation by judicial fiat that the liberals can't get out of Congress. This election is deadly serious. It is no time for a frivolous vote. You can bet this is the way the feminists think when they go to the polls. And the big labor supporters. And all the rest of the radical, FM-type, phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock-and-roll crowd. You don't see many of them voting for Lenora Fulani or some other fringe candidate. They don't waste their votes. Because they know how to get what they want, even if it's not all they want when they want it. And if you cherish freedom, you've got to do the same. You've got to vote intelligently, and prevent four more years of liberal destruction. Because I can't guarantee what kind of country we'll have left in 2004 if you don't. | ||||||||||||
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