John F. Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Scoop Jackson, once great leaders of a once great party, could feel nothing if not betrayed by the new Democratic party and its selection of Obama as its candidate for president of the United States.
In the post of Apr/21 we highlighted the transformation from the party JFK said in his inaugural would "pay and price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of freedom," to one which Joe Lieberman illustrates, "grew to see America as the aggressor - a morally bankrupt, imperialist power whose militarism and ‘inordinate fear of communism’ represented the real threat to world peace." The Soviets and their allies were our enemies not because they nursed ambitions of global conquest but because we provoked them, we threatened them.
Naturally our partisan friends won’t admit the same; most simply accept and move lemming-like to November yet the undeniable truth is that the old, respectable Democratic party is gone; it no longer exists and to most of the membership lessons of history are lost with it. What does exist is a party and a philosophy which would gag Harry Truman, a philosophy certainly when directed toward foreign affairs represents a clear and present danger to this country. This new Democratic party believes that the more therapeutic and the more conciliatory, the more diplomatic, the more apologetic, the more sensitive, the more likely we will be safe. This party condemns a man who has kept the nation safe for 7 years by keeping the Islamic medievalists pinned down in Iraq while virtually destroying al-Qaida, yet deifies a man who has accomplished absolutely nothing in his entire life except to give speeches about "change". And countries which adopted a DNC-like stance? What happened to them since Sep/2001? Simply ask the Europeans who were hit repeatedly, who were successfully targeted because they stood for nothing, or certainly nothing they were willing to defend.
A great Democratic secretary of state, Dean Acheson, once warned that, "No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies." A lesson lost on the present DNC leadership, suffering it seems from a severe case of amnesia.
Robert Craven
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- Robert Craven
- Craven is president of The Craven Report. He is a well known strategist in the FI market, plus an expert on central banking, having testified before Congress on Fed reform, and with Milton Friedman's endorsement. He regularly highlights major economic turning points before street consensus. He has appeared on business news cable, in the FT's and American Bkr, other media. Out of retirement as of Feb/11, he intends now to consult to major world institutions.
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Perhaps a follow up about how the republican party has lost its essence of being fiscally conservative and limited government might also be necessary? Or are all your ideas a one way street?
If there has been any great loss to politics in the past twenty years, I would argue that it has been the loss of libertarian ideals from the republican party.
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