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Hypocrisy…the Duality in ‘Americur

Hypocrisy

Drones in the Middle East, drones on American soil, Libya coup d’etat support, Egypt insurgency weapons support, Syria coup support.

Sounds like the first term of Mephistopheles himself (Dick Cheney), right?

The American Left has no soul.  Period.  Watching some of the reaction to Rand Paul’s filibuster last week, it is now perfectly clear that the Left’s rhetoric and protest about “Bush’s War” was only about Bush and against the Right; it had nothing to do with principle, liberty, or right and wrong.  That’s the problem with the Left – particularly the Far Left – they blindly follow memes (social and political) and they criminally ignore malfeasance from their own team.

Funny thing is, though…

GOP Meltdown 2013

…the establishment-GOP has the very same problem.  The reaction we saw from John McCain and Lindsey Graham this week (and let’s throw Jeb Bush in, for measure) says they can’t see the principle in the matter and that they fear the horror of Senator Paul’s air-clearing honesty and principled thinking – after all, it’s the stuff that wakes up We The People and can take down their house of cards in a hurry.  They have no idea how to separate their ideology and emotion from the logic, the right from wrong.

Children are supposed to have this trait – not adults – especially those in Congress.

What happened to “coming together” and “GOP unity”?  It’s all Rubbish.  We were smart to scoff at it during the NH GOP convention.

Now, you can’t make the same accusation about the American Right – and I mean the real American Right, which McCain, Graham, Bush, and the rest of the establishment/homesteading GOP apparatchik are not part of – let’s call them “Principled Conservatives” and “Libertarians”, who have NO problem breaking rank and equally criticizing members of the GOP who have lost their sense of principle or have been co-opted by money, power, and the desire to be liked by their peers.  Charlie Bass, Kelly Ayotte, and Frank Guinta are all victims of the spine-rotting disease that grabs hold once a politician gets the self-righteous and delusional sense that they were sent to Washington to “help society” (aka engineer it), not to serve it, and when they lose sight of the ever-important intuition that the Constitution was put in place to restrict government, not allow it to grow.

You can bet your stuffed elephant that if Mitt Romney had become President, the “silence-of-the-Drones” would have been deafening, and that Rand Paul would have had an equally difficult time swimming through the political chaff and turf protection.  No – check that – I’ll go on the record saying that he’ll have more success under an Obama Presidency, with a minority GOP.

I had to explain to a certain left-leaning someone I know that, even though Rand Paul has an “R” next to his name, he’s not GOP – enter McCain and Graham.

Thanks to a combination of lackluster support (McConnell), conspicuous silence (Ayotte),  and outright belligerence (McCain, Graham) towards Rand Paul’s stand, the Establishment GOP took a long overdue faceplant this week.  And if Senator Paul keeps up his fight (as he should), I predict a full-frontal, grumpy-old-man meltdown.

Word of advice to the insider GOP group:  Change, while you still can.  Release the death-grip, clear the decks, and get back to where you once were a very long time ago – protectors of Liberty, guardians of the purse, and advocates for the Constitution; you are now at your nadir and zenith is a long, long way up.

Finally, a word of advice to the Far-Left Mensa crowd: instead of whacking Rand Paul for his actions, just because he’s not “on your team“, you should be embracing him.  He’s fighting the same fight you all did back in 2005-2008, when you criticized George W. Bush for being a ‘war-monger’ and “wire-tapper” – and you can’t even see that.  And he’s simultaneously fighting the old-guy, protectorate GOP crowd (as are most of the true American Right).  You may want to think – not react – for a change.  Maybe you should put down the Alinsky and read some Sun Tzu.

Images H/T: The Ulsterman Report and The Bastiat Institute

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