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Oct. 24, 2008 It can be very reasonably said that if Jimmy Carter had not been, on the whole, such a monumental presidential failure, both domestically and internationally considered, then the American voters would not have so easily chosen Ronald Reagan in 1980, and in a quite memorable landslide no less. With the now predicted and coming defeat of Sen. John McCain, according to many political experts, pundits, thinkers, commentators, etc., the political future suggests that Sen. Barack Obama will become another kind of Jimmy Carter, and even more so. Some political history, however, is needed for further explication of the critical and illuminating points to be made below concerning the topic of this article. People’s memories are normally dulled through the passage of time and they tend, on average, to forget the actual historical circumstances surrounding events, inclusive of political events. Reagan was, for instance, genuinely hated by the majority of liberals and leftists in the 1970s and 1980s; he was not the seemingly benevolent figure invoked, even by many of them today, as if there was a past consensus about an assumed Reagan as having been simply a nice old guy. He had been vigorously and loudly denounced as some sort of a political ogre or monster, a supposed rightwing fanatic, a mad-bomber type, a wild-eyed cowboy, a dangerous anti-intellectual boob, etc. This man was not exactly, in 1980 at least, the clear majoritarian choice of the national electorate prior to the then rather startling results of that highly notable election, according, of course, to any of the then intellectualized pundits of that past era. The actual choice of voting for him in 1980 was, in effect, a basically “radical” one of choosing someone, moreover, supremely opposite to the person who was then currently the President of this country; he was not really the assumed moderate or moderate conservative that he supposedly is thought of now as having been way back then. Reagan was, meaning in his essence in the deluded minds of the progressivist intellectual opposition, at least equivalent, if not necessarily more so, to what Barry Goldwater had been thought of as being in 1964; and, this critical observation needs to be forever kept firmly in mind, otherwise, this article would seem to be fairly difficult to properly interpret correctly. Carter, it needs to be properly recalled, was loved by the intellectuals who considered him to be one of their own who was, also, fairly articulate and seemed to offer a good chance for a Democratic Party ascendency for many years to come; he too had possessed most of the same kinds of qualities now thought to be generally descriptive of Obama. What, however, to again bring matters up to date, of Sen. John McCain’s future, meaning the present Republican candidate (a supreme representative of all those political and other errors known as neoconservatism) for the highest office in the land? Because of the already anticipated and expected defeat of McCain, political and social conservatives need to get seriously organized now, the sooner the better, for changing the currently center-left direction of the Republican Party, even prior to the coming and well deserved defeat of the party’s unfortunate candidate for this year; no more time, effort, energy, or, especially, campaign money ought, therefore, to be needlessly wasted on his manifestly doomed effort. Whenever the American electorate has been offered the annoying choice between voting for a Republican running as a supposed Democrat (e.g., Gerald Ford) or a Democrat running simply as one, they have always chosen the latter candidate. McCain, once beloved by the neoconservatives as their creature, had knowingly wanted to win the Republican Party nomination as a declared moderate; he campaigned, basically, as a moderate and will, most appropriately, lose as one, which is why, as a loser, most intellectual neoconservatives are now fast running from him. Alas, it is still true, success is claimed by many fathers; failure is an orphan child! Few monuments, however, exist dedicated to the great moderates of history. Henry Clay, proudly known in America in the first half of the 19th century as the “Great Compromiser,” did not have his image put on Mt. Rushmore and, in fact, never will; even taking the odd chance of mentioning his name is taking the added chance that almost all readers of this article probably do not even know just who the heck Clay was! McCain, quite deservedly, will be very lucky if he becomes (at least) a mere curious footnote in American history a few centuries from now (as a dubious “monument” to the idiocy of all of neoconservatism). What’s surely needed, therefore, is to immediately stop financing a clearly losing candidate of a failed campaign for the presidency and, instead, to joyously get behind an exciting, new, political movement for the next presidential contest in 2012, meaning, if needed, to properly draft Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana; this is the only thing, moreover, that makes substantial political sense, instead of oddly lamenting or being despondent about the now useless McCain who ought to at least lose gracefully. Gov. Jindal will, with such increasing support, become the new Reagan to, hopefully, usher in a truly reinvigorated kind of solid Reaganite movement to, once again, successfully unite the Reagan-style Democrats, some moderates, and the vast majority of the conservative Republican base; they can then join reasonably together behind a very suitable candidate who can, basically, bring about once more the successful integration of most social and economic conservatives in the United States; it will become a surely winning combination directed toward taking back most of the political direction of the nation. What is greatly needed is someone to inspire confidence, meaning Jindal (the “new Reagan”), in the future success and achievements to be expected by those who support rightwing candidates and causes. With the fairly rational expectation that the future President Barack Obama will become, in essence, perceived, more or less, as another version of Jimmy Carter, now is the best time to intelligently redirect all energies and other needed resources toward 2012 and a (potentially) victorious Jindal, if he truly gets all the needed support that is necessarily requisite, of course, to such a major national effort. Some preparatory ground has been, in effect, nicely smoothed over for this resident of Louisiana. It just may be that if no Obama (read: another kind of Carter), then no “new Reagan” candidacy could reasonably come into existence for the year 2012. The American people will have become both psychologically and politically prepared, once again, to readily and willingly accept, by then, a major change for the better that will become a truly national and positive demand. Fortunately, for Jindal, he will not have to worry as much as Reagan had to be concerned about the ideological opposition; Reagan, therefore, had decisively provided the useful and reasonable precedents involved in this logically advocated effort, which is, historically speaking, much more than mere idle speculation without, at the least, some substantial political merit. Someone much more articulate and more substantively intelligent than Obama can, therefore, become the future leader of the Republican Party. Other ground, moreover, has also been interestingly cleared away in that both major political parties, the Democrats in 1984 with Ferraro and now Palin, have done their equal acts of absurd and dumb desperation, called moments of inspiration in some quarters, by, thus, panderingly nominating female VP choices (probably knowing, thereby, that their campaigns were, thus, mere useless exercises in futility and, in fact, doomed from the start). The neoconservatives (read: neosocialists) ought to be satisfied; but, as is known, they never really are. Palin, in truth, brought some fairly genuine excitement for many conservatives, but most voters, as is well known, cast votes based mainly on the person heading the ticket, not the VP candidate; so, all the enthusiasm in the world just can’t really remake McCain into what he can never be, meaning a true conservative instead of being, at most, a neoconservative who, at a minimum, believes in the basic virtue of Big Government, though not as much as does Obama, of course. So, in just four years from now, in any event, the nation can be rightly offered a new direction away, one hopes, from the massive statism, injustice, and oppression that is to surely and unfortunately come with the new 2009 administration, meaning the then “new Carter years”. Therefore, get enthusiastically ready for Jindal for 2012. And, it may be said that many perceive that hope, therefore, is what is really needed now, for as Confucius well said: Without hope, the people perish. ------------ About the author: Joseph Andrew Settanni, CRM, CPC is a Certified Records Manager and Certified Professional Consultant with 30 years of professional experiencein data, archives, records and information management. Email: mkeegan311@earthlink.net Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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