I got an email from an old friend this morning.  Thorsten is an international police officer (IPO) with whom I worked in Kosovo last year.  He’s from Germany, but he’s actually Dutch.  He speaks a number of languages, is one of those people who’s incredibly bright, but covers it up with goofy jokes.  Hard worker, knowledgeable guy, and all around likeable person whom I’ll never forget.  I really enjoyed working with him, and I’m glad we kept in touch.  Here’s what he wrote:


“Liebe Nicki,
don’t worry about the result. you know that not that much will change. anyhow my congrats for your new president and always remember that it could be worse! give me a smile and i will give you a long hug from good old germany! “
The election went pretty much as I predicted.  I wasn’t surprised or particularly upset by the results.  I’ll admit I’ve been pretty incredulous throughout this entire election process.  Only in America can we defeat communism during one century, and wind up with a choice of two socialists for president during the next!  Only in America.

Several things also struck me this morning as I was listening to the radio.  One is the reaction of the Obama supporters to the victory.  They didn’t care about the issues.  They didn’t talk about the economy.  They didn’t discuss national security, or how Obama would be good for our country.  They gushed over his victory, as if Jesus himself was resurrected and touched them upon their sweaty, sloped brows.  They embraced the aura of the Lightbringer, cried, swooned, fanned themselves in clammy adoration and jabbered about how great it is that we elected a black man to the highest office in the land.

Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki declared today a national holiday for Kenyans, because a black man was elected president.

Yes, this is a historic thing.  And yes, I agree with this guy that we’ve come a long way since slavery and Jim Crow.  But for me, this election was never about color.  It was only about color when those surrounding the Messiah MADE it about color.  And while I’m proud that America has come so far in a relatively short time, judging by the reactions of the drooling, weeping Lightbringees, we’re far from having put color behind us.  Color apparently still matters to those of us who put race above substance and color above policy.  I’m thrilled that America elected a black man to the White House.  I think it shows that our national character has transcended racism.  (Too bad it’s not a black man of any substance whatsoever.)  And it’s too bad punks like Jeremiah Wright, Laura Washington and Charles Ogletree can’t overcome it in their own minds.  Seems like the majority of Americans has, while they still look for KKK boogiemen under their beds.

Now, this is where I get heartless and pissed off.  (WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE AHEAD!)

Meanwhile, the Republicans are crying in their oatmeal, hyperventilating, and wiping the snot from their tear-stained faces, while trying to figure out what went wrong?  I’ll tell you what went wrong, you pusillanimous assbags!  You have betrayed every ideal on which this nation was built.  You’ve betrayed freedom, our Constitution, achievement and intestinal fortitude in favor of fear, statism and socialism.  In your zeal to pander to everyone, you’ve alienated the people who work, achieve, succeed, and respect the fundamental ideals on which this country was built.

You have allowed the most corrupt, the most compromising and the most ignorant of you to continue dirtying the GOP.  Hell, Ted Stevens is still winning in Alaska, even though he’s a convicted felon and fraud.  Yeah, the Democrats are corrupt, but equivocation won’t work here.  Their lack of ethics doesn’t make your lack of moral courage any more acceptable in my book.

You put forth a candidate who betrayed your most basic principles… a candidate who wanted to lick the ass of every illegal immigrant he encountered… a candidate who shredded the First Amendment and gave the inept, corrupt, power-hungry incumbency a leg up in Washington… a candidate who condemned socialism with his forked tongue, while at the same time claiming the trillion-dollar bailout was somehow “necessary” and who wanted to pay miserable failures, othewise known as Wall Street CEOs, $400,000 per year, while rescuing their corrupt operations with taxpayer dollars, instead of simply booting these creeps out for their fraud.  You put forth a candidate who pissed off even the compromising NRA, who appeared in anti-freedom, anti-gun ads for an ardent gun banning group!  You put the power and support of the GOP behind a candidate who promised to combat out of control government spending with more corporate giveaways – who wanted the government to rescue irresponsible dumbasses who got themselves into an impossible fiscal situation by directing the government to purchase mortgages directly from homeowners and mortgage servicers. What the hell did you expect?  You put the full weight of the party behind this asshat, and you thought everyone would line up behind you just because you still claim to be Republicans?

You have betrayed simple principles that made this country great – nation, strength, unity, liberty and prosperity - with your retarded “compassionate conservatism,” which is nothing but code speak for socialism.  I’m going to quote my brother Misha here, because he said it best:



Nation: Because we ARE the last, best hope of mankind. If we allow that candle to be extinguished, then this world isn’t worth the dirt it is made of. We may not always be liked, but we’re always right. Our nation is the blood of our forefathers. It is our past, our present and our future. Without it, we have nothing. It is the bond that ties us together, it is what we are. It is the thread that connects us with our Founding Fathers without whom we wouldn’t even be what we are today. We owe all that we are and have to them, and future generations depend on us to keep that thread going. It is bigger than any one of us, bigger than all of us together, because that IS the United States of America.


Strength: Without that, a nation won’t be a nation for long. It will be somebody else’s nation. The world doesn’t give a shit about “goodness” or “kindness”, all they care about is “who’s on top?” If you have something that somebody else doesn’t have but wants, rest assured that he’ll try to take it from you. And the only way you can keep him from doing that is through strength. Nobody ever won anything through weakness.


Unity: This ties into “nation.” We are a common front. We are family. The rest of the world doesn’t give two shits about us. We may bicker among ourselves, as any family does, but we must present a united front to the rest of the world or we will. not. stand. The loony left have done their damndest to destroy that because they can’t succeed if it exists. They have divided us into arbitrary cliques and they continue to do so under the guise of “fairness” and “affirmative action”, just to name two.


We are Americans. Period. First and foremost. Whatever else we feel a need to identify with is fine, but being American is what we are, first and foremost. Any attempt to divide us into subgroups, any attempt to Balkanize us must be resisted, fought and denied with everything in us.


Liberty: “With liberty and justice for all.” That’s not just a catchy slogan. That is what we are. That is what was bought with the lifeblood of countless patriots. Liberty means that the role of government in our personal lives must be limited to the utmost and that any attempt to infringe upon it must be resisted by any means. It means smaller government, and it means strict and uncompromising adherence to our Constitution, which was set up specifically to limit what government could ever do. We have failed in fighting for this, and that is why we are where we are today. It’s time to turn the tide. Slaves don’t accomplish anything, free men and women do. Fight the tyrants and eliminate them if you must. The Founding Fathers would approve. They didn’t show up at Lexington Green because they were bored and had nothing better to do.


Prosperity: This means the right to keep what you earn. What you have earned through your own sweat belongs to nobody but you. You can share it if you WANT to, but NOBODY has the right to take it from you and spend it on whatever cause they believe best serve their own ambitions. There are causes on which we all agree, on which the security and safety of our nation rests, and those are all already outlined in the Constitution. There’s a reason for that. Our Founding Fathers actually thought long and hard about that before they wrote it down and signed it.


Anything other than that is theft, plain and simple, and it should be resisted in the same way that you would resist a burglar.


Because if a citizen no longer owns the fruit of his labors, he is no longer a citizen. He is a slave.

You’ve betrayed those ideals, and you really expected us to do nothing?  You really expected us to just roll over and capitulate to your fear-mongering, just because we were too scared of an Obama presidency?   You think we’d give you our vote of confidence simply due to fear? 

Please!

You don’t know us very well.  We don’t tolerate betrayal, and we won’t be kind about it when our leaders, who claimed to treasure the same values, freedoms and ideals as we do, become nothing but vapid whores, in the pockets of those who can give them the most power. 

So fuck you!  We’ll come back when your empty words mean something.

Meanwhile enjoy the increased theft of your earnings.  Enjoy the gradual erosion of your freedoms.  Sit back and watch as the nation’s wealth is redistributed to the lazy, stupid, worthless, sit-on-your-ass-and-do-nothing, self-proclaimed victims.  Watch as they spend your earnings and complain that they didn’t get enough of a helping hand in life.  Enjoy the decimation of our national defense and the pandering to foreign dictators and those who wish us ill.  You’ve earned it with every compromise of our ideals.  You’ve ushered this in with every socialist, redistributionary policy.  You engaged in fear mongering, instead of substantial policy discussion.  You spewed vapid platitudes in a manipulative attempt to hide your disregard for the principles and ideals of this nation. 

You’ve ushered this in with your morally bankrupt, business-as-usual actions in Washington, and now you get to suffer with the rest of us, you pernicious assholes.

But it’s not the end of the world.  We got through a Carter and a Clinton presidency. We’ll get through this too.  As long as there are people in this country who refuse to be enslaved, we’ll continue fighting to be free of government tyranny and oppression, this nation is not dead.  I’m not worried about it.  Never was. 

And those of you who are currently simpering in a corner, wiping your noses with your sleeves, you can either give up, or you can examine your own role in the demise of the GOP and work to rebuild it.  But as long as you keep reelecting the Ted Stevenses, don’t expect different results.

To quote Misha, thatisall.