For What Purpose?

[Stephen Atkinson]

Why is it, that whenever a Conservative speaks, almost half the population covers it's ears? The answer is simple: They cover their ears because the truth is a high decible audio warning siren to them.

On this site, I shall share my thoughts and interpretations of the many great men and women, who have served the cause of conservatism so well, for so very many years. From John Locke, to Ronald reagan, there are so many in-betweeners to learn from. So many enlightened people who have carried the beacon light of ul;timate truth over the passing of time.

A current favorite of mine, is professor Harry V. Jaffa, of the Claremont Institute, in Claremont, California. professor Jaffa has taken the likes of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to task in one of his more memorable essays: God Bless America, April 16, 2008. The professor's style is one of unambiguously telling a a story just as it should be. He spans the decades in unerring manner, and leads us to understanding. He resorts not to the hollowness of speaking as an academic, which he surely is, but as a brother to brother, or sister.

John Quincy Adams, son of a president of the same name, and himself a president of the United States of America, wrote powerfully, and instructively, about the founders and the founding itself. His is important to read, for he too, was blessed with the passage of time, as such passage clears the mind and leaves room for only the important "stuff" of which great countries are made.

More recently, Ronald Reagan, himself a consummate Conservative, amplified the thoughts of his predecessors, and dreamed the dreams for his country, America, proudly, and without shame. Reagan would have fit right in with the Founders, would he have not? And, he would have relished the opportunity to be with kindred spirits also. Reagan may be gone now, but he lives on with himself and the Founders as bookends, keeping all the rest in proper places of assembly.

We were advised, by people pretending to know, that the era of Reagan was over, and we had to move on. Then, as a bolt out of the blue, along came Sarah Palin, Sarah as we know her, and once more the flames of Conservatism were stoked fiercely, and the flames grew high upon and over the landscape. She was audaciously invoking the name of "Reagan" for all to hear, and hear we did! We found that the era itself, was not over, merely entrusted into the capable hands of this young woman who defied classification by her enemies, and unfortunately, by those who professed to be like her, and therein, like Reagan and the others throughout our illustrious history.

What Liberals taketh away, shall Conservatives take back and assign into proper places of dignified rest. Of that, we must be assured. Of that proprietorship, shall we succeed.

Conservatives are a funny lot. Seemingly, they go away, and then reappear suddenly. It turns out they were just taking time off to "do a little fishing". Having caught a smaller catch, they return for the bigger ones, the ones in the slimy pond of Liberalism.

Sic Semper Tyrannis! (Thus Always To Tyrants)

[ELY]

I don’t know whom, but someone once said; “That getting Conservatives to work together, is like herding cats”! That’s because we conservatives think for ourselves and are capable of understanding the meaning of Liberty and Freedom, and without being told what it looks like. (Unlike the Liberals who are dependent on their Messiah to lead them. A Liberal also requires handholding and schmoozing with ego boosting every step of the way.)

Someone else said (a head shrink I believe), “Liberalism is a mental disorder.”