Posted by
Brchapmanga on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 6:15:58 PM
What happens to the political tilt of a person when they are suddenly faced with the challenge of being personally responsible for overwhelming national and global problems? Its extremely easy, while standing on the side lines, to espouse liberal and pacifistic ideas. The "let's take care of the masses" mantra, and the "let's sit down and talk to our enemies without conditions" philosophy are exposed for what they are, naive and idealistic solutions to complex issues.
One suspects that as President-Elect Obama has received intelligence briefings of security threats facing America at home and around the world and an economy on the brink of collapse, he has had to re-evaluate his positions and adjust his beliefs to conform to the harsh realities of the real world. The masses can't be helped and the economy can't recover, if the government penalizes the producers with tax increases, and the producers stop producing. Our enemies don't really want to talk to us, they want to destroy us, and they don't care what we have to say to them.
Necessity is the mother of invention and reality is the mother of conservatism. Welcome to the right, Mr. Obama.