DID BUSH FORGET WHO BRUNG HIM TO THE DANCE?
Tibby Weston
The shock of October 3rd has almost passed. I can now more clearly think and understand why I first reacted so badly to the nomination of Ms. Meiers to the Supreme Court. Ever since I came to the United States in 1947 I did not shy away from expressing my opinions based on the facts of my life experience. Having survived Nazi and Communist oppression I had an urgent message for America*. For more than 15 years I spoke week after week, month after month at meetings of civic clubs to warn about the dangers of communism and later of the Cold War. It was not an easy task when confronted by often skeptic audiences who did not understand and could not imagine the horrors and injustice that communist equality enforced at the point of a bayonet represented.
By 1957 I had earned such a reputation for my convictions that the Daughters of the American Revolution changed their by-laws to be able to award me the first “Americanism Medal” up to then restricted to native-born Americans. I felt the greatest relief when finally Ronald Reagan became president and pursued his conservative ideas that he for years promulgated in his radio messages. His vice president who ran against him, representing the left wing of the Republican Party, less impressed me. I understood he was on the ticket to offset, cushion or modify the “dangerous and extreme” ideas of Reagan and his “voodoo economics.”
It was a glorious time to watch conservative ideas prove themselves in the arena of everyday life and worldwide confrontations. The power of our convictions and the firm hand of Reagan destroyed the archenemy, the Soviet bully. The Bush 41 presidency then brought the tragic collapse of the S&L, banking and real estate industry with losses now estimated at $1.7 trillion with millions of people financially destroyed by a cynical Washington establishment.
It was even more depressing to watch the betrayal of conservative ideals by the appointment of Judge Suter. I understood that the survival of the nation depended on an independent judiciary governed by the principles of the Constitution and could not fathom why Bush 41 trusted the left wing of the party and Warren Rudman in selecting him.
I was hoping for a day in my life time when a Republican Congress and a conservative Republican President could finally appoint judges to create a conservative majority to safeguard the values and concepts created by the Constitution. I worked hard, antagonized friends with my outspoken conservative stand and kept silent about the catastrophic personal financial losses suffered due to the collapse of the S&L and real estate industry. Silently I also endured varieties of conservative idiots and zealots jeopardizing what we stood for.
When George W. Bush was elected my hopes rose cautiously, because although he proclaimed himself a conservative, but he did not enter the arena of ideas to win, but to compromise and bring us all together as a conciliator. He was a consensus maker in Texas and that was his plan to govern the nation. He could not understand what I have known all my life. You cannot compromise your beliefs. As he put it so well about the nations supporting terrorists: You are either with us or against us. This also applied to domestic enemies of this nation – the far left.
I was wrong when I assumed that I, and millions of my fellow conservatives, brung George Bush to the dance. It was Bush 41 and the “moderate” wing of the Republican Party’s dance all the time. They socialized the losses of the S&L collapse and privatized the profits by enriching their friends and contributors. Trickle down turned into millions in contributions that would pour in through subsequent years to make political victory possible. Did George Bush forgot who brung him to the dance? Not at all. We are the ones who forgot that this is not our dance. We are here because we have nowhere else to go.
After 9/11 I was encouraged by the surge of patriotism throughout the nation. It was then almost certain that I would live to see the day when the nations future would be secured by the appointment of a strong, conservative Supreme Court by a conservative president.
After waiting, fighting, hoping and surviving 50 years finally the day arrived for me to feel secure about the future of my family and the nation. But October 3rd, 2005 brought the nomination of another conciliator in his own image. I should not have felt betrayed. I realized that Bush has lived up to his promise and made another move to “bring us all together”, but now would I need to live another 5-10 years before I would know if Roberts and Meiers are not following the footsteps of his father’s appointee, Judge Suter? At may age the chances for that are slim. Perhaps the confirmation hearings would restore my hope sooner.
Fred Schwartz once wrote a book “You Can Trust the Communists to Be Communists.” He was right. Although diminished in numbers, they are all around us now called by different names. Today we live in a country where candidates run for office using communist slogans and principles of the Communist Manifesto, yet it is not only not noticed or deplored, but openly endorsed by many of the leftist Democrats. When will Bush understand that he must win this battle because these adversaries do not change and no concession or appeasement will change their agenda?
With his baseball background why does he not recall Leo Durocher’s admonition that nice ballplayers don’t win ballgames? We are surrounded by enemies within and without that must be defeated and not conciliated.
We are self destructing as predicted by Karl Marx and Osama bin Laden. What tragedy must we experience to shake us out of our lethargy and change the downhill slide of this nation? Should our hope be that in one of the 7 million unchecked containers arriving by ship and 11 million unchecked trucks crossing our borders every year there will be a nuclear bomb to wake us up? So don’t blame me if I don’t feel a bit more secure today then on October 2nd.
©WESTON RESEARCH LLC 2005
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