Shake Well Before Serving

Presidents draw their ideas from many sources. Could a moving walkway be one of them? Perhaps so. I’ve seen these signs a million times, but the possible link to the Republican Party occurred to me last night at the Milwaukee Airport, where I took this photo.

Stand right - but walk left. That’s how the Republican Party has been in recent years. For conservative voters who yearn for small government, fiscal responsibility, respect for individual rights, protection of America’s borders, and strong support on key social issues, the Republican Party has been an incredible disappointment. For those who want socialism, massive deficit spending, weakening of America’s borders and loss of sovereignty in EU-like bureaucracies for the Americas, a new order of endless foreign entanglement in UN-ordered wars and intrigues, and other goals of the Far Left, the Republican Party - in spite of all the screaming about its rightward stand - has been a dream come true.

Conservatives are not going to find help by blindly trusting any party. Honest candidates must be found in each election. And unless you have good reason to keep a politician in place, a good way to reduce the corruption and betrayal of the voters in Washington is to follow this simple rule each election: “Throw the bums out.”

The recent election was not a mandate for the cause of the Left (note, for example, how many states rejected gay marriage and other favorite issues of the Left), but a rejection of the disastrous policies of President Bush in Iraq. His actions there and here have not been an expression of genuine conservative causes by any means, but the fervent actions of one dedicated to building bigger government and intervening on a global scale. We have been laying the foundations for a police/nanny state and acting as the world’s policeman. This is not the America that our Founding Fathers sought to established.