The salt spray ...

Day 2 after the election: The people of the socially and economic left have given Obama a mandate for socialism (their words, not mine).  Those in the middle, justifiably angered by the activity of the "conservative" Republican party moved to the left.  Has the Republican party completely lost its conservative credentials as Chuck Baldwin claims it has? Only time will tell for sure.  

There is one thing that we can be certain of -- the social conservative movement will be revitalized by these next four years as it has not been revitalized since the Terror broke out in Paris.  And for a movement that managed to get Proposition 8 passed in California, defining marriage as a union that can only be entered into by a man and a woman, that could mean the change that we have been seeking.  The change has been coming through the prayers and sacrafice of millions.  Obama's election has stirred up the waters; let us cast over the other side and lower our nets for a catch.  

(I realize that this is a very turgid post.  I will be explaining my ideas more over the coming days. Please be patient.  There is a point to all of this.)

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
~ John Quincy Adams

Always launch with the tide

And so it is, that on the night of November the fourth, in the year of our Lord 2008, the people of the United States chose to elect Barack Obama, former Senator of the United States, to the office of President of the United States.

They say that the boat goes off easiest when it is floated off with the tide. And if one thing is certain, it is that the tide is flowing right now. Our president elect has made a great number of promises with rhetoric which even a poor student of philosophy like myself can recognize as excellent. (Read our president-elect's victory speech for yourself.)  If I could delude myself into believing that he means the same things by his words as Thomas would mean if he said the same I would be completely gung-ho for this president.  However, I cannot even begin to delude myself about that.  He has promised to do too many things.

• He has promised to sign FOCA into law the minute it arrives on his desk; and with a Democratically controlled House and Senate it will be on his desk the minute he walks in on his very first morning.   
• He has promised that he will bring the troops back home from Iraq, and avoid foreign adventuring ... save where he deems it absolutely necessary. 
• He has promised to reduce taxes and pour billions of dollars into various and sundry government projects ranging from heavy investing in clean energy technologies to improving the school system with (wait for it) more money and more oversight.

A pro-abortion, counter-constitutional, slice-of-the-same-old-Chicago politician is now president of the United States.  Which might not be all that bad a thing for this country in the long run.  In the short however, social conservatives have been dealt four years of total war, for the principles that they hold dear.  

Drummer boy, beat to general quarters!