Star Parker Urges Conservative Social Agenda on McCain
This is laying down the social conservative marker with gusto:
John, half our country today is ready to vote for a presidential candidate, be it a white woman or a black man, who favors promiscuous use of government power to pretend to solve every domestic challenge we have.
Both these candidates want to nationalize health care, raise taxes to deal with our Social Security and Medicare crises, and onerously regulate the mortgage industry. Both condemned the Supreme Court’s decision banning partial birth abortion. Both reject the only hope we have for addressing our education problems: school choice.
I appreciate your concern for how we are treating the 600 or so detainees we are holding in Guantanamo.
But have you thought about the 2.3 million of our own citizens — 1 percent of our adult population — in prison? Ten percent of black men between 20 and 34 are in prison or jail.
If millions of low-income Americans would hear a genuine and aggressive message from our leadership about how conservative and traditional values address their problems, they’d be less susceptible to destructive illusions peddled by those like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
While you spoke in Los Angeles, Social Security and Medicare trustees issued a report. These systems are bankrupt and in the red by more than $50 trillion — several times our gross domestic product. This is more than a cash flow problem; this is a misuse of government crisis. Is this not a “transcendent threat?”
Our incidence of out-of-wedlock births — almost 40 percent — is 10 times greater than 50 years ago. Do you see breakdown of the American family as a “transcendent threat?”
How can we light the path to freedom for others when we are so clearly losing the way ourselves? I think the “transcendent threat” is the dimming of that light from the city on the hill.
In a broad sense, Ms. Parker is correct - our primary problem today is a moral problem. All of the weapons in the world won’t protect us from terrorism if we don’t have the moral courage to fight the terrorists - but, also, all of the education initiatives in the world will avail us nothing if we don’t show the moral courage to insist upon results; all the welfare programs in the world won’t do anything if we don’t demand that poor people with children form families in order to receive benefits; all the programs to deter youth crime will be pure wheel-spinning if we don’t shut down the purveyors of violence and smut who propagandise the children into criminality. Our problems stem from the collapse of Judeo-Christian morality and only a re-assertion of such morality will save us from ultimate destruction as a nation. So, kudos to Ms. Parker for speaking truth out loud.
On the other hand…politics is the art of the possible and while we on the right know what needs to be done, we can’t just willy-nilly shove it through. Festina lente, goes the old Latin saw - make haste slowly. Try to do too much, too fast, and we might provoke a reaction against our whole program, thus setting ourselves back Lord only knows how much. Elect the most conservative men and women we can find; strongly pressure them to toe the conservative line - but, in the end, trust in God that the path will be cleared for those who serve Truth.
Given the whole situation we find ourselves in, electing John McCain is not just the best we can do in the negative sense, but will also be a substantial step forward for the conservative movement, as a whole. Behind John McCain’s strong leadership and appeal to the middle, we will be much better position to present the conservative agenda to the American people for their consideration and eventual approval.
59 comments April 2nd, 2008
