Conservatives who are upset that Republicans haven't done enough during
their 12 years in control of the House and Senate and nearly six years in
control of the White House need a slap in the face.
Republicans may have controlled all three branches of government, but
conservatives haven't. If conservatives believe enough has not been done to
advance their agenda, let them work to elect more conservatives, not hand
control of Congress over to a party controlled by far-left liberals who have
no intention of moderating their tone or watering down their beliefs after
the election.
One issue should trump all others for conservatives: judges. As Manuel
Miranda of Third Branch writes in Human Events, "If the GOP loses the
Senate, precedent shows that more than 60 Bush judicial nominees will never
get a Judiciary Committee hearing under the chairmanship of Sen. Patrick
Leahy (D-Vt.). Republicans will be unable to stop a filibuster of a next
Supreme Court nominee and countless circuit court picks. This will dwarf
Democrats' past six years of obstruction."
Liberals have used the courts for decades to bypass the public will and
impose a secular agenda on the country. If they win control of the Senate,
their current leadership will be emboldened to continue that practice. Any
judge who manages to make it onto the bench will most likely be of the
judicial philosophy of Anthony Kennedy and David Souter. Republican
presidents named both men because they thought it would be easier to win the
approval of Senate Democrats. Neither turned out to be conservative, despite
the White House sales job to conservative groups.
Then there is the war. We live in a time when most people do not remember
what a real war looks like. Some are horrified that nearly 3,000 Americans
have died in the Iraq War, but ignore that in World War II more than 407,000
Americans died. Sixty-two million were killed on all sides. Some say this
war is taking longer than that war. That's because this war is different
from that war in that it has no home state, unless we abandon Iraq. And the
enemy accepts no rules for fighting it.
Democrats speak only of withdrawing American troops and of how our presence
inflames the enemy, yet they have no explanation for what inflamed them
before the war. President Bush may have to change tactics, as he has said he
is willing to do, but he understands the challenge. This isn't Vietnam. This
is a religious-philosophical war for control of the planet. Anyone who
thinks any objective other than the complete defeat and humiliation of these
Islamofascists will deter them from their goal of world domination is
self-delusional.