The Married Man Cometh-American exceptionalism and the long awaited return of BlackRepub (ok so maybe not the last part )

This week, I experienced the second best moment in my life, after the first birth of my son. On Friday May 23, the lovely Caitlin Whitehead became the even lovelier Caitlin Donnella, and two souls became one. We have become so much closer in this first week of marriage, and the feeling of love and beauty is irreplaceable. I enjoy my youthful idealism right now more than anything in my life. My wife gives me the extra strength that I already have to continue to push and to persevere through anything. It is her and my unshakable belief in each other that drives us, motivates us, and causes unselfish love and sacrifice that will allow us to take our marriage and our relationship to previously immeasurable heights.
It is that unshakable belief that brings me to the political part of my blog. I am proud to call myself a Goldwater conservative, and a proud member of the leave us alone wing of the Republican party. However, I do not wish to focus on libertarianism in this post, rather I wish to focus on my socially conservative beliefs here. What I mean in terms of socially conservative is my unwavering, unshakable belief in American exceptionalism. What I mean by this is the idea that America itself is fundamentally exceptional to the rest of the world because of our values and ideals. I believe without a doubt that this is the best country in the world, and simply because of some willingness to cheer for the home team, so to speak. America stands for freedom, and that means freedom from slavery, whether it is the slavery of Blacks in this country in the 19th century or the slavery from cruel dictators and tyrants in the Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran. America stands for justice, which means that we will not allow ourselves and our allied be bullied by cowards and the weak who seek to undermine us because they hate the liberty that we bestow upon the world. And America more than anything is exceptional because we are the Shining City on a Hill, casting our light into the darkness in all parts of the world. We are the example of democracy in its finest hour, the embodiment of freedom and liberty, and our commitment to those ideals that have existed since this countries founding, when our Founding Fathers wrote, We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men were created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It is these beliefs that make us as Republicans not just in an election battle, but a battle for the very soul of our nation.

The battle we fight right now is twofold-we have an election to win yes, but at the core of this battle is what our nation means to the American people. This is not just about Iraq, rather Iraq is simply a part of the larger battle that we must fight to preserve our nation. Both of the Presidential candidates have expressed a willingness to surrender the leadership mantle of the United States and capitulate the doctrine of American exceptionalism under the guise of reaching out to the rest of the world. Obama believes that he will get Europe to cooperate with him in eliminating terrorism, and he sacrifices the American mantle of leadership on matters of national security, and does not have the personal experience to lead as commander in chief; his performance against the hard hitting [w]itch in Hillary Clinton shows he does not have it in him to streetfight with politicians even more thuggish than the Clintons, the Kim Jong ILs, and Ahmadinejads. Then there is "our" candidate, John Sidney McCain, who vows at first glance to fight for America and her interests. He talks tough and promises to follow Bin Laden to the depths of hell, making him at first glance a great candidate to defend and lead America. However, he too falls short to carry the mantle of American exceptionalism. McCain's determination to worship in Al Gore's church of global warming with his cap and trade plan and his insistence on signing Kyoto shows that he is willing to compromise America's economic future for a seat at the table with Europe. He is willing not to leas, but to be led by alarmists and extremists on the Left, as usual in the name of him continuing to sharpen his Maverick NewTone image, and in turn will be just as detrimental in destroying what America stands for as Obama. Remember, those famous words of Goldwater that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue still have meaning today. The defense of liberty is about more than simply our military operations. A president that is will to surrender economically is just as dangerous as a president that is willing to surrender on a battlefield.

We are at the point where our politicians in both parties know so much that isn't so, and we have again hit that point where the most dangerous words in the English language are, I'm form the government, and I'm here to help. We need an economic plan that we can win elections on, and we need to remind the American people why they voted for Republicans in the first place. It is not morning in America, my Republican brothers and sisters, it is midnight, the coach has turned into a pumpkin, and we have left the American people with the glass slipper of Ronald Reagan for twenty years. It is time once again, for us to return to the American exceptionalism that made us great. The tough love Bush approach has not won us hatred as the Left loves to make us all believe-recent elections have elected people who are for the Bush agenda in the War on Terror, the Italians, the Germans, and even the wine drinking, croissant eaters in the country that's never won a war without America saving their ungrateful a***s gave us Sarkosy. We must not follow but lead in all aspects-we must not allow the rest of the world to dictate America's economy, lest we will continue to lose investment opportunities as we watch companies turn away from America with continuous frivolous regulations, costing billions of dollars for a theory that scientist after scientists concludes is a crock. We must think, do we want to be BiPartisan, NewTone followers? Or do we want to be leaders? Our conservative President, Ronald Reagan believed in being a leader; our conservative candidate, Barry Goldwater, was a leader of the movement that gave us Reagan. Give us liberty or give us death we must cry, and call out both parties as they continue to stray from the conservative reservation. While I too, will probably give Mr. McCain my vote, we are obligated to hold no punches for him and the Party that has become the Scoop Jackson Southern Democratic party. The agenda must be be formed, and this battle must be waged, not just for the party, but for our families. America must not go the way of Rome, and so we will vote for the liberal to finish off the Marxist, but the fight for conservatism must continue, we must b e the shining on the hill, else we leave the world, and ourselves, forever clouded in darkness.