FIRST It was quite a week, and a very good one in our opinion, for Dr. Ben Carson. The former neurosurgeon and 2016 presidential candidate is giving millions of conservatives a glimpse of his leadership that was first on display at the National Day of Prayer Breakfast in 2013.
During this week’s Fox News Sunday broadcast, Dr. Carson rightfully said that the Iranian nuclear deal proves that President Obama is an anti-semite. The reason? He recently went to Israel and talked directly to the people there and they feel strongly that this administration “turned its back on them” by negotiating this particular deal with Iran, who has long vowed to wipe Israel off the map.
Who else, running for president or not, has the guts to say something so profound? Perhaps Ted Cruz or Donald Trump.
But part of what makes Dr. Ben Carson who he is, like Trump, is that he tells it like it is, or tells it like he sees it, and damn the political correct world. We crave this kind of leadership.
Also this week at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona that drew over 12,000 people, Dr. Carson said that Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, believed in eugenics, the belief that certain humans are more inferior to others, and with Sanger’s racist past, that’s the reason why so many of Planned Parenthood’s clinics are in minority neighborhoods.
In addition, Dr. Carson visited the southern border this past week and said that the U.S. should use drones to help secure the border and at a rally in Iowa, he correctly stated that both parties are responsible for racking up the over $18T in national debt. We totally agree with him on those sentiments. We cannot absolve the Republican Party for the gross overspending.
Each day on the campaign trail, the political novice is becoming a statesman. Since a solid, if short, performance at the first GOP debate in Cleveland earlier this month, Dr. Carson has risen in the polls and now sits 2nd or 3rd in several of the prominent ones.
Conservatives are starting to gravitate to Dr. Carson’s campaign and when he speaks, they like what they are hearing.
There are several ways to deliver a speech or speak at a political rally. Each of the 2016 candidates has a different style. There is the “un-PC, tell it like it is” (Trump), the boring (Bush), and the pointed (Cruz).
Then there is Dr. Carson. His delivery is soft spoken with great eloquence and thoughtfulness. He speaks as if he is in the operating room performing another one of his surgeries on the brain of a young child.
One of the titles of the several books the retired neurosurgeon has written is called Gifted Hands. Dr. Ben Carson also has a gift to say things that resonate with the American people in profound ways.
Once again, the liberal media is trying to diminish the Tea Party in particular, and the grassroots conservative movement as whole. This time, Fox News contributor Juan Williams takes his turn at bat.
In a Monday opinion piece, Mr. Williams writes that the Republicans will likely lose their majority in the U.S. Senate in next year’s election.
The reason? None other than the Tea Party and conservative purists who are upset with the GOP Establishment.
Juan Williams, you couldn’t be more wrong. You are 180 degrees out of phase as the great Rush Limbaugh would say.
The reason the Senate majority might change parties comes down to two things. One, the GOP has to contest many more seats than the Democrats making the Republicans spend more money across a wide range of candidates.
And two, and most important, the base of the Republican Party is sick and tired of sending politicians to Washington or into governor mansions and having them compromise their principles for political expediency.
How many times have we invested our political time and capital into candidates who fill us with hope and excitement only to be let down once they are sworn in?
Senators Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Rob Portman of Ohio, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania come to recent mind.
Governors like Chris Christie of New Jersey, Susana Martinez of New Mexico, Rick Snyder of Michigan, and Brian Sandoval of Nevada to name a few do as well.
We don’t take what Juan Williams has to say with much grain of salt. He is a liberal who hates the conservative movement after all.
But change the name of the author of the piece to Karl Rove, or a number of writers at the Wall Street Journal, or other establishment media, and the message is the same: the Establishment has much disdain for us conservatives.
Long live the fight for control of the GOP.
Another week, and another display of leadership by Louisiana governor and 2016 hopeful Bobby Jindal.
Last week, the governor vowed to block the motion to remove Confederate statues that the mayor of New Orleans has ordered.
And this week? As pro-abortion protesters gathered in front of the governor’s mansion, he set up a large movie screen outside and continuously played all the videos that have been released this summer showing the evil that takes place inside Planned Parenthood facilities.
His message? You are free to protest outside my residence but you are going to have to see what kind of brutality that you are supporting with your protests.
As Breitbart rightfully notes, no one in the 2016 field is making a bigger play for the pro-life movement than Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.
While most politicians would ignore or not engage with the protesters, Gov. Jindal is once again doing what we at Conservative First like: taking the fight to the opposition.
That’s the kind of leadership our country desperately needs.
To list the many issues we have with the Republican Party as a whole would take several blog posts. We have always maintained, thus the name of our organization, that conservative principles are what matter most, not party identification or majority rule. We have long endured constructive arguments from Republican voters and operatives that having a majority in either chamber of Congress is what ultimately matters in order to stop the soft tyranny that we are being subjected to in recent years.
“If only the GOP controlled the House in 2009-10, Obamacare wouldn’t have passed. If the Senate was in Republican hands, they too would have stopped the health care law.”
Well in 2010, conservatives all across the country spoke loud and clear and voted the GOP into the majority in the House of Representatives and made John Boehner Speaker of the House. Four years later, the grassroots movement once again said enough is enough and voted to give control of the upper chamber to Senator Mitch McConnell and the GOP. And yet, Obamacare is still the law of the land and public taxpayer money is still flowing to Planned Parenthood.
And their excuse? “We need the presidency.”
And after we win in 2016? “Well, separation of powers.”
Excuses. That’s all we ever hear from this bunch.
The framers of our great Constitution gave the House of Representatives the power of the purse since that chamber was the closest to we the people.
In Federalist 58, James Madison wrote:
“This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure.”
The power of the purse, as Madison articulates brilliantly, is the most effective tool we have and yet the GOP leadership continues to govern as if they are defenseless in stopping Obama’s lawlessness. Governing takes money and you Speaker Boehner control the purse. Defund Obamacare, defund executive amnesty, defund Planned Parenthood, etc.
We the people demand you to do so.
At some point, the grassroots movement will realize that they are heading down the path to political insanity. Doing the same thing (voting Republican) over and over and expecting a different result.
We salute the GOP this week with its very clever swipe at Hillary Clinton’s not so funny joke about wiping her email server clean by using…a cloth. Hilarious (pun intended).
The GOP’s website is now poking fun and selling ” Secret Server Wipers” for $5. The wipe comes with a warning that it “May Not Fool the FBI.”
While the political operatives at the RNC may be big establishment and ruling class operatives, we salute the marketing department for having a sense of humor.
Final A poll was released on Friday showing that Senator John McCain is trailing Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward by nine percentage points in next year’s highly anticipated 2016 Senate primary in the Grand Canyon State. We have made retiring the five term senator our highest priority on our 2016 Senate Target List.
Ms. Ward is a solid conservative who should make Arizona and the rest of the country proud. Nevertheless, defeating a moderate establishment man like John McCain will once again prove to the ruling class in Washington that grassroots conservatives ARE the base of the Republican Party.
So long into retirement Senator McCain. The next time you go conservative wacko-birding, bring some binoculars.
