THERE’S GOT TO BE AN ELEPHANT IN HERE SOMEWHERE

Ronald Reagan was fond of describing the ultimate optimist as a young boy happily digging through a huge pile of horse manure while yelling, "There’s got to be a pony in here somewhere!"

So after six weeks in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and 7,000 kilometers overland across Chinese Turkestan, I’ve returned to Washington and the biggest pile of political manure in the history of America.  I can’t help thinking that Ronald Reagan would say, "There’s got to be an elephant in there somewhere."

First, though, let’s dispense with two alleged "silver linings" to this debacle. 

It is stupefyingly naïve to believe that this election "heals" the wound of racism and the legacy of slavery, so that nevermore can Sharpton-type race hustlers claim that America is an incurably racist nation.

This is delusionary.  Accusations of racism are going to increase, not vanish.  The left’s mantra going into this election was that the only possible reason for not voting for Zero was racism.  Yet roughly 47% of voters or about 57 million voted for McCain instead.  That’s 57 million racists!  Racism is still a massive, gigantic problem haunting America’s soul, it is still America’s Original Sin – and every failure of Zero and the Dems running Congress can be blamed on it.

The real racial problem in today’s America is of course anti-white racism:  racial hatred of  whites by many blacks, racial hatred of white liberals by themselves (what I call auto-racism).  This election is going to inflame both.

Does anyone not terminally naïve believe that Rev. Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson are going start loving and forgiving white folks now?  Or that Teddy Kennedy-type liberals are going to cast aside all feelings of liberal guilt and stop apologizing for their and America’s existence?

Equally delusionary is the belief by "anti-war" libertarians that this election means the end of "foreign military adventurism" by the US military.

Of all people, libertarians ought to know that socialist/fascist authoritarian governments start or cause most all wars.  Yet they are so incapable of being pro-US military that they actually think NMP will get us into fewer military interventions than Bush.

There will be more "military adventurism," not less, with NMP.  The difference is the standard, the justification.  With Bush, it was what he believed were America’s critical national security interests; with NMP, the opposite.

NMP’s standard will be to never under any circumstances if he can possibly avoid it use our military to actually defend our country and its security.  He will use every opportunity to use our military and risk our soldiers’ lives for "humanitarian" international causes that have nothing to do with our security interests.

Darfur would be a good example.  There is hardly anyplace on earth more irrelevant to America than the empty wasteland of western Sudan, no place less worth risking American soldiers’ lives for.  And just for those reasons, that is the sort of place NMP will place our soldiers in harm’s way.

To even begin to find the elephant, we have to confront the reality of the pile in which it may be.  There are no silver linings to this pile of manure.  It is a disaster, far greater than any before, of FDR, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton. 

For the first time ever, we have an Anti-American President, a man who deeply believes in his preacher’s sermons of God Damn America hate, who now has access to every classified military and intelligence secret our government possesses, and will use it to sell America down the river to every enemy this country has.  That’s for openers.

So where’s the elephant?  It’s what’s left of the Republican Party.  Bush’s oxymoronic "compassionate conservatism" has been completely discredited.  Squishes in the GOP Congressional leadership like Roy Blunt have stepped aside for real conservatives like Mike Pence and Eric Cantor.  Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee may go to either Newt Gingrich or Michael Steele.  Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal are now the leaders of the party and the conservative movement as a whole.

This election may achieve the well-deserved death of one elephant – moderate, country-club, candy-ass Republicanism – plus the revival of another that advocates conservative values and laissez-faire capitalism without reservation.

The only way to achieve this is to (a) focus our energies on making sure the moderate elephant stays dead and the conservative one is nurtured, and (b) let NMP and the Dems in Congress fail.

Which means make no effort to ameliorate or moderate Dem tax and regulation policies, letting them free to do as much damage as they can.  For socialism isn’t just immoral, it doesn’t work.  Left alone without any Republican protection, the Dems are going to keep digging us deeper into the very deep economic hole we are already in.

Just like a drunk has to hit bottom before he admits he’s a drunk, so voters must face the full consequences of their vote for NMP before they can admit their folly.

The key is that Republicans must not in any way cooperate with or be accomplices to the folly.  Only then, when Dem failure is complete, can Palin, Jindal, Gingrich, and Pence provide the solution of true economic freedom.

If you want to be involved politically, be "effective" as Joel Wade is advocating, here is where to do so.  And TTP will be providing insights and specific ways to help you in this regard.

More importantly, though, TTP’s purpose will be to assist you in evading the folly, in preserving your freedom and pocketbook.  The more I look out into the world, the more places and ways I see where you can do this.  I am going to devoting a significant amount of my energy from now on to discovering these places and ways and sharing the info with you.

We can and we will survive this.  Freedom and prosperity in America are going to be set back as never before.  But the nightmare will end, the damage repaired.  And in the meantime, I am going to do all I can to see that your personal freedom and prosperity isn’t set back.

A majority of Americans went suicidally crazy this week.  We must let their mass hysteria run its course while we protect ourselves.  Their hysteria will destroy many of them.  It will not destroy us.  We will survive and we will prosper regardless.  That’s the elephant.