THE MEETING THAT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

Gobsmacked.  It’s the word Brits use when they are stunned by something ridiculously astounding.  Late Tuesday night (1/03), I was beyond gobsmacked when I heard the results of the Iowa Caucuses.  Now it is Thursday (1/05), and I remain profoundly shaken by the stupefying stupidity of the Iowa caucus voters.

It tells me that Zero’s election in 2008 was no fluke, no spasm of temporary masochistic insanity.  That voters are into reality-denial up to their ears.  That whatever part of their brain they are using to vote with, it is most assuredly not their ratiocinative part.

Iowans have no idea what they did to their country Tuesday: they substantially increased the odds that Zero will win re-election in November.  It wasn’t Romney or Santorum who won in Iowa.  It was Zero who won, hands down.

I have been just as delusional as Iowa voters in my own way for a long time, so I owe them a soupçon of gratitude for snapping me out of it. 

I should have realized America was in mortal peril when the video went viral of Zero’s preacher, to whom he had listened and followed for 20 years, praying for God to damn America – and instead of it nuking any chance whatever of Zero’s electability, Americans just shrugged it off.

Yet I chugged on, convincing myself that voters would come to their senses, that it was as impossible as a cat giving birth to puppies for Zero – the most laughably unqualified candidate in presidential history, and the most explicitly Anti-American to boot – to actually be elected.  And he was.

Temporary insanity – that’s what it has to be, I deluded myself.  Then came the Tea Parties. Yes! I exulted.  The insanity was over, Americans are being Americans again!  The overthrow of the Pelosi Congress in the 2010 elections with a Tea Party Congress in its place convinced me more than ever.

But as 2011 dragged on, and the Tea Party Congress morphed into the Boehner Defund-Nothing Wimp-Out Congress, my conviction faltered. 

During the summer, I read Rick Perry’s book, Fed Up!, which raised my hopes and dashed them at the same time.  It advocated exactly what is needed for America to be America again – eliminate the federal government’s unconstitutional powers and programs via the 10^th Amendment – yet its author clearly had no intention of running for president.  No one with that intention would ever write such unmentionable truths as Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.

Then Perry looked at the Pub field full of folks driven by their ego and oblivious to their inadequacies.  He felt a calling, a God-given duty against his desires to do his best to rescue his country from the abyss.  It was too soon.  He had to have serious back-surgery, the pain medication made him dingy, he said dumb things in the debates, his support melted away and looked elsewhere.

But there was no elsewhere.  Romney was McCain redux, who excited no one, with a ceiling of 25% composed of folks supporting him only because they thought he could beat Zero.  Gingrich was a Rockefeller Republican in conservative drag, angry, vindictive, and mean.

Cain imploded.  Bachmann had no qualifications beyond being a nice classy lady with good values who had been in Congress for four years.  Paul had a following of folks who thought it no problem if Iran nuked Israel. 

Huntsman was a glowarming Chicom lover.  Santorum was an earmarking deficit spender who couldn’t get himself reelected senator, losing by 18% to a Dem neophyte.

And every other marquee name refused to run – Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, Tim Pawlenty, Paul Ryan, and of course, the heartbreaker, Sarah Palin.

So at 2011’s end, there was no one else – if you wanted a real deal small government 10^th Amendment conservative – but Rick Perry, flaws and all.  Besides, there isn’t a conservative alive who doesn’t want leftie journalists put in their place like Perry did to Politico’s Mike Allen. 

Iowans thought otherwise.  One primary reason is they would rather have their country collapse as long as they keep getting their ethanol money.  Perry was the only candidate to clearly say ethanol subsidies and mandates would not exist in his presidency.  The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association hammered him on this, and built up Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum, pro-ethanol panderers all.

So let me tell you about a meeting that could change the world.

A news story appeared yesterday (1/04) about a meeting of the principal "movement conservatives" in the country to be held "next weekend" to try and unify behind one conservative candidate. 

It will be at the home of Judge Paul Pressler near Houston, Texas, one week from tomorrow, January 13.  I’ve known Paul and Nancy Pressler for many years.  I know most everyone who will be there, and I expect to be there too.

There will be strong advocates for Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, and Perry.  There might even be a Paulista, but probably no one for Huntsman.

It’s very doubtful they will go for Romney.  75% of Republicans just don’t want him.  There’s no enthusiasm, and you can’t win the presidency without it.  So much for his "electability" argument.

Yet this meeting cannot be merely a Stop Mitt conspiracy.  It cannot be about preventing a negative.  It has to be choosing a positive, uniting behind the best conservative who can defeat Obama and, as president, start actually tearing down the federal monster.

Gingrich’s anger makes him unelectable.  Santorum would be torn to shreds by the Obama media – he’s against contraception for married couples, for Pete’s sake.  He’ll be ridiculed to the moon, turning every social value of conservatives into jokes – far more successfully than the left has ever done before.    

Worse, he’s a Big Government conservative who has no intention whatever of dismantling it.  Plus he has no executive experience at running anything, not a state, a city council, a corner store.  He supported Arlen Specter against Pat Toomey. If he couldn’t get reelected in Pennsylvania, he sure can’t get elected president of the United States.

Perry passionately advocates the best possible mechanism for reducing the government to its constitutional limits:  the 10th Amendment.  He has the executive experience to accomplish this, and the best track record in America at job creation and improving an economy.  It’s inarguable that he’s the most successful governor in the country.

He is also passionate about getting the government out of the way of the most revolutionary technology of our day — hydraulic fracturing — that can provide cheap and abundant energy to power our economy, make us energy independent, and destroy the left’s dream of a pre-industrialized America.

All of this, plus his inspiring personal story, add up to a candidacy to be truly excited about.  Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum don’t come remotely close.

I will make this case to those at this meeting, and one final point.  This election has an importance far beyond any single issue, no matter how strongly individuals may feel about it, whether that be abortion, illegal aliens, homosexual "marriage," or whatever. 

The federal government is metastasizing in its power to control our lives, bankrupt our economy, and demolish our freedom as Americans.  Zero has accelerated this, with his reelection resulting in a full-blown fascist dictatorship.

The key point here is that this metastasizing of government has enormous inertia – which will keep right on going unless there is a force strong enough to stop and reverse it.  It is absurd to argue that Romney, Gingrich, or Santorum could be that force.  It is not absurd that Perry could be.

The fate of America may well depend on the choice made next Friday.  If these conservative leaders unite, positively and enthusiastically, for Perry, it will catalyze conservatives across the country to finally unite — and then small government conservatism will triumph in November.  If they do not, it will not.  And the odds of four more years of Obama will be very high.

We need those odds to be very low, and the odds of continued federal fascism even lower.  What we most need is someway or someone to snap folks out of the reality-denial trance they’re in, to enable them to be Americans again.  I see only one man on the horizon who can do so.