American Royalty

The Kennedys are as close to American royalty as anyone in my lifetime has ever come. This is the reason the ground on which even idiot blood walks is still routinely worshipped. John Kennedy was by no means an idiot. This distinction is reserved for most comprising the modern-day clan. John Kennedy was an able representative of his party in its day.

Back then, of course, the Democrat party was more conservative than even the Republicans are today. Some say that back in 1960 Kennedy and Nixon were virtually tied at the end of a hotly contested presidential race. It was only after Richard Daley raised thousands from the graveyards of Chicago and bussed them to the polling stations that Kennedy was nudged over the goal line.

Nixon knew this, but conceded anyway; for the good of the country, he was to have said.

There were problems with the Kennedy presidency, just as there have been problems with all. All that was swept aside when Kennedy was martyred - and rightly so. We only remember that he promised that we would put a man on the moon, and we did. I too will not dwell on the man's failings.

In those heady days of the sixties, it really did not matter who was president - Republican or Democrat. Both loved their country. They just had slightly different ways of showing it.

Would anyone dare to envision the Obamas, or the Bushes, or the Clintons as royalty today?

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They're Dangerous

I honestly believe you don’t give the Left enough credit, John. You shouldn’t dismiss them out of hand; they’re here, and they’ll still be here after the elections. They’re not interested in the economy; they’re not interested in jobs; Israel; GM; energy and whatever else we might feel is important. They’re not even interested in elections. They’ve got their guy in the White House and that’s enough for them. They’ll do their bloody best to keep him there, whether the economy improves or not.

Netroots is just the rabble - moronic; expendable. There’s an exact duplicate of those same people that you never see - or you see them in the guise of reasonable people in suits: Soros, Kerry, Frank, Schumer, Clinton, Reid, Pelosi - need I go on?

Then there are the internationalists, powerful men who harbor illusions of grandeur; self-appointed global visionaries who see themselves as having been anointed for the sole purpose of taking down no less than the United States of America - former bulwark of the free world. It is they who have the deep pockets; the endurance; and, above all, the organization to bring all this about. Their primary weapons are terror, propaganda and time. They hope to win by attrition; by exhausting us - the loyal, disorganized, partially blind opposition.

They see their time nearly used up. They will act now - or soon. Financial collapse, social unrest - they hold the strings - their guy in the White House. They have arrived. Elections be damned. They won’t let go. Even if we win overwhelmingly in November, what will we have we won? A Xerox copy machine? A House and Senate that have already discredited themselves beyond redemption?

Our disadvantage remains because we play by the rules. They don’t. That’s why we don’t win wars anymore. We fight by Queensberry Rules - like the British once did - and lost. Back in Washington’s time, we picked them off one at the time as they marched in neat formation. Their uniforms matched the pain we inflicted.

“A large, robust man in a blue suit…” Really, John? He wouldn’t do this if he thought his side couldn’t win. At one time there was an equally laughable chump with a mustache who managed to bring the world to its knees.

Don’t dismiss them, John. They’re dangerous.