There’s a new Constitution Party of the mind forming
by Bob Hoig, Publisher
Midlands Business Journal
It does not have a name and it may never field a candidate.
But there is a new Constitution Party forming across America.
It might be only in the minds of a philosophical Middle America, but it is there and growing.
What we are seeing is a new honor for the principles set by the Founders, wanting to keep the framework of freedom and free enterprise that has set America apart.
And, by the way, it is drawing members from across all lines, Republicans, Democrats, Independents.
The vibes have gone out since President Obama began working with the Democrat-controlled Congress to prove “hope and change” meant a lot more than most Americans bargained for.
The margins in Tuesday night’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey, returning conservative Republicans to governor’s offices in both states, were the key.
Virginia was a landslide, reversing a strong Democrat tide for Obama in 2008. New Jersey’s Republican victory was close, but for the GOP to win close amounts to a virtual landslide, the state is so lopsidedly Democrat in registrations.
In both states, big swings in the way Independents voted and apparent lukewarm response from normally pro-Obama constituencies seemed the difference. Heavy GOP voting helped too.
What this means is that Obama, famous for dithering in matters involving Afghanistan and our military, cannot vacillate on his personal political strategy for 2010, which will decide 2012.
Does he continue to behave like one who knows that any off-beat programs and heavy spending must come quickly, if they are to come at all?
Does he gamble that he can get away with more trillion dollar deficits moving in behind Democrat health insurance bills and energy bills? And wager that if they are not in place soon, they probably never will happen?
Virginia and New Jersey, however, proved the danger of this kind of going for broke; of the Pelosi-Reid patterns with their ideas that almost guarantee bankrupting the country.
We speculate Obama would have gone this way had not the results from Virginia and New Jersey turned out the way they did.
They brought into the open massive resentments boiling up over Obama and his party’s moving the country so far so fast and in a direction totally opposite the frugality that kept us solid, coupled with the risk taking that makes us the world leader economically.
It is the anxiousness of Americans that is reversing the Democrat tide. Americans do not like to be anxious.
This is where Obama’s upbringing betrays him in his pursuit of power. The ivory towers of Harvard are good for the rhetoric of political campaigns. Teaming a lot of theoretical knowledge and grand designs with Obama’s speech making and voila – you have a great campaigner. But a great president? Hardly.
He could have better used a background in small business. Then he would understand anxiousness. Following Obama’s multiple uncertainties, what small business man or woman will ever hire one employee more than absolutely needed?
With all the congressional Democrats are packing into their 1,900-page health insurance bills, the natural fallout for small business is to stand pat, hunker down and wait and see.
Small business, the generator of 70 to 80 percent of job growth in this country, is leery no matter how high the stock market climbs. There is already some suspicion that the big markets are scammed by the George Soros types, profiting on massive investments and short term swings.
All of the above bolsters the belief that what we are seeing is a return to the Constitution mentality. We like what the founders and their followers have given and are not about to toss it away to follow the uncertain prophet that Barack Obama has proven to be.
November 6, 2009
