Harold Witkov at American Thinker talks about the "Eureka moment" a lot of people are having as they watch what the Democrats are trying to do to their country. People are suddenly experiencing the insight that, regardless of how they voted in the last election, regardless of which party they are registered with, they're actually conservatives. Witkov writes that you can tell if you're like one of these folks if you oppose:
- the federal redistribution of wealth.
- entitlement politics.
- American czars.
- apology tours that denigrate the greatness of our country.
- tax-and-spend politics.
- government takeovers.
- amnesty citizenship for those who have entered our country illegally.
- out-of-control printing of money.
- legislation designed to do away with free speech (Fairness Doctrine).
- big government.
- trillion-dollar government stimulus package slush funds.
- treating our allies like enemies and our enemies like friends.
- politicians who do not let us drill for oil.
- politicians who look the other way while Iran and North Korea develop nuclear weapons.
- government-run health care.
- health care bills that provide abortion funding.
- backroom deals by politicians that circumvent transparency and the Constitution.
- trillion-dollar deficits.
- high taxes.
- treating all people to the identical security scrutiny in airports.
- laws that provide special exemptions for legislators.
- laws that provide special privileges to certain states.
- those who would stifle an honest global warming debate.
- federal funding of corrupt organizations like ACORN.
- "Miranda rights" for foreign terrorists.
- confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed getting a civilian trial in NY.
- cap-and-trade legislation and taxing carbon footprints.
- closing GITMO and bringing terrorists to American soil.
- letting the U.N. tell us how to live.
- a president who does not believe in American exceptionalism.
Lest anyone (Like David Brooks) think that conservatives are defined simply by what they are against it should be pointed out that one is against things because one is for their opposites. It is because one believes in small government, low taxes, strong national defense and individual liberty that one opposes most of the items Witkov puts on his list.
RLC