I believe an important milestone in the history of American politics was passed today as events unfurled to indicate the inevitable nomination of Senator John McCain as the anointed Republican candidate of the 2008 United States Presidential Election, crowned by a forward-sighted speech from McCain to the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC.
This was most monumental to me as I was one who declared immediate and hearty support of a McCain presidency the day after he entered the race on 25 April 2007, and I have not strayed from that support a single day since. But it’s not a great occasion so much because the candidate I supported has found victory over the other suitors for the party endorsement; the day is important because our nation has just pushed through the sorest spot in an ideological growing pain, and now the slow healing can begin as a new age in conservatism begins to bloom. Whether or not everyone realizes it, the conservative wing of America just endured some of its greatest internal warfare it has seen in decades, both on the level of the news media and more importantly on the grassroots level. This is a healthy national development, and it proves that America is vital, breathing, and cares for her own welfare in the universe, even when misinformation and shrouded truth is owned and shared by the masses. The liberal wing of America is waging its own ambiguous battle of “change”, which has very little essence of substantive progressiveness, but much more of revolt against what was and what is. I have to emphasize this because the Obama and Clinton campaigns are founded primarily on a heavy sentiment of feelings and appeal, and they have offered up precious little in the way of a real game plan, executable policy or far vision. McCain has offered up all of these things, and the entire nation, conservative and liberal alike need to recognize that he alone has done this.
Now, with McCain on the bridge deck of the USS GOP we can witness the kind of progress that happens when a nation’s most critical foundational ideas are recollected, reconstituted and transferred into its most meaningful expression of a prosperous society undergirded by the guarantee of individual liberty. And we’re not just bound to witness it, but obliged to drive it, in a way that can only happen in America. Among past presidents, the spirit McCain possesses was held by Thomas Jefferson, by Abraham Lincoln, by Theodore Roosevelt, and by Ronald Reagan – and without a doubt Winston Churchill breathed this spirit into Mother England as he led the charge against the unprecedented fascist tyranny of the last century. President George W. Bush also bears this spirit, but many imperfections of circumstance during his administration have suppressed it at times into complete ineffectiveness. My senses tell me that McCain has the unique will and ability to blast off this same suppression that crushed Bush, pick up the banner and oversee a great reformation in our time. The Reagan Era of conservative ideology is now finished, and the McCain Era has commenced.
In subsequent entries, I’ll map out this McCain Republican ideology in detail as I see it, one point at a time with hopes of assuaging the fears of those who love liberty and prompting the same to fervently support and consecrate a McCain presidency through the power of the vote.
