Posted by
Conservative Strike on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:55:22 PM
Remember the movie Terminator? It tells the story of a time in the future when machines rise up and attempt to destroy the very humanity that created them. Then after decades of war, and on the eve of losing the war, the machines find a way to send one of their own—a terminator—back into the past to kill the person responsible for leading the humans to victory over them. A good story line, but it doesn’t have anything to do with reality. Or does it?
Here in the reality of the present day, we see the story line of Terminator taking shape and playing out in the political landscape right before our very eyes. The political machine in the Republican Party has risen up, and it is systematically attempting to destroy the very thing that formed and created the modern-day Republican Party—conservatism. Its weapon is a liberal terminator in the form of John McCain who, like the movie terminator, appears unstoppable using conventional weapons.
Now he is even attempting to reach back into the past and destroy the founder of the modern-day Republican Party—Ronald Reagan. By attempting to link himself with Reagan and claiming that they have identical values and beliefs, he hopes to undermine the philosophical underpinnings of conservatism. But it won’t work.
In the movie, the terminator is himself terminated, and in the real world, the same fate awaits John McCain. Come November, he will be relegated to the ash heap of history where he belongs. Then, after his defeat in November and four years of socialist drift brought to us by incompetent Democrat leadership, a new, revitalized—and conservative—Republican Party will emerge to once again claim its rightful place as the true protector of individual freedom.