So, Barack Obama is the next president. Whoopee.
He’s the most outrageous left-winger to hold that office, possibly ever. But he is the president. After eight years of liberal morons claiming President Bush was not their president, I won’t let that go unsaid.
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I’d like to employ the term loyal opposition from day one. First off – the loyal part. Barack Obama is the incoming president. He takes over a nation fighting two separate wars and has my support to the extent that he doesn’t just throw in the towel. I don’t like him or his politics, but I’d defend him against all enemies foreign or domestic.
I want to underline that. There are nutballs who threaten every president. They must be squashed no matter their party or agenda. We must all be willing to put ourselves in harm’s way to protect this president or any president.
Conservatives need to make that clear as day so the media don’t twist opposition into something it’s not. We support law and order and, as loyal citizens, we respect the office of president.
Now on to the opposition. It’s a given that conservatives oppose most of what Obama campaigned for. He will tax business even more than we do now, continue to increase the size of government and push a liberal social agenda that undermines the whole basis for American exceptionalism.
As such, he must be opposed – at every turn. Contrary to the desires of the left, Obama didn’t get a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. That means he can be stopped consistently. Rather than zone out for the next four years, conservatives must pressure Congress to fight the Obama agenda – even here in naively liberal Maryland.
Every bit of the Obama platform must be opposed. Card check, the destruction of the secret ballot, must be hammered as a crime against democracy. The misnamed Fairness Doctrine must be fought at all costs before it undermines free speech on talk radio. Heck, if Obama wants to order takeout, it’s up to conservatives to question that expense.
That’s because the media will not. This election proves every claim of liberal media bias and then some. Obama’s limited qualifications would be laughable if he were not the incoming president. But his empty-suit rhetoric went unchallenged by the media who almost wear Obama buttons during interviews.
Despite media focus on the “historic” election, the results were quite close. Even with months of media propaganda and a candidate spending hundreds of millions of dollars more than his opponent to buy the election, America remains a divided nation.
Here in Maryland, nearly 60 percent voted for him, scarily enough. The failure of one-party government hasn’t sunk in enough in the formerly Free State. One-party Democratic government brought us the biggest tax increase in state history. Less than a year later, we’re already out of money.
But Marylanders looked past reality into a media contraption called “change.” For once, I will embrace the BS terminology. With Obama soon to be ensconced in the Oval Office, I can’t wait for change. Thankfully, 2012 isn’t that far away.
Dan Gainor can be seen on the new Fox Business Network. He is T. Boone Pickens fellow at the Media Research Center’s Business & Media Institute, a career journalist and media commentator. He can be reached at [email protected].
