High Road to Where?

As I watch the Romney campaign unfold it seems to be following a path that history confirms may be the wrong approach.  Most of us remember the Chicago Daily Tribune front page in November 1948 heralding “Dewey Defeats Truman.”  In that election Dewey chose to “Take the High Road.”  Truman’s ratings were in the toilet and he was vulnerable.  Most voters had forgot about Hitler dead, Germany Surrenders, Japan surrenders etc.  The local news was of other more pressing “Now” events.  With Dewey’s “High Road” approach he seemed to be unconcerned about the present.  The “High Road” leads to a cliff and the end is at the bottom along with your opponent that got there by a “Low road” without the fall.  Is Romney heading for a “Tom Dewey” moment?  The thought is frightening. I read that most political experts believe he needs to jettison his current advisers and get some attack dogs.  Let’s hope he listens.

Jeffery Lord at American Spectator has a fine article on this situation.

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/07/06/romneys-tom-dewey-moment

Happy 4th Everyone

Best of times/Worst of times

As I try to digest the disgust I feel about the SCOTUS ruling letting ObamaCare stand I have to reflect on part of a writing by Charles Dickens in his A Tale of Two Cities:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us….”

The Supreme Court is our last defense against the power grabbing pollution of the political class.  They have failed us and possibly all future generations.  I have been an inhabitant of this world for over three quarters of a century.  As Dickens wrote, “We had everything before us, we had nothing before us.”  The latter is where we are today.  With this decision the Supremes have opened the flood gates for Government, at any level, to usurp our sacred rights granted by the Constitution.  The Constitution, primarily the Bill of Rights, appears to be dead.  Hence forth any bill Congress wants to use to gain power they will make it a form of a tax.  Give up your firearms or pay a penalty (Tax).  Where will it all stop?  I, for one, cannot see an end to the desecration of our most important document.  “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”  We are now expected to accept the latter.  Damn, I’m depressed.