I heard Glenn Beck say recently that it's probably a good thing Obama was elected, as it's galvanized America to recover and restore itself in a way that McCain probably would not have done.  McCain, he argues (effectively and truthfully), is a hidden progressive, a fan of Teddy Roosevelt (who was far more leftwing than most realize).  McCain was late to sign on to 'global warming' theory, at a time when a growing number of scientists and pundits were backing away from it due to evidence which contradicts it.  McCain always leans toward government solutions and 'compromise' with his pals on the left, and would probably have signed almost all the legislation Pelosi's crowd would have come up with. 

In other words, a McCain presidency would have sent us down this same road, more slowly, but would NOT have awakened the sleeping giant of American conservatism.  He's a war hero, he's a Republican, etc etc.  An all American story, unlike Barack Hussein Obama, and a story that would have calmed quite a few on the right and permitted much of this dangerous agenda to slide past us.

Beck's postulation has merit, and as it's a theory developed 'after the fact' and was not something Beck agitated for DURING the election, it is not technically harmful to the nation to discuss it.  McCain already lost.  The grassroots conservative revolution is up and running thanks to Obama's knee jerk leftism, and more power to us. 

I mentioned, on Twitter, that Beck seems to be right about this.  The knee jerk leftism has awakened us, and we NEEDED to be awakened.  Ergo the terrible damage Obama is inflicting on this nation is, in a wierd way, 'good' for it, like the pain of a visit to the dentist is good for your health.

For this, I am now labeled 'not a conservative'.  And I do not understand it. 

I want the conservative revolution, and I have appeared at every possible event spawned by it, going all the way back to a chilly day in February in downtown Dallas for the first Tea Party.  I paid good money for a weekend in DC, airfare, hotel and expensive food, to be a part of the 9/12 event and document it in a video here. 

There is almost nobody on EARTH more politically conservative than I am.   I don't get down in the weeds of policy and compromise; I work from basic PRINCIPLE.  Liberty in all things, from religion to economic activity to choices large and small.  He governs best who governs least.  The constitution is a lifter of humanity and should be revered and obeyed.  Government is LIMITED by it, not empowered.  Term limits.  Overturn Roe v. Wade, which is bad law as well as immoral.  Eliminate the Fed, the IRS as it is now constituted, and the Department of Education.  Give me a 10% flat tax or similar low burden on the economy, let states and communities handle education free from leftist big government interference and propagandizing, and for health insurance cost reduction simply remove artificial barriers to better risk pooling and competition-- STATE LINES.  To lower cost of health care, give me TORT REFORM.

And I am a Christian man, having given my life to Christ in 1987, and I'm imperfectly trying to live as He would have me do. 

And Beck seems to me to be right in this simple, after the fact conversational offering.  But for agreeing with him, I'm now 'not conservative'...  ??

Some think Beck is simply saying "Obama's election was a good thing" and are not seeing the larger context of it.  So to clarify--

He is talking after the fact of the election, meaning it's talk, not action.  Beck undoubtedly did not VOTE for Obama, and he CERTAINLY did not encourage anyone else to do so.  What he's saying now is NOT causative of anything, only an observation.  It is simply uncalled for to react to his assertion as if he was blithely saying "I'm glad Obama won" without explaining why.

And the why, again, is this--  BECAUSE OBAMA'S ELECTION IS CAUSING A CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION AND MCCAIN'S ELECTION WOULD NOT HAVE DONE SO. 

And this country, opines Beck and myself, would have gone down this same general path, albeit with a slower timeline and some small substantive differences, if McCain had won.  McCain is a progressive, NOT a conservative.  He would sign all manner of crazy leftist bills, and the more we 'got in his face' about them, the more rigid and determined he would be.  He's not a smart man, and believes compromise, like 'honor', is a PRINCIPLE.  McCain holds almost no conservative positions, and is easily led by those he considers smart.  Oh, and he isn't a big fan of evangelical Christians, a common failing of the modern republican party.

So, before you criticize Beck as having somehow ENDORSED Obama or said he's GLAD Obama was elected, remember the POINT.

Obama has caused a CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION to begin, one without which this nation WOULD NOT SURVIVE as it its now.  And McCain as president would probably NOT have caused it.  Ipso facto, it is 'better' that Obama was elected.  Better for conservatism, better for the future of America, not because of anything Obama is DOING (he is destructive beyond words) but for the RESPONSE to what he's doing.

It's a response this country had to have.  It's like throwing up--  you know that if you don't do it, you will be VERY sick for an extended time.  McCain is the 'not throwing up' sickness.  Longer, slower, but in the end just as bad.  Obama is the quick projectile vomiting.  Shorter, more intense, and in the end cleansing and restorative.

The leftists have been at this since the heyday of world Marxism/communism, the 1930s.  Britain's leftists became spies, Philby, Blunt, Burgess, heroes of the Soviet Union for their work against their own country.  Every western nation had Soviet Union fans, helpers, useful idiots like Walter Duranty of the New York Times.  FDR was one of them.  Because of the war and the powerful pro American instincts and values which carried us through it to victory, people thought the leftists had vanished.  But they never did.  They just beavered away in anonymity, inside government and out, slowly working up through the 1960s, becoming ever more radical and subversive, all the while working up to THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY, the 'takeover' of the United States of America.

I believe with all my heart that they will not succeed, that this nation is more than they thought we were, that this nascent revolution will continue and grow and take back the levers of power in this country.  God did not bless us and raise us so high for so long, only to wander off while a small minority of people set about destroying all He helped us make and build.

Call it faith if you want.  I believe America is far from over and I'm hip deep in the fight, insofar as an ordinary guy can be.

I AM A CONSERVATIVE.  :-) 

And that settles it.