In true blue Connecticut, the left of center media acts like
a semi permeable membrane: Conservatives are filtered out at the beginning of post
nominating convention campaigns, so that the general election contest between
candidates will not be cluttered with inconvenient right of center messages and
principles.
Conservative corpses are carried out the back door, in the
dead of night, and quietly laid to rest. John Zakarian, the longest serving
editorial page manager (1977– 2004, 27
years) at the Hartford Courant, Connecticut’s only state-wide newspaper,
at one point boasted that conservative political writers would be hired by thepaper only over his dead body,
and though Mr. Zakarien left the paper some time ago, the tradition gamely
marches on.
Because conservatives are strangled in the nursery bed –
though lately a few weeds have cropped up – Republican candidates who survive
to a general election fall to the center or slightly left of center on the
political spectrum.
Such is the case with Linda McMahon, running for the U.S.
Senate on the Republican ticket, and Daniel Roraback, a “fiscal conservative”
of long standing running on the Republican ticket in the 5th
District.
In current political lingo, Republicans who identify
themselves as “fiscal conservatives” anywhere in New England convey by the signage
an unambiguous message: They are NOT social conservatives. This designation
opens them to a pitiless examination by Democratic progressives and
anti-conservatives manning the big guns at virtually all the state’s editorial
page machine gun nests.
So, you’re a “fiscal conservative” are’ya? Well, good for you. Let’s see just how
socially progressive you are. And then the abortion bugaboo and, more recently,
the “war on women” spooks rush out of the closet. Do you love women enough to
vote for a bill banning the murder of babies born after botched abortions?
Well, do you? Candidate for President Barack Obama did – numerous times. The
entire Democratic Congressional delegation fairly worships at the altar of
abortion, the center-piece of their charge that Republicans are conducting “a war
on women.”
To cut the matter short, both Mrs. McMahon and Mr. Roraback
have passed the usual left of center interrogation with flying colors -- in
Connecticut. Mr. Roraback has during his
18 year career in the General Assembly done little to alienate the
affections of such extreme pro-abortion organizations as The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL),
Emily’s List, Planned Parenthood and most of the editorial boards of most
Connecticut newspapers. In Connecticut, where virtually every Democratic office
holder wrinkles his nose at bills requiring teen age girls to obtain their
parent’s permission before they succumb to the allure of abortion, Mr. Roraback
is as socially progressive a Republican “moderate” as it gets. Mrs. McMahon
lately has signaled that she is uncomfortable with the notion, promulgated by
Democrats on the make, that women are little more than ovary containers. And
she has been tagged by the usual suspects as a generalissimo in the war on
women. Her demurral is not fatal – in Connecticut.
But elsewhere, the war on the GOP is on in earnest; so much
so that Mr. Roraback, a moderate Republican, now has demanded that television
stations remove a recent Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) ad
that, scurrilously in his opinion, connects him with the Tea Party movement and
Republican nominee for Vice President Paul Ryan’s plan to shove senior citizens
off a cliff and enrich millionaires.
Both Mrs. McMahon and Mr. Roraback have sworn on a stack of
bibles that, once arrived in Washington, they will energetically oppose their national party when urged to do so by social progressives who this year favor abortion on
demand, an end to the federal death penalty, a retreat of Catholics from the wide
world into a curative monastic silence, free condoms for all and a Planned
Parenthood abortion factory in every major city in Connecticut.
Vote day, V-Day, is in November. And on that great getting up
morning, besieged voters in Connecticut -- tormented all these months by ads
and editorials and political spokespersons who speak with forked tongues and penological
geniuses who have let loose violent criminals into peaceful Connecticut towns under
their ill-advised early release program
and professional legislative technocrats
who have not yet been caught by the FBI
committing corrupt acts and politicians for life addicted to tax increases and
improvident spending -- will have an opportunity to throw all the bums out. The
ax should fall cleanly and, at the conclusion of the business, let the executioner
return to the bosom of his or her family satisfied that the public duty has
been discharged.
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