Power Without Principal Is Worthless

Power Without Principle is Worthless - Thanks Rcs7710361

Republican apologists are making a living these days trying to
convince conservatives to support the Party’s nominee
regardless of his commitment to conservative principles and
values. We are being told that principle without power is
worthless. The argument is that a person’s principles are of no
value unless he occupies the position of power. I beg to
differ. I submit that power without principle is worthless.

Political pragmatists deny their own rhetoric. They pay tribute
to America’s Founding Fathers while betraying everything they
stood for. Have they ever read the words of those brave and
heroic men? When that Declaration of Independence was signed no
one gave those men a snowball’s chance of succeeding. It didn’t
matter. They stood on principle.

I guess those 186 men at the Alamo died for a worthless cause.
They didn’t win, you know. I wonder what Crockett and Bowie
would have to say to these pragmatic pollsters today?

Read our great history. This nation was built with the blood
and sacrifice of thousands of honorable and courageous people
who put principle above political success, financial gain and
personal comfort. How dare we claim to give them tribute and
then turn around and tell the American people that principle
without power is worthless?

A political candidate who runs a campaign void of strong
convictions for that which is right and decent is at best a
coward and at worst a fraud! If he obtains the power that he
seeks he is only beholden to the unprincipled people that
elected him and to his own corrupt soul.

Some will argue that no principled conservative can win a
presidential election today. That might be true. There is much
more at stake than winning elections, however. Electing
unprincipled people to high office may serve the interests of
partisan politics, but it does not serve the interests of
preserving freedom and independence. An unprincipled Republican
is just as dangerous to liberty as an unprincipled Democrat is,
maybe more.

For all his faults, the one positive impact that Bill Clinton
has had upon the country is to awaken and energize people that
for too long had been fast asleep. His election and subsequent
acts of criminality and immorality have stirred freedom-loving
people to action like nothing else. It is better to have an
enemy that you can see than to put your confidence in an
unfaithful friend.

Currently, New York City Mayor, Rudolph Giulianai, is planning
to withhold monies from a city-funded museum for showing a
dung-splattered painting of the Virgin Mary. Furthermore, he is
in the process of evicting the museum from the city owned
building that it occupies. The controversial art exhibit also
includes graphic photographs of female sex organs, a painting
of a pedophile featuring the fingerprints of the children he
killed, and a painting of the "Last Supper" that substitutes a
topless woman for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Mayor Giulianai said that his decision to deny funding and
evict the museum from the public building "was a matter of
principle, and it isn’t something that has to do with political
calculation." Bravo! Finally, someone is willing to put
principle above politics! The Founding Fathers would be proud.
The political pragmatists should be ashamed.

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