A TIME FOR TRUTH, NOT WORD GAMES
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A Time for Truth, Not Word Games
Perhaps now,
in the wake of the heat
that Mitt Romney is taking over the leaked four month
old “47 percent” video, he can better appreciate the position of Todd Akin.
Romney is being accused of writing off “47 percent” of voters as not
paying taxes and “dependent upon government,” who “believe government has a
responsibility to care for them.”
Of course Romney’s words, recorded behind closed doors at a fundraiser,
were not, as he admitted, well chosen. No candidate would call half the
electorate dead beats.
But when Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin used the unfortunate phrase
“legitimate rape” in answering a question about his pro-life stand, the
leadership of his own party pulled the rug from under him, despite his immediate
clarification and apology.
Akin had a significant lead over his Democrat opponent Claire McCaskill
before his own party wrote him off for his bad phrasing.
Now Democrats are having a field day trying to nail Romney for his bad
phrasing.
Only thirty percent of Americans, according to a recent Gallup poll, are
satisfied with the way things are going in the nation.
Our nation, dangerously, and many fear fatally, is losing its way.
The greatest concern for all at this critical time should be truth. Not
word games.
It is fair to say that at this moment Republicans are in a state of
disbelief.
How can it be that with things this bad, with Americans this
dissatisfied, with a President whose performance has been this dismal, that this
presidential race could even be close?
Yet it is.
It appears that, in the true spirit of Groucho Marx, Barack Obama has
said “Who are you going to believe – me or your own eyes?” And half the country
is choosing him over their own eyes.
Barack Obama has charisma. Mitt Romney doesn’t. And this poses a great
challenge to the Republican candidate.
Here is how my dictionary defines charisma: “a special quality of
leadership that captures the popular imagination and inspires unswerving
allegiance and devotion.”
Is there anything Romney can do? I believe there is. The question is if
he is willing.
Charisma in a biblical sense implies divine grace. It is the radiance of
an individual who connects to and becomes a vessel for divine truth.
However, there are false prophets. And a false prophet, who truly
believes his own personally conjured up vision, can be charismatic.
The only weapon against a false prophet is hard, unvarnished truth.
We have indeed become a government dependent nation. And we have indeed
become a nation in which the sanctity of family and the sanctity of life are
widely disregarded.
The growth of government dependency, the displacement of personal
responsibility for government responsibility, and the unraveling of the American
family all have moved in lockstep.
And our moral bankruptcy and fiscal bankruptcy are occurring together.
The fiscal viability of entitlement programs is driven by the assumption
that those who work can pay for those who are retired. But as life spans
increase while we produce fewer children, as result of self centered lifestyles
and abortion, our moral bankruptcy produces our fiscal bankruptcy.
The most recent trustees report for Social Security and Medicare shows
the unfunded liabilities of these programs at $63 trillion, four times the size
of our GDP.
We have a false prophet leading the nation whose only message is “trust
me.”
Democrats want to play with words and spin while the country is drowning.
They are selling the status quo by appealing to natural human fears of change.
Entitlements programs as we have known them must change. Moral relativism
mistakenly called freedom must be labeled for what it is.
Republicans need to embrace, not run, from the truth and tell it to the
American people. This is a time for truth, not word games.
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