After Jason Savage and his group at Maine People Before Politics exposed Maine Insights for its biased and unprofessional “journalism”, now Maine Wire reports a scandel from government agencies using their left propaganda machine for advertising purposes.
The evil of prosperity, the evil of means is really defined as viewed through the lens of the beholder or in the hands of the manipulator. For it seams that all this evil means experiences a metamorphosis when it changes hands by force through taxation, fines and regulatory compliance ordinances into government coffers. Then, when it somehow finds it way into a government initiative to support several unwashed, matted-haired individuals surrounding a mud puddle, I’m sorry, a vernal pool, chanting in desperation for the rains to continue and fill the crevice in an effort to block a logging operation from continuing to support hundreds of hard-working families and their community at large, it becomes somehow wonderful. Perhaps we can appreciate their willingness to stand there in defense of the defenseless mud puddle all the while donating ounces of blood to the reproductive cause of the swarming mosquitoes who are flying in formation around their caked ringlet heads in a salute to their generosity. But we cannot agree with the environmentalist’s and liberal’s belief that money, when earned, is evil and money, when stolen, is good. Truly, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
“Ah, you foul fiendish capitalist,” they cry, “ No, Robin of Locksley are you!” Yes, sadly my one brief foray into joining the cast of “Men in Tights” was thankfully nothing more than abject humiliation, actually, a cruel joke played on me by my older sister. How she ever tricked me intoooo….ahem, moving on. It would seem that even Robin Hood would be dismayed at the lengths Peter Vigue has gone to appease the new “Merry Men” and how they continue to decry his endeavor to create a more suitable artery of transportation for the State of Maine. He has addressed the eminent domain issue, proving that false. He has made many overtures to the conservation and wildlife concerns by building causeways over the highway for safer migration. He has assured that the imprint of the road is narrower by far than I-95. Yet, the environmentalists continue to chant, sweat and wail. As each demand is met and another is thrust in Vigue’s face, the truth becomes all too evident. There is one core issue of distress that cannot be resolved. The East-West highway is a harbinger of prosperity to come. It represents everything most hated by the left. Americans earning their money and reinvesting that money into their community portends those communities becoming a bustle of hated, healthy human activity. When these communities become part of the artery of commerce, they will taste the forbidden fruit of independence, self-reliance and self-actualization. Oh, how the left hates that word, independence. But we in Maine love it!
The East-West Highway represents the one final link to integrate the ingenuity of this great State quickly into the commerce fabric of our fabulous Nation. For to long we have been held back from seeing our piece of the American Dream. Imagine if the environmentalist had been around to stop I-95. How would they get around to harass Peter Vigue? Let’s take our rightful place in the American commerce, or…we could…go back to dancing around the mud puddle and praying for rain.
This is some very scary reading, but we must be ready for the battle that looms ahead. Liberals are gathering their forces to exact the change they have been working towards for years, the elimination of individual private landowner rights. Read and prepare for the battle coming!
The primary is days away as I write this. Many have exhausted themselves in non-stop battle to get their candidate elected to the general election. There are some truths and traditions to examine when it comes to the politics of Maine.
Most historians agree that in the last fifty years or so a disturbing pattern has developed in our State. The voting populace has proven to be much more conservative than the politicians that represent them. How then, in a representative form of government, can this pattern emerge?
While conservatives have the numbers to consistently win the majority, they lack the unity to truly effect change. One of the defining strengths of many conservatives is their dogged adherence to truth and principle. But this strength at times, yes it seems at the most crucial times, becomes the Achilles that brings another frustrating setback to the march towards consistent prominence. So fundamentally attached to a certain nuance of the conservative standards, factions easily develop and splinter into various corners and, during elections, never the twain or twenty shall meet.
Governor LePage was the one strong leader, who seemed to bring them together over the divides of their several beliefs. Now it seems, perhaps, the divides are yawning open again. Moderates and liberals may regain their hold on power and conservatives could once again squalor in sectarian apathy.
Liberals have long trumpeted their belief that the end justifies the means and have implemented this to great effect. Conservatives believe the means is just as important as the end. One cannot be compromised to facilitate the other. Unfortunately, within this strict approach to representation there has steadily crept an aversion to compromise. Holding the ground and defending an issue against the onslaught of liberalism has now evolved into staking your territory and fighting with anyone who comes near. This has resulted in the near death of unity within the conservative ranks.
The one consistency amongst Maine conservatives is the attack of any front-runner, who dares call himself conservative. Should a conservative candidate emerge from the pack and push to the fore, it seems every conservative leader in Maine is bound by blind rage to lacerate, eviscerate, castigate and in all ways mitigate the demise of his or her candidacy. This all in an effort to prove themselves much more the conservative than the sad representation, who had the audacity to give themselves the hallowed title of conservative. The public preening of one’s own conservative narcissism has had a painful debilitating effect on Maine’s political landscape.
Whatever the outcome of this primary, the numbers showed that the front-runner race between a conservative and a moderate should not have even been close. But old alliances, petty grievances, and downright dirty politics, have made this, perhaps, another chapter in the saga of missed opportunities. Our founding fathers showed us the wisdom of true compromise. My fellow conservatives, win, lose or draw, it is imperative that we find and learn that lost art our forefathers perfected of finding our unified voice for the sake of our posterity. Let’s not miss opportunity!
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