GM engine trouble

The dictionary definition of conservative does not help us now, does not even apply to what is needed to preserve our American republic. A new word might be in order. We conservatives are not resistant to change, we are not moderate in our principles or cautious when it comes to defending them and not interested in preserving the order of things in our culture and society as it exists now. We hope to change this country by reforming government and bureaucracy at the top and encouraging reform from the bottom on up. Liberalism and its escape from reason must be defeated.

A concrete application would be the present near-bankrupt condition of GM. Why save them when government over-regulation, unions and employee greed helped cause their downfall? They were not fiscally conservative or responsible to the free market or their customers. A conservative knows that neither government nor a car manufacturer can tell an American what to drive. Silly mandates and subsidies to car makers defy common sense when it comes to regulating Americans’ love affair with the automobile. The automobile has always been a method of manly or womanly self-identification, a signification like a headdress or a select scarification. Incidentally, supporters who carry on a love affair with Obama, a socialist interested in regulations, limitations, punishments and restricting freedom of choice, contract themselves by simultaneously entering into a volunteer love affair with their motorized wheels. This contradiction would not be possible for a conservative. We could not support an Obama. Common sense and traditional infatuation with the ‘racing’ machine demand that we face reality and love it. It’s sink or swim for GM. Once its engine has blown, consumers should go out and buy another car that they love and can afford.