He had waited many years for his dream home. Finally, after saving and searching, he was moving in. His excitement was such that in his mind his life would be perfect from now on. He owned his own property and no one could take it away.

Several years passed and even though there were problems with the house at times, he remained content living there.

One day there was a robbery in the area. He became fearful that it could happen to him, so he decided to build a wall around his property. Others pointed out that a wall would be expensive and that there were many other things that he could do that would help the situation.

None of the suggestions mattered to him. He became obsessed with the idea of the wall. After finding the perfect design he began building it. Day and night he worked. When a section was finished, he would decide that it needed to be taller or wider, and would set out to correct the problem. The wall needed to be absolutely impenetrable.

He spent two years at the task. He thought of nothing else, and except for sleeping a few hours each night, the remainder of his time was consumed with the wall.

One day it was finally finished. He stood admiring it for hours. He walked every inch of it making sure that it had no weak spots. Now he could go back in his house and be happy.

Just as he was about to turn to go in, there was a loud sound behind him. To his utter dismay his house was crumbling to the ground.

In his preoccupation with the wall he hadn’t realized that termites had gotten into the foundation of his beautiful home and were slowly eating it away.

Sandra Lea Wise

 

Yesterday Rush was lamenting the fact that there are no "Reagans" running on the Republican ticket. He played a new song: "Where is my Reagan, where have the conservatives gone?"

I hear many in the conservative media longing for the same thing. The quest to find another Reagan reminds me of the woman that loses her husband. As years pass, no one can live up to the memory that she carries of him. He was perfect in every way. Instead of being able to move on and find someone who might be compatible, enjoy some fulfillment and even happiness again, she wastes away and eventually dies.

Conservatives in my party never gave Bush 1 a chance and they can’t seem to find anything right with "W." The disillusionment of not having the perfect conservative, led many voters to stay home this last election.

I hope that the GOP doesn’t fade away as it waits for it’s "knight in shining armor."

Sandra Lea Wise

I received this in a "Forward" today. Maybe some of you have already seen it. I found it very interesting!

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage"

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 43 million

Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000

States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

Al, move out of the way. There is a new movement led by Ministers who "care about the future of the planet." I heard one of them yesterday morning on Fox News. He said that Christians need to become aware of the harm that man is doing to the planet and get involved in saving it. He called it "Creation Care."

Will this become the "thirteenth commandment?"

Sandra Lea Wise

I’m tired of hearing from conservative talking heads that President Bush isn’t selling the war in Iraq well enough. Laura Ingraham said this morning, "the Commander in Chief is not doing a good job as Communicator in Chief."

Well, how about some help from you conservative stars every now and then?

The President spent weeks ahead of the election in 2006 going around the country explaining why Iraq is important to us here at home. I say to those that don’t understand, "It’s the terrorists, stupid."

Does anyone doubt that terrorists want to kill us? Does anyone doubt that they are in Iraq? Does anyone doubt that if we lose in Iraq that they will claim victory and be emboldened?

The terrorists are flocking to Iraq because that is where the war is. We have to defeat them there so we won’t have to fight them here or somewhere else.

How many ways can the President say this? Give him a break and repeat after me:

"It's the terrorists, stupid."

Sandra Lea Wise

The question came to me as I listened to all of the critique of Bush’s speech in which he laid out the new plan for the war in Iraq.

On Fox News this morning, Major General Barton Moore (ret.) said the following: "They (meaning Democrats) are more invested in Bush and his administration coming down."  He added, "If we don't get this done, we'll have to fight this war somewhere else." 

Is Moore right?  What are the Democrats invested in?  Senator Dick Durbin, in his answer to the President, stated that we have lost in Iraq, that we must admit it, and start bringing our troops home.
 
Senator Ted Kennedy calls the war in Iraq, Bush's Vietman.  It seems pretty evident that they are invested in losing in Iraq, which everyone knows is "Bush's last chance." 

We certainly know what our enemies are invested in, also bringing down the Bush administration. Iran weighed in today saying, "Bush’s plan will increase bloodshed."

I had to ask myself: "What am I invested in, as a conservative?"

Let’s say, for a moment, that Gore had won in 2000 and the Democrats had taken over the House and the Senate. Then 9/11 happened. If the Gore administration had kept our country safe for 5 years, taken the battle to the enemy, saved the economy from tanking after the attacks and created the strong economy that we have today, I would be invested in the success of the administration, not it’s downfall.  Farfetched certainly, but true.

We know what our enemies, the MSM and the Democrats are invested in. My question to many conservatives is: What are you invested in? The answer will determine America’s future for many years.

Sandra Lea Wise

I don’t know about the rest of you, but this spectacle of the Democrat takeover of the House and the ascension of Nancy has made me nauseous. The MSM is writing a new musical, "Hello, Nancy!" The media will make this musical number One for the next two years, right up to the inauguration of Hillary. 

The Press will rewrite history with this new musical.  The masses will not realize that this is no "new congress", and that these are the same people that ran things all those many years before Newt.

A more ethical Congress? Don’t make me laugh. Does anyone remember the House Bank scandal? They had set it up so that House members could just write checks to themselves when they needed money, without paying it back. Their sex scandals actually involved having sex. Oh, and about the lobbying.  You mean "there's lobbyin goin on in Washington?"

So, to my fellow Republicans I say, let's unite over the big issues and bring the curtain down on this show in 2008.   

Sandra Lea Wise

Yesterday when I was watching the funeral services for President Ford at the Cathedral in Washington, I couldn’t help but think "where was all this praise while Ford was alive?" 

Anyone hearing the eulogies would ask the question, "Why was this beloved President never elected to the Office? Why was he so abused by the media?  Answer: He was a Republican.

The job of an American Republican President is thankless. While he is in office he is ridiculed mercilessly by the Media and the caricature created by the media follows him until death.

President Ford was an athlete and in great physical shape, yet he had the misfortune of being caught by the cameras, falling down on several occasions. Chevy Chase became a star playing this clumsy, stumbling President, and that is what most people remember about Ford. 

President Reagan was portrayed as a lightweight mentally and an old man who kept falling asleep during cabinet meetings. When he courageously told the nation about his Alzheimer’s disease after leaving office, the Media claimed that he had been afflicted during his presidency.  Not until his death was he given any respect by the Press for the very intelligent man that he was. 

President Bush I, is the man that didn’t get Saddam and his son "W," is the man who did get Saddam. Both things are bad, according to the Media. And of course there is the "bungling of the English language" by both of them.  The father, born with a "silver foot in his mouth" and the son, portrayed more than dumb.  He only got into Yale because of the "silver foot."    

Yet, sitting there at the Funeral were the two most respected living American Presidents, Carter and Clinton, the darlings of the Media. They are praised and admired by the entire world! They won’t have to die before receiving their accolades.

Sandra Lea Wise