Posted under Election 2010 & Election 2012 & Sovereignty and Secession
One of the last of the conservative Southern Democrats evaluates candidates by a new standard: not by what’s good for the party, nor what’s supposed to be best for the whole Empire, but instead what’s best for the people of his State:
Gov. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, declined over the weekend to endorse Barack Obama for a second term for president or Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) as Senate majority leader in interviews with Politics Daily….
“I’ll support the person who supports West Virginia,” Manchin told me when I asked if he would vote for Reid as Senate leader. When I asked if Harry Reid supports West Virginia, Manchin repeated, “I’m going to support the person who supports West Virginia and I’m not going to support the person who doesn’t support West Virginia.”
The increasingly disconnected, quarreling peoples in all 50 States can no longer accept a uniform “single best way” to govern themselves. As in the Old Soviet Union, secession is emerging as the only possible path, and more people, including pundits and politicians, are realizing that.
roho on 25 Oct 2010 at 5:35 pm #
Agreed………Culturalism has always trumped Nationalism and Patriotism in America’s true history……While Lee and Grant fought side by side in the Mexican wars, they became mortal enemies in the war of Northern Agression. Culture is the glue that holds Society together, and Diversity and Multiculturalism is the poison that disolves the glue.
The trick is that once in combat, your culture becomes the man on your left and right.
I have always admired Putin, because his loyalty is to Russia, and not Israel.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 26 Oct 2010 at 1:20 am #
roho,
And that’s another reason the DC Empire can’t cohere — its energies are spent promoting the interests of politicians and causes unrelated to the interests of the American people. Meanwhile, the regime is doing all it can to replace its traditional demographics.
Sean Scallon on 26 Oct 2010 at 2:09 am #
It will be interesting to see if this enough to get Manchin elected. The only way Conservative Democracy survives is if one trusts the Democrat elected to be his or her own man. Sometimes and some days its more easily sellable than others.
Ernest on 26 Oct 2010 at 8:00 am #
I saw this and hope it was a sincere statement. I also hope to see others, no matter what party, follow suit. I had hopes in the Tea Party for some of this same mindset yet that remains to be seen as the GOP and Tea Party are more and more becoming synonymous to my dismay.
I agree that regional and local communities is the real way out of any of this. The behemoth in DC is a dragon to be slayed.