Voters and politicians are often labeled as being conservative or liberal.  These terms are not necessarily derogatory or demeaning.  Labels are however, important.  Each of us, depending on circumstance, is both conservative and liberal.  Facts and reason, not emotion, should guide the political process.   Today, we are seeing too much emotion in politics and not enough reason.  

The voter who would agree to raise property taxes would never loan his credit card to someone planning a trip to a casino.  No voter would approve “the government” providing everyone a new automobile every year, but all voters believe that a common system of roads and bridges is a necessity.

In the hurry-hurry world of today, conservatism is fading from the political scene.  Too many among us have no real understanding of the purpose of government.  Liberals are finding a gullible audience for the notion that every American is entitled to success.  In electoral politics, it is more likely to find a Bantam rooster growing teeth than a politician  supporting the truth.  Emotion based politics is everywhere.    

Tax rebates this year are being given to people who never earned a paycheck. Infants are collecting rebates.  The money for this insanity is being borrowed by the government.  It is not possible to pay a rebate with borrowed money.  Politicians are doing with taxpayer money that which they would never do with their personal finances.

Emotion driven liberals support murder in the womb but are quick to rally against the death penalty.  Conservatives understand the moral component of the death penalty and find no such equivalency in abortion.  Freedom of speech is feared by liberals and embraced by conservatives.  There is no basis in law to guarantee that what is said will not be offensive. 

What liberals cannot do by legislation, they get done through the courts.  A California court recently approved marriage between two people of the same gender even though voters had soundly rejected the idea.  Those who are empowered to represent the people, the politicians, are failing to do their duty.  The politician who stands for law and morality is a pariah among his peers.  In the Congress, he will be denied the pork barrel spending projects that do so much to keep him in office. 

America cannot survive rule by emotion.  Acceptance and acknowledgement of truth must guide every action taken by politicians and judges.  Governance under the notion that because we can, we will, is not governance but oppression.  America is a beacon of hope for all mankind.  America is not the land of milk and honey with a guarantee that everyone will have all the milk and honey he wants.  Government (politicians) cannot guarantee everything to everyone.  Someone has to pay for the free lunch.  Capitalism and personal responsibility are not just words.  They are the realities that provide real hope for those willing to accept the opportunity and the challenge they offer.

Liberalism does rejects these concepts and is destroying the American Dream.  America is not the anti-Christ.  America is not an evil nation.  America has solved more problems than it ever created.  Conservatives become liberals when they fail in their duty to support the rule of law.  Liberalism requires no courage, no strength of character, no belief in anything other than the feel good notion of the moment.

If we are to survive, politicians of good will, if such exist, must return to rational, unemotional discussion, agreement and action on those things which make America exceptional.  The three presidential candidates offer no hope for this.  None of them speak of anything other than more and larger government control of our lives.  None of them speak of any possibility of success unless they are empowered to take care of us.  We have no need for politicians.  We have a need for men and women who accept the reality that God, not man, is supreme.  Reason, not emotion, should guide what becomes law.