O * W * M

Notes of Concern…

                               …Jackson Blair

O * W * M

I am told that I belong to the party of Old White Men.

Who knew?

Things have changed fast.  Just a few weeks ago I belonged to the same party as Sandra Day O’Conner, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, United States Senator Marco Rubio, Pizza King Herman Cain, Columnist Peggy Noonan, former United States Senator Rick Santorum, well the list of folks hardly considered Old White Men was endless but evidently they all disappeared around November 6^th. How all these younger, blacker, more female folks just vaporized is beyond my comprehension but evidently it was like the “Rapture” called for by people of the Bible. In this case, my political friends who were not male, old or white just vanished from the Grand Old Party.

In addition, everyone tells me that the GOP better just jump right off its set of long held principles because unless they get more hip, jive a little better or abandon many of their moral and financial “creds” they are doomed to this kind of defeat on a regular basis.

Everybody wants the GOP to change.

Not me.

I want them to revisit their basic principles, cast them in verbiage understood by the non-white, the young and the female and wait for the “turn.”  And the “turn” will most surely come. In history, it always does.

Our country has chosen a road to follow.  If it turns out to be a successful road, easily navigated and leading to a pleasant end point no amount of principle changing by the GOP is going to make any difference in the elections to come.

Not to mention, are we identifying with party because we believe in philosophy or do we simply want to win elections.

Most of the Old White Men I know who identify with the GOP are interested in party philosophy. Sure, we would like to win some elections, but not at any expense.

This is a good time for the losers to wipe their tears and tend to their wounds and then use the next four years, or longer, to get back to the principles of party that brought Republicans like Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan to national prominence.

There is an obligation here.

There are no assurances that the Barack Obama plan will work.

So it is important for America that an acceptable alternative is in place.  Hopefully, it will not be needed. All of us benefit from the second Obama administration being a great success.

But it is best for our country that we are prepared for any eventuality.