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 6th. 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.
