I could tell what you were thinking last night at the democrat watch party in Denver. As the term-limited Colorado governor replaced by another democrat, was one of your first statements to the media congratulatory in nature or highly partisan? No. You said, “You know, we’ve got to figure out a way to unite rural and urban Colorado.” Finally, on the night you were replaced, you and I have agreed on something.
You may be thinking about 2020 as the democrats try to put fresh, younger faces on the presidential ticket. Sorry John, but neither of ours is as young or fresh as that guy in Texas, but you were thinking about it anyway. And your comments revealed what you knew to be true last night: rural Americans had just expanded republican control of the U.S. Senate.
I have one idea how we can do it, John—unite all Americans.
Rural people deal with truth every day. If it doesn’t rain, the crops are threatened. Not much you can do about the cattle in the field if a no-notice blizzard sets in. They have real families to take care of as well. And people out there don’t sit in traffic jams. If they sit anywhere, it’s in broken down machinery that they have to fix themselves or find some way to pay for it. What keeps them going day in and day out?
It’s values. It’s recognizing that there has to be moral law, and because there has to be moral law, there has to be a moral law giver. Each day they commit their lives to a higher authority and trust God to provide for them. It’s out of their hands. They have nowhere else to turn. They can’t just put an initiative on the ballot and spend gobs of money advertising the heck out of it like you do John. They place their faith somewhere else, and deal with absolute truth every day.
In urban centers like Chicago, the democrat mayor recently suggested that all of the crime in that city could be pointed back to the cause of “a lack of morals.” And John, you know this guy. He’s Rahm Emmanuel. But whose morals are you guys going to use? In 2012, the democrat national convention voted God out of their party platform three times (no, that couldn’t be coincidence, could it).
Here’s the breaking news, John. To unite rural and urban Americans, you’re going to have to unite our values under moral law. And guess whose values you’re going to have to use? Our God is the moral law giver, and I’m sure He’s not sweating that whole 2012 convention thing. That kind of pales in comparison to the fact that He gave His only Son Jesus Christ for those guys—and for you. Now, God cares about that.
It can be done, but Denver and Boulder notions of “values” don’t cut it where absolute truth resides. You’re going to have to bring morals back to America if you want to unite us as president. Look up the name Zell Miller—a democrat who got it.
And, here’s a note from someone else you guys like to think of as a democrat (thank you Josh Charles):
“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere, and less perfection in the others with more health virtue & freedom would be my choice.”
Thomas Jefferson
And, John, he was just a deist—not one of those danged, right-wing evangelicals. If we don’t meet up, good luck in 2020—to you and your entire party. Without God, you’ll need it. As the liberal news media likes to tell those of us who are conservatives, “I wish the news was better for you.”