Ted Kennedy - Undying Hope

You have to hand it to Ted Kennedy - the man is nothing if not optimistic, and very patient. Well he is also a philanderer, drunk, and a very bad driver too (but apparently an ok swimmer). But, I digress. In his speech at the DNC fool again Convention he said:

For me, this is a season of hope. New hope for a just and fair prosperity for the many and not just the few.

Now, to me, this is scary stuff. Because 'just and fair' means - The government, under guise of 'fairness' is going come and take your money, which you worked hard for, and give it to someone else who did not earn it.

But, what really struck me is how patient it shows Ted to be. In 1980, at the DNC Convention, Ted said this:

A fair prosperity and a just society are within our vision and our grasp...

Now this is very instructive. He has had this socialist vision, verily a mission, for lo these TWENTY EIGHT years. These ideas are like the Wicked Witch of the East (no, not Hillary). Unless you see the house fall on it - and the socks roll up, you won't know that it is dead. Well, come to think of it - sort of like Hillary.

Of course, these ideas descend from Marx - fine. But, in the American experience, to see this idea refuse to die, despite all of the failed attempts, is quite instructive.

And, of course, no Teddy appearance would be complete without:

New hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American north, south, east and west, young and old, will have decent, quality, affordable health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege.

I went back and re-read the Constitution. Nope - no mention of health care as a fundamental right. And the 'affordable' part? That means that the Government is going come and take your money, which you worked hard for, and give it to someone else who did not earn it - to pay for their health care. (In the interest of full disclosure, I copied and pasted that from earlier in this post -- it just fit so well). Also absent in the Constitution is ANY Right that imposes a burden on someone else. (You can read more about my view on THAT in my first ever post on this blog).

So, the lesson to Conservatives is this: the battle over tyranny, through expanded government, attempting to take your liberty is NEVER won - it is NEVER over. We may win a battle, but the war continues unabated.