Mark Levin’s Blessed Insanity
Mark Levin is insane. He kissed his sanity goodbye on November 4, 2008. Since Barack Obama’s election, he has become a raving maniac. But he doesn’t need an appointment to Bellevue Hospital in New York City; rather, he needs conservatism. And he needs a leader in Washington that will speak for conservatism to come forward.
Levin’s problem is a common conservative problem. He becomes enraged when he sees the individual liberty stripped from American citizens. He becomes enraged when Republicans flirt with liberalism and promote the ideas of liberals. And he becomes enraged when liberals trample all over the U.S. Constitution—when granting Miranda rights to terrorists.
He became enraged when he saw Senator John McCain—a Republican that claimed to be conservative—run for President of the United States as the Republican nominee. He lost his sanity, trying to warn of us the dangers in advance. In his January 11, 2008 article, The Real McCain Record, Levin wrote, “There’s a reason some of John McCain’s conservative supporters avoid discussing his record. They want to talk about his personal story, his position on the surge, his supposed elect ability. But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as attacks. The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter.”
Levin went on to explain the disastrous record of McCain. His insanity forced him to try and warn the American people, conservatives and Republicans—but the party just dismissed him as a kook. He was treated as if he were “Crazy Uncle Joe” that needed to be locked away in the basement. And now we’re paying for it. If we had just listened to his insanity, we might not have Barack Obama as President of the United States. However, Mark’s insanity doesn’t just stop with RINO Republicans. It extends itself to individual liberty.
He is now enraged as the U.S. Congress, the President of the United States and the Vice President of the United States continue to encroach on your individual liberties as citizens. For a swift and exact change is exactly what Obama wishes to ram down America’s throat. But in Liberty & Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, he warned us this kind of change.
In the book, he wrote, “For Edmund Burke, change as reform was intended to preserve and improve the basic institutions of the state. Change as innovation was destructive as a radical departure from the past and the substitution of existing institutions of the state with potentially dangerous experiments. The Conservative believes, as Burke and the Founders did, that prudence must be exercised in assessing change. Prudence is the highest virtue for it is judgment drawn on wisdom. The proposed change should be informed by the experience, knowledge, and traditions of society, tailored for a specific purpose, and accomplished through a constitutional construct that ensures thoughtful deliberation by the community.”
Prudence, however, has not been exercised, and many Americans—especially Levin—are utterly insane with rage. For they understand that Obama is changing America, depriving them of their liberty, and the liberties of their children and their children’s children.
In an interview with CNSnews.com, Levin tells us why Obama’s change is destructive. “The goal is to preserve and improve our society, not to destroy it, not to transform it into something that’s foreign, not to spread misery, not to address the grievance of every malcontent. No, the purpose is to improve our society. So we support change as reform as opposed to change as innovation or change as destruction (http://www.cnsnews.com/PUBLIC/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=47682).”
Now comes another change. And Mark Levin is filled with rage, a rage that is driving his insanity again. Now, under orders from Obama, we must begin reading Miranda Rights to Guantanamo Bay terrorists. Now, we are giving them Constitutional Rights, when they are not citizens of the United States.
And on July 1, 2004, Levin warned us of just this type of danger at The Corner on National Review. There, he wrote about the Supreme Court decision, trying to warn us, saying “The same slippery slope one assigns to the Supreme Court in Rasul v. Bush — an outrageous ruling explained well by Andy McCarthy and others — is no less likely in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld. The fundamental issue here is judicial review in the context of war, and the proper extent of that judicial review.”
Mark continued the argument. “Moreover, the judiciary is not well equipped by experience, background, or knowledge to best make judgments related to war. Indeed, it is the least qualified of the three branches. The Court acknowledges that Hamdi does not present a garden-variety criminal matter, and yet it stretches to treat his detention as such by cobbling together an unclear due-process requirement, which will be left to the lower courts to figure out. Detaining these two individuals for approximately two years during the course of this war seems perfectly reasonable on its face, and deserved the deference the Constitution gives the executive, not the courts. This was a bad decision.”
Mark Levin has been waging a war for conservatism for over thirty years. He has devoted himself to America and the U.S. Constitution. When those that hate America attack it, he becomes insane with rage. He rails against the enemy on his daily radio show. He writes columns to warn us, and he keeps an eye on the greatest country in the world.
Elective Decisions is a strong supporter of Mark R. Levin. And we thank him from the bottom of our hearts. We love his radio show, his books and his articles. For we know his insanity is a blessed insanity—an insanity that will warn of us the lurking liberal dangers within our own borders.
And a storm is coming in 2010, a storm filled with Mark Levin’s blessed insanity.
