Sir;... Intellectualism and conservatism mix like vodka and vermouth to make martini politics... One is made of rotten potatoes and the other is made of wormwood, shaken, not stired, and only sissys consume them... Real conservatives are into beer and peanuts, and a lot of them see their little beer can worlds sinking into the mire while sissy conservatives sell sell sell.... We are all conservative... It is the strength and weakness of all of us... But trying to hold onto the past is like hanging on to the rail of the Titanic because you are afraid to swim...When it is time to let go, and trade up, the idiots hang on and the brains walk; and that accounts for the general rise of intelligence among humanity...It is because forms, which all people find essential can only be replaced with something better, but nature condems those who do not change forms when the time is right....It is past time for us to change our forms... Mr. Obama is only one symptom of our long denied need for change...You can spout intellectual conservatism to the rafters...You cannot make the people more conservative than they are or see conservatism fail them more than it has...It is natural...People are naturally conservative...It is not that quality that needs selling; but the courage and ability to change in life those forms that do not work...People who hang on too long to the past are doomed...We are being defeated by our own natures... That nature needs no cheering, but much deriding... It is a fool's inclination, so it is the attitude most justified by the rich who make food and sport of fools...Thanks...Sweeney

From the article: "the Statist believes rights are not a condition of man's existence but only exist to the extent the Statist ratifies them."

Man's existance doesn't give man rights. If one is living a solitary life in the woods there are no divine rights involved. Rights are ideas that come into play in civilized societies.

The fact is that governments have the power to bestow rights and they have the power to take them away.

The preamble to our Constitution says that "the people" confer the blessings of liberty rather than God.