A gold nugget of a story in the background of Jeffrey Bell’s illustrious career speaks volumes about not only him, but also about just how far American politics has fallen.
Bell is currently director of the Gold Standard 2012 project for the D.C.-based group, American Principles. He is also a veteran of Vietnam and a political operative who helped shape the campaign ads for Ronald Reagan during the sea-change 1980 election cycle.
In 1986, Bell worked with Democrat Sen. Bill Bradley, and Republican Jack Kemp on passage of President Reagan’s Tax Reform Act.
Can you even imagine such bipartisanship in 2012? I can’t.
Thus, Bell’s decades of service to his country have given him a vantage point few attain.
In his new book, “The Case of Polarized Politics,” he makes the case – brilliantly, in my opinion – that the country needs a re-energizing of social values, as much as political ones. This is a key premise, and one often overlooked even by conservative elites in America.
Bell is not afraid to state that: “The Obama Administration is reeling from the power of social conservatism and the uproar from all sides over his disastrous birth control mandate. Republicans have wisely seized on this as a religious freedom issue that at its root is an affront to individual liberty.”
In other words, Obama and his friends don’t get it. They cannot ignore the vast numbers of Americans who have thoroughly rejected their policies, and, as Bell points out, we are still a people of conservative social values.
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