Yes, it’s tough being a conservative voter these days. But the truth is it’s always been.

Think about it. There have been 232 years of U.S. history. In how many of them could you have shared a conservative principle such as the one that follows with big shot politicians, bureaucrats, and judges and received a truly honest, deeply committed handshake of agreement in return?

“I believe Jefferson was entirely correct when he observed that ‘the people themselves . . . are the safest depository of [political power].’ I also believe that because Jefferson condemned judges who practice ‘on the Constitution by inferences, analogies, and sophisms,’ he would bitterly condemn today’s Liberal Activists who, like medieval sorcerers, divine meaning from ‘penumbras’ formed by ‘emanations’ of the Constitution’s words.”

Of course, the point of the question is simply to say that when voters advance common sense, time-tested conservative principles to politicians and other governmental elites, they almost always receive not a warm handshake offered by a political kindred spirit but the same condescending smile those high-and-mighty frauds direct at people who tell them, “I take the principles of my religion seriously.”

So, how will conservatives approach this election, held in a time when the nation desperately needs to hear the truth — but a time when it finds itself in a very bad place, the place at which any nation has arrived when a great number of its citizens can honestly say, “We can stand neither our problems nor their solutions.”

Well, we conservatives won’t even consider metamorphosing into posturing hypocrites who extol the beauty of the mantra, “turn on, tune in, drop out.” Neither will we submit to the pessimism and fear that drive some to seek easy answers to profound problems, making them ostriches or sheep that are easy prey for politicians whose stock-in-trade is business-as-usual lies.

Rather we’ll continue to fight for creative, common sense, classically conservative policies when we respond to problems regarding war and peace, jobs, trade, the middle class, health care, taxes, energy, environment, and borders/immigration.

But as in every political battle, there is fighting and then there is fighting or, as pollsters like to say, there are “likely” voters” and there are voters who are “energized.” The question then becomes this: “Will conservatives be energized in the ’08 Election?” I’m not sure, but I think we will be.

I am, however, far more certain of this:

If Thomas Jefferson were living today, he would be very much concerned about every problem mentioned above and others. However, the battle over Liberal Judicial Activism wouldn’t just have him “energized,” it would charge him up so much he’d exhibit the ferocity and resolve of a Spartan soldier whose culture had taught him to return from battle with his shield or on it.

Yes, understanding that this battle is one about the very nature of American government, Jefferson would fight ferociously until he could fight no more against an insatiable usurping of legislative and executive power and medieval hocus-pocusing of “rights” by Liberal Activist Judges, who since the sixties have exhibited a disdain for the Constitution and its Jeffersonian principle of Federalism that ought to leave every American frightened for the future of American democracy.

For most conservatives, I need not repeat here the long list of Liberal Activist judicial atrocities that support my speculations regarding a reincarnated Thomas Jefferson. But some who are unaware of that list may think those speculations unwarranted or “extreme.”

The following opinion, fear, warning, and lesson Jefferson expressed nearly two centuries ago will enlighten those people as it refreshes the mind and spirit of those who have long been engaged in this crucial battle of the Culture War:

“To this I am opposed.”

That five word sentence by Thomas Jefferson —

The reality that for five decades huge numbers of Americans (including Republican leaders) have reacted like ostriches and sheep to Liberal Activist Judges and their increasingly astonishing audacity —

The current make-up of the Court —

The reality that a presidential win by Obama (or any other Democratic nominee) will not simply cement into place the Liberal judicial culture of the past fifty years and insure more Liberal Activist usurpation of power; it will change American government from the Federalism of Jeffersonian Democracy to the aristocratic horror of a Liberal judicial oligarchy for a length of time we don’t even want to contemplate —

For those reasons and more, I will be an ardent supporter of John McCain for the presidency despite my differences with him on matters from trade, to border issues, to immigration reform, to campaign finance reform.

And I mean ardent because while a McCain win gives me the chance to be on the winning side of returning Jeffersonian Democracy to America, that is, rule by the people, not judges, the alternative assures me that from A (aspirin) to B (borders) to C (crime and punishment) to T (taxes) to W (war and peace) to Z (zippers or buttons), I’ll have everything decided for me.

By whom?

By a gang of de facto dictators Jefferson denounced as an insidious “corps of sappers and miners,” a gang whose life terms and whose inoculation against removal (because of partisan politics, Jefferson mocked impeachment as a farce, bugbear, and scarecrow) render them, again in the great Founder’s words, “irremovable but by their own body for any depravities of conduct, and even by their own body for the imbecilities of dotage.”

Copyright by AJ DiCintio