Thrice Denied.

September 8, 2012

My Dear Fellow Patriots:

There is some sort of Biblical irony at play when the delegates at the Democratic National Convention deny God and Jerusalem three times. Eventually their befuddled chairman did what any self-respecting chairman worth his salt would do when faced with agonizing embarrassment – he created a new mathematical system wherein an obvious fifty-fifty voice vote may be interpreted as the necessary two-thirds required to carry the motion.

And don’t you feel so smug, Republican leaders, because you facilitated a similarly egregious end-run around the rules at the Republican National Convention. It was a vile attempt to still the voices of grass roots conservatives within the party, and will not soon be forgiven or forgotten. But that’s for another email at another time. In this one, we’ll concentrate on just how far the Democratic Party has drifted into the hands of secular humanists and become a party wherein God, and by extension Israel, has no real place.

Here’s a quick synopsis of the backstory: Two items were deliberately stripped from the DNC platform as it was written in 2008 – first, the mention of God and second, the declaration that Jerusalem was the eternal capital of Israel. When the Dems realized they had stirred up a hornet’s nest of backlash that was threatening to overtake their national convention, they quickly backtracked.

On Wednesday afternoon, Ted Strickland of Ohio, the chair of the platform committee, moved to amend the platform to include a belief that God is a central figure to the American story, and recognizing that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. A two-thirds voice vote was necessary to carry the motion.

“Verily I say unto thee, that this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.”

And so it was. Convention chairman LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a voice vote on the amendment and seemed stunned when the Nays were as vocal as the Ayes. Unsure of what to do, he was practically stuttering before he called for a second vote. Once again, the Nays and Ayes were clearly equal, the delegates clearly divided.

By now, Villaraigosa was completely unnerved. It was at this point a woman approached the podium from stage right, and appeared to say quietly, “"You've gotta rule and then you've gotta let them do what they're gonna do. Rule."

So once more into the breach went Villaraigosa, now calling for a third vote. And once again, the Ayes did not have it. But now, emboldened, the chairman slipped off into some Democratic alternative reality and declared that he had heard what no one else in the room, in the viewing audience and in the entire YouTube universe had heard – a two-thirds majority.

And then the booing started. Whether they were booing religion, Israel, or the corrupt process itself, we will never know, but this is the story of how God and Jerusalem, having been denied three times, were inserted back into the platform of a party that is obviously divided as to the merits of doing so.

The entire sordid, embarrassing and truly telling event can be viewed here.

Yours in Liberty,

Frank Santarpia
Staten Island, NY