As the first decade of the 21st Century approaches its close, I have been giving considerable consideration to the subject of what politician has best served the cause of conservatism in the first ten years of the new century. Try as I might, I cannot avoid the inescapable truth that the person who best fits that description is the very same person who did his very best to destroy conservatism in America and institute a regime of European style socialism, Barack Obama.

That's correct, you heard me right; the Savior of Conservatism in the first decade of the new century can be no other than Barack Obama, the man who tried to cram socialism down America's throat only to have America spit it up all over his shirt front.

Think about it. Without Obama we wouldn't have a resurgent Republican Party, control of the House, the rise of the Tea Party and newly elected, Republican-controlled state legislatures and attorneys general rebelling against federal encroachment. Nor would we have the lefty organizations like MoveOn, ACORN and the various unions all with their panties in tightening wads. Can't you just imagine how those silken knots bite into their cheeks when they look at that electoral map and require a reading glass to find the ever diminishing Democrat districts, the shrinking ethnic conclaves and the thinning coastal fringes of liberal blue?

So I say why not Barack Hussein Obama as the Savior of Conservatism or Conservative Man of the Decade? Two years ago we conservatives were supposedly extinct and now we have control of the House and are poised to seize the White House and possibly the Senate two years hence. We control more state legislatures than at any time in history. Show me any Republican or conservative politician who's ever accomplished anything like that or done more to rebuild the conservative movement and the Republican Party in such a brief amount of time. Can't can you?

Hell, I think we oughta put up a huge bronze statue somewhere of this Savior of Conservatism, the man who thought we were all just a bunch of clinging pigeons.

So real pigeons can shower him with our gratitude in perpetuity...