Tony Blankley, Requiescat in Pace

Tony Blankley, Requiescat in Pace

Author, political commentator, outstanding American conservative and patriot, Anthony “Tony” Blankley, died at 63 on January 7th, 2012.

He will be sorely missed.

Mr. Blankley’s career included roles as a child actor, 10 years service as a prosecutor in the California Attorney General’s Office, policy analyst- speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, a 7-year stint as Newt Gingrich’s press secretary, lecturer on the university circuit, writer for the Washington Times, and sparring with Eleanor Clift on “The McLoughlin Group.”

One of Mr. Blankley’s greatest contributions to an understanding of what he perceived as the greatest threat to the survival of the United States and the Western World, Islam, was his semi-fictional, The West’s Last Stand: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?

He posited the theory that, in view of the pervasive Islamification of Europe, if we want to survive, America may have to go it alone.

Affable when he wanted to be, acerbic when he had to be, to the end, Blankley battled for conservative causes as tenaciously as he battled stomach cancer. As recently as last fall, he was publishing incisive articles on TownHall.com, including the poignant, reflective piece titled, “Thanksgiving 2011.”

A naturalized American born in Britain, Blankley wrote of that “enchanting month from Thanksgiving through Christmas to New Years,” commenting on mankind’s narrow escapes from a catastrophic conclusion, the fall of the USSR, 9/11/2001, the rise of radical Islam, the resurgence of China, the economic crash of 2008, the incompetence of Washington, and the chaos in Europe.

In a very real sense, Tony Blankley’s concluding paragraph in “Thanksgiving 2011″ capsulized both the essence of Tony Blankley and his understanding of what makes America America.

He wrote, ”Our founding words and ideas are ever young. They are imperishable. And we should not wander from our faith in them. On America’s Thanksgiving Day 2011, we should be thankful for what our founding Fathers created and bequeathed to us and to the world. And we should be strengthened to fight for the more complete application of those ideas in the election year that follows this week’s prayerful Thanksgiving celebration.” (http://bit.ly/A1xnuu)

May God bless Tony Blankley. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.(http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12057)