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Fred Thompson has come on strong with his ability to communicate and connect with large audiences. Funny, communication is a skill the other candidates – ironically – are lacking.
Great find on the quote!
I am a former teacher and current business owner. I am a conservative who believes in the core principles and values that have made this country great. I am a registered Republican who has voted for border security time and time again. If this new bill passes it will represent the beginning of the breakdown of the values that my parents taught me and their parents taught them and my wife and I have taught to our children. That America is a great nation under GOD. That the U.S. is a nation that welcomes immigrants who desire a better life and who desire to be Americans without hyphens. I strongly believe that this bill will encourage “legal” persons rather than people who desire to be citizens, thus, further weakening this country. I reject that this bill is the only answer. I am not uneducated. I am an informed and proud citizen of this great nation. We must enforce the laws that are already in place before enacting more laws. We must secure our borders by building a fence and by training and our men and women of the CBP and by providing them with the necessary tools to do so. This bill is outrageous! Be strong you elected officials. Do not sacrifice this nation and its citizens. Do not assume that we will stand idly by and allow our children to suffer the consequences. We will not! Quit cowering to the left and the moderates of the world. Do not let an open mind lead to an open door for enemies to destroy what our forefathers and men and women fought and died to protect. This is our time now to stand up for what we believe. This is our time now to be Americans.
In listening to and reading articles by Fred Thompson, he has won me over. A campaign slogan that would describe him to me, is “He talks plain”.
All the things I have heard and read indicate that he is a true conservative. I hope he wins the nomination.
OMG– Simply said and simply true! I knew he was the right guy and it’s the right time!
Judy emails:
“What can be done to stop Bill 1348? I have called, faxed, emailed, etc., and our Republican leadership does not care about Republican voters. This bill will be the end of the Republican party and leave no party left who represents people who don’t think we reward bad behavior. I will contribute money to unseat ANY Republican who supports this bill.”
Keep doing what you are doing Judy. You are making an impact, even if it seems like you are not getting through… they hear you!
-Scott
Ron emails:
” I have been thinking about an idea that I have talked to with friends. I would like to see if it would be possible to contribute $1-2 towards the campaign of anyone who runs against a Senator or Congressman who is in support of Illegals, or any other area of interest to me. Let say there 50 Senators or Congressmen who I want to vote against because of their views on Illegals. That would mean that I would contribute no more than $50-$100 per campaign season to any challeger I desire to support! Now lets say we can get 5-10 or even 20 million people who go along with us. That should be enough people and money to make Congress THINK! They are here to do what is in the best interet of the Country and the American people! Now I would not only be able to voice my objections to my own Senators an Congresman, but perhaps have a say in Senators and Congressmen fron other States! I am always getting Letters from Canidates asking for money, and it is usually more that I can afford for all who are asking, but $50-$100 total split betiween whatever number I decide to support would not be a financial burden on me or I would think anyone else. Even if it was a 100 I could still support them! When the RNC ask for money, you don’t have a say in how they split it up. Now you would! I only want Conservatives! Not Moderates or Liberals. Either party is fine with me as long as their views are Conservative!!”
I like the idea Ron. Let’s focus on the senators that are up for re-election next year, and then go after others as they come up. We support challenging, in the primary, any so-called Republican supporting this amnesty bill… including my senator (Arlan Spectacle as The Great One likes to call him).
-Scott
Clarification first. I grew up in a Teamster Democrat family. I knew the “Rich” were out to take everything from me (my parents told me so). A good friend, a Republican, challenged my beliefs and over time I began to flip. In 1980 I voted for Jimmy Carter and felt like the world was ending. It took me another 12 years to finally vote as a conservative Republican and I’m a committed conservative today.
Here’s my dilemma. I’m pretty sure what is conservative, and I vote that way, but I’m not sure the politicians I vote for are. I’m not a Bush basher, but I am troubled as to how he seems to waver politically. Why does he do this? Immigration is a good example. Why does he support this immigration bill? He has to know that a large number of citizens who have supported him are opposed to this bill, so what does he stand to gain? I’m mystified and very frustrated (as I’m sure most the conservative base is).
I’ve sent more letters in the past few weeks than in my entire life. My mother should be happy, but not one of these letters have been to her. I wrote them to members of the Senate and the House in response to this bill. As much as I’ve appreciated the impact these letters seem to have had, from me and everyone else, I am irritated that I had to write them in the first place. Especially the letters I wrote to people I voted for! I fear for the future of my political party of choice as well as my faith in conservatives I may vote for. What happens to them on the way to Washington DC anyway?
SCOTT, this is the final chapter in my association with the gop. their haughtiness in dealing with we peons [wow, how inversely proportional that is to we true americans ] has put me over the top. yes, i will work the ‘net to remember which of our so called conservative brethern and sisterettes left us–TO CURRY FAVOR WITH ILLEGAL ALIENS!! We americans have been relegated to the role of third tier citizens. in ranking order: the illegals come first– big business or any business for that matter-the fact they pick up the cheap labor and still get us flunkies to pay illegal benefits thru U.S. social programs is an abomination! Finally–the gop- the arrogant gop- looks at we citizens–the backbone of this nation–as innocuous as piss ants. No way will i yield to the politics of giving america to mexico! THE ROUTE WE NOW HAVE TO TAKE [1] YES, LET THESE POLITICIANS(editiorial substitution) KNOW HOW HARD WE WILL WORK THE BLOGS–AGAINST THEM–AT ELECTION TIME! [2] STOP DONATING TO THE GOP. THEY HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF CAMPAIGN WORKERS WITH LAYOFFS DUE TO CITIZEN DONATIONS DRAMATICALLY DROPPING. NOW-LET’S DO MORE OF THAT. NO MONEY TO THE GOP UNTIL THEY SHOW US THEY HAVE A SPINE. THIS ARROGANT REPUDIATION OF ALL TRUE AMERICANS AS TO PLACE AN ILLEGAL-ABOVE ME–SHALL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. Last week, as a gesture of my severe scorn and disdain for the gop [of course, i respect no one in the dnc-except joe lieberman ] i sent back my RNC MEMBERSHIP CARD. I shall donate–NO MORE TO THESE “JELLYFISH” THAT ARE GIVING AWAY MY NATION, INSULTING MY INTELLIGENCE AND SCREWING THOSE, FROM THROUGH OUT THE WORLD THAT ARE PATIENTLY WAITING AND PAYING A HUGE SUM OF MONEY TO BECOME LEGAL CITIZENS OF THE U.S.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I SENT MY RNC MEMBERSHIP CARD BACK TO H.Q. LAST WEEK. THE GOP–HAS LEFT ME! THE GOP HAS LAID OFF MANY IN CAMPIGN HEADQUARTERS DUE TO DONATIONS DROPPING OFF-DRASTICALLY. IT’S A NO-BRAINER- ALL OF US CONSERVATIVES–MUST STOP DONATING TO THE GOP AND GOP CANDIDATES TO DRIVE HOME OUR MESSAGE THAT IF YOU CHOOSE TO REPUDIATE “THE BACKBONE OF THIS NATION”-WE LEGAL CITIZENS–THEN WE CANNOT UNDERWRITE THE COSTS OF MAINTAINING A GOP. A GOP THAT CARES ONLY ABOUT POLITICAL POWER AND GETTING RE-ELECTED. WITH A LACK OF MONEY IN GOP COFFERS–IT CAN VERY WELL SPELL THE END FOR THOSE IN THE GOP THAT DARE TO TAKE US FOR GRANTED. I HAVE NOTHING BUT SCORN AND DISDAINMENT FOR A GOP-THAT INSULTS MY INTELLIGENCE — FOR THAT THEY’LL PAY A HEAVY PRICE ON ELECTION DAY AND IF THE “MONEY PIT ” DRIES UP–THEY WILL VERY MUCH BE PLACED IN A POLITICAL BIND THAT THEY MAY NEVER RECOVER FROM. AGAIN I SAY–WITHOLD CAMPAIGN DONATIONS TO ALL GOP-ERS UNTIL WE GET RECOGNIZED. I’LL BE DAMNED IF THE WISHES OF AN ILLEGAL ALIEN AND THE PHONY GROUPS THAT SUPPORT THIS AMNESTY–ARE PLACED ABOVE YOU AND ME!
Re: illegals. That any and all illegals apprehended after having lived here any length of time, have their personal and real assets impounded, confiscated, and then be deported. “WHY BE NICE”
My fervent hope is that this can actually come to pass. It will be an event long overdue (since the end of World War 2).
I fear we are in for bad times with our favorite politicians until some serious changes are made.In regard to the last sentence of your article,(with which I heartily agreed): when they reach Washington they are up to their eyeballs in obligation to their financial supporters. That situation MUST be changed.After two weeks of “settling in”,they start working on reelection, leaving 90% of legislation duties to staffers,for they have no time to spend on the basics of the job….Perhaps it should be mandatory that all new politicians have all new staff,and shorter terms.
Couldn’t agree with you more. I was recently just reading a story about a Texas town that made it illegal for land lords to rent it illegals, and wouldnt know it the ACLU has to swope in to make their two cents be heard. They need to find a cheap and effective way to round all of them up and send me back thru the desert.
if your great decider (AKA G.W. Bush) would have thought anything about this war thru with his croonies ( AKA Cheney, and Rummy) before starting it, he would have understood that we needed to be in Afghanistan where Bin Laden was the whole time. And please dont repsond with anything telling me how congress voted and approved for the war, because of all the false pretences that were presented to them to start the war.
Please understand, i also think that the Dems are pretty laughable, but the way the Repubs have been doing things in office for the last 4 years and border line traitorous (i wont go into the long list, they have been well documented).
Stop the bashing back and forth, and just get something, ANYTHING that is usefull to this country done! We are all being failed by our policy makers.
A few counterpoints for you my friend…
1. I wonder how you know Osama’s whereabouts?
2. Last I checked, we successfully toppled the Taliban government in Afganistan and they now have a democratically elected government. I’m pretty sure we have thousands of troops in Afganistan at this very moment.
3. President Bush’s one of the aforementioned “croonies” is our elected Vice President, yours and mine.
4. Would love to hear the traitorous schpeel…
5. What are you doing to change things… besides taking the easy route and complaining about “both sides”
1) Does anyobdy that thinks with a sound mind really truly Not believe that Osama is in the Afgani mountains/ caves right now?? Where else would he be?
2) Yes we went in kicked butt and ousted the Taliban from power, but i have heard from numerous news agencies that they are starting to regroup and spread their same message of fear as before our invasion. (do you not believe that had we kept a stronger contingent of forces there that we still would not have caught him yet?
3) not sure what you were actually try to get across with this point. But just because he is an elected offical doesnt excuse the fact that i believe he is one shady character. (his track record speaks for itself).
4) What would you call the leaking of a CIA operatives name to the press be? If anyone else did that outside of the admin would they not have been arrested, and sent to jail??
5) unfortanutely i have WAY to many skeletons in my closet to make any meaningful changes.
I find myself in a quandry because i do believe in most of the conserviate principals. However i strongly feel that the current admin is serving their and their constituents needs/ wants more than the countries needs. I find it almost comical when watching the news about anything in politics anymore just because the great divide in this counrties two (big) parties. Like i said in a previous email stop all the jerking around and start working towards solutions instead of the partisan bickering.
here is better and longer list of items to answer your question #4
Click on the allegation of your choice:
**Editorial deletion of the rest of this post… just as I suspected. “whatswrong” is a black helicopter nut spewing all these conspiracy theories. This is a serious forum devoted to discussing the most important issues of our time. If you are going to post conspiracy crap, go do it on one of the forums more suitable to shallow thinking… like the Daily Kos. Consider this your only warning.
-Scott
First of all, if you are going to continue to post here I’d appreciate it if you would at least attempt to spell correctly. That said, I’ll educate you with some facts, as that’s the kinda guy I am:
1. No one knows where UBL is, or whether he’s still alive. If we did, he’d be 6 ft under by now. Most credible experts do not believe he is in Afganistan. Most believe he is in the ungoverned tribal areas of northern Pakistan. There is some credible evidence that he has at least spent some time in Iran as well.
2. We have turned over the assitance of Afganistan security to our NATO partners. We still have thousands of troops there, and continue to kill the reminants of the Taliban as we find them. The Taliban are in no shape to be an operational threat. Sure they can strike with a suicide bomber here and there, but that is of no major military significance.
3. Dick Cheney’s track record is nothing short of excellent. It’s too bad he’s not running for Prez in 08′. I’ll sleep very soundly this weekend knowing he’s acting President while W has colon checked out at Camp David.
4. Richard Armitage (no friend of this administration) leaked the Plame’s name. See my most recent post “Plame out!” to get your facts straight.
5. Skelton’s or no… there are way too many of you guys out there that simply bitch and complain (usually with about 1/4 of the facts, if that, at your disposal)about “both side”… to make any type of difference, your gonna have to get involved with one side or the other, or try to start a 3rd party movement.
Couldn’t have said it better myself! Mark is truly the Great One!
MLF,
Thanks for dropping by! It’s quite a honor to have you at The Conservative Post.
-Scott
Why doesnt the immigration department have agents watching this town and come in scoop them all up and ship em back across the boder. Are there state or city laws that stop them from doing this??
can anyone answer the above question?? If they are here against the law, why isnt the government doing anything about this.
whatswrongUSA,
The answer is maddening, and quite simple at the same time… There is no will to do it! There is no political will to do what we all know is right… to uphold the laws of our country.
The liberals and Democratic party have ZERO interest in enforcing our existing immigration laws… no they actually want open borders with no restrictions.
The majority of Republicans are with conservatives on this issue… they oppose amnesty, want to enforce our borders, and want stem the flow of illegal immigration. Don’t get me wrong, there are however, far too many Republicans who are pathetically weak on this issue as well… the President included.
Even more ridiculous… many of our largest cities have designated themselves as “sanctuary” cities, meaning it’s their stated policy to NOT enforce our immigration laws. They actually tell their police force to not ask a suspected illegal about their citizen status.
[...] Way back in March, I predicted in a post that Obama would beat Momma Corleone (AKA Hillary) in a head to head match. My premise was that any credible candidate will end up beating her because essentially she is a shrill phony. [...]
Tom emails in the following:
The liberals never cease to amaze me! They think that conservatives don’t read? I guess they forgot about the fact that Ann Coulter, a conservative, has had 5 best sellers.
Bush’s Bailout
Despite previous claims that there would be no bailout for sleazy lenders and shady investors, Bush has decided to propose a mortgage bailout plan that will do just that, proving once again that his administrative policy is based on saying one thing and doing another.
Although Bush claims the bailout is for deserving homeowners, the thinly veiled policy changes are obviously meant to insure that lenders are not defaulted on. Here is a quick summary of the proposed exploitation (excuse me, bailout):
Federal Housing Administration (FHA) guidelines will be modernized so that defaulting borrowers can get federally guaranteed loans. This bails out the lenders who made the bad loans to start with because the refinances insure that the lenders get paid and do not have to take a loss. FHA estimates they can help lenders with 80,000 loans.
Qualifying for the refinance is easy. Borrowers just have to prove that they were irresponsible enough to take out an ARM loan that would be absolutely unaffordable once the rate reset. No problem there–lots of borrowers lied on their application simply to qualify a loan and then took out an ARM because there was still no way to afford the overpriced house they wanted to buy with a traditional fixed rate mortgage.
The administration is launching a new ‘foreclosure avoidance initiative’ to find other homeowners who are in danger of defaulting on home loans. These homeowners will be directed to agencies like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the FHA who will work together so that lenders are not forced to take back homes that are no longer worth what borrowers paid for them.
Fundamental Disconnect
Current home prices are completely out of whack with current incomes. It is virtually impossible for households earning the median income to afford a median priced home. While it would be nice to think that wages will soon catch up to home prices, it is simply not going to happen. Prices need to come down to more affordable levels. This is the only way to eradicate the fundamental disconnect that has permeated our housing market.
Government intervention will keep the current (and artificial) price bubble propped up. This is completely unfair to people who play by the rules. It also creates a moral hazard by rewarding the borrowers and lenders who got greedy, and undermines our entire system.
Should someone who lied on their mortgage application get a second chance? Of course not. These people should be prosecuted for fraud. What about the people who took out an ARM just so they could afford a McMansion? Do they deserve the opportunity to refinance into a lower rate at the expense of taxpayers? No! And what about the lenders that were so keen to make money off of creative loan products? Should they get to transfer risk to the taxpayers? Definitely not.
Yet, Bush’s plan (which he is refusing to call a bailout even though that is exactly what it is) will let borrowers who lied, cheated, and gambled, and the lenders who enabled them to come out smelling like a rose.
Let’s Not Make the Same Mistake as Japan
In the 1990s, Japan experienced a similar housing boom/price bubble. Home prices doubled, and in the largest cities, they tripled. And then everything began to unravel. The market began to crash. That’s when the Japan government made the terrible decision to intervene.
The result?
The market correction in Japan is still dragging on to this day. Because Japan’s Ministry of Finance was so eager to keep the banks that made bad loans from going bankrupt, they virtually assured that the country would be languished in a multi-decade recession.
And now the U.S. is about to follow the same path. If left alone, the current U.S. bubble will eventually pop. Sure, some people will lose their homes, but quite frankly, that is what needs to happen. When you take a gamble and do not properly manage your finances, you sometimes get burned. That’s the way our financial system works. Altering the rules for some people under given circumstances isn’t fair to the rest of the country, and will only serve to endanger our economy.
Take Action
More than 2 million people are projected to default on loans before the end of 2008. Some of them will lose their homes because of legitimate reasons like job loss, illness, death, and divorce, but most of them will face foreclosure as a result of their own stupidity and greed. Unlike you, they did not choose to rent. They did not choose to buy a home in their price range. And they did not choose a more sensible fixed rate loan. They decided to take a gamble and they lost.
Unless you want to pay to keep these people in their homes, pay to keep slimy lenders in business, and pay to keep Wall Street investors flush with money, you need to write your representatives and speak out against more bailouts. If we don’t stand up now, this foolishness is bound to continue.
Not sure what to say? Here is a sample letter to copy and paste. Simply add your rep’s name at the top and your name at the bottom:
Dear Representative,
As a concerned citizen and a taxpayer, I feel it is my duty to inform you that I do not support any efforts to bailout irresponsible mortgage borrowers and lenders.
While I appreciate and understand the desire to help people who are genuinely in trouble, I cannot support any initiatives that will bailout borrowers who made the decision to get a subprime or ARM loan that they could not afford after payment resets.
Such initiatives only serve to punish the taxpayers who worked hard to save down payments, as well as those who made the decision to avoid buying a home that they could not reasonably afford.
Finally, bailouts perpetuate a moral hazard to our economy. By bailing out borrowers, you bailout the lenders and do not force them to face the consequences of their previous actions. This is questionable behavior at best, and will only serve to encourage risky lending in the future.
I implore you to stand tall and fight for what is right. Some people have worked very hard to achieve the American dream of buying a home. Taking their money and distributing it to people who are financially and morally irresponsible is a slap in the face. I don’t deserve it and neither does the rest of America.
Sincerely,
Mexican President says ” wherever Mexicans go,that is Mexico.”….Yes, you can tell by the graffiti.
I thought you’d be pleased to learn that Ron Paul mis-spoke when saying “international law.” The word he was likely going to use was “constitutional law.”
If you take his entire discussion into context, it’s clear he had a slip. I squinched when I heard it as well, because I knew there would be some people to not catch the slip; even the crowd was partially booing that slip.
burns,
I’m not sure how you can be so sure… how can you discern a mis-speak from all the other asinine things that come from his mouth?
Ron Paul is by far the most forthright and honest person running on the Republican ticket, its to bad that more people dont listen to what he says.
Whatswrong,
OK, so he’s an honest moron. Another moronic quote from the debate… ‘I’d go to Congress to see if we should go to war’. Forget the fact that your typical congressman/woman doesn’t know their knee from their elbow… most have zero access to any classified intelligence information that one would need to make the determination on whether to go to war or not.
Once again you are mincing his words, i like i am sure most other people understood that when he said that he meant he would ask for congressional approval. Which usually happens, except with the case of the current admin.
Don’t need to mince anything, I’m just taking him AT his word… he said it, you want to make excuses for him being a complete and total idiot.
Since you don’t have seem to have a clue, like most libs, the war you seemingly hate so much was approved by huge majority of Congress. HJ Res 114. Senate passed 77-23. House passed 296-113. Google it.
That is what I was thinking. Republicans need to attack the liberal fringe for not supporting the troops.
Before saying what i have to on the about post, i definately agree this country has to do something about the borders, with the hunderds crossing probably daily what is to make us think that terrorist arent crossing as well.
But remember that it was the president who first offered amnesty, which was shot down in Congress.
Where would the government come up with the money to fund the building of a wall???
Also you can build a wall 15 feet across the entire border and they would still find a way to cross, the only way to stop the flood of illegals, is to hold the business’s and owners of the business responsible.
Do you remember the Berlin Wall, how well did that work.
Here it is folks. The perfect opportunity to finally label the so called Democratic hopefuls for what they really are. They arent Democrats at all actually. They are the MoveOn.org. candidates, and should be called thusly from here on out. If as they should be designated as the MoveOn candidates, rather than Democrats in the press at every opportunity the country, expressly Middle America, will surely put them in their place on election day. Just look at the polls people, the overwhelming number of voters from both sides want to distance themselves from MoveOn but the MoveOn presidential hopefuls won’t refute MoveOn and their politics of personal destruction. So, from now on, they are the MoveOn candidate, not the democratic hopeful.
whatswrong,
You have it partially right.
But first a lesson on your government. The Democrats control both houses of Congress, and therefore nothing can come to the floor for debate without the Democrats in the lead. Now, President Bush wanted Amnesty as much as the lib Democrats, and we opposed him fiercely on the Amnesty Bill, as we do on any other issue when he strays from conservative principles.
We will support Republicans, Democrats, or Independants as long as they address issues from a position consistent with our conservative principles.
To the other questions you raise… to secure our borders, we need a multi-front solution. Strict employer enforcement has to be a central piece of the strategy as that will remove the magnet. You also need both a combination of physical and technological barriers guarding all our shared borders (North and South). Not every illegal crossing our borders is looking for a landscaping job… many come here to commit crimes or worse.
As to the cost, Congress has already passed $4 billion earlier this year, and we can’t afford not to spend the money on securing our borders. Every illegal that comes across the border costs taxpayers almost $20,000/year… factor in entitlements, and the long term cost is trillions (read some of our other posts on this topic).
Lastly, the Berlin wall was built to keep people IN… big difference here…
Like i said, i totally agree with you on this subject, i just differ on the ways of getting it accomplished.
The illegals will find a way across if we have a wall, camera’s, or people out patrolling out there or not.
You are right, going after the employers is step # 1, as for the people crossing not being landscapers (you brought that up not, me), i would have thrown in migrant farmers as well, but regardless if we go after the employers and maybe (this is to complex for me to even fathom) some how hope Mexico can get an economy, wishful thinking i know, that would all help.
Also dont forget to mention that with the $4 billion congress passed for the fence/ wall,it will only be enough money to get about a 5 foot wall put up spanning a stretch of about 50 miles, last i checked the border was alot bigger than that.
Can someone please ask Mr. Jackson, what it means to be “Black enough”???? Or more importantly for a black to know what it means to act like he is white???
I thought he had been spending the last 40 years of his life for equality, now he is saying that there is a differnce between black and white people, he cant have it both ways, so i hope someone comes out and askes the question, because i would really love to know what they are.
When are people going to realize the Jackson and Sharpton, that while they may have started with good intentions years ago, are now only in it for the money. I mean think about it, if we, the U.S., had total equality what would those two be doing for a job or career??
They want the racial tension in this country, i.e. Imus and how they both persecuted him for calling people names. The next time a black guy calls me a Cracker, im going to find his employer and demand that he be fired, you think it will work??
Once again we see that the Edwards campaign is experienceing a media blackout. The man leads everyone by big numbers in Iowa and New Hampshire, and carries a number of unions includeing firefighters. The independent media, media without ads for your little purple pill, put Hillary at a distant 3rd. Edwards at 38%, Obama at 31%, and Clinton at 23%. This media blackout is failing due to internet contacts, and a voracious resurgence in Indy Media popularity. So while you on the right are outraged about Moveon.org we understand this is just a cover to distract from things like $12 billion in cash that is missing, or 200,000 weapons, or the highly questionable method of collecting statistics in Iraq. Since car bombs are counted as traffic accidents I wonder if Iraq now leads the world in traffic fatalities?
Holley,
You might want to consider that the so-called media black of John Edwards is due to the fact that your candidate is irrelevant. That’s what happens when you hide behind the skirt of your wife. Hillary will be your candidiate… deal with it.
Your dripping disdain of our troops is very telling, and I think speaks volumes about you libs and your Democrat party. Hating America may feel good to you libs, but it won’t help you win elections.
Thanks for reposting this letter.
I have read it many times and have portions of it posted at my blog.
Our eldest has recently deployed with the 101st.
Keep up the good work. We are in this fight at home together.
Snooper,
You are welcome. It’s the least I can do. Tell your son we are all praying for his safe return, and that the vast majority of Americans are eternally grateful for the sacrifice they are making for our country’s freedom.
HOOAH!
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SCHIPS…
I am so glad our Commander Guy showed the courage so few in the Democrat party exhibit.
By vetoing this dangerous legislation, he made a bold stand on
principle and made a loud and clear statement about what is truly
important in this nation!This……
Your blog truly must not be getting enough hits. Here, I feel sorry for you.
BTW, there are 9 republicans running for office, why not put all of them on your poll?
Oh that’s right, the republican party isn’t the big tent party anymore.
TLE,
We are doing quite well. Thanks for the concern.
Correction, there are 8 Republicans, and one moron (your boy) running. Of them, only the ones in the poll have a shot. Deal with it.
Relly ther is only 4 that are running right now. Guilianni, McCain, Romney and Fred Thompson (My candidate). The other are just distractions right now I think. Especially Ron PAul, he should not even be in trhe Republican race, he should run as the Libertarian, Constitutional or one of the other Libertarian Party’s ticket.
The One thing I know, he is not a Republican, and has no clue on Foreign Policy and has no chance to win the Republican or the regular elections. He is the Howard Dean of the 2008 elections.
I like all of the one’s you got on the poll though, I would vote for any of them over Shillary
I often wonder why such statistics don’t seem to bother more people.
If elected how long would Mccain or Thompson even be able to handle it and stay alive, honestly they both look like strong wind out blow them over, and actually look more sickly and close to death than my grandma who is dying from cancer.
All i have to say to you guys is get ready for a completely democraticlly run country, because the Republicans have no chance in the next elections.
whatswrong,
It’s been a while my lib friend… first, sorry to hear about your Grandma.
McCain has no shot, so don’t worry about him. I think Fred looks just fine, and compared to any one on the lib side, he looks great.
Not so fast on the next election… although you may be right at the Congress level. With Senators like Chuck Grassly and Oran Hatch voting for socialized medicine with the liberal expansion of the SCHIP program, they clearly don’t seem to understand why they lost control of the Senate.
If, and at this point it’s a big if, Republicans pledge to move back to their conservative principles, stop spending like drunken liberals, fight for lower taxes, secure our borders, enforce existing immigration law, develop a plan for energy independance, and stay strong on national defense, they could end up taking back the House and Senate. The House caucus seems to show signs that they are beginning to get it.
Presidential level, we are in much better shape. Any of the candidates on our side will beat any of the leftist candidates on the other side… because they are raging socialist, and that’s not where American are. Even you will vote Republican at the top of the ticket over any of the Dems.
Fred Thompson is really the only solid conservative…
Scott Miller
Pretty devistating case against Mike. While I like Mike Huckabee, and would vote for him over Hillary Claus any day, his big government record in Arkansas precludes me from backing him for the nomination.
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I have nothing personal against Rosie…but what the heck is going on over there??? I think perhaps their next play should be to make Michael Vick the evening Anchor! Perhaps its best related in the “No Spin Zone” O’Reilly seems to put the dot on the i.
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Hi,
Don’t you find it funny that liberals won’t self-identify, who most likely are liberals while folks who wouldn’t know conservatism if it hit them square in the nose claim that they are conservative? People like Romney and Giuliani immediately come to mind.
Neither is conservative, but boy do they like to shout out that they are.
I believe to be conservative, or for that matter liberal or progressive or whatever ideology, one must BE it in order to claim it. A person cannot just say they’re X without acting like X.
Look at their past: Neither Giuliani nor Romney have acted like conservatives. They’ve acted more like politicians, which they ALL are. They’ll do whatever it takes to buy votes. In both their cases, that meant acting more like a liberal than a conservative.
So, they can say it all they want but it doesn’t make it so.
Your argument may work on one side but it doesn’t work on the other.
billspaced,
I could not agree with you more. That’s one of the main reason’s I’m with Fred. Best indicator of what a pol will do in the future is to look at how they behaved in the past…
That said, if Mitt or Rudy were to win the nomination over Fred, I would back them over Hillary Claus, or BO any day of the week!
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More and more, Mike Huckabee is looking like leadership: http://snipr.com/leaderlook
Mike Huckabee is an adroit public speaker; he communicates his message in life-like, cogent terms, with compelling examples like the story he told (at the Ames Straw Poll) of what his then-11-yo daughter entered into the “Comments” section of a Visitors Book after visiting the Yad Vashem holocaust museum: “Why didn’t somebody do something?” Very effective.
Huckabee is all about calling his listeners to “do something,” to awaken them to their own empowerment, and summon them to action in order that “Main Street,” and not “Wall Street,” will prevail in guarding the values and beliefs upon which the Republic was founded.
Huckabee puts his listeners at ease, and reassures them, articulating clear concepts in a natural, easy style (no doubt something well-cultivated as a pastor). He’s not as “mechanically-scripted” as Romney, nor angry or demanding, like a Ron Paul, and his large brown eyes, peering through a humble demeanor, draw a striking contrast to a unconvincing, tired-looking Thompson. One can easily imagine sitting comfortably with Mike over a cup of coffee at the Main Street Cafe.
Most importantly, Huckabee convinces many that he is ONE with the FairTax grassroots movement ( http://snipr.com/fthuckabeeonirs ). While many – like Romney, and others, who are invested in the current income tax system – seek to demagog ( http://snipurl.com/taxpanelrebutted ) the well-researched FairTax plan, its acceptance in the professional / academic community ( http://snipurl.com/econsopenletter ) continues to grow. Renown economist Laurence Kotlikoff believes that failure to enact the FairTax – choosing instead to try to “flatten” what he deems to be a non-flattenable income tax system – will eventuate into an irrevocable economic meltdown ( http://snipurl.com/meltdowninprogress ) because of the hidden aspects of the current system that make political accountability impossible.
Romney’s recent WEAK response to FairTax questioning on “This Week with Geo. Stephanopoulos ( http://snipurl.com/stephanopoulosdebate )” drew a sharp contrast between Huckabee and all other presidential front-runners who will not embrace it. Huckabee understands that what’s wrong with the income tax can’t be fixed with “a tap of the hammer, nor a twist of the screwdriver.” That his opponents cling to the destructive Tax Code, the IRS, preserving political power of granting tax favors at continued cost to – and misery of – American families, invigorates his campaign’s raison d’etre.
Of the FairTax, Huckabee asserts that it’s…
• SIMPLE, easy to understand
• EFFICIENT, inexpensive to comply with and doesn’t cause less-than-optimal business decisions for tax minimization purposes
• FAIR, FLAT, and FAMILY FRIENDLY, loophole-free, and everyone pays their share
• LOW TAX RATE is achieved by broad base with no exclusions
• PREDICTABLE, doesn’t change, so financial planning is possible
• UNINTRUSIVE, doesn’t intrude into our personal affairs or limit our liberty
• VISIBLE, not hidden from the public in tax-inflated prices or otherwise
• PRODUCTIVE, rewards – rather than penalizes – work and productivity
A detailed benefits analysis of the plan (from The FairTax Book) explains Huckabee’s ardent advocacy:
For INDIVIDUALS:
• No more tax on income – make as much as you wish
• You receive your full paycheck – no more deductions
• You pay the tax when you buy “at retail” – not “used”
• No more double taxation (e.g. like on current Capital Gains)
• Reduction of “pre-FairTaxed” retail prices by 20%-30%
• Adding back 29.9% FairTax maintains current price levels
• FairTax would constitute 23% portion of new prices
• Every household receives a monthly check, or “pre-bate”
• “Prebate” is “advance tax payback” for monthly consumption to poverty level
• FairTax’s “prebate” ensures progressivity, poverty protection
• Finally, citizens are knowledgeable of what their tax IS
• Elimination of “parasitic” Income Tax industry
• NO MORE IRS. NO MORE FILING OF TAX RETURNS by individuals
• Those possessing illicit forms of income will ALSO pay the FairTax
• Households have more disposable income to purchase goods
• Savings is bolstered with reduction of interest rates
For BUSINESSES:
• Corporate income and payroll taxes revoked under FairTax
• Business compensated for collecting tax at “cash register”
• No more tax-related lawyers, lobbyists on company payrolls
• No more embedded (hidden) income/payroll taxes in prices
• Reduced costs. Competition – not tax policy – drives prices
• Off-shore “tax haven” headquarters can now return to U.S
• No more “favors” from politicians at expense of taxpayers
• Resources go to R&D and study of competition – not taxes
• Global “free (and equitable) trade” becomes possible for currently-disadvanted ( http://snipurl.com/tradeinequity ) U.S. exports
• US exports increase their share of foreign markets
For THE COUNTRY:
• 7% – 13% economic growth projected in the first year of the FairTax
• Jobs return to the U.S.
• Foreign corporations “set up shop” in the U.S.
• Tax system trends are corrected to “enlarge the pie”
• Larger economic “pie,” means thinner tax rate “slices”
• Initial 23% portion of price is pressured downward as “pie” increases
• No more “closed door” tax deals by politicians and business
• FairTax sets new global standard. Other countries will follow
While passionately supporting FairTax, Huckabee understands that, if elected President, Congress will have to present the bill for his signature. His call to action goes beyond his candidacy, Main Street will have to demand ( http://snipr.com/scrapthecode ) that their legislators deliver the bill.
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Hi Scott,
I want to give you a snapshot of my background before I ask you why you dislike Ron Paul.
I am a married father of four that served 6 years in the U.S.A.R from ‘84-’90. I voted for Reagan (twice), Bush Sr.(once),Bush Jr.(once) and have been a registered to vote since I was 18. I come from a family of Republicans that voted for Reagan(twice), Bush Sr.(twice), Bush Jr.(twice). I was an Assistant Scout Master in the B.S.A. (Boy Scouts)of a local Troop here in Texas and have one Eagle Scout (middle son)under my belt. I am anti-abortion, anti-special rights for classes of people which I shall not name, pro-gun, and pro-Constitution. I believe a good Liberal is one who sky dives without a parachute.
Now You say “I can tell you this, he is certainly not getting support from real conservatives”. I can tell you I’m not alone.
You also state “After all, this is the guys who said that, as president, he would only be guided in his decision making process by international law”. Can you please provide me a link to verify this? I follow the RP campaign very closely and have never heard such a thing. In fact he makes it quite clear that he is adamantly opposed to going to war at the behest of U.N resolutions like we have in Afghanistan and Iraq. Furthermore you claim that “He also said that, as president, he would go to congress to see if we should go to war or not”. For once you have gotten something correct. As a strict Constituitionalist he is bound by oath to do that which is written in the fine document you so proudly link to on your main page. For those of you who haven’t taken the sound advice at the beginning of the Constitution link and actually read it, Article 1, Section 8. “The Congress shall have Power To….declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;”. Scott, this was to prevent abuses from a runaway Executive sending the sons and daughters of our Republic to die for needless causes. The theory being that if the people perceived a threat to our nation, they through their representatives would declare war. This guarantees the support of the people. Now it is also worth mentioning that he voted to authorized action in Afghanistan to apprehend our boogie man OBL.
Now can you tell me as one of “…those suckers who fell prey to this internet scam will be left to holding the bag”, exactly what bag will I be holding.
I would be happy to vote for Fred if you could show me a consitent record for the man with a sweetheart of a wife. But I won’t hold me breath..
Best of luck to you Scott.
His comment against Bush, while being uncalled for,isn’t all untrue.
From my understanding the Rumsfeld Doctrine is the reason there was any quagmire in Iraq. Less is more did not work, that is why the surge was needed. If America had sent more troops to Iraq in the very beginning there would be more progress today. Bush was relying on the advice of Rumsfeld, and he was given some very bad advice indeed.
As I see it this isn’t about lib tendancies as much as it is about recognizing what could have been done better. At least he isn’t saying we should never have gone. Now that would be lib right there.
It also sounds like Huck has alot to say about Pakistan, but he needs to lay out more of a plan before I take that opinion seriously. He is simply getting brave now that he is catching up to Mitt and Rudy.
S.A. Torrence,
I’m not arguing that Bush & Rummy didn’t make mistakes in the execution of this war, clearly they did, but what war was ever executed without mistakes?
My point is that this guy admits that he knows little about foriegn policy (he didn’t even know about the latest NIE on Iran until a day later when the media told him about it), and yet he’s taking cheap shots at Bush because he thinks the media will like him if he talks like the libs. A la McCain.
Anyone can point out mistakes in hindsight and say “I would have done something different… look at me I’m so smart.”
If I showed you those quotes w/o telling you who said them… you would have thought it was Harry Reid, John Kerry, Murtha, etc…
I don’t take kindly to so-called conservatives gratuitously attacking their own with the very words of the libs.
Smoke,
First of all, I’d like to thank you for your readership and more importantly your service. Sounds like you and I agree on more than we disagree.
I dislike Ron Paul because I think he is a dangerous, blame-America-first, demogogue. His simplistic view of the constitution and foreign policy, while appealing at first blush, is niave at best.
As for the sourcing of the quotes, they both came from the Sept 5th Republican debate hosted by Fox News. Here’s the link and the quotes.
Link – Transcript of Fox News debate
Quote – “We should not go to war when it’s an aggressive war. This is an aggressive invasion. We’ve committed the invasion of this war, and it’s illegal under international law. That’s where I take my marching orders, not from any enemy.”
The guys is a moron… can there be a non-aggressive war or invasion, and he clearly states he will take his marching orders from international law.
Then we have this quote – “He (the prez) goes to the Congress and finds out if there’s any threat to our national security.”
So RP is going to go to 535 Congressmen and Senators, most of whom don’t know their ass from their elbow, to find out if there is a threat to our national security? What does he think his national security advisors, the Dept of Defense, the CIA, the State Department, etc do?
You admit he supports the Afghanistan invasion, an invasion without a declaration of war, yet somehow the invasion of Iraq is illegal? Both these actions were approved in the same way… a joint resolution of congress… neither were officially “declared wars”.
Smoke, I’m not here to convince you that Fred is a consistent conservative, his record speaks for itself.
Thanks for checkin’ in… Scott
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I agree about McCain, but why is it so difficult to see that Mitt is the biggest lib of the bunch. He has the same health care plan as Obama and Clinton! Government manadates! He was for a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq last April. He would be our John Kerry. He’s fake, he’s poll tested, and he’s not even a conservative! He said in the debate that we need to do something about excess profits in the pharmaceutical industry. What? So he’s a new social conservative with his sudden switch to being against abortion. Fiscally, he wants government mandated health care and would consider doing something about excess profits. And in foreign policy he had the Democrats position until he figured out the surge was working. The pundits and all of you who support this guy are insane. Open your eyes and look at his record. But most importantly, look at what he said tonight. His health care proposal alone should lose him all credibility. No conservative I know supports the idea that government should mandate the purchase of health insurance. Break free from the establishment hacks who for some unknown reason support this guy. Fred is a real conservative. Huckabee is close.
Josh,
You bring up excellent points, and I may have given you the wrong impression. Fred is by far the best candidate in the race. He is the most consistently conservative, and I have been saying that all along. He’s the guy I’m supporting, and have since the very beginning. That said, I wish he’d step it up a bit. He needs to show some passion here, or he’ll fail to draw the suuport he needs to stay in the race.
Of the rest of the field, if Fred doesn’t make it, conservatives will have to begin picking from the lesser of evils, as they all have problems in their records.
I put Huckabee and McCain in the same camp… more liberal than conservative. Their records are clear.
So then I’m forced to look to Mitt or Rudy if Fred doesn’t make it. That will be a tough choice, but of the two I’d probably support Rudy… significant warts and all. Mitt for the most part is saying the conservative things, but his recent conversions are troublesome, and I think he could quickly fade if McCain beats hin in NH.
I must have missed his comment on excess profits, but I agree with you on his Medical law in MA. I have written extensively against his medical plan in the past if you care to go back into the archives.
Looks like we can agree on Fred. Let’s hope he begins to pick up the support he deserves.
-Scott
Thanks for the reply. I think that Rudy would be a good choice if Fred sputters out. I am also one of the few who thinks Huckabee would be a good president. He seems honest and that matters a lot to me. I think his record has been distorted quite a bit and where he did support tax increases he was faced with a situation he wouldn’t at the federal level, a balanced budget requirement. I’m no apoligist however. I just take him at his word that he won’t raise taxes. Mostly though, he advocates a fundamental change in how we view acceptable taxation, namely from a tax on production to consumption. In any event, I know I am still in the minority of conservatives.
I looked again at the excesses comment and I still think Romney meant that he would consider going after excess profits, but I am also deeply biased against him. He has rubbed me the wrong way from the start and I just don’t trust him. I think pundits were looking for the perfect establishment candidate and he aligned his views conveniently just in time. In my view it’s John Kerry all over.
To be honest, I trust McCain more than I trust Mitt. I don’t know how I could get behind him. I have spoken to a lot of people who feel the same way. He comes off as a used car salesman. What set me off in the debate was his flat denial of ever supporting a timed withdrawal from Iraq. He did last April, though he called for it to be done in secret. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/04/echoes_of_pryor.html
A guy will the arrogance to lie boldface scares me and reminds me of Clinton.
Finally, while Fred is great, I have lost hope. He’s doesn’t seem interested. So I guess right now I am leaning toward Huck (unless Fred can make a showing). I think he could win. FYI, I am not a fundamentalist. I just like the guy. I would also support Rudy. He’s got a steady hand and I really admire that. McCain would be my third pick, unfortunately.
The bottom line, and we need to remember this, is that the Democrats will still hold sway in the Congress and we need a President who will have the competence to make government work where it needs to work. Only Governor Romney possesses the skills to make this happen. As the Democrats implode, it will be up to us to make conservatism – and government – work in the way envisioned by Goldwater and Reagan. That’s why I voted for Mitt Romney absentee in California already. We had best come to closure on him and on him soon. He is our best hope…
We must fully understand what happened on McCain-Feingold.
Bill Clinton and Dick Morris intentionally went FAR above the limits of soft money donations for Clinton’s re-election bid.
To stop that from happening in the very next election legislation had to pass into law.
In order to pass McCain-Feingold into law liberal senators knew that they could use the bill to attach their own incumbent protection and also stop organizations like the NRA from revealing information on elected officials. In this way they couldn’t be blamed for stopping corrupt campaign donations but, they got much more than money in their pockets.
As the senior senator McCain was in charge of that bill and he could have told them to pound sand but, he allowed it.
Under these circumstances no other republican had any choice but to vote for the bill to get the corruption stopped before the next election.
Today McCain says, “I think any imagined infringement on their rights is just fine by me because the law works”
Send this idiot home!!
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It’s not enough to challenge Senator McCain’s record. We have to come to grips with the reality that under our watch we had a serious spending problem as well. Since Clinton we have had a series of “booms” that triggered more spending without regard to the inevitable “busts” that follow. This isn’t just a DC phenomenon, it has put the budgets of many states into a tailspin as capital gains revenues shrink once again. (The Golden State is $14B in the hole and counting.)
Rather than look to the next magnet for venture capital (like green energy) the next President needs a comprehensive policy to reestablish a manufacturing base in America. Rather than allowing more Americans to keep a piece of their wages in a job that they are over qualified for, why not create JOBS where people can get a real return for their investment in education and hard work?
“It’s not a tax issue – it’s a spending issue.” That’s a nice soundbite, but the reality is that it is not a tax issue, it’s an income issue.
I’ll agree with that wholeheartedly.
Drop the size of our federal government like a hot potato and watch how quickly our economy wil recover.
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Mitt Romney? I love you Scott but Spitt Romney is too unstable!
Romney can’t win. This was his chance to show he could beat McCain and he failed completely. Instead, he played spoiler to the only conservative in the race, Huckabee. It’s time Romney exits the race and let’s Huckabee take on McCain. Romney, the man who instituted government mandated healthcare, appointed liberal justices 75% of the time in MA (literally liberals & moderates while passing on qualified conservatives), raised taxes, promised to bail out Detroit to the tune of $20 Billion, and has flipped and flopped on just about every issue, is more liberal than McCain. Why waste anymore votes on this guy? If you want a conservative, vote Huckabee and make your vote count.
In your dreams is it a two-man race.
Huckabee’s Southern strategy is now going to start playing out. It may be a long shot but he still has a shot.
As for Romney being backed by true conservatives, I ask you these questions:
- Who was voted #8 RINO in 2005 by Human Events magazine? ROMNEY.
- Who is to the LEFT of Huckabee as rated by independent site OnTheIssues.org? ROMNEY.
- Who has flip-flopped the most in this campaign? ROMNEY.
- Who raised taxes the most? ROMNEY. (YES! in spite of calling them fees… he raised taxes more in 4 years than Huckabee raised them in 10.5 years.)
- Who runs on money and false attacks against others? ROMNEY.
About Huckabee:
- Who is the TRUE social conservative who has not wavered? It’s Huckabee. If you care about Life, for GOD’s sake don’t vote for the flip-flopper on this issue.
- Who has the strongest and most detailed immigration enforcement plan? Do a word-by-word comparison… Huckabee’s is better, stronger and more detailed.
- Who has the BOLDEST ideas to lead our country into the 21st century? Huckabee: the FairTax, energy independence in 10 years, and more.
- Who runs on optimism, old-fashioned retail politics, and hard work? Huckabee.
- Who has the best chance against Hillary OR Obama? It’s not Romney. They’ll rip him to shreds on his flip-flopping. Huckabee has run against the Clinton machine and WON time and again. Huckabee has the crossover appeal and the youth vote to compete with Obama.
Huckabee is the true conservative left standing in the race. Whatever you may have heard about him, most likely started as a Romney attack ad or was financed by his allies. (FOLLOW THE MONEY… it’s true.) It’s time for true conservatives to switch… to Huckabee.
I will vote for Huckabee in the Virginia Primary. If he fails to get the nomination I will vote for whoever is running against the democrat.
Huckabee has my vote for several reasons:
1. He is strongly pro-life
2. He supports the Fair Tax
3. He supports a strong military
4. He supports school vouchers
5. He will pick constitutional Supreme Court Judges.
6. He is the best speaker and will trounce whomever the democrat nomination is in the presidential debates.
What a crock!
Despite spending almost no time or money courting voters in the winner-take-all Florida primary, Governor Mike Huckabee’s shoe-string campaign nearly matched Rudy’s multi-million dollar “camp out” in results. And Rudy wasn’t fending off a nearly endless “jihad” waged by Rush, Sean and a whole host of lesser talk radio lights.
Given the magnitude of Romney’s arrogance and the vast size of his checkbook, “Citizen Kane 2008″ will try to hold on, even though he’s yet to win a contested state (save his birthplace Michigan, where he sailed to a narrow win on the historic coat-tails of his father and the promise of billions in corporate welfare for the automakers).
The true, stalwart, traditional conservative choice is Mike Huckabee.
Huckabee has survived Florida and is poised to make huge gains in the “true” Southern states on “Super Duper Tuesday.” Huck has pledged to stay in “through the Ninth Inning” and all social conservative should be cheering his resolve.
Huckabee is the only candidate who can unite traditional conservatives.
Huckabee is the only candidate who can wield social conservative delegate power at the GOP Convention.
Huckabee is the only candidate with the rhetorical skills, good humor and likeable personality to make traditional conservatism competitive in the fall election.
Huckabee, like Ronald Reagan, has made tough choices as a governor, yet has remained fundamentally true to his traditional conservative principles. Unlike Bishop Romney, Huckabee hasn’t had to reinvent himself to curry favor with any electorate. Unlike “Mitt-the-Flip,” but like Reagan, Huckabee’s not forced to explain at every turn inconsistent statements or actions on bedrock social conservative issues.
Romney’s only role at this point is as a spoiler.
Romney can siphon support, drive wedges, and preview attack ad scripts for the Democrats in the fall, but he cannot win either the nomination nor the general election.
He is not the ideological candidate for “movement conservatives” – notwithstanding all of the free and paid cheerleading from the Eastern conservative elites– because at his core, Romney is a “process” candidate, not a man of conviction.
Unlike Reagan, he has no great record of conservative thought, conservative leadership, or conservative governance.
His obvious commitment to situational ethics demonstrates that Romney has no ideological “soul.” Romney’s candidacy isn’t about advancing conservative principles – it’s about advancing Mitt Romney to his next self-aggrandizing “to do” in his Palm Pilot. It’s about giving Mitt another trophy . . . another take-over . . . another “conquest.”
A two-man race between Mike Huckabee and John McCain would best serve both the GOP and Reagan conservatives. Such a race would focus on policy, not personal attacks. It would give social conservatives the best opportunity to retain the White House in 2008 and to obtain judges who would return to a strict construction of the Constitution. A McCain-Huckabee contest would forever diffuse charges of anyone trying to buy their way into office. It would immediately moot virtually all of the anti-GOP stereotypes embodied by Romney. It would be a race between two modest, committed, experienced and CONSISTENT conservatives (albeit McCain a skoach more moderate than Governor Huckabee). It would be the prelude to healing the deep rifts now growing within the GOP.
Now that Romney has bought more data on his lack of marketability, it’s time for him to be honest with himself (if he can be) and to follow the honorable course of Rudy.
Mitt, you can’t buy love and you can’t buy the White House.
Referr to him as “Huckleberry” while trying to recruit his supporters to the Romulan side? Doesn’t make sense.
I won’t support Romney under any circumstances — I don’t care for McCain either. Why can’t we just support a conservative capable of restoring the Reagan Coalition? Everyone knows Mitt is a “poser” when it comes to most conservative issues, coming to the conservative point of view on the day he filed his FEC papers.
No, if McCain gets the nod, it’s not “Huckleberry’s” supporters who will be to blame. If the Romulans want a liberal, they’ll have to get him nominated themselves… I’m not buying it.
Hey! Let’s all get together and vote for whoever has the most money! Who cares about where they stand on the issues?
Well, that sounds silly to me too!
I’m voting for Huckabee!
Isn’t the cost of the Iraq war a “spending” issue?
How is criticizing the composition of the 2001 tax cut (which in dollar value did go mostly to the high income earners who pay the most taxes) remotely inconsistent with criticizing tax cuts that are wholly detached from spending restraint.
How can the AP know everything McCain said during the tax cut debates? Was his every word transcribed? (even his private discussions with other senators). Is there solid proof that McCain never raised the excessive spending issue in 2001?
This sort of silly attack discredits the conservative movement. There’s plenty of things to criticize McCain about without manufacturing stuff like this.
Of course, as many flip-flops as Romney has, those Eastern elite “conservatives” in the bag for Mitt (Levin, Rush etc.) certainly don’t want anyone to focus on his record.
Quiver… would it make you feel better if I call him Smuckabee?
Smuckabee wouldn’t know a conservative if he tripped over one (which would be the only way he would come across a conservative in the first place, since he prefers to hang with the libs).
He clearly has an alliance with McCain, hoping against hope that McCain will throw him some scraps, and give him a bit of legitamcy by picking him for Veep.
You Smuckabee supporters can stick your heads in the sand all you want, but next Tuesday will put the Smuckabee lie to the test. He will end up a distance third in many races, and he will end up playing the spoiler if McCain squeaks by with less than a majority of the vote.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… a vote for Smuckabee is a vote for McCain. You want to nominate the most liberal guy in the race, go ahead and pull the lever for Smuckabee.
Walk off that cliff… I won’t be with ya’.
Speed,
Your a moron. You know nothing about the conservative movement. You come on this site pretending to be a Smuckabee supporter, and now your using the same class warfare rhetoric that McCain and the lib Democrats do?
The facts are there plain to see. McCain the lib is lying when he said he opposed the tax cuts for spending reasons. He’s on the record as opposing them because of class warfare reasons, not spending. Now he’s lying about his records, AND saying that the very same tax cuts should now be made permanent. Why make them permanent now? Don’t they still favor the rich? Isn’t spending still a moral issue?
Who exactly are you supporting in this race? Could there be a lib alliance going on here? McCain the lib, and Smuckabee the lib in 2008, right?
In my opinion, Schwarzenegger’s endorsement of McCain is the same as Britney endorsing Paris. It’s laughable.
Tatiana, one one hand true what you say…but the other side of what you say is that – like Britney…pre-lala Britney – AHnold has HIGH visibility and power to influence many middle of the road Americans.
McCain has said that he should be judged by the company he keeps. I’ll leave out comments here on Juan “eliminate the problem of illegal immigration by eliminating the laws” Hernandez and just say:
* Mr. McCain, Gov. Schwarzennegger has brought California 14 billion into debt and apologized for being a Republican; I will indeed judge you by the company you keep – thanks for the advice!
I’m a native of Los Angeles, and watched with deep disturbance when Arnold announced his candidacy (on the Leno show), and then was elected to run this state. I used the Britney/Paris comparison, because that’s how most people here in California feel about Arnold’s endorsement. High profile or no, Arnold’s word is not taken seriously here (at least amongst the intelligent conservative community), and no one else in this country should take it seriously, because of the fiscal mess he’s gotten my home state into. Of course, I voted for Tom McClintock, both at the recall election and the re-election. But Hollywood sparkle was too much for him — or anyone — to overcome, and now we’re all paying for that myopic and unsubstantiated passion.
Thanks for your response.
I believe John McCain is suffering from dementia. He behaves and speaks more like a broken-down trapeze artist than a politician (although I’m beginning to think there’s no difference between the two with him). The idea that he’s trying to appease citizens with his flimsy statement about securing the borders first is just another side-step to his ultimate goal: total amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens who are sucking the life out of city and state treasuries. And let’s not forget McCain’s insulting and juvenile statement before a group of Milwaukee businessmen one year ago (verbatim):
“In the short term, it [the immigration bill] probably galvanizes our base. In the long term, if you alienate the Hispanics, you’ll pay a heavy price.” Then he added: “By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it.”
Nice attitude, Juanito.
Now he’s trying to sound so amenable about securing the borders first. In the short AND long term, nothing McCain says — not one word — should be taken seriously. Nothing.
Huckabee, like John McCain, needs a check-up from the neck up.
Here’s his latest — and most disturbing — blast meant for Mitt Romney, as reported in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/politics/03cnd-campaign.html
“When we were out there supporting Ronald Reagan, he was running away from him,” Mr. Huckabee said on CNN. “That’s what rankles many of us. He’s a recent convert and now he shouts ‘hallelujah’ louder than the rest of us.”
This is bureaucratic sloppiness and self-indulgence in it’s most morbid form.
If he thinks Americans will cuddle up to him on the basis of comments like that one about a fellow Republican, he is sadly and miserably mistaken.
One of the keenest pleasures of Moron.Org is to sidle up to a person and appear to make friends with him. But you have to remember: You have to first stand behind a man before you can stab him in the back. It is therefore just a matter of time before Moron sticks it their new prey.
Mike Huckabee aka Elmer Gantry is one of the most duplicitous politicians I have seen in a long time. This sanctimonious phony is given a free ride by the lying media because he is furthering the candidacy of John McCain. Sad to say he has snowed a lot of conservatives and Republicans and has been accepted as someone with solid credentials.
This is more a reflection of the ignorance of the average voter than anything this charlatan has to offer. What ever the result it does not bode well for the country.
Mike Huckabee aka Elmer Gantry is a duplicitous charlatan who has snowed a lot of conservatives. This is more a reflection of their political immaturity and ignorance than his viability. What ever the reason it does not bode well for the country.
This wolf in wolf’s clothing panders to anyone who will give him a second of their time. Heaven help us from the likes of this Pat Robertson clone.
Mr. Cropper-
I agree with 100%. I just got off the phone with my brother, and he said the same thing I did: God help us if this snake oil salesman slithers into the White House. His demeaning comments alone should cause enough sensible Americans to take a pass on him. He is not what our country needs — not now, not EVER.
John McCain is about as conservative as Hillary.
All of this stupid, irrational, emotional talk about “suicide votes” and staying home and conservatives voting for liberal Democrats because “Rush said” it’d be better for the country to crater under Clinton/Obama or development of virginally “pure” third party ignores the main objective: Stopping Clinton/Obama.
Adults know that politics involves the give and take toward getting the best deal possible on a particular day, and then fighting on for a better deal tomorrow.
Politics isn’t about achieving the “perfect” or the “pure.” It’s about gaining a series of comparative advantages and leveraging power toward common goals.
Reagan – the venerable saint of modern conservatism – understood this. He was on the national stage from 1964 until 1980 fighting for conservative ideas before he was elected to a position where he could act upon them on a national scale. But Reagan never quit like a spoiled child when he didn’t win.
The GOP better get united . . . fast.
If the Romney-ians are too spoiled and petty to rally for Mike Huckabee and deny McCain the nomination, then another means of finding enough unity to win in November should be found.
A third party cobbled together on-the-fly isn’t the answer.
The alternative to GOP unity is unthinkable for conservatives.
Allowing Clinton or Obama to appoint as many as 4-5 young “living constitution” liberals to “lifetime” appointments on the U.S. Supreme Court and to stock the balance of the federal judiciary with rabid ACLU/NOW activists and hand-picked cronies of trial lawyer John Edwards as a consequence of a pre-school temper tantrum against McCain is analogous to dropping a hydrogen bomb to retaliate against an occasionally “disloyal” friend.
Helping Hillary or Obama lose the war in Iraq and thereby empowering Iran, encouraging a comeback by radical Islamofascism, and creating chaos in the Middle East merely to teach John McCain a lesson is like burning down your house to kill a cockroach.
Bill Bennett has an even longer list of horrors to come if ALL conservatives don’t rally to the Clinton/Obama threat.
SERIOUS THOUGHTFUL ADULT CONSERVATIVES can see either of the two remaining Republican candidates are vastly preferable to Hillary/Obama.
Mike Huckabee is clearly the best, most traditionally conservative choice, but even McCain — as flawed as he seems — is signficantly better than abandoning all principle by allowing Obama or Clinton to win by default.
The Republican Party establishment has no right whatsoever to demand from their base anything at this moment in time – or at any time in the near future. Persons like myself broke our backs supporting Mitt Romney, only to watch him be dealt shameful and revolting
“smash & grab” voter-swing tactics by McCain and Huckabee. To expect us to stand behind either of these men is tantamount to endorsing Norman Bates for president.
No, I cannot in my clearest conscience support “McHuck.” The presidency will, one way or another, be filled by a liberal — and it will be a very LONG one-term administration… the strength of which, I fear, will be tested immediately by jihadists.
I also pray we aren’t looking down the barrel of 1976 – again.
I would have to say that this article absolutely mirrors my opinion of the Republican party exactly. Actually if it hadn’t been written already I probably would have written one like it almost verbatim. My congratulations on hitting the nail on the head.
Great post Scott!
I just found you this morning. How long have you been doing this?
THE SHINING CITY UPON A HILL
Understanding John McCain
“There are three men here tonight I am very proud to introduce. It was a year ago this coming February when this country had its spirits lifted as they have never been lifted in many years. This happened when planes began landing on American soil and in the Philippines, bringing back men who had lived with honor for many miserable years in North Vietnam prisons. Three of those men are here tonight, John McCain, Bill Lawrence and Ed Martin. It is an honor to be here tonight. I am proud that you asked me and I feel more than a little humble in the presence of this distinguished company.”
“Standing on the tiny deck of the Arabella in 1630 off the Massachusetts coast, John Winthrop said, “We will be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.”
Ronald Reagan
Above in a excerpt from the speech that Ronald Reagan gave on January 25, 1974. John McCain was personally honored by Ronald Reagan in which the Shining City Upon the Hill was invoked. John McCain understands that speech and it has been the central formation of his life and politics. The speech was and remains an inspiration to conservatives.
The metaphor was, at the time, an affirmation of our firm belief that we as a society are unique in the world. No other people throughout the history of the world have selflessly fought and won the liberty of others and upon that victory, like the example provided by General Washington, simply handed back the keys to the liberated people, offered protection, but walked away. Amidst the 20% interest rates, the real economic suffering of the American people, and the defeat in Vietnam, a general malaise had awakened and our patriotic optimism was shattered. Ronald Reagan inspired us by reminding us of our heritage and in so doing, reawakened our optimism and turned us around. It was his optimism through conservatism that saved us. There is no denying that.
At this time, however, I believe that we as conservatives have retained and live by only one half of the message, but sadly I believe that the more challenging part of the message has escaped some of us. John McCain cannot be counted among them. The part of which I speak is the second part of the reference where Winthrop stated and Ronald Reagan repeated, “The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.” This earned distinction carries with it the weight of responsibility. Through History we have earned the distinction of the “shining city upon a hill” but through our actions we can lose it. The walls of that city have taken a long time to build, but it can be torn down very quickly. Our actions continually must be measured against that standard or as Reagan so appropriately referenced “we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.”
John McCain carries these words in his bone marrow. He lives that passage.
When Senator McCain has strayed from the common mainstream of conservative thought, this is why he does it. How we treat political prisoners, enemy combatants, and political prisoners must be judged against this standard. In the debates, with regard to immigration, Senator McCain said in passing “we must remember that they are all God’s children” almost in passing. It is such at the core of his belief that he speaks of it in seemingly in shorthand but he knows deep in his heart that the words that our Lord said “whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers you do unto me.” These things matter.
When Senator McCain sees that our system is being tarnished by the quid pro quos of campaign money, again, at the core of his being, he can’t simply stand by and allow the “shining city upon a hill” to be turned into a den of thieves. He simply had to do something about it. Two patriots can argue with the execution, but as Patriots, they must believe in the motivation.
In Closing, I am a conservative because I love America. We as conservatives cannot be lulled into a false sense of security of our place in History. We cannot simply keep a checklist of our ideas and flatly reject all arguments against our perceptions. Humbly we must realize that all of our ideas may be incomplete and that we too have the ability to lose our way. I don’t mean to make a saint of Senator McCain, his ideas and execution must be questioned like everyone else, but his motivations are clear. We must as conservatives, realize that our conservatism is alive and can go astray and our strengths together must be reaffirmed every day, every minute, every second.
Hercules Mulligan
Thanks to most for their thoughtful responses.
Speed, you establishment Republican elitists just don’t get it. You have no idea how fundamentally fractured this party is.
This party had a historic opportunity to transform American politics for decades when they were elected to Congress and Senate in 1994 with the proud support of us conservatives.
What happened since is nothing short of a disgrace. They assumed power sweeping out the liberals due to their institutionalized corruption, only to succumb to the same corruption. We’ve seen the so-called party of small government, do absoultely nothing to shrink government. Rather they’ve done exactly the opposite… they massively expanded government. I could go on all night, but something tells me that principles matter nothing to you. You’re in it for the game.
There is only so far principled conservatives can bend before they break. That tipping point is different for each individual. I’ve reached my breaking point.
I care much more about conservative principles, than I do about a party that has abandoned those principles. I’d be just as much of a phony as Hillary Clinton if I just quitely went along to get along with the Republican party.
You come on this site representing yourself as a conservative, yet you find it perfectly OK to follow along blindly, behind liberals like Huckabee or McCain, like a sheep to slaugher. If anyone is being immature, it is you. Like a teenage girl staying with an abusive boyfriend, just to be able to say you have a boyfriend.
Mcguyver,
Thanks much… been here talkin’ at ya’ for just under a year now. Glad you found me… hope you check back often. Thanks my friend.
Scott
To Scott from Liberty,
I’m afraid that even a third party might not survive in this country. With Romney gone the conservative were once a again given the opportunity to unite behind a true conservative in the Kansas caucaus and they ran off to Hucklberry. I’m afraid that the spirit of self-reliance and individualism and liberty may not exist in America in sufficient numbers to carry the day anymore. Even the so-called conservatives of the right seem to be saying that they don’t want to be taxed but they don’t want to give up the nanny state that wipes their behinds and leads their lives. Perhaps we have lived under the control of the state so long that the spirit of freedom and self-determination has been snuffed out. Look at the former Soviet Union. Less than 20 years after throwing off the mantle of oppression and Putin is leading them into a new age of Communist domination. Maybe Armegaeddon is here after all.
Liberty,
Let’s hope not… I’m thinking long term here. Blowing up the Republican party would be a symbolic victory. I think many conservatives would abandon the Republican party if they thought they had a place to go that could actually hold sway in national politics. Could actually seat representatives to congress. Let the good number of liberal Republicans stay in their party of a much reduced size. Coalition governance would become much more likely, and big moves by government (usually bad for our indivual liberty) would become more difficult to achieve.
I share your disappointment in Republican electorate… that is why I can no longer affiliate myself with them.
Scott-
Thank you for your excellent summation to Speed’s comments.
That person seems to have infiltrated every decent conservative site, and cares not what others are feeling when he leaves behind his trail of bullying comments. Passion is one thing; bullying is another, and it’s obvious he is a bully.
I’m well aware that everyone possesses the right to voice their opinion, but this person, who seems to have taken the liberty of annointing himself the “common man” representative of the conservative party, and refuses to comprehend the damage that McCain, Huckabee, Thompson and Giuliani have caused with their backroom assault on Mitt Romney. Yes, Romney was our hope to re-establish and further strengthen our party. But “the boys” were wholly intimidated by Mitt’s vision, a vision he saw not for himself but for our country, and those four together plotted his demise. It’s no secret. Time.com published a piece a couple of days ago setting out in detail their shameful tactics.
The worst I would say about any of the remaining two candidates is simple: neither are qualified to be passed the mantle of Commander in Chief. Neither is equipped emotionally or psychologically to be subjected to the daily pounding and responsibilities of this land’s highest office. With Speed, however, his comments against Mitt Romney have been brutal, going to far as calling him a “sc**bag” (among other things) in his commentaries during the primaries.
It is exactly this type of person in our party who is assisting in its demise — demanding that everyone else support a candidate who, in our heart, does not have the credentials to occupy the Oval Office. I would expect that type of language from a liberal whacko, not from one of our own AGAINST one of our own.
No matter what Speed, or persons like him, say, think and pontificate, I stand by Mitt Romney, and have already begun work to support his election as President of the United States in 2012.
We had to endure 4 years of the Carter administration before Ronald Reagan was elected. I suppose we are forced now to do the same.
But that’s OK. We will use these next four years fortifying our party and gain momentum, once the new administration proves impotent — as well as weed out persons like Speed.
Take care.
To Scott from liberty,
I hope I didn’t give you the impression that I’ve given up on this country. I just need to vent once in a while. I agree with you on the goverance by coalition theory and it’s abilbity to slow government. To quote the only smart thing that Tommy Thompson (my former governer) once, ” We should pay our legislators $100,000 a year and then dock them $2,500 a day for every day they’re in session.” I have been a very active member of the Ron Paul campaign and I have been very discouraged by the fact that most supporters are on trick wonders. They don’t see the big picture that his campaign is as much about public exposure of failed policy as viable shot at the White House. And it’s and attempt to bring the conservatives together as voting bloc to actually impact government policy. However, I am seeing people leaving because they don’t see any chance at winning or because they don’t understand that his congressional seat is as important,(and much more winnable) than the Presidential bid. I live in Wisconsin, which brought you Russ Feingold, Tammy Baldwin and Jeffrey Dahmer. Till redistricting Baldwin was my Representative and she received more than 65% of her campaign funding from gay rights groups in California because they recognized the value of having a gay advocate in Washington even though she didn’t directly represent them in California. I hope that the Paul supporters realize that Dr. Paul as a Rep from Texas is a valuable advocate for me in Wisconsin. If we as conservatives could fill a couple of hundred seats in Congress and 40 or 50 seats in the Senate, we would have much more impact on government policy than one man in the White House. Just look at Jimmy Carter, a Washington outsider thrown to the wolves. Even if he would have ever had a good idea, it would never have been accepted by Congress because they were lined against him. I fear the same would have happened to Dr. Paul, even if he would have won the White house. However, if the Republican party doesn’t begin to embrace it conservative roots, the groundswell of grassroot support behind Dr. Paul would be and excellent place to begin a new viable third party. It would take a few years to gain traction, but after all the Republican party was formed by a coalition of parties back in Ripon Wisconsin and it rose to it’s present status. People don’t realize that for the first 80 or so years of this country’s existence, third and even fourth parties were very common and elections were commonly won or lost by coalitions of these varying groups. It is the very domination of the 2 parties over the past 50 to 60 years that have created most of the problems we now face. We now are presented with the Republicrats and Democans. Take the candidates from both parties, throw them in a bag, shake it up, and you can tell them apart. And the unfortunate things is the one the share the most is big government and big spending, both of which are strangling the life from this nation.
To Tatiana from Liberty
While I agree that Romney would be head and shoulders above McCain and Huckabee, I am a bit offended that you seem to ignore the real true conservative in the race Ron Paul. While his chances are essentially zip, to ignore him as the media and the conservative wing of the Republican party has is unfair. His greatest obstacle has not been so much dissagreement with his message as it has been being ignored and skipped over by the media. They simply act as if he doesn’t exist. I have not problem with people having differing opinions, but to ignore them out of hand without allowing them to at least make a case for they’re position is sort of like being arrested with out a charge and locked away without due process. Which I believe is one of big issues being leveled against the big-brother government that we conservatives are opposing, is’nt it?
Liberty-
I’m sorry you feel offended. The fact is, I have, since 2006, put my support behind Romney. We all need to make a choice, and Mitt was my choice. I spent a lot of time researching each candidate, and I didn’t rally against anyone (or call them names, like some people have done). I simply put my money on Mitt and supported him to the end.
I agree, it’s a shame that Ron Paul didn’t receive the press attention that McCain has been given (he has been the “media darling,” after all), or the same attention that Rudy or Fred received when they were considered the hot ticket.
Between you and me, the conservatives at my end of the universe were talking about a Romney/Paul ticket — because, as you said, Paul does represent the conservative ideal.
But that’s all water under the bridge now. We have to look to the future. There’s an old saying: “What could have happened has already happened.”
Let’s now work towards what SHOULD be.
Take care, and God bless.
To Tatiana from Liberty,
Thank you for your reply and I hope that I didn’t offend you. And I agree that the Paul campaign is a foregone conclusion as far as winning. However as long as he stays in he brings his supporters with him to the convention to at least present some pressure to keep them from settling for a platform that is so liberal that it is impossible to tell from a Democratic one. John McCain will be of no use to us as Americans if he performs as a Democrat or liberal Repuvlican, no matter what he calls himself. I too agree that if Ron Paul wasn’t a choice, Romney would have probably been mine, but as a freedom-loving, small-government conservative it goes against my grain to accept things that go against my convictions. After all, convictions are what make us or break us and if we constantly give them up without fighting back we suddenly find ourselves are them. As the old saying goes “We have met the enemy and they are us” Good luck and god bless and I hope that we may have many more discussions. I have strong convictions but I believe everyone deserves the right to their opionion. That’s what freedom is all about.
To Tatiana from Libery,
As a follow up to my previous message and in hopes to stimulate futher discourse, which I find most enjoyable, I would like to list a few of my priorities as to national policy in descending order of priority, and hopefully see what your response might be.
1. Dissove Federal Reserve, return resposibility to Congress and establish a currency based on some standard such as gold.
2. Return troops from Iraq.
3. Secure borders.
4. Dissolve Dept. of Homeland Security or at least redefine its role.
5. Pass legislation that bans national candidates such as representatives or senators from receiving financial campaign money from outside their districts.
6. Pass legislation banning the passing of any federal budget that is not balanced except in time of national emergency with any emergency funding to run for no more than 1 year unless approved by at least 75% of both houses.
7. Amend Constitution banning executive orders from the President unless issued during national emergency and enforceable for six months unless upheld by 75% approval of both houses.
8. Dissolve IRS
9. Establish term limits for all federal offices. (To eliminate professional politicians and mini-empires.)
10. Eliminate all retirement and special perks such as free health care, etc. for all federally elected officials.
I would hope to see many of these programs eventually move to individual states in as a way to shrink government and beauracracies which is where most of the waste and corruption in government takes place. Make government have to be competitive with the private sector and it will have to become more efficient to exist. As you can see, I have grand ideas and I realize that it will take many years to implement them even with out the enormous opposition they would face.
But as Gandhi once wrote, “The longest journey begins with a single step” I look forward to hearing from you and your opinions on my ideas. Should make for some spirited discussions I would think.
P.S. to Liberty -
Just to clarify matters, on January 19 The New Media Journal published a commentary written by my writing partner and me, entitled MEDIA CALLS ELECTION. (NMJ have been generous to us and published many of our op-eds.)
We wrote it not with the mind to endorse a specific candidate. Rather, the point of the piece was to bring attention to the fact that the liberal MSM, once again, was shamefully influencing voters — and voters were buying it (and, as of today, bought their propaganda lock, stock and barrel, concentrating their kliegs on McCain and Huckabee; Romney was becoming an after-thought, and Ron Paul was totally ignored).
You could say that we prophesied the messy outcome of the primaries, because conservatives are now stuck between a rock and a hard place as to who to vote for, if at all.
Here’s the piece, for your perusal.
http://www.newmediajournal.us/guest/pedenko_simon/2008/01192008.htm
Notwithstanding anything we wrote, the fact remains, the MSM accomplished their goal, and the true conservative candidates (including Ron Paul) were cut out of the herd and brought down.
Take care, and God bless.
Oh Scott!
Stop mourning over Romney and start posting again.
Your fans await.
xoxoxo,
Holly
On The wRite Side.Org
PS I won’t say I told you so-I promise!
To Tatiana from Liberty,
I have obviously inadvertently stumbled on to someone far more qualified to discuss the complicated political and social issues we have been addressing, but if you will bear with me and excuse my crude and uneducated opinions and insights as to these subjects I will do my best to not embarrass myself. As to the article you wrote, it is one of the most insightful and on-point descriptions of current social mis-matchs I have ever read. The final sentence however says it all. The fact that for the past 50 or so years the huge mass of Americans that make up the the center of political thought between the ultra liberal and the ultra conservative have closed their eyes and refused to make any effort to inform themselves as to the truth of affairs in America. To put it simply, they don’t want to hear about it. As Karl Marx said, ” Give them food and circus’s and you can control the masses.” Since half the country doesn’t care and the most of the other half believe anything they read or see without any research or confirmation, America has just the government it deserves. What pisses me off is that I have been trapped in it right along with everyone else and as hard as I try I can’t seem to make a dent. I swear that the collective IQ of America is barely high enough for them to fend for themselves, hence the nanny state. With the advent of reality TV, half a dozen CSI shows and dancing with the Stars, and the fact that these shows are immensely popular is a very telling sign that it will take an apocolyptic event that sweeps the whole nation and plunges it into dire straits to stun it out of it’s coma. When I attempt to start a discussion on any political or social issue with people where I live they look at me with a pained look and begin talking about whether the high school soccer team will take the conference or any subject that requires no real thought on their part. It’s both frustrating and sad. I did a recent poll of just a few of my local neighbors and found that 7 out of 10 hadn’t voted in 20 years and 5 out of 10 had never voted at all. Their simple answer was, there is nothing anybody can do about it so why waste time thinking about it. With that kind of mind-set, it isn’t too difficult for media and the power-brokers to control the country. America’s real problem isn’t political, it’s social.
Liberty -
Thanks very much for your kind words. And, no, I was not in the least bit offended. If I had been I would’ve said so.
You’ve brought up some very excellent ideas that I’d like to chew on a little more in order to respond fully. (Unfortunately, I’m busy at work right now — bringin’ home the bacon!)
I’m also enjoying our discussions — big, broad and healthy.
I think we’re at a point that we should consider sharing our e-mail addresses so that we can correspond directly.
Let me know.
Take care, and God bless.
To Tatiana from Liberty,
Thank you for your kind words and yes I would really like to continue our discussions on a more one to one basis. Please let me know how to share my personal e-mail address with you without sharing it with everyone else on the Internet and I will respond immediately. I look forward to hearing from you. And as you have said so kindly and sincerely,
God bless and good luck.
No Kidding! Why don’t we hear more about the media’s effect on the economy? Well I guess the media would have to report on it… Man, we’re screwed.
If the media were to report it, then their reports would give consumers something to think about, and after thinking about it they would have to DO something about it. This is why the control-freaks media hold back information. Heaven forbid if citizens are untethered psychologically in order to exercise our rights to react and, worse for the media, object — just as with the surprise news last year about total amnesty for illegal aliens. And the media (and their superiors in Congress) were stunned at our collective reaction. Weren’t they?
If you are not voting for John McCain, than yes you are voting for the socialist candidate on the other side. McCain may not be as conservative as we would like but the alternative is not an option. Why would people throw their vote away? The American people have a voice and should use it to stop McCain if when in office he seems too liberal. If Hillary gets in, America will never be the same. McCain deserves the conservative vote to stop the Hillary machine.
While I like your example with “a family,” I cannot say it applies here, inasmuch as I think the “investment” we Americans need to consider here is our (continued) effort to defeat Jihadist terrorism.
Survival. IT AIN’T FEAR, mister; it’s common sense.
Over the next 4 years Iran may have nuclear weaponry. “Help” Hill or Obi get in the White House – indirctly or indirectly – does extreme damage in this regard.
One such attack on our soil, and you won’t have to worry about illegal immigrants, liberal Supreme Court justice nominations, OR DISNEY WORLD, for that matter.
Guys,
We’ll have to agree to disagree. McCain doesn’t “deserve” the conservative vote, anymore than he deserved to be tortured by the Vietnamese. He has to EARN the conservative vote, and so far, he’s done a very poor job with that.
On McCain’s record on terrorism, I’d have to say he has a spotty record at best. He is the guy who wants to give constitutional rights and protection to the terrorists. He is the guy who wants to close down Gitmo, and bring the terrorists to US soil. He’s the guys who says waterboarding is torture! Pouring a little water up the nose of a terrorist to simulate drowning is torture…give me a break! Sounds pretty weak to me.
I’m a former bass player and when I see this clown I cringe. He’s nothing but a R&R hasbeen, Bill Wyman wannabe. It’s disgusting to see how the press can elevate such a snake charmer. The ONLY reason he was put on the national stage was to defeat Mitt Romney in Iowa. It then did the same thing with McCain in NH and FL and the best candidate and most hope for the GOP had enough. Unless McCain selects Romney as his VP we will be putting a Liberal Facist in the White House in November.
problem with your article: Huckabee didn’t start to lose badly to McCain and Romney. He lost by 3 pts in S. Car. and Romney lost by 4-5 in Fl yet no one told Romney to quit. Huckabee won the south on Feb 5th—McCain and Romney lost there. everyone says it’s only the evangelical base for Huckabee, but no one mentions that Romney won mainly in Mormon areas or that the very liberal states of N.Y and Calif which Rep won’t carry in general election gave McCain many of his delegates. the GOP is way off base from sticking to the things that can win in Nov. Huckabee has proven to be a great campaigner that folks actually like, a man of integrity, and has fresh ideas. without him, it’ll be the Dems in NOv.
memaneo,
What all you Huck supporter don’t seem to want to acknowledge is that these races are all about delegate count. That is how you secure the nomination. Romney was beating Huck 2 to 1 when Romney dropped out of the race, as he saw that it was impossible to overcome McCains lead with Huck splitting the conservative vote.
Romney still has more delegates than Huckleberry and he hasn’t been in the race for a couple weeks!
Huck supporters have refused, and still refuse, to see that they were responsible for McCain’s nomination. By continuing a campaign destined for nowhere, they split the conservative vote and allowed McCain to sneak up the middle.
Let’s examine how we got here.
McCain’s delegate total, while real, is by no means a reflection of his strength, which is very weak. He has won 17 states. Of those, 11 states were 2004 blue states that voted for Kerry. Ten of the 11 are states that haven’t voted for a Republican since at least 1988. From these states came about half of McCain’s delegates. He is the leader largely because of states that will definitely not vote for the GOP candidate in the fall.
And simply put, many self-described conservatives bet on the wrong horses. That’s the biggest reason that McCain is the leader right now. I’ll explain.
I thought that Republican establishment people were smart enough after 2004 to know that America hates flip floppers and people who will say anything to get elected. But who do they coalesce around? Mitt Romney? The guy who has has changed almost every position he has since the 2004 election. They tried to shove him down our throats, but they bet on a product that could not sell. That helped McCain.
Many conservatives wanted Fred Thompson to win. But the sad truth is that his supporters wanted Fred to have the presidency more than Fred did. He was more lethargic than Bob Dole was in 1996 – sort of like Dole on sleeping pills. He was reduced to being McCain’s offensive lineman in South Carolina, taking away just enough support from Mike Huckabee to allow McCain to pull away with it. You think Thompson could have won if Huckabee wasn’t in it? No. Why not? Because he simply didn’t like doing the hard work of campaigning. During his do-or-die final weeks in South Carolina, Thompson amped up his campaigning to make two appearances a day. You can’t put your faith in somebody who just wants to go and meet voters in between naps. Wrong horse, and made room for McCain.
After all the scandals that the GOP has experienced over the past couple of years and all the emphasis that the party has put into morals, abortion, the traditional family, etc., what did the geniuses in the heart of Conservative America (New York City) come up with? Rudy Giuliani. The guy who, like McCain, left his wife for his mistress (only Rudy did it much more publicly and in an even more appalling manner). To boot, he happens to be a total social liberal – just the type of thing that will help him with social conservatives. And in terms of morals, Rudy was a ticking time bomb. He had so much dirt on him it wasn’t funny. Finally, after the establishment started to gather around him to anoint him, Kerik got busted and then the dirt started to trickle out. Once again, the powers that be bet on the wrong horse and the conservative voters who trusted in their every word got taken too. This allowed McCain to come back.
All of the other top tier candidates have received tens of millions of dollars in contributions. Most of them have blown through the money, mostly without getting any tangible voter support. Most of the GOP candidates haven’t run their own campaigns like fiscal conservatives – they have gone into massive debt, spent like liberals, and gotten very little for their money. But the guy from Arkansas, Huckabee, had no money to start with. But he’s spent frugally and is still running. But the powers that be want you to believe that somehow, he’s the fiscal liberal and the big spender while all the guys who are now bankrupt or limited by campaign finance rules are the true fiscal conservatives. Give me a break! Smell the fertilizer and realize that it’s not perfume.
Conservative voters have been failed by the GOP establishment, who, like a wayward daughter, have constantly fallen for the wrong man. And now there are only two men left and they’re still falling for the wrong guy. They can’t realize that what they really need is the thing that doesn’t look good for them.
Huckabee is the only thing standing between a Democratic Presidency and a McCain Presidency, which would both have a lot of simularities. He can still force a brokered convention and we can end up with a GOP nominee that wasn’t selected by the good people of New York, New Jersey and California – places that will not be there at all to help the party in the fall. It’s obvious that to win, the GOP needs every possible conservative voter to be compelled to vote – and probably will need more than that. McCain will not pull this off – and we’ll have a repeat of the Dole race of 2004.
Conservative voters need to wise up before it’s too late.
TVV,
I am with you in opposition to McCain… he in no way, shape, or form a conservative.
Huckabee’s fundamental problem is… neither is he. He raised taxes a net of a half a billion during his 10 year stint as governor. He supported open borders and amnesty for illegals. He gave the Mexican consolite and office in a government building for $1 a year. He uses the class warfare rhetoric of the left. He supports the closing of Gitmo, and wants to bring the terrorists we house there onto US soil. Like the libs, he worries more about what the word thinks of us than he does about waging a war against the terrorists. He is in many ways, much like John McCain.
As much as you want to dump on Romney and Fred, they were 10 times the conservative Huckabee is.
Agreed. I read the article earlier and loved it.
I only wonder if McCain would ever consider using some comparison so direct as, “the miracle of human liberty versus the boot of socialism” to describe the – ahem – differences.
I respectfully disagree.
There are still a host of people left in the country who haven’t voted yet. Texas is the biggest “red” state in the country and they haven’t had a chance to vote in the Republican primary. Neither has Ohio & Pennsylvania, not to mention a whole bunch of other states. The fact that Thompson, Guiliani & Romney have all quit before almost half the country has voted is a disservice to the remaining Republican voters. What if everyone in Texas wanted Thompson to win? What if Ohio wanted Romney? Doesn’t matter now, because these candidates quit on the party (meaning the people who comprise the party…the actual voters). There’s three left in the race: McCain, Huckabee, & Paul. And it’s NOT about money. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Huckabee has proven this.
There are MANY Republicans who don’t want McCain as the Republican nominee (both those who have already cast their vote, and those who have yet to go to the polls), but by having all the candidates drop out of the race, we (members of the Republican party) are forced to accept McCain, regardless of whether or not the majority of the party really wants him. With Huckabee & Paul staying in the race, it is making it more difficult for McCain to outright secure the nomination before the convention. Instead, as long as people are given a choice when they go to the polls, and McCain does not win the remaining pledged delegates needed to reach 1191, then this will go to a “brokered convention”.
Then, the whole republican party (delegate representatives of each state) will gather to hear from each candidate at the republicn national convention and cast their vote. If McCain does not receive the necessary votes (50% +1), then they will take another vote. At that time, many of the “pledged” delegates will be “released” and have the option to vote for whomever they want. It is my understanding that this means if a winner-take-all state who went for McCain (like VA) has the opportunity to vote on the second ballot, they can vote for anyone they want…some can vote for Ron Paul, some can vote for Mike Huckabee & some can vote for John McCain. Then after all the votes are cast, whoever wins 50% +1 of the votes, becomes the nominee. If there is STILL no clear winner, then it will go to a third ballot (when there’s even more delegates “released” to cast a vote of their own personal choice). This is not unheard of! This is how Abraham Lincoln became the Republican nominee, and went on to become president. There have been several “brokered conventions” in our history. The point is, whether you think Huckabee is just sticking around to be a nuisance or not, he is HELPING the Republican party as a whole by enabling ALL of the representatives the opportunity to vote at one time for the candidate of their CHOICE (whoever is still running by the time we get to the convention). If McCain wins, then he will have won it fair & square at that point. And I honestly believe that if he were to win the nomination THAT way, he would glean the support of the Republican party come November. But if he were to “win” the nomination because the media, political pundits & Republican establishment rammed him down our throats by bullying the remaining candidates to drop out, I’m afraid he will LOSE in November. What do you think?
Carrie,
Thanks for your thoughtful post. I too am afraid that Republicans, of which I am not one anymore, have nominated the weakest candidate in the field. The only chance McCain may have is if he’s smart enough to focus the voters on how extreme of a lib Obama is….
I don’t share your (and many Huckabee supporters) view that a brokered convention is a realistic possibility at this point. I think that after next Tues, McCain will have the delegates (or he’ll be within a hair) he needs to officially have the nomination, and that is without the Romney delegates. McCain is beating Huckabee by 20pts in Texas and 30 pts in Ohio… it’s over. Sorry to be the one to break the news :-(
I too am frustrated with the nomination process. A process so fatally flawed that Republicans nominated the weakest, most liberal candidate in the field. It’s assinine to allow anyone other than a party member to vote in a primary, and I’m also leaning towards a complete revamping of the process. Something like splitting the country into 4 geographic regions and have one region vote per week during the month of Feb. Rotate which region votes 1st each time… anyway, thanks for your views, and keep in touch.
Scott
I agree the nomination process is seriously flawed.
I’m hopeful for a close race in Ohio but I’m not necessarily banking on a Huckabee win there. However, Texas I speculate, will shock the nation…or at least the MSM and political pundits.
Don’t be too confident in those polls…VA showed a 25-30 point difference the week before their primary and ended at a 9-point spread…given a few more days, it may have gone a different way.
Something Huckabee has, that McCain doesn’t is a HUGE LOYAL base of volunteers that are “campaigning” for him from the heart. This is a do-or-die commitment they’re showing…all the while Mr. McCain (like the tortoise from “the tortoise and the hare”) is sitting on the sidelines expecting the remaining delegates to just fall at his feet because the MSM & Republican establishment are saying it’s all sewn up.
The one thing everyone seems to be missing in all of this is the power and the passion of the people. Huckabee supporters are fighting for a CAUSE. They’re not acting out of fear or hate, but rather for what they feel is “right” in their eyes. They are not willing to just settle. It’s one thing to fight against something, it’s altogether different to fight FOR something.
I am very hopeful Huckabee wins Texas, but win or lose, there’s an uprising within the conservative base that will not go away. Much to the dismay of the talking heads, these “evangelicals” and other “values voters” are not as stupid as they are being depicted. Not to mention they believe in a Higher Power…yes, even higher than the almighty media. ;)
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BTW, have you ever been to the mikehuckabee.com website or are you just familiar with what others have said about him? You mentioned some things in a previous comment about how liberal Governor Huckabee is. Actually, I’ve found some interesting things when you delve a little deeper into why Huckabee said he would support closing Gitmo as well as why he opposes school vouchers on the federal level (something that turned me off initially since I supported school vouchers). It’s easy to make sweeping statements, but so often there’s more going on when you look at the full context of the situation. Anyway, if you’re still open-minded, consider checking out his website and visiting the “truth squad” link…Huckabee gives more insight to the accusations made about him and his record. If not, that’s okay, too.
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It’s nice to see you have the Constitution posted here. I sure wish EVERY American was required to really LEARN what it has to say.
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Thank you for allowing me to voice my opinion. Have a nice evening.
Carrie
Here’s a novel idea…
Build a REAL physical fence with AMERICAN materials and AMERICAN labor. We can put a man on the moon but we can’t build a stinkin’ wall? Give me a break!
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Looks to me like somebody’s not very willing. No Amnesty! The SAFETY of our Country is at stake here. SECURE OUR BORDERS Now!
Carrie,
My pleasure. You are welcome on this site, anytime.
I’ve looked at Mike and his positions everyway but sideways. I actually took a hard look at supporting him early on, as I found him to be articulate, witty, and a guy with alot of charm.
The problem was, as I delved into his past, and studied his record, I concluded he has not what he was trying to portray himself as. You really can’t rely on a candidates web site for an objective view on the candidate… so while I did read his site, I also read many others. Including a site I have alot of respect for http://arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com/... these guys know Mike better than anyone, and they ultimately endorsed Fred (as did I).
Anyway, something tells me I’m not going to change your view, and I wouldn’t want to try. You sound like you have passion for your candidate, and I wouldn’t discourge that… at least your involved in fighting the fight for conservative values. Keep up the good fight!
Scott
As far as gas/oil goes, good ideas. To that I’d add incentives (and/or removal of disincentives) for nuclear energy.
Well from a financial standpoint, that is the STUPIDEST advice I have ever heard in my life. Why would anyone GIVE UP their JOB until they have acquired another one to replace their income. Not to mention all the BILLS and DEBTS which accrue when running a major national campaign.
If you are really serious about this then why not suggest this to Hillary and Obama as well. I’m sure they would tell you — you are NUTS!
Hey Fuzball,
You schmuck… do a little research before you post here.
McCain certainly doesn’t need the money personally, he married into a fortune when he married Cindy (heiress to her father’s Anheuser-Busch distributer fortune).
And yes the same thing applies for BO an Hillary Clause, but neither of them has secured the nomination yet, moron.
One of the only good things about the potential election of McCain is that he’ll finally be out of the Senate, and we can replace him with a real conservative. Hopefully he’d pull out a bunch of other RINO’s too, like Grahamnesty, and Snow-job, and Collins to serve in his administration.
Ed,
Great addition, and funny you should bring that up. I just finished, a couple minutes ago, reading a great article in GQ (of all places) about how freakin’ stupid this country is for not leveraging nuclear power. We haven’t build a new nuclear reactor, nor refinery in over 30 years in this country…
Scott
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My name is Eva Hoerig. Karl was my dad. It has been almost a year now and there has been no progress. I am deeply touched by every person that passes on this story and writes a letter.
Thank you,
Eva
Eva,
You are most welcome. I am very sorry about your Dad. He was without a doubt an American Hero, and nothing can take that away from you or your family.
Please know our prayers are with you and your family. Hopefully she will be brought to justice soon. Hang in there.
-Scott
You apparently object to working people exercising their political clout to cause their elected representatives in Congress legislate a minimum wage. I bet you don’t object to “big business” doing the same thing to obtain legislation of any number of measures that “big business” wants because it thinks they will be beneficial to “big business”. Each constituency brings about political and economic change in its own way, which isn’t all that different under it all. This is democracy and another way in which the free market works. Get used to it.
Mark in Irvine,
First of all, you don’t even realize what type of government structure you are living under. We do not live under a Democracy form of government. We live under a representative Republic. There is a vast difference.
A Democracy rules by the tyranny of the majority (seemingly your favored form of government), where the individuals rights have no protection from the absolute power of the majority.
We live under a representative Republic designed by the framers to protect the individual, and minority rights, from the tyranny of the majority. It is a constitutionally limited government of the representative type, created by a written Constitution–adopted by the people and changeable (from its original meaning) by them only by its amendment–with its powers divided between three separate Branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial.
Secondly, what I object to is government interfering in an employment contract between two willing individuals. If I want to make a couple extra bucks and rake leaves on the weekends for $4/hour, why the hell should that be illegal?
You, and many other libs, would rather have employable people sit at home watching TV and living off the taxpayers dime, than actually get off their duffs and take a job at the going market rate. So what if you kill jobs… all more people you can control by keeping them down and dependant, right?
By the way, what vast economic experience do our representatives, to state houses or Congress, bring to this issue that could possibly overrule the free will of two individuals entering into an employment contract?
I’ll answer for you… none! All they can do is screw things up, an make markets less efficient. Government is never the solution… government is the problem. Get use to it.
OK, so it’s a Republic. I still bet you don’t object to “big business” and its lobbyists exercising their political clout to cause representatives in Congress legislate measures that “big business” wants.
Funny; you say “We live under a representative Republic designed by the framers to protect the individual, and minority rights, from the tyranny of the majority” but I’d bet that if we explored a few other areas, you’d have no problem with the concept of the majority tyrannizing the minority when it came to individual freedom. Of course, I’d expect you to say that X is not a right, and so restriction of it is not tyranny; or that by “majority” you mean the little guy without the big bucks and by “minority” you mean the few with the big bucks and lobbyists to do their bidding for their personal gain. So-called “conservatives” use a lot of energy complaining about the nefarious effects of government, but don’t really want its disappearance; they just want it to govern the way THEY want, and stay out of areas where THEY wan to exercise their political power even when doing so is inimical to individual rights of people with less political power. I believe in the “free market”, but you have to admit (if you’re honest) that it has brought us lots of problems: toxic pollution, unsafe drugs and food, securities fraud. Sure the free market works best, but it depends on honest, good faith participants. What we often get is things like Bhopal, groundwater contamination, unsafe mines, PCB, DDT, etc., because too many players in the free market have only their personal bottom line in mind when they act. Government provides many society-wide benefits and some problems. Among its purposes is protecting the little guy from the big guy who is indifferent to the effect of his actions on the little guy.
Mark,
You’re all over the map. Let’s stay focused. First, there is nothing wrong or unconstitutional with individuals, or organizations lobbying their elective representative. The framers believed deeply in the peoples ability to lobby their representatives.
Secondly, I think you have conservatives mixed up with Republicans. They are not one in the same. I actually agree with you about many Republicans liking big government just as much as the Democrats. Republicans, by and large, have badly strayed from their small government roots. That is why I have left the party. True conservatives are Federalists, and as such believe that the federal government’s role should be limited to the areas enumerated in the constitution, with all other governance left to the states.
Mark, anyone can point to individual cases of excesses in a free society. That’s not hard. But the exception is never the rule.
Should state government play a role in ensuring there are appropriate laws to protect the public from toxic dumping… of course who said they shouldn’t?
We were discussing the minimum wage, and it seems that you believe Americans are too stupid to think for themselves, and therefore don’t have the capacity to decide whether they would be willing to perform work for an employer at an agreed upon wage …without a government bureaucrat giving it the thumbs up or down.
Minimum wage laws were a response to abuses by employers of their economic power over the “little guy”. The “little guys” banded together and lobbied their elective representatives to enact legislation meant to protect the little guy from similar abuses. Had there been no abuse, there would not have been the perception of a need for the minimum wage laws.
In general, I agree that the federal government’s role should be limited to the areas enumerated in the constitution, but we have a national economy (and some would say “culture”) now, and not strictly economies limited to individual states. The country is so damned big that individual state regulation often presents nation-wide problems, some of which cannot be dealt with other than at the national level.
Don’t get me started on whether Americans are too stupid to think for themselves. As Fleetwood Mac/Peter Green asked long ago (1969): “Don’t ask me what I think of you; I might not give the answer that you want me to” (on the album “Then Play On”).
Mark,
I think you may have a romantic idea of how the min. wag began in America, but that’s neither here nor there.
Times change, and while there may (or may not) have been a good reason for the imposition of the min wage back in 1912 when the state of MA passed the 1st min wage, there is currently no need. Now adays the free market largely outpaces the min wage adjustments that are passed.
Listen, I used to run an $80 millon/year payroll for a large retail chain, and when government arbitrarily raises rates for entry level jobs, the private sector kills a percentage of those entry level jobs.
Why? Because we can’t waive a magic wand and all of a sudden sell 10% more goods (to make up for the higher cost of doing business) the next day because government suddenly decides to raise the rate. Real economies don’t work that way. What happens in reality is that the best workers keep their jobs, and maybe lose an hour or two of work a week. The weakest performers end up losing their jobs, because at the end of the day, the payroll to revenue model has to remain the same.
Mark, I’m gonna check out on this discussion, but thanks for your readership, and what turned out to be an enjoyable discussion. Hope you continue to check in with us.
Scott
It is really amazing that these people get all high and mighty in their position. They seem to thing that they must know what is best for the American people.
I would like to see him over in Iraq for a year and then tell him that he can’t have a beer.
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The Shuck-abillys do not respond to logic, they don’t have the first clue about conservatism, and they are mostly religious bigots. Reason and logic are things they do not comprehend. The Shuckster is the candidate Jesus would vote for, and if you don’t believe it, just ask Up-chuck-abee himself.
No, don’t bother pointing out how he raised taxes, his comments about Mormonism, how he apparently raised a son with, shall we say, less than Christian principles. I mean, the man simply loves Jesus, and did I mention he was an ex-pastor. He was “un-called” from the ministry, apparently.
In 2012 he plans on having James Bakker run as his running mate. Apparently they have a list of “shills taken” that they intend to share. I mean, what do you think happened to all of those who were part of Jim Bakker’s “church” after Jessica Hahn? They became Huckabilly’s.
Jesus wants Mike to be President, and if the Up-chuck-abee supporters do not get him on the ticket they will vote for the second most “Christian” Obama.
Lest you forget, Romney was the idelogical equivalent of Lincoln Chafey not all that long before the 2008 primaries began. Then, one day, he stepped into a phone booth and … SHAZAM! – he stepped out as Rick Santorum and continued morphing into Ronald Reagan. All in time for the first contest in Iowa. It’s an amazing story that gives me goose bumps every time I think of it.
Do you believe that he’s the “true conservative?” Then, by all means vote for him. But you’re being sold a false set of goods for sure. In other words, I respect but really disagree with your viewpoint.
According to the RCP count (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/republican_delegate_count.html), Mike trails Mitt by two delegates. But, since he paid 8% of what Romney paid for it as of the end of last year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_for_the_2008_presidential_election), that’s a fact that makes Romney look bad – not Huckabee.
Weyrich was a strong Romney supporter. But he came to realize that he had put his faith and support behind someone who didn’t really support his viewpoints. The sooner you realize that the same is probably true of you as well, the sooner you can stop bashing “Schmuckabee” and come to realize that he actually was the true conservative candidate. Give us a shout-out when you do. Until then, have a great one!
What a strange sentiment. I consider Shmuckabee to be “unacceptable”. While I have never been a great Romney fan, I find the populist, unconservative Shmuckster truly a detestable human being. Indeed, Up-chuck-abee, makes McCain seem less nauseating.
I might vote for McCain, but I will probably leave the ballot blank in that area. If the shmuckster was on the ticket there is no way.
There must be something in the water in Hope, Arkansas. It makes you, well, Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee. Two peas in a snake-oil salesman pod.
The religious bigotry issue is not intellectually honest. There are some people who might hold Romney’s religion against him, but not most. In fact, Huckabee, Romney and McCain in many places split the evangelical vote (34%-32%-30%). Sure sounds like bigotry to me!
The very fact that Evangelical leaders like Weyrich at one point in time loudly and firmly supported Romney is proof that many people did not demonstrate religious bigotry. I’m sorry to tell everyone this, but Romney appears to many to be a phony. If you think that he is more conservative than Huckabee, I would really, really like to understand what your definition of conservative is. If it means saying whatever conservatives want to hear than I might agree with you. If it means anything else, I really don’t understand.
We are not having an election about policies but FEELINGS. Evangelical Christians have decided that envy is not a sin, as long as it is those EVIL rich people who are “taxed”.
So it isn’t only McCain who does not know the first thing about economics, but many Republicans, either.
Many in America believe in what I call the “economic theory of 50 mattresses filled with cash”, including most Huckabee supporters. They think that Bill Gates sleeps on mattresses filled with his money. If you take one mattress full of cash away, he is still sleeping upon 49 mattresses filled with cash and does not even notice the millions of dollars “taxed” from him. Bureaucrats who are members of “public servants unions” then generously give this money to the “needy”, because they love them, oh, I meant to say “because they are soulless automatons who stopped thinking when it became morally problematic”
The fact that those billions are tied up in productive capitalist pursuits does not occur to them, because they really care for nothing but themselves, anyway.
Heck, with this kind of “vertical politics” which is code for “sticking it too the rich” McCain will garner not only the Shmuckabee voters but some of the more wobbly “moderates” and “independents” as well.
Barack Obama is why they made the movie “The Manchurian Candidate.” He lets little “slips” like this out and it lets everyone know who he really is, and then has to do all the back-pedalling. He is nothing but a puppet!
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I will be seeing Sean May 3rd at his freedom
concert in Las Vegas. He will be with the “Great One” hopefully I will get to thank him. They are true Americans
Dee,
My family and I had the pleasure to see them at the freedom concert in NJ last year. We had a blast, and what a great and worthy cause. Have fun in the concert in May!
Scott
Thank you for yet another revealing piece about the Obamas. By the time the general election campaign gets rolling, all the Republicans will have to do is replay these character exposing tidbits over and over again. Hillary, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly and bloggers like you have done the McCain campaign and the American people a great service.
You seem to miss the point, and in a big way. Taking Senator McCain’s comments out of context, and wishing for a world where Ronald Reagan’s legacy and personna still governed America’s political discourse is nice but it is not based in reality. Hyper-partisianship has delivered us to an unenviable position politically, and now you would consign our one hope for a secure America to the political dust-bin because he does not desire to demonize Sen. Obama in North Carolina with the zeal that you would embrace. Sorry, but you have no idea that what John McCain is bringing to this fight is a large caliber weapon that he knows how to use – the concept of service to America, belief in America, and honoring America in the best tradition of the Founding Fathers.
SoCal,
I have no idea what you are talking about… about me consigning our one hope to the political dust-bin. I’m giving Senator McCain some badly needed advice…. WAKE THE HELL UP! Plus, I’ve taken nothing out of context, and would like you to specifically point out what I have.
First of all, you high-browed, myopic McCainiacs think your ‘above partisan politics’. That if you just talk in nice cliches that somehow the hyper-partisans on the left will join you. You seem to believe, wrongly, that the reason Republicans lost the House and Senate was because they were to “partisan”, and they didn’t do enough to get along with the libs. I contend that the reason they lost is just the opposite. That, led by Sen McCain, they essentially became nothing more than liberal-lites… and the conservative base and Reagan Democrats walked away from them.
Secondly, informing the American people about a would-be-President’s very dubious relationships with extremists is not, in anyway, demonizing BO. Sorry, It’s just not.
Lastly, our Founding Fathers are turning in their graves when McCain spews some of the crap he spews. You think our Founding Fathers would support McCain’s attack on free speech? You think our Founding Fathers, who revolted againt higher taxes on tea, would support McCain’s class warfare rhetoric on taxes? You think our Founding Fathers would support McCain’s demand to confer US constitutional rights to terrorists? Get a clue!
I have some advice for you… step away from your Republican Kool-aid for a bit and start thinking for yourself.
This is a great post! The stupidity of Pelosi shows just how bad off the Democratic party is under her “leadership”, but the bigger problem is how it impacts us all for the worse!
Wright and BO do not live on the same planet that we do. A poster on another blog actually had me watch 10 minutes of the Reverend to “put his words in context”. An American hating Leftard is all I saw.
The man blamed 9/11 on everything under the sun, going back to the “genocide” of the American Indians and including the atomic bombing of Japan. You know how the Jihadists really, really care about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Why a janitor on floor 100 of the WTC deserved to die for something that occurred during war, before he was born, was, of course, never “put into context”. Unless you think that because America isn’t Utopia, we should hate it until it is.
I was personally offended by the church full of apparent racists. I have never met a single one of them, yet they seem to blame me for what happened before I was born because of the color of my skin.
I don’t despise Wright because of the color of his skin. I despise the vile human being that he is, for his utter lack of character.
Who was that who said, something about the color of one’s skin and the content of their character?
Marshall,
Here, here my brother… couldn’t have said it better myself. Hope all is well.
Scott
I can’t agree more! As supply increases, the price decreases. It’s economics 101 but these people don’t get it. They’d rather moan about it and then blame Republicans for the very problems they created.
Lonely,
You got that right… it’s so mindless and easy to point the finger at “big oil” whatever the hell that is. Until Americans wise-up and figure out that the politicians are at fault for restricting supply, nothing will change.
Thanks for your readership.
Scott
CP:
I appreciate your logic (and frustration). However, the problem is – it doesn’t matter if Obama is a snob or tax issue. I fully support reasonable taxes (quite frankly, in my view – the 18 cents per gallon for roads seems reasonable).
The real problem is… it won’t work…
I’m an economist and a policy analyst. Basic economics can show how the 18.4 cent holiday won’t mean a thing in terms of gas price. Moreover, if you take that away without providing for a supplement in the GFR (i.e. your 3.1T remark), the federal highway projects will degrade. We’re talking about eliminating funding at the “high point” for their programming… the summer months is when most road construction occurs.
I am with you in your frustration and anger – but rolling back the 18.4 cents won’t fix it… and it damages long-term infrastructure. Building infrastructure isn’t the same as giving money away as welfare – you need that infrastructure to have a good economy….
BTW – I do agree with you, however, about drilling in ANWR! I say drill that piece of land like a maniacal dentist! That WILL get the price of gas down, and the coffers up!
Bryan
http://www.rightcommentary.com
(URL’s shrunk for simplicity)
My post on gas tax: http://tinyurl.com/3zf2ph
My post on ANWR: http://tinyurl.com/3wynyk
Bryan,
We are not too far apart, but you missed my point. I am not claiming that rolling back the federal tax on gas is a fix for the collosal energy dependence problem we have gotten ourselves into… not at all.
My point is, I’ll take it. Any way to roll back the excessive taxation we face today is good with me.
You seem to believe that the federal gas taxes go into some protected road and bridges “trust fund” that congress can’t violate on a whim. As you know there is really no “lock box” for federal road projects, just as there is no “lock box” on the “trust fund” for Soc. Sec. and Medicare. It’s just one really massive pool of tax dollars that congress divies up each year.
I actually agree that development and maintenance of our nation’s infrastucture is one of the few real responsibilities of our federal government, and as such some level of taxation is necessary support a growing infrastucture and growing economy. But, the problem is that the federal and state governments have become so massive, and so intrusive that we must begin to roll back their reach when ever and where ever the opportunity presents itself.
Let the bloated pig we call our federal government go on a slight diet to make up for the loss in taxes (and still fund the nation’s legitimate highway projects). Who knows, a couple beaurocrats may even actually end up as producers on our capitalist society instead of takers.
Scott
Don’t worry, if Hillary’s elected she will take down NATO!
But, Scott, hedge fund managers made BILLIONS! I am sure that I would have doubled my earnings this year if they had not, maybe even tripled them.
The math? What, are you going to discriminate against me because I can’t add? This is about vertical politics, for the ordinary, working American.
Those super rich people don’t do anything with their money but bury it in coffee cans in the back yard or stuff their mattresses with it. It isn’t like they spend it or invest it. Obama is simply trying to give ME some of MY money back. Please, please, don’t ask how I can pay almost nothing in taxes and collect lots of benefits and still be “entitled” to more. I asked you not to discriminate against me because I can’t do math. I scored really, really well in school on “diversity” so I didn’t have time for math. Didn’t you read that 50 people split $29 billion? If that isn’t reason for some more taxes on them and more benefits for the “average American” what is? I mean, people are hurting.
I mean, they are rich, and I am not. This is clearly the fault of the government. What, you are going to claim something about “earning”?
Since Senator Obama apparently was not exposed to the wisdom that I was, on this Mother’s Day, in memory of my wonderful, caring, Mother, who cancer stole from my life almost 20 years ago I want to add “LIFE ISN’T FAIR”. Thanks Mom.
Marshall,
My bad… hadn’t thought about it that way!
Sorry to hear about your Mom, she must have been a great lady to raise a guy with such a great head on his shoulders. Here’s to Mrs. Gill!
Scott
Terrific heartwarming article. You’re so right about the Right. We don’t shout people down, we don’t march in protest parades, we’re generally polite and considerate of other people. And that has always been our handicap. There are times, however — and this certainly is one of them — when we have to fight back. We have to be hard and tough. Harder and tougher than are opponents. Our liberal appeasers are just as much our enemy as Ahmadinejad or bin Laden. to defeat our foreign enemies we must first defeat our domestic appeasers.
It’s about time — actually, way past time — that President Bush started fighting back.
I mean, what the hell does he have to lose?
Are liberals that stupid or do they have a planned approach for destroying our economy and the wealth of many for their own power? They hate our sovereignty both individual and as a nation and look to take it away by whatever means necessary. Of course John McCain refuses the option to drill and in many ways resembles the Democrats. So we really find ourselves in a situation where our options are running out. The Dems and the anti-conservative Republicans are failing to do the work to keep this country free.
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A flag pin on his lapel? Do I really care? No. Does John McCain wear one? No. Either way, it’s irrelevant. What is relevant is his seeming inconsistency, or rather nonchalance on this issue. It doesn’t rise to the level of flip-flopping, but his attitude about the flag pin is somewhat flippant. As mentioned he recently explained at length that, at some point post 9/11, he stopped wearing the flag pin as a symbolic gesture against what he perceived as false patriotism. Since he, therefore, understands the import of such symbolism he might wish to recall that, post 9/11, we were sending young troops into combat, some of whom may have had a different take on the symbolic nature of the American flag, like it sort of represents what they and their buddies were fighting and dying for. They may not have considered it appropriate to use a flag pin as some sort of political football handed off on a whim as a symbolic gesture. And some of those soldiers going into combat post 9/11 might also recall another Democratic politician who was similarly challenged with the rules governing basic American symbols. That would be the newly inaugurated President, Bill Clinton, in 1993. Remember his lackadaisical approach to saluting the troops? Or not. How about the White House staff turning away military officers in uniform – wasn’t it a three star general – sent to brief the President on national security matters? Apparently, Bubba and the bimbos who guarded access to him had a different impression of what a military uniform symbolized. That whole affair went down real well with the troops. Speaking from experience, sitting in the sand in some shithole like Somalia and reading about how your new President disses his own Military’s most basic symbols, doesn’t give you a warm ‘n fuzzy feeling.
Fast forward fifteen years and another liberal politician with no military experience is having similar trouble with symbols. Nowadays, Obama seems determined to wear his flag pin intermittently, depending on his mood or whatever. Must be a big decision for him every morning – hmm, what message do I want to send to the people today? False Patriotism….True Patriotism….Indecisiveness? What a dialectical dilemma! Where’s my Niebuhr? He’ll know what to do. Our troops in uniform are a little more used to, uh, uniformity. For them, the symbol of the American flag usually stands for only one thing, their country – not necessarily their patriotism. Wearing a flag symbol is optional, unless it’s stitched on your uniform of the day. And while many of these young troops probably lack Obama’s sophistication, they do manage to get dressed every day in uniforms that are festooned with a variety of pin-on symbols, like rank and such. They are not simpletons. They might, however, be a little too preoccupied right now to understand the convoluted discourse of a Harvard educated lawyer/presidential candidate seeking to explain something as simple as pinning a flag on his suit lapel. Or not. The logic of his verbal gyrations on this issue might elude them. Considering he hopes to be their commander-in-chief someday soon, Senator Obama might want to remember that, and adopt a more simplistic approach to his morning constitutional. Note bene senator: You don’t want to emulate Bill Clinton on this one.
I heard the interview yesterday morning and nearly spit my OJ all over the counter. Is he kidding? She goes around giving her “America is doom” speeches, yet the things she says are off limits to any sort of criticism. So typical.
Yeah, I cannot take this demonization of “big oil” when we know who the real bad guys are. And it really makes me mad because they are playing on the ignorance of citizens. They are pulling this stunt assuming that the American people don’t understand economics. And many don’t because our education system is so completely horrible that it is not taught enough. And every main stream news organization perpetuates the myth that the Democrats are shoving down our throats. It is absolutely ridiculous.
Demonizing the Demons, how unfair!
Yes, they are playing on the ignorance of the masses, but this whole argument between Big Oil and the Politicians (only a certain group of politicians on the ‘inside’) is staged to be irresolvable, while oil company execs grab all they can from the consumer before the inevitable switch to alternate renewable energy sources.
Their aim is simply to keep this argument going while they filch every penny they can from the consumer, in a last ditch effort to syphon off all the profit they can, because their ship is sinking.
jane,
There certainly is never a lack of conspiracy theories out there, and sounds like you’ve bought into a good one.
If I read you correctly, Big Oil is colluding with the liberal senators and house democrats to keep oil supply articially low? And, somehow the Big Oil execs are funnelling money back to these members of our government…? Do I have that right?
If so, all I can say is WOW… that’s quite a theory…
‘God help us.’
Ok before I get into this I have to make a few things clear, first of all I am only 24 I am a graduate student, and this is the first time I have ever watched this process as close as I have. I am not a liberal but then again I am not a conservative, I have some views that are conservative and some that are liberal. I believe that I am fair and have my own opinions and not what talk radio tells me to believe. I am not a robot, I am from Pennsylvania but I am not real religious and I don’t own a gun.
So getting that out of the way if I can think this way why must everyone grasp on to a side and stick with it regardless of dumb it really is? Everyone has skeletons in there closet McCain has the Keaton 5, Obama has a wacky pastor, but an issue that I need to address is hypothetical, if John McCain was to announce that “so and so” was his pastor, two or three weeks later you come to find out that he has been molesting children for 25 years would a big fuss be made out of this by the conservatives, questioning his pastor? I know a lot will argue well he didn’t know etc. etc. but in reality the republican party is filled with fun stuff like that. The point is whats the problem with this church, who cares, my first amendment says I can say whatever I want and go to whatever church I feel like going top, I would have loved to went to a church like that when I was younger at the least I would have been able to stay awake, maybe I’d still attend….
If you need to point out that why would I want someone representing me that listens to sermons like this the answer is I don’t. I personally think that the people who are representing my country, my state, my county, my city, and myself shouldn’t be far from who I am. I thought the reason why we broke away from the English monarchy was to get away from our leaders being the elite, rich, powerful, etc etc….. I dont know I am fairly new at the whole blogging and even talking politics so maybe I haven’t learned much, however I did it fact learn this, the smoke that has been blown up my ass from following this process is now exiting through my mouth and ears and many scientists believe its the leading cause of global warming… sorry Gore you got it worng!
absolut,
I think it’s great you are engaging in the political process, and thanks for your readership.
The basic and essential point here is pretty simple. You can tell a whole lot about someone by the company he keeps.
BO is portraying himself as someone he is not. The guy, and his wife, are are radical leftists who have run with the extreme elements of the left for the majority of their adult lives.
If they disagreed with the racist, anti-American, black separatist venom being spewed from the pulpit of this church, don’t you think they would have left the church at some point over the past 20 year? But they didn’t… they got married there, the baptized their kids there, and they let their young kids hear that stuff as they grew up… that is really the point.
I understand “You can tell a whole lot about someone by the company he keeps”, but the thing is that I was trying to point out during my rant is that every one has nuts in their past or current life. Basically we are damned if we vote for one and we are damned if we vote for another. Neither one of the candidates at this time have any good ideas that will benefit the people of the country. One wants a universal health care, I’ve worked my but off so I could have some of the better things in my life, one is health care. I personally think if we have a plan like this every Tom Dick and Junky will be running to the ER for pain killers. And the people who actually need help aren’t going to be able to get it because some smack head that is in front of you is trying to get a fix.
And then there is McCain, how much longer can you continue a pointless war that is killing the US dollar, due to all the money we don’ have that is being spent over in Iraq.
What a mess!
absolut,
Your instincts are partially correct, but you need a little more discipline in your thought processes. Don’t fall prey to the “common wisdom” you hear on the news everyday. Search out alternate points of view on the issue and become an independent thinker.
On the radicals… I disagree… the vast majority of Americans don’t have anti-American, racist radicals that they pal around with. Most people shun, or disassociate themselves with those types of people once they expose themselves. BO didn’t (for over 20 years) until he was forced to by the thought of losing the general election.
On the war, there is no such thing as a pointless war. You may disagree with the intention of a war, but wars are always fought for a reason. One thing for sure is that no matter what you think about the reason we are in the war, once we engage in a war, America must see it through to a successful conclusion. Failure to do so puts all Americans in very real danger.
Don’t forget that this war was approved by overwhelming majorities of the Congress with many in both parties supporting it. Once the Congress, and the Prez sends our boys and girls to fight, we must back them until the end. Politicizing a war when our troops are in harms way is unforgivable!
We cannot engage in the same type of relativism we accuse liberals of. Imus’ comments stand or fall on their own, and if we do not call him out on them then we have no business calling anyone out on comments that only further fuel racial stereotypes. Senator Obama’s constant reference to race not being an issue is eerily like then Governor Jimmy Carter repeatedly saying that President Ford’s pardon of President Nixon was not an issue in 1976. Look where that got us…
SoCo… Not engaging in relevatism, nor excusing, or condeming Imus. I wrote the piece last night before the full context was out, and before we got to hear Imus’ side of the story. This one looks like much ado about nothing in the hyper-politically correct age we live in.
My point was more about the media double standard. Obama, the candidate for President, make racial comments and gets a free pass… barely a mention in the media. Imus, a stupid radio host with zero sociatal impact, get’s full blown hysterical coverage… typical.
When you watch this clip of Harry, look at his body language when he start expressing himself with his hands. It looks as though he is “begging” us to listen to him.
Great post! Whatever happened to listening to the people and doing was what necessary for the benefit of the American People? I think somewhere we have lost the principles the Founding Fathers setup when they setup this great nation, which is founded in self government and capitalism.
Thanks xhar,
I’m with you… our schools don’t teach our founding principles of freedom, individual natural (God-given)rights, and rugged indivdualism. How socialism is a failed ideology that spread misery, while capitalism spreads wealth… I’m with ya’ my brother. Thanks for your readership.
I am a Hillary supporter. I have never voted Republican, but I am impressed with what I have see of Sarah Palin. I don’t agree with her on everything, but then I don’t agree with anyone on everything. I guess I am a moderate Democrat, and I am seriously thinking about voting for McCain/Palin this year.
I can’t believe beaver, pa I lived a few years in new castle, pa we have a whole lot of family there, they would never vote for them 2 clowns. Biden is diffently drunk no question about. He reminds me of a brother-in law of mine from New Castle(love him to death)but very embarrasing just like that.
Scott love your articles I am glad you have a comment line now. I see you are like me.I just love the Great One Mark Levin
Dee mesa,az
zann,
Wish there were more of you out there… someone who looks at the issues in an objective manner, and doesn’t just take the view as presented by ABC, NBC, and CBS…
Isn’t it funny how the media tries to portray the Democrat party as the party for women, and yet they viciously slander an accomplished woman on the Republican side, just because she is a Republican? I think you’ll be more impressed with Sarah the more you hear from her…
Thanks for your readership.
Scott
Dee,
Thanks for the kind words… I’ve been on vac for a week and a half, and going through Levin withdrawl!
I’m actually on the other side of the state… right next to the Jersey line… hopefully we can find enough real Americans in this state to have it go for McCain/Palin in Nov…
Thanks much for your readership!
They are worst than morons, I am still waiting for Barack’s Vetting, just the
crowd he threw under the bus,
How come nobody is looking into that Larry Sinclair story I can’t believe what this man has went thru in the past year. They found out the lie detector that he was supposed have failed was a phoney set up by Dan Parisi. He tried to talk with MSNBC at the RNC convention. they got security to chase him off. He finally got a site up with all his documents and audio tapes,
They took down at least 9 sites him and other have had including some Puma sites.
larrysinclair.org
I have already sent an e-mail to the senate fiance commitee demanding an investigation
NOW. I will e-mail each one. this is the letter I sent, I recommend it for all to do
“I want to see an investigation into the debaucle. Not just the fixed books but the red lining that pushed the banks into financing people without proper income,down payments closing cost that were rolled over into the net cost of the home,which drove the actual selling price by thousand. This is something that both Dems and Repulicans can come together for the good of the people.
We don’t want silence this is our money….”
I think they need to get rid of the whole bunch.Rangle,pelosi,reed, Dodd,Schumer,Obama there is a fax tonight that was sent to Obama,Biden,Caskill asking to give a response to some question that Obama camp will not answer. They are asking everyone to sent it to their Senators
here is the fax that was senthttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P2ak2vb2Zv0/SNWBE-TkEcI/AAAAAAAAAV8/nQbGLf1Wgtw/s1600-h/Comment+Request+Obama+Plouffe+Axelrod.jpg
Fantastic Job! You need to send this to the McCain camp via their website.
I just read obama unmasked. They have a chapter about the mad millionaire, I beleive Soros had to execute his Oct surprise early to tamper the PALIN effect. Floyd Brown who wrote the book a few months ago had the same scenario in theory,It has come to pass. With the mess of the housing market,One month before the election,and the market short sale free fall it was the perfect storm.
To Put Obama on His Mantle. I pray to God Our Repulicans in Congress go for a NO vote.
Let them Democrat worms go down with Soros
I will send this video to everyone on my mailing list.
This video was removed by youtube due to copyright of background music.
Is it available elsewhere? Will it’s creator revise it w/o background music?
Who created it?
This video is MUST SEE and it needs to get back up.
Johnny,
It’s back up… Google up to their little liberal tricks again…
Scott
I’m still trying to figure out how the AP came up with “racially tinged”. The dominant characteristic of interest regarding Ayers is “terrorist”, not his or anyone else’s race. This has to be the single most blatant 52 pickup version of the race card played yet. Just random, random, hey, maybe someone will diagram how race plays between Palin (white) Obama(half black) and Ayers (white).
Ummm, racist angles:
1. Palin thinks it is uncool to socialize with White terrorists? No, that doesn’t work. She’s white.
2. If Obama was white we wouldn’t notice he pals around with a guy who wanted to blow up the Pentagon? No, Palin is a gun lovin’ war mongerin’ moose dressing, not afraid to tell you to F.Off if you hate America kind of red meat woman.
3. Palin thinks Obama has sinister friends because he is black? Well, no . . . he DOES have sinister friends.
4. I ran out of ways to try to force the racism thing.
I can’t believe it. I heard the judge ruled to put it off till after the election!!
Why did the Obama camp try and get it thrown out at the last minute? couldn’t they have just produced the document?
Just more unanswered questions. He wants to be Our President. “what an empty suit” REALLY
It’s very simple Social Security and Medicare will be paid from the higher taxes corporations and people that make over $250,000 per year will pay. Do you make over $250,000 per year? Sorry for you! :)
Spoken like a true Marx disciple Leo. Your agreement with me that you libs view medicare and social security as welfare programs, and not “investment” programs, like the left has always claimed is telling. Plus, you full well know your $250K number is bogus… you boy’s gonna raise taxes on everyone… and raise them big time.
Scott I just read a great article that should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. It was sent to me by Human Events.
Media’s Presidential Bias and Decline
Columnist Michael Malone Looks at Slanted Election Coverage and the Reasons Why
Column By MICHAEL S. MALONE
Oct. 24, 2008 —
The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game — with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates.
The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.
But worst of all, for the last couple weeks, I’ve begun — for the first time in my adult life — to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living. A few days ago, when asked by a new acquaintance what I did for a living, I replied that I was “a writer,” because I couldn’t bring myself to admit to a stranger that I’m a journalist.
You need to understand how painful this is for me. I am one of those people who truly bleeds ink when I’m cut. I am a fourth-generation newspaperman. As family history tells it, my great-grandfather was a newspaper editor in Abilene, Kan., during the last of the cowboy days, then moved to Oregon to help start the Oregon Journal (now the Oregonian).
My hard-living — and when I knew her, scary — grandmother was one of the first women reporters for the Los Angeles Times. And my father, though profoundly dyslexic, followed a long career in intelligence to finish his life (thanks to word processors and spellcheckers) as a very successful freelance writer. I’ve spent 30 years in every part of journalism, from beat reporter to magazine editor. And my oldest son, following in the family business, so to speak, earned his first national byline before he earned his drivers license.
So, when I say I’m deeply ashamed right now to be called a “journalist,” you can imagine just how deep that cuts into my soul.
Now, of course, there’s always been bias in the media. Human beings are biased, so the work they do, including reporting, is inevitably colored. Hell, I can show you 10 different ways to color variations of the word “said” — muttered, shouted, announced, reluctantly replied, responded, etc. — to influence the way a reader will apprehend exactly the same quote. We all learn that in Reporting 101, or at least in the first few weeks working in a newsroom.
But what we are also supposed to learn during that same apprenticeship is to recognize the dangerous power of that technique, and many others, and develop built-in alarms against them.
But even more important, we are also supposed to be taught that even though there is no such thing as pure, Platonic objectivity in reporting, we are to spend our careers struggling to approach that ideal as closely as possible.
That means constantly challenging our own prejudices, systematically presenting opposing views and never, ever burying stories that contradict our own world views or challenge people or institutions we admire. If we can’t achieve Olympian detachment, than at least we can recognize human frailty — especially in ourselves.
Reporting Bias
For many years, spotting bias in reporting was a little parlor game of mine, watching TV news or reading a newspaper article and spotting how the reporter had inserted, often unconsciously, his or her own preconceptions. But I always wrote it off as bad judgment and lack of professionalism, rather than bad faith and conscious advocacy.
Sure, being a child of the ’60s I saw a lot of subjective “New” Journalism, and did a fair amount of it myself, but that kind of writing, like columns and editorials, was supposed to be segregated from “real” reporting, and, at least in mainstream media, usually was. The same was true for the emerging blogosphere, which by its very nature was opinionated and biased.
But my complacent faith in my peers first began to be shaken when some of the most admired journalists in the country were exposed as plagiarists, or worse, accused of making up stories from whole cloth.
I’d spent my entire professional career scrupulously pounding out endless dreary footnotes and double-checking sources to make sure that I never got accused of lying or stealing someone else’s work — not out of any native honesty, but out of fear: I’d always been told to fake or steal a story was a firing offense & indeed, it meant being blackballed out of the profession.
And yet, few of those worthies ever seemed to get fired for their crimes — and if they did they were soon rehired into even more prestigious jobs. It seemed as if there were two sets of rules: one for us workaday journalists toiling out in the sticks, and another for folks who’d managed, through talent or deceit, to make it to the national level.
Meanwhile, I watched with disbelief as the nation’s leading newspapers, many of whom I’d written for in the past, slowly let opinion pieces creep into the news section, and from there onto the front page. Personal opinions and comments that, had they appeared in my stories in 1979, would have gotten my butt kicked by the nearest copy editor, were now standard operating procedure at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and soon after in almost every small town paper in the U.S.
But what really shattered my faith — and I know the day and place where it happened — was the war in Lebanon three summers ago. The hotel I was staying at in Windhoek, Namibia, only carried CNN, a network I’d already learned to approach with skepticism. But this was CNN International, which is even worse.
I sat there, first with my jaw hanging down, then actually shouting at the TV, as one field reporter after another reported the carnage of the Israeli attacks on Beirut, with almost no corresponding coverage of the Hezbollah missiles raining down on northern Israel. The reporting was so utterly and shamelessly biased that I sat there for hours watching, assuming that eventually CNNi would get around to telling the rest of the story & but it never happened.
The Presidential Campaign
But nothing, nothing I’ve seen has matched the media bias on display in the current presidential campaign.
Republicans are justifiably foaming at the mouth over the sheer one-sidedness of the press coverage of the two candidates and their running mates. But in the last few days, even Democrats, who have been gloating over the pass — no, make that shameless support — they’ve gotten from the press, are starting to get uncomfortable as they realize that no one wins in the long run when we don’t have a free and fair press.
I was one of the first people in the traditional media to call for the firing of Dan Rather — not because of his phony story, but because he refused to admit his mistake — but, bless him, even Gunga Dan thinks the media is one-sided in this election.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not one of those people who think the media has been too hard on, say, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin, by rushing reportorial SWAT teams to her home state of Alaska to rifle through her garbage. This is the big leagues, and if she wants to suit up and take the field, then Gov. Palin better be ready to play.
The few instances where I think the press has gone too far — such as the Times reporter talking to prospective first lady Cindy McCain’s daughter’s MySpace friends — can easily be solved with a few newsroom smackdowns and temporary repostings to the Omaha bureau.
No, what I object to (and I think most other Americans do as well) is the lack of equivalent hardball coverage of the other side — or worse, actively serving as attack dogs for the presidential ticket of Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Joe Biden, D-Del.
If the current polls are correct, we are about to elect as president of the United States a man who is essentially a cipher, who has left almost no paper trail, seems to have few friends (that at least will talk) and has entire years missing out of his biography.
That isn’t Sen. Obama’s fault: His job is to put his best face forward. No, it is the traditional media’s fault, for it alone (unlike the alternative media) has had the resources to cover this story properly, and has systematically refused to do so.
Why, for example to quote the lawyer for Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., haven’t we seen an interview with Sen. Obama’s grad school drug dealer — when we know all about Mrs. McCain’s addiction? Are Bill Ayers and Tony Rezko that hard to interview? All those phony voter registrations that hard to scrutinize? And why are Sen. Biden’s endless gaffes almost always covered up, or rationalized, by the traditional media?
Joe the Plumber
The absolute nadir (though I hate to commit to that, as we still have two weeks before the election) came with Joe the Plumber.
Middle America, even when they didn’t agree with Joe, looked on in horror as the press took apart the private life of an average person who had the temerity to ask a tough question of a presidential candidate. So much for the standing up for the little man. So much for speaking truth to power. So much for comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, and all of those other catchphrases we journalists used to believe we lived by.
I learned a long time ago that when people or institutions begin to behave in a matter that seems to be entirely against their own interests, it’s because we don’t understand what their motives really are. It would seem that by so exposing their biases and betting everything on one candidate over another, the traditional media is trying to commit suicide — especially when, given our currently volatile world and economy, the chances of a successful Obama presidency, indeed any presidency, is probably less than 50/50.
Furthermore, I also happen to believe that most reporters, whatever their political bias, are human torpedoes & and, had they been unleashed, would have raced in and roughed up the Obama campaign as much as they did McCain’s. That’s what reporters do. I was proud to have been one, and I’m still drawn to a good story, any good story, like a shark to blood in the water.
So why weren’t those legions of hungry reporters set loose on the Obama campaign? Who are the real villains in this story of mainstream media betrayal?
The editors. The men and women you don’t see; the people who not only decide what goes in the paper, but what doesn’t; the managers who give the reporters their assignments and lay out the editorial pages. They are the real culprits.
Bad Editors
Why? I think I know, because had my life taken a different path, I could have been one: Picture yourself in your 50s in a job where you’ve spent 30 years working your way to the top, to the cockpit of power & only to discover that you’re presiding over a dying industry. The Internet and alternative media are stealing your readers, your advertisers and your top young talent. Many of your peers shrewdly took golden parachutes and disappeared. Your job doesn’t have anywhere near the power and influence it did when your started your climb. The Newspaper Guild is too weak to protect you any more, and there is a very good chance you’ll lose your job before you cross that finish line, 10 years hence, of retirement and a pension.
In other words, you are facing career catastrophe — and desperate times call for desperate measures. Even if you have to risk everything on a single Hail Mary play. Even if you have to compromise the principles that got you here. After all, newspapers and network news are doomed anyway — all that counts is keeping them on life support until you can retire.
And then the opportunity presents itself — an attractive young candidate whose politics likely matches yours, but more important, he offers the prospect of a transformed Washington with the power to fix everything that has gone wrong in your career.
With luck, this monolithic, single-party government will crush the alternative media via a revived fairness doctrine, re-invigorate unions by getting rid of secret votes, and just maybe be beholden to people like you in the traditional media for getting it there.
And besides, you tell yourself, it’s all for the good of the country &
This is the opinion of the columnist and in no way reflects the opinion of ABC News.
Michael S. Malone is one of the nation’s best-known technology writers. He has covered Silicon Valley and high-tech for more than 25 years, beginning with the San Jose Mercury News as the nation’s first daily high-tech reporter. His articles and editorials have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, the Economist and Fortune, and for two years he was a columnist for The New York Times. He was editor of Forbes ASAP, the world’s largest-circulation business-tech magazine, at the height of the dot-com boom. Malone is the author or co-author of a dozen books, notably the best-selling “Virtual Corporation.” Malone has also hosted three public television interview series, and most recently co-produced the celebrated PBS miniseries on social entrepreneurs, “The New Heroes.” He has been the ABCNews.com “Silicon Insider” columnist since 2000.
Copyright © 2008 ABC News Internet Ventures
Scott, I thought I died and went to heaven when I read this. I am hoping things change before tueday I don’t know if you read this another great article there is a God.
p.s I am also a big fan of the GREAT ONE
Media’s Presidential Bias and Decline
Columnist Michael Malone Looks at Slanted Election Coverage and the Reasons Why
Column By MICHAEL S. MALONE
Oct. 24, 2008 —
The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game — with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates.
The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.
But worst of all, for the last couple weeks, I’ve begun — for the first time in my adult life — to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living. A few days ago, when asked by a new acquaintance what I did for a living, I replied that I was “a writer,” because I couldn’t bring myself to admit to a stranger that I’m a journalist.
You need to understand how painful this is for me. I am one of those people who truly bleeds ink when I’m cut. I am a fourth-generation newspaperman. As family history tells it, my great-grandfather was a newspaper editor in Abilene, Kan., during the last of the cowboy days, then moved to Oregon to help start the Oregon Journal (now the Oregonian).
My hard-living — and when I knew her, scary — grandmother was one of the first women reporters for the Los Angeles Times. And my father, though profoundly dyslexic, followed a long career in intelligence to finish his life (thanks to word processors and spellcheckers) as a very successful freelance writer. I’ve spent 30 years in every part of journalism, from beat reporter to magazine editor. And my oldest son, following in the family business, so to speak, earned his first national byline before he earned his drivers license.
So, when I say I’m deeply ashamed right now to be called a “journalist,” you can imagine just how deep that cuts into my soul.
Now, of course, there’s always been bias in the media. Human beings are biased, so the work they do, including reporting, is inevitably colored. Hell, I can show you 10 different ways to color variations of the word “said” — muttered, shouted, announced, reluctantly replied, responded, etc. — to influence the way a reader will apprehend exactly the same quote. We all learn that in Reporting 101, or at least in the first few weeks working in a newsroom.
But what we are also supposed to learn during that same apprenticeship is to recognize the dangerous power of that technique, and many others, and develop built-in alarms against them.
But even more important, we are also supposed to be taught that even though there is no such thing as pure, Platonic objectivity in reporting, we are to spend our careers struggling to approach that ideal as closely as possible.
That means constantly challenging our own prejudices, systematically presenting opposing views and never, ever burying stories that contradict our own world views or challenge people or institutions we admire. If we can’t achieve Olympian detachment, than at least we can recognize human frailty — especially in ourselves.
Reporting Bias
For many years, spotting bias in reporting was a little parlor game of mine, watching TV news or reading a newspaper article and spotting how the reporter had inserted, often unconsciously, his or her own preconceptions. But I always wrote it off as bad judgment and lack of professionalism, rather than bad faith and conscious advocacy.
Sure, being a child of the ’60s I saw a lot of subjective “New” Journalism, and did a fair amount of it myself, but that kind of writing, like columns and editorials, was supposed to be segregated from “real” reporting, and, at least in mainstream media, usually was. The same was true for the emerging blogosphere, which by its very nature was opinionated and biased.
But my complacent faith in my peers first began to be shaken when some of the most admired journalists in the country were exposed as plagiarists, or worse, accused of making up stories from whole cloth.
I’d spent my entire professional career scrupulously pounding out endless dreary footnotes and double-checking sources to make sure that I never got accused of lying or stealing someone else’s work — not out of any native honesty, but out of fear: I’d always been told to fake or steal a story was a firing offense & indeed, it meant being blackballed out of the profession.
And yet, few of those worthies ever seemed to get fired for their crimes — and if they did they were soon rehired into even more prestigious jobs. It seemed as if there were two sets of rules: one for us workaday journalists toiling out in the sticks, and another for folks who’d managed, through talent or deceit, to make it to the national level.
Meanwhile, I watched with disbelief as the nation’s leading newspapers, many of whom I’d written for in the past, slowly let opinion pieces creep into the news section, and from there onto the front page. Personal opinions and comments that, had they appeared in my stories in 1979, would have gotten my butt kicked by the nearest copy editor, were now standard operating procedure at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and soon after in almost every small town paper in the U.S.
But what really shattered my faith — and I know the day and place where it happened — was the war in Lebanon three summers ago. The hotel I was staying at in Windhoek, Namibia, only carried CNN, a network I’d already learned to approach with skepticism. But this was CNN International, which is even worse.
I sat there, first with my jaw hanging down, then actually shouting at the TV, as one field reporter after another reported the carnage of the Israeli attacks on Beirut, with almost no corresponding coverage of the Hezbollah missiles raining down on northern Israel. The reporting was so utterly and shamelessly biased that I sat there for hours watching, assuming that eventually CNNi would get around to telling the rest of the story & but it never happened.
The Presidential Campaign
But nothing, nothing I’ve seen has matched the media bias on display in the current presidential campaign.
Republicans are justifiably foaming at the mouth over the sheer one-sidedness of the press coverage of the two candidates and their running mates. But in the last few days, even Democrats, who have been gloating over the pass — no, make that shameless support — they’ve gotten from the press, are starting to get uncomfortable as they realize that no one wins in the long run when we don’t have a free and fair press.
I was one of the first people in the traditional media to call for the firing of Dan Rather — not because of his phony story, but because he refused to admit his mistake — but, bless him, even Gunga Dan thinks the media is one-sided in this election.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not one of those people who think the media has been too hard on, say, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin, by rushing reportorial SWAT teams to her home state of Alaska to rifle through her garbage. This is the big leagues, and if she wants to suit up and take the field, then Gov. Palin better be ready to play.
The few instances where I think the press has gone too far — such as the Times reporter talking to prospective first lady Cindy McCain’s daughter’s MySpace friends — can easily be solved with a few newsroom smackdowns and temporary repostings to the Omaha bureau.
No, what I object to (and I think most other Americans do as well) is the lack of equivalent hardball coverage of the other side — or worse, actively serving as attack dogs for the presidential ticket of Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Joe Biden, D-Del.
If the current polls are correct, we are about to elect as president of the United States a man who is essentially a cipher, who has left almost no paper trail, seems to have few friends (that at least will talk) and has entire years missing out of his biography.
That isn’t Sen. Obama’s fault: His job is to put his best face forward. No, it is the traditional media’s fault, for it alone (unlike the alternative media) has had the resources to cover this story properly, and has systematically refused to do so.
Why, for example to quote the lawyer for Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., haven’t we seen an interview with Sen. Obama’s grad school drug dealer — when we know all about Mrs. McCain’s addiction? Are Bill Ayers and Tony Rezko that hard to interview? All those phony voter registrations that hard to scrutinize? And why are Sen. Biden’s endless gaffes almost always covered up, or rationalized, by the traditional media?
Joe the Plumber
The absolute nadir (though I hate to commit to that, as we still have two weeks before the election) came with Joe the Plumber.
Middle America, even when they didn’t agree with Joe, looked on in horror as the press took apart the private life of an average person who had the temerity to ask a tough question of a presidential candidate. So much for the standing up for the little man. So much for speaking truth to power. So much for comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, and all of those other catchphrases we journalists used to believe we lived by.
I learned a long time ago that when people or institutions begin to behave in a matter that seems to be entirely against their own interests, it’s because we don’t understand what their motives really are. It would seem that by so exposing their biases and betting everything on one candidate over another, the traditional media is trying to commit suicide — especially when, given our currently volatile world and economy, the chances of a successful Obama presidency, indeed any presidency, is probably less than 50/50.
Furthermore, I also happen to believe that most reporters, whatever their political bias, are human torpedoes & and, had they been unleashed, would have raced in and roughed up the Obama campaign as much as they did McCain’s. That’s what reporters do. I was proud to have been one, and I’m still drawn to a good story, any good story, like a shark to blood in the water.
So why weren’t those legions of hungry reporters set loose on the Obama campaign? Who are the real villains in this story of mainstream media betrayal?
The editors. The men and women you don’t see; the people who not only decide what goes in the paper, but what doesn’t; the managers who give the reporters their assignments and lay out the editorial pages. They are the real culprits.
Bad Editors
Why? I think I know, because had my life taken a different path, I could have been one: Picture yourself in your 50s in a job where you’ve spent 30 years working your way to the top, to the cockpit of power & only to discover that you’re presiding over a dying industry. The Internet and alternative media are stealing your readers, your advertisers and your top young talent. Many of your peers shrewdly took golden parachutes and disappeared. Your job doesn’t have anywhere near the power and influence it did when your started your climb. The Newspaper Guild is too weak to protect you any more, and there is a very good chance you’ll lose your job before you cross that finish line, 10 years hence, of retirement and a pension.
In other words, you are facing career catastrophe — and desperate times call for desperate measures. Even if you have to risk everything on a single Hail Mary play. Even if you have to compromise the principles that got you here. After all, newspapers and network news are doomed anyway — all that counts is keeping them on life support until you can retire.
And then the opportunity presents itself — an attractive young candidate whose politics likely matches yours, but more important, he offers the prospect of a transformed Washington with the power to fix everything that has gone wrong in your career.
With luck, this monolithic, single-party government will crush the alternative media via a revived fairness doctrine, re-invigorate unions by getting rid of secret votes, and just maybe be beholden to people like you in the traditional media for getting it there.
And besides, you tell yourself, it’s all for the good of the country &
This is the opinion of the columnist and in no way reflects the opinion of ABC News.
Michael S. Malone is one of the nation’s best-known technology writers. He has covered Silicon Valley and high-tech for more than 25 years, beginning with the San Jose Mercury News as the nation’s first daily high-tech reporter. His articles and editorials have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, the Economist and Fortune, and for two years he was a columnist for The New York Times. He was editor of Forbes ASAP, the world’s largest-circulation business-tech magazine, at the height of the dot-com boom. Malone is the author or co-author of a dozen books, notably the best-selling “Virtual Corporation.” Malone has also hosted three public television interview series, and most recently co-produced the celebrated PBS miniseries on social entrepreneurs, “The New Heroes.” He has been the ABCNews.com “Silicon Insider” columnist since 2000.
Copyright © 2008 ABC News Internet Ventures
There were three things I am celebrating
1. We are not racist
2. We did not see cities burning down. We had them threats all along even though we heard Tom Broken say He didn’t use race to get to the white house. Still chuckling about that comment.
3. We will have to go through a Carter like nighmare to help the country see the light, so the so called middle class masses take off those rose colored glasses and become Americans again
my only concern is the Judges the Messiah apoints, they are for life.
God bless America and keep us safe.
This is excellent! It reminds me of Ann Coulter’s book “If liberals had any brains they would be Republicans” Such audacity of hope!
It seems that the “ticket” to ride the left wing train is to make some derogatory remark about Bush, McCain, or Palin. The McCain staff, like Peggy Noonan wants to send a signal the the powers to be that they are on their side now, and ready to be included ‘In”.
I’m not convinced that McCain is on board with any of this, showing a similar deaf ear to public opinion as Queen Elizabeth when Diana died – completely oblivious to the depth of feeling running through the crowds.
It would do a lot of good for him to step forward and defend his former running mate, though. The mainstream media is having a field day, and unfortunately too many gullible conservatives are latching onto it alongside the leftist illuminati because they’re quick to dismiss either a) the woman or b) find anyone to blame but a powerful white man.
If I were a Republican in Washington concerned with crafting the conservative future, I’d be blackballing any/all aides who participated in this sophomorish activity.
This would just be a favor to fundraising friends; the labor unions have supported the Democrats for decades, and the Democrats know it. It’s a lobby of epic proportion.
U.S. citizens should not stand by and allow the leftist illuminati in Washington to give hard earned taxpayer money to the mob bosses behind the unions in Detroit.
Agreed! Also there was a great article today concerning Detroit auto makers by my favorite candidate for the GOP nomination, Mitt Romney. In the article he goes on to say that for EVERY auto made there is an “extra burden” of $2,000 that stem from pay and benefits cost. This is essentially two thousand dollars worth of accessories and “quality” that companies like BMW, Honda, Nissan and Toyota can afford. I agree with Mitt Romney completely, let these companies fail so as to produce better labor agreements and a “leaner, more efficient” company. I still wonder what may have happened in this election had we a BETTER GOP candidate
Shocking, but I believe this is “Engineered Ignorance.” Another term is “dumbing down America.” If you want to change the country, the first place to begin is getting the population ignorant. Add suppression of information by the media, then personality and appearance is the only voting criteria voters have. Guess who wins. Now, think about these ignorant people being parents and their kids come home from the government school and tell them they learned who great everything will be under Marxism. As parents they wouldn’t have a clue and could not straighten their kids thinking out. We might be only one generation way from a strong leanng Socialist or Marxist America. God (strike that) “Good Luck United States of American Idol.
Unfortunately, these facts are not that astonishing to me. As much as I love them, my grandparents spent their lives working in auto factories. Their advice to me? “Don’t work too hard.”
Work as little as possible, for as much as possible.
Two people with no college education made much more than my college-educated parents, because of the UAW.
It’s preposterous that the public should allow the leftist illuminati in Congress to get away with this, simply because the labor unions pad the Democratic coffers with union dues.
Talk about lobbying. It’s unethical.
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I like the sound of a “new Reagan.” I grew up as a wee one in the years of jelly bean-passing Ronald, and it’s difficult to describe the sense of security and optimism he managed to convey at once.
It’s incredibly important that the Republican party regain a sense of inner unity and outer vision, so that whoever is tapped to confront the D.C. illuminati in 2012 and 2016 has the full support of values voters, libertarians, and economic conservatives – and that includes the youth/minority vote.
If Jindal does get the nomination, be prepared for a firestorm of criticism that he’s simply the “Republican Obama,” an attempt to put up a non-white, under-fifty candidate. I think his credentials will withstand scrutiny, but the media will ignore them, I suspect.
This is pretty great. I wish his voice had come through more successfully during the primaries; his campaign managed to do worse than McCain’s. He’s got great principles, though I do hesitate about Republicans who try to separate themselves from their party too much. The leftist illuminati have enough momentum, without GOP infighting to add to the flames.
Thanks palinpal,
It was disappointing to see the slow start that Fred got on the campaign. He finally hit his stride by South Carolina (where he was fantastic), but by then it was too little too late.
I understand the hesitation about party in-fighting, but that is exactly what needs to happen if the Party is going to remain relevant in the future.
Conservatives need to fight the established blue-bloods that have infested the party for the past two decades. We need to battle for the soul of the party and defeat the RINOs within the party in order to return the party to the principles that it has historically stood for. Libety, rugged individualism, free market capatalism (not crony capitalism), constitutional rule of law, parental educational choice, a truly private health care system, low taxes, limited government, energy independence, etc…
These are the principle that elected Reagan in two landslide elections, and these are the principles that I think still remain in the hearts of majority of Americans… they just need to be able to see clear difference between the Democtrats and Republicans, and for too long, It’s been too hard to distinguish between the two.
Thanks for the continued readership and comments… I do enjoy them.
Scott
As a conservative myself, I’ve come to realize our country is suffering under a delusion of free markets–but we are the only country with one!! Every other developed and developing nations is directly or indirectly supporting their car manufacturers.
Their supports include direct subsidies, import restrictions and nationalized health care. Paradoxically, even many of our states have subsidized foreign automakers in getting them to locate plants there!!
We need to be equal to the task of defense of the industry or we are asking our industries to compete with governments.
In the end other governments are winning the economic wars. We are forced to level the playing field or wither to a second-class country.
yadda,
First of all, we don’t truely have free markets in this country. So many much of our economy is so heavily burdened by massive gov’t regulations, that we can hardly call them true free markets… but they are more free than many around the globe.
Secondly, I’m not sure what you are talking about when you say other governments are winning economic wars… We dwarf every other country on the face of the earth when it comes to economic strenght and size.
Our economic success didn’t happen by adopting the socialist economic policies of other nations, quite the opposite. It happened because we’ve have relatively open and free markets, and a capitalist economic structure.
Lastly, Detroit’s problems have nothing to do with subsidies other car manufacturers are getting or protective trade policies, they are primarily self inflicted due to sub-standard quality, too slow to react to changing market conditions, and out of control labor unions. The overseas divisions of GM and Ford are kicking ass. Foreigners love thier cars… their problems are with their American units.
As conservatives, let’s not throw in with the socialists so easily.
Scott
That health insurance is a big rip-off and that Global (warming)climate change bull!! they need to clean up there messes in Chicago before they tell us when to change light bulbs and put air in our tires.
Its like rush says we will be watching a real
soap opera for 4 years.
How are the Obots going to handle the new book coming out Jan 9,2009.
BARACK OBAMA & LARRY SINCLAIR: Coke, Sex, Lies & Murder? The cover of the book looks scary.
Scott, If this were a Republican incoming administration the media would be all over the missteps. What do you think of Obama’s appointment of Penetta as CIA boss? This is the Clinton third term. Is this the change that Obama spoke of?
The Conservative Cloakroom
QUESTION: Does anyone know the breakdown of all the costs? I’m especially interested in comparing the $2000 per car cost of labor to corresponding management costs, material costs, and a complete breakdown. I mean are we comparing $2k for workers to $4k per car for management or is it $2k per worker as opposed to 50 cents for management? Also, it would really help my analysis to know how all these costs compare to their japanese counterparts.
Great Job! Well said! I stumbled it for you! Dominique
Thanks!
Being one of those individuals who currently lives in the NE, I guarantee you it has been cold! We’ve had plenty of snow as well. Great story! Made me smile!
Michelle Malkin just posted that not only did he NOT pay his taxes but the company he worked for, IMF (sic) reimbursed him for said taxes. So he received money from them annual to pay the taxes he didn’t pay! Is that not stupid!
Great Job!
Also, I have some questions and/or comments on some of your points.
First, you say:
Now, I could be wrong, but it seems the only people I’ve seen interested in “rewriting the Constitiution” are those who would like to define marriage as between a man and a woman. If you could provide other examples, I would be much obliged.
Just shy of half of all of the votes in the election were against Obama. This hardly seems to me to be considered popular. Besides, if by avoiding popularity we would have peace, how does one explain all the wars we are currently involved in with our current (sorry, previous), very unpopular President?
Well, Obama did mention liberty once or twice during his inauguration speech:
-They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves.
-What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility – a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.
This is the price and the promise of citizenship.
This is the source of our confidence – the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.
This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed – why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.
(Sorry that second quote was so long, but, you know, context is important)
Um, see that second quote again.
Somehow, I doubt that. It seems you’ve already got your mind made up and no amount of evidence to the contrary would convince you otherwise.
Scotty,
I deleted your first racially tinged comment, but I’ll respond to this, because I’d like you to think beyond the pap spoon fed to you through the liberal media… if you can:
- Conservatives hold that the only legitimate changes to the constitution can be made through the amendment process, not by lawyers in black robes issuing fiats from the bench, as they did in CA when the Supreme Courts overturned the voters will. Thus we support defining marriage through a constitutional amendment process… as was done in CA, after the activist justices overturned the will of the voters the first time.
- Nice try on the 2nd point, but if you think there is anything but celebrity to Obama, there’s no point in me trying to persuade you. The most inexperienced man ever to assume the office of the presidency. And to the 2nd point, I believe Lincoln was refering to peace at home… something we clearly do not have.
- On Liberty, you are right, once in a while they use the word liberty… but only to pervert meaning of the word. In your little example of BO’s speech, he perverted the word to support his view of collectivism, while our founding fathers used the word to symbolize thier fight to perserve the individual’s freedoms from an oppressive government.
- There is a big difference between talking about personal responsibility, and backing government policies that encourage personal responsibility… something liberals clearly have no familiarity with.
Now step away from the Huffington Post, and hang around here a bit more, and you may actually learn a thing or two.
Scott
Scotty,
I deleted your first racially tinged comment, but I’ll respond to this, because I’d like you to think beyond the pap spoon fed to you through the liberal media… if you can:
- Conservatives hold that the only legitimate changes to the constitution can be made through the amendment process, not by lawyers in black robes issuing fiats from the bench, as they did in CA when the Supreme Courts overturned the voters will. Thus we support defining marriage through a constitutional amendment process… as was done in CA, after the activist justices overturned the will of the voters the first time.
- Nice try on the 2nd point, but if you think there is anything but celebrity to Obama, there’s no point in me trying to persuade you. The most inexperienced man ever to assume the office of the presidency. And to the 2nd point, I believe Lincoln was refering to peace at home… something we clearly do not have.
- On Liberty, you are right, once in a while they use the word liberty… but only to pervert meaning of the word. In your little example of BO’s speech, he perverted the word to support his view of collectivism, while our founding fathers used the word to symbolize thier fight to perserve the individual’s freedoms from an oppressive government.
- There is a big difference between talking about personal responsibility, and backing government policies that encourage personal responsibility… something liberals clearly have no familiarity with.
Now step away from the Huffington Post, and hang around here a bit more, and you may actually learn a thing or two.
Scott
Regarding the first post. I feel the need to clarify that it was intended as sarcasm and nothing more. If it came across as offensive, I apologize.
Is it just me, or is Biden out of sync….I mean other from reality?
Kate,
It’s not just you…
Scott
Congrats! I also heard it on the Neil Boortz show.
Nice publicity and good work!
Thanks Casey. Love Boortz… wish I was able to hear him more than I do.
Congrats on the success! I have to play devil’s advocate though and say one thing: after eight years of Bushisms, I really don’t think Republicans should be fussing too much about one little slip-of-the-tongue by Pelosi.
Attack the substance of what she’s saying by all means, but as far as fumbling speech is concerned, Dubya will always be number one :)
rivers (crap?),
Thanks, but you can’t be serious… I could put up clip after clip of this moron saying the dumbest things you’ve ever heard… this one was by fare the best lately though.
It also wasn’t the only time she said that… I think there is documented evidence that she said same on 3 separate occasions… streching the slip of the tongue defense a bit I think…
Scott
Noticing the massive increases in the welfare system in this country since the 70’s, it is quite apparent that it is not working. And now more massive spending is going to go to waste to try and make it a “better failure”.
Too many people have it in there heads that the govt. will pay for it, is living proof of our failed school system, that the fact that our govt. gets it’s money from the taxpayer’s, and the one’s who start businesses of all sizes in scale.
It brings to question just what exactly is being taught in our school’s, and how much is focused on the pertinent information that is going to be needed to succeed in life.
But knowing how much liberal influenced education is taking place, it is no wonder that it is a failure.
DNA testing is great idea for all illegal aliens, but how do we catch them as they illegaly slip across the border?
Bill
http://www.theconservativenation.com
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California Financial Crisis Resolved!
California is in a well-documented financial meltdown. Their deficit of billions (how many zeroes is that) will not go away anytime soon, even with the taxes the Governator wants to impose. Enter Thomas Saenz.
Who might this Thomas be? None other than Obama’s latest proposed appointee as the head of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. How in the world does an appointment to the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department solve California’s financial problem? I’m glad you asked.
First, Mr. Saenz comes from an organization know as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). He was the vice president for litigation for MALDEF. So what did Mr. Saenz do while VP of that organization?
He sued California to establish “hiring halls” for illegal day laborers. He insured that illegals would not be caught up in “anti-illegal” sweeps. He helped crack down on law enforcement officials who helped ICE find and deport illegals.
Quoting Mr. Saenz, “It is critical that comprehensive immigration reform includes nondiscrimination against people on the basis of immigration status.” Reform means amnesty. Quoting again, “At a certain point,” referring to the 20 million illegals in the U.S., “people have earned the right to stay here with their families.”
Needless to say, he favors full access to government benefits, social security, and health care. The list goes on.
How does this solve the California financial crisis? Quoting again, “California is going to be a Mexican state, we are going to control all the institutions. If people don’t like it, they should leave.”
Calling all Californians. There is still time to get out. No, I do not advocate Californian seceding to Mexico. Just turn the state over to the Mexicans and illegals along with the deficit and let the rest of the folks leave. No bailout dollars please. And I would advise you to leave because the porous border that is spilling drug gang violence into the U.S. will only get worse and Mr. Seanz and Ms. Janet Napolitano open the borders up even more.
Let’s see what the illegals can to do to fix the problem. Or were they part of the problem to begin with?
Conservative Blog: AIG (A-hole In Grates) : THE CONSERVATIVE POST…
How anyone at AIG, or Obama’s Treasury department, would think American taxpayers would even entertain the idea for a nano-second that paying anyone at AIG a bonus….
Conservative Blog: Capitalism vs. Obamarxism : THE CONSERVATIVE POST…
With the Obama administration doing everything in their power to trash free market capitalism, and lead America down the road of Socialism/Marxism….
STRESS
We’re a nation of frazzled families
With little time for personal affection.
As the treadmills of tension keep us hostage
We’re losing our perspective of direction.
Racing to get the kids off to school,
Navigating the madness of bottleneck traffic.
Fearful of our own job-loss and income,
While the newscasts get more hopeless and graphic.
Helping our children with their home work
Scrambling to prepare their dinner.
Having family spats with loved ones
And being told on Sunday, we’re a sinner.
Worrying about crime, taxes, cancer and terrorism
Infectious disease and paying next months bills.
Saving for college and our own retirement
It’s no wonder we drink, smoke, pray and pop pills.
POLITICIANS
Most of the time as a politician stands up
Along with the truth, their brain sits down.
Promising anything and everything to anyone
While posing to the public, to be on common ground.
The higher the office the greater the corruption
As candidates compete for those dead presidents of green.
While we’re taxed to death to fund their pork
Our cost for everything has become obscene.
Thank God there are some better than most
Not squeaky clean, but more honest than others.
Regardless of party, they deserve our vote
For they share our thoughts like sisters and brothers.
Politicians who wish to be revered by history
Must earn their fame by living the truth.
Any who continue to mislead and deceive
Must be shunned by the voter at the booth.
By Conservative Poet
T
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Here is the original article with the links to the videos. When is it going to be okay to be proud of our country again???…
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I don’t suppose you folks could coordinate with the Freedom Works version …
http://912dc.org/
Just wondering.
First I has heard of their efforts, but I don’t see why not… seems like we are pretty close on ideas. Will reach out to them. Thanks for the tip.
Scott
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a person familiar with the situation said Monday….
Heh. He fails to say that the additional vehicle cost will likely be far more that $1300 in all the monopoly money he’s printing. Also, if cap and slave goes through, the increases in price for fuel will far outpace any savings due to increased mileage. Bend over Amerika, you’re about to get a strong dose of “change!”
Great post!
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Dude, have you read the other stuff on the Pravda website — they’re lunatics and idiots. That’s hardly the way to burnish the appeal of your arguments. Who are you going to quote next — Blagojevich? Michelle Bachman? Maybe Charlie Manson??? :)
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newchaz,
Nobody uses dude anymore, unless you are in junior high. Plus, just because their site is a bit out there doesn’t mean they didn’t hit the nail on the head on this one, they have.
Plus, I’d match Pravda up against the Daily Kooks, or The Huffington Post any day… not saying much, I know.
By the way, I can tell you are an extreme lefty when you include a fantastic conservative representative like Michelle Bachman with Blogo and Manson… that’s just stupid.
Scott
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At my Place, I have a set of rules:
If a Conservative does it, it’s bad, very, very bad!
If a liberal does it, it’s ALRIIIIIGHT!
If it’s good enough for Imus, it’s good enough for Letterman. But apparently CBS does not believe a young white girl deserves any respect or basic civilities.
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We are witnessing not only the biggest power grab, but the biggest robbery of American taxpayers in history with the proposal of the cap and trade bill.
Al Gore is no more concerned about “climate change” than I am concerned about Obama’s workout routine. If they did actually care, they’d allow REAL scientific data to enter the scene; not a bunch of phony rhetoric that 5th grade ecology can debunk.
Cap and trade is not about the environment. It’s about control.
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Connotation vs. Denotation has been the rhetoric of the liberal party for decades. Now, to be fair it should be noted that language has the ability to manipulate itself very easily within a small culture as you point out very astutely in your final paragraph. Context and perception is everything in society today. And since the US has unquestionably the most diversity across all parameters, such as, race, sex, ethnicity, and socio-economy, this context becomes far larger and far more important.
In addition to the diversity of our nation, there is also a geographical factor to consider when addressing the issue of being considered “rich”. While a single person living in a small southern town, miles away from any major metropolis making $250 thousand a year is rich, that same income in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, etc. is comparatively smaller. However, the government tax structure doesn’t effectively differentiate this, which is why we see so many small businesses struggling in major cities throughout the country.
Either way, I agree that words must again regain meaning and purpose and not be thrown around so wantonly by politicians of all people.
Patrick Edmonds
http://www.thelunchbreakblog.com/
Patrick,
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I agree with your furtherance of the point. Regional cost of living differences make a huge impact on true purchasing power, and the pols seem clueless to the point. This is why most conservatives support either a flat income tax, or the fair tax as the solution to the Marxist heritage of the “progressive” income tax.
Scott
The private sector and competitive market forces, not the federal government, are the best means to meeting our country’s rapidly expanding health care needs. One of the things I think we can do to help make that happen is support American businesses and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (http://bit.ly/oanAT). They’re doing things to reach out and show people that they can get involved, too.
Thanks for this (massive) list. I’ve linked it on my blog (zerodev.tumblr.com)!
A Simple Proposal:
1) Create a very basic, high-deductible, catastrophic-event government health-care policy that pays for major medical events only. Include everyone and pay for it with taxes. No one would ever again lose their home or be denied life-saving procedures. It would be cheap because it would be “single payer” and would include the whole pool of healthy and unhealthy people, sharing the risk universally. Billing would be simple for hospitals who would be guaranteed payment and the cost of providing health care would be taken of the backs of businesses.
2) Middle class and wealthy consumers would pay for routine illness events out of pocket, just like getting your car repaired, or they could purchase add-on insurance from private companies, as they choose.
3) Poor people would get extra coverage for routine illnesses as welfare or in free government or charity clinics. There will always be people who are so poor that they can’t contribute anything.
Wouldn’t this solve everything at modest cost to the public, or I am just simple-minded?
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I went to Harry Reid’s website last night and sent him an email to let him know that it is He and the Federal Government that are the slave owners and have made slaves of the American people starting with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and now the public option. I also emailed him my articles entitled “American Slavery in the 21st Century.”
Let’s just hope this trend continues until 2012. Then we’ll have to pray that there are no illegal voting abuses that take place.
Gallup has him at a 47% approval rate, which they say is the lowest for any President at this point in his term!
I mentioned this on my blog at http://www.rightofanation.com recently but it ties in well with your post –
According to James Pethokoukis’ blog at Reuters, so far Obama’s first stimulus has spent $246,436 for each job that they have “created or saved,” and as you can see that even includes the mysterious “saved” jobs touted by the administration!
Also, check out this report from meteorologist Anthony Watts. There is a pdf of the report available on this page.
Basically, 89% of the temperature stations used by the NWS do not meet their own requirements; some are placed in areas that naturally record higher temperatures because of their surroundings (asphalt, exhaust ducts, etc.)
The point is that it is hard to suggest that temperatures are increasing when the original temperature reading are probably faulty anyway.
Forgot the link! http://www.heartland.org/books/PDFs/SurfaceStations.pdf
The subject of corrupt scientists is not new. In fact the journals Science and Nature ran articles pointing this out back in 2005.
In the Journal Science a paper was published on June 6, 2005 entitled “Scientists Behaving Badly” by Brian Martinson et al. The paper talks about the results of a survey that was intended to compile empirical evidence of bad behavior in the science community. The survey revealed that 33% of the respondents admitted to a number of unethical behaviors. From “cooking” data to withholding information about methods used. The paper also stated that they believe that this is a very conservative figure as they state:
“But our approach certainly leaves room for potential non-response bias; misbehaving scientists may have been less likely than others to respond to our survey, perhaps for fear of discovery and potential sanction. This, combined with the fact that there is probably some under-reporting of misbehaviors [sic] among respondents, would suggest that our estimates of misbehavior [sic] are conservative.”
This survey was sent to 3,600 mid-career scientists and 4,160 early-career scientists. The authors stated their concerns in this quote:
“Nevertheless, our evidence suggests that mundane ‘regular’ misbehaviors [sic] present greater threats to the scientific enterprise than those caused by high-profile misconduct cases such as fraud.”
The Journal Nature also published a paper on the same survey on June 6, 2005 entitled “One in three scientists confesses to having sinned.”
So it is not just the climate scientist’s integrity that is waning all scientists are having trust issues with the public and they will have a hard time gaining back the trust.
The next question would be can I trust what a science journal reports? Science journals have published false studies. I am thinking of the stem cell scandal of Woo Suk Hwang and the journal Science. It was a young Korean researcher that reported the fraud not the scientists that reviewed the study before they printed it. An article by Jennifer Couzin entitled “And How the Problems Eluded Peer Reviewers and Editors” printed in Journal Science (1/6/2006). In her article she states that members of the Science Board do not inspect a paper’s data they look for novelty, originality, and trendiness. She quotes Martin Blume who is the editor-in-chief of the American Physical Society saying:
“Peer review doesn’t necessarily say that a paper is right, it says it’s worth publishing.”
She also reports that this is not an isolated case and that peer reviewed journals do not find the fraudulent data because they assume there is none. Even when scientists are told there are errors they can not find them. In 1997 the British Medical Journal inserted 8 errors in a short paper, told researchers they were there, and asked them to identify them. They reported that an average of 2 errors found with a total of five errors uncovered. The sad thing was that 16% of the researchers could not find even one of the errors.
This clearly shows that those in the world of science and research are prone to falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism. In fact science journals are prone to perpetrate false ideas rather than correct them. With this in mind how can anyone know if they can trust what any scientist reports?
Bob Barclay
While I agree that Obama’s socialized health care would be an abomination, let’s not forget that American health care, as it now stands, is already a socialist’s dream for health care. Name it, we’ve got it: Medicare, Medicade, CHIPs, et al. And, if a miracle should occur and Obama’s plan not pass the Senate, then he and the Reid Machine will be back next week and every week thereafter. The RINOs, in the meantime, should grow some backbones and introduce bills in the House to repeal, yes REPEAL, every single welfare medical health care program that we now suffer, and every single one introduced in the future. We conservatives in Texas are completely fed up with all of their weeny tribe and we want Nullification. And, we WILL throw them all out.
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He’s not a Republican and he’s not a Southerner so what he said isn’t racist.
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Yep, luckily I also got the good parts out of the article and copied to my site before Reuters removed it.
I really can’t wait to see what the revised version looks like.