Rush Limbaugh on Fred Thompson: The Only Conservative Running
November 30, 2007 by Joe
I have been wanting to write about this since I first heard it on Thursday, but haven’t had the chance. Patrick, at Born Again Redneck, beat me to it.
Rush Limbaugh on his radio show yesterday, had some comments to make about the candidates following the Wednesday Night CNN/YouTube debate and said something that I myself have known for quite a few months now.
Fred Thompson is the only true Conservative who is currently in the race to try and become the next President of the United States. All of the other top tier candidates, with the exceptions of Giuliani who is a liberal and Paul who is a nut job as well as not a top tier candidate, are moderates.
It is one thing to say that you are a Conservative, which is a label that has been thrown around much too improperly as of late, and it is a whole other thing to actually be a Conservative.
The only major complaints coming from anybody about Fred Thompson is that he came in too late (I on the other hand think everyone else came in way, way too early. We’ve still got over 6 months before either parties conventions) and that he doesn’t have enough fire in his belly. Everybody seems to want a rah, rah cheerleader.
Being a flashy pumped up cheerleader is a fine thing, not when it is only masking the fact that you do not have any actual sound plans and ideas and especially is not good when you are ranting and raving with fire in your gut trying to steal the mantle of who is the bigger Conservative when its definitely not you. Fred Thompson has a laid back casual style, one that I find refreshing. What I find even more refreshing is that every time he opens his mouth, the actual ideas and plans that he have sound a whole lot more like Goldwater and Reagan then any of the other candidates running.
Here is the transcript of what Rush had to say, I bolded my favorite parts:
RUSH: It was fascinating to me, as I said, to watch this because it hit me upside the head — even though, as I say, I instinctively knew this — that all of the top-tier candidates, because of these questions… See, there’s always a silver lining in everything. There’s always an upside. Some of you might not think of this as an upside or a silver lining, but the genuine moderate as opposed to conservative aspects of three of the top-tier, four of the top-tier candidates were on full-fledged display last night. There was one candidate who did not display any moderateness or liberalism or have any of his past forays into those areas displayed, and that candidate was Fred Thompson. Now, this is not an endorsement. You know, I don’t endorse during primaries. I just point out: These are things I noticed, and I’ve told you during the course of this one campaign year that one of the things that’s bothering me, is I’m a Reagan conservative, and I believe in conservatism. It’s in my soul and it’s in my heart, and I know it is the best way for us to manage our affairs to ensure the most prosperity for the most, to continue our freedom, to protect our country.
Conservatism sees people and sees potential. Liberalism looks at people and sees victims. Liberalism looks at people and sees incompetence, and, “We gotta help ‘em out and keep ‘em forever dependent so we’ll always have power.” Conservatives don’t want to use the government to empower themselves. They want to get government out of the way to empower other people. So, to me it matters, and we have a campaign now where most of the candidates are not genuine conservatives. They may be saying they are, but in their past they have done some things that are not conservative in any way, shape, manner, or form — and I think a lot of those things are being overlooked even by friends of mine in the conservative media because the obsession is Hillary. “Well, we gotta have somebody who can beat Hillary, and we can’t have the perfect candidate,” and so we gotta make the choice here based on who’s best equipped to win and beat Hillary. I understand that, and whoever the nominee is, I’m going to support them. So don’t misunderstand here. But I don’t like seeing “conservatism” being watered down as the way it’s defined. I don’t want people who are not conservative being said to be representatives of the “new conservatism.” There is no “new” conservatism. There is conservatism, and you either are or you aren’t.
You can be 80%, but it depends on what the other 20% are, and I’m just telling you that last night, it was Huckabee and Rudy and Mitt Romney, because of these questions, who were all faced with the reality — and everybody watching saw it — that they’ve got some governance in their pasts that is not conservative, and this is something that just hit me. While everybody is talking about Fred Thompson, “He’s too lazy. He’s too lackadaisical. He doesn’t seem to have whole lot of energy.” Fine and dandy. I’m not going to argue with people about your perceptions of attitudes and so forth. I will say this. I don’t think anybody would get into this mess running for the presidency, the media and all of these things. You can’t imagine what these people go through. You wouldn’t want to go through it, and I can’t imagine somebody put themselves through it if they really don’t want it.
You know, one of the arguments about Fred Thompson is, “Well, I can’t see the fire in his belly.” Well, he’s got a different personality than the others. We’ll just have to see how all this shakes out. But those are the high points that I took
New Fred Video
November 27, 2007 by Joe
New video from Fred Thompson, the most ardent conservative out of all the GOP hopefuls.
40 Lashes For a Bear
November 27, 2007 by Joe
On the heels of a young woman in Saudi Arabia receiving punishment for being the victim of a violent gang rape, that oh so tolerant religion of peace, Islam is at it again. This time the twisted still-living in pre-medieval times country that this story takes place in, is Sudan.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, A British school teacher who has spent the past year teaching at the Unity High School in Khartoum, is currently in jail awaiting word on her punishment. The crime? Allowing her grade 2 students in the British style Sudanese school to name the class mascot, a teddy bear, Muhammad.
Her possible punishment for this crime? 40 lashes and up to six months in prison.
I really wanted to come up with some sort of snarky comment, but I just can’t. How can I make light of the fact that there are actually people in this world that would do something like this over something as trivial as a teddy bear?
I’m sorry but if stories like this are not enough to make the entire world wake up to the fact that Islam wants to destroy us all — we’re doomed.
Also blogging about this:
Confessions of a Closet Republican
Happy Thanksgiving
November 22, 2007 by Joe
Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers, I’ll leave you with Abraham Lincolns famous Thanksgiving proclomation.
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State
All The Liberal People…
November 20, 2007 by Joe
… where do they all come from?
Rudy Giuliani and the Death of Conservatism
November 19, 2007 by Joe
Ronald Reagan’s “11th Commanment” was, “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.” While I of course have a great amount of respect for the Gipper, keeping my mouth shut just because somebody has an “R” at the end of their name is something that I cannot do, especially when it comes to a topic as crucial as the future of this country.
What I feel is best for the United States of America, has to always trump what I feel is best for the Republican Party. This is why I have no choice but to oppose Rudy Giuliani in his attempt to win the GOP nomination for the Presidency.
Rudy Giuliani is a very engaging public speaker and has a very charismatic personality, coming off at first glance as a very likeable person. I can understand why certain segments of the Republican populace champion him as the best chance the party has to defeat the Clinton train and hold on to the Presidency. However, 15 years ago I remember another engaging public speaker who also had a very charismatic personality and also came off at first glance as a very likeable person — he would of course go on to become President.
If charisma and likeability were the only things that Rudy Giuliani & Bill Clinton had in common, I would not be so opposed to a GOP Presidential ticket with Rudy on it. Unfortunately, not only are they both very charismatic individuals, their political beliefs are virtually indistinguishable.
Rudy even admitted it himself as shortly before his last second endorsement of Bob Dole in 1996 he said:
“most of Clinton’s policies are very similar to most of mine.”
Consider this tidbit from John P. Avlon, former Rudy Giuliani speechwriter and author of the book Independent Nation: How the Vital Center is Changing American Politics, as he recalls the now infamous image of Giuliani dressed as a woman at a New York benefit.
“When actress Julie Andrews asked him onstage if he now better understood the challenge she faced every night in ‘Victor Victoria’ — ‘playing a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman’ — Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani replied that she obviously hadn’t seen his act: ‘a Democrat pretending to be a Republican pretending to be a Democrat.’”
If Rudy’s very own words are not enough to show how much of a disaster for the GOP he would be, consider these comments from his very own mother:
“He only became a Republican after he began to get all these jobs from them. He’s definitely not a conservative Republican. He thinks he is, but he isn’t.”
In 1989 the Liberal Party of New York, which was founded in 1944 to support candidates with progressive viewpoints, endorsed Rudy for Mayor of New York City because,
“…we found that Rudy Giuliani agreed with the Liberal Party’s stance on a majority of such issues. He agreed with the Liberal Party’s views…”
40 years ago Barry Goldwater became the standard bearer for what it meant to be a Conservative, as he won the Republican nomination for the Presidency and helped to light the spark of what would become the Reagan Revolution in the 1980’s. Here is what he had to say about Mr. Conservative, Barry Goldwater:
He [Giuliani] described John Kennedy as “great and brilliant.” Barry Goldwater was an “incompetent, confused and sometimes idiotic man.”
–New York Daily News, May 13, 1997
Rudy Giuliani as President of the United States would represent the return to power of everything that Barry Goldwater and the Conservative movement tried to stop in the Republican Party. If you are planning on voting for Rudy Giuliani because you feel that he has the best chance out of the Republican nominees to defeat Hillary, while I disagree with you on that point, that’s fine go ahead and support Rudy.
But don’t dare call yourself a Conservative.
Text The Troops For Thanksgiving
November 18, 2007 by Joe
This is a great cause, I just found out about it in a bulletin posted on MySpace, I’m passing it along to all my blog readers.
TEXT THE TROOPS FOR THANKSGIVING
Huck Chuck Facts
November 18, 2007 by Joe
I’m not a big huckleberry fan, because well he’s only ½ a Conservative. Mike Huckabee is a social Conservative for sure, but on other issues he’s a big-government liberal. I value a limited federal government and thus am not voting for him come primary time in Ohio, that being said however — this commercial is still great.
Hat Tip: Right Angle Blog
FREE THE AGENTS: UPDATE
November 17, 2007 by Joe
A few months back I wrote about the tragic case of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, two former U.S. Border Patrol agents who are currently incarcerated. Their crime? Doing their job, protecting our borders and stopping illicit drugs from entering our country, and doing it well.
I argued back in July that George W. Bush did the right thing by finding the political will to rightfully pardon Scooter Libby and he needed to do the same thing and pardon agents Ramos and Compean. Unfortunately, that never happened.
In the type of trial that you would think would have taken place in some backwater third-world country and not the United States of America, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were charged with ridiculous crimes, tried and sentenced to 11 and 12 year prison terms.
During the rushed trial the jury was purposefully mislead and information was held back that would have surely cleared the names of the two wrongfully accused agents.
Among the charges brought against them, was the charge of speeding. While pursuing a border-crossing drug smuggler who was carrying over 700 pounds of marijuana, Ramos and Compean failed to call a supervisor and ask for permission to exceed the speed limit during the chase.
Agent Ignacia Ramos was charged and convicted causing serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, and a civil rights violation — after seeing his partner on the ground bleeding and seeing the escaping drug smuggler turn towards him as if to fire.
That’s right he was sentenced for doing his job. The lowlife piece of shit drug-smuggling criminal illegal alien scumbag in question whose “civil rights” were violated was given immunity by Prosecutor Johnny Sutton in exchange for testimony against the two brave U.S. Border Patrol Agents.
Instead of doing the right thing and pinning a metal of honor on each of them for their excellent service to our country in apprehending a criminal border crossing scumbag drug dealer — the good guys were placed in jail and the bad guy was allowed to walk.
The piece of shit, lowlife scumbag, drug dealing, criminal illegal alien whose “civil rights” were violated and was given immunity, Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, he’s back in the news again.
A Mexican drug trafficker shot by two Border Patrol agents, who later were convicted of the shooting, was arraigned yesterday on numerous smuggling charges in federal court in El Paso, Texas.
Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was charged with conspiring to distribute hundreds of pounds of marijuana in the U.S. between June and November in 2005. He was arrested Thursday at an international port of entry in El Paso.
Aldrete Davila, who admitted to smuggling drugs in a 2005 immunity deal in the prosecution of the Border Patrol agents’ case, had been seen entering hospitals in El Paso under federal escort since the October 2006 sentencing of the former agents, sources close to the case told The Washington Times.
He was last seen in El Paso on Nov. 8 for a pre-operative appointment for surgery he was to undergo this week on injuries resulting from the shooting, a source said.
“It is our belief that the U.S. government was paying for his medical treatment,” one source said.
Federal authorities denied that Aldrete Davila had entered the U.S. under federal escort several times for medical treatment.
“We have no knowledge or know of no legal authority for him to have been here,” said Shana Jones, spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, whose office prosecuted the agents.
Mr. Sutton’s office would not disclose details about Aldrete Davila’s arrest, how he entered the U.S. through a legal port of entry or the reason for his attempt.
Aldrete Davila was the prosecution’s star witness in last year’s trial of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean.
The pair shot Aldrete Davila in the buttocks as he fled after having stopped his van near El Paso in February 2005. The smuggler was transporting more than 800 pounds of marijuana into the U.S.
Representatives Ted Poe, Texas, and Dana Rohrabacher, California, both Republicans have called for the immediate release of the two wrongfully imprisoned Agents and a full-scale review of U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton’s prosecution of them.
T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, took issue with the timing of the recent indictment on the scumbag and had the following to say:
“Osvaldo Aldrete Davila should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for these felonies two years ago,” said Mr. Bonner, whose group represents more than 12,000 Border Patrol agents. “This deliberate and unconscionable delay directly resulted in the wrongful incarceration of two innocent law-enforcement officers.”
DEA investigators believed they had sufficient evidence to indict the scumbag drug smuggling criminal illegal alien in late 2005, but their requests to do so were denied by Mr. Sutton’s office. So of course he could use the scumbag piece of shit to prosecute two brave Americans for doing their job.
Representative and Republican Presidential hopeful out of California, Duncan Hunter, hand delivered a message to President Bush yesterday, stating:
“Mr. President, if ever a case merited a Presidential pardon, this is one. The U.S. Attorney did not feel it was necessary to tell the jury that the witness, whose truthfulness he was asserting, was already back in the drug-dealing business. This is a fact that was known to the U.S. Attorney but not communicated to the jury.”
I am of the personal opinion that if Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean are not at home eating Turkey with their families on Thanksgiving next week, George W. Bush should be impeached.
Crazy Muslims in Saudi Arabia Punish A Woman For Being Raped
November 15, 2007 by Joe
The so-called “religion of peace” does it again. In Saudi Arabia, where they practice an extremely insane version of the already extremely insane religion of Islam known as Wahhabism, word comes out that a woman was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail.
Her crime? She was raped.
The 19-year-old woman — whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms — was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for “being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape,” the Arab News reported.
But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia’s Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200.
A court source told the English-language Arab News that the judges had decided to punish the woman further for “her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.”
Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine known as Wahhabism and forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other, bans women from driving and forces them to cover head-to-toe in public.
Last year, the court sentenced six Saudi men to between one and five years in jail for the rape as well as ordering lashes for the victim, a member of the minority Shiite community.
But the woman’s lawyer Abdul Rahman al-Lahem appealed, arguing that the punishments were too lenient in a country where the offence can carry the death penalty.
In the new verdict issued on Wednesday, the Al-Qatif court also toughened the sentences against the six men to between two and nine years in prison.
How many times do I have to ask the question after hearing stories such as this one — where is the outcry against this from the so-called feminist movement? I guess they are too busy fighting global warming and claiming that Bush is a dictator that needs to be impeached.
Anybody who agrees with what happened to this poor women, is a disgusting scumbag piece of shit. Anybody who even remotely defends a so-called “religion of peace” that allows for these sort of sick and perverted travesties of justice to occur is amongst the lowest forms of human excrement there is.
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