You Said It Mel
January 30, 2008 by Joe
Wake up Conservatives, John McCain is not one of us. McCain is nothing but a traitor and a turncoat who isn’t even a Republican. His politics are only about 10% different from those of Hilary Rottham Clinton, Mel Martinez has just admitted what I’ve been telling you all along.
Vote McCain, and you ensure a Democrat is in the White House, one way or another.
¿Si Habla Español? Juan McCain wins Florida
January 29, 2008 by Joe
Well it looks like Republican voters in Florida do not value the first amendment, they do not value the sovereignty of our nation and the sanctity of our immigration policies and they do not value and they do not value conservative free market solutions to the energy problems in our country.
I say this because I honestly for the life of me can’t believe how anybody who believes in the first amendment could vote for the man behind the McCain-Feingold bill — A legislative effort that completely destroyed the constitutional rights of freedom of speech, thus impairing the rights of citizens to support the candidates of their choice.
I say this because I honestly cannot comprehend how anybody who is annoyed at having to ‘press 1 for English’ whenever they make a phone call, and who believes that we need secure borders and no amnesty for criminal illegal aliens who broke the law by sneaking their way into our country to steal the rights and privileges they did not earn could vote for the man behind the McCain-Kennedy bill — legislation that would have forever destroyed the sovereignty of America’s borders and granted amnesty to criminals.
I just cannot fathom how anybody who complains that we currently pay too much at the pump, and pay too much for our home heating and energy bills could vote for the man behind McCain-Lieberman — legislation that would have in essence, created an energy tax which would raise the price of gasoline, electricity and home heating.
I just can’t fathom how anybody who is a Conservative yet alone even just a regular Republican can vote for this man in less they are a complete and total fucking idiot.
The results of today’s primary have caused me lose almost all faith I had in the intelligence of the American voting populace — because anybody with half of a fucking brain can see that John McCain is nothing but Democrat who is not as socialist as his democrat friends who at least admit that they are democrats.
All I have to say is may God have mercy on us all, because if the rest of the country is as fucking stupid as the 36% of brain-dead sheeple Floridians who voted John McCain — then we are facing a general election between two democrats.
Rudy - Not Endorsed
January 29, 2008 by Joe
Since Fred Thompson, the man whom I truly believe was the best man for the job of the next President has dropped out of the race, and since he has done this I have been left without a candidate to support. I may, or may not, come to a decision following the results of the voting later today in Florida — all I know now is that no matter what, I will never, ever vote for the “turncoat mole” John McCain or the Jimmy Carter Republican Mike Huckabee.
I have said that I am probably leaning towards Romney, but I have got to say I really like this new ad from the Rudy Giuliani campaign. He makes an excellent point.
Fighting Words
January 28, 2008 by Joe
This one really has me hot, because as somebody who not only considers himself a Conservative, but who also proudly wears it as a badge of honor — I now feel like John McCain has personally insulted me. A feeling that I am certain many other Conservatives can relate to upon hearing this news.
Here is an excerpt from a recent article by John Fund at the Wall Street Journal. I bolded certain parts for emphasis.:
Then there is the issue of judicial nominations, a top priority with conservatives. Nothing would improve Mr. McCain’s standing with conservatives more than a forthright restatement of his previously stated view that “one of our greatest problems in America today is justices that legislate from the bench.” Mr. McCain bruised his standing with conservatives on the issue when in 2005 he became a key player in the so-called gang of 14, which derailed an effort to end Democratic filibusters of Bush judicial nominees. More recently, Mr. McCain has told conservatives he would be happy to appoint the likes of Chief Justice John Roberts to the Supreme Court. But he indicated he might draw the line on a Samuel Alito, because “he wore his conservatism on his sleeve.”
Therein lies the problem that many conservatives have with John McCain. It is the nagging feeling that after all of his years of chummily bonding with liberal reporters and garnering favorable media coverage from them that the Arizona senator is embarrassed to be seen as too much of a conservative.
Any slight shred of faith that I may have had in believing that as President John McCain might make the right choices in his judicial nominations are completely gone now after hearing this news.
Not only do I no longer have any faith that a potential John McCain Presidency might not be as bad for this country that I have feared, but I no longer have any respect for a man who is seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for the President — and who is “embarrassed” of being seen as a Conservative.
Hat Tip: Flopping Aces
More on this story available at:
Conservative Belle
Thoughts on Conservatism
January 28, 2008 by Joe
In recent weeks and months while surfing throughout the blogosphere, I have seen an alarmingly high number of people ask the question, “What exactly is a Conservative?” The odd part about this is that rather then from say Democrats, this question (at least as far as I have observed) has most often been asked of supporters of Arizona Senator John McCain and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee — in response to those (like myself) who have made the statements (like I have) that their candidates are not Conservatives.
The topics of “Conservatism,” and what exactly “it means to be a Conservative,” are very academic and intellectual arguments. Thousands upon thousands of articles, essays and books have been written on the subject of “Conservatism,” and undoubtedly, thousands upon thousand more will one day be written. While I am a University educated individual, I make no claims that this is an academic synopsis on the topic — these are just my thoughts on the subject, and I make no claims that I am even remotely an educated or respected source on the subject — I’m just a guy who writes opinions on his blog. That is all.
Please note that when I speak of Conservatism, I am not speaking of an all-encompassing viewpoint of what the definitive definition of the word is throughout the entire world, or even throughout time for that matter. I am not speaking of Edmund Burke, whom many consider the father of Anglo-American conservatism, I am not even speaking of the founding fathers, nor am I speaking of Ayn Rand — though all of these sources, amongst many more, are all great sources of Conservative thought. When I speak of Conservatism, I speak in terms of modern Conservatism in the United States. I speak of the movement that began about 1960, and then was falsely accused of having had failed in 1964, before causing the Republican party in 1966 to: gain 700 seats in State legislatures across the country, 8 governorships, 47 seats in the House of Representatives and three in the Senate. I am speaking of the movement that continued to grow and swell and then ultimately in the 1980’s gave us the Reagan administration. I am speaking of the Barry Goldwater movement, the New Right — which helped to reform the Republican Party and change it from what it was — a liberal party and shifted it into a Conservative Party.
Now today with the potential of John McCain winning the GOP’s nomination for the office of President, the Republican Party is in danger of returning to what the party was before the Goldwater Revolution — a (very) slightly right-leaning version of the Democratic Party.
Today, for a myriad of reasons — not the least of which is the fact that our mainstream media outlets and our academic institutions of so-called higher learning are over-run with the leftovers of the socialist-leaning, communist sympathizing “progressives” that dominated the “flower child” era of the 1960’s.
If you were to ask a liberal, “What is a Conservative?” the response today might be that a Conservative is “a gun-toting, bible-thumping, gay-hating, fascist, racist, bigot, war monger.” Which is of course a un-intellectual but intentional response that is used to evoke strong emotions.
On the flipside, if you were to ask many people whom today may consider themselves to be a Conservative, the same question you might get this response. A Conservative is “a Christian, pro-life, pro-second amendment, proponent of traditional marriage, a patriotic American and a Republican.”
The level of philosophical and political discourse in this country has been watered down so much that it seems that the common view for those on the left — is that anybody who is perceived as “anti-abortion,” “anti-gays,” “anti-social welfare,” or “pro-war” — must in fact be a “Conservative.” In turn, at an alarming rate it seems that for many on the right anybody who is perceived as “pro-life,” “pro-sanctity of marriage,” etc. — must also in fact be a “Conservative.”
The problem is that both of these responses do a great disservice to Conservatism, because neither is remotely close to answering the question of “what is a Conservative.” A Conservative can in fact be a Christian, but does not have to be a Christian as a matter of fact a Conservative can have any Religious affiliation or even no Religious affiliation at all. A Conservative doesn’t even have to like guns, yet alone own them. A Conservative can even be a homosexual or a bisexual or a transexual for that matter. A Conservative does not even have to be all that overtly Patriotic, and last but not least a Conservative does not even have to be a Republican — albeit more often then not, Conservatives have been associated with the Republican Party.
Positions on certain issues are being confused for the guiding principles that people hold, which lead them to the positions they have on these issues.
This brings us back to our question, “What exactly is a Conservative?” As I touched upon earlier with the liberal dominance of our mainstream media and universities, Barry Goldwater made the following statement in the foreword to his great book, The Conscience of a Conservative:
Perhaps we suffer from an over-sensitivity to the judgments of those who rule the mass communications media. We are daily consigned by “enlightened” commentators to political oblivion: Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. The charge is preposterous and we ought boldly to say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have no dateline. The principles on which the Conservative political position is based have been established by a process that has nothing to do with the social, economic and political landscape that changes from decade to decade and from century to century. These principles are derived from the nature of man, and from the truths that God has revealed about His creation. Circumstances do change. So do the problems that are shaped by circumstances. But the principles that govern the solution of the problems do not. To suggest that the Conservative philosophy is out of date is akin to saying that the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments or Aristotle Politics are out of date. The Conservative approach is nothing more or less than an attempt to apply the wisdom and experience and the revealed truths of the past to the problems of today. The challenge is not to find new or different truths, but to learn how to apply established truths to the problems of the contemporary world. My hope is that one more Conservative voice will be helpful in meeting this challenge.
The problem today, just as it was sometimes in Goldwater’s time is that much too often an individual, be it a private citizen or a politician, claim that they are a Conservative and even wear that title proudly — but don’t actually back that claim up with actions.
In that same book, published in 1960, Barry Goldwater also wrote:
I have been much concerned that so many people today with Conservative instincts feel compelled to apologize for them. Or if not to apologize directly, to qualify their commitment in a way that amounts to breast-beating. “Republican candidates,” Vice President Nixon has said, “should be economic conservatives, but conservatives with a heart.” President Eisenhower announced during his first term, “I am a conservative when it comes to economic problems but liberal when it comes to human problems.” Still other Republican leaders have insisted on calling themselves “progressive” Conservatives.
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Such statements, from friend and foe alike, do great injustice to the Conservative point of view. Conservatism is not an economic theory, though it has economic implications. The shoe is precisely on the other foot: it is Socialism that subordinates all other considerations to man’s material well-being. It is Conservatism that puts material things in their proper place — that has a structured view of the human being and of human society, in which economics plays only a subsidiary role.
The root difference between the Conservatives and the Liberals of today is that Conservatives take account of the whole man, while the Liberals tend to look only at the material side of man’s nature.
There is a term populated by our current President, George W. Bush, “compassionate conservative.” As the late, great Senator from Arizona and former Presidential candidate Goldwater said, “Such statements do great injustice to the Conservative point of view.” The unnecessary pretext of “compassionate,” implies that Conservatives have no compassion — it reinforces the liberal stereotype of the “evil” conservative. The term is nothing more then a codeword for, “moderate.”
Conservatism isn’t grounded in creating new policy, new processes, or new solutions. Conservatism, by its very nature is a philosophy that does not ever become out-dated. There is no need to ever redefine or improve upon what is already proven. There is no need to add the unnecessary pretext of the word “compassionate,” to Conservatism — because Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.
Conservatives look at people and when they see them, they see potential. People with more liberal views, when they look at people, they see victims. People with more liberal viewpoints want to use government to try to “help others.” Conservatives, don’t trust the government and don’t want to use the government towards those means — we want the government out of the way, so people can lift themselves up and succeed on their own merits. As the late great, Ronald Reagan — the last Conservative we had in the Oval Office said, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”
The first concern of a Conservative is “Are we maximizing freedom?” Anybody who wants to use the government for these sort of means is not a genuine Conservative. As a Conservative, as somebody who believes in the time-tested and proven truths of Conservatism — I do not want anybody who is not a Conservative being a representative of my beliefs and of Conservatism in America, you either are or you aren’t.
It was Fred Thompson, the only truly Conservative candidate who we had running who said:
“Before anything else, folks in Washington ought to be asking first and foremost, ‘Should government be doing this? And if so, then at what level of government?’ But they don’t.”
By all of these standards which I have written, and many more which I have not, John McCain as well as Mike Huckabee may both very well be Republicans — but with any look at their past records neither of the two should ever be associated with Conservatism.
Here is a rundown on all of my recent updates on the turncoat mole, John “Amnesty” McCain…
Sleeping With The Enemy: John McCain Is Destroying the GOP From The Inside.
The Chameleon Candidate: John McCain.
The John McCain Liberal Love Fest Continues.
Democrats Love McCain.
Al Gore or John McCain? I can’t tell the difference.
Democrats Love McCain
January 26, 2008 by Joe
The Liberal love fest with John McCain is by no means a recent phenomena. The left has long been enamored with the Arizona Senator, whom they themselves view as being in the wrong political party.
Here is an excerpt from an April 17, 2002 article by Timothy Noah at Slate. I bolded certain parts for emphasis:
There are three basic reasons why McCain should run for president as a Democrat. The first is that the current Democratic field is looking pretty dismal. Chatterbox actually fell asleep last week watching C-SPAN while the front-runner, Al Gore, rousted Florida Democrats with his speech denouncing the “right-wing side-wind.” Gore would probably make a fine president, but in 2000 he proved himself to be a terrible candidate under circumstances that could not have been, and never again will be, more favorable. It would be foolish to give him a second chance. Unfortunately, as Green points out, the two main alternatives, Sens. John Edwards and John Kerry, don’t seem particularly plausible, either.
The second reason why McCain should run as a Democrat is that McCain is no longer in any meaningful sense a Republican, even a maverick Republican. He was barely one in 2000 when he ran for president, and since then, he’s moved steadily leftward. Chait notes that since Bush came into office, McCain has worked with Democrats to pass campaign-finance reform and to make airport security a function of the federal government. He’s also worked with Democrats on a patients’ bill of rights, on greater access to generic drugs, and on expanding AmeriCorps. (This last position is unpopular with congressional Republicans, though Bush has signed on to the general idea.) Green notes that McCain’s support for raising automobile fuel-efficiency standards actually puts McCain to the left of Gore, who helped Bill Clinton renege on his campaign promise to boost fuel efficiency. On the most significant vote of the Bush administration—the tax cut—McCain positioned himself to the left of Republican-turned-Independent Jim Jeffords. Jeffords voted for the tax cut; McCain voted against it. Thankfully, McCain has also dropped his opposition to taxing e-commerce, a lurch toward fiscal irresponsibility for which he received altogether too little grief during the 2000 campaign.
At this point, it’s a struggle to think of any issues where McCain still lines up with Republicans. There’s abortion, which McCain opposes. At this point, though, McCain’s opposition is pretty nominal. Chait points out that during the campaign, McCain said, “certainly in the short term or even the long term I would not support the repeal of Roe v. Wade.” He backed down after this caused a furor, but you didn’t see him discussing the subject much after that. On stem-cell research, which has become for many pro-life activists a proxy for the abortion issue, McCain reversed himself this past year, Chait reports; he’s now in favor of it. McCain favors the death penalty, but that’s not as much of a dividing line between Democrats and Republicans as it used to be. McCain is not especially keen on affirmative action, but neither was Bill Clinton. That didn’t stop Clinton from becoming wildly popular among African-Americans. McCain has what Green calls a “mixed-but-improving record with labor,” but, Green points out, McCain is fairly popular with the union rank and file, and he could woo union leaders with his support for liberalizing immigration (these days labor is less apt to see immigrants as a threat and more likely to see them as potential union members) and whistle-blower protection.
Also in April of 2002, in the Washington Monthly, a liberal leaning monthly magazine whose editor is Bill Clinton’s former speechwriter, Joshua Green wrote another piece arguing why Democrats should try to draft McCain to run as a Democrat and why he should let them.
The liberal love of John McCain is not confined to just liberal leaning writers, as this video shows:
Conservatives need to ask themselves, “do we really want a general election pitting two Democrats against each other?” One who admittedly is one and another who pretends he isn’t.
I sure don’t.
Friday Night Videos: Live Like You Were Dying
January 25, 2008 by Joe
The other day I was listening to Sean Hannity and he was talking about this song, how the lyrics are just great — and they should be words to live by. I’d have to agree, even if Tim McGraw is a liberal.
My Thoughts On The Florida Debate
January 25, 2008 by Joe
The first thing I need to point out is that it has become obvious during this whole political process that the old rules about what occurs during the primaries do not necessarily apply like they have during past election cycles. Normally after Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina we would have a clear indication of who the GOP nominee would be. Despite the way the liberal media is pushing John McCain as that probable nominee, there is no such clear-cut frontrunner — that will likely, but not necessarily change following the results of the Florida primary.
For the first time since primary season opened up, we are about to witness the first winner take all contest, with the eventual Florida winner receiving all 57 delegates. The delegate count as it currently stands is: Mitt Romney (72), John McCain (38), Mike Huckabee (29), Fred Thompson [out] (8), Ron Paul (6), Rudy Giuliani (2), and Duncan Hunter [out] (1). Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter have both dropped out, and it would have been very unlikely that either of them would have won Florida and it is even more unlikely that Florida voters would vote for them in mass even though they dropped out — though as a Fred Head, I would absolutely love that. However, theoretically if either one of them or Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee or even Ron Paul for that matter — were to win Florida, all of a sudden it would be almost a statistical dead heat going into Super Tuesday on Feb 5th. On the flipside of that, if either Romney or McCain win Florida it will be very likely, but by no means definite, that they will be the eventual nominee.
Now on to scoring the debate…
It was mostly a snooze fest and not anywhere near as enjoyable as the excellent ABC debate in New Hampshire two weeks ago, or as good as any other of the recent televised debates. The moderators Tim Russert and Brian Williams were horrid; their shameless bias was showing in full form.
As far as the candidates themselves, I don’t believe their was a clear cut winner and the clear cut loser, well I would have to agree with Michelle Malkin who said, “Conservative voters in Florida are the big losers. This debate gave them nothing.”
Everyone of the candidates on the stage took great pains in trying to say how conservative they are — but not a single one of them made me stop and thing, ‘you know, your right — you are a Conservative.’
With that being said, I think Mitt Romney had the best performance out of all the other candidates tonight. He did a great job with the economy portion of the debate and his one-liner about Bill Clinton in the White House with nothing to do will be an awesome sound bite (even though I personally detest sound bites).
Huckabee, though I will never vote for him was pretty funny at times and no doubt is a very good speaker and has a great presence on stage. I actually even sort of liked his answer on the fair tax, when he challenged the fact that it is unlikely that we would be able to implement it. The problem with Mike Huckabee, as always is his record. As much as he tries to speak differently now, he has the record of a tax and spend liberal.
If Ron Paul wasn’t just completely and utterly wrong and irresponsible with his ridiculous foreign policy thoughts — he would actually make a whole hell of a lot of sense, he was really, really good on the economic stuff. He’s just a moonbat and flat out wrong on foreign policy and thus I could never vote for him.
Rudy disappointed me, I know I have said a whole lot of bad things about him on my blog and even joined a stop Rudy Now blog roll — but I was looking for Rudy to give me a reason to back him, now that Fred Thompson dropped out and I am without a candidate that I fully support. Rudy did not do that.
He looked like a man who knows that his days as a candidate in this race are over, he put all of his eggs in the Florida basket and it looks like it will probably come to bite him in the ass. He keeps talking about what he did in New York — but in my opinion has failed to translate that into how he will do that for the country.
As far as John McCain goes — I wanted to break my television screen with the way he sidestepped Tim Russert’s question asking him about the statement he made admitting that he still needs to be educated on economic matters. He denied saying that and he told Russert that he did not know where the quote came from. As I pointed out in this post, he made that statement to Wall Street Journal editorialist Stephen Moore, in a November 2005 interview.
Fortunately, for him, not for Conservatives, he did not come off as the horrible candidate for the GOP that he is, because amongst other things he was not questioned about illegal immigration.
In closing, none of them looked like a Conservative; Romney probably looked like the most conservative-leaning one of the bunch. I really, really wish Fred Thompson would not have been so haste in his decision to drop out of the race. Despite what the liberal media and the idiots at the Politico may have said, Fred Dalton Thompson was the only candidate whose Conservatism shined. He was the only candidate who had actual sound, thought out Conservative based solutions to the issues that face our country.
Unfortunately too many idiots bought into the propaganda of him being ’lazy,’ by the way his detractors pointed out the way he said things instead of actually pointing out what he said. All the idiot sheeple out there are more concerned with electing what they perceive (through their media distorted eyes) as being the most ‘electable’ candidate rather then who is the most ‘Conservative.’ When you do that Conservatism, the Republican Party, and America lose.
The John McCain Liberal Love Fest Continues
January 24, 2008 by Joe
Jonathan Stein over at Mother Jones, has an article up about John McCain that is just oozing with love. But what else would you expect from the most widely read liberal publication in the country? While John McCain does not swing to the extreme left like Mary Harris Jones, the socialist namesake of the liberal magazine, he does swing far enough to the left that his fellow Democrats adore him.
The best part of this ridiculous article is the subheading:
Fearing his independent streak and heretical policy stances, John McCain’s biggest enemies are fellow conservatives.
Leave it to a liberal to make a completely nonsensical statement such as that one. It would be like me saying, ‘fearing his independent streak, Barack Obama’s biggest enemies are his fellow members of the Ku Klux Klan.’ John McCain is to Conservatism like anchovies are to chocolate pudding.
Later on in the article is this interesting tidbit:
… attacks have forced McCain to take to the airwaves to defend his record, which he says is conservative enough to match “anybody who is running.” Yet the voters don’t seem terribly concerned by McCain’s transgressions against conservative orthodoxy: after all, he has won more primaries than any other GOP candidate.
Conservative enough to match “anybody who is running.” Yeah McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, his global warming rhetoric, by John McCain’s standards John Edwards, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are all Conservatives. But the best part of the above quote is the out right false lie that McCain has won more primaries then any other GOP candidate.
Lets do some math here shall we:
Huckabee: Iowa - that’s 1
McCain: New Hampshire, South Carolina - that’s 2
Romney: Wyoming, Michigan, Nevada - that’s 3
That’s Romney 3 states and McCain two states, I don’t exactly see how McCain has won more primaries then any other candidate — unless of course liberals don’t feel that Wyoming, Michigan and Nevada matter.
As a matter of fact, in the even more important delegate race — because after all it all comes down to who gets the most delegates, Romney is way in the lead with 72 to McAmnesty’s 38.
I shouldn’t be surprised though because once again, liberals stick together and rewrite the facts to suit their own agendas.
Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin
Check out my friends blog
January 23, 2008 by Joe
After pestering him insistently for a while now, Luke, my best friend since we were 4 years old has a blog at LukeOn.org. I helped him set it up. Check out his first post. We were alone all through elementary school and junior high in our admiration of Ronald Reagan and later George H.W. Bush.
He got fed up with the weather here in our hometown of Cleveland and moved to Arizona last year. He’s a big pro-Rudy guy, who I briefly got to switch to Fred until he started believing the MSM propaganda of Thompson being ‘lazy.’ Check him out and say hello, he’s got a great Ronald Reagan video up.
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