Friday Night Videos: I’m an Asshole
February 29, 2008 by Joe
Just because I feel like it.
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)
February 27, 2008 by Joe
Bill Buckley, the founder of the National Review, one of the founders of Young Americans For Freedom and one of the pioneers of the New Right passed away today in his Connecticut home.
He was a great American and will be missed.
Announcement
February 27, 2008 by Joe
Right Wing Rebel is now on MySpace. So if You’re on MySpace too, add me as a friend.
Random Musings
February 26, 2008 by Joe
I have not been posting at the same rate that I have in the weeks prior to this past week. I have been pretty upset since Fred Thompson dropped out of the race, and firmly believe as the guys at IMAO so eloquently put it that, “One day, America will be awesome enough to have Fred Thompson as president. Until then, we must prove ourselves worthy by punching more hippies.”
Despite my melancholy over the inability of so-called Conservatives to see and vote for the only true Conservative running (Fred Thompson) I moved on to the most-conservative of the group that was left in Mitt Romney. Unfortunately he too dropped out leaving me the choice of the populist preacher and the Democrat’s favorite ill-named “maverick.” I don’t care for John McCains politics much and as a Conservative disagree with him on a whole host of issues but I for the life of me cannot fathom how many Conservatives, including a number of Conservative bloggers I respect a whole hell of a lot — can claim to not want Hillary or Obama in the White House, but would rather write in Tom Tancredo or vote “None of The Above” thus pretty much guaranteeing that Hillary or most likely Obama will win the nomination and set America back 50 years. Yeah John McCain may not be a Conservative, but anybody who calls themselves one and would at the same time in a de facto way help ensure that Obama is the President — has no business calling themselves one either. So that has me pretty depressed and not wanting to blog much either.
I’m reading Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” and find myself going back and re-reading pages two, three and even four times to let it all sink in. I think it has surpassed Mark Steyn’s “America Alone” as the most important book to come out in the last decade. I wish I had the financial wherewithal to buy a couple hundred thousand copies and pass it around at America’s universities.
I found an interesting, well at least to me, tidbit via my site meter stats. If you type the words “African American blog” into google — this site comes up at the top of the list.
Iron Maiden has announced their ‘SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME’ 2008 World Tour — and there is no Cleveland date as of yet, that’s pretty upsetting. Though Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Vinny Appice and Ronnie James Dio collectively known as Heaven & Hell (originally Black Sabbath for 2 albums) are currently getting ready to record a new album so that is pretty damn cool.
My Cleveland Cavaliers have made a trade that I myself like, in getting Ben Wallace, Delonte West, Wally Szczerbiak and Joe Smith, because it addresses the three needs I have been complaining about the most while getting rid of two good players who didn’t fit In here, Larry Hughes and Drew Gooden and a couple of scrubs — so thats pretty cool. Spring Training started, that’s pretty cool, hopefully my Tribe can get even further then they did last year.
I’m still not really in the mood to write anything of substance, so I’ll just talk about other people’s posts.
Red Planet Cartoons has a great cartoon and post up about the expiration of the The Protect America Act and San Fran Nan’s and her Dhimmicrat collegues refusing to reauthorize it.
By the way, as I was uploading the pic to my photobucket account I noticed one of those true.com web ads, am I really dirty for thinking that kissyface27 is hot as hell?
Mike’s America had me laughing at his post on the recent picture circulating of Barack Hussein Obama wearing traditional African Muslim garb. If you go to his comments, Mike has a great picture up of Uncle Ronnie and Aunt Nancy.
My best friend Luke, who blogs way too sporadically (he claims he has a “life,” I’m not sure what that term means anymore myself) has a great post up. You should go read the whole thing, but here’s a great snippet.
We Americans are THEIR boss and we tell THEM what they can and cannot spend OUR money on nad (sic) NOT the other way around!!!! And this Barack Hussein Obama “MOVEMENT” looks more like the typical liberal bowel movement of easy answers and half measures that will lead to 4 years of the government (sic) mandates and a reintroduction of ”The Misery Index”.
Luke, like myself, is not very skilled at the arts of proper spelling and correct grammar and I can picture our fourth and seventh grade teacher Mrs. Fuerst all up in arms over this in my head. He makes some great points though.
Speaking of great points, Cory makes some great points in his most recent post, which you should read the whole thing. Here is a snippet of it:
I believe liberals in government use the rich as a common enemy of the masses. The idea plays on the emotion of men of all educational backgrounds. It plays on their envy of what others have accomplished. History has shown us that class envy leads to revolution and revolution is a change in constitution or government. As liberals have created this enemy in the minds of the masses they are viewed as heroes for taking from the accomplished to give to what they call the “entitled.” Class envy also creates a hatred towards the most free economic system in mankind’s history which is capitalism.
The liberals under the guise of patriotism have used the tool of class warfare to create angst against not only capitalism, but the history of America as well through our capitalist system which is representative of freedom. They have used and skewed the founders words to aide them in accomplishing these deeds. With the history of America being tarnished the founding document becomes more and more subject to change from it’s original intent.
Here is my comment on that post:
There is a dirty little secret that the extreme left (the people who run the Democratic Party) under the false guises of “liberalism,” and “progressivism,” do not want the common man (Independents, and non-activist Democrats) to know. This dirty little secret is so strong, so dangerous that if it the vast majority of Americans were to be made aware of it and allowed to understand and fully grasp the meaning of it — the Democratic Party would collapse like a house of cards.
This dirty little secret strikes at the hearts and souls of America’s extreme left and would expose them for what they really are. The problem is, that over the last century and especially the last half century, the people whom this secret exposes — the extreme left have ingrained themselves not just into the heart and soul of the Democratic party, but also into America’s media (television news, newspapers, magazines), as well as our education system (from Kindergarten straight up to our so-called institutions of higher education.) These people are high-ranking DNC officials, they are our Senators and Representatives, they are our Deans and professors at our Universities, they are our Newspaper reporters, editors and publishers and they are our Nightly News Anchors.
The dirty little secret is that these people, whom the common man look up to tell them the way things are supposed to be — have a past that is deeply rooted in the admiration of socialist and communist ideologies. The even bigger secret that the Code Pink bitches and the MoveOn.org nut jobs don’t want you to know — because they are constantly comparing George W. Bush to Hitler and calling our current administration “fascists” is that it is they — and by “they” I mean the extreme left in this country that are truly the fascists and the admirers of fascist doctrines.
It is America’s left dating all the way back to the days of Woodrow Wilson and Franklyn Delano Roosevelt and to today’s crop of ideologues in Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama who are the ones who have the principles that are strikingly similar to Adolf Hitlers Nazism (which literally means “National Socialism) and Mussolini’s Fascism — not George W. Bush and the Republicans.
It was the Nazi’s who believes in Free Health Care for everyone. It was the Nazi’s who believed in guaranteed jobs for everyone. It was the Nazis who confiscated inheritances. It was the Nazis who spent abnormal amounts of government money on public education. It was the Nazi’s struck the Church out of people’s lives and out of the public consciousness. It was the Nazis who promoted secularism. It was the Nazis who declared a war on smoking. It was the Nazis who tried to mandate what people did and did not eat. It was the Nazi’s who supported gun control and took away the guns from the people. It was the Nazis who supported abortion on demand. It was the Nazis who hated the free markets and hated liberty and the entrepreneurial spirit.
Who today do we see that holds views such as these? Why it’s the people who are running as “Democrats” to become the next President of the United States. Anybody with half a brain and a library card can dig deep and find the absolute love and admiration that the forefathers of the new American Left (Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Mother Jones and the founders of the New Republic) had for Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini and even Adolph Hitler — the problem is the people who admire them today are so ingrained into America’s institutions — that they have perpetrated the ultimate hoax on the people of America, by not allowing this dirty little secret to come out.
Speaking of Cory, be sure to check out his blog talk radio show, The Conservative Way.
That’s all for now, maybe I’ll resume regular blogging soon.
Republicans for Obama — useful idiots
February 25, 2008 by Joe
I just found out about this story, from Karol at Alarming News. It’s about Republicans for Obama, whom the Illinois Senator apparently calls, wait for it — “Obamacans.” Karol called them “Democrats” I’ll just go ahead and call them idiots, even though more often then not calling a Democrat an idiot, especially ones of the far left kind, is like calling water wet.
This tidbit from the article gave me a good chuckle:
Johanna Schneider was one of his Virginia supporters. She went door to door for Obama with her 14-year-old son, Chase, convinced that fellow Republicans have lost their way. “I just feel this is a tremendous opportunity to open politics up to a new generation,” said Schneider, a former GOP staffer on Capitol Hill. “And I believe that Barack Obama is a genuine transformational candidate.”
I would have to agree, in the sense that yes Republicans have lost their way. They have turned their back on the time tested and proven truths of Conservatism and have acted like Democrats drunkenly spending the people’s tax money. That’s why we lost the House and Senate in 2006, because Republicans turned their backs on Conservatism.
But I’m sorry, anybody who would dare call themselves a “Republican” and say that they are supporting Barrack Obama has not just “lost their way,” they have fallen off the edge of cliff. Either that, or they never really truly a Republican in the first place.
Anybody who is falling for Barrack Obama because of his “personality” and “likeability” factor and ignoring the issues, because Obama is the supposed candidate of a “third way” that will end partisanship in Washington — is nothing but a damned fool. I’m sorry but real Republicans are too smart to fall for Barrack Obamas empty message of “hope,” and “change.” Real Conservatives know that “change” just for the sake of it, is nothing more then a fools errand that will make things far, far worse then the way that people claim it is now. At what cost will this change come to America?
Victor Davis Hanson, sums up what a Barrack Hussein Obama Presidency will bring us quite well:
At home, there will be an increase in taxes—income, estate, payroll—to fund more government health care, education, and general entitlement programs. The old Reaganesque notion that government subsidies can make one more dependent, angrier, and envious is forgotten, along with the notion that lower taxes stimulate economic growth and encourage risk-taking, innovation, and independence. I worry especially about the lifting of income caps (how far?) on social security taxes inasmuch as they were part of the original covenant justifying the caps on benefits paid out.
NAFTA and other free trade agreements would be repealed; illegal immigration would either not be an issue, or more a problem of finding the right way, with borders still open, to grant amnesties. Appointments would hinge on a belief in bigger government and the theme that the individual is currently suffering due to reactionaries in government and corporations, barely housed, fed, or educated, and deserves more federal dollars appropriated from others who either don’t need all their income or didn’t deserve the compensation they were given.
Abroad, there is a general argument that things are going terribly. Forget that the Taliban and Saddam are gone. Forget that we have not suffered another 9/11 attack. Forget that there is far more democratic promise in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Lebanon than was true in 2001. Forget that the Merkel and Sarkozy governments, along with Eastern European leaders, are more pro-American than their predecessors in 2001.
Instead, we are disliked by everyone, and for good reasons. The fact that Iranian mullahs, the House of Saud cousins, Hugo Chavez’s communists, European mullahs, and the Arab street don’t approve of America says more about us than it does them. The solution is to follow more the dictates of European Union and United Nations, where sophisticated internationalists can guide us through the maze of global power, instructing mostly ignorant Americans how and why we tend to cause so many of the world’s problems. Misunderstanding and our own obtuseness explain global tension, not the agendas of enemies who know exactly what they want and how to get it.
Our military is not so much an offensive force, designed to defeat and kill our enemies, that needs support and constant honing; better to see it as a large social organization that we must look at in terms only of proper rotations, health care, and benefits. We are to support the troops not in the sense of doing everything we can to ensure they win, and gain the proper recognition for their courage and sacrifice, but rather in consideration of their victimhood, offering proper sympathy and remediation for the defeat in Iraq, the unwise use of their skills, and the needless loss of their lives.
With Barrack Obama in the White House, America is on the verge of the type of socialist ideology not seen prevalent in America since shortly after the turn of the last century when the so called “Progressives” were enamored with the likes of Lenin and Mussolini
Friday Night Videos: Can You Picture That?
February 22, 2008 by Joe
The worlds greatest muppet band, Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem.
The Cult Of Obamamania
February 20, 2008 by Joe
I’m only thirty years old, so the list of things that I have witnessed throughout my “adult life” is not nearly as long as the lists of others. But I have to say, never have I seen a candidate who possesses the abilities of Barack Obama to stir up such great feelings of pride and emotion in those who support him, to make the hearts of young girls swoon and to actually make people pass out from the feelings that develop while in his presence — all while having absolutely nothing of substance to say.
It is as if the man is a blank canvas whose empty rhetoric is colored with invisible paint visible only to those who apply it allowing him to be something different to everyone, while being nothing at all at the same time. He is truly, like the words of the song by the band Living Color, a ’Cult Of Personality.’
the Cult of Personality
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I’ve been everything you wanna be ohhh…
I’m the Cult of Personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy
I’m the Cult of Personality
the Cult of Personality
the Cult of Personality
Neon lights, Nobel Prize
When a mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You won’t have to follow me
Only you can set me free
I sell the things you need to be
I’m the smiling face of your T.V. ohh…
I’m the Cult of Personality
I exploit you; still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three ohh…
I’m the Cult of Personality
Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi ohh…
I’m the Cult of Personality
the Cult of Personality
the Cult of Personality
For the life of me I do not know how anybody with even half of a brain could walk away from listening to the words of Barrack Obama without feeling as if they have just had a few of their brain cells destroyed. The American political process has been reduced to American Idol, and now we have Sanjaya as the leading candidate in the Democratic party.
When his supporters are asked to name one accomplishment of Barrack Obama, they can’t.
When given a second opportunity to do it, still they can’t.
This phenomena of being unable to name anything that Senator Obama has actually done is not just amongst focus groups, even representatives of his campaign are unable to do so when asked.
I’m sorry but if you are a supporter of Barack Obama, chances are — you’re a complete and total idiot.
Is Obama “African-American?”
February 17, 2008 by Joe
I’m not a big fan of “Hyphenated Americans” as a matter of fact I would have to agree with Teddy Roosevelt who said, “There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.” I myself am a child of immigrants, both of my parents originated form Croatia and both of them are now naturalized American citizens. I am and always will be proud of my Croatian heritage, but I am first and foremost an American.
I personally find the practice of putting another word before the fact that you are American to be most offensive. It is a slap in the face to this great country that I love, because it gives the impression that one’s allegiances lay first with whichever nationality or ethnicity is placed before the “American.” Why do we have to be African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans or any other type of Hyphenated American you can think of? All it does is reinforce ethnic, racial and social rifts in this country — If you are an American citizen you should just be an American.
The leads me to the man whom most very well likely will be the Democratic Party’s nominee for the office of President — Barack Hussein Obama Jr. I use Senator Obama’s full name here not in an effort to drum up hatred or paranoia, but just to point out that much of the hoopla surrounding the candidacy of the Illinois Senator is the potential of him becoming the first African-American President. The problem with this is that if he were to win the Presidency he would not in fact be the first “African-American” President and saying so would just further serve to reinforce ethnic, racial and social rifts in this country.
Now I cannot exactly call myself an authority on the term “African-American,” but I know for a fact I am not lying when I say there is great confusion and much debate over what exactly the term means. Does it mean that someone who was born in Africa but is now an American citizen is an African-American? If so, then Teresa Heinz Kerry and my blogging friend Patrick Conlon are then “African-Americans.” Does it mean that to be an “African American,” you must be a descendent of slaves? If that was the case then Barack Obama would not fit this definition. Is “African American,” a blanket term for anybody who appears to be black regardless of nationality, such as was actually inferred by former CNN reporter Carol Lin, who called two French citizens of Tunisian origin, “African Americans.” [click here for a transcript]
For Senator Obama, the latter term seems to be the one which test he passes. He is an American — born in Hawaii, which last I checked was part of the United States. I bring this issue up much of, not all but a considerable amount of, the hype surrounding Senator Obama’s campaign is that fact that he has the potential of becoming the first “African-American” President. I bring this up because Senator Obama and particularly his supporters make it an issue. How often have we heard the fact that he was the first “African-American” President of the Harvard Law Review.
Whatever happened to Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of all men and women being judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin? Call me a racist if you want, but I just believe that until society stops getting wrapped up in these ideas of “whose the first whatever of whatever race” we will still be a long way off from achieving Dr. Kings dream. I just think that if Obama was truly the candidate of “Hope,” and “Change” he would not make an issue of his race.
But then again, according to this report by one, Kenneth E. Lamb — Senator Obama may not even “legally” be black.
Federal law requires that to claim a minority status, you must be at least 1/8 of the descriptor, but for the sake of this article, I’ve converted it to a decimal fraction for easier comprehension. You must be at least 12.5% of the racial component you claim for minority status. Mr. Obama, claiming to be African-American, is half the legal threshold.
Again, to let it sink in: Mr. Obama is not legally African-American. It is impossible for him to be, in truth, America’s first African-American president.
Yet claiming to be African-American is the soul and substance of his claim to fame. It is what he has used throughout his adult life to distinguish himself from other competitors. It is the ethnic identity he proclaims, and it is the ethnic identity he craves. Without it, he is just another mixed race Caucasian Arab with an African influence playing on his skin’s pigmentation.
But no matter what he craves, no matter what he has used to propel himself through life, no matter the racist presumption of seeing his skin and without question calling him black, the hard, cold, genetically inarguable reality remains: he is not an African-American.
Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian, that from his mother. What those who want Mr. Obama to write history by becoming “America’s first African-American president” ignore is that his father was ethnically Arabic, with only 1 relative ethnically African Negro - a maternal great-grandparent (Sen. Obama’s great-great grandparent, thus the 6.25% ethnic contribution to the senator’s ethnic composition.).
That means that Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father’s side.
The above quoted article also goes on to talk about Senator Obama’s full name, Barrack Hussein Obama Jr.,
The question no one wants to answer - particularly Mr. Obama and his supporters, is, “Why do you think he has an Arabic name? Why does his father have an Arabic name? Why does every ancestor on his father’s side have an Arabic name?”
The answer is obvious: They have Arabic names because his father’s side of the family tree is Arabic.
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True Negro tribal members of western Kenya where his father was born have Christian names, not Arabic. His father’s decision to name him with an Arabic name is a matter of his father establishing his ethnic identity in Africa - it is done deliberately to separate him from the African tribes. He may live among them, but he is not one of them. His father’s message is that he is Arabic, not Negro.
Many will find these truths unsettling. I’m often asked, “But I thought his father was Kenyan. How could Mr. Obama not be African-American, how could his ethnic composition be so Arabic?”
The definitive clue to that answer is to look at his name, his father’s name, and the names of all his ancestors on his father’s side. They are all Arabic.
Researching his roots reveal that on his father’s side, he is descended from Arab slave traders. They operated under an extended grant from Queen Victoria, who gave them the right to continue the slave trade in exchange for helping the British defeat the Madhi Army in southern Sudan and the Upper Nile region. Funny how circular is history; now the British again face the Madhi Army, albeit this time Shiite, not Sunni, as in nineteenth century Sudan.
Now I’m not going to vote for Obama, not because of the color of his skin, not because of his middle name, not because of the potential that he is hiding the fact that he is more Arabic then Black, not even because of the fact that his admitted spiritual advisor preaches a radicalized version of race centered Christianity. I’m not going to vote for Barrack Obama because I do not agree with his socialist-leaning extreme liberal political views. I’m just pointing out this aspect of Senator Obama’s race — because his campaign has made race an issue in this election.
Friday Night Videos: Have You Forgotten?
February 15, 2008 by Joe
Great Song.
The Future of the Conservative Movement
February 13, 2008 by Joe
In a fundamental way, the conservative movement has to declare itself independent from the Republican Party.
Let me make very clear what I’m saying here. I am not saying there should be a third party – I think a third party is a dumb idea, will not get anywhere, and in the end will achieve nothing.
I actually believe that any reasonable conservative will, in the end, find that they have an absolute requirement to support the Republican nominee for president this fall.
And let me remind you, I say that in the context of personally believing that the McCain-Feingold Act is unconstitutional and a threat to our civil liberties.
And I say that in the context of believing that the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill was a disaster and was correctly stopped by the American people.
But I would rather, as a citizen, and I say this with Callista and I have two wonderful grandchildren. Maggie who is 8 and Robert who is 6. We think about their future. As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90% of the time.
Let me, if I might, carry this a step further so that you understand where I am coming from. I believe the conservative movement has to think about reaching out to every American of every background. I think we have to decide that in 2010, we are going to recruit and support conservative candidates in Democratic districts, because the right answer to gerrymandering is to beat them in the primary.
The above is a snippet of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference last week. I took the liberty of bolding certain parts for added emphasis. It is an excellent speech and I urge everyone to either watch it or read the whole transcript.
The last few weeks up until Super Tuesday I had pretty much devoted the majority of posts on this blog to Arizona Senator John McCain and his moderate-to-liberal stances on many issues important to Conservatives. I live in Ohio and thus have not had the chance to vote in my State’s primary yet, but I was planning on voting for Fred Thompson until he had dropped out and then Mitt Romney until he had dropped out.
Now, as a registered Republican I am left with having to choose between the two GOP candidates whom I have rallied against the most, McCain and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. I could just sit at home and boycott the election, but I have a school levy on the ballot and other issues to vote on, so I won’t. What will I do come the general election time? it’s a Presidential election and that is when all the hot issues are usually on the ballots as there are the biggest voting turnouts at those times, and as an American I feel it is my duty to show up and vote on election day.
What about the Presidential election itself, despite the fact that Huckabee is still holding out hope of somehow siphoning off just enough delegates to be able to make it until the convention, it is all but official that John McCain is the Republican nominee. As I mentioned above I have made it pretty clear that as a Conservative, I am not a big fan of many of the moderate-to-liberal positions that McCain has taken on certain important issues. However, at the same time, I am definitely not a fan at all of the liberal-to-socialist stances on many issues that whomever will be the Democrat nominee holds.
The way I see it I am a Conservative, but not only that first and foremost I am an American. I, along with 75% of the American people believe that we have an obligation to defeat our enemies — the elites in the Democratic party believe they have an obligation to listen to the small but vocal lunatic fringe that wants to high tail it out of Iraq thus openly and forcibly result in America losing the war. I along with 85% of the American people believe we have an absolute obligation to defend America and her allies — the elites in the Democratic party have fought tooth and nail against funding our troops, our departments of security and our intelligence gathering efforts.
I’ve already made my decision and as Newt Gingrich said, “As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90% of the time.”
I can understand the anger and frustrations among Conservatives over the fact that John McCain is going to be the nominee of the Grand Old Party, the party that is supposed to be the Conservative party — I’m angry over it too. I would be a liar if I said I did not flirt with both the idea of either not voting at all or writing in a third party candidate. The problem is anybody with any sense of rationalism can see that either one of those two options is in effect a de facto vote FOR either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
You could spin it any way you want to make yourself feel better about not supporting the “lesser of two evils“, but both refusing to vote for anybody and writing in “none of the above” or a third name is allowing the “greater of two evils” to take power. I don’t know how anybody can claim to be a “real” Conservative and so openly rather have a Democrat in office then a Republican — even if it is a Republican like McCain who does side more with the Democrat elites then the GOP’s Conservative base — just so it’s the Democrats doing the “ruining” of the country and not the “Republicans.”
Anybody who takes that stance is doing what we Conservatives claim the Democrats do all the time — being Elitist snobs who are letting vanity trump principles.
Would a “real” Conservative let a cut-and-run Democrat into the White House with a Democrat controlled House and Senate in a time of war?
The answer is no, a “real” Conservative would not help to facilitate the Democrats in forcing America to lose the war and thus causing all the losses of our brave military personnel to have been in vain.
Would a “real” Conservative let a Democrat into the White House with a Democrat controlled House and Senate who have a view that radical Islamic extremism is a “police” issue?
The answer is no, a “real” Conservative would know, just like Barry Goldwater knew, that — “If an enemy is bent on conquering you,, and proposes to turn all of his resources to that end, he is at war with you; and you — unless you contemplate surrender — are at war with him. Moreover — unless you contemplate treason — your objective, like his, will be victory. Not ‘peace,’ but victory.”
Would a “real” Conservative let a Democrat into the White House with a Democrat controlled House and Senate, who have fought against the banning of partial birth abortions?
The answer is no, a “real” Conservative values the live of unborn children and would not let a Candidate in power who would fight to allow a barbaric procedure that induces labor and literally rips the unborn child to shreds — while there is a candidate in John McCain who has voted against and fought partial birth abortions.
Would a “real” Conservative let a Democrat into the White House with a Democrat controlled House and Senate, who has called for higher taxes on the basis of “shared prosperity?”
The answer is no, a “real” Conservative would, even though he has legitimate reservations about him, support John McCain the only candidate running who has never voted for a tax increase.
Would a “real” Conservative let a Democrat into the White House with a Democrat controlled House and Senate, who fight for mandated “socialized” health care?
The answer is no, a “real” Conservative would not throw their vote away allowing such a candidate in office, when there is a candidate whom while they don’t agree with on all issues, would not fight for “socialized” anything, let alone health care.
Would a “real” Conservative throw away their vote, and thus throw away their Conservative principles by allowing a Democrat into the White House with a Democrat controlled House and Senate, where together they can more easily push through extreme liberal plans that Conservatives know are not the best solutions to America’s problems — all because the Republican candidate is not a “perfect“ conservative?
The answer is no, a “real” Conservative would know that there is no such thing as the “perfect” candidate. A “real” Conservative would not be a cry baby with an “all or nothing” mentality. A “real” Conservative would know that even our standard bearer, Ronald Reagan was not perfect. Reagan ended up increasing the size of the federal government instead of decreasing it. Reagan ended up appointing Sandra Day O’Connor, who was anything but strict constructionist, to the Supreme Court. Reagan even ended up increasing income and payroll taxes. Reagan also ended up granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
If Ronald Reagan, an icon amongst Conservatives could be wrong on all those issues and still be adored and still have been way better then the alternative — a “real” Conservative would not take his ball and go home crying, they would, even though he may not be perfect or even a whole lot better, give John McCain a chance with the parts we do agree on him with rather then let the candidate in with whom we don’t agree with on anything.
So the question now is, what do “real” Conservatives do next?
The answer is we continue to fight for our Conservative principles. We continue to rally against the failed socialist ideas hidden under the false guise of “Progressivism” by the liberals. We fight as hard as we can to make sure that we don’t let those extreme liberal views into the White House, but even if they end up in their from now until — not just the election — but for all time, we raise our voices for Conservatism. We need to support John McCain, because it’s the right thing to do as “real” Conservatives and we also need to fight him tooth and nail if and when he tries to do things that we do not agree with because that too is the right thing to do as “real” Conservatives.
We need to stop being wrapped up in this notion that if the Executive branch of our government is not filled by staunch Conservative that all is lost. We must remember the great system of federalism built into our Constitution by our founding fathers and realize that there is a Legislative branch as well, that collectively wields even more power then the office of the President. We must remember that beyond Washington there are State and Local officials who are elected to represent us as well.
We need to take the anger that we are feeling because of the Presidential nominating process and channel it towards good use.
We need to follow my blogging friend Ablur’s advice, who says:
1. Stay informed of what is going on around you.
2. Share and interpret this information with everyone and anyone you can.
3. Write letters and hold your representatives feet to the fire, from the neighborhood watch to the President of the United States.The first one should be a breeze; you live and work where you are. You know those around you and what goes on where you live. You don’t need to stretch much to make a difference.
The second one will require you to actually act on what you believe and know. No matter your specialty, interpret and report to fellow conservatives what you see and hear. The liberal media isn’t going to help us stay informed. We will have to blog and spend time on forums to pass information along. We will have to spend a few minutes each day getting the word out and taking in what is going on elsewhere that may affect us. Use the knowledge and skill of fellow conservatives to keep you informed.
The third one will be our shining star, reminding the pandering power mongers who is really in charge. They won’t make a move against a unified body of conservatives bent on taking away the only thing that really matters to them, power. They will follow lock step as a bull firmly grasped by the ring in his nose, if we stay engaged.
If we don’t like the country-club Republican crop of candidates who wouldn’t know Conservatism if it bit them in the ass, then keep an eye out for the younger next generation of candidates and potential candidates at our state and local levels. Look out for the candidates who keep up the fight for individual liberty and personal responsibility, Look out for the candidates who keep up the fight against oversized government and pork barrel spending. Look out for the candidates that do fight to lower our taxes.
Support their election and re-election bids. Reward the good guys for keeping up the fight and put the bad guys on notice that we are coming after them. As Michelle Malkin said a while back:
Look at Barack Obama. Four years ago, he was in the Illiniois legislature. Now, he’s on the cusp of the presidency.
If you can’t stomach John McCain, channel your support and energies to Republicans who do represent your values and who have treated the conservative base as allies instead of enemies. There are a new generation of combat veterans running for office who haven’t made a career of trashing the base. Check out staunch economic, social, and national security conservative congressional candidates like Iraq/Afghanistan veteran Eric Egland in California’s fourth district. Check out the Vets for Freedom (vetsforfreedom.org) group for their endorsements.
Opposed to the amnesty bill? Republican Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, and John Cornyn of Texas all fought the McCain-Kennedy-Graham-Martinez-Bush open-borders disaster. All of those Senators are up for re-election this year. Send them some money. Then send a few more bucks to the enforcement proponents on the House side as well.
Never stop raising your voice for Conservatism, If Congress, or whoever is in the Oval Office, brings up Amnesty stand up and fight it just like we did last summer. If Congress or whoever is in the Oval Office does anything that we do not agree with, stand up and fight it. Write letters to the editor of your local papers, write your elected officials, fax and call your elected officials, call your local talk shows, call the nationally syndicated shows.
When elected Republican officials who continuously do not do what they were elected to do, remind them of it and make them pay by voting in someone else.
We Conservatives know first and foremost that Conservatism is in essence, really just common sense. Check out the Platform of the American People, and fight for these issues. But most importantly, stand up and make your voices heard.
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