I am a Flip Flopper
August 30, 2008 by Joe · 4 Comments
I have changed my mind.
I have written some pretty bad things about John McCain on this site, I called him Juan McCain, I called him a RINO, and a bunch of other things I won’t bring up. You can check the archives if you want to read them.
I was, still am a Fred Head. As a matter of fact Fred Thompson was the first Political candidate, whom has ever caused me to separate my money from my wallet by donating to his campaign, when he dropped out of the race, I reluctantly went over to Romney. When it became apparent that John McCain was the GOP’s nominee, I was livid. I was so upset, have been so upset for the past few months that I just couldn’t find the motivation to blog here on this site and have considered shutting it down.
Despite that I had fully, and reluctantly, planned to hold my nose from the stink, and cast my vote not so much for John McCain but against Barrack Obama.
I am now announcing that I have changed my mind, I will not be holding my nose and going to the booth on election day to cast my vote against Obama.
That’s right I have flip flopped.
On November 4th, 2008 I will proudly head to my local voting station, step into that booth and cast my vote FOR JOHN MCCAIN.
That’s right, as you can see from the banner on the side bar, I have jumped firmy aboard the Straight Talk Express.
John McCain, has just hit a Grand Slam Home Run with his pick for his Vice Presidential candidate. I haven’t been this excited since Fred Thompson completely owned the South Carolina Republican debates.
Sarah Palin is exactly what John McCain’s candidacy, the Republican Party, Washington D.C. and the whole country needs.
She’s a pro-life, pro second amendment, pro free market, pro drilling in the US, young fresh face on the political scene who is the only true non politics as usual Washington insider currently on the campaign trail.
I am jacked about this pick.
McCain’s VP Choice
August 29, 2008 by Joe · Leave a Comment
The buzz is circulating around Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, as the person who will be announced today as John McCain VP nominee. If this is the case, I have to say it’s an awesome pick.
She’s a lifetime NRA member who enjoys hunting, fishing and general outdoors life.
She’s pro-life, strongly pro-life.
She also has a reputation as a “Maverick” but better then McCains, she fights Republican corupption and fights for Conservatism, rather then pander to Democrats like McCain.
She wants to drill in ANWR.
Not to mention that she’ll pick up a lot of voters who would have otherwise voted for Hillary or Obama, without having to shift to the left to do so.
GREAT choice.
Here is video of her recently on Glenn Beck:
Who abandoned who?
July 30, 2008 by Joe · 1 Comment
A little while ago I opened up a piece of mail that I received from the Republican National Committee. It pissed me off so much that I just had to write a reply.
Here is the letter:
(and no, they didn’t address it to Mr. Rightwingrebel.)
Dear Mr. Rightwingrebel,
I don’t want to believe you’ve abandoned the Republican Party, but I have to ask… Have you given up ?
Our records show we have not yet received your Republican National Committee membership renewal for the critical 2008 presidential election year.
As the Treasurer of the RNC, I know our Party’s success depends directly on grassroots leaders like you.
So I am surprised and concerned especially because I know how generously you supported President Bush and the RNC in the past. You helped to advance our vision for America and elect Republicans at all levels of government.
Mr. Rightwingrebel, I know other things come up, and perhaps you’ve just been delayed in renewing your membership. If that’s the case, I understand.
But we’ve not heard from you this year — and I hope you haven’t deserted our Party.
Your generous financial assistance and active involvement are more important than ever as we work to elect a new Republican president and Congress.
There is so much at stake. The Democrats are determined to put a liberal like Barack Obama in the White House, expand their narrow majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, and push our country to the Left with their agenda of high taxes, big government and weakened national security.
Big Labor, radical liberal protest groups and Hollywood elites are planning to spend more than $500 million to defeat Republicans and aid the Democrat power grab.
Mr. Rightwingrebel, the RNC relies on the voluntary support of Republican activists like you.
That’s why I urgently need you to renew your RNC membership for 2008 with a contribution of $1,000, $500, $250, $100, $50 or even $25.
The men and women who will represent us in this year’s election are hard at work building strong campaigns.
And so is the RNC. We are doing our part to provide the research, staff support, voter registration, volunteer recruitment and training, and direct financial assistance our candidates need to win.
The RNC is the ONLY Republican organization permitted by federal law to directly support our presidential nominee.
If we fail to hold the White House and make gains in Congress, the Democrats have made clear they will overturn every reform you helped President Bush achieve.
Democrat presidential candidates and the Reid/Pelosi-run-Congress have promised to repeal the Bush tax cuts, retreat from the War on Terror and increase the size of government through their one-size-fits-all health care plan.
We cannot allow them to succeed ! That’s why your renewed commitment is so important.
So if you have delayed in renewing your membership because you feel the RNC has let you down, or no longer needs you, please let me know. I want to hear from you.
Just include your comments and suggestions with the enclosed Membership Confirmation and return with your 2008 membership renewal check. You can also renew by calling 1-800-445-5781 or via our secure website at www.GOP.com/Treasurer2008.
But please don’t turn your back on our Republican candidates running for office from the Courthouse to the White House; they are counting on your support. Renew your RNC membership today. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Tim Morgan
RNC TreasurerP.S. The 2008 elections are critical to the future of our nation. We need the support of every Republican to retain the White House, regain Congress and elect GOP legislators at all levels. Please don’t quit on our Party and our cause now. Renew your RNC membership today.
Thank you.
Below is my reply, I don’t know if I am going to even bother to mail it, it probably will not do any good. But I decided to post it here.
Dear Mr. Morgan,
I was so angered upon receiving the most recent fundraising request letter from the Republican National Committee, this particular one signed by you, that I have decided to reply.
You may be asking yourself what is it that upset me so much? Well, imagine my surprise when I open up the envelope from the RNC and read the very first paragraph which stated:
I don’t want to believe you’ve abandoned the Republican Party, but I have to ask… Have you given up?
Quite frankly I was insulted, because it is myself who has been asking the same question of the Republican Party… Has it given up?
No Mr. Morgan, it is not I who have abandoned the Republican Party, but it is the GOP who sadly has abandoned myself and many other Conservatives like me.
Our current presumed, Presidential nominee is a man who contemplated leaving the Republican Party himself in the early portion of 2001, upset after having failed to win the nomination during the previous year’s primary cycle. He is a man who seriously considered joining the John Kerry ticket and running as his vice-presidential candidate in 2004.
This is the face of the Republican Party?
In the past ten years the Republican Party has slid more and more to the left, to such a point that except for only a handful of issues it is extremely difficult to tell the difference between a Republican and a Democrat these days.
Thanks to so-called Republicans we have seen:
- The Federal budget as well as the Federal Government in general balloon to proportions so gigantic, that even some of the biggest died-in-the-wool “big government” liberals are secretly envious at what our Republican President Bush has been able to do in that regard.
- McCain/Feingold, drafted by our current presumed nominee and signed into law by our Republican President, which has completely trampled over the 1st Amendment.
- McCain/Kennedy, another disgusting attempt at kissing up to Liberals by our current presumed nominee, which would have given a free pass to millions of law breaking illegal immigrants and was fully supported by our current Republican President.
- Two brave Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who instead of receiving praise for a job well done have received jail sentences while the scumbag, drug trafficking, illegal they took down receives deals from federal prosecutors.
I’m sorry Mr. Morgan, but I cannot reward Republican Party for its bad behavior by giving it my hard earned money.
Rest assured, despite the fact that on a whole host of issues, Sen. McCain is nothing more then a Democrat-lite, I will be holding my nose in disgust as I cast my ballot for him this November. I believe the stakes are far too high to let a political novice, with the false sirens cry of “change” masking his socialist tendencies into the White House. But, what I will not be doing anytime soon is parting with any of my money to give to the RNC.
Maybe if the RNC decides to:
- Fight to seal our nations borders nice and tight,
- Round-up, arrest and deport law breaking illegal immigrants.
- Apply heavy handed punishments to companies and indivisuals who support and employee illegals,
- Free and fully pardon the wrongfully imprisoned Border Patrol Agents,
- Denounce and repeal McCain/Feingold,
- Stand up to Al Gore and the lunatic global warming zeolets,
- Make a commitment, to start tapping into our Nations crude oil deposits and drill in places like ANWR
- Make a commitment to building new refineries here in America.
- Make a commitment to ending all pork barrell spending,
- Make a comitment and a true efffort to DECREASE the size of the Federal Government
- Make a commitment to decreasing taxes and simplifying the tax code,
- Make a true commitment to standing by the time honored and true Conservative principles of Liberty, Personal Freedom and Indivisual Responsibility.
I might consider parting with my money, but not until I see the GOP as a whole abandon its decade long swing to the left, and realign itself as a true Conservative Party, and not until I see the GOP apologize and make amends to Conservatives like myself whom it has abandoned.
With Republicans Like These, Who Needs Democrats?
March 20, 2008 by Joe · 1 Comment
More and more each week the former mayor of my hometown, former Governor of my home State and current Senior Senator from my home State, George Voinovich gives me reason to dislike him. This week while speaking before a regional planning forum in Columbus, the Senator pretty much called out for increasing the already high tax burden on the American people.
“We’re going to have to raise more money in this country. Did you hear me? We’re going to have to increase taxes in order to do the job,” Sen. Voinovich said. “Anyone that tells you that’s not the case isn’t being truthful with you. They’re not being intellectually honest with you.”
And Republicans wonder why they are losing elections and Conservatives are turning their backs on them. Seriously where have all the true Conservatives in the Republican party gone? You know the people who know wholeheartedly that the only way to achieve true economic growth — is not by the government taking more of our money, but by reducing its size and taking less of it.
Hat Tip to Matt Naugle at Naugblog
My Two Cents on Obama, his Pastor and other stuff
March 20, 2008 by Joe · Leave a Comment
I have been avoiding the blogosphere for the past few weeks, I have not been posting anything of late here on my own blog, nor have I been visiting any of the blogs that I enjoy reading. It is not that I have been busy with other matters that are consuming my time, while that is true to an extent — I have just simply so upset over the past few weeks that I have been drained of any desire to post my two cents on political subject matter any more.
I have been really upset that we will not have the all-around excellent Conservative candidate running for the Presidency, nor will we even be having a true Conservative running for that matter and that has upset me a lot. What upsets me even more is that there are a vast number of so-called Conservatives out there who are so upset at John McCain winning the Republican Party’s nomination that they are choosing to either sit at home or do the infinitely stupider idea’s of writing in another name or choosing “none of the above.”
Now I am not a huge fan of John McCain’s politics and have had great issue with many of the things he has done in the past, and am not what you would call a John McCain supporter. All you have to do is type in his name into the search bar of this blog and see many of the anti-McCain postings that I have made. With that being said however, come this November, I will be voting for John McCain and I will be doing so for a number of reasons, with the main reason being simply that — I am not an Idiot.
I will much rather have John McCain and many of his Democrat-light views masked as Republicanism in the White House then Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama and their socialist views masked as Progressive Democratic politics.
I just feel that if you are a true, principled Conservative — that you would not knowingly enable Hillary Clinton or more then likely Barack Obama, becoming the Commander-in-Chief. But, I’ve already written about all that and if you want you can go ahead and read it here.
What finally brought me out of my blogging hiatus today is something that I wrote about back in January and that the mainstream media is only picking up on now. Barack Obama and his membership in a Church that preaches extreme socialist ideology and his unwavering support of that Church’s pastor — a man who preaches hate against America, and has done so for all twenty years that Barack Obama has been a member of his congregation.
The recently retired Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has called the United States a country that is run by the Ku Klux Klan. He has made the claims that it is the government whom sells drugs to blacks and causes the problems of drug abuse and crime amongst the black community. During his first post September 11th sermon, he blamed America for the attack and all but implied that we got what we deserved. He has made all of these racist, hate-filled claims and many more like them from the pulpit of all places.
If this is the type of man that Barack Obama spends twenty years listening to from a Church pew, if this is the type of man whom Barack Obama allows to perform his marriage ceremony and to baptize his Children. If this is the type of man who Barack Obama calls a very close and personal friend and spiritual advisor, if this is the type of man whom gave Barack the inspiration for the title of and some of the content of one of his books. If this is the type of man Barack Obama surrounds himself with to give him advice — we as Americans need to ask ourselves one simple question. What type of people will Barack Obama surround himself if he gets to work out of the Oval Office?
Think about that all you crybaby so-called Conservatives who are going to write in another candidate other then McCain or vote “none of the above.”
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)
February 27, 2008 by Joe · 2 Comments
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.
Random Musings
February 26, 2008 by Joe · 1 Comment
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.
The Future of the Conservative Movement
February 13, 2008 by Joe · 2 Comments
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.
The Huckabee Hoodwink
February 11, 2008 by Joe · 2 Comments
I hate having to add this statement when I begin to rip into somebody, but I have to say that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee seems like a very nice and likeable guy. He has a quick wit, is very charming and is a very engaging public speaker. He is a former preacher and by all accounts is a very devout Christian as well as a devoted family man.
The problem for me is that while all of the things I have mentioned above are excellent traits and exactly the sort of things I look for in deciding who I’d want to be our next commander-in-chief, none of those are indicative of what makes one a “conservative.”
The popularity of Mike Huckabee is something that really amazes me. I’m still not sure what it is that draws so many “conservatives” to him, because as a conservative I always thought that we were smarter then that. Is it the fact that he is a smooth-talking slick snake oil salesman who has fooled people into thinking that he is in fact a “conservative?” or is it just that a vast majority of self-professed conservatives have confused Christianity and conservatism?
Unfortunately, it’s a little bit of both. Here is a bit of what I wrote last December concerning Mike Huckabee and the war against conservatism.
Much like radical leftists have hijacked the term liberal and completely redefined what it has always meant, the religious right’s 30-year-long war to hijack the term Conservative and redefine its meaning is dangerously close to being completed, and will be finalized, if Mike Huckabee were to become the Republican Presidential Candidate.
While Mike Huckabee is indeed a Republican, he is most definitely not a Conservative, by any sense of the word. The extreme religious right seemingly adores him because of his socially conservative views, but those so-called socially conservative views not only do not make Huckabee even remotely a Conservative - they go against everything it means to be a Conservative.
This 30 year war waged by the religious right on Conservatism embraces the leftist viewpoint that we as a society have a duty to help the poor, but takes it one step further by stating that it is not just a “duty” but a “moral obligation.” That is at best George W. Bush’s so-called brand of “compassionate conservatism,” which itself is not really derivative of truly Conservative principles. This ideology is a far cry from the Goldwater/Reagan principles of smaller government, individual responsibility and personal freedom.
I somehow cannot see Mike Huckabee make the same kind of statement as Ronald Reagan did during his first inaugural address when he said, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”
Fortunately, and I do emphatically mean fortunately, despite the fact that he has refused to drop out of the race, Mike Huckabee has a snowballs chance in hell of winning the Republican Party’s nomination. But the damage is still done, the populist preacher’s presence in the race has served to filter voted from the truest Conservative in the race — Fred Thompson and then later the man who was the most conservative man in the race that was left at the time — Mitt Romney.
Being a good Christian is not what makes someone a conservative, while conservatives can be Christians and most are, you don’t have to be a Christian or even very religious at all to be a conservative and as a matter of fact — you can be an atheist and still be a conservative.
Conservatives also believe in maximizing freedom through decreasing the size of the federal government. We believe in free markets, fair trade, and capitalism. We believe in lowering taxes and lowering government restrictions on business. We believe in cutting the amount of government spending to the bare essentials. We believe in a strong military and national defense. We believe in secure borders and the sanctity of our country’s sovereignty and its immigration system.
We do not believe in the theory that the Constitution is a “living, breathing document,” we believe the constitution has a clear and concise meaning. We believe that “nationalized” or “socialized” anything is usually a very bad thing. We believe that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, that is why the Constitution gives us our federalist system with three branches of government and the checks & balances built within.
As I wrote two weeks ago:
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.
As far as Mike Huckabee goes, he is most definitely not a Conservative. He keeps saying he is, but I prefer to judge people by their actions and not their words, and these are the actions of Mike Huckabee as Governor of Arkansas:
- Immediately upon taking office, Governor Huckabee signed a sales tax hike in 1996 to fund the Games and Fishing Commission and the Department of Parks and Tourism.
- He supported an internet sales tax in 2001.
- He publicly opposed the repeal of a sales tax on groceries and medicine in 2002.
- He signed bills raising taxes on gasoline (1999), cigarettes (2003), and a $5.25 per day bed-tax on private nursing home patients in 2001.
- He proposed another sales take hike in 2002 to fund education improvements.
- He opposed a congressional measure to ban internet taxes in 2003.
- In 2004, he allowed a 17% sales tax increase to become law.
- Raised the minimum wage in April 2006 from $5.15 to $6.25 an hour and encouraged Congress to take the same initiative on a national level, a proposal that President Bush and most congressional GOP members oppose.
- Sought to take revenue from his tax hike proposal to be used on economic development projects in 2002
- Threatened to investigate price-gouging after 9/11 if gasoline prices went up too high
- Ordered regulatory agencies in Arkansas to investigate price-gouging in the nursing home industry
- Signed a bill into law that would prevent companies from raising their prices a mere 10% ahead of a natural disaster; services like roof repair and tree removal were targeted.
Those are not the actions of a Conservative, they are the actions of a John Edwards type of liberal democrat, albeit in the Huckster’s case a liberal democrat who just so happens to be a “good Christian man.” We had a man like that in office once and his name was Jimmy Carter.
Love The One You’re With
February 7, 2008 by Joe · 4 Comments
If you’re down and confused
And you don’t remember who you’re talkin’ to
Concentration slip away
Cause your baby is so far away.
Well, there’s a rose in a fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can’t be with the one you love
Love the one you’re with
Love the one you’re with
Don’t be angry, don’t be sad,
Don’t sit cryin’ over good things you’ve had,
There’s a girl right next to you
And she’s just waiting for something you do.
Stephen Stills is a crazy hippie, but I think the words the words he wrote in the CSN&Y song “Love The One You’re With” sums up the way all Conservatives should move forward.
Tuesday night I was absolutely livid, I was so angry you could have fried an egg on my bald head. I was ready to shut down this blog, never utter another word about politics again and become a “conscientious objector” of sorts and sit this election out.
I can’t do that. The stakes are far too important to let Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama into the Oval Office.
Yes I admit it, I can feel the vomit seeping up my throat as I type this right now, I will vote for John McCain in November. But do not by any means think that it is going to be a vote FOR John McCain, because its not. it’s a vote FOR America. As much as I know that most of John McCain’s political stances are opposite of my Conservative beliefs I am not willing to let my Country be run by the socialist scumbags who would purposefully high tail it out of Iraq and give up while ushering in an era of big-government socialism under the guise of “Progressivism.”
I still hate the fact that as a Conservative I am left without a Conservative to vote for, I’m still pissed-off that we haven’t even had our primary here in Ohio yet, and I’m left without a choice. I’m still angry at the fact that come November I will be left with the choice of either a moderate liberal-leaning Republican or a liberal socialist-leaning Democrat. And I’m angry that John McCain has told us Conservatives to “calm down.” Sorry Senator McCain — but I’m too pissed-off to take your stupid advice and “calm down. ” As a matter of fact not only am I not going to “calm down” but I am going to get fired up even more.
I will still fight for Conservatism, and I will still hold John McCain accountable. But in the end, as Bill Bennett & Seth Leibsohn have pointed out, the stakes are too important to let Hillary or Obama into the White House.
There is a great deal of difference between Senators McCain and Clinton (and Obama), and those records become important as we recognize a few simple facts: We are in an existential war against Islamic terrorists throughout the world. This very week, Senator Clinton was asked what her first act in office would be. She stated that first act would be the beginning of the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq within 60 days. Her first act. That is a surrender to the enemy - there is no other way to portray such a withdrawal and there is no other way it will be portrayed by our enemies and other observers around the world.
Some will say, “She can’t mean it, she’s stronger and more sensible than that.” Caution: Recall that Senator Clinton will be our commander-in-chief from a party that also runs the Senate and House - and the leadership in the Senate and House, not to mention the most active members in them, want us out of Iraq. Even on her most “sensible” day do we think she can be relieved of that pressure? The Democrats on the Hill have been chomping at the bit to make good on their 2006 promises; will she really turn on them? Can she?
Second, we come to the realization that at least one Supreme Court justice is about to retire, and several others will be over age 70 come January 2009. Do we really think the nominees Senator McCain or Clinton (or Obama ) would appoint will be no different?
Let’s go to their records, to the very time-period opponents of Senator McCain cite in their indictment of him.
McCain voted to defund Planned Parenthood last year, Clinton didn’t and would likely expand Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding.
McCain voted to ban partial-birth abortion, Clinton didn’t and would likely reverse the partial-birth abortion ban.
McCain voted for Roberts and Alito and made the case for them in the media, Clinton didn’t.
McCain has never voted for a tax increase, Clinton will increase taxes.
McCain will continue the Bush tax cuts, Clinton will end them.
McCain will end pork-barrel spending, Clinton supports the endowment of projects like the Woodstock Museum with taxpayer funding.
McCain will not cut and run in Iraq, Clinton will work with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid to do just that.
McCain sponsored legislation to keep the Fairness Doctrine from rearing its head again, Clinton has not and has signaled moves to revive it.
McCain supports school choice, Clinton does not.
Clinton will mandate health insurance, McCain will not.
McCain voted to convict Bill Clinton on impeachment, Clinton was a witting accomplice in President Bill Clinton’s scandals.
McCain has an ACU (American Conservative Union) rating of 82.3; Clinton has a rating of 9.
My fellow Conservatives, believe me when I say I feel like gouging my eyes out with a rusty spoon at the thought of John McCain in the White House — but I urge everyone to join me and hold their noses and vote McCain, because the alternative is just too grim.
Then continue to raise your voice for Conservatism, If Congress brings up Amnesty stand up and fight it just like we did last summer. When Congress wants to increase ridiculous pork barrel spending raise your voices and fight it.
Take Michelle Malikin’s advice:
Dissatisfied with the flawed crop of GOP candidates who lacked the energy, organizational skills, and ideological strength to carry the conservative banner and ignite your passions? Then pay attention to the next generation of Republican state legislators who do vote consistently to lower your taxes, uphold the sanctity of life, defend marriage, and cut government spending. Support their re-election bids. Reward them for standing with you instead of their Democrat opponents and the liberal media.
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.
Don’t sit the Presidential election out however. What would Reagan do? He would not sit at home like a cry baby, that’s for damn sure. Is McCain perfect? Hell no. But at least he’s not Obama or Hillary.
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