The fix is in
October 1, 2008 by Joe · Leave a Comment
On January 20th, 2009, the next President of the United States of America will be sworn into office. On that very same day, Random House Publishing will release a book titled “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.” The author of said book is Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Here is a video of Ifill at the Republican National Convention, she was there covering the event as a reporter for PBS. Notice the absolute contempt in her voice as she speaks about Sarah Palin.
This, is the woman who is supposed to be the fair and impartial moderator of the Vice Presidential debate on Thursday.
And there are still idiots out there who refuse to believe that the media in this country is nothing more then Democratic Party cheerleaders.
My Thoughts On The Florida Debate
January 25, 2008 by Joe · 4 Comments
The first thing I need to point out is that it has become obvious during this whole political process that the old rules about what occurs during the primaries do not necessarily apply like they have during past election cycles. Normally after Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina we would have a clear indication of who the GOP nominee would be. Despite the way the liberal media is pushing John McCain as that probable nominee, there is no such clear-cut frontrunner — that will likely, but not necessarily change following the results of the Florida primary.
For the first time since primary season opened up, we are about to witness the first winner take all contest, with the eventual Florida winner receiving all 57 delegates. The delegate count as it currently stands is: Mitt Romney (72), John McCain (38), Mike Huckabee (29), Fred Thompson [out] (8), Ron Paul (6), Rudy Giuliani (2), and Duncan Hunter [out] (1). Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter have both dropped out, and it would have been very unlikely that either of them would have won Florida and it is even more unlikely that Florida voters would vote for them in mass even though they dropped out — though as a Fred Head, I would absolutely love that. However, theoretically if either one of them or Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee or even Ron Paul for that matter — were to win Florida, all of a sudden it would be almost a statistical dead heat going into Super Tuesday on Feb 5th. On the flipside of that, if either Romney or McCain win Florida it will be very likely, but by no means definite, that they will be the eventual nominee.
Now on to scoring the debate…
It was mostly a snooze fest and not anywhere near as enjoyable as the excellent ABC debate in New Hampshire two weeks ago, or as good as any other of the recent televised debates. The moderators Tim Russert and Brian Williams were horrid; their shameless bias was showing in full form.
As far as the candidates themselves, I don’t believe their was a clear cut winner and the clear cut loser, well I would have to agree with Michelle Malkin who said, “Conservative voters in Florida are the big losers. This debate gave them nothing.”
Everyone of the candidates on the stage took great pains in trying to say how conservative they are — but not a single one of them made me stop and thing, ‘you know, your right — you are a Conservative.’
With that being said, I think Mitt Romney had the best performance out of all the other candidates tonight. He did a great job with the economy portion of the debate and his one-liner about Bill Clinton in the White House with nothing to do will be an awesome sound bite (even though I personally detest sound bites).
Huckabee, though I will never vote for him was pretty funny at times and no doubt is a very good speaker and has a great presence on stage. I actually even sort of liked his answer on the fair tax, when he challenged the fact that it is unlikely that we would be able to implement it. The problem with Mike Huckabee, as always is his record. As much as he tries to speak differently now, he has the record of a tax and spend liberal.
If Ron Paul wasn’t just completely and utterly wrong and irresponsible with his ridiculous foreign policy thoughts — he would actually make a whole hell of a lot of sense, he was really, really good on the economic stuff. He’s just a moonbat and flat out wrong on foreign policy and thus I could never vote for him.
Rudy disappointed me, I know I have said a whole lot of bad things about him on my blog and even joined a stop Rudy Now blog roll — but I was looking for Rudy to give me a reason to back him, now that Fred Thompson dropped out and I am without a candidate that I fully support. Rudy did not do that.
He looked like a man who knows that his days as a candidate in this race are over, he put all of his eggs in the Florida basket and it looks like it will probably come to bite him in the ass. He keeps talking about what he did in New York — but in my opinion has failed to translate that into how he will do that for the country.
As far as John McCain goes — I wanted to break my television screen with the way he sidestepped Tim Russert’s question asking him about the statement he made admitting that he still needs to be educated on economic matters. He denied saying that and he told Russert that he did not know where the quote came from. As I pointed out in this post, he made that statement to Wall Street Journal editorialist Stephen Moore, in a November 2005 interview.
Fortunately, for him, not for Conservatives, he did not come off as the horrible candidate for the GOP that he is, because amongst other things he was not questioned about illegal immigration.
In closing, none of them looked like a Conservative; Romney probably looked like the most conservative-leaning one of the bunch. I really, really wish Fred Thompson would not have been so haste in his decision to drop out of the race. Despite what the liberal media and the idiots at the Politico may have said, Fred Dalton Thompson was the only candidate whose Conservatism shined. He was the only candidate who had actual sound, thought out Conservative based solutions to the issues that face our country.
Unfortunately too many idiots bought into the propaganda of him being ’lazy,’ by the way his detractors pointed out the way he said things instead of actually pointing out what he said. All the idiot sheeple out there are more concerned with electing what they perceive (through their media distorted eyes) as being the most ‘electable’ candidate rather then who is the most ‘Conservative.’ When you do that Conservatism, the Republican Party, and America lose.
Some Thoughts on the New Hampshire Debate
January 6, 2008 by Joe · 2 Comments
I don’t know maybe its just me, maybe it’s the fact that my Cleveland Browns didn’t make the playoffs, but I chose to watch the Presidential debates rather then playoff football — and I have to say, that debate was damn good entertainment.
The real winners of the debate, was ABC News and Charles Gibson — who showed everyone else who put a debate on, how its done. I liked the little jab on “change” that Gibson got in on Ron Paul, when he was discussing “change” with all the candidates, he said to Paul something along the lines of, “the only thing you changed was your party.”
If I was scoring the debate like a prize fight, I would have to give the victory to Fred Thompson, with John McCain a close second. I honestly do not know how anybody could leave that debate without feeling that Fred Thompson was the only true Conservative on that stage.
In that debate, Fred Thompson showed what those who believe in him have known all along, he’s honest, he’s a strong Conservative and he has respect for the process, and is not going to let his campaign turn into a glorified version of American Idol. He had a great night and I hope that this finally put an end to the stupid and unsubstantiated claims of Fred “not really wanting it,” and “not having fire in his belly.”
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