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.
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
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.
Conservatives: We’ve been Hucked!
February 6, 2008 by Joe · 7 Comments
Well America, the mainstream media fed sheeple have spoken and after listening to their puppet masters in the news — they have gone with the New York Times Republican, John McCain. Conservatives put up a fight, but it was not a good enough fight to withstand the politically-apathetic independents and the moderate-to-liberal wing of the Republican Party, who have teamed together to shift the GOP drastically to the left.
Now of course the Main Stream media is spinning Super Tuesday as a great win for John McCain, and granted it was a very good night for John McCain — but it was far from what anybody with half a brain that follows politics would call a “great win.” John McCain won New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware — all states in which democrats have decidedly won in recent general elections. He also won Missouri, which is what you would call a purple state — and only by the slightest of margins 1%. He did win his adopted home state of Arizona, but it took much longer then expected and he also won Oklahoma — the only two of his states that have decidedly swung to Republicans in recent general elections.
No, it was not the fact that the Arizona Senator had big wins in Blue States that is the big news out of last night, everybody knows that Blue Staters love McCain and Red Staters not so much. The big news coming out of Super Tuesday is the fact that the Populist Preacher, the Southern born and bred Mike Huckabee swept the Southern States and almost snatched purple Missouri from John McCain.
Now outside of the South and his evangelical base, Huckabee has absolutely no chance of winning the nomination. He may however have forced John McCain’s hand into offering him up the Vice Presidential slot. Which is funny because McCain who is trying so hard to make people think he is a Conservative will probably have to be forced to join forces with the Huckster who, despite not being one, has fooled Southerners into thinking that he’s a Conservative.
And thus, the drastic transformation of what Conservatism is, is on the verge of being completed as people who have absolutely no idea of what Conservatism truly is all about, have hijacked the term.
John McCain, Mike Huckabee congratulations to the both of you on your empty victories. The Huckster, you’ve made your religious populism a force to be reckoned with and John McCain you’ve won the support of some Democrats, and liberal leaning Independents and liberal leaning Republicans. However I would be remiss if I didn’t congratulate you both and the ever growing possibility of a McCain/Huckabee ’08 ticket, on your biggest victory — you’ve both destroyed the Republican Party so bad that it will take years for us real Conservatives to repair it.
If you two think you have a snowballs chance in hell of beating the Democrats in the general election, please send some of those drugs you are taking my way, so I can numb myself to the pain you two have caused.
The same liberal media that are loving you guys right now, the same America hating New York Times that endorsed you John McCain, the same media outlets that are promoting you John McCain, the same media outlets that have fooled the sheeple out there into thinking you’re a great candidate are going to turn on you so fast come general election time you won’t know what hit you. Because once again the media will tell the sheeple what to do and may God help America when we are stuck with Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in the White House. You can’t and you won’t win by abandoning the core Conservative principles that used to be the cornerstone of the GOP for the past few decades.
I’ll leave you with a quote from the late, great Ronald Reagan.
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.”
Official Right Wing Rebel Endorsement (part 2): Mitt Romney
February 3, 2008 by Joe · 3 Comments
Anybody who is a regular reader of my blog, knows that I have already written out an official endorsement, unfortunately for myself — and America, Fred Thompson, the man whom I endorsed is no longer in the running.
I was not planning on writing another one of these endorsements, as after Fred Thompson dropped out, I was just going to go ahead and vote whomever the GOP nominee was, despite the fact that John McCain won South Carolina — because I honestly did not think that come a closed primary in Florida that John McCain would be the apparent frontrunner.
I was wrong.
On the basis of moderate Republicans and Independents whom declared as Republicans just to vote for him — John McCain won all of Florida’s delegates despite not having the backing of the GOP’s core of Conservatives.
Of course following the events of Florida, I was pretty upset. How could John McCain, a man whom throughout his political career has made great effort to attack Conservative principles and policies be the leading candidate to become the GOP’s presidential nominee? I was so distraught over the Florida outcome that I, (very) briefly, considered shutting down this blog and never bothering to speak my views about politics ever again.
By the next day, my anger over John McCain Florida win had subsided and shifted over to determination to make sure that I do even more to get the word out that John McCain would be a disaster for the GOP. I was even then planning on officially endorsing “anyone but McCain.”
Luckily I cooled down a bit and took a second look at Mitt Romney, I’m glad I did.
You Said It Mel
January 30, 2008 by Joe · 2 Comments
Wake up Conservatives, John McCain is not one of us. McCain is nothing but a traitor and a turncoat who isn’t even a Republican. His politics are only about 10% different from those of Hilary Rottham Clinton, Mel Martinez has just admitted what I’ve been telling you all along.
Vote McCain, and you ensure a Democrat is in the White House, one way or another.
¿Si Habla Español? Juan McCain wins Florida
January 29, 2008 by Joe · 4 Comments
Well it looks like Republican voters in Florida do not value the first amendment, they do not value the sovereignty of our nation and the sanctity of our immigration policies and they do not value and they do not value conservative free market solutions to the energy problems in our country.
I say this because I honestly for the life of me can’t believe how anybody who believes in the first amendment could vote for the man behind the McCain-Feingold bill — A legislative effort that completely destroyed the constitutional rights of freedom of speech, thus impairing the rights of citizens to support the candidates of their choice.
I say this because I honestly cannot comprehend how anybody who is annoyed at having to ‘press 1 for English’ whenever they make a phone call, and who believes that we need secure borders and no amnesty for criminal illegal aliens who broke the law by sneaking their way into our country to steal the rights and privileges they did not earn could vote for the man behind the McCain-Kennedy bill — legislation that would have forever destroyed the sovereignty of America’s borders and granted amnesty to criminals.
I just cannot fathom how anybody who complains that we currently pay too much at the pump, and pay too much for our home heating and energy bills could vote for the man behind McCain-Lieberman — legislation that would have in essence, created an energy tax which would raise the price of gasoline, electricity and home heating.
I just can’t fathom how anybody who is a Conservative yet alone even just a regular Republican can vote for this man in less they are a complete and total fucking idiot.
The results of today’s primary have caused me lose almost all faith I had in the intelligence of the American voting populace — because anybody with half of a fucking brain can see that John McCain is nothing but Democrat who is not as socialist as his democrat friends who at least admit that they are democrats.
All I have to say is may God have mercy on us all, because if the rest of the country is as fucking stupid as the 36% of brain-dead sheeple Floridians who voted John McCain — then we are facing a general election between two democrats.
Thoughts on Conservatism
January 28, 2008 by Joe · 2 Comments
In recent weeks and months while surfing throughout the blogosphere, I have seen an alarmingly high number of people ask the question, “What exactly is a Conservative?” The odd part about this is that rather then from say Democrats, this question (at least as far as I have observed) has most often been asked of supporters of Arizona Senator John McCain and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee — in response to those (like myself) who have made the statements (like I have) that their candidates are not Conservatives.
The topics of “Conservatism,” and what exactly “it means to be a Conservative,” are very academic and intellectual arguments. Thousands upon thousands of articles, essays and books have been written on the subject of “Conservatism,” and undoubtedly, thousands upon thousand more will one day be written. While I am a University educated individual, I make no claims that this is an academic synopsis on the topic — these are just my thoughts on the subject, and I make no claims that I am even remotely an educated or respected source on the subject — I’m just a guy who writes opinions on his blog. That is all.
Please note that when I speak of Conservatism, I am not speaking of an all-encompassing viewpoint of what the definitive definition of the word is throughout the entire world, or even throughout time for that matter. I am not speaking of Edmund Burke, whom many consider the father of Anglo-American conservatism, I am not even speaking of the founding fathers, nor am I speaking of Ayn Rand — though all of these sources, amongst many more, are all great sources of Conservative thought. When I speak of Conservatism, I speak in terms of modern Conservatism in the United States. I speak of the movement that began about 1960, and then was falsely accused of having had failed in 1964, before causing the Republican party in 1966 to: gain 700 seats in State legislatures across the country, 8 governorships, 47 seats in the House of Representatives and three in the Senate. I am speaking of the movement that continued to grow and swell and then ultimately in the 1980’s gave us the Reagan administration. I am speaking of the Barry Goldwater movement, the New Right — which helped to reform the Republican Party and change it from what it was — a liberal party and shifted it into a Conservative Party.
Now today with the potential of John McCain winning the GOP’s nomination for the office of President, the Republican Party is in danger of returning to what the party was before the Goldwater Revolution — a (very) slightly right-leaning version of the Democratic Party.
Today, for a myriad of reasons — not the least of which is the fact that our mainstream media outlets and our academic institutions of so-called higher learning are over-run with the leftovers of the socialist-leaning, communist sympathizing “progressives” that dominated the “flower child” era of the 1960’s.
If you were to ask a liberal, “What is a Conservative?” the response today might be that a Conservative is “a gun-toting, bible-thumping, gay-hating, fascist, racist, bigot, war monger.” Which is of course a un-intellectual but intentional response that is used to evoke strong emotions.
On the flipside, if you were to ask many people whom today may consider themselves to be a Conservative, the same question you might get this response. A Conservative is “a Christian, pro-life, pro-second amendment, proponent of traditional marriage, a patriotic American and a Republican.”
The level of philosophical and political discourse in this country has been watered down so much that it seems that the common view for those on the left — is that anybody who is perceived as “anti-abortion,” “anti-gays,” “anti-social welfare,” or “pro-war” — must in fact be a “Conservative.” In turn, at an alarming rate it seems that for many on the right anybody who is perceived as “pro-life,” “pro-sanctity of marriage,” etc. — must also in fact be a “Conservative.”
The problem is that both of these responses do a great disservice to Conservatism, because neither is remotely close to answering the question of “what is a Conservative.” A Conservative can in fact be a Christian, but does not have to be a Christian as a matter of fact a Conservative can have any Religious affiliation or even no Religious affiliation at all. A Conservative doesn’t even have to like guns, yet alone own them. A Conservative can even be a homosexual or a bisexual or a transexual for that matter. A Conservative does not even have to be all that overtly Patriotic, and last but not least a Conservative does not even have to be a Republican — albeit more often then not, Conservatives have been associated with the Republican Party.
Positions on certain issues are being confused for the guiding principles that people hold, which lead them to the positions they have on these issues.
This brings us back to our question, “What exactly is a Conservative?” As I touched upon earlier with the liberal dominance of our mainstream media and universities, Barry Goldwater made the following statement in the foreword to his great book, The Conscience of a Conservative:
Perhaps we suffer from an over-sensitivity to the judgments of those who rule the mass communications media. We are daily consigned by “enlightened” commentators to political oblivion: Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. The charge is preposterous and we ought boldly to say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have no dateline. The principles on which the Conservative political position is based have been established by a process that has nothing to do with the social, economic and political landscape that changes from decade to decade and from century to century. These principles are derived from the nature of man, and from the truths that God has revealed about His creation. Circumstances do change. So do the problems that are shaped by circumstances. But the principles that govern the solution of the problems do not. To suggest that the Conservative philosophy is out of date is akin to saying that the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments or Aristotle Politics are out of date. The Conservative approach is nothing more or less than an attempt to apply the wisdom and experience and the revealed truths of the past to the problems of today. The challenge is not to find new or different truths, but to learn how to apply established truths to the problems of the contemporary world. My hope is that one more Conservative voice will be helpful in meeting this challenge.
The problem today, just as it was sometimes in Goldwater’s time is that much too often an individual, be it a private citizen or a politician, claim that they are a Conservative and even wear that title proudly — but don’t actually back that claim up with actions.
In that same book, published in 1960, Barry Goldwater also wrote:
I have been much concerned that so many people today with Conservative instincts feel compelled to apologize for them. Or if not to apologize directly, to qualify their commitment in a way that amounts to breast-beating. “Republican candidates,” Vice President Nixon has said, “should be economic conservatives, but conservatives with a heart.” President Eisenhower announced during his first term, “I am a conservative when it comes to economic problems but liberal when it comes to human problems.” Still other Republican leaders have insisted on calling themselves “progressive” Conservatives.
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Such statements, from friend and foe alike, do great injustice to the Conservative point of view. Conservatism is not an economic theory, though it has economic implications. The shoe is precisely on the other foot: it is Socialism that subordinates all other considerations to man’s material well-being. It is Conservatism that puts material things in their proper place — that has a structured view of the human being and of human society, in which economics plays only a subsidiary role.
The root difference between the Conservatives and the Liberals of today is that Conservatives take account of the whole man, while the Liberals tend to look only at the material side of man’s nature.
There is a term populated by our current President, George W. Bush, “compassionate conservative.” As the late, great Senator from Arizona and former Presidential candidate Goldwater said, “Such statements do great injustice to the Conservative point of view.” The unnecessary pretext of “compassionate,” implies that Conservatives have no compassion — it reinforces the liberal stereotype of the “evil” conservative. The term is nothing more then a codeword for, “moderate.”
Conservatism isn’t grounded in creating new policy, new processes, or new solutions. Conservatism, by its very nature is a philosophy that does not ever become out-dated. There is no need to ever redefine or improve upon what is already proven. There is no need to add the unnecessary pretext of the word “compassionate,” to Conservatism — because Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.
Conservatives look at people and when they see them, they see potential. People with more liberal views, when they look at people, they see victims. People with more liberal viewpoints want to use government to try to “help others.” Conservatives, don’t trust the government and don’t want to use the government towards those means — we want the government out of the way, so people can lift themselves up and succeed on their own merits. As the late great, Ronald Reagan — the last Conservative we had in the Oval Office said, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”
The first concern of a Conservative is “Are we maximizing freedom?” Anybody who wants to use the government for these sort of means is not a genuine Conservative. As a Conservative, as somebody who believes in the time-tested and proven truths of Conservatism — I do not want anybody who is not a Conservative being a representative of my beliefs and of Conservatism in America, you either are or you aren’t.
It was Fred Thompson, the only truly Conservative candidate who we had running who said:
“Before anything else, folks in Washington ought to be asking first and foremost, ‘Should government be doing this? And if so, then at what level of government?’ But they don’t.”
By all of these standards which I have written, and many more which I have not, John McCain as well as Mike Huckabee may both very well be Republicans — but with any look at their past records neither of the two should ever be associated with Conservatism.
Here is a rundown on all of my recent updates on the turncoat mole, John “Amnesty” McCain…
Sleeping With The Enemy: John McCain Is Destroying the GOP From The Inside.
The Chameleon Candidate: John McCain.
The John McCain Liberal Love Fest Continues.
Democrats Love McCain.
Al Gore or John McCain? I can’t tell the difference.
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.
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