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:
Super Tuesday 2008 Part 2: The Electric Boogaloo
March 4, 2008 by Joe · 1 Comment
Well it is Super Tuesday 2008: part 2, I will be finally getting the chance to vote in my State’s primary election today — unfortunately since Fred Thompson and later Mitt Romney have dropped out of the race I am left with the choice of the populist preacher, the GOP’s very own version of Jimmy Carter or the Democrat’s favorite Republican, John McCain.
Rush thinks that people left in my position should vote for Hillary. Sorry, its not going to happen, the only way I would vote for a Democrat is if I actually wanted that Democrat to become our next President. I understand Rush’s reasoning, the more chaos in the Democratic nominating process, and the longer this drags out — the better for the GOP, especially since it looks like McCain has run out of money until at least September.
Like it or not McCain is the GOP’s nomination no matter what the Huckster says or does and despite the fact that I disagree with the Arizona Senator on a whole host of issues, I know that while he is no Conservative and is barely a Republican he would be an far, far better Commander-in-Chief then either Hillary or Obama, thus he will have my vote in November.
I just haven’t decided yet if he’ll have my vote today.
I originally supported Fred Thompson, as a matter of fact he is the first candidate who ever inspired me enough to donate money to his campaign, seeing as even though he has technically dropped out of the race though has failed to formalize his withdrawal by sending a written notice to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office — a write in vote for Fred Thompson will still count as a vote for Fred Thompson.
I won’t be an idiot like some so-called Conservatives and write in another candidate come the General election in November, I’ll hold my nose and vote McCain then because I am a Conservative and Conservative principles simply will not let me sit by and actively help put an extreme left leaning democrat in the White House.
As far as Rush’s point about creating chaos in the Democratic party, I don’t think that they need Republicans to play any shenanigans to do that — despite the fact that it seems all-but-certain that Barrack Hussein Obama is the apparent Democratic Party nominee — one must never count out the Clintons. They will never, ever give up. Hillary will do her best to get the Michigan and Florida delegates seated and get the super delegates to swing her way, even if it means destroying the Democratic party in the process — because for the Clintons it is not about Party, its not about values and its certainly not about country — its about power.
No matter what the results are when the day is through, I just do not see Hillary giving up — she will go all the way to the convention. It has already been an odd election cycle and one for the ages, I anticipate that the summer and the last few months before November will give us a whole hell of a lot more surprises.
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.
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.
Hillary McCain and John Rodham Clinton
February 5, 2008 by Joe · Leave a Comment
Anybody who may be reading this and is in a Super Tuesday State getting ready to vote, Iâll just leave you with this.
They Agree.
Dirty Little Secret
January 1, 2008 by Joe · 2 Comments
Late last night, or early this morning I suppose, while celebrating the New Year I let slip a dirty little secret. I might actually consider voting for Hillary Clinton. This revelation made to a few of my friends, may have been allowed to slip from my lips because of the slight over-indulgence in adult beverages. Unfortunately, however, it is true; I might actually consider voting for Hillary Clinton come general election time.
I have chills running down by body just thinking about the possibility of me stepping into that voting booth and pulling the lever for Hillary — but if Republicans across Iowa and the rest of the country choose to nominate Mike Huckabee as the party’s choice for President — I will have no choice but to vote for Hillary.
It comes down to the fact that I would rather have the devil that I know, rather then the devil I do not.
Mike Huckabee comes off to be a very likable fellow, he has a very engaging personality and I can see why people are drawn to him. The problem is I am a Conservative and he is not. Furthermore, I am sick and tired of the continued attempts by people in the media, certain politicians and many of the so-called pundits to water down the definition of what it means to be a Conservative — by calling Mike Huckabee one.
The Huckster is a smooth talking, big government, weak on national security liberal leaning populist, who just happens to be a religiously conservative on social issues. He is in essence, the Republican Jimmy Carter.
If I am going to be forced to choose between two nanny state loving, big government liberals — I’m going to choose the one who at least is not going to shove God down my throat while force feeding me from the pot of socialist idiocy.
Hillary would definitely be better on national security issues and would probably be much more strongly checked by Republicans in Congress, then the Huckster would. Furthermore, since they are both big-government tax-lovers I’d rather have the Democrat in office, so come the next mid-terms the GOP can have a better chance of regaining control of Congress.
I just hope that it does not have to come to that, and Republicans wake up to the fact that we have a candidate who is the closest thing to what every Conservative is looking for — and in fact is the only Conservative currently running who stands a chance, Fred Thompson.
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