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March-April 2008 Posted Thursday AM, April 22, 2008 Note: April 24, 2008 Just so the political "communication" bottom-feeders cannot misinterpret what that statement means I should point out that intelligent voters should also recognize that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is not the only DEM entity displaying duplicity regarding the delegate mess. Those who blame the DNC now instead of challenging the party rules at the time it happened are just as guilty so to speak. The DNC was not challenged or criticized by their own flock at the time because, (We're expecting the Clinton campaign communications people to tell the truth now), no one thought Obama had a chance.
Note: April 23, 2008 LightBookproductions was right.
Since I posted the items about the Delegate mess the other day two news stories have
hit the air. Former President Bill Clinton has expressed his angst at his
wife's losing battle via his criticism of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
And Senator Clinton has followed that with what appears to be a coordinated
press release, with a claim that she has more (and its not very many) "popular
votes" than Obama, that is, if you include the DNC rule breaking states of
Florida and Michigan.
Periodically Checking In On the
Campaign... We think that Fred Barnes at The Weekly Standard is right regarding Senator McCain and the issue of a Vice Presidential choice. Regardless of all the hyper-publicity and speculation, we do not believe that Florida Governor Charlie Crist is qualified or prepared for that position. As Mr. Barnes said in mentioning Governor Crist with some other politicians whose names have been dropped since McCain became the nominee..."they fall short of Cheney-Lieberman-Gore stature. It's not their fault, but it's nonetheless true." We think that McCain would be making a disastrous mistake if he were to select Charlie Crist as a VP running mate, and it would be a mistake for the November election if Charlie Crist were to accept even if McCain did commit that misjudgment and were to ask him. Although the Log Cabin Republicans (especially in Florida and the Charlie Crist home town supporters) are probably drooling at the idea of a Crist vice presidential candidacy; here are at least two of several primary reasons why it should not happen. (One) McCain would instantly distance himself much further from the all important conservative base than he is already perceived to be, and (Two) Governor Crist has some very serious state problems to deal with here in Florida that are going to require a type of adept political and policy navigating skill Crist has no where near convinced the people of Florida he can exercise as yet. Note: Two days after writing this item (we sometimes use this page as a worksheet prior to officially posting, that is, until posting on the web we believe this material should be legally private) the St. Petersburg Times did a political story regarding the potential Dem votes Senator McCain might be able to win if Florida Governor Charlie Crist were on the ticket. The article was about a recent Florida-based poll that showed Crist would not really help McCain win any significant amount of Florida Democrats. If someone is advising Senator McCain (and probably getting a lot of money to do it) to select a liberal Republican to be the VP candidate as a way to attract Democrats, this website would strongly oppose that advice. For now at least, you can get much better advice right. Conservative leaning Democrats or
Independents seen as potential votes for the conservative in a Presidential race
are not going to need McCain to select a liberal Vice President. I still believe that it was a mistake and a sign of uptight weakness for the Republican machine to have attacked and then virtually destroy Pat Buchanan's surge back in 1996 when he won the South Carolina primary. To be realistic, looking back at that time I do not think any politically active Republican would have defeated former President Clinton running for his second term, but I believe going left the way the Republican Party did in that election showed the Dems that the Republicans can be pressured and fooled into an unnecessary compromising political position.
So far this website has had several conservative leaders in mind, Mitt Romney being one, that we believe to be excellent Vice Presidential choices since Senator McCain secured the Republican nomination. We would also add to
a short list Alaska's Governor Sarah
Palin, recently highlighted at Human Events Online.
We also concur with
Family Research Council (FRC) on Senator McCain's recent statements that
abortion policies should be based on the sanctity of life, which would
not necessarily ignore and automatically cancel out individual rights
based on certain circumstances, but also unequivocally would not allow
individual rights to be indiscriminately exercised beyond the sanctity of
life foundation of the policy.
The reasons why are
virtually endless. Here are four right off the top of my head. There is a reason why we have said before on this website (several years ago) that "negotiation" is an asymmetrical weapon of warfare employed by terrorists. This time, it is so outrageously obvious that someone reporting in the MSM has apparently awaken from the liberal haze and without equivocating called al Sadr a "renegade" in a headline.
Watching the Dems manipulate their empty and cynical communication nuances against each other instead of the Republicans is something to watch, leaving their comrades throughout the MSM helpless and confused regarding how to help; as well as forcing them to decide on which side of the same extinct coin do they help. I mean, like hauling it down a dirt road presumably toward the White House with a mirror for a windshield. It's hard to tell, yet every time conservatives mention the transparently cynical nature of the Dem battle, especially from the party-ownership-minded Clinton side, the media places a story about either or both of the candidates talking about a "unified" party. We believe this is intended to worry Republicans and conservatives as well as suggesting what the MSM thinks at the moment to be an unbeatable ticket; that is, Obama and Clinton running together. I strongly disagree that Obama and Clinton together is an "unbeatable" ticket. Has anyone ever heard the term "herding cats?" All political party leaderships today have that problem or the fear of dealing with that problem during a campaign, but it is especially apparent of the Dems during this election cycle. Remembering 2000? Fast forward to the
delegate situation today. Only the modern day Democratic Party could
create a nominating process wherein a group of party elites called super
delegates could retain the option to over rule the delegate count. Just
the fact that this elite group of powerful super delegates are provided the
option to disenfranchise millions of devoted supporters and their votes no matter how the votes
count has the potential to be a magnificent insult to their own supporters and
create destructive cynicism. The suspicious
arguments trying to rationalize changing the rules in the middle of the game
that former Vice President Al Gore and the Democrats forced the Republicans to
legally confront in 2000 is exactly what the Clinton campaign is doing to the
Democratic Party now. This is typical of the Senator's legal background, which has a relative view of word meanings without limits...an intellectual process we're all familiar with (and sick of) that serves the political game so well. She is, understandably, since she is verifiably behind without a scenario that will put her in the lead, now an ad hoc spokesperson for the "voters" of Florida and Michigan. In a recent interview with political writer Adam Smith from a local newspaper in Florida, the Senator tried to justify her questionable position in several different ways, including false accusations directed at her Dem opponent. But when it came time to provide what could have been at least a clarification of her current position, the intellect that finds the justifications so easy to formulate, suddenly went blank, and sidestepped the question with a lame excuse. When Smith asked her, "...why didn't she speak up sooner about the need to count the votes of Florida Democrats, rather than wait until her campaign was in trouble after losses in Iowa and South Carolina?"...the Senator said (as if everyone ought to know) "I was a little preoccupied." The other Dem presidential candidate has a better answer if for no other reason than it is at least more honest than hers when he points out that he didn't get the chance to campaign in Florida and so he does not believe the voting reflects what the results might have been if he had been allowed to campaign in person. If you would like to
be provided an example of how the Dems would probably run the country if they were to
make it into the White House (God forbid) then all you have to do is follow the
duplicity that created this delegate mess. Pennsylvania In addition to the more subtle nuances of
liberal condescension transmitted by Obama's recent comment about the
"bitterness" of Pennsylvania voters, the most incredible thing about the comment
is that it is fabricated, unsupported by reality, and blatantly false.
As the Heritage
WebMemo pointed out, in order for Obama's message of "change" to mean
anything in Pennsylvania, he had to mischaracterize the situation.
January - February 2008. Posted Sunday, February 10
International...The
Orange Revolution in Ukraine
It is rumored that Ahmadinejad was watching the debate in Iran, curious about how his American allies in the MSM and the extreme left wing of the Democratic party are handling the campaign. When he heard what Mrs. Clinton said, an anonymous source, unidentified due to the sensitivity of the subject, told us that the Iranian President appeared to be amused; That he laughed at one point and turned with a smile to one of his cabinet members to ask: "My English is not good; Did she just threaten us?" We are speculating that this strange warning to Iran and Syria was meant to exemplify what Mrs. Clinton called earlier in the debate her "experience" on the Armed Services Committee, unbelievably, as one of the reasons she is "qualified" to be the President of the United States. Although we disagree just as much with where he stands, at least Barack Obama is more sincere and honest about where he is trying to stand. Even though Obama reminds us of a rookie who hasn't faced the difficulty of trying to hit a Nolan Ryan fastball yet, we are impressed so far at least, with the way he is handling, or perhaps we should say, ignoring the Clinton communications mafia inside the Democrat's campaign battles. Make the Tax Cuts permanent...Who
says the President doesn't have a sense of humor June 2007 June 21...We do not trust that the Senate Immigration Reform Bill...already coming around for a second time...is any more workable than the first one. It has been revealed by research from the Heritage Foundation that several amendments will make it more difficult to enforce immigration reform. And the approach, comprehensively haphazard, is all wrong anyway. The Senate Immigration Bill (the first attempt) ...This piece of legislation is, inadvertently or not, designed to be unmanageable and obviously guaranteed to fail as a workable solution. It's like a dam made out of cardboard and chicken wire. The American people should raise hell, demand better, and force Congress to go back to the drawing board while the current law and the only logical first step, to secure the border with a fence, be implemented. May 2007... Detainees at Gitmo...It was good
that the Supreme Court refused to hear the case involving the detainees
request (via their lawyers) for the right of habeas corpus. Education...It is time to revolutionize the education system, and strip the department at the national level of all the wasteful spending of taxpayer money that creates bureaucratic overloads ... and all the wasteful spending used by liberals to force America's young people into fairytale, social indoctrination schemes. Allow the states the freedom and responsibility to resource, to create results oriented policies wherein schools and parents can exercise the discipline and creativity it takes to really educate our young people, and be held accountable to results. I believe the original ideas the President wanted to implement via No Child Left Behind are worthy and admirable. And I believe that without the liberals, NCLB could have started moving American public education in the right direction. But the President had to either throw the idea away, or believe that liberal participation (required from Congress to get it passed as a law) would not bring the conservative-progressive elements of the idea to a grinding halt. Regretfully, that is precisely what has happened in the six years since the President promised in his 2000 campaign to reform American public education. Back then the President said: "I believe in local control of schools." Years ago in the 1980s conservative Pat Buchanan was criticized as a fire and brimstone radical when he said the federal Department of Education should be abolished and reinvented. Today, after six years of trying to build revolutionary changes in the foundation of the federal education program via NCLB, Mr. Buchanan's advise begins to sound practical and wise. For example: In six years NCLB has become a burdensome and very expensive bureaucratic mess, suffocating several of the most valuable elements in the program, indeed, the primary elements of accountability and choice. Predictably, the first and the only thing the liberals have done since the inception of NCLB with their so called "bipartisan" role, has been to pester the President year after year to increase funding. As The Heritage Foundation points out: "Between 2001 and 2006 federal spending on No Child Left Behind programs jumped by 33%, from $17.4 billion in 2001 to $23.3 billion in 2007. (There was no commensurate increase in student test scores.)" Senator Ted Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, wants $56 billion more to pay for the following: Increased salaries for principals and teachers; an extended school day; saturation of schools with AmeriCorps volunteers; parent-family outreach coordinators; and “community programs that address children’s social, emotional and other non-academic needs.” A step forward and a step
toward the long overdue revitalization of the education could be on
the way in new legislation called the "A-Plus Act." For example, in a speech earlier this year, Senator John Cornyn, a co-sponsor of the A-Plus Act, noted what Florida Governor Jeb Bush discovered while trying to implement education reform with the Washington DC bureaucracy in control. The Governor said: "Though the federal contribution to education in Florida is small...only about seven percent of total educational spending...it takes more than 40 percent of the state's education staff to oversee and administer federal dollars." The Governor estimates that the federal regulatory regime requires that six times as many people are required to administer a federal education dollar as are required to administer a state dollar. "Imagine what our states could do if we could spend more of our time and energy working to improve student achievement." May 1, 2007
As the Florida legislative
session winds down the Florida House of Representatives should be
commended for several pieces of legislation that will improve the value
and streamline the implementation of some school voucher programs.
The Florida Supreme Court decision via a flawed interpretation that
declared Governor Jeb Bush's voucher initiatives "unconstitutional" was
wrong because it allows for liberals to impose a "socialistic" attitude
toward public education, which allows them to continue to do anything
without the responsibility of recognizing when and where the public
education system is broken and failing the students. It also allows
the liberal education establishment free-reign to fool the public into
thinking that more money and understanding deviant sexual orientation as a
requirement for achievement are the only ways to fix the education system.
Don't forget that these voucher programs are for providing poor students
and their parents with the freedom to choose a better educational
opportunity. Now what's wrong with that? Coffee with Newt in Clearwater...We would like to congratulate (another one of our favorite conservative resources) former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Forget national television and those high-paid, prestigious speaking engagements, Mr. Gingrich has reached the apex of intellectual success and made it onto a Starbucks coffee cup. The other morning, as we do many times a week, we got the regular, very strong cup of coffee at a local Starbucks and noticed The Way I See It quote printed on the cup was none other than Newt Gingrich. What we enjoyed as much as the quote and almost as much as the coffee, was that a high-profile conservative was being represented in a format that has appeared so far to be reserved for more idealistic and mundane liberal thoughts. Romney on hold...We are disappointed that Mitt Romney suspended his campaign. After closely reading both his and John McCain's remarks to the powerful Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday, it is possible that Mr. Romney's suspension of his campaign could develop into a viably positive strategic move. Regarding the 2008 Presidential campaigns, we are watching closely and reading conservative reactions to Senator McCain's virtual lock on the nomination. There are several things a candidate McCain could do between now and the convention that would more thoroughly rally enough conservatives to outweigh what political theory people are saying might also alienate some of the more liberal independents who are currently helping him secure the nomination. Before we comment further on the campaign we would like to say that in 2005 in a letter to Senator Elizabeth Dole we pointed out why we believed then (as in 1996) that, regarding elections, it is not in the best interest of the baseline principles of the Republican party to put forth candidates who, inadvertently or not, misrepresent what they intend to do in confrontation with liberalism as conservative pragmatism, when in reality, it is mere compromise. As Miyamoto Musashi said in the martial arts masterpiece The Book of Five Rings: "This should be given careful and thorough reflection."
April, 2007... Use the Veto to Defeat the
Liberal Democrats I believe the President should not hesitate to veto the Democrats war funding bill as long as it contains a specific time for troops to withdraw from Iraq...and money for non-emergency domestic projects, which has nothing to do with the war and which the anti-leadership offered to literally purchase enough votes from some of the other modern-day Democrats as a desperation measure to get the pathetic piece of duplicity passed.
May 1, 2007: Veto
Delivered for the American people. Hate Crimes Legislation The President should also veto the "hate crimes" legislation (HR 1592) making its way through Congress, as well as Barney Frank's "Employment Non-Discrimination Act" if either piece of legislation ever reaches the President's desk. As Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said of the thought crimes legislation: "The version that now heads to the House floor violates the Commerce Clause and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. It federalizes a vast array of state and local crimes and threatens religious leaders with criminal prosecution for their thoughts, beliefs, and statements...Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) introduced the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would make it illegal to fire, refuse to hire, or refuse to promote an employee based on his sexual orientation or "gender identity." Mr. Perkins is right. The words "non-discrimination" usually sound good, but these pieces of legislation are just a front for the liberal thought-police who go beyond violating the right of free speech, and into the equally dangerous and deceptive realm of violating freedom of thought. Just like the fake scandal manufactured around General Peter Pace's comments, this is a publicity stunt for the homosexual community. As Mr. Perkins pointed out: When Republicans tried to attach amendments to include senior citizens, pregnant women, prior victims, children under 18, the unborn, court witnesses, and the military as part of the legislation's "protected class"...all amendments were rejected. Do not be fooled...Homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender people are not out to obtain rational and normal "rights," whether it be via government policy or workplace environments, they are out to create and enforce with the help of the courts, a preferentially treated gay nation. May 3, 2007...Good news regarding the Hate Crimes legislation HR 1592 (from Human Events) . Congressman Jeb Hensarling along with co-signers sent a letter to The White House advising a veto of this unconstitutional legislation. The Congressman was notified that the President's top advisors will advise the President to veto. Partial Birth Abortion It is great that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ban on the procedure called partial birth abortion. The raw and cynical reactions to the Supreme Court's wise and humane ruling from the Democratic Presidential candidates was unbelievable. Even Kristen Powers, a Democrat communicator from the Clinton years and who now talks on Fox News, said in the Wall Street Journal that the candidate reactions were embarrassing and politically dumb. General Peter Pace There is no reason on earth why the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff and Commander of the Multi-National Forces in Iraq should "apologize" for revealing his personal view regarding homosexuality and homosexuality in the military. There is nothing to apologize for. General Pace is right, homosexuality is immoral, and usually creates an obsessively psychological degeneration of whatever normal institution it tries to infiltrate with its lifestyle. It is good and reassuring, or it certainly should be, that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Armed Forces has a moral compass, to say the least, and the American people have every right to know what that moral stand is if he would like for the people to know. As Cliff Kincaid over at the GOPUSA website said: "This is another manufactured "scandal" designed to put a top official, in this case the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, in a bad light." I have said this before and it is great that Kincaid also has the courage to say it. "The national media and the homosexual rights movement seem to be one and the same. But that's a story that news consumers aren't being told." If you have ever been a political target, as we have, stalked, branded in their communication factory, hazed, and pestered by the hyperactive homosexual network (apparently with the collective mentality of a 16-year old) you will find Kincaid's commentary refreshing and right-on. More from Kincaid: "We
are living in strange times when smoking is considered a serious danger to
one's health, and something which cannot be tolerated in most areas of
public life, but a lifestyle linked to a raging epidemic of disease and
death is regarded as a civil right that must not be criticized and even
deserves to be celebrated." "The Post, in its editorial, carefully avoided the issue of what exactly male homosexuals do. Howard Phillips of the Conservative Caucus calls them "anal-sex practitioners." That may sound shocking to some, but it is a fact nonetheless. The Post omitted this information in order to make the case that open and out-of-the-closet homosexuals should serve in the U.S. military. We don't want to think about such things but we must as long as we have a media establishment, led by the Post, which wants public approval for engaging in such practices in the U.S. military and other areas of society." What's especially rewarding about Kincaid's commentary is not that he is simply critical of homosexuality, but that he is willing to comment on what it revolves around and what it's really all about. Why is calling a conservative heterosexual or a real Christian "intolerant," a "bigot" or a "homophobe," any more acceptable than calling a homosexual an "anal sex practitioner," a "fag" or a "queer" or whatever. This particular media episode of "manufactured scandal" regarding General Pace and his comment is a perfect example of why open homosexuality is not and should never be allowed in the military.
January 2007... Iraq...To many damn Presidents...In
the movie "The Last Samurai," when Tom Cruise was at a difficult
point in his Samurai training, Katsumoto's son came up to him and said..."To
many mind."
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