Lately..

I haven’t had a lot of time or desire to write on the current political state of our country. One, I am busy as heck. Two, it’s downright depressing and I am really not feeling up to it.

I have had occasion, however, to read some other blogs and make a comment or two. My good friend Ken is more than taking up my slack and I thought I might link to a couple of his latest blog posts to keep you all in the loop. You can find my comments there also.

http://forliberty2008.blogspot.com/2009/06/is-health-care-right.html

http://forliberty2008.blogspot.com/2009/06/presidents-speech-in-cairo.html

Blond out.

Some cool stuff…

Glenn Beck explaining Liberty and the “LAW” to CT AG Dick Blumenthal – absolutely priceless!

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A few quotes for you.  I thought these might put the current bailout, massive spending “stimulus”, AIG distraction etc. into proper context.

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism.
-Frederic Bastiat, The Law

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
-Benjamin Franklin

In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give it to the other.
-Voltaire

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
-Robert A. Heinlein

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
-Thomas Jefferson

When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.
-Frederic Bastiat, The Law

 The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
-William H. Borah

If you’re a Christian or simply a moral human being, you should be against these so-called rights. After all, when God gave Moses the Eighth Commandment, “Thou shalt not steal,” I’m sure that he didn’t mean thou shalt not steal unless there is a majority vote in Congress.
-Walter E. Williams

The fraudulence of the left’s concern about poverty is exposed by their utter lack of interest in ways of increasing the nation’s wealth. Wealth is the only thing that can cure poverty. The reason there is less poverty today is not because the poor got a bigger slice of the pie but because the whole pie got a lot bigger—no thanks to the left.
-Thomas Sowell

Capitalism harnesses human self-interest; socialism exhausts itself trying to kill it.
-Linda Bowles

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
-Abraham Lincoln

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-H.L. Mencken

HECK! This is too easy!  I think I could do this all day!

It is seldom that any freedom is lost all at once.
-David Hume

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
-Edmund Burke

The goal of the “liberals”—as it emerges from the record of the past decades—was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot—by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli. (The goal of the “conservative” was only to retard that process.)
-Ayn Rand

A society that puts equality…ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
-Milton Friedman

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
-Frederic Bastiat, The Law 

If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
-Samuel Adams

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
-Thomas Sowell

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
-Alexis de Tocqueville

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take
away everything you have”
-Thomas Jefferson

…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
-Booker T. Washington

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
-Milton Friedman

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
-Thomas Jefferson

The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name Liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until America will one day be a Socialist nation without knowing how it happened.
-Norman Thomas

The “private sector” of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and…the “public sector” is, in fact, the coercive sector.
-Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson

It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights—the “right” to education, the “right” to health care, the “right” to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery—hay and a barn for human cattle.
-Alexis de Tocqueville

last but certainly not least,

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
-Mark Twain

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Finally, – A Black Woman’s View on the Election – An article by Anne Wortham

Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University ’s Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association.

She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.

In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer’s television series, “A World of Ideas.” The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas.

Dr. Wortham is author of “The Other Side of Racism: ? A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness” which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues.

She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality.

Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness. Shortly after an interview in 2004, she was awarded tenure.

This article by her is REALLY something.   I love this woman. 

Fellow Americans,

Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul’s name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America .

I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival – all that I know about the history of the United States of America , all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the “change” that Obama asserts has come to America .

Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that Blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared “progressive” whites who voted for him because he doesn’t look like them.

I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration – political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University ’s Kennedy School of Government.

I would have to believe that “fairness” is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to “go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice” is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the “bottom up,” and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.

Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting “Yes We Can!” Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead – and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism

So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a Black man to the office of the president of the United States , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a Black person.

So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America . Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a Black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine – what little there is left – for the chance to feel good.

There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

An open letter to Obama Voters.

I pray that you will allow me at least the opportunity to change your mind.

 

The news media in this country, virtually every newspaper, TV network and so on is made up of liberal Democrats that the truth is rarely told.  All I want is the opportunity to get our point of view out and understood by you rather than the meat grinder of some place like CNN or MS NBC.  If you get all of your news from one of these or some similar source, it probably makes you wonder how anyone could EVER vote Republican.  Well, that IS their goal and plan but it should make you wonder how so many people still do.  It’s because they caught on to how corrupt the news media is and now they see through the BS. 

 

I have heard the comment that “Sarah Palin scares me!”  I can’t for the life of me understand how John McCain or Sarah Palin could possibly scare anyone.  They are honest to God real Americans who love their country and the principles it was founded on.  There are so many myths about them, their backgrounds, and their beliefs, it’s not funny.  Few people ever take a moment to find out if what they hear is actually true.  You would have to tell me what ridiculous accusation you have heard first but I assure you I can defend it with nothing but the truth.  I can however tell you that Sarah Palin does not want to take away anyone’s abortion rights, or stop teaching evolution in school and that John McCain is not, in fact, a blood relative of George W. Bush. 

 

It’s sad to say but few “scary” things the media does ever say about Obama are only the top of the iceberg and are not merely “smears” as is often claimed.  The previous post on this blog “The comprehensive argument against Barack Obama” lays out the facts on many of these issues.   I hope you at least take the time to check out it out thoroughly before dismissing it so lightly.  I am not in the habit of spreading lies or playing games.  I love my country and I am fighting for it every day.

 

I know many people who get their political identity from their family without it ever occurring to them that things may have changed in the last 40-50 years.  The Democrat party that existed in the 60’s is gone. The Democrat party of 2008 has mostly been co-opted by true leftists who are working very hard (and unfortunately successfully) to create a nanny state and absolute socialism. 

 

It upsets me that I run into people everyday who think that they must remain Democrat for the exact reason that they should become Republicans.

 

It is the Republican Party that stands for civil liberties.  It IS the party that was founded on the principal of anti-slavery and more importantly, the fundamental concepts that America was founded on, individual liberty, equal opportunity, personal responsibility, the American Dream.

 

The Democrat Party has become the party of big government that keeps creating more and more social programs and spending more and more of our tax dollars to setup wealth redistribution programs. The aim of which is to keep people in need dependent on the government and more importantly, for those in the Democrat party to remain in power.  The sad truth is that they have no real desire to “help” anyone but themselves.  They use these dependents to maintain their power by threatening them with the interruption of their benefits if a Republican happened to take office.  Some of these many benefits that are manipulated in their massive class warfare game include welfare, housing assistance, food stamps, and government contracts. Even government jobs are created to maintain a dependent populace.

 

Obama, himself, is just another in a long line of ultra liberal tax and spenders whose goal is to continue this growth of government by creating even more social programs, even more taxation, more spending and ultimately more dependents that will keep him and his friends like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in power and take our country even further from its roots.

 

What is worse is that I think that Obama has the potential to be much, much worse.  His history is that of someone who actually believes in socialism and Marxist principles.  He has toned down this rhetoric tremendously to make himself more appealing to the masses but I fear the true Obama will return if he is elected.  I will also make a side note that the majority of his campaign promises, notably his 95% tax cut proposal, are lies, distortions and half-truths and that this is easily demonstrated by checking with non-partisan organizations that you can Google in two seconds.  Pick an item and I will be happy to explain the ramifications.

 

I am of the belief that the country may not survive even one Obama term.  We will be attacked as weak by every terrorist organization out there.  Our system of economics will cross the brink from sort of socialistic progressive to actual out and out socialism. 

 

Simply put, the Republican Party believes that all people should be given the equal opportunity prescribed in our Declaration of Independence.  They believe in law and order, that people should be responsible for themselves.  They should be rewarded for their successes and innovation and they should be equally held to account for their misbehavior.  The Republican Party is for smaller government, less bureaucracy and more freedom and liberty for the people. 

 

Contrarily, the Democrat Party believes in larger government where it is the responsibility of that government to take care of its people.   They believe in taxing success and innovation and using the proceeds to create dependents.   The government chooses what behavior is acceptable and unacceptable and legislates accordingly.  Notwithstanding the previous statements, it is also clear that the Democrat Party believes in whatever cause they can use to vilify the Republican Party, IE. They may be for or against tax cuts or war depending on what their Republican opponent is saying.

 

There are many, many individual issues that come up in every Presidential election.  The War on Terror, Abortion, 2nd amendment rights, gay marriage, property rights, taxes and so on.  Some of you may be one issue voters.  If so, at least do this for me.  Make sure you really know where each candidate stand on that issue, not where you “think” they stand or what you “heard on CBS news” but what they really believe and what their plans are.  Secondly, before making a decision based on your “one issue”, think hard about whether some of the other issues should be sacrificed over your one issue.

 

Please, before you vote for Barack Obama, at least know what you are asking for.

 

Call me crazy but I want my kids to grow up in an America I can recognize. 

 

I will be voting McCain-Palin.

 

The Comprehensive Argument Against Barack Obama.

I’m not going to elaborate.  Please click the link below…

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/21/the-comprehensive-argument-against-barack-obama/

Send this link to your friends and families.   The truth is out there.

The Truth on the Bailout might come out after all..

Up until last night, the mainstream media and even more surprisingly, the McCain campaign have seemed unwilling to tell this story.  Clearly, I’m not.

Remarkably, Fox News ran a special on the causes of the economic crisis last night.   It’s an absolute must watch.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Even Alec Baldwin, of all the psycho leftists in the world, sees the truth! If you have followed his antics as a Boosh hater, this is shocking as hell.  I give him credit on this one.

After that, go over to Michelle Malkin’s site and check out the fresh, new Bailout T-shirts!

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/05/dude-wheres-my-bailout/trackback/

Personally, the BFF one is my favorite!

Sarah positively KILLED at the debate last night…

CNN has it 51/36 Biden and CBS has 46/21 Biden.   They must have been polling in the Biden spin room!

Here is a short video of pollster Frank Luntz and his results. 

Below is the full debate, unedited on youtube.

Michelle Malkin liveblogged the debate… It’s a great read!

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/02/sarah-vs-smirky-vice-presidential-debate-thread/trackback/

Also, here’s a link to Biden’s gaffes, errors and untruths from the debate.   I caught a few of these myself but the list is shocking!

http://zerosheep.com/2008/10/03/bidens-debate-gaffes-lies

The Economic Crisis? Who, How, What, Where & When?

Below is a great video I found on youtube which lays out the facts behind our current economic crisis.  Surely you can take a few minutes to watch.  Pass this one around please.

Question: Who is Obama?  Is he the guy we see in the debates and on the campaign tour spouting hope and change we can believe in (gag) or something much much darker? You be the judge.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html

More..

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/30/video-stanley-kurtz-on-obama-acorn-and-the-cra/trackback/

Now, we know that fair and accurate reporting, not to mention anything resembling ethics is dead in the newsmedia.  But how dead?  Dead enough that there is an active widespread conspiracy to elect one Presidential candidate over the other?  How does 98% of the newsmedia  miss all of this stuff?

As I post this, Obama is giving a campaign speech where he blames deregulation by the Bush administration for the economic crisis, completely ignoring the facts and the TRUTH.  I implore everyone out there to take the people in your life aside and show them these facts and the TRUTH.  Some guy more talented than I was irked enough to make that video, now your job is just to watch and share it.  Please take the time to do so.  Our great country is being taken from us by the forces of Socialism and more to the point, the force of EVIL.   It is going to take a grassroots effort to wake the sleeping boobs who decide elections in America, the great unwashed swing voters.   Find them and tell them

All you need to do is stand back and listen to the Democrats and Obama speak.  The way they operate is clear.  They create more and more social programs intended to keep the population dependent on them and the government.  They do this to grow government and maintain their power.  They then attack their political opponents by using fear, class warfare and lies.   “Don’t you dare vote for that evil Republican, he will take away your benefits, whatever they may be”.  The end result is that those people will never advance, they will remain dependent and ultimately the tool of the left to continue the process.  Conservatives want to provide equal opportunity for everyone.  They have faith in the people to achieve.  After all, that’s how America got to be so great.   Think of all the great inventions and technological breakthroughs and the incredible increase in quality of life that we have all experienced because of the original American culture where risk was rewarded, pioneers were revered, and the free market made the best ideas constantly challenged to become that much better.

Help break the chain.

October 3, 2008 – The following NRCC ad just came out.  I thought I would add it to this post.

My obligatory Stop the Bailout and Cuff Dodd post.

The entire newsmedia and more just recently, the FBI, are supposedly investigating the current credit crisis to find out what went wrong and just who is responsible.  It seems pretty clear to me.

I have a question.  How come Christopher Dodd is not in handcuffs? 

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjM2YTdkMjYzM2RjMThmNjJkNmNjYjk0YzRmNjI0MjA=

I have done a bit of research on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and find that this is the number one source of all the bailout drama that has thus far occurred and has no end in sight.  How did this happen?  Read a few of the articles below and it becomes quite clear..

http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=306370789279709
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121694283773782871.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/23/video-whos-responsible-for-the-fannie-and-freddie-mess/trackback/

During the 90’s, the Clinton administration and congressional Democrats leaned all over the financial markets to delve into risky subprime markets and when then balked, the same people, most notably Barney Franks and Dodd himself, pushed Fannie & Freddie to buy these loans, thereby facilitating the greedy money people on Wall Street.  This is not to mention the many many Clinton cronies that got rich along the way.  

I know I know.  This all sounds familar.  Democrat politicians legislating environments that lead to bad behavior that is detrimental to the country, ie welfare, marriage penalty et al.

By the way, dont forget Chris Dodd’s sweetheart loan deal.. 

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/21/the-inartful-dodd-ger/trackback/
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/13/the-democratic-friends-of-angelo/trackback/

Dodd claims he “didn’t know” he was getting a break.. The guy is on the damn Senate Banking Commission!

Clearly Senator Dodd is GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY….  and so are all you Democrats who have repeatedly voted for this slime.

I say we stop the bailout altogether especially since now the latest version of Congressional Democrat slime wants to add everything from your neighbors foreclosure to some fool’s unpaid car note to the bill.

WHY IN THE HELL AM I (and millions of other decent Americans) PAYING MY BILLS ON TIME?

Join Newt, and I and others and STOP THE BAILOUT!

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/23/gingrich-kill-the-paulson-bailout-plan/trackback/
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/24/illegal-immigration-and-the-mortgage-mess/trackback/
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/23/kill-the-bailout-phones-ringing-off-the-hook/trackback/

I just ran across a fellow blogger who, besides being clearly much less lazy than I, is on the same page and bothered to actually do all the research… A must read is below.

http://mcauleysworld.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/the-fannie-mae-five-five-key-players-who-broke-the-system/

Speaking truth to morons.

It’s a common battlechant of the leftists in this country to “speak truth to power”.  The problem with most of these people is they don’t have the brainpower to distinguish what really is true from what comes from their mouths.

The goal for this blog post is to gather some of the recent media issues in the current Presidential campaign and point out the truth.  Let’s see how I do.

1)  Which policies led to the housing and credit crisis?  Want a hint?  It wasn’t that evil BOOSH…  Here is a linkie for you..
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/16/whose-policies-led-to-the-credit-crisis/trackback/

2) Are the fundamentals of the American economy strong?  By now, I’m sure you have heard Obama slamming McCain for saying that the backbone of the American economy is in tact and we will get through this current credit crisis.  According to Obama, the sky is falling, McCain is a liar, and only he can save us.  Well, what’s the truth, is the economy screwed or not?   Here is a great article from Larry Elder over at townhall.  The great thing about Larry is he backs up his arguments with FACTS.  Now, that’s something you don’t see every day.
http://townhall.com/Columnists/LarryElder/2008/05/08/recession,_recession,_wheres_the_recession

3) Earmarks you say… 
    Sarah Palin’s record on earmarks:
http://www.radioviceonline.com/2008/09/15/earmarks/trackback/

    Barack Obama’s record on earmarks:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/09/barack_obama_pork_barrel_champ_1.asp
http://www.youdecide2008.com/2008/09/06/obama-attacks-palin-on-earmarks-ignores-his-own-record/
    Oh, and how is this for sketchy? 
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/11/obama-museum-earmarks-draw-fire/

4) You want the truth on Obama’s sex ed bill?  Are you sure?  The media has already slapped the McCain campaign as if they were lying about it..  Oh, that’s right we are supposed to be speaking truth to morons here..
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/16/fact-checking-the-liberal-fact-checkers-the-truth-about-that-sex-ed-bill/trackback/
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/16/byron-york-mccains-sex-ed-attack-ad-is-accurate/trackback/

5) Speaking of things the McCain campaign is villified for because they are “over the top”.  How about whether or not Obama is actually to the left of NARAL on abortion?  You be the judge.
http://www.bornalivetruth.org/fact-check.aspx
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/21/obama-baipa-unnecessarily-burdens-doctors-with-babies/trackback/

6) Did Sarah Palin really stop that “Bridge to Nowhere”?  Yes, she did.  The twisting the left is doing on this is insane. 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122100927525717663.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

7) I think I will finish up with the dirt the left has been throwing at Sarah Palin.  First, did she say the Iraq War was “God’s will”? No.  Did she try and outlaw teaching evolution in school or push creation science as Governor? No.  Did she want to ban books in Alaska’s public library and fire a librarian for not cooperating? No.  Was she a member of Alaska’s Indepedent party which at one time advocated separating from the Union? Um, No.  Is Trig really her daughter’s child? No.  The list goes on and on.  Check these sites for the truth.
http://www.fightthepalinsmears.com/
http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/blatant-anti-palin-bias-in-the-liberal-media-a-collection/trackback/

This is just a taste.  The moral is to investigate before believeing what you read or see on TV.  The truth CAN be found, it’s just that sometimes you have to go look for it on your own.

Thank You Mr. McCain!

A few days ago I posted “Thank You Mr. Obama!” rather sarcastically.  Today, my sentiments are genuine and pure.   I truly want to express my sincere gratitude to John McCain.   I am certain that I speak for many of my fellow conservatives when I say that up until this point, the whole campaign, indeed life, was becoming a harsh lesson in disappointment.

It’s no secret that many conservatives are not fond of some of Mr. McCain’s positions on certain issues.   I suppose it is universally accepted that we appreciate his military service and respect his character.  We, however, have had to really swallow some major negatives to maintain the tiniest bit of warmth in our support for a man who has repeatedly showed disdain for conservatism itself.   (Lest we forget, the highlights are: The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill which conservatives find objectionable as it is essentially contrary to the first ammendment.  Next you have McCain-Kennedy which is “the” pro-amnesty immigration bill he co-sponsored.  Also, McCain-Lieberman which is the no drilling in ANWR legislation.)

However, today is a new day and it appears John McCain remembered he is indeed a Republican with the selection of Sarah Palin of Alaska as his VP choice.  I am positively giddy about the whole thing.  I don’t know if its because McCain actually did something out of deference to us Americans out here.  By “Americans”, I mean the smart enough to know what they are doing conservatives who are resigned to vote for his sorry ass to prevent the end of the world an Obama victory would ensure.   Or possibly and even more likely, that its just that she is really really a great pick.   You can smell the patriotism on her from miles away and not only does she sound like a conservative, she has an actual record of acting like one too.

I am proud to be one of those “damned right wing bloggers” because I think it is in no small part to our significant voices demanding a real conservative be on the ticket that we got one.   I keep hearing the newsmedia say she came out of nowhere but thats completely not true. My fellow bloggers and I have been suggesting Ms. Palin as well as Rep. Eric Cantor as ideal choices for the office for many months.   I guess in the end McCain recognized he needs conservatives to win the Presidency. 

I also noted that today the Democrat pundits have taken to using the word “conservative” with a bit of a negative connotation in their talking points.  What they don’t get is that we are proud of being “conservative”.  This is unlike them, who hide their “liberal” outlook and instead call themselves “progressive” or some such tripe.

So far Mrs. Palin has shown she is proud to be an American and a “conservative”.   For the first time in this election cycle, I am proud to say I am behind a candidate.  Let’s hope she can keep Mr. McCain in line.