Republican officials are wondering what happened?   McCain was the man.  Palin was his wonderous pick for VP, which energized the base of the party like a VP pick had never done before.  Sarah woke up the base of the party and gave us hope that all was not lost to the same big government plans and capitulations to democrats that had humbled Bush.  The base was stuck with McCain, but was willing to support John, just to avoid the Obama thing, even though John had a record that resembled a Lieberman teetering toward Kennedy.

The party had abandoned the base conservative principles.  And now…

Now the party is attacking Palin, as they get on board with C. Matthews about her wardrobe purchases.  As if Michelle Obama has not purchased a broader wardrobe over the past couple years using campaign donations.  As if Hillary had not padded her wardrobe with campaign or party finances.   The thing of it is, you will not hear about them being dressed down . . . from disgruntled envious workers inside the democrat camp, or even from their media co-conspirators.  Democrat staffers only get mad when they don’t get paid. 

The bulls eye was on Sarah.

Republicans are so starved for attention, for any media attention, that they’ll spill their beans to get some time with C. Matthews, or Tom B, or even on FOX.   Hagel opened his big mouth.  Shielded by their claim for anonymity some staffers make the call:  “Now Chris, what I’m about to tell you must be kept confidential and anonymous,”  knowing full well that Chris will run to the nearest microphone.   “This is good,” thinks Chris.   “I couldn’t have brought more dirt to the republican party if I had fabricated a story myself.”   “I’ve tried that before,” thinks Chris.

When will the republican party ever learn? 

There’s that thing about being whooped, that gets the players speaking to each other again and back into another huddle to find a play that  works, to return to the good faithful 1 - 2 punch.

We can hope that these next two/four years will be a learning experience for the republican officials in office and their leaders at the GOP.   The conservative base is still alive and kicking, but the party honchos have decided that leaning left is better for their earmarks, thinking that they could blame the huge increase in government growth on the progressive democrats.  But republicans can’t do that without the help of the media, while the same media sends their dirty deep diggers into the private space of anyone standing their ground against big government democrats and those liberal moderates with an “(R)”.

This may be a good thing for the republican party to have to eat dirt for a couple years, hopefully to return back to principled, ethical, limited government conservatism.   When the party returns to the base, the base will throw a party.  Until then, they can eat some of that humble pie.

Hope springs eternal, but we’d like to drop off that eternal part and have some principled ethical hope right soon.

BRAYING JACKASS
“If your television declares John McCain the president elect on the evening of November 4th, your television will be lying. You should immediately pick up your pre-packed bags and head straight to the White House in Washington, DC, which we will surround and shut down until this attempt at a third illegitimate presidency is reversed. We may be there for days or weeks or months. But we must be there.
We must be there by the millions. We must show each other, and the nation, and the world that we have had enough, that we will not stand for one more stolen election, that we will not give in to fear, lies, theft, and intimidation.”

–David Swanson, Washington director of Democrats.com and a board
member of Progressive Democrats of America.  Patriot Post

Sunday evening.  34 hours to Voting Tuesday!

Are we going to feel good about ourselves for distributing seeds of compassion towards others by electing a liberal progressive socialist like Obama.   

Or, are we going to feel good about ourselves by electing John McCain and for standing up for the individual entrepreneurial spirit, in a continual battle with an increasingly intrusive government that needs reform.

We know where the media stands, and if Obama wins, then we can thank the media for their intended bias favoring Obama, wooing and gooing all over their idol, just because he is part African-American.

In the Tank: A Statistical Analysis of Media Bias

By John Perazzo
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, October 31, 2008

Bias in the news media manifests itself most powerfully not in the form of outright, intentional lies. Instances like former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair’s premeditated fabrications and plagiarisms are rare. Rather, media bias is most often a function of what reporters choose not to tell their audience; i.e., the facts they purposely omit so as to avoid contradicting the political narrative they wish to advance. As Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo put it: “[F]or every sin of commission…we believe that there are hundreds, and maybe thousands, of sins of omission – cases where a journalist chose facts or stories that only one side of the political spectrum is likely to mention.”
By no means is such activity the result of an organized campaign or conspiracy. Bernard Goldberg explains: “No, we don’t sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we’re going to slant the news. We don’t have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.”

And why does it come so naturally? According to Goldberg: “A lot of newspeople…got into journalism in the first place so they could change the world and make it a better place,” and to use their position as reporters as a platform from which to “sho[w] compassion,” which “makes us feel good about ourselves.”

They feel good about themselves!

Well, dag gone it, why don’t these reporters who wish to feel good about themselves give of their hard earned cash and efforts to charities?   Could it be that their giving to charities is in the same wimpy amounts as Biden’s? 

I had to quietly rejoice when the news appeared that magazines and newspapers had to cut their staff budgets because of the lack of advertising revenue, which is because of falling subscriptions, which is because readers are sick and tired of their very apparent bias.

“What is wrong with you people?! How long will you allow your minds to be shackled by Big Government liberalism and the Democratic Party? In the early 1930s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised you a “New Deal” and got your forefathers hooked on the drug of welfare and government handouts. In the 1960s, LBJ gave you the “Great Society” and over $5 trillion dollars in new welfare spending to fight what LBJ called his “War on Poverty,” yet poverty over the past 40 years has grown exponentially. Even worse, there is a poverty of the spirit that is particularly acute in the black community that remains undiagnosed and unacknowledged … even to this day.”

Ladies and gentlemen, when will you say I don’t need your welfare, your universal health care, dental care, Social Security, food stamps and government cheese? I’ll buy my own cheese. [Slams fist on the table] “GET OFF THE DAMN PLANTATION!”

 

That’s Ellis Washington speaking in a mock Presidential debate on the campus of Savannah State University.   The Day I Took ‘Fire’ from Obama

That is a must read today.

Read it before you vote on Tuesday. 

Another must read is about dogs, print this one out and somehow get it to your friends and neighbors who may be in the bubble with Obama. 

Excerpt follows”

” . . . when did we stop being We the People and start becoming We the Sheeple?

I will tell you how and why we have come to the brink of socialism in this country: education. Our public schools, with the blessings of government officials, have been droning on about the evils of capitalism and the superiority of socialism for decades. The media echo this chant, so children have grown into adults knowing no other philosophy. Capitalism is bad. Socialism is good. Woof woof.

The fact of human nature is people are lazy. If you take away the incentive to achieve anything because you’re providing it for “free,” watch how they fall into an indifferent, drone-like status quo. People will come to expect everything to be handed to them on a government platter. Woof wo … er, you know the rest. 

Sit. Stay. Roll over. Beg  by Patrice Lewis

And finally go to the most wholesome finest entertainers of all time, for his rendition of the choice between What we need? Or what we deserve?  by Pat Boone.

But, now, there’s also Capitulation Highway – a wide open, mythical new road that millions seem ready to travel. Though no one has yet traveled on it, they’ve been told it leads to an enchanted new place called CHANGE. Its extravagant advertising promises great education and total health care for every American, and even 12 to 14 million illegal aliens. Taxes? What taxes? Except for the evil rich, of course. Oh – and corporations! Why should 90 percent of the people have to pay taxes, especially if people don’t choose to work, since the rich obviously can and should pick up the tab for everybody else?

In this exciting new destination, laws are loose and easily changed or abandoned if they get in the way of popular trends and desires. “Marriage” and “family” have only vague, fuzzy definitions, applicable to virtually any combination or variation. Pregnancy and childbearing? Sure, it’s necessary for a continuing population, but nobody should be obligated or “punished” with an unwanted child as a result of sexual escapades. Abortion will be available to all, including the youngest – and, best of all, it’s tax supported. Religion, for the few simple-minded or old-fashioned folks who still want it, is permitted, but only in the privacy of homes and some churches. And under no circumstances is any religious babble or judgmental talk allowed in the halls of government or on the airwaves.

America at the crossroad.

Come Tuesday Night we’ll know. . . something is changing.

There’s the top ten list of reasons to vote for McCain, and then John Hawkins has the thirty reasons to vote for McCain, but I’ve got just one.

John McCain, a leaner toward conservative principals, is not Barack Obama, who is a big leaner toward progressive socialistic ideologies that promotes bigger and more expansive government intrusion into the lives of Americans.

That’s it.

Simple.  

There is an FBI investigation into ACORN for allegations about the 1.3 million voter registrations cards turned into election boards that are invalid. 

“. . . yesterday, a former employee of Acorn testified in a Pennsylvania state court that the group’s quality-control efforts were “minimal or nonexistent” and largely window dressing. Anita MonCrief also says that Acorn was given lists of potential donors by several Democratic presidential campaigns, including that of Barack Obama, to troll for contributions.”  John Fund story.

Come on folks, you know that this guy Barack Obama has a very unusual and suspected past history as a community organizer whose deep details are being covered up by himself and staff, while the mainstream drive-byes could, but will not dig into his deepest secrets leaving most curious people wondering, who is this guy?  Somehow the same media found it necessary to dig deep into every detail of Sarah Palin’s past.  We don’t wonder why they picked Sarah and won’t on Obama.

His supporters and worshippers just accept him as the next model of the perfect human gene donor, and raise their arms in a chorus of we believe.

Now, remember this lady is testifying in court, having raised her hand to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Ms. MonCrief testified that in November 2007 Project Vote development director Karyn Gillette told her she had direct contact with the Obama campaign and had obtained their donor lists. Ms. MonCrief also testified she was given a spreadsheet to use in cultivating Obama donors who had maxed out on donations to the candidate, but who could contribute to voter registration efforts. Project Vote calls the allegation “absolutely false.”

She says that when she had trouble with what appeared to be duplicate names on the list, Ms. Gillette told her she would talk with the Obama campaign and get a better version. Ms. MonCrief has given me copies of the donor lists she says were obtained from other Democratic campaigns, as well as the 2004 DNC donor lists.

In her testimony, Ms. MonCrief says she was upset by Acorn’s “Muscle for Money” program, which she said intimidated businesses Acorn opposed into paying “protection” money in the form of grants. Acorn’s Brian Kettering says the group only wants to change corporate behavior: “Acorn is proud of its corporate campaigns to stop abuses of working families.”

Continue reading . . .

ACORN should be banned from any further voter registration drives.  We don’t need to actively go out and get people to register to vote.  the opportunity is there and available for everyone.

If physically able people out there in this great country of ours are just too dam lazy to register to vote in time for an election, and then to bring themselves, or hitch a ride, or find public transportation to the voting booth and stand patiently and neatly in line with the rest of us, then forget them, they should forfeit the privilege to vote and no special considerations should be made.

No, our pollsters have not gone to Iraq to test the pulse of the Iraq people, but an AFP story says:

“McCain would be best for Iraq because he would ensure stability,” said Ali, 66, an expert on the Sumerian era.

The personal qualities and political platforms of McCain and his Democrat rival Barack Obama are of little import to Ali, however. His focus is on Iraq and its neighbours such as Iran.

“The Iranians believe that if Obama is elected he will not take action against them despite their nuclear ambitions. That worries me,” said Ali, sitting on an old bench in Al-Zahawi coffee shop.

Obama gets the support of the UN and the Europeans, while McCain is backed by the people where American forces came to liberate them from the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. 

This is something similar to what’s happening in our own country.   Obama gets the support of the liberal One World, One government academics and media along with the social progressives, while McCain gets the support of common everyday people like Joe the plumber who wish to be liberated from the oppressive nature of central government regulations.

The University of Kentucky found an effigy of Obama hung from a tree this morning, the police removed it at once and then the University called the Obama family to apologize.

“I am outraged because we work very hard, every day, to build bridges across the divides,” Todd said. “Diversity and inclusion are among our most precious core values. Episodes like this serve only to erode our confidence in and respect for one another.”  Link.

Have they thought that this is election season and that it could just have been a reaction to the effigy of Palin in W. Hollywood?  Or that the person responsible just wanted to use his freedom of speech to say he was not voting for Obama and would rather see Obama hung out to dry as far as his presidential aspirations are concerned.   Hmm?

Has anyone apologized to the Palin family for the effigy of Sarah Palin found in front of a home?

Nope, Critics try to hide West Hollywood Palin effigy.

“The Secret Service looked into the display and said there was no threat. Some politicians have called the images offensive and urged their removal but creator Chad Morrisette has refused.”

Have the authorities tried to get the owner of the house to apologize?

Nope.

Has the ACLWFU (American Civil Liberties for White Females Union) demanded an apology, or threatened to tear the house down, or picketed the home for Chad’s outright racist and gender insensitivity.

When Americans get over racial bias is when everybody forgives that there was racial bias.  A good start would be for the government to remove all questions about race from all federal forms.

When either McCain or Obama take over the White House, that $1 trillion budget deficit will still be there starring them in the eyes for them to do something about, like quick.  Could McCain?   Would Obama?

Sen. Obama has nonetheless promised to devote another $1.32 trillion over the next 10 years to several new or expanded refundable tax credits and a special exemption for seniors, according to the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution’s Tax Policy Center (TPC). He calls this a “middle-class tax cut,” while suggesting the middle class includes 95% of those who work.

Mr. Obama’s proposed income-based health-insurance subsidies, tax credits for tiny businesses, and expanded Medicaid eligibility would cost another $1.63 trillion, according to the TPC. Thus his tax rebates and health insurance subsidies alone would lift the undisclosed bill to future taxpayers by $2.95 trillion — roughly $295 billion a year by 2012.

But that’s not all. Mr. Obama has also promised to spend more on 176 other programs, according to an 85-page list of campaign promises (actual quotations) compiled by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. The NTUF was able to produce cost estimates for only 77 of the 176, so its estimate is low. Excluding the Obama health plan, the NTUF estimates that Mr. Obama would raise spending by $611.5 billion over the next five years; the 10-year total (aside from health) would surely exceed $1.4 trillion, because spending typically grows at least as quickly as nominal GDP.

A trillion here, a trillion there. . .   Read the rest of the story . . .

The fantasy world of believing that changes are all America needs.   A change here and a change there and everyone and everything will automatically fall into place.   Just talking change with Ahmadinejad will solve the eternal Muslim with Christian and Jew conflict forever and forever.  

The power from on high.

Just about all of our American politicians avoid the “S” word like a plague.   Every other kind of phrase is inserted to con the people into believing that their candidate is not a socialist, and heaven forbid, not a Marxist either, or whatever that other system is all about, the one called fascism. 

So the code words of Fairness, Equality, Fair share, Progressive, and  Social Justice are used to describe the current fad for reforming our 16,845 page tax codes.

Ilana Mercer writes: GOP sticks with Karl (Marx)

Consider: In a free enterprise system, people don’t pay for goods and services in proportion to their income (or else Bill Gates would be paying a million dollars for a loaf of bread). Rather, they all pay the same. By logical extension, the fairest method of taxation would be a poll or head tax, where we’re all taxed equally. Let the poor set the amount. More than the McCain-Palin promises, this would limit government spending like nothing else.  

But just as Howard Stern found out in Harlem, there’s too big of a section of the American people who are just too ignorant to vote, much less know what socialism, fascism or Marxism are all about and how it would destroy our American culture.

“This is not to say that coercive taxes on income are fair, flat or graded. To borrow from a great American, Frank Chodorov, McCain and Obama’s glib talk about property not their own amounts to the following declaration:”

Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.

Scary?

We’re on the way, one step at a time, to a socialist fascist country, just as some are proposing as the way to get radical global warming regulations implemented, rather than a grand scale approach right away.  Incrementalism works.  It worked for the anti-smoking zealots.  It’ll work every time.   Incrementally; one small step ahead for them, one giant step back for mankind.  

In a decade or two, Americans will awaken and say how did this happen?

There’s only one fair taxation system ever invented and our current American politicians will never go for it.   It’s called The Fair Tax.

And that’s one of many reasons why we need Term Limits.  Here.  Here.  and Here.