When Heroes Fail Us

I get what you’re doing, Newt.  You’re playing the party game.  Dede Scozzafava is a “Republican” and the party’s nominee, so it’s important that the party members support the party nominee, right?

Yeah – I get it.  And you’re wrong.  Very, very wrong.

I’ve admired you for a long time, Newt.  Your 1994 Republican Revolution that ended the Liberal Democrat stranglehold on our legislative branch remains one of the great political moves of the 20th Century, akin to Lincoln’s election.  While it didn’t permanently shift the Congress, it did make it a much more competitive place to run for office, and you did so based on an agenda of fiscal conservatism coupled with an anti-establishment mindset that would limit individual legislator power and return a sense of responsibility to the American people.

Your moves were never popular, but the sense of responsibility that you brought to the 104th-106th Congresses were exactly what the country needed.  Finally, the American people had a political party that did exactly what it said, not because it would net them political gains, but because those decisions and those stands were the right thing to do.

Fast-forward a few years.

The GOP wins a slim election for the Presidency and maintains a slim hold on the Congress, built on in 2002 on promises of national defense and fiscal conservatism.  And they follow through… for a while.  By 2005, tho, it starts to become clear that the Republican Party of the Republican Revolution is long gone.  Those same Congressmen who promised to term-limit themselves in 1994 were still in office and corruption became something to turn a blind eye to, rather than something that needed to be rooted out.

And you?  Well…   I could forgive the things that caused your resignation in 1999, since you were cleared.  But for some reason, since you left office, you’ve spent a ton of time toeing the line between “we need to be a more conservative country” and “I sure wish I could spend more time with my hardcore liberal buddies”.  Seriously – global warming?  You’re hanging out with Al Sharpton pushing the Obama administration’s education agenda?

And now, you’re backing a woman that is the GOP nominee, but one who is supported by ACORN, who’s backed by unions, who’s backed tax and spend stupidity, and who recently won – and accepted – the Margaret Sanger Award for “leadership, excellence, and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement” (aka “blindly supporting the organized, legal culling of human beings so that women can have consequence-free sex under the guise of ‘choice’”).

This is a woman who supports every single possible stand that the Republican Party supposedly takes.  In fact, in digging ’round the net, I’m finding it difficult to find a single thing that this woman believes in that smacks of anything less than classic liberalism.

And you’re supporting her.

Hey – GOP…   compromising with idiots will only make you stupid, and compromising your good conservative principles will only make you bad liberals.  If you think compromise will get you anywhere in the political world, ask yourselves why we’re not complaining about the moderate policies of President John McCain.

The Republican Party took over the Legislature in 1994 because it stood on its principles.  It got Reagan elected in 1980 and 1984 because it stood for conservative principles.  It got Bush I and II elected in 1988, 2000, and 2004 because it stood on its good, conservative principles.

It lost the election of Bush I in 1992, Dole in 1996, and McCain in 2008 because it abandoned those principles.  It lost control of the House and Senate in 2006 because it compromised those principles.

It’s time for the GOP to wake up and for those who control the party (aka “the Republican Voters”) to show the establishment and beltway idjut RINO’s exactly what we think of compromise.  Y0u put up a liberal candidate, you’re going to lose.  You compromise a little to gain a numerical advantage that only exists in your little beltway-driven minds, you’re going to lose.  When you start drawing lines and telling us that the folks who fueled the conservative Revolutions of 1980 and 1994 are the reason the party is losing, you’re going to lose. You throw up an ethically-vacant candidate that wouldn’t know good behavior or morals and expect us to vote for them just because they have an (R) next to their name?  You’re going to lose.

Every.  Single.  Time.

We are the principled backbone of this country.  We are the spine of the Republican Party.  And we are not happy.  You will listen to us now, or you will hear our deafening silence when you beg for our support on election day.

Dump Dede.  Vote Doug.  Get it right.

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NY-23

The big buzz today in political realms is about New York 23rd Congressional district special election being held November 3rd.  Why is it important?  It is important because it is one of the first elections being held since the big O was elected as President last year.  This race has big implications for 2010 and 2012.

Why should you care?   Because New York is one of those special states that has a Conservative Party.  And I am not talking about Republican or Democrat either.   You can actually become registered as a card-carrying Conservative in New York.  Think about that for a moment.  You don’t have to deal with the party rhetoric that the Republicans or Democrat put out, you can actually register and vote on principle.  What a concept.

What is so important about the 23rd New York Congressional District is that the Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman is current leading in the polls over 2nd place Democratic Challenger Bob Owens, and 3rd plcae Republican Candidate Dede Scozzafava.  Why is Scozzafava dead last?  Because she is a liberal Republican, ala like Olympia Snowe.  Scozzafava is one of those Rino’s who support abortion, votes for tax increases and votes with the liberal Democratic party than with her own party.

In fact she is so liberal, that party insiders secretly agree that Democrat Bob Owens is more conservative that Scozzafava.  However, bring in Conservative Party Doug Hoffman, who is a fiscal Conservative who wants to reign in Big Government and end the wasteful spending that is going on today.  If fact, Hoffman is like you and me, an ordinary citizen that is not a career politician.  If you think of the movie “Mr. Smith goes to Washington”, Doug Hoffman is Mr. Smith.

And even with New York being a liberal state, Doug Hoffman has brought in big endorsements from Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson and Sean Hannity, amongst others because people recognize that he is a principled man who shares the same views that other conservatives do.  Scozzafava has only the support of Newt Gingrich and it makes me wonder whether Newt is all out the party or about principles.  I’m not sure but supporting a Rino like Scozzafava makes me think Newt is all about party.   People are sick of politics as usual and have decided to support someone who will go to Congress and take a stand.  That someone is Doug Hoffman.  Sure, one man may not be able to do much, but with the Government in crises, exorbitant spending, a threat to Health Care and Taxes on Energy,  a truly conservative revolution has to start someplace with someone and that someplace is the New York 23rd district and someone is Doug Hoffman.

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Not-So-Subtle Threats: The Chicago Way

Let’s let Obama cronies David Axelrod and Rham Emanuel speak for themselves:

“A lot of their news programming, it’s really not news. It’s pushing a point of view,” senior adviser David Axelrod said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“The way we — the president looks at it and we look at it, is, it is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel added on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“The bigger thing is that other news organizations, like yours, ought not to treat them that way, and we’re not going to treat them that way.”

Did you catch that?  On one hand, ol’ Dave is calling Fox News “not news”.  Mostly, I’m guessing, because of their rabid, slobbering, mindless hatred of Glenn Beck and anyone else who disagrees with the Obama agenda.  But that last comment, to me, anyway, sounds like both a set of orders (“don’t you other news organizations treat them like a news organization”) and a not-so-veiled threat (“this is what happens when you act like Fox News”) – something I’d expect from Rahm “Ram It Through” Emanuel.

Remember all the hubbub about the Bush Admin’s supposed fascism, all because they wanted to enable law enforcement agencies to work together to defend our nation from terrorists and people who want to detonate nukes in the middle of America?  Well…   where’s the outrage when the White House is unleashing similar attacks against a news channel it doesn’t control?

Well – to be truthful, even the left-wing media’s catching the threat and demanding that the White House stop its crusade against Fox News.

And yes, kids – it’s about control.  Anita Dunn – when she wasn’t praising mass murderers – was on foreign news channels admitting that the whole Media hearts Obama thing was indeed an exercise in controlling the airwaves.

Now, some people are calling the Obama Administration foolish, childish, and rash.  The one thing I’m going to call them is calculated.  This whole thing smacks of Saul Alinski’s Rules for Radicals.  Specifically:

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Ever hear an Obama Official talk about Fox News as a reliable source?  Ever heard a liberal talk about Faux News?  Ever wonder why?

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

Watch liberal voters’ response to the Obama White House’s actions against Fox.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose.

Have they ever let up?  Every day, there’s a new game being played.

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself.

Seriously – what would happen if there were TWO channels like Fox News out there?  Is a single news station really that important?

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

Glenn Beck?  Bill O’Reilly?  Etc.

Yes, I think they’re doing it deliberately, and yes – I think it’s yet another dangerous precedent set down by a White House that’s looking more and more like an exercise in Liberal Fascism every day.  Karl Rove (aka “The Most Evil Man in the World In the Eyes of Liberals, Socialists, Communists, and Other Assorted Enemies of Freedom”) says that he believes that the Obama Administration is compiling an enemies list, and I think he’s 100% right.

And I don’t think they’re doing all their work by themselves.  Look at the recent Rush Limbaugh stupidity that NCMike commented on last week.  They accused Rush of racism by using quotes pulled out of a book that had pulled them off of Wikipedia.  Rush never said anything remotely like what was attributed to him.  Frankly, I hope Rush sues the pants off of the responsible individuals.

And yet – the attacks ensued and continued.  The Usual Suspects (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton) began a chorus on how Rush (aka “The Bully“) was unfriendly to black people (Rush’s primary associate on his show, Bo Snerdly, is black as is his sometimes-replacement Dr. Walter E. Williams) and how his part-ownership of an NFL team would be a sign of the return of slavery, plantations, and separate water fountains.  This, coming from 2 guys – one of whom has never apologized for his role in the infamous Tawana Brawley incident – for which he was sued for slander and has never paid a dime, and one of whom called New York “Hymietown” and has yet to have apologized for his role in the Duke Lacrosse case.

Looking to Sharpton and Jackson for direction on racial reconciliation is like looking to Jenna Jameson for advice on celibacy.

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A Great, Diverse Silence

Obama’s new FCC Diversity Czar, Mark Lloyd, has a plan.

Back in 2007, Mr. Lloyd wrote a piece for the Center for American Progress called “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio“, in which he warned us of how eeeeeeeeeeeevil conservatives were planning to take over the world through talk radio, and how said conservatives must be silenced.  He lamented the fact that of the 257 talk / news radio stations owned by the top 5 broadcasters , only 9% were liberal, while 91% were conservative.

The Tool of Evil

Later, he penned an essay called “Forget the Fairness Doctrine“, in which he layed out an attack plan for liberals to use the FCC to target the licenses of conservative broadcasters.  He even made sure to mention Rush Limbaugh, because we all know that Rush Limbaugh is an eeeeeeeeeevil person who only works to destroy the future, kill old people, and stomp bunnies.  I’m pretty sure he drinks blood, too.

And now, he’s in charge of ensuring “diversity” among America’s broadcasters.

Today, I’ll issue a challenge to myself.  Consider it a bet with you guys that you don’t have to pay anything in to: if this guy’s actual purpose is diversity of any kind, I’ll eat my hat.  Seriously.  I’ll bake that sucker up, throw in some salt and pepper, and feast on.

As I said in an earlier post, liberals are scared.  They are truly terrified when they don’t have control of the argument, the language, the people.  It’s in their nature, and they truly cannot understand why people would ever NOT want to be under the control of the state (led, of course, by them).  The concepts of free individuals who can make up their own minds and a free market that can make its own decisions and enforce those decisions through investment spark a misfire in the brains of statists that, if it were caught in an MRI, would probably look like a stroke.

That’s why the idea of Rush Limbaugh being allowed to broadcast – let’s not even address the whole “most popular radio broadcaster in the country” thing – sends left wingers into apoplectic fits.  Rush isn’t controlled.  Neither is Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Mark Steyn, Neal Boortz, or any of the other conservative and libertarian broadcasters around the country.  They’re not controlled and they’re not intimidated.

And neither should you be.

The left has already laid out their plan, and yeah – our buddy Mark Lloyd, Diversity Czar, has it nailed: they want to silence the voice of the right.  They can’t trust that the reason that the left has consistently failed in their ability to produce a stable  broadcasting model has been because the market has spoken, and the market doesn’t like them.  Heck – they haven’t even figured out that the average citizen has the ability to change the channel to Air America.  In the liberal mind, it’s because of a lack of diversity, and if there’s anything that needs to be forced on people, it’s “diversity”.

That’s why they’ve laid out their plans to bring back the Fairness Doctrine – in doctrine if not in name.  That’s why they want to regulate blogs under the guise of “consumer protection”.  You see – when liberals call the Constitution a “Living Document” that can change its meanings over time, they mean it, especially when it comes to ideas that aren’t theres being protected by that pesky first amendment.

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