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Attention all conservative activists (including those to which you forward this blogpost)!

Your physical presence, and the physical presence of any individual activists you can round up, are critically needed on the House floor this morning, this afternoon, and throughout this week (and possibly beyond) to help cheer on the Republican Members who have returned from their August recess to protest not getting a vote on producing more American energy.

Not only do we need bodies in the House Chamber itself, but then we need those folks to report what they see. Tell the nation, tell the world. Blog, blast an email alert, call a reporter, write an op-ed, or just tell anyone you know.

Just tell folks to head toward the House gallery (3rd floor). I f you encounter problems, email me, neil.bradley@mail.house.gov, or ashley.hoy@mail.house.gov. Cameras of any kind will not be allowed, so don’t bother. This is why it’s all the more important to report on what you see. We expect 20 Members on the floor today—and maybe more.

Please join us and SPREAD THE WORD. Thank you….

Day 5: Republican Revolt Rolls On

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Folks I’m not an economist, I can’t recite any Wall Street jargon or crunch the array of financial data needed to bring clarity to our complex economy.
I’m a simple Negro, living a simple life, with few needs or wants. I have a good solid job with modest pay, as middle class as someone can be in this country.

Yes, I hear about people losing their homes, and job layoffs and I too pay the high cost for fuel although I have a short commute, but Mrs. Snoop travels further but does carpool.

Folks stop listening to the news for a few days and just observe. Go to a mall, some casino if you live near one. When you drive around just observe the traffic volumes and look at the kind of cars people are driving. Go to a restaurant on a Friday night.
I was recently in New York in the heart of Manhattan. Fucken people everywhere, stores were packed, restaurants were full, and lines to every Broadway show were around the block.
At the airport my flight to NYC was full, airport eateries were full, everyone was yapping on their cell phones, all the kids had Ipods, people were carting around overstuffed suitcases with the usual crap.

If this economy is in collapse I don’t fucken see it. Yes if someone is losing their home because of the mortgage crunch I have seen numerous examples where people were buying damm homes that the KNEW they could not afford.

People spending their money on bullshit like their THIRD Flat screen TV, or paying way too damm much for a idiot hybrid vehicle, or 500, 600 700 a month car payments because they want to keep up with their neighbors.
The lady friend of my good friend is making an $800 per month car payment on her Corvette, not to mention that she has a $35,000 Jeep in her garage too.
I’ve mentioned before women complaining about the $80, $90 fill-ups at the gay pump because they are driving a damm vehicle that gets 10 miles to the gallon as they insist that they need their version of a fucken tank to cart their fatass kids around to all of their various activities. These same people buying their kids cell phones and packing movie theaters to check out the new summer blockbuster.

All of that and these same people will sit their ass in front of the TV and watch the evening news and bitch and moan that Bush has ruined their lives, that they can’t make ends meet and if these people looked around their damm house and saw the new living room set that is still being paid on, or again that Flat screen TV that is still being paid on, or the multiple digital cable boxes with HD programming, the numerous video game components, computer apparatuses, the pool table you purchased that you never play on, that fancy new bedroom set, that new hardwood floor , the cool deck furniture, the shiny new bike for Junior, this was after that trip you took the Disneyland or Branson or Mexico with the kids and you selfish out of touch idiot pricks, the ones who would insist that George W. Bush has ruined your lives, you read this story about Phil Graham and his revealing truth and your dumbasses got angry and reiterated what every other clueless liberal and Obama supporter and liberal blogger is likely saying this morning “Graham is out of touch with real Americans.”
Now you have McCain acting like a little bitch and catering to the ignorant masses by rehashing the old Bill Clinton phrase “I feel your pain”

Graham said that “We have never has more natural advantages than we have today”
Someone please tell me where he is wrong!
Graham being a surrogate for McCain should have kept these comments to himself.
However his comments should be used as a catalyst to make folks everywhere take pause and do some serious self evaluation.
Anyone who had a problem with his comment frankly is not being honest with themselves and likely are the ones who continue to see government as mommy and daddy.

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This is from Talking Points Memo.com

A group called the National Black Republican Association — which previously achieved minor infamy for some really inflammatory and historically-inaccurate radio ads in the Maryland Senate race (MD-SEN: GOP Group’s Ad Claims Dr. King Was A Republican)– has set a new goal: Turn African-American voters against Barack Obama.

The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein reports that the NBRA has unveiled a new set of radio ads that it plans to run in battleground states on black radio stations, but they haven’t yet clarified exactly when or how big their buy will be. The ads manage the neat trick of sliming both the Democratic Party as racist and Obama as elitist.

READ THE REST…if you care..

CRANKY SNOOP RANT WARNING…DON’T READ UNLESS YOU ARE 21 OR OLDER

I still find it amusing that there is actually a group proclaiming themselves to be “Black Republicans” as
if that is some sort of special designation.

Although I pay little attention to Negro groups of any kind, I find this slightly amusing.
I use to care whether or not Negros continued to blindly follow and vote for idiot fuck Democrats but now
I really don’t give a shit any more.

Negros won’t ever be Republicans because most old guard Republicans are a bunch of out of touch rednecks
anyway, plus the Republican Party is turning into a bunch spineless politically appeasing wimps the
result being John McCain.
Unless the Republican Party has someone like ME, advising old white guys on how to deal with Negro
peculiarities, Republican might just as well be from another planet.
Republicans today can’t even articulate their own views or direction for the country as they have
abandoned conservative principles anyway much less trying to convince Negros that they can indeed
politically walk and chew gun at the same fucken time.

Besides if Negros want to vote for race baiting, anti-American, tax and spend political hacks the
very people who will fuck them at ever turn let them suffer as a result.
Obama is now the new Negro savior never mind his past dealings with slumlords and other questionable
ilk, he will somehow “blacken” the White House.
Never mind that fact that he is likely not to have a single Negro as a major player in his administration.
I know one of his lead dudes, and have met a number of other Obama campaign staffers, NOT ONE IS BLACK!
Helloooooo is this thing on!
Except for his black mug at the top his administration will be the most pigment challenged in recent
memory. Oops, I forgot he will have a bunch of faux Mexicans with “American” sounding names heading up various shit.

Anywho Negros are a confused bunch anyway, first Bill Clinton was their faux Negro savior and now he is a pariah.
As we all know Negros are like the Borg, most process with the same cloudy collective mindset when
it comes to politics. Does this Negro Republican group actually believe that running a bunch of
stupid commercials is going to change the mindset of the Jet and Ebony, barber and beauty shop Negro clientele?

Since I no longer identify myself as a Republican the foolish and clownish mindset of a Negro
Republican groups amuses the hell out of me. This is no less silly than the Congressional Negro Liberal Caucus.

What exactly would I gain by identifying myself as a “Black Republican”?
Not a damm thing, unless I was like most folks who have this innate need to be part of some group
whether it’s the fucken Masons, VFW, some idiot sorority or fraternity or Republicans or Democrats.
A group of peoples only purpose in identifying themselves as a collective is for partying purposes
and patting each other on the back when needed.

If these “Black Republicans” were part of educational reforms, were working in black communities
mentoring kids, creating jobs, investing capital in inner cities, working with established
community organizations t better the lives of Negros everywhere that would go much further in
changing the mindset of black folks instead of making videos and radio spots working as attack
surrogates for white Republican plantation bosses to try and con Negros into switching party
affiliations and changing voting patters and I’m her to tell y’all it will NEVER happen unless
someone comes up with some political pixie dust to sprinkle on fried chicken or some clever
subliminal messages that would air on any BET shows or Judge Mathis.

Ah I got the rant monkey off my back for today! LOL!

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I wanted to post this article since we were talking about this the other day.
Peggy U said in a comment:
“I’m definitely thinking a new Conservative party may be the only answer”

I agree 100% - Man I wish I could figure out some way to at the very least spark the interest of a bunch of blogger types to spur momentum on this.
If we don’t we will have more John McCain’s on our future presidential tickets.

by Lynn Woolley - On Human Events

Travis Childers has become an ominous symbol for Republicans. He has provided a wake-up call to party leaders that the great unwashed multitudes have understood for a while: the term “Republican” doesn’t stand for anything anymore. If the Republican Party is to survive, the brand will have to be rebuilt.Childers, by the way, is a Democrat who won Mississippi’s first congressional district – something virtually nobody thought possible. District One is one of the safer Republican seats in the country. If the Childers win is a harbinger, then look for the GOP to lose another twenty House seats in November. It’s possible that Democrats could pick up five seats in the Senate. If you combine that with a Democratic White House, the Republican Party fades to insignificance.

To understand how this has happened to the once-grand old party, you have to understand the concept of “positioning” of which “branding” is a part. Positioning is the art of creating a concept or “position” for a product in the mind of the prospective consumer. Once that position is established, you have a brand.

For example, both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble have web sites for selling books. But Amazon “owns” the position of being the on-line bookseller while people think of Barnes & Noble as a traditional store. These positions are strong brands.

It works that way with any product. If you buy a can of Folgers, you expect to get coffee. If you open the can and you get beans, you might think a mistake was made at the factory. You try again and this time, you get corn. The next time, you reach for another brand.

Back in the wilderness days of the 60’s and 70’s, the GOP didn’t stand for much and wasn’t particularly relevant. Then, in the wake of William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater, came Ronald Reagan. Reagan created a strong brand for the Republicans. He railed against Big Government, called for lower taxes, and a strong military. The Republican brand was established under Reagan as the party of empowering the people rather than the state.

It was a brand that showcased why the Republican Party was not only different from the Democratic Party – but better!

Then came the Bushes. The first President Bush famously said “read my lips, no new taxes,” then negotiated with Democrats to raise taxes. He talked about a “new world order” where Reagan had championed America. He bucked the brand and lost his reelection campaign to Bill Clinton.

Then came the second President Bush, who was thought by many to be more conservative than his father. Campaigning as a “compassionate conservative,” he claimed the presidency after the Florida debacle and began a gradual shift to the left.

He busted the Republican brand by expanding the Education Department and creating an entire new department (Homeland Security). He lost the battle to fix entitlements and responded by creating a new one, the pharmaceutical benefit, and by expanding middle-class welfare through CHIP insurance. For six years, he failed to wield his veto pen as the Republican Congress spent the country silly and tacked on billions of dollars in earmarks. 9/11 exposed the deterioration of our military prowess that occurred under the watch of his father and Bill Clinton.

Now here’s the really strange part of all this:

The more leftward Bush has turned, the more the Democrats and the media have branded him an archconservative. So Bush’s failures have been ascribed to conservative policies when they have been nothing of the kind.

The election of someone such as Barack Obama would ensure that most of the Bush policies (with the notable exception of the war) would be retained and expanded. Where Bush gave us a new entitlement, Obama would give us nationalized healthcare. Where Bush spent big, Obama would spend bigger.

Obama would give us a third Bush term.

McCain would give us open borders, amnesty for illegal aliens and just slightly less climate-change socialism than we would get from Obama. What’s the difference? Only that Obama will be true to his brand. He will faithfully provide higher taxes and bigger government. McCain, as Bush has done, will bust the brand and give us pretty much the same thing.

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(From the Politico)  Just a few years after the Republican Party launched a highly publicized diversity effort, the GOP is heading into the 2008 election without a single minority candidate with a plausible chance of winning a campaign for the House, the Senate or governor.

At a time when Democrats are poised to knock down a historic racial barrier with their presidential nominee, the GOP is fielding only a handful of minority candidates for Congress or statehouses — none of whom seem to have a prayer of victory.

At the start of the Bush years, the Republican National Committee — in tandem with the White House — vowed to usher in a new era of GOP minority outreach. As George W. Bush winds down his presidency, Republicans are now on the verge of going six — and probably more — years without an African-American governor, senator or House member.

That’s the longest such streak since the 1980s.

Read the rest, but why bother, let me tell ya why Republicans can’t recruit minorities. Tis very simple, to find credible minority candidates for offices around the country you usually have to find minority folks (LIKE ME) at the grass roots level.
They would be people involved in local school boards, city councils and various non-profit organizations.
I was a member of many of these organizations; the problem was I was usually the only Negro serving on many of these civic bodies.
Black folks who are not members of churches are not actively involved in community wide endeavors. By that I mean if they are “involved” it’s usually a minority based organization or group, because black folks want to be around their own kind.

I served on groups ranging from the United Way board to March of Dimes, to Zoning Boards to municipal finance committees. I was intertwined in all facets of the community not just those involving black folks, having said that, “Republican Party” folks are virtually non-existent in participating in these organizations.
Yes of course there are conservative minded people participating in these groups and organizations but they are not major players in the local GOP apparatus.
Besides let me just get to the real issue, most GOP types at the local level are a bunch of rednecks who rarely interact with black folks on any level anyway.
Most white folks make assumptions (usually correct) that if you do come across an active engaged “articulate” Negro he would most likely be a Democrat anyway.

I mentioned before that I was “recruited” by one very wealthy and prominent individual who had “juice” in the GOP, juice being Negro slang for power, status, REAL money.
He found out that I was a hard core conservative type and wanted me to run for a Congressional seat, which I would have won by the way, LOL!
However most GOP types run with their own kind, even at the local level they are elitist country club old money white people.

When I went to the KOS convention I was fascinated with this “progressive” group, can’t remember the name, but their job was simply to recruit the best and the brightest at the grass roots level, teach them how to become good political candidates, FIRST at the local level and then hopefully at higher levels as they gain credibility.
Republicans don’t do that, because first you have to be “one of the boys.”
You have to be willing to interact with folks at the grass roots level and interact with people outside of the white homeboys club.

The other side of that is when you usually find a “black” Republican type, they are usually phonies. They try to hard to become one of the “white” boys. They become highbrow, disconnected from their “Negro” roots because they feel that if they are to be accepted by their redneck friends they have to distance themselves from their Negroness.
Most black GOP candidates for offices are treated by the party like lab rats or a dog in a Kennel Club show. Lookie here we have a nice looking Negro to show you.
Alan Keys is the perfect example. He sounds off on Republican issues like a well trained monkey but he never comes across as “sincere.”
There is a world of difference between intellectual deep thinking true conservative types like Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, or Shelby Steele vs the Alan Keys and Armstrong Williams. Nothing against them but when I listen to them all they do is sound off on GOP talking points like they are trying to sell you something.
Basically they are the Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson on the right. Paid GOP mouthpieces for TV and lectures to white audiences fascinated to see darkies reminisce about the Reagan years and conservative values.

Mrs. Snoop and other have said that I should run for some office, but my main problem is the ranting I do on this blog does not translate well when dealing with folks in political circles. I am not a follower, nor a yes man. I believe in strong rock solid conservative principles.
It would be difficult for me on the campaign trail if asked about “global warming” not to give my true opinion on the issue, “that it is a total fraud and a ridiculous hoax and that the American taxpayer will eventually be fucken out of their money because of the hoax.” Man I can visualize the sound bites on You Tube. LOL!

In order to get elected you must come across as non threatening and a reasonable individual. In other words you must become a fucken liar and that trained monkey I so despise.

On the surface Snoop would not the preferred Negro to showcase to the country club, blue hair GOP types. I sport a 70’s style afro, I listen to rap, and I like to drink my Makers Mark while playing my X-Box 360.
I am overly opinionated, sometime crude, could care less what others opinions of me are, quick to tell someone to fuck off when they say something stupid and I am allergic to people who are total frauds.
I instantly lose respect for people who refuse to give me a firm and friendly handshake; I can look someone in the eye and tell if they are uncomfortable with my Negro exterior.

The GOP can’t recruit minorities because frankly they have no real interest in doing so. Like I said the GOP wants trained, well behaved, well spoken Negro monkeys delivered to the party. The GOP is not likely to take the time and dedicate resources to working with people at the grass roots level. This is where you will most likely find some of us.

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More Republican Party lunacy. McCain I guess wants to present the old white fart and redneck as an alternate to anti-American faux Negro ticket.

Read the story at Hot Air

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From Examiner.com

Sen. John McCain really does want to tempt the Republican base. …We’ve gotten our hands on an advanced transcript of this weekend’s “The Chris Matthews Show” on NBC and the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Katty Kay offered this nugget during the show’s “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” segment:

“John McCain is going to be doing more of these themed tours of America, and one of them is going to be on energy and global climate change. It could get him into trouble with Republicans, of course, and with the base, who don’t think there is much climate change going on, but it is something that he’s very passionate about and he’s going to be talking about it.”

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With all due respect to my fellow blogger at Politik Ditto and any other “conservative, republican blogger or part time pundit, I’m stunned at the amount of limited political framework many of you people have.Now this particular quote is from Larry Elder, you can read the full quote here, but this is symptomatic of what I keep reading in the right blogsphere and from right leaning pundits who are either remarkable clueless or are simply trying to kiss John McCain’s tired ass because they don’t want to be thrown under the bus when the old bastard wins the presidency.

This is why, when you listen to pundits, either on the radio or on one of the increasingly annoying talk shows take that into consideration, what do they have to gain by dissing McCain? If you are a Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin who are steadfast in their disdain for McCain they don’t give a fuck about McCain and their success does not hinge on McCain blessing them or reaching out to them.

But before I continue, read the quote:

As to the Supreme Court, think of the many 5-4 decisions, including but not limited to, Bush v. Gore, the decision that put President Bush in the White House. McCain supported nominees like Justices Alito, Thomas, Scalia, and Roberts. Why, he even voted for the “reactionary” Judge Robert Bork. Justice John Paul Stevens is 87 years old, with four more justices near or over 70. One more conservative appointee, and Roe v. Wade could be history. Are principled conservatives truly willing to allow that decision to remain for at least another generation? To quote another John, this time McEnroe, “You cannot be serious!”

Now first ask yourself, why would Elder make this particular statement? I’m thinking no shit Sherlock, that would be one seemingly logical assumption. But Elder is on the lower rung of the talk show posse. Don’t you think that with Elder, being right leaning that he just might want McCain to appear on his talk show one of these days?

However as we will soon see pundits will keep this bullshit trying to browbeat folks into being more enthusiastic about McCain. I’m like fuck McCain, don’t like him, won’t vote for him and I have my little corner of the blogsphere to give my 100 percent honest assessment of him.
Just imagine us in a nice pub somewhere knocking down some shots of your favorite whisky chatting.

First McCain in his early days will no doubt rail about Iraq, the war on terror, national security, bla bla bla, Democrats will again be pissed at fucking up another run at the White House and will no doubt will be bitching that Bush stole the election AGAIN.
But remember more than being president these people run for the presidency to leave a legacy and McCain, someone who is already prone to working with idiot Democrats in order to “get things done” on the domestic front, he will no doubt throw out the olive branch for his domestic agenda.

This is where our friend Elder is either remarkable dense or he conveniently leaves it out of his little rant.

McCain likely will be facing a Congress with larger majorities of Democrats than it now has.
It is far more likely that there will be significant Democratic gains in the Senate. The House looks decent for them too. If President McCain wants legislative victories, he will have to turn to those majorities to get them enacted. And he will be happy to do so. That’s how McCain has always operated, and there is no reason to believe that if he becomes president, he will operate in any other manner.

The conservatives who have opposed McCain during the campaign have cited his positions on immigration, campaign finance, climate change, tax cuts, and legal rights for detainees where he has sided with Democrats.

When McCain decides to work with the Democrats, he is really with them full throttle.
McCain is not someone who simply reaches across the aisle to form coalitions with the other side. He walks across the aisle, and gets into the Democrat huddle.
Every president wants to accomplish shit, no matter how stupid; anyone with any measure of common fucken sense knows he will have to do so on the Democrats’ terms.
So people like Elder can run this “Supreme Court bullshit” all they want, but if you think McCain will be able to get away with nominating conservative leaning types to the court you are badly mistaken.

A John McCain presidency will be a huge disaster for Republicans, that statement is slight irrelevant now of course, if Obama is the Democrat nominee, McCain will be the prez unless he does something or says something stupid in a debate like, “we are going to be in Iraq for 100 years.” Old white people are the strongest voting block, old white people, now in their late 60’s or 70’s, the ones who either stood on the sidelines, pretended that it was not going on, or did not give a shit while black folks we being lynched, and denied access to public places and creating suburbia escaping from Negros are not likely to vote for a socialist Negro.

These Republicans like Romney who are now speaking up for McKein, are doing so out of party loyalty and possible future perks.
Political pundits who speak in favor of McCain are doing so because they want to get on his good side.
Jesus people when you read or hear about candidate endorsements ask yourself one simple question, what does that individual have to gain by pimping for candidate A or B?

If McCain is the prez, and you are a reporter or pundit you don’t think dude will have you sitting in the corner of the White House briefing room behind a support post?
Consider this the next time you read these blogs now as many of them are now political insiders and subject to perks.

Politics are not that difficult to figure out when you factor in the “what’s in it for me” element.

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Found on Six Meat Buffet - Courtesy of See-Dub:

Somewhere across America there is a politician running who meets your standards for enlightened conservatism. Send him twenty dollars. Every month. And a letter saying what you think is important, and maybe print out an article (or blog post) you think his staff ought to read.

Congress is our firewall. We need it. Whoever gets in the White House, he or she is gonna be a pro-amnesty squish at best and the Shamnesty crew is already doing a little dance about it. So we need to do whatever we can to slow it down in Congress. And we need some Senators who are going to filibuster their little butts off when McCain or Obama or Hillary send some noodle-spined hack through the confirmation process on his way to being a judge or a cabinet member. We can’t lose any seats and even safe seats, like Jim Inhofe’s in Oklahoma, need your attention and support.

This is so true and why I’ve stopped not worrying about the race for the White House.  Conservative bloggers and alternative media types I’m sure will keep folks informed on true conservative candidates around the country.

Here was a perfect example:

>From CNSNews.com

Fiscal conservatives are celebrating the defeat of Republican Rep. Wayne Gilchrist in Maryland’s 1st Congressional District on Tuesday. The ten-term U.S. congressman lost the primary election to a more conservative candidate, State Sen. Andrew Harris. The Club for Growth’s Political Action Committee, which endorsed Harris, called his win a victory for Maryland taxpayers. “Andy Harris campaigned on a message of economic conservatism, calling for lower taxes, an end to wasteful government spending, and greater economic freedom,” the Club for Growth said on its Web site.

“With a solid victory over Wayne Gilchrest, it is clear that Harris’ strong record of standing up for taxpayers in Maryland’s State Legislature and his message on the campaign trail resonated with Republican voters. Voters refused to settle for pork barrel spending and higher taxes when they had a taxpayer hero like Andy Harris to vote for.” Club for Growth President Pat Toomey said he’s confident Harris will win the general election in November. “It is clear from tonight’s victory that voters want their representatives to stand up and fight for limited government and economic freedom,” Toomey said.

From Lifenews.com

State Sen. Andrew Harris had the backing of pro-life groups in the primary battle as Rep. Gilchrest had compiled just a 16 percent pro-life voting record this year.

While Gilchrest supported both abortion and embryonic stem cell research as well as taxpayer funding of both, Harris takes a pro-life position.

Here in Kansas we will have one of the most highly contested and one of the most important races in the country:

(link) Venerable congressional handicapper Stu Rothenberg is out with his latest forecasts for ‘08.

Rothenberg’s list; He rates Democratic incumbent Nancy Boyda contest in the “pure tossup” category. Boyda will face either Republican Lynn Jenkins or Jim Ryun.

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I shall put myself in “timeout” for falling for such a fucken fraud, Fred Thompson and his phony “conservative” campaign.

Found Via Hot Air  - (full post here)  - The Bolton endorsement and the Fred endorsement on the same day. 

While campaigning in Wichita, this afternoon with KS senator and former presidential candidate Sam Brownback, John McCain announced that he had recently received the support of another former candidate. “I also spoke again yesterday to my friend Fred Thompson who assured me he is ready to do whatever it takes to help me win the election in November,” McCain said. “I’m very proud to have the friendship and support of Fred Thompson as well.”

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Found on Riehl World View

Actually, Chris Cillizza (heretofore to be pronounced See-Sleaze-Ya’ll) at WaPo’s The Fix blog commits two major sins against the Right-side grass roots: 1 - he left out Mark Levin, and 2) well, read it yourself. Evidently Cillizza simply cannot comprehend that more than a few people in America happen to share many of the views related by Right-side talking heads - and when they diverge, they’re simply ignored. No, we’re just a bunch of idiots waiting to be told what to do.

Make no mistake: Rush Limbaugh (and Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham etc.) are a very powerful voice within the Republican party. Conservatives watch and listen to them daily and often take their marching orders directly from the mouths of these hosts.

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My Two Cents

Taking marching orders from… hardly!

I do find it amusing that the MSM are totally clueless on the McCain vs the Conservative base war.
If McCain is elected president, as a Republican liberals and Democrats also win. His victory would represent a major ideological fundamental shift leftward for this nation.

There are two major political parties for now. Since McCain heavily courts independents and leftists Democrats the lines of the two parties will be blurred. Fundamentally there will be no clear ideological differences between the two parties, as a conservative that concerns me.

Whether you are more left or right leaning, having choices is what makes our political system work. We should be battling for ideas, not party labels.

Politicians talk more and more about reaching across the aisle and working together.
I don’t want the politicians I vote for to compromise ideology or doctrine.
If my side is not convincing enough to win the battle of ideas, then my side should then take a back seat and regroup.
Electing McCain though under the “republican” label, my values still has been compromised.

I have been listening to Rush for almost 20 years and his fight with McCain is exactly the reason why I have respected and valued his opinion over the years. He has never stood up for party labels only conservative values. If you are indeed a conservative and believe that voting for McCain is acceptable simply because he has an “R” after his name and the fact that he recycles conservative sounding rhetoric that he clearly does not believe in, then you simply can’t be a conservative and you have frankly brought into the Washington insider GOP hierarchy. I’m not going to vote for someone who is “republican enough.”

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Briefly on Mitt, first off dude is not a conservative. I doubt seriously that I will vote for him, but he is definitely better than McCain. Mainly because he to me is a man with no political soul or center. He is an empty vessel which basically means that he will become whatever he needs to become to win the White House. So he is playing the right wing card. He knows that there are shit loads of people like myself who hates McCain and simply won’t vote for the liberal jackass out of principle.
If Romney gets the White House he will do what he is told and pretend to follow the conservative example to keep the base happy.
His legacy frankly is more important to him that his political soul. I will admit the fact that old guard Republican establishment types hate him makes me like the dude.

I sincerely hope that over the next few years the true conservative voices will rise up and slowly get rid of these old, tired ass, white haired, country club types, fraud Republicans and start electing TRUE conservatives to the House and Senate.

Links via Michelle Malkin

If there’s one thing we’ve learned in this presidential season so far, it’s that nothing is a sure thing. John McCain says he “assumes” he’ll get the nomination and that he’ll have it wrapped up by Super Tuesday.I wondered over the weekend whether the Rasmussen poll showing McCain and Mitt Romney in a dead heat was an anomaly. Well, here’s Zogby putting Romney 8 points ahead in California:

Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, led McCain 40 percent to 32 percent in California, where the margin of error was 3.3 percentage points. A win in California, the most populous state, could help puncture McCain’s growing momentum in the Republican nomination fight.

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Look for McCain and Huck to increase their class warfare attacks and conspiracy-mongering, while continuing to coo to each other about their civility.

Paul Mirengoff at Power Line explains why he’ll vote for Romney:

The McCain I saw in the California debate last week didn’t look particularly electable. With the economy emerging as the overwhelmingly central issue in the campaign, with McCain’s nasty streak increasingly on display, and with his reputation for straight-talk diminishing before our eyes, I’m not prepared to base a vote for the Senator on electability.

The decision thus comes down to policy and effectiveness. I give Romney the edge on both counts.

Much more here

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This is from Erick at Red State

I have sad news to report.While the Republicans in the United States House of Representatives are willing to fight for conservative principles, particularly those that divide the Democratic caucus in the House, the Republicans in the United States Senate have agreed to capitulate to the Democratic agenda.

Yesterday, I obtained internal Senate emails from Senator Lamar Alexander’s staff. Senator Alexander is in charge of setting the GOP agenda. The emails, which you can read here, signal an intention to cave in to Democratic “bipartisan” initiatives and abandon all efforts to rein in earmarks and spending.

What makes this more troubling is that at yesterday’s GOP Senate retreat, pollster David Winston told the Republicans that one reason they lost the Senate was because of spending. Senator Alexander and the Republican leadership have decided to reject that data and, instead, embrace their minority status.

Rather than push bold conservative issues, the Senate GOP Leadership will instead enjoy the table scraps Harry Reid, Teddy Kennedy, and Hillary Clinton throw them from the leadership table.

Please call your Republican Senator at (202) 224-3121 and tell him to reject bipartisan expansions of government and fight for conservative ideas that stop wasteful spending on bridges to nowhere and Hippie museums.

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From Michelle Malkin -  I hope my absolute disdain for John McCain is not too obvious, LOL!

After spearheading a disastrous, security-undermining illegal alien amnesty bill last year with Teddy Kennedy, “straight-talking” GOP Sen. John McCain claims he has seen the light. In TV appearances, he vows to put immigration enforcement first.

On the campaign trail, he offers a perfunctory promise to strengthen border security and emphasizes the need to restore Americans’ trust in their government’s ability to defend the homeland. Not all of us have forgotten how the short-fused Arizona senator cursed good-faith opponents in his own party (“F**k you!” and “Chickensh*t” were the choice words he had for Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn during a spat over enforcement provisions).

Not all of us have forgotten that he voted against barring felons from receiving amnesty benefits under his plan. Not all of us have forgotten the underhanded, debate-sabotaging manner in which McCain/Kennedy/Graham/Harry Reid conspired to ram their package down voters’ throats.

For all his supposed, newfound enlightenment about what most Americans want—protection against invasion, commitment to the rule of law, meaningful employer sanctions, an end to sanctuary cities, enforcement-by-attrition plus deportation reform, and an end to special illegal alien benefits that invite more law-breaking–The Maverick remains a Geraldo Rivera Republican. Like the ethnocentric cable TV host who can’t string a sentence about immigration together without drowning in emotional demagoguery, McCain naturally resorts to open-borders platitudes when pressed for enforcement specifics.

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Found on the blog Blue Tide Rising, leftist blog…

The Kansas Republican Party begins 2008 with a paltry $4,000 cash on hand in the non-federal account. $4,100 isn’t enough to cover payroll and keep the lights on February, and it’s certainly not enough to do the kind of Partybuilding Republicans need to do if they ever hope to rise from the ashes.They raised $53,000 in 2007 but only have $4,100, so what happened to all the money? Answers can be found deeper in the report:

• They finally stopped treating Ron Freeman’s service like slave-labor and honored their contract with him, ponying up nearly $6,000 for his string of failures in 2006. This ate up more than 10% of their already broken budget.
• $5,080 was paid to Singularis (web consultants) to launch two new GOP websites, while the Party’s homepage stagnates. An outsourced website might explain why this prominent misspelling remains online.
• $2,600 was spent of a “Kline for Attorney General” mailing from 2006. How many more debts are out their waiting to be collected on?
• Nearly $6,000 dollars was spent on postage. Caging, apparently, ain’t cheap.

When it rains it pours. The finance reports for a accounts established by the KS GOP to contest the 2nd and 3rd Congressional Districts are looking more a little threadbare as well. Their 2nd District account has less than $500.00 dollars in it. The GOP filed an exemption for the 3rd District account because they were unable to find a single donor willing to give at least 50 dollars.

For contrast, the Kansas Democratic Party filed with $82,000 cash on hand at the beginning of 2008. That’s more than Kobach & Co raised and spent in all of 2007. Democrats raised a whopping $560,000 in 2007. Their Congressional accounts are doing well, too; $11,000 in the 2nd District and $50,000 in the 3rd District.

Republicans are going to need alot o’ luck to reclaim these seats, because they haven’t got alot o’ money.

I only post because there is nothing out there today that excites or interests me.
So when I’m bored I troll leftist blogs.
I found this piece somewhat interesting because one its local and two I find it odd that a liberal blog would waist time snickering at the financial woes of Republicans.
I don’t know do you do this because it makes you feel better ranting about broke ass Republicans?

Then I read further and dudes post touts that the Democrats have raised a whopping $82,000! Oh shit, these mutherfuckers are rollin’ in the dough! Big deal, 82k to borrow a Negro term “ain’t jack.” Typical Democrats, kinda like saying that people are “rich” and when you ask your typical Democrat what “rich” means they can’t tell you, basically anyone not on welfare means rich.
The fact that both parties have paltry fund raising success is because the same old tired ass people are at the head of the ship, no leadership nor cohesiveness, no goals, no call to action.

Anywho being racially sensitive (or overly sensitive) I focused on the line, “They finally stopped treating Ron Freeman’s service like slave-labor” Ron Freeman is a black dude, Democrats can’t help but to inject race into every damm thing.

I have said many times that Kansas Republicans are just fucked, they keep sending me fund raising literature and I have no intention on ever sending these people a dime for the reasons stated above.

I did find the paying of web consultants amusing because I mentioned how shitty and outdated the GOP website was to a number of people and volunteered to work on the site FREE.
I at one time wanted to get more involved in the state GOP party and offered assistance on several issues, website, communication, putting together programs ect but was given the obligatory cold shoulder Negros get when you attempt to stick your toes into the whites only pool.

Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m sure Democrats would have done the same thing.
Someone asked me awhile back if I would be interested on serving on some African-American affairs group. After thinking about it, I though what the heck but was given the cold shoulder by this bunch of old Negro flunkies.
One of the reasons why I’m ranting on this blog, I said fuck it, why involve myself with a bunch of do nothing bastards because most people who serve on these various committees do it for show, and not to actually accomplish anything and if you are an outsider or not willing to conform or ass kiss to participate in these various groups you are not welcomed.
And both of these political parties wonder why people keep ranting about “change.”

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This from Michelle Malkin

No, they’re not blaming Diebold, but there are some questions…

The results of Republican nonbinding straw polls in some Wyoming counties Saturday don’t jibe with the statewide delegate selection results in favor of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.In Johnson County, for example, former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee came in first in the straw poll, while Romney was in fourth place.

Johnson County Republican precinct voters chose as an alternate delegate Bob Snowdon, who is uncommitted and was the only person nominated to attend the national GOP convention, said Jerry Eastwood, chairman of the Johnson County Republican Party.

Johnson County Republicans who contacted the Star-Tribune Monday, including Ruth Osborn of Buffalo, questioned why statewide straw poll results had not been publicized.

Osborn, a state GOP committeewoman, said in a telephone interview Monday that people were asking why the national news media were reporting Wyoming voted for Romney when her county’s straw poll gave him fourth place.

“I’ve had several people say to me, ‘Why did it come out for Romney? I’m not in favor of Romney,’” she said.

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Folks I hope those of you who come a peep my little blog realize one thing, one of the main reasons I blog is for my own educational purposes.
This blog is hardly viewed by nor will it ever be viewed by enough people for it to be “influential” or relevant.
I am an obsessive blog reader, I have said countless times I love my homies on the right, even those with whom I may not agree with on every topic mainly because they are truly educated in the world of politics and most are passionate.

I am really pissed off this morning, partly because I’m a bit cranky since I have been on Mrs. Snoops South Beach diet. I am munching on celery, cherry tomatoes and cottage cheese for breakfast. She says the first two weeks are the hardest, it’s true. I have not had ANY alcohol in almost 3 weeks, no joke. Anywho, Snoop, anger… aimed at so-called Republicans. I usually keep the TV on in my office and I watch the pundit gab fests as background noise and I constantly get pissed at all of the networks including Fox who continue to prop up these fraud ass Republicans and intentionally leave Fred out of the election conversation and it has worked.

I listened to several radio talk shows, (not Rush, he was out yesterday) and the phone lines were filled with “republicans” saying that they did not know ANYTHING about Fred Thompson, and how he has failed to articulate his views on issues.
Forget abut Fred for a minute here, my problem is with these so called Republicans, bunch of old dumb ass ignorant fucks who continue to be so easily swayed by these jackass GOP phonies while at the same time say that “while I was excited about the possibility of a Thompson campaign, he just has not shown me anything.” What the fuck is he suppose to show you, does dude got to dance on his damm head and do magic tricks to get noticed?

I’ve got to give it up to Ron Paul fans, although dude is frankly a political train wreck, his peeps got the word out about him and has forced people to pay some attention to him.
I won’t mention Paul’s treasure chest of issues including his racist past that his fans refuse to acknowledge.
But hey, dude got 7 percent of the vote last night, major props.
Libertarians should back their own, guy and they did it.
However the Republicans, at least the people I hear bitching and moaning are infinitely clueless.
At least the Democrats have a choice between liberal candidates’ number one, number two and number three, while the Republican field is being led by a bunch of closet liberal Democrat flunkies.
I’m angry at the party, and feel that the Republican Party is in deep trouble. I was sent another Republican Party questionnaire and this contribution form, I would not send the GOP a fucken dime, I need to even stop referring to myself as a Republican.
I understand that New Hampshire was not going to be competitive for Fred, but for him to get one fucken percent of the vote is just retarded beyond belief.

Rush talks about this scenario and I totally understand, I really get it, but my hopes for Fred are fading, not for him as a candidate, but that so-called Republicans either too stupid, or increasingly vulnerable to TV pundit yammering and are just too damm lazy to understand the difference between these candidates.
Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter two rock solid, plain spoken individuals without a hint of leftist pandering are nowhere to be found in the conversation, except for most of these politically educated right leaning blogs their message is obviously over most “so-called” Republicans heads.

Folks I would have not problem with people saying to me, I have studied all of the issues and looked at all of the candidates equally but I support candidate A.
But that is not what “Republicans” are doing and saying, they are claiming ignorance, something the party and it’s peeps are showcasing more and more each day.

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RUSH: Now, I want to remind all my Republican friends that there are many states after Iowa and New Hampshire where the Republican populations are far more indicative of the conservative base, and to get caught up in what happened in Iowa, to get caught up in what’s going to happen in New Hampshire as though they’re the only two states that matter and that they’re going to determine the fallout on both parties is a little bit over the top.Iowa is a caucus; it’s a weird setup. New Hampshire allows independents to vote in the Republican primary, which is why McCain is doing as well as he is doing, and it’s why the media want this to be a bellwether against Romney. I mean, Pat Buchanan came in second. He came in a very strong second in New Hampshire in 1992. Now, I’m not saying that these contests are not to be taken seriously here, and that they’re not to be fought and to be won, but we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. New Hampshire is no longer the conservative barometer it used to be. The state has changed, it is now quite liberal. A lot of people who used to live in Massachusetts have moved into New Hampshire to escape New Hampshire’s high taxation and other problems. New England generally the northern states, states like Iowa, is not where the conservative base resides in large numbers. The Drive-By Media would love to destroy the conservative coalition. They would love to destroy the conservative base to the Republican Party. That’s why they are promoting Huckabee; it is why they are promoting McCain.

The Drive-By Media, ladies and gentlemen, will tell us each and every day who the true conservatives in the Republican primary are, and they will tell us by virtue of who they attack and also by virtue of who they prop up. They are propping up McCain; they are propping up Huckabee. The Drive-By Media hate conservatives. They want to destroy conservatism. It is the bulwark standing in their way of power and monopolistic control of all the apparatus of the country, government, media, and everything else. It’s one of the best indicators I can offer you. If you’re asking who is the genuine conservative out there or who is most conservative, who is most liberal on the Republican side, just take a look at who the Drive-Bys are enamored of and you will be able to answer the question yourself without me having to tell you. Why do you think that Senator McCain is making his big stand in New Hampshire? Because he did well there in 2000 and because he knows he runs really well with independents. He knows that New Hampshire is not a big conservative state.

If McCain were running on a genuine conservative agenda he’d be focusing on South Carolina for example, but he’s not. He’s focusing in New Hampshire because he thinks conservatives can be outnumbered there by this new influx of independents. You know, he’s up there in New Hampshire, if you listen to McCain, touting his left-wing environmental agenda with Joe Lieberman, for crying out loud. Now, recently there has been an endorsement that have people scratching their heads. “Jack Kemp, supply-sider, endorsing McCain? What’s this all about?” I’ll give you two reasons, and I’m just hazarding my own guess here, but I think it’s the old boys club in Washington, the inside the Beltway establishment apparatus, and the dirty little secret: Congressman Kemp is an open borders guy. So is Senator McCain. Have you noticed that in these forums and debates, McCain doesn’t want to talk about immigration; he doesn’t want to talk about campaign finance reform; he doesn’t want to talk about the things that genuinely rile conservatives? He wants to sweep those issues under the rug, and try to redefine what those issues were all about and what his position was on both of them.

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GOP hopeful now claims he ‘never supported’ reprieve for illegals

Sen. John McCain’s Straight Talk Express may have derailed in the New Hampshire debates.In tonight’s Fox News presidential forum, the GOP hopeful denied charges he favored an immigration-reform plan that offered amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

“I have never, ever supported amnesty, and never will,” McCain asserted.

During the ABC News presidential debate on Saturday, he angrily denied it and even suggested anybody who says he did support amnesty is a “liar, is lying.”

But in a May 28, 2003, press conference in Tucson, the Arizona senator said Congress should pass a guest-worker program that includes “amnesty” for illegal workers in the U.S.

“I think we can set up a program where amnesty is extended to a certain number of people,” McCain said. “Amnesty has to be an important part, because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here and pay taxes here and are not citizens.”

“He used the word,” noted GOP rival Gov. Mitt Romney during the Fox debate, referring to amnesty.

He also pointed out that McCain co-sponsored a bill to provide so-called Z visas to illegals who “earn the right,” as McCain explained, to stay in the U.S. That includes paying a $5,000 fine and maintaining a job here, McCain said.

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Dear Iowa Republicans,I’ll put this in language even your tiny little Iowa brains can understand: What the f*** is wrong with you people?

The news coming out of Des Moines (literally, French for “tell me about the rabbits, George”) tonight is distressing in the extreme. 32 years ago, your Democratic brethren took one look at Jimmy Carter — the worst 20th Century President bar Nixon, and the worst ex-President ever — and declared, “That’s our man!”

Three decades later, and along comes Mike Huckabee. Same moral pretentiousness, same gullibility on foreign affairs, only-slightly-less toothy idiot’s grin. Then you so-called Republicans took a look at Carter’s clone and said, “That’s our man, too!”

And by a pretty wide margin.

I’ll give you some credit where it’s due: you guys had sense enough to give Fred Thompson a breather, and Ron Paul a pretty solid kick in the (ahem) nuts. But Mike Huckabee? Really? We’ve seen this game before, and its name is… every other single stupid, un-winnable candidate you’ve ever picked — which is most of them.

So I repeat the question: What is wrong with you people?

All my love, you corn-sucking idiots,

VodkaPundit

PS You’re making Iowa Democrats look like Albert freakin’ Einstein. How’s that feel?

DITTO!!!!

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I’m listening to Rush as usual and my head hurts listening to this one caller who claims that he is undecided as to what GOP candidate to endorse.
Then dude eventually comes clean and says that he supports Suckabee because he is the “most” conservative. He then says later that Giuliani would be a good alternative.

Now I understand that people are willing to go to great lengths to give props to their candidate of choice and even flat out lie about his or her credentials.
However those of you who claim to be Republicans and yet support the obvious liberal tendencies of a candidate like Suckabee or Romney, shit even John McCain is amazing to me.
I have said prior, it’s not like you can’t go to You Tube and listen to what these candidates have said before or read prior articles on legislative action taken by these individuals while they occupied former offices. You can go to countless websites and see specifically the records that many of the GOP candidates try to conceal or misrepresent.

Despite all of that, I hear to way too many callers talk shows, (exceedingly funny when they try to pull this bullshit on Rush), trying to redefine what conservatism really means and moving solid benchmarks that should be required of any good solid GOP candidate.

As Rush and countless other political pundits have pointed out, but Rush in particular, Republican candidates need not pander to the left to win elections.
Kissing the collective asses of liberal Democrats is not what any TRUE Republican candidate for president should be doing.

The fact that I keep reading and hearing supposedly Republican voters pimping for the likes of Suckabee, the lying fraud Romney and a cross dressing Rudy is somewhat disturbing.
Maybe these campaigns have adopted the guerrilla tactics of Ron Paul supporters and have been instructed to manipulate poll numbers, frequently call talk shows, write letters to the editor, spam websites and blogs completely ignoring the essential substance of their candidate of choice.

Here is a portion of a transcript of Rush’s show where he talks about “Identity Politics”
particularly talking about Sucakbee and his followers.
Basically tard Christian types who think that just because Suckabee is this former preacher man that he must be the “God” candidate. I can here the redneck accents as I type this, “I support Huckabee because he is an Evangelical Christian”
(remember to say that in your best hillbilly voice)
Never mind his actual record and the fact that well….Suckabee is a closet liberal tard!
Note to you die hard people pimping the fact that Suckabee was a former preacher and “man of God”, look I have several former classmates who back in the day said point blank that they were going to be preachers because of the money they could make.
Yes all are now pretty successful preachers, one pimping parishioners in one of the oldest and most prominent churches in Alabama.
The only difference between them and yours truly is I much rather play Xbox and chill than eying the collection plates while “entertaining” folks on Sundays.
That is what frankly way too many shyster bible wavers engage in. Suckabee has just chosen to take his carnival road show into politics.
It worked in coning the people of Arkansas; I just hope that the American people won’t get screwed into supporting another man from… Hope?

RUSH: Okay, folks, let me tell you what’s going on now. I sadly, and unfortunately, must make this point reacting to our last caller. What we have going on here is identity politics, I think, in a large swath of support for Governor Huckabee. Identity politics is what the left does. Do you know what I mean when I say “identity politics,” Rachel? Okay.

Identity politics is: You vote for the Christian. You vote for the black. You vote for the woman. This is traditionally how the left looks at people. We, as conservatives, don’t. We don’t see you, for example, in a political sense, and see a woman first. We might see a woman first because you’re beautiful, but we’re men and we can’t help it. In a political sense, we wouldn’t say, “You don’t qualify. You’re not smart because you’re a woman,” and we wouldn’t say you deserve anything special because you’re a woman. We wouldn’t look at a black and say, “Oh! Poor, disadvantaged, slavery heritage, presidential material!” without knowing anything about the guy.

We wouldn’t if there was the first admittedly open gay running, we wouldn’t say, “Oh, terribly discriminated against, really has had no chance! We’re going to vote for the gay guy because it makes us feel better about ourselves.”That’s identity politics, or a little strain of it, and that’s what’s happening in the Huckabee race. The identity of Huckabee is: “Christian, Southern Baptist minister,” and that identity is covering and is being translated by supporters as meaning whatever they want it to mean, as opposed to actually looking at how he’s governed. Like the pastor who just called and said Huckabee is a light at the end of the tunnel. Pastor, the light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train, and you can’t get off the track!

That’s the light at the end of the tunnel, and I think identity politics was a fundamental feature of the Perot campaign as well. People really didn’t even care what his policies were. He didn’t even have to articulate policies. Remember that? (classic Ross Perot impression) “I’ll tell you, Larry, here’s what we’re going to do! We’re going to get rid of all these 737s, going to hire a bunch of Lear 55s. We’re going to have smaller airplanes.” He cares so much! “You own this country! You own it. This is your country. We’re going to give this country back to you.” That’s identity politics, and this is traditionally not what conservatives and even Republicans, right-wingers, do.

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DES MOINES, Iowa–Stepping out for a press conference here Monday, Mike Huckabee fielded the ultimate question. Just how conservative are you?”I’m as conservative as anyone could hope to be, or want to be, or needs to be,” replied the smiling former Arkansas governor, never missing a beat, and following up with a boilerplate summary of his belief in “lower taxes,” the “sanctity of human life” and a “strong military”–before moving ever so swiftly on to the next question.

It was trademark Huckabee: Sounds great, explains little. It’s a strategy that has so far served him well, rocketing his campaign in recent weeks to the top ranks of the Republican presidential field. The question is whether he can continue to pull off that trick, now that he’s receiving belated media scrutiny. A few days following the candidate on the Iowa campaign trail suggests it could prove tough. If Mr. Huckabee does turn out to be everything Republicans “want” or “need” in a conservative, it will only be because the definition of a conservative has morphed to include tax hiking, protectionism, corporate scolding and an unserious approach to foreign policy.

What aren’t in doubt are Mr. Huckabee’s social-values credentials. He has an undisputed record on questions of abortion and gay marriage, and he’s spent no small portion of his limited advertising money making sure Iowa voters know it. Christian conservatives make up an estimated 40% of the state’s GOP vote, and by all accounts he’s slowly locking up that vote. That alone accounts for a fair share of his recent rise in the polls.

Mr. Huckabee is the charisma candidate. Like another man from Hope, Ark., the onetime pastor is an extraordinary speaker. He’s self-deprecating and funny, has perfect timing, and never struggles for an answer. He has that rare ability to pull out just the right story in response to any situation, and to deliver it in a folksy, Southern way.

Read the rest of this article here, but let me first just say this; Folks I’m angry, as angry as someone can be on Lexapro, and drinking Irish Cream on the rocks at 9:00a.m.
As this piece points out we are allowing people to redefine conservatism, this article focuses on Huck but the same can be said for 3 faux Republicans and what is worse far too many of you are allowing it.

As of today, December 18, 2007 I still have the utmost confidence that Fred Thompson will be the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States.
One reason why I believe that is because the major networks are completely ignoring him. Snoop WTF? I’ll explain.
Virtually every pundit on Fox goes out of their way to dismiss him and call him irrelevant. Republican pundits on interviews won’t even mention him.
I have even heard a couple of Democratic strategist say if he does not win South Carolina he will be out of the race.
Ask yourself this, if Fred Thompson’s campaign is in its final days, they why go out of your way to mention that?
Basically the media and the pundits are working awfully hard to discredit “an irrelevant” candidate.

Lets get real here; the Democrats do not want to run against Thompson, because he is not a closet liberal, because he has never advocated for big government, opening our boarders to illegal immigrants, reducing our military, backing away from the war against Islamic terrorist pimps, granting clemency to murderers and the list goes on.
He is not flashy, not a smooth talker, he looks like a worn out grandpa on most days, has this annoying clearing of the throat thingy he does, and dude needs to STILL get some good designer to have his suites tailored to fit him better.
But most of all I respect and admire an individual who is one of the Thompson’s campaigns most important individuals. I have said this before