Character Assassination = Voter Fraud

From Thomas Sowell:

But the poisonous practice of irresponsible smears is an issue that is bigger than Gingrich, Romney, or any other candidate of either party.
There have long been reports of people who decline to be nominated for federal judicial appointments because that means going before the Senate Judiciary Committee to have lies about their past spread nationwide, and the good reputation built up over a lifetime destroyed by politicians who could not care less about the truth.
The same practices may well have something to do with the public’s dissatisfaction with the current crop of candidates in this year’s primaries — and in previous years’ primaries. Character assassination is just another form of voter fraud.
There is no law against it, so it is up to the voters, not only in Florida but in other states, to punish it at the ballot box — the only place where punishment is likely to stop the practice.

This is one of the reasons that the best and brightest among us seem to have no inclanation to serve in government,but it seems that the dredge of our society serve with pleasure instead.

Ron Paul Is Likely To Win More Delegates Than Either Gingrich Or Santorum This Week

From The Christian Science Monitor:

“Hold it”, you’re saying, “How can that be? Rep. Paul’s polling in single digits in Florida. He’s going to finish behind Gingrich and Santorum, as well as Mitt Romney, in Tuesday’s Florida primary. How can that translate into beating any of his rivals at all?”
We’ll tell you how – because he’s not winning those delegates in Florida. He’s winning, or will probably win, at least a few delegates in Maine.

If you are getting your news exclusively from the MSM you wouldn't know that.

'Rep. Allen West - "Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Get The Hell out of the USA'

Amen and amen!

Wouldn't a Ron Paul and Allen West ticket be great come this Fall.

Hat tip to BREITBART.

'The Democratic Party Occupies Oakland'

From Free North Carolina:

Occupy Oakland protesters broke into City Hall, stole an American flag from the City Council chamber and set it on fire Saturday night, punctuating a wild day in which police deployed tear gas, arrested more than 400 marchers and dodged hurling objects.Demonstrators spent the day trying to break into a convention center and temporarily occupying City Hall and a YMCA, all the while snaking around lines of riot-clad police periodically shooting bean bag projectiles, among other uses of nonlethal force.Saturday marked the first major clashes between protesters and police since November and left three officers with minor injuries, as protesters threw bottles, metal pipes, rocks, spray cans and "improvised explosive devices," police said.

This kind of stuff is going to get much worse as Obama gears up his class-action reelection campaign.

Rep. Allen West Is About To Redistricted Out Of Congress By His Own Party,The GOP

From Legal Insurrection:

This has not received a lot of national attention, but the Republican legislature in Florida is about to push through a plan which puts Allen West at serious risk, and the person leading the effort is one of Mitt Romney’s spokemen.

What is it going to take for Tea Partiers,small goverment types,conservatives in general,to get the message,you are not welcomed in the GOP.They do not want you in "their" party.Why stay and keep putting up with this?

'Are Gay Men Causing Women To Hate Themselves?'

If you think Kristina Hendricks is fat,something is wrong with you!

From POWIP: When speaking with MamaV it occurred to me that perhaps the domination of the Fashion Industry by Gay Men has a great deal with today's "perfect body".

It makes a great deal of sense that men who prefer men would think that less-curvy women are more attractive.
Lots of Stuff to Contemplate.
Let me put it this way: if you're not into hips and boobs... if you prefer the "perfect male physique" (different topic), it makes sense that you would find women with narrower hips and smaller boobs relatively more attractive than the chick on Mad Men. You know, the one with the abundance of outstanding assets.
Someone will accuse me of Homophobia or something for writing this. But I am sure it is not a novel line of thinking. I just haven't encountered this hypothesis before.
Odd to think that perhaps women are being pressured to look more like boys by people who prefer "boys/men".

I would also like to point out that homosexuality is rooted and grounded in self-hatred,and why wouldn't someone who is engrossed with hating themselves not project that unto others.

'Cannibals'

Sarah Palin:
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But this whole thing isn’t really about Newt Gingrich vs. Mitt Romney. It is about the GOP establishment vs. the Tea Party grassroots and independent Americans who are sick of the politics of personal destruction used now by both parties’ operatives with a complicit media egging it on. In fact, the establishment has been just as dismissive of Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. Newt is an imperfect vessel for Tea Party support, but in South Carolina the Tea Party chose to get behind him instead of the old guard’s choice. In response, the GOP establishment voices denounced South Carolinian voters with the same vitriol we usually see from the left when they spew hatred at everyday Americans “bitterly clinging” to their faith and their Second Amendment rights. The Tea Party was once again told to sit down and shut up and listen to the “wisdom” of their betters. We were reminded of the litany of Tea Party endorsed candidates in 2010 who didn’t win. Well, here’s a little newsflash to the establishment: without the Tea Party there would have been no historic 2010 victory at all.
 I spoke up before the South Carolina primary to urge voters there to keep this primary going because I have great concern about the GOP establishment trying to anoint a candidate without the blessing of the grassroots and all the needed energy and resources we as commonsense constitutional conservatives could bring to the general election in order to defeat President Obama. Now, I respect Governor Romney and his success. But there are serious concerns about his record and whether as a politician he consistently applied conservative principles and how this impacts the agenda moving forward. The questions need answers now. That is why this primary should not be rushed to an end. We need to vet this. Pundits in the Beltway are gleefully proclaiming that this primary race is over after Florida, despite 46 states still not having chimed in. Well, perhaps it’s possible that it will come to a speedy end in just four days; but with these questions left unanswered, it will not have come to a satisfactory conclusion. Without this necessary vetting process, the unanswered question of Governor Romney’s conservative bona fides and the unanswered and false attacks on Newt Gingrich will hang in the air to demoralize many in the electorate. The Tea Party grassroots will certainly feel disenfranchised and disenchanted with the perceived orchestrated outcome from self-proclaimed movers and shakers trying to sew this all up. And, trust me, during the general election, Governor Romney’s statements and record in the private sector will be relentlessly parsed over by the opposition in excruciating detail to frighten off swing voters. This is why we need a fair primary that is not prematurely cut short by the GOP establishment using Alinsky tactics to kneecap Governor Romney’s chief rival.
 As I said in my speech in Iowa last September, the challenge of this election is not simply to replace President Obama. The real challenge is who and what we will replace him with. It’s not enough to just change up the uniform. If we don’t change the team and the game plan, we won’t save our country. We truly need sudden and relentless reform in Washington to defend our republic, though it’s becoming clearer that the old guard wants anything but that. That is why we should all be concerned by the tactics employed by the establishment this week. We will not save our country by becoming like the left. And I question whether the GOP establishment would ever employ the same harsh tactics they used on Newt against Obama. I didn’t see it in 2008. Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted. Oddly, they’re now using every available microscope and endoscope – along with rewriting history – in attempts to character assassinate anyone challenging their chosen one in their own party’s primary. So, one must ask, who are they really running against?

 Sarah Palin is right,this about much more than Newt Gingrich,but about grass-roots conservatives.Don't get caught up in what Newt is or isn't,the establishment will do anthing to mantain its control of the GOP

My question to Sarah Palin,Rush,and even to Ron Paul,is how long will you put up with the establishment in the GOP and finally just give them their d@%^ party,and go form one of our own?Conservatives are never going to get anywhere in the GOP.Ronald Reagan was the exception not the rule.We need to realize this and move on.                                       

President John Tyler Has 2 Living Grandsons!

This is a post at Politico about 1 of President Tyler's grandsons calling Newt,"a jerk,"but that's not what caught my eye,but this:

President John Tyler, who lived from 1790-1862, had 15 children during his lifetime, making him the most prolific president. One of his children, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, born in 1853, fathered Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr. in 1924 and Harrison in 1928. Lyon Tyler, Jr., is 88 and currently living in Franklin, Tenn., according to Harrison.

Not great-grandsons,but grandsons mind you,from a man who was born in 1790.

'Ron Paul Will Defeat Mitt Romney In Virginia Primary'

From The Hill:

What conservatives have long needed is a one-on-one battle with Romney. Virginia will give it to them. This alone should generate maximum publicity and benefit for the winner in Virginia.
So watch the results in Florida, but do not believe anyone who tells you the campaign is over, no matter who wins Florida.
This battle goes on to Super Tuesday at least, and probably longer.
On the matter of the vote in Virginia, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are headed to a High Noon showdown that I now believe Ron Paul will win.

Hopefully conservatives will wise up and realize Ron Paul is the only conservative choice this election.

'Romney Can't Win'

From Riehl World View:

I believe it was Dan Gainor who pointed out via Twitter last night, in essence, the establishment may end up getting Romney through but they are quite possibly costing themselves the election to do it. Mitt Romney IS a progressive Republican who will say anything to get the nomination. The GOP sycophants that call themselves conservative in our Beltway media can shill and hide massive weaknesses for Romney all they want. Come a general election, they will be irrelevant and an Obama-friendly media will be calling the shots. Given the bias of so many GOP pundits in the primary, they will have no right to complain about it, as if it would even matter.
For Romney to attack every conservative from the Right, when he is so obviously and so far to the Left of them, demonstrates a complete lack of character and integrity. But slash and burn is all he has, as he has no core conservative principles and can't articulate them in an authentic manner. As much as I hate Obama's politics, as an individual, I have more respect for him today, than I do Mitt Romney. And I am far from alone. If the GOP doesn't realize what that will cost in soft support, or no support at all in the Fall, they are delusional.
With the advent of new media, too many people are seeing, talking and connecting today. The GOP in Washington is not the party of Reagan, it is a party on its way to the political wilderness for a decade or more without serious reform. The clearest sign of that is the support a Ron Paul pulls. It is 2 - 4 times what it should be and is a telling sign of just how many people have written, or are in the process of writing off the GOP establishment.
From RNC head, to primaries, now the primary, the GOP establishment consistently uses all its power to stomp down any conservative. Conservatives are fast approaching a breaking point. The GOP believes it will be fine because it will be all Obama come November. They are wrong. Mitt Romney has gone from unlikeable, to detestable and some of us are not going to forget it simply because the GOP thinks it can blow dog whistles around Obama.
When the GOP nominee formulated and implemented the model for ObamaCare, there's not enough distance between those two dogs to fight for much of anything come the general election. If nothing else, at least we can then finally be rid of Mitt Romney, who has been little more than a blight upon GOP presidential politics for two election cycles, now. The media structure enabling him may remain, but that too will be increasingly undersiege by grassroots-based new media. What we lack in money, we make up for in numbers. And we have the GOP's number thanks to the primary season, as well as several previous recent events.
Yesterday was a despicable day in American politics given the Romney/GOP garbage dump on former Speaker Newt Gingrich - and he wasn't even my guy. That the GOP sycophants and Team Romney will demonstrate absolutely no shame over it makes it abundantly clear that a GOP with Mitt Romney at the helm is unfit to govern America.

I will in no uncertain terms vote for Mitt Romney come November.He is liberal not a moderate -anyone to have authored Romneycare,which is the inspiration for Obamacare,is not a moderate and certainly no conservative,and I will not vote for a liberal period.

'The Ron Paul Media Blackout Is Back On'

From The Atlantic Wire:

After a brief spike in interest, the mainstream media coverage of GOP candidate Ron Paul is back to nearly nothing, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. This week, less than 5 percent of all campaign stories focused on Paul, the lowest point since Dec. 11. when strong performances in Iowa and New Hampshire helped stoke some interest. Over the same period, Paul's performance in the polls has only improved, going from the single digits to 12.7 percent, putting him nearly even with Rick Santorum, in the current RealClearPolitics average.

Try as they must,but they will never silence Ron Paul,and the true conservatives in this country.

'The Debt Generation'

Hat tip to The Market Ticker.

'Teen Arrested For Asking Cop About Unwarranted Raids'

'Romney Advisor: No Obamacare Repeal'

From Red State:

If a Republican gets into the White House and does not sweat blood trying to repeal Obamacare in its entirety, I predict the end of the Republican Party legitimately. It won’t be worth fighting for if the party itself does not think it worth fighting for its voters.

What do people expect the author of Romneycare to do?Repeal the pattern -Obamacare- of his one landmark achievement as Governor of Massachusetts?Please!Anyone with half a brain knew Romney would never do that.As for Newt and Santorum,they would cave as well.The only one,the absolute only one running in this election,that would rip out Obamacare branch root and all,is Ron Paul.

As for the Republican Party,it maybe already terminal and beyond saving,but not repealing Obamacare would sink the boat.

The Lemonade Nazi's

From the federal government,to the state government,all the way down to the local city and county governments,through regulations,taxes,to codes and licensing,our freedoms are eroding a little everyday.The strange thing,like the mother in the video,is that we tolerate them.

We have forgotten how this nation was founded.We have never heard of the Intolerable Acts.We think the Boston Tea Party was just a costume party.We are a people disconnected from our heritage.

The question I have is,what is the straw that breaks the camels back?What will be the acts that we find intolerable?

Obama Says That Abortion Is A Way For 'Our Daughters...........To Fulfill Their Dreams'

From cnsnews:

President Barack Obama says the 39^th anniversary of Roe v. Wade is the chance to recognize the “fundamental constitutional right” to abortion and to “continue our efforts to ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”
The 1973 U.S. Supreme Court nationalized abortion law, prohibiting states from deciding on the matter. In his written statement, Obama acknowledged that abortion has been a divisive political issue.
Obama, while serving in the Illinois State Legislature and as president of the United States, has taken a hard line on abortion rights.
In his statement on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling, Obama said it reflects the broader principles of America.

“As we mark the 39^th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this Supreme Court decision not only protects a woman’s health and reproductive freedom, but also affirms a broader principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters,” Obama said. “I remain committed to protecting a woman’s right to choose and this fundamental constitutional right.

How can Obama,with a straight face say,"that government should not intrude on private family matters."This comming from a man who has taken over our healthcare,from the womb all the way to our death bed.Yes Mr. President,a woman should be able to choose to kill her unborn child,but not be able to choose what kind of lightbulb to burn in her house.What a load of manure!

TSA 'Detains' Sen. Rand Paul And Violates The Constitution

From ABC NEWS:

Paul’s office confirmed he set off  an airport security full-body scanner “on a glitch,” according to a spokesman.
The Paul staffer said TSA agents would not let Paul walk back through the body scanner and were demanding a full body pat-down.
The Paul spokesman said his office called TSA administrator John Pistole about the incident this morning.
The U.S. Constitution actually protects federal lawmakers from detention while they’re on the way to the Capital.
“The Senators and Representatives…shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same….” according to Article I, Section 6.
The Senate is back in session today at 2 p.m., with votes scheduled at 4:30 p.m. It is not clear if Paul will make it to Washington by 4:30 p.m. on his new flight.

This is yet another example of the absurdity of the whole airport screening process.Instead of looking for terrorist.our government is more interested in harassing people and exerting its own power,whether it violates the Constitution or not.

The Frankenstien Romney

From Mark Steyn:

Mitt’s strategy for 2012 as for 2008 was to sit on his lead and run out the clock: Four years ago, that strategy died in New Hampshire; this time round it died one state later. Congratulations! Years ago, I was chit-chatting with Arthur Laurents, the writer of West Side Story and The Way We Were and much else, about some show that was in trouble on the road that he’d been called in to “fix.” “The trouble with a bad show,” he sighed, “is that you can make it better but you can never make it good.” The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it’s not clear that it’s good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly. Does he have it in him?

The trouble with Mitt is he isn't real.Their is nothing about him that isn't carefully contrived for your viewing pleasure,not to offend the general audience's sensibilities.This is why he comes off as a game show host,all smarmy,with a plastic smile,stupid laugh,and with a mouthful of cliches,a generic man everyone can like.

There in lies Mitt's problem,he is generic.Their is nothing authentically,Mitt,about him.Everything has been borrowed from others,based on their success,to create this sort of 'Frankenstien Monster' that we all see as,Mitt Romney.

Giffords To Resign

Gabrielle Giffords will resign from Congress sometimes this week.Though she was tragically wounded by a madman,this was the right thing to do and should have been done a lot sooner,because the people in her district deserve representation in Congress.

Random Thoughts From Last Nights South Carolina Primary

1.) Once again,no one won last night,because no one got 50% of the vote.I don't care how many delegates were awarded to Newt Gingrich,more people voted against him than for him.

2.) Having said that,it was sure nice to see Romney have his @$$ handed to him though.

3.) Also,it was amazing to see FOX NEWS cut Sarah Palin off in favor of showing Ron Paul's speech.Will miracles never cease!

4.) I like Sarah Palin,but if she wanted a say in who wins this election she should have ran.She is nothing more than a spactator now.

5.) Another thing that was nice to see,was how all the know it all pundits are telling us how South Carolina doesn't matter now,since Mittens -their guy- didn't come in 1st.Last week,when all the polls seemed to favor Willard,they were telling us how crucial it was to win South Carolina.Wow!What a difference it makes,when the narrative changes.

The Loss Of Manhood In Western Civilization

Mark Steyn,on the Concordia tragedy:

We are beyond social norms these days. A woman can be a soldier. A man can be a woman. A seven-year-old cross-dressing boy can join the Girl Scouts in Colorado because he “identifies” as a girl. It all adds to life’s rich tapestry, no doubt. But I can’t help wondering, when the ship hits the fan, how many of us will still be willing to identify as a man.

At times past men were judged by the strength they displayed,not just strength in body,but primarily strength in character and emotions.A man didn't cry!A man didn't run from danger!He was a rock.No matter how afraid he may be,he stayed strong for sake of his family,the women and children.

But now,liberalism through feminism has rejected that definition for manhood.In its place they have erected the modern definition for manhood,a man who is in touch with his feelings.Its now ok for a man to cry.Its now ok for a man to confess his fears.Men are no longer expected to lead the way through danger,but to cower in its face.

Its no wonder then when the ship goes down,that men should get in touch with their feelings and leave the women and children behind,as they go to safety.

Happy Birthday Stonewall Jackson

Maybe the finest soldier Christendom ever produced,God bless you Gen. T. J. Stonewall Jackson.

Etta James Has Passed Away

R&B legend,Etta James,has passed away at 73. The best tribute that can be made to Miss James is just to listen to her.

'The Death Of Venture Capitalism?'

From Larry Anderson at the American Thinker:

We could be witnesses to the death of venture capitalism and its replacement by crony capitalism. If Obama is reelected, the end of unfettered venture capitalism is all but guaranteed. Certain GOP candidates seem as dead set against a healthy environment for venture capitalism as our current president. Crony capitalism already drives much of the health, energy, auto, insurance, and even major parts of food industries in America. Many (not all) farmers, hospitals, car manufacturers, "green energy" enterprises, small businesses, etc. look to Washington first for financing. Crony capitalism will be the end of America, as we know it, and too many of the GOP candidates seem to be comfortable with that fact.
The problem with crony capitalism is that it is grounded in coercion. The government does not consult the people who provide the investment money. Those investors are U.S. taxpayers. The taxpayer is forced to support the government's choice of winners. In venture capitalism the investors voluntarily risk their money. In crony capitalism the investor has no say at all in the investment. This was as true of George W. Bush's funding of "faith-based initiatives," as it is for Obama's "investments" in bankrupt green-energy companies like Solyndra.  In Chapter 5 of Throw Them All Out, Peter Schweizer has shown that three quarters of the first $20 billion the DOE "invested" in green energy went to companies with direct ties to the Obama campaign -- including at least ten members of Obama's election finance committee and over a dozen Obama campaign "bundlers."

Right now both parties see the U.S. government as a cash-cow for themselves and their friends to raid and enrich themselves.If by some miracle Romney,Santorum,or Newt,would defeat Obama in November,the only thing to change would be the replacement of Obama's cronies with their own.

The only candidate that believes in free-markets,individual liberty,and constitutional government is Ron Paul,but you wouldn't know that listening to Mitt's cronies,Rush and Hannity. 

Happy Birthday Robert E. Lee

Faithful in your duty and with unstained honor til the very end,the South has never produced a greater hero than you,Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Speaking Of The Blind

From The Washington Post:

The Obama administration will announce this afternoon it is rejecting a Canadian firm’s application for a permit to build and operate a massive oil pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border, according to sources who have been briefed on the matter.
However the administration will allow TransCanada to reapply after it develops an alternate route through the sensitive habitat of Nebraska’s Sandhills. Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns will make the announcement, which comes in response to a congressionally-mandated deadline of Feb. 21 for action on the proposed Keystone pipeline.

As we seek to curtail Iran's oil exports,Obama curtails ours and Canada's.At least he is consistent,"stupid is,as stupid does."

Doug Powers @ Michelle Malkin made this comment:

At this point, the “alternate route” for the Keystone project’s oil appears to lead to China.

Just Can't See The Big Picture

U.S. Presses South Korea To Reduce Oil Imports From Iran:

Washington is trying to curtail Iran’s oil exports, its main revenue source, and isolate the central bank. Delegations from the State, Energy and Treasury Departments are fanning out to Iran’s major customers, as well as to rival oil producers, to enlist their help in stifling Iran’s oil exports while making up any gap in supplies.
South Korea, a crucial American ally, voiced support for Washington’s efforts to check Iran’s nuclear program. Seoul depends on the United States for its defense against North Korea and works together with Washington to curb the North’s nuclear weapons program. American officials believe that a successful crackdown on Iran’s nuclear program could help curb North Korea’s.
But leaders of South Korea, which depends on imported oil, fear a sudden reduction in purchases from Iran might disrupt South Korea’s energy security and raise oil prices. Fighting inflation is President Lee Myung-bak’s key policy promise for 2012.
Seoul has yet to announce whether and by how much it might reduce its oil imports from Iran.

Our leadership in Washington is blind.They cannot see the big picture.As we seek to "curtail Iran's oil exports,"we should be increasing our own oil production and exports to supplant theirs and over take it.It would not only put a crimp in Iran's own source of revenue,but would give a much needed boost to our own economy.But,alas we can't see the forest for the carriboo.

Bill Kristol Wants Ron Paul To Leave The GOP

Bill Kristol:

“A lot of people when they criticize Ron Paul have to preface their criticism by saying, ‘you know, he’s good guy, he brings a lot to the debate,’” Bill Kristol said on C-SPAN. “I actually don’t buy that. I do not think he’s a particular good guy . . . I think it would be better for the Republican party, if he left the Republican party.”

You know what Mr. Kristol,they are a lot of us out here who wish Ron Paul would leave the GOP,and we would follow him right out the door too.It is clear,that if you believe in constitutional government,individual liberty,with a committment to smaller,less intrusive government,their is no longer a place set for you at the Republican party's table.The only time the GOP wants to hear from any of us,is just for us to open our wallets to fill their coffers and vote for the RINO of the month.Any other time we are to sit down and shut up and be thankful that they,the elites,let us stay in such a Grand Old Party.Maybe it is time to go!

'Mitt Romney: The Last Republican President?'

Steve McCann:

Mitt Romney, by his actions in Massachusetts both campaigning for the U.S. Senate and as Governor, has shown himself to be more than willing to compromise with the Left and the Democrats.   He has proposed and passed the socialist RomneyCare policy, pro-abortion regulations, and gun control, and raised numerous taxes and fees while increasing spending dramatically.   During the current campaign he refuses to call Barack Obama what he is; instead Romney refers to him as just "being over his head."
If ever a candidate mirrored the mindset and approach of George H.W. Bush, it is Mitt Romney.
This is the last hurrah of the Republican establishment.   The conservatives and libertarians will vote for Romney in November, but only because he is not Barack Obama.  There will be no enthusiasm, which will hurt the down ballot contests for the U.S. Senate, the House and state governorships.   Despite the factors weighing against Obama in this upcoming election, it will be a much closer contest that it should be; perhaps a razor thin victory for Romney.
If Romney were to lose the election, there will be a grass-roots revolt against the Republican Party which will spell its demise.   If he wins and the nation, through the mis-directed policies of Romney and the Republicans in the Congress, continues on its current path of compromising and nibbling around the edges of the nation's problems, then Romney will be the last Republican president and the specter of the Democrats re-assuming power will be a reality.

The best way to judge someones potential performance is to look at their past performance.Their is nothing in Mitt Romney's past performance,as Governor of Massachusetts,that would suggest that he would reduce the size or limit the scope and influence of the Federal government.

Do you really expect the author of Romneycare to repeal Obamacare?Do you believe for 1 minute that Romney,as President,would stand up to Harry Reid and the Democrats to reform Social Security or Medicare?No!Romney will cave on issue after issue,all in the name of "compromise."

As for the GOP,its future is in serious trouble with or without Mitt Romney,because it is no longer the natural home for 40% of the electorate,conservatives.

Politics And Race Baiting At Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration

I love how the left will get up and screech and howl,when anyone passes out a conservative voter guide in the church parking lot,citing the "separation of church and state."But when they get up in the pulpit of all places and openly use it to push a political agenda,its just called having a "political conscience."

BTW,the whole idea behind the "separation of church and state" -a phrase that does not appear in the U.S. Constitution but it does appear in the constitution of the U.S.S.R.- is a means by progressives to control to religious speech and to remove the Word of God from our daily lives and establish their religion of secularism in all facets of our lives instead.

Also,on a day that is supposed to promote unity and peace,its interesting exactly who is promoting division among us.

Hat tip to The Weekly Standard.

'Clarity'

Professor William Jacobson had this moment of clarity today at Legal Insurrection:

We are on a path to nominate someone who campaigned against Reagan, campaigned against the Contract with America, campaigned against those who are pro-Life, campaigned against 2d Amendment rights, campaigned against conservatism, and designed and enacted the precursor to Obamacare from which he will not back away.

That about sums things up,Professor.You had a moment of clarity and about 75% of the GOP is still in a drunken stupor and wont realize it until they wake up all hungover this coming November,when Barack Obama is reelected POTUS.

'National Debt- How Much Is A Billion Dollars?'

'The Complete Hunley Unvieled - Finally'

From the Old Virgina Blog:

"No one alive has ever seen the Hunley complete. We're going to see it today."

A List Of Mitt Romney's Campaign Donors

From Frankenstein Government:

Mitt Romney equals business as usual,more crony capitalism.

Rep. Allen West:"Shut Your Mouth,War Is Hell"

Allen West,puts the incident of Marines urinating on the dead of the Taliban in perspective:

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a former Army lieutenant colonel, sends THE WEEKLY STANDARD an email commenting on the Marines' video, and has given us permission to publish it.

“I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.

“All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?

“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.

“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”

Amen.
Hat tip to Hot Air.

Just Follow The Money And You Will Find The Truth

Diagram via the republican Mother:

This diagram explains alot.I've wondered for quite some time why,Sean and Rush,don't go after Romney with the same zesto that they go after Ron Paul with.Romney,through Bain,has them in his hip pocket,all bought and paid for!

'Mitt Romney And Bain: Fair?'

Via The Market Ticker:

Is this a fair attack or not?To a large degree, yes it is.
Let's talk about what Bain, and other "private equity" firms really do. Their task -- how they make money -- is to find companies that are "inefficient" and turn them into more-efficient entities. Their reward for doing so is that they take some of the spoils for themselves -- frequently as much as a quarter of the value in the firm or more.
Efficiency is not a bad thing, and driving out inefficiency is, on balance, good. The problem is how that efficiency comes about.
We live in a world where our government has conspired with banks to make cross-border arbitrage profitable. Very profitable. The result has been the evisceration of our working-class population -- the vast majority of America. Our manufacturing has been made "more efficient" by moving it to China, where people labor under effective slave conditions -- conditions so good that recently a group of employees at Foxconn threatened to commit suicide en-masse.
But it doesn't end there. The abuse of leverage makes possible the taking of more and more debt by firms that then gets paid out to these private-equity raiders. The putative argument for this sort of structure is that the debt will help grow the company and thus everyone will benefit.
But it doesn't always work out that way.
KB Toys is one example outlined in that video that is truthful. KB was larded up with debt and ultimately collapsed under the load. Yet Bain made a monstrous profit on what was, objectively, a failed transaction.
This sort of "strip it and steal it" model is entirely legal. But the question is not whether something is legal -- it is whether it's a model we ought to encourage and base our economy upon, and whether someone who has practiced this destruction of American jobs and the offshoring of capital should be elected President.
The answer, quite simply, is no.

Parents In Greece Are Abandoning Their Children In The Streets

This is bad,real bad:

Children are being abandoned on Greece's streets by their poverty-stricken families who cannot afford to look after them any more.
Youngsters are being dumped by their parents who are struggling to make ends meet in what is fast becoming the most tragic human consequence of the Euro crisis.

Folks,we had better get our head out of the sand and stop thinking that this cannot happen here in America,because it can and will,if we don't get our fiscal house in order now.

'George Lucas: Hollywood Wouldn't Back My Film Because Of All Black Cast'

From NewsBusters:

Star Wars creator George Lucas said Monday that Hollywood studios refused to back his new film Red Tails - about World War II's Tuskegee Airmen - because the cast was all black.

Racism and liberalism go hand in hand.Its liberals who don't believe blacks can measure up on their own without the help of their benevolent,white,benefactors.

'GOP Needs To Listen To Ron Paul'

Jim DeMint:

“One of the things that’s hurt the so-called conservative alternative is saying negative things about Ron Paul,” DeMint said Wednesday on a national radio show. “I’d like to see a Republican party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.”
Later, DeMint said that the GOP “needs” libertarian voters – not just to rise above perpetual minority status but also to infuse the party with legitimate pro-taxpayer principles.
“You don’t have to agree with everything (Paul)’s saying but if the other candidates miss some of the wisdom about what he’s saying about monetary policy … that will be to our detriment,” DeMint said.

Amen and amen,Jim DeMint!

Ron Paul hasn't just exposed alot of RINOs in his White House run,but he has exposed alot of CINOs too,Conservatives In Name Only.

A Few Thoughts On The New Hampshire Primary

1.) Mitt Romney,like last week in Iowa,failed to get a majority.So,he retains his first place seat at the loser's table.BTW,all New Hampshire decided was were a handful of delegates go,that's all.

2.) Jon Huntsman has spent a better part of 6 months in New Hampshire and can only garner 18% of the vote.Dude,you are done,drop out and get your daughters a reality TV show.

3.) Is conservative media virtually irrelevant this election cycle?Last night Mitt Romney and Ron Paul together got over 60% of the vote.Most of the big guns in conservative radio,TV,and on the web oppose both of them.Have conservatives tuned out the talking heads?

5 Minutes To Doomsday

From Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist:


 

It is five minutes to midnight. Two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats that we face. In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed. For that reason, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is moving the clock hand one minute closer to midnight, back to its time in 2007.

What,pray tell,are the "global threats" that have us ticking to our destruction?A nuclear Iran? An Al-Quada having the bomb?Or maybe,just maybe,a weakened United States,led by our fearless,often vacationing leader,Barack Obama?Nope? This:

In fact, the global community may be near a point of no return in efforts to prevent catastrophe from changes in Earth's atmosphere.  The International Energy Agency projects that, unless societies begin building alternatives to carbon-emitting energy technologies over the next five years, the world is doomed to a warmer climate, harsher weather, droughts, famine, water scarcity, rising sea levels, loss of island nations, and increasing ocean acidification.  Since fossil-fuel burning power plants and infrastructure built in 2012-2020 will produce energy — and emissions — for 40 to 50 years, the actions taken in the next few years will set us on a path that will be impossible to redirect.  Even if policy leaders decide in the future to reduce reliance on carbon-emitting technologies, it will be too late.

They forgot to mention that the seas will become a boiling cauldron of blood and locust,giant man eating locust will emerge to devour mankind from off the face of the earth.

How can we avert such a catastrophe?:

The challenges to rid the world of nuclear weapons, harness nuclear power, and meet the nearly inexorable climate disruptions from global warming are complex and interconnected.  In the face of such complex problems, it is difficult to see where the capacity lies to address these challenges.  The political processes in place seem wholly inadequate to meet the challenges to human existence that we confront.

As such, the Science and Security Board is heartened by the Arab Spring, the Occupy movements, political protests in Russia, and by the actions of ordinary citizens in Japan as they call for fair treatment and attention to their needs....................

Yes,we must all repent of our evil capitalist ways and immediately embrace the nirvana that progressive socialism has to offer.Only then and only then,when we all are equally poor and miserable,will we all truly find peace and serinity.

'A Fine For Not Using A Biofuel That Doesn't Exist'

This "Belies Logic":

When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law.

 But there was none to be had. Outside a handful of laboratories and workshops, the ingredient, cellulosic biofuel, does not exist.

In 2012, the oil companies expect to pay even higher penalties for failing to blend in the fuel, which is made from wood chips or the inedible parts of plants like corncobs. Refiners were required to blend 6.6 million gallons into gasoline and diesel in 2011 and face a quota of 8.65 million gallons this year.
“It belies logic,” Charles T. Drevna, the president of the National Petrochemicals and Refiners Association, said of the 2011 quota. And raising the quota for 2012 when there is no production makes even less sense, he said.
Penalizing the fuel suppliers demonstrates what happens when the federal government really, really wants something that technology is not ready to provide. In fact, while it may seem harsh that the Environmental Protection Agency is penalizing them for failing to do the impossible, the agency is being lenient by the standards of the law, the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.

How To Steal Power

Racial Sensitivity Gone Awry

How many liberals does it take,to screw things up?:

Figuring out how many oranges were picked by slaves and how many beatings per day Frederick Douglass received was allowed to help teach elementary students their multiplication and division tables at one school.

Administrators at Gwinnett

On Wednesday, nine third-grade math teachers at Beaver Ridge Elementary School were attempting to do a cross-curricular activity with a book the children had read about abolitionist Frederick Douglass in their social studies class. District spokeswoman Sloan Roach told CBS Atlanta that the math problems in the assignment involved some of what the students learned about Douglass. Four of the nine classes wound up sending the assignment home with the students. But when some parents were going over the students’ homework, they became appalled at the nature and language of two questions in particular.

I just love it when liberalism blows up in the lefts face.All these liberal teachers were trying to do,was to teach these 'young skulls full of mush' some Black Liberation Theology.They just wanted the white kids in their class to feel guilty over something they had nothing to do with and show them how hard it is to be black in America today.How horrible is that?Isn't this what liberals want?

This is what you get,when you supplant the teaching of history with racial sensitivity training,nonesense and stupidity.

The Redistributive Behemoth

George Will:

Liberals have a rendezvous with regret. Their largest achievement is today’s redistributionist government. But such government is inherently regressive: It tends to distribute power and money to the strong, including itself.
Government becomes big by having big ambitions for supplanting markets as society’s primary allocator of wealth and opportunity. Therefore it becomes a magnet for factions muscular enough, in money or numbers or both, to bend government to their advantage.

Federal Regulations Halts Birds Migration South

From The Assoicated Press:

Ten young whooping cranes and the bird-like plane they think is their mother had flown more than halfway to their winter home in Florida when federal regulators stepped in.

Now the birds and the plane are grounded in Alabama while the Federal Aviation Administration investigates whether the journey violates regulations because the pilot was being paid by a conservation group to lead the cranes on their first migration instead of working for free.

FAA regulations say only pilots with commercial pilot licenses can fly for hire. The pilots of Operation Migration's plane are instead licensed to fly sport aircraft because that's the category of aircraft that the group's small, open plane with its rear propeller and bird-like wings falls under. FAA regulations also prohibit sport aircraft - which are sometimes of exotic design - from being flown to benefit a business or charity.

The rules are aimed, in part, at preventing businesses or charities from taking passengers for joyrides in sometimes risky planes.

"That's a valid rule. They shouldn't be hired to do that. But it wasn't written, I believe, to stop a wildlife reintroduction," Joe Duff, an Operation Migration co-founder and one of its pilots, said. The conservation group has agreed voluntarily to stop flying and has applied to FAA for a waiver.

No,Mr. Duff,it is not a "valid rule."This is the 'Nanny State',where the state decides for us what risks we may or may not take.That's not liberty,but rather a soft form of tyranny.

Under liberty,my life is my own,it does not belong to the state.I make my own decisions.I assume the responsibility of what risks to take with my own life and bear the consequences of those decisions.If I am free,then I have the right,not only to succeed in life,but to fail and do stupid things also.

If I cannot judge for myself that an open air cockpit,with a rear propeller,and with bird like wings is more risky to fly in than a cessna or a 747,maybe the government shouldn't trust me with a knife and fork either.

  

Jesse Ventura Gets What He Deserves

Via In From The Cold:

Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, America's deadliest sniper of all time with 255 kills, punched the truther former Governor of Minnesota in the face for being an ass in front of the family of CMOH recipient Michael Monsoor, calling the SEALs murderers and saying they deserved to die.

Kyle offered his version of the episode on the Opie and Anthony radio show. The recipient of his fist, Jesse Ventura, has not responded publicly.

Did Santorum Really Win The Iowa Caucus?

From Human Events:

Rick Santorum​ may have actually won the Iowa Caucus by 12 votes.

Edward True, a Ron Paul​ supporter, told KCCI News in Iowa that he helped count the votes in his precinct and "jotted the results down on a piece of paper to post" to his Facebook page. 

He said Romney received two votes in his precinct, but the Iowa Republican Party credited Romney with 22 votes. 
True is filing a notarized statement, and, if he turns out to be right, that 20 vote difference would mean Santorum actually won Iowa by eight votes. 

I just wonder how many discrepancies happened in all the precincts all over Iowa.Instead of winning Iowa by 8 votes,Santorum may have won Iowa by a 100 or 500 votes.The GOP establishment was bound and determined for Romney to win Iowa by any means necessary.

What Does Obama's Troop Draw Down Really Mean?

Obama to reduce the size of the military:

After the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that defined the first decade of the 21st century, Mr Obama's blueprint for the military's future acknowledged that America will no longer have the resources to conduct two such major operations simultaneously.

Instead, the US military will lose up to half a million troops and will focus on countering terrorism and meeting the new challenges of an emergent Asia dominated by China. America, the President said, was "turning the page on a decade of war" and now faced "a moment of transition". The country's armed forces would in future be leaner but, Mr Obama pointedly warned both friends and foes, sufficient to preserve US military superiority over any rival – "agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats".

Obama is trying to accomplish 2 things with this draw down.

1.) This is a ploy by Obama to manipulate the next debt ceiling debate.He will argue that if Republicans want a strong a military,they will have to pay for it and raise the debt ceiling.

2.) In the future it is going to become harder and harder to fill the ranks with new recruits,because we now allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military.Instead of dealing with the problem,that most people don't want the homosexual lifestyle shoved down their throats,they are just going to reduce their quota for troops.

'The Most Devastating Act Of Mercy In History'

Via Free North Carolina:

It may be the most devastating act of mercy in history.A newspaper report chronicling how a boy of four was saved from drowning has surfaced in a German archive.The child – who historians believe could have been Adolf Hitler – was plucked from the icy waters of the River Inn in Passau, Germany, in January 1894.According to Max Tremmel, a priest who went on to become one of Europe's most famous organists, his predecessor Johann Kuehberger had rescued the terrified Hitler.Father Tremmel told before his death in 1980 how Father Kuehberger, around the same age as Hitler, had seen the other boy struggling in the waters of the River Inn and dived in to rescue him.The story was never verified by Hitler during his lifetime. But now a small cutting from the Donauzeitung - Danube newspaper - of 1894 has been found in Passau.

Read the full story here.

Just think,if the Father's attention had been averted for just another minute or so,how many lives would have been saved by just allowing that little boy to drown in that river.

Pennies In Return For Millions

The taxpayers get the shaft again :

LanzaTech, a New Zealand-based biofuel company, paid $5.1 million for the plant in Soperton. Its main financial backer: Vinod Khosla, a California entrepreneur who also bankrolled Range Fuels, and helped secure its government loans, before Range went bust last year.

LanzaTech hasn't received the same type of loans, but the company has received $7 million from the U.S. departments of Energy and Transportation to assist in the development of alternative fuels.

The Range fiasco harkens other, failed renewable energy companies that received major taxpayer funding. California solar panel maker Solyndra got $535 million in federal loan guarantees. Beacon Power of Massachusetts, which makes energy-storage equipment, took in $43 million in federal money. Both filed for bankruptcy last year.

Range cost U.S. taxpayers $64 million and Georgia taxpayers another $6.2 million. Tuesday's sale netted $5.1 million which will help offset losses suffered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Georgia's money, which paid for some of the ethanol-making equipment, won't be recouped outright, but state officials expect LanzaTech to use the machinery.

Sam Shelton, director of research programs at Georgia Tech's Strategic Energy Institute, was long skeptical of Range Fuels' plans and technology.

"It was too damn big a risk for an apparently unproven technology and the due diligence I personally performed on Range would not entice me to invest in it," Shelton said Wednesday. Shelton was invited by Range a few years back to check out its operation in Colorado where it was based.

"Government should not be in the venture capital business selecting technologies," he added.

This is crony capitalism at its finest.If you are politically well connected you can fleece the American taxpayer for almost anything.

'Thomas Jefferson On The Responsibility Of Vigilance'

Me thinks Thomas Jefferson would have been in favor of term limits.

A Few Random Thoughts On Last Nights Iowa Caucus

1.) No one won anything last night in Iowa.Their were no delegates at stake and 25% is not a majority of anything.All Mitt Romney and Rick Santourum won was 1st and 2nd place at the losers table.

2.) Iowa and New Hampshire only matter in regards to how they will effect the voting in South Carolina.Other than that they are meaningless.

3.) I wonder what the GOP establishment is willing to pay promise,Michelle Bachmann,and Ric Perry to get them out of the race now.I wouldn't be surprised that by weeks end they both endorse Romney.

4.) The GOP better listen to Sarah Palin:

Sarah Palin gave her analysis of the Iowa caucuses tonight, refusing to give any single candidate anything close to an endorsement. She also noted rather passionately though, that the GOP had better not marginalize Ron Paul and his supporters after tonight because their fiscal concerns are very legitimate and the GOP had better work with them.

Love him or hate him,but their was only 1 candidate on the ballot that was for smaller government,and that was Ron Paul.

'Black Confederate'

Ronald Reagan On Capitalism And Socialism

Their is no better way to get 2012 off to a good start than listening to the wit and wisdom of Ronald Reagan.