And conservative candidates are free to ask fro her help, but none of them are. Know why? For the same reason people aren’t booking her speeches . . . she’s a “blithering idiot.” There’s a reason she won’t answer any questions, and it’s not because she loves Alaska.

Yet without her, where are you, what becomes of your movement, who do you have? I’m afraid you’ve hitched your wagon to dead horse. You’ve whined yourselves into a corner and you think Palin and Beck will save you when in fact they are the cause of you being marginalized. It is not your beliefs that defeat you, it is your extremism.

Your heroes are shills not for any movement but for themselves. Their reward is not tied to philosophy but to profit via ratings. And so they will continue to stoke your rage. They don’t want conservatives to win. They don’t want Republicans to win. They make more money when they’re attacking rather than defending. The crazier they make you look, the more money they make . . . birthers, killing grandma, You lie!, rooting against America, agreeing with al Qaeda . . . and you go along like cows to the slaughter in your three-cornered hats and your arbitrary patriotism.

All fine with me, by the way. I’m loving it. Hail Rush! Go Sarah!

What McCain stood for in 2008, in his old fashioned way was American military power ensuring peace, fiscal conservatism and appointment of strict constructionsist judges ot the federal bench. Would you not all love to have that platform implemented now instead of Obama’s socialism, appeasement-minded foreign policy that includes a weak America apologizing and appointment of left wingers to the federal bench?

Sure enough, one response of a subsequent poster cited some of the old issues, one being the “Gang of 14″ back in 2005. So let’s take the Gang of 14, and examine it. I say that those who throw that at McCain are badly mistaken and should further be embarrassed by still relying on it.

Please recall that back in 2005, there was a Schumer led Democrat filibuster of Bush judicial nominees. While it was said that the fillibuster had not been invoked historically with respect to judicial nominations, that was because judicial nominations were once not political. They are now, because of the Democrats, and Schumer intended to block conservative nominees.

There was under consideration a so-called “constitutional option” of changing the filibuster rules so that they could not be invoked as to judicial nominees. The problems with that “option” were: (i) that it was not known whether it would have been passed — many Senators were quietly leery of changing filibuster rules, which had not been done before; and (ii) if it did pass, if there were a Democrat Congress with the White House in Democrat hands, the road would be open to appoint left wingers to the U.S. Supreme Court and to the U.S. Courts of Appeals. We of course have had a Democrat Congress as a result of the 2006 and 2008 elections and have a Barack Obama Presidency as a result of the 2008 election. Also, had the constitutional option not been passed, it would have meant a blockage of all or almost all of Bush’s judicial nominees.

What the “Gang of 14″ refers to was a compromise brokered by a group of Republican and Democrat Senators to allow Bush nominees to be voted on and thus approved unless there be extraordinary circumstances. That way, the Bush nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court and most of the Bush nominees to the U.S. Courts of Appeals could be confirmed without changing fillibuster rules or running the risk of having a complete blockage on conservative confirmations. In fact, John Roberts and Sam Alito were confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court and a great number of Bush nominees to the U.S. Courts of Appeals were confirmed. As a result, Chuckie Schumer complained that the Democrats were snookered. Yet, McCain has been pilloried because of the Senate compromise that can fairly be said to have snookered Chuckie. Wrong.

We have our hands full in fighting Obama and the socialist appeasement-minded Democrats. McCain’s voting record and voice on foreign policy issues place him on our side. Spending time attacking McCain today is STUPIDLY counterproductive.

May I suggest that the socialists ar quite aware of where McCain stands. The New York Times is now attacking McCain for being a “dangerous” “bomb thrower” with respect to health care. (McCain had the most conservative, free market health care approach of any candidate in 2008.) The New York Times also had made its displeasure known with repsect to McCain’s support of an Afghan “surge.”

The reason these Old Bulls dislike the grassroots of the Party (that would be us) is that the grassroots ARE the People, not the better breed of Men that GOP bronze busts like McCain,Dole,and Howard Baker think are the real movers and shakers of the Country.

That is why Palin was “vulgar” to them. In Latin, “Vulgar” means “of the People.” To this crowd and their supporters, people like David Brooks, “moderation” means a return to the soft dictates of consensus rule among political professionals, and the People are polite and stay out of it.

Nostalgia at this level of grand delusion and pomposity is like alcoholism: They will have to hit bottom. If these “moderates” in fact prevail, the Party will die alone and unloved in the political gutter (unless the Dems keep them alive on life-support for the pretense of a two-party system). The only question is when and at what cost to the country.

The Old Republican Party, no longer Grand, is moving into its final stage with the appearance of the McCain/Dole death rattle. It may take only one more election disaster.

“Nadyezhda yaest,” as a Russian policeman told CNN after the collapse of the old Soviet Union: “There is Hope” wherever so much deadwood is swept away suddenly.

Fixed that for you tom.

How can one claim to be “educated” when they lack a foundation of history, basic economics (no such thing as a free lunch), philosophy, and literature? That piece of paper they’re giving most disciplines these days has all the real value of a REALLY expensive and uncomfortable square of toilet paper. Even the Fossil Media admits that too many college graduates are unqualified to work in their field of study.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/24/AR2005122400701.html

Personally I think we need a party that adheres to fiscally conservative principles of smaller and limited government, low taxes, strong national defense, and adherence to the Constitution.