Missing Breitbart
Thanks to O’Keefe’s work and Breitbart’s strategy, ACORN went from being one of the most untouchable leftist front groups in the country to a defunded pariah in Washington forced to suspend its operations in less than ten days. A few months later, it was out of business as a national organization. At the same time, Breitbart and O’Keefe completely exposed the knee-jerk leftist instincts of the establishment press. I’m not naive enough to believe that ACORN’s demise meant the end of the left’s efforts to rig voting, but it slowed them down considerably. A full-blown entrenched ACORN juggernaut in 2012 would have made it difficult for even the second coming of Ronald Reagan to compete.
The movie also shows that without Breitbart, the obviously orchestrated “N-word” and spitting lies surrounding events on the day ObamaCare passed in March 2010 might have stood. Democrats had hoped to bait Tea Party-sympathetic demonstrators at the Capitol into saying or doing something racist or offensive by marching several African-American congressmen right through the crowd. When nothing other than shouts of “Kill the Bill” happened, Andre Carson, John Lewis, and the others just made stuff up. Breitbart demanded recorded proof that anyone ever said the N-word (let alone 15 times, as Carson claimed), and offered a princely sum to anyone among the thousands who were there with cellphones and cameras recording what was going on who could provide it. Nobody did, because it didn’t happen.
What Breitbart understood, and what all too many establishment Republicans and even conservatives don’t, is that there is no accommodating the left, and there is no hope of receiving fair treatment from the left-dominated establishment press. The left is hellbent on fundamentally transforming the country into a socialist utopia which has never succeeded anywhere it has been tried, and the press is determined to help them do that. Folks, no matter what you do, they’re going to hate you (and hate is the right word). So you might as well do the right thing and follow your beliefs and principles (John “Plan B” Boehner, please note).
This country now has a government headed by the most radical president in U.S. history, one with the worst economic record since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal extended the Great Depression by eight years. He nevertheless won reelection largely because his opponent conceded too much ground and wouldn’t fight hard enough for what remained.
Barack Obama and the left believe they have only just begun. Sensible, Constitution-anchored conservatives need to start acting as an army of Breitbarts.
Breitbart’s death was a tragedy of the first order.
But the lesson of not accommodating the left is being learned. Particularly, among the bloggers like Blazing Cat Fur.
Or a new blogger John Moloney on the site Ruthless Truth at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/
is another example.
Thanks so much for giving my husband’s blog, Blazing Cat Fur, a shout out!
As many here know, thanks to Instapundit’s recent post, my husband (and I) are subject to lawfare here in Canada for publicizing the growing, often shameless, radicalism of the country’s Muslims:
http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/2012/12/23/lawfare-canadian-muslims-planning-to-shut-down-my-husbands-blog/
Unfortunately instead of fighting back the Republicans have resigned themselves to a losers syndrome. Paul Ryan will be remembered for taking all the abuse that Joe Biden could hand out. Mitt Romney will be remembered for trying to look presidential when he decided to drop the Benghazi issue during the debate. The latest travesty was Lindsey Graham congratulating the President on the fiscal cliff debate. Looks to me like its free sailing for President Obama.
It is imperative to take the so called right to task for being dangerously timid in their responses. In fact, if anything exposed their inability to counter the left, look no further than the Repub convention, an insipid disgrace of the first order.
In the face of so much evidence, tying the left and the Dem machine to their support of the ‘Arab Spring’, the Repubs followed their disgraceful example and supported this nightmare as well – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/29/republican-national-convention-heralds-arab-spring-in-its-platform-oblivious-to-the-unfolding-arabmuslim-nightmare-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
And it is due to RINO’s at the helm, and their unwillingness to purge Grover Norquist from their midst – an Islamic leaning fox in the Repub hen house – that renders them incapable of fighting the leftist Dem machine and its surrogates.
IF things are left up to the Repub establishment, patriots would do well to kiss the Republic good bye.There aren’t any Breitbart’s in their ranks.
Grover Norquist isn’t merely Islamic-leaning: he’s a Muslim Brotherhood mole married to a Palestinian Muslim.
At the very least, he should have had to register as a foreign agent. He uses his anti-tax campaign to fool people into thinking he’s a conservative, but his real agenda is the stealth jihad.
The problem with many of the congressional opponents of Grover Norquist is that they share Norquists’ pro-Islamist views but they are also progressives who are perfectly willing to raise taxes (e.g., Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain).
Mostly agree, but want to highlight the story of Grover Norquist. While it is true that Norquist is an Islamist, it is also true that he pushed many GOPers into voting against tax increases. I wish someone else of the same caliber, without the Islamist rep, would push for the same thing. The last thing this Republic needs is a tax increase on anybody right now!
I think Grover is nuts, as a liberal, but you’re free to agree with his tax policy if you wish. What I don’t understand is, why would you possibly care what religion he is? This makes no sense….
You annoying judensau. Why do you care about the US?
Oh look folks. It’s an anti-semite bigot. feel the H8.
What is your email and web site?
Click on the/his/her name in the post. It’s a link. It takes you to the website.
Is today your first day on the internet?
In 2004, observing the crackup of the Howard Dean campaign after his infamous scream, Rush Limbaugh accurately observed: “Anger does not win elections.”
The GOP base yearns for another Reagan–but ignores why the Reagan campaign was so successful: It was genial, optimistic and uplifting, NOT angry.
Back in 1980, the AFL-CIO was more powerful and politically influential than ACORN ever was. Because back then, millions of decent middle-class working Americans belonged to it.
Get rid of the anger and the fury. Rediscover the happiness and optimism in Reagan’s “Morning in America.”
The GOP’s answer was NOT to go after the AFL-CIO the way Breitbart went after ACORN. Rather, it was to welcome any AFL-CIO members who were sick and tired of how the Dems were running the country into the ground.
The GOP base is mad as hell and nearly going ballistic at the sharp turn the country took to the Left, with the re-election of Obama and the new hard-left Dem senators who also got elected.
And they need to GET OVER IT.
Anger is ugly. It turns off people. Nobody wants to be around someone who is constantly walking around scowling with a chip on his shoulder.
Yeah, the answer to the AFL-CIO, etc. is called right-to-work. Wisconsin and Michigan have recently figured this out. Let people decide for themselves whether to financially contribute to a union’s leftist political objectives.
Unions never forget and they never forgive. RTW will be the central issue in any campaign for state office in IN, OH, and MI for the foreseeable future. Public employee bargaining will be the central issue in every state election in WI for the foreseeable future. Oh, and the fact that they left the police and fire alone won’t make them suddenly like Republicans. Every election will be Nationalized for the foreseeable future. I’m not saying that it shouldn’t have been done, but it isn’t finished and won’t be for a long time, if ever. There’s hardly a union leader in the Country that doesn’t think every day about repealing Taft-Hartley, which was passed in 1948!
I think the most fertile grounds for Republicans are reform or repeal of public employee bargaining rights, reform of public employee political rights, stringent enforcement of the Constitutional rights of dues objectors in the Republican states, and organized assistance to dues objectors in the Democrat controlled states.
I know everybody loves to love America’s heros, the “first responders,” but unionized cops and firefighters, and their partners in crime correctional officers, are pirates! That 9-11 Halo is giving guys with a GED or HS Diploma and at most six months of employer paid training $100,000/year and more in the unionized states. Since they can’t strike, they get interest arbitration for contract formation disputes. In interest arbitration disputed issues are submitted to an arbitrator who, depending on the law and politics, awards one or the other party’s “last, best offer” or actually forms a contract provision. The reality is that the common arbitral standard is comparability to similar jurisdictions which means even with Republican governments they get whatever their most profligate neighbor is giving away. In Democrat governments, arbitration is just a charade to make it look like the government is representing the public interest as it just gives the union what it wants.
I jurisdictions with interest arbitration the conventional wisdom is that the arbitrator’s awards are binding on the government. This is really indicative of the fact that Republicans don’t know anything about collective bargaining and Democrats don’t want to know anything about it. Since any expenditure by a government must be supported by an appropriation from its legislative body, a labor contract cannot be “self-appropriating;” it must have an appropriation to support paying the terms of the agreement and neither an arbitrator nor a court can force a legislative body to make an appropriation. In other words, if an arbitrator awards the firemen each a new Lexus and a Vegas showgirl, a government may be bound by the law to give them the Lexus and the bimbo, but it isn’t obligated to give any specific number of them a Lexus and a bimbo. Union rapidly get wise when they are confronted with stark chioce of either losing members and dues or getting reasonable in their contract demands. I’ve gone so far as to willfully “lose” an interest arbitration to make sure it was so damned expensive that my Legislature would puke over it and refuse to fund it; that makes both unions and legislatures get wise – and to make it worse, I made the cop union go bargain with girls to get a resolution.
Frankly, you can’t give public employees both unlimited bargining rights and unlimited political rights. Unless there is some powerful countervailing interest in the jurisdiction, the public employee union quickly becomes essentially a European-style socialist “workers’ party,” that when it doesn’t get its way, just buys a new government, see, e.g., California. I’ve never really feared one of our unions in actual collective bargaining, but I’ve damned well been fearful of them in politics.
I had to learn the hard way back in the late-’80s, early-’90s that to the big wall-to-wall public employee unions, bargaining is just politics by other means and vice versa. They couldn’t care less about bargaining or the well-being of their members except as it gives them an instrumentality to exercise political power. When AFSCME decertified the independent association that represented our largest employee group we found them both exceedingly obnoxious and exceedingly incompetent in actual representation and collective bargaining. They got the unit in late ’88 and after taking two years to get their first contract, they couldn’t get another one when it expired. We had them racked and stacked for decertification after the ’94 gubernatorial election, which we blithely assumed the Republicans would win. And then they bought themselves a Democrat governor who immediately gave them their union security clause and dues checkoff back. The new Democrat commissioner our boss, walked into the office and tells us that he’d campaigned with the unions for the job and one of the things he’d promised them was that he woud fire us. Now since we were all non-political merit system employees that promise was easier said than done and he never fired any of us, but you can only work for people you hate doing things you hate for so long, so all the senior people found other positions within a couple of years. I got wise pretty quickly over that one! Memo to file: never start a fight with a union that you can’t win before the next gubernatorial election. If a state or polisub is going to give its employees bargaining rights, it really has to enact political activity language as strong as the Hatch Act used to be; absolutely prohibit them from acting in concert to influence the outcome of any election, ballot measure, or legislative vote and absolutely prohibit them from either collecting PAC money through payroll or expending dues money on “social, political, and fraternal” activities. That prohibition on the use of dues money is absolutely black letter law and has been since the mid-eighties but nobody takes up for objecting employees so individual employees have to take on the unions’ batteries of attornies except in the rare cases where they get meaningful help from public interest groups such as the National Right to Work committee.
Anyway, this is getting too long, but there are things to do that don’t really involve existential battle with them. Existential battles are fine if you run and get elected on having one, although they never really end. But unless you did run on taking them on, it needs to be done with some skill and caution.
Yet for some odd reason, anger worked well for Democrats and Obama.
By the time some wake up, acknowledging what really produces a better outcome in life (See: David Mamet, as one example) they’ve been replaced in the time stream by another crop of clueless. Ronald Reagan won forty nine states, and look where we are now.
From my four+ decades living at Ground Zero for the American Left (SF, CA,) arrogance, hypocrisy plus, as a result of an abysmal lack of critical thinking, ignorance characterize their perspective, an outlook more akin to that of an inexperienced child than a mature adult.
The Left is driven by belief, fueled by emotion. Because reasoned, critical thinking reveals reality’s choices, it often clashes with warm, comfortable, oh so righteous beliefs. As Thomas Sowell points out, the Left never feels the obligation to test their assumptions to see if they produce beneficial results; they’re simply presumed to be correct, regardless of their consequences. In their minds only they are fair, care and willing to share—someone else’s assets.
We must be reasoned and relentless, for when the S.S. Dependency sinks, all onboard go down with it.
You’re absolutely right. The GOp, like the liberal Party in Australia, need to find what they have to offer the country, the positives in their stance and philosophy and push that, to give people something to rally to and to want to have as their country’s signature.
otherwise your’e just responding to the energy of the left, which is also necessary in battle, but often gets in the way of asserting the non left party’s identity.
OOps, this misplaced comment was in reply to
5. Anonymous.
Ronald Reagan’s campaign was genially nasty. He laughed in their faces, he called them liars with a wry grin. He talked past them to the American people. He treated them as if they were of no consequence.
n 2004, observing the crackup of the Howard Dean campaign after his infamous scream, Rush Limbaugh accurately observed: “Anger does not win elections.”
The GOP base yearns for another Reagan–but ignores why the Reagan campaign was so successful: It was genial, optimistic and uplifting, NOT angry.
Back in 1980, the AFL-CIO was more powerful and politically influential than ACORN ever was. Because back then, millions of decent middle-class working Americans belonged to it.
The GOP’s answer was NOT to go after the AFL-CIO the way Breitbart went after ACORN. Rather, it was to welcome any AFL-CIO members who were sick and tired of how the Dems were running the country into the ground.
The GOP base is mad as hell and nearly going ballistic at the sharp turn the country took to the Left, with the re-election of Obama and the new hard-left Dem senators who also got elected.
And they need to GET OVER IT.
Anger is ugly. It turns off people. Nobody wants to be around someone who is constantly walking around scowling with a chip on his shoulder.
Get rid of the anger and the fury. Rediscover the happiness and optimism in Reagan’s “Morning in America.”
In 2004, observing the crackup of the Howard Dean campaign after his infamous scream, Rush Limbaugh accurately observed: “Anger does not win elections.”
The GOP base yearns for another Reagan–but ignores why the Reagan campaign was so successful: It was genial, optimistic and uplifting, NOT angry.
Back in 1980, the AFL-CIO was more powerful and politically influential than ACORN ever was. Because back then, millions of decent middle-class working Americans belonged to it.
The GOP’s answer was NOT to go after the AFL-CIO the way Breitbart went after ACORN. Rather, it was to welcome any AFL-CIO members who were sick and tired of how the Dems were running the country into the ground.
The GOP base is mad as hell and nearly going ballistic at the sharp turn the country took to the Left, with the re-election of Obama and the new hard-left Dem senators who also got elected.
And they need to GET OVER IT.
Anger is ugly. It turns off people. Nobody wants to be around someone who is constantly walking around scowling with a chip on his shoulder.
Get rid of the anger and the fury. Rediscover the happiness and optimism in Reagan’s “Morning in America.”
For the Love of Life Orchestra, GOT IT. Anger bad. Cheerfulness good. Now how about you yourself learning about another virtue: patience? As in waiting for your comment to post the first time?
Orchestra must be a newbie. It usually takes a little while for comments to show up.
oh, i love you grrls…….’>………
One thing, this is the 21st c. and happiness and optimism is so over. America as we knew her dissipated into the mists of time and history and we are in a near death struggle to preserve the remnants of something like a decent civil society. The capital of an Reagan-era America has been spent and daring, ingenuity and a little bit of creativity, has to go into reclaiming and building something from the rest. A catch phrase from an owner of a small startup I used to work for mirrors the sage advice from boot camp – panic if it will help, lose your temper if it will help. If you sit like a lump, you’re finished for sure. The only way to know you’re not a lump is to have some passion for the enterprise…….
I know this sinz54 post is a repeat, but I have a suspicion I need to express.
A combination of anger and highly skilled agitprop techniques worked quite well for Obama and the Democrats, Breitbart understood it. Yet here is sinz54 giving concerned advice to the GOP to avoid using tactics that actually worked for the Left.
Given that I caught sinz54 arguing in bad faith in the gun issue comment sections, I suspect the same here.
He is concern trolling.
concur
I really missed Breitbart during the 2012 election cycle. He wasn’t angry, but a brash, courageous warrior. The right really doesn’t fight much and settles for crumbs. They seem to be able to communicate during an election, but afterwards their mouths turn to mush. Either way, they are almost useless. What’s the point of spending millions of dollars to elect them and watch them fade away into the woodwork?
I’m going to concentrate where the Republicans can and do make a difference and that is at the State level. So I’m going to ramp up my contributions to the National Right To Work group. We need to turn several other states to right to work, especially in the battleground states. Now this should be easier when the private sector union guys see their jobs being dismantled in coal mining and energy production being dismantled by Obama regulations.
To some extent, I’m still in mourning for him. That we lost him on the seventh of Adar – also the day Moses passed – has great significance for me on more than one level. I’d hoped for a chance to meet him someday and thank him for the inspiration and example he set. When I got the news I went into shutdown (still can’t remember anything else about that day; it’s otherwise blank) but had an awful premonition that it presaged much worse news to come.
Maybe I’m being fanciful or superstitious, but there were just too many “lucky breaks” and “amazing coincidences” feeding into the re-election of Obama, of which Andrew Breitbart’s death was the most important. Now it’s impossible to shake the feeling that it’s the Divine Will bringing America, Israel, and the whole bloody world to the brink, and things are about to get almost unimaginably worse before they get any better. Maybe we are the unenviable generations in for one of the periodic cleansings, or could even be going into what we call the birthpangs of the Messiah and some of you call the Tribulation. Whatever is in store for us now, maybe Andrew was fortunate to have missed it…
Yes, I miss him terribly and hope those in charge of his site can keep it going.
The two so-called senators who represent my state of Texas voted FOR this abomination (NO spending cuts)! Hutchison is retiring -good riddance–welcome Cruz (I hope he can remain conservative). I will do all I can to defeat Cornyn in the next primary! I miss Breitbart terribly! He was one of the very few who did not compromise his principles!
When will conservatives take the fight to the left as Andrew did?
When “conservatives” (aka Americans) grow a pair.
You can’t replicate a Breitbart mentality through wishful thinking or, even, training.
Breitbart came from a liberal worldview to a commitment to “conservative” ideas through life experience, intense self-examination and an unwavering dedication to truth.
You can’t be him unless you have walked in those shoes for yourself. His was a slow and steady evolution.
O’Keefe seems to have the same fire in the belly. There are some recent electees to Congress who have this quality, like Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), as well as some writers at pjmedia. Another relatively young guy who has fire in the belly is Jason Mattera.
You have to be a bluff caller and never be held back by fear.
Liberals and the sycophantic liberal press count on fear, intimidation and mockery to silence you.
In the main, conservatives just want to be left alone. Libs are frickin’ crusaders and there’s always something with them – they don’t shut up about injustice the world over for 5 min.
Exactly right! David Horowitz explained all this clearly in his book “Radical Son.” Lefties want to change the world and work their whole lives to do so, and Conservatives just want to be left in peace to raise their kids and have a good life. This is why the Left has been so successful in implementing their destructive agenda.
Sadly, a great many conservatives don’t simply want to be left alone. I wish that were true. They want to “win the culture war.” That’s because to them that’s what culture is — an act of political war. Someone like L. Brent Bozell III doesn’t want to be left alone. He wants to remove sources of what he sees as cultural “pollution” from everyday life. He’s as much a nanny state bully as the Ralph Nader or multiculturalist types are.
Why are we so quick to cannibalize our own. Breitbart didn’t, he went after the opposition. Stop wasting your time hammerin the repubs, the right, the conservatives. To be heard we need a chorus of opposition to the left. It’s easy to go after our own, much harder to stand up to the left.
Yup, it’s even worse if they stumble. Then the Republicans/Conservatives who had been supporting them would piled on as bad as (if not worse) than the liberals who had every reason to pile on a conservative figure who made an unfortunate faux pas. We do know the one thing the Democrats do right, they don’t cannibalize their own. As Whittaker Chambers had said decades earlier: “the great failing of American conservatives is they do not retrieve their wounded.”
In order to win, first you must understand and study your opponent game plan and its weakness, -This is true in a sports game, Business, politics or shooting war- then develop an offensive strategy to destroy your opponents from its weakest point. If you don’t you are condemn to lose by playing defensive.
The difference between the bonehead Republicans and Andrew was that Andrew understood the left’s game plan and its vulnerabilities. In ACORN case He knew all decent people would negatively react to ACORN’s child prostitution skim. He used the left’s own tactics to bring ACRON down. Until people understand -as Breitbart did- the true evil nature of the left and have the stones/intelligence to fight it America will be in the loosing end of history. I wish we have many Breitbarts
Mr. Breitbart had a singular vision and focus for countering the ideological media’s mono narrative. If anything please don’t wait for his replacement or return, ala Reagan, but continue with that vision.
What format can be used, how can that message be best delivered, where can people obtain information counter to the mono narrative of the ideological media? If I learned anything about media dissemination from Mr. Breitbart, it is that he lived Barry Goldwater’s declaration “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”.
That is my view of Mr. Breitbart’s legacy and all it takes is leadership and vision to aspirate a narrative attunement that people may divine truth from falsehood.
Robert Natales comments should never have been accepted. Hate comments should be censored.
Agreed. Violates point three of posting guidelines:
3. Disagree, but avoid ad hominem attacks.
Personality cults are potentially dangerous. They lead to personal inaction; after all, the _next_ inspirational, super human Breitbart-figure will soon appear on the horizon, we tell ourselves.
Hero worship can be inspirational but it can also, inversely, lead to laziness.
I admired Breitbart enormously. However:
We didn’t need another conservative news site(s). He should have invested his considerable talent and capital into creating a much-needed conservative/libertarian alternative to YouTube, Twitter and/or Facebook, since all those entities are de facto progressive and punish conservative voices daily.
He also left a wife and four children bereft because he was TOO dedicated to his causes, some of which he was less than wise about adopting.
I’m the first to say that on my deathbed, I’ll regret having spent LESS time at the office — however, knowing that key aspect of myself is one of the reasons I chose _not_ to have children.
He was very right however that we need to confront and change the culture, otherwise wins at the ballot box will be scarce and temporary.
“Put not your faith in princes…”
It’s not about a cult, Kathy. It’s about convincing people to do what they can in their own lives to resist the left so they can, as the column suggested become an army of Breitbarts.
I loved the article. I don’t really understand why you are criticizing Breitbart’s personal choices after his passing. He made an enormous contribution – not just to American conservatives but also to patriots in Israel and elsewhere by his example.
We don’t know the inner details of his family life. We also, sadly, don’t know exactly why he died. If in fact he perished from congenital heart problems, an early death was probably inevitable. Had he followed your advice, Kathy, he might have lived another 5-10 years possibly, but without the same legacy.
What we need is not another Breitbart website. What we need is for some prominent Republican billionaire to buy some major media outlets and convert them from being Obama’s version of Orwell’s Minitruth.
Hopefully Adelson will do this (especially with his connections in the media and entertainment business) before he passes on.
Glenn Beck has The Blaze TV, and it’s still every bit as earth-shaking as his FOX show when he schooled America on her history and the poison of the democrat/liberal/progressive party. He’s doing everything humanly possible to be the conservative network, but he could move a lot faster with more subscribers. He wants to field a global news operation as well as 24-hour’s worth of decent viewing options for his channel. Pretty sure he’s got major movies in the works.
Buy a ROKU box (Bing where they can be bought), plug it into your TV and buy a subscription at TheBlazeTV.com.
If you’re skittish, try a free 14-day trial (watch on your computer screen) and check out some of his shows before 12/14 (when he went on vacation): http://www.video.theblaze.com/index.jsp You can watch whenever you wish, but I still tune in every day at 5 p.m. EST at dinner and listen to what NO ONE ELSE is reporting. Beck’s network is outstanding. It’s maddening to run into his old fans from FOX who have no idea he’s got his OWN network — beholden to no one! — on the internet. It isn’t rocket surgery, folks, and it beats the hell out of anything on cable.
It’s on the internet preaching to the choir. What a great thing! People who are already into Beck will see Beck on TV–oh goody. They’ve paid to have his channel added to their Roku. So?
Morons watch CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, HLN, CNBC, MSNBC and all the other liberal sewage that seeps into broadcast and cable programming–and Glenn Beck’s got a pay internet channel! That you have to search for, register for and have a decent enough computer for.
His FANS don’t always know it’s there.
What a waste.
Glenn Beck making movies. God help us. I’d rather stick with “Argo,” “Looper” or “Lincoln.”
John Roberts needs to take note as well. His about face on Obamacare for the purpose of dancing for Leftist approval, is repugnant. Federalist Society my arse.
Ah, hell, Tom.
Conservatives are too busy fighting and demonizing everyone who agrees with them. They haven’t got the time to fight the left-wing progressives.
To most conservatives, ideological purity is the only thing that matters.
Allowing the communist progressives to dominate our nation is strictly secondary.
Ideological purity = principles. I know that being principled is a foreign concept to many in the GOP. This is exactly why this country needs to dump the GOP and form a truly conservative party. Any Republican who votes to raise taxes does not have conservative principles.
…and freedom can go to hell, as long as everyone does exactly what you want, when you want it, just the way that you want it done.
You’re a part of the problem.
Ideological purity caused some eight million conservatives to stay home in 2008, and, according to which reports you choose, anywhere from three million to six million stayed home this last time.
iow, ideological purity gifted us with both Obama adminstrations.
Hurray for ideological purity…
“What Breitbart understood, and what all too many establishment Republicans and even conservatives don’t, is that there is no accommodating the left, and there is no hope of receiving fair treatment from the left-dominated establishment press. The left is hellbent on fundamentally transforming the country into a socialist utopia which has never succeeded anywhere it has been tried, and the press is determined to help them do that.”
This is the heart of it. The eletists in the Republican party are still obsessed with this idea that everyone will just “love” us as long as we take the time to “explain” conservatism to people.
Bunk. The last election proved that we are fighting the European-style Social-Welfare state in this country and only an open war of words with those ingrates will win this conflict. We are fighting people who want “free” stuff, everything from Obamacare to food stamps to welfare to subsidized housing and education. They want it all and they want to stick YOU with the bill. If we do nothing to stop this, by 2016 we WILL be just like Greece, with sky-high taxes, chronically high unemployment, no economic growth, and no military defense to speak of.
Andrew Breitbart understood this. He was a giant in the cause of trying to stop the left from taking over what remains of this republic. He, like Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and a few others, know that our republic is slipping away from us and that our Constitution, the document that only made us the most powerful country on this planet, has now been torn and tattered by a group of thugs that are determined to transform this nation into a social-welfare state.
And it must stop. We need an army of Andrew Breitbarts to pick up the banner of conservatism and take this war right back to the liberals. We need a Margaret Thatcher who couldn’t care less if she was loved, but DID care very much about her conservative principles and stopped at nothing to see them implemented and adopted by her nation. THESE are the people we need to win in 2014 and 2016. There is no need to simply become “Democrats Light” and try to get elected by just promising people you will spend a little less than liberals. No sir, not on our watch. Time to stand up for something. And if we fail, at least we’ve failed standing for something, and NOT crawling on our bellies like cowards begging for people’s votes.
Time to stand tall again and take the battle to them. It’s the only way we’ll win.
Funny, if any front rank Republican elected or appointed officials ever embraced or even noted Brietbart, I missed it. When hit in the head with it, they did come out against ACORN’s antics as shown in the O’Keefe video, but, Hell, everybody who has been around the block a time or two knows ACORN and practically every other Democrat front group does that sort of stuff – constantly, so it is hardly news unless your head is willfully up your butt.
I fought increasingly leftist unions for twenty years on behalf of my State. My State for most of that time was one of only two or three and sometimes the only state that had a Republican government and a unionized workforce. My state is one of only a handful and maybe the only one that has a unionized workforce and something resembling fiscal sanity. (And b4 somebody looks it up and whines that Alaska’s pensions are underfunded; they are not bargained with unions and the State made the choice to stop adding funding to the legacy pensions fund when it switched to defined contribution in 2005. Outlays to the legacy plans are from general funds if necessary.)
There are perhaps 20 people who have been instrumental in Alaska being able to keep its unionized workforce under control since doing so became serious with the oil price crash of the mid-’80s. There are perhaps a half dozen legislatively confirmed cabinet level appointees who let them do it. Stuffed in there was a two-term Democrat governor who started out as chattel of the AFSCME local, but by that time management methods were so entrenched that even a two-term Democrat couldn’t totally destroy them and in its last couple of years had to try to strengthen them to get its union “friends” back under control.
I and some of the cabinet officers are the only one who’ve been involved in my State’s relations with its unions whose name anyone holding State office in that period would even recognize. The rest are faceless, nameless bureaucrats of the sort that Republicans so like to deprecate. They know me because the unions so hated me that it was a standard at election time for the unions to get any Democrat running to promise to fire me and because of that, I quit during the two-term Democrat’s tenure and worked for the Republican Legislature for three sessions.
I’ve carried a LOT of water for Republican elected and appointed officials in my State, some of it to the detriment of my personal reputation and some of it at the risk of my personal safety. Republicans here have had over 20 years of relative peace with a highly unionized and at times very radical unionized workforce because of a group of people that I and a couple others developed beginning in the mid-’80s and everyone who has dealt with the State’s unionized workforce since those days has been hired or trained – or run off – by one of us or by, now, someone we hired and trained since I was the last of the “old guard” to leave in 2006. People from that work unit have gone on to head labor relations or HR for a major oil company, a major electric utility, the State, the Court System, the University, the cities of Anchorage and Juneau, the States of Nevada, Oregon, and Washington and there’s probably some I can’t think of right now.
With that record of accomplishment, I’m probably the only one that any elected officeholder would recognize by sight and if I were to show up today at some Republican grip ‘n grin, within the first five minutes of my arriving I would hear somebody say, “Here comes trouble!” In my experience, Republicans at all levels simply cannot stand confrontation and controversy and they can’t stand people who are associated with it. Even when I was an appointee my principals spent more time worrying about what I might do or say than about what my adversaries might do or say and really would have been happy if they could have just kept me in a box and taken me out only to fix their screw-ups and then put me safely back in the box.
There is something about how we select our candidates and elect our officeholders that favors the “hail fellow well met” Rotary Club Republican who just wants everyone to be nice and can’t stand people who aren’t nice. Such people are just roadkill to trained and disciplined leftists.
Don’t make too much of Tag Romney’s statement that his father didn’t really want to be President. You must beware of those who do want to become president. The present occupant of the office is an example. The good presidents don’t want to BE president, but become convinced that they can do something for the country. Mitt Romney believed that he had skills that could directly address the problems the country faces, and that he knew what needed to be done. Mr. Obama has spoken of how much he likes the perks of the office, and how much he dislikes the work — that’s why he has all those Czars to do the work for him, so he can just make speeches, which he likes.
this.
Unlike the evangelitards like Todd Akin, Andrew Breitbart knew how to fight like a Chicago politician. Andrew understood how the Left thinks and knew how to use agitprop tactics against them (unlike the evangelitard gentlemen politicians in the GOP). He knew that treating this (cold) war like a gentlemens’ debate was foolish and he knew that the Marxists had to be completely destroyed.
CONSERVATIVES ARE FIGHTING!!!! REPUBLICANS AREN’T!!!! The GOP stands for Geriatric Old P—–S. The GOP is quite ready to hibernate until it can turn on its fundraising machine in about 2 years from now. It is a brand and not a political party. It can win by losing and lose if small government values win the day. It is over and the Democrats fear the day conservatives are as anti-Republican as they are. At that point the professional wrestling ends and the real battle begins.
I would suggest conservatives fight for freedom in education (vouchers and home schooling), freedom in higher education, they should organize not just for gun rights but provide real firearms education (for instance I live in NYS, they can stop me from owning a firearm but they can’t stop from becoming as competent as possible in understanding firearms and helping others too as well) and they should also be supporting each others small businesses, etc.
Tom, I’m with you on this one.
(sorry, Kathy…I adore you, but Tom has a point)
We are too timid, perhaps to put it generously, by nature we are respectful, more reserved, less prone to slimy tactics, generally believe in silly concepts like honesty, integrity, loyalty, devotion to country, …and therefore we don’t fight dirty nearly as well or as often as leftists…who have made it an art form.
Andrew would take their slime and hit back twice as hard. He would bump chests with them and beat them at their own game. Let’s give Kathy her point of contest, we can’t roll over because he is gone. The graveyards are filled with indispensable people.
However, it takes a certain level of damn the torpedoes courage to do what Andrew was willing to do each and every day. Get in their faces, expose them for the frauds, liars, traitors, slanderers they are and expose their treason.
With a vengeance borne by righteousness.
Fighting people who are rules-breakers by nature…with an army of rules-followers, is a bad setup to begin with, but it is REALLY made worse when the refs and umpires (media, Hollywood, academia and all other manner of information stream and water cooler toxic polluters) are rigging the outcome.
We live and die by our code of ethics, but we fight against an enemy who doesn’t have any. Andrew understood that and built a campaign around the recognition that polity doesn’t work against dirty fighting. We can’t and won’t win unless and until we all recognize the same thing. Balancing our honor with the lack of our enemies’…is our final clarion call to save this land of ours…if not for ourselves, then for our children.
Rule Number One: When you imagine enemies, you create them.
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give money to conservative comedians. John Stewart and other cultural warriors have the monopoly on the youth…time to change the center of gravity. This kid is a born rule breaker and walks and talks like the average college educated kid…however he understands that only through reclaiming media can the nation be won back.
Already did: http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radical-Conservatives-Beating-ebook/dp/B0036S4DMO/ref=tmm_kin_title_0
“Despite all the establishment press hype about Barack Obama’s “convincing” victory, the fact remains that he won with a smaller percentage of the popular vote (50.6%) than every successful incumbent in the past century except three . . ”
With all due respect, do you have any idea how dumb that makes you sound?
What is dumb about pointing out that Obama’s share of the vote wasn’t very high and that it was a close election?
You haven’t a clue that Obama won over 51% of the vote and the last president to do that twice was Eisenhower? Huh.
Obama got less that 51% of the popular vote.
You should probably check your facts before making posts.
Breitbart said he would “fully vet” Obama before the 2012 election, but after his death almost nothing was reported that was particularly damning. Was Breitbart making an unsubstantiated claim, implying he had “the goods on Obama” when he, in fact, had nothing? Or did his death frighten people into clamming up?
As part of the Anti-Obama left, I am very disappointed that Breitbart, who may well
have been killed, is gone, for at least someone was not politically afraid to go after Obama.
This though does not deal with the problem of the demise of America caused by the controlled dialectic of the Republican and Democratic Parties who work in cahoots to destroy America.
Right leaning Americans need a strategy to ‘outflank’ the Democrats and Republicans who both support bankrupt Wall Street’s derivatives monsters and charade of the war on terror based upon 9/11 lies of the terrorist faction known as Obama Bin Bush and the treasonous traitors of Congress.
The Republican Party needs to become the Party of real capitalistic development, not bull shit of the zombie banks and hedge funds, but agro-industrial production of real goods, investments that yield real objective-physical improvements towards the welfare of people and life on the planet, where union subversion is subsumed by an economy that can support a living wage, not the present credit and debt nightmare of the private Federal Reserve that keeps everyone fighting one another in the fake left-right dialectic of the oligarchy.
Economics 101 is this: If you do not pay the producers of Agricultural and other produced Raw Materials a parity price, then you are denying the potential for profit to benefit society. If Raw Materials production is not paid for at full cost of production with profit, then such profit will not find its way through the rest of the economy. This is economic fact as discovered by Carl H. Wilken. See
National Organization for Raw Materials, (NORM) and the book by Charles Walters, The Unforgiven: How America exchanged Parity Agriculture for War and Debt.
Wilken’s discovered for every dollar raised in Raw Material Production would multiply by a factor of 7 through out the rest of the economy. If you underpay this base necessity, food production, then you cheat yourself.
Is it right to not be paid for your labor? Well the parity price of wheat is around $18.50 but the spot price is like $8.30 so the farmer is being cheated by $10 in what is earned income.
EARNED INCOME is not the credit swindle of the Federal Reserve bullshit of the Democratic and Republican Parties who both support Wall Street.
The Great Depression was caused when there became a lack of profits in the Agricultural sector due to Free Trade. The issue was to bring profits back to producers in America.
This was done to win World War II where parity pricing of a guarantee of 90% of partiy was put forth because production of agricultural goods was essential and the family farm, the engine of American natural capitalism needed to survive.
If we go off of the insane Farm Bill, then we go back to U.S Law of 90% parity on corn, wheat, etc.
A living wage would reflect parity, thus being the base for a minimum wage, that people could afford production
Breitbart was killed? God you people are so ate up with yourselves, it’s criminal. Breitbart was a liar and a goon. So why am I surprised he’s deified on this stupid site?