First Principles
With less than six months before the critical 2012 election, it’s vital that those on the right not fall into the trap of accepting the premises of leftist argumentation. To do that — to cede even a single inch of turf, or to acknowledge that they are arguing or advocating in good faith — is already to have lost. Therefore, repeat after me:
Principles, not programs. Principles, not programs. Principles, not programs.
We often hear it said that the coming election is as raw a clash of political philosophies as can be imagined — the most important election since 1860. And in a sense, that’s true. The national divide over the issue of slavery and its expansion into the rapidly settling territories was a constitutional crisis of the first order. It took the Civil War to sort out an issue that the Framers had partially punted, at a dreadful cost of lives and treasure. To say that the postwar Union was nothing like antebellum America is an understatement.
Now we are engaged in a great Cold Civil War. But the decision American voters will make in November is far more than merely an ideological clash about what the Constitution meant or means. For that supposes that both sides are playing by the same rules, and have a shared interest in the outcome. That presumes that both sides accept the foundational idea of the American experiment, and that the argument is over how best to adhere to it.
That is false.
For some, this is a difficult notion to grasp. To them, politics is politics, the same game being played by the same rules that go back a couple of centuries. The idea that one party — and you know which one I mean — is actively working against its own country as it was founded seems unbelievable.
But that is true.
Don’t take it from me, take it from Barack Hussein Obama who famously said on the stump in 2008: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
Many gullible voters took that to mean that the end of the George W. Bush era was at hand, and little more. Ho-hum: politics as usual. But the minute I heard that, I knew exactly what Obama meant. “Fundamental transformation” is the Holy Grail of the modern Left — I do not say “American Left,” since much of its inspiration and sustenance is most definitely not American — and by “fundamental transformation” they mean the utter destruction of the founding principles of limited government, individual self-reliance and personal freedom. In their place, they bring the poisoned gifts of fascism, central planning and rule by a credentialed aristocracy of like-minded fellow travelers.
And when they say “by any means necessary,” you had better believe they mean it. Election 2012 is not a clash of political parties but an existential struggle for the soul of America. To treat it as anything but that is both willful blindness and arrant foolishness.
Two years ago, I published Rules for Radical Conservatives, a how-to-fight-the-Left manifesto written by “David Kahane,” a thirty-something lefty screenwriter whose work appears over at National Review Online. In reality, “Kahane” is one of my characters, a parody of a typical Hollywood/bien-pensant/hate-filled intolerant “progressive, who was fed up with gutless conservatives too weak to respond to his side’s provocations.
The book was both humorous and deadly serious. Here’s a bit from Dave’s Rule No. 4: “Get On Offense and Stay On Offense”:
So there you are, lying flat on your back on the canvas and wondering whether the referee got the number of that truck. For decades, we’ve pummeled you and pounded you, if not quite into submission then pretty close to it. We’ve robbed you of your tongue, of your fighting spirit; we’ve hamstrung you with lawyers and political correctness. We’ve made you doubt the worth of everything you once held dear – now there was a practical application of “Critical Theory” if there ever was one! – including your culture, your history and, well, you. We’ve practically criminalized everything about you, including your thoughts, and it’s just a matter of time before we get those too. Why, we’ve got top government-funded scientists in their labs working on a brain-wave reader right now!
The key to our success is our relentlessness: we are like the Terminator before he went all girly-man in California, except whinier. Unlike the Terminator, who laughed as bullets bounced off him, plucked out his own eyeball and walked through searing flame until he was little more than a scary metal skeleton, got half his body ripped away by a machine press and kept coming at Linda Hamilton, however, we don’t like to get punched. So start punching.
Until everyone on the Right fully grasps this, our country will remain under siege. It’s a siege that’s been ongoing, in one form or another, since the Wilson administration, with one side (and you know which one) “fundamentally” rejecting the Constitution — they’re getting bold enough to admit it now — and explicitly denigrating America’s history in order to prepare the way for their new progressive order. The long march through the institutions has left a terrible trail of cultural destruction in its wake — which, of course, was precisely the intention.
This is why it’s crucial, when dealing with the Left, to reject the premises of their arguments, since those premises must necessarily posit that there is something “fundamentally” wrong with the American system, and that they are the cure.
By rejecting their premises, you do more than simply level the playing field: you also force them out of hiding and either cause them to flee or, more rarely, actually admit their true intentions — something that is almost impossible for them to do. For they must be devotees of what I (and David Kahane) have dubbed “American taqiyya,” the concealment of their destructive purposes under the rubrics of “Fairness,” “Tolerance,” “Compassion,” etc.
In the days, weeks and months to come, we’ll be exploring the true nature of the modern Left, the danger it poses to traditional American values, and how to stop it. It’s a choice we have to make next November, and we’re only going to have one last chance to get it right.
It’s time to start punching.
Don’t take it from me, take it from Barack Hussein Obama who famously said on the stump in 2008: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
Just imagine (and you can reverse the sexes if you please) that 5 days before his coming wedding Joe hears Sally say to her girl friends, “I am five days away from fundamentally transforming Joe”. I think Joe would head for the hills as fast as his feet could carry him.
Well, my comment was censored. Don’t know why. All I can say is welcome, Mike Walsh, Strike One.
Politically correct liberals are naive, stupid morons. The idea they even know what a principle is is a joke. Every large idea they operate from is demonstrably false.
If they simply said they intend on rejecting reality itself they’d make more sense. Liberals are plodding rednecks who’ve learned how to become lawyers and fight on that playing field. There is no cure for stupidity.
Liberals talk about threats but don’t know what one is, they talk about borders, profiling, and racism but have no fundamental grasp of what those things actually are. The dumbing down of America is no longer speculation, but a reality that has encased us in cement.
Don’t underestimate the progressives. They are not morons, but are either utopian idealists or “practical” reformers staving off what they fear is red revolution. They do this by tugging on our heart strings, or “compassion.” You can witness their takeover of the humanities through the abandonment of how wars are caused in favor of victims, the “little people” who suffer at the hands of elites. I wrote about that here: http://clarespark.com/2012/06/16/the-social-history-racket/. Their economic theory is a kind of pseudo-Keynesianism. Never heard of Hayek &Co., but if they have, these free market economists are held to be heartless servants of the Big Money. I agree with Michael Walsh. Time to wake up and fight with understanding of the enemy’s tactics.
Right you are, Clare. We who uphold the right of the individual to own and carry about our own defensive firearms have a saying: never carry a knife to a gunfight. The fight is real enough, the danger is high…. but if you permit your opponent to have and use the superior weapons, or allow him the least opportunity to take you by surprise, you are done. The “long chain of abuses” suffered by the Colonials continues to grow. THEY knew what to do… do we? WILL we?
Why do you feel the need to insult rednecks?
Liberals are Rednecks. What a beautifully maroon statement. What’s next, Queers are Squares? :: ))
What do “borders, profiling, and racism” really mean, pray.
/s/ Clueless
One last chance?
i’m a concerned ex-pat in Seoul, Korea, and I listnen to a lot of US conservtaive talk radio via streaming audio and I’m a frequent visitor to sites like PJ Media, the Weekly Standard, and NRO online. If the cocktail party Marxist from Hyde Park deceives the drones again, don’t you think it will be time for some serious nonviolent resistance? For example, if the health care mandate survives the next few days, why not just refuse to pay up after it goes into effect in 2014. The CBO has already predicted that four million people won’t obey the OMarxist healthcare mandate. What if 10 million people refuse to obey? Resistors could also urge small businesses not to invest in expansion or startups if the One wins again-something that shouldn’t be too hard to do if Obama is still in office on January 21, 2013. “Going Rand” could become the most patirotic of all acts. Finally, why not just take a page or two from US history? It’s often forgotten that the British durin the runup to the American Revolution backed down twice over legislation the colonists didn’t like. The parliament in London repealed both the Stamp Act and the Townsend Acts in the face of strong, mostly nonviolent colonial opposition. Ladies and Gentlemen, time to put you money where your mouth is. The Lefties, in the event of an Obambi victory come November, are counting a continued outpouring of brave words, but no action on the part of conservatives and libertarians. Prove them wrong.
Mike Gallagher in Seoul
Nice thought to passively resist, but if Obama is re-elected than the America we know will not be governed by the same laws.
It will quickly become a socialist/fascist nation under the control of the U.N. Citizens will not have a voice – silent or otherwise. Nor will we enjoy most of the other freedoms that we do today.
If you want a good picture of what America will become look at China and Russia who are controlling the U.N. and will be handed control of America.
I went Rand when I was 18.
“don’t you think it will be time for some serious nonviolent resistance?”
Uh…nonviolent resistance only works against a civilized (dare we say “Christian”) enemy. Do you really think that Ghandis’ suggestion of Jews going happily into the concentration camps would have deterred Hitler?
When they arrive at your front door it is time for resistance. The nature of that resistance, however, is open to question. “Is life so dear or peace so sweet?”
Mike Gallagher, I’ve thought the same. My version of “going Rand” is called “Gone Ark” in my thriller novel about this very scenario. It’s called THE NOAH OPTION and is available on Amazon Kindle for $0.99
http://www.amazon.com/The-Noah-Option-ebook/dp/B005GEX3HM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1340660658&sr=8-2&keywords=The+Noah+Option
“The last remnants of the old Republic have been swept away.”
May the Providence be with us.
If obama loses, there will be riots in the large cities. count on it. conservatives need to get informed and armed.
adios,
Harv
TaxVille, Prop8ifornia
push 1 for English ONLY in the USA
No problemo… make the statement. Nose, say goodbye to Face.
As Greece/Italy/Ireland/France/et al go down the poop shoot of idiocy…America hired a moron who believes in the very crap-shoot that is socialism.
You know what? I’m popping some popcorn. I’m tired of being blue.
Whatever happens…I hope to see some of you on the other side.
In his falsely predictive book, “The Death of Conservatism”, Sam Tannenhaus declared definitively that Obama is naught but a Burkean conservative, wanting only to reform the system, creating reforms in order to SAVE the system from its excesses. Later, Fareed Zacharia picked up the “good news” and also declared
Obama to be a Burkean. Alas, I know some ex-conservatives, converted to Obamaism, who actually cited such impeccable (sic) sources in order to calm my clearly Burkean nature. There has been on the part of many Liberals the belief that Obama is but a reformer, despite Obama’s explicitly revolutionary statements. I think this opinion is still rampant. In my judgment Obama could run his campaign with the motto “I have kept my word”. This would be, for a change, a “true” proclamation by our Kenyan born Pesident. However, it would also be the theme song of his Republican opponents who could turn said kept promises against the first “truely” anti-American president. So Obama remains silent on his achievements. But Americans are not the only “true believers”.
Obama gave a speach in Berlin, translated into a messy German, in reaction to which the Germans evinced sort of a political orgasm, heaping unretrained praise upon the MAN. In conversations with some believers of a nation whose parents believed another “fundamental transformer” (who, alas, also did keep his promises), I sought to make this “formal” parallel by noting that Obama in more than once place in his oration used the term “remake”. He would “remake” America and the world (so terribly modest as he “is”), in short, he is the “Remaker”! I pointed out that the word “make” in America is used in Protestantism (and popularly also in Catholicism) in order to refer to God, the “Maker” of Heaven and Earth (though not dirctly of the US of A, though there is that tinge in our “exceptionalism”). I explained to my mesmerized interlocuters that I sensed radicality in the words of anyone who intends to “remake” a country, not to speak of the world. I did not directly condemn RADICAL change, only sought to show such tranformational motivation lies at the heart of Obamaism. I wanted to slow down the naive enthusiasm.
In order to illustrate my point, I noted that the Allies (particularly Americans) REMADE Germany after the defeat of WW II. Indeed, German documentaries have revealed the fact that Americans controlled the writing of their “Fundamental Law (= effectively the Consitution of the BRD). Not only that, the great reformer of the economic system that led to the “German mircale”, namely Erhardt, carried out American orders to so “remake” the German economic order. This was truely a “revolutionary” act as all fractions in Germany after the end of the war expressed the wish to have NO capitalism, rather socialism. This included the incredibly left-leftwing expressions by the Catholic Church (which now has its center in Bavaria, the center of German capitalistic production today). Effectively West Germany would have had a central control economy not essentially different the one in East Germany. Today such socialism is only to found in the the “Left Party”, a derivative of the form SED party of East Germany. I sought to show that “radical” change entails a dictatorial power, however wonderful the results. What does this all mean?
The RADICAL change imposed upon Germany of 1948 is now the new “normal” which is Burkean like to be defended. Very, very few Germans want the “remaking” of Germany in the image projected by the “Left Party”. In order words, most Germans are against “remaking” or, as Obama said earlier, “fundamental transformation”. In this mode I sought to stimulate a drop or two of reflection on Obama’s speach and what it could mean. In general, what Obama’s policies have meant are often critized by Germans, indeed, mocked by some cirlces. Merkel has rejected Obama’s monetary creationism (which on a Remaker can do). Nevertheless, I have the impression that Obama remains, as the embodiment of German longings for Utopia, the shining star in the universe of, well, normal people.
I failed in stimulating reflection in most of the Germans I have talked with. Somehow, Obama’s image as a hallowed Savior figure reigns supreme. I wish we had a Reagan figure to oppose the “Remaker”. I can only hope that calm analysis by Romney can cool the flames of Utopianism.
tl;dr
“Obama gave a speach in Berlin… in reaction to which the Germans evinced sort of a political orgasm, heaping unretrained praise upon the MAN.”
The Germans do that every once in a while. It rarely ends well.
Teutonic tribalism still runs deep in German blood.
we HAVE a “reagan” figure who WILL oppose the “remaker” and all his schemes.. but he is considered “unelectable”. Not only will this “reagan” figure oppose and undo much of what the kinyun has done/is doing, but likewise with much of the corruption and stupidity/malfeasance of the most recent few regimes. But, as I mentioned, he is considered “unelectable” and therefore likely is. He is the ONLY candidate who has proffered an agenda to cure the main ills afflicting us. The “electable” ones have a plan for our future, alright.. more regress down the present path. For them, its not a matter of turning the bus away from the cliff toward which it hurtles, but only how far to press on the throttle treadle…… and we are supposed to choose between those two options? Go slower, the longer to “enjoy” the ride. Go faster, the quicker we arrive at our new “destination”. Nice choice, there…….
Ron Paul is no Reagan.
You discredit yourself with the “Kenyon born” meme. Then you know you’re speaking to a VERY SMALL audience.
Taqiyya (an Arabic-Muslim word) belongs together with the words dissimulation, deceit and dishonesty. This highlights what should be one of the most important character traits of a good politician and especially a president namely honesty. People should vote for those who are actually honest people.
If my opponent is honest, I know where he stands and I can reason and work with him because I can rely on him being a principled man and reliable on the issues where we can agree. But someone who is dishonest, even in my own political camp, is unreliable and not to be trusted.
Many people do not have the ability to reason carefully and grasp many of the pertinent issues that Michael Walsh raises but are nevertheless able to recognize dishonesty. They can more easily compare what politicians and the president have previously said and are currently saying. They can look at what these people are doing and whether this contradicts what they are saying. Responsible media will make it easier by giving voters the full text of what is said or written by those seeking election or re-election. Voting for honest people will put reliable politicians in government. Voting for dishonest politicians will have dismal consequences for the nation.
“If my opponent is honest, I know where he stands and I can reason and work with him because I can rely on him being a principled man and reliable on the issues where we can agree. But someone who is dishonest, even in my own political camp, is unreliable and not to be trusted.”
Honest, principled, reliable. I would love it if half our politicians were such. One of my high school buddies understands the extreme value theorem from our calculus classes a decade ago, but rejects the Laffer curve as being “out of style, like leg warmers.”
I just don’t know where to go after that…
Perhaps a general sales tax (with no exemptions) would offer a more equitable tax situation, with the rich paying far more because they and their companies spend far more but with everyone from the richest to the poorest paying. I am no mathematician and do not know enough to critique the Laffer Curve. I do, however, know from observing politicians for many years in different countries that there are not too many honest ones and certainly no perfect candidates. The best we can do is to apply our minds to vote for those who are are most principled and practical. Perhaps ordinary people do best in influencing local politicians and holding them accountable. We need to ask key questions and insist that our politicians give straight answers to guide our choices.
THE ‘LAFFER CURVE’ is not a mathematical equation or idea.
it suggests that people [taxayers] respond as individuals and modify their preferences and behavior when outside factors (tax rates) change.
the tax rate that will bring in the most money for the government has to account for people and their personal preferences.
Wecome, Michael (and David),
You are saying what we the majority of the country need to hear.
But I fear it is like Pearl Harbor–even when the Jap planes were flying over, their red meatballs obvious, still many just couldn’t grasp what they were seeing. We MUST get our fellow Americans to see this. And do so while not looking like kooks or worse in the process.
PS Delia 4: it’s “chute”. But however it is spelled, we may all be on it.
An Préachán
Hey, I was tired! lol Thank you, teach. ;p
Hi Michael, and you are a breath of fresh air to a country’s pair of stale and necrotic lungs.
Nobody is listening.
I have been saying on these pages for years, the very things you have written here and in your book.
We adopt their lexicon and feed their credibility. Words matter. Their Propaganda and Lies Ministry is NOT the “mainstream” media. If that’s the main stream, I don’t wish to drink from it. It is poisoned and toxic.
They are not “elite”, “progressive” or “liberal” by any sane definition of the terms.
These are Fabian Socialists (I am happy to defer to the conceit of Bill Ayers descriptor…small c communists, who invade not by brutish armies, but by stealth, fraud, coverup, propaganda, indoctrination, and deceit)
If I had a wish, it would be to conduct a thought experiment with Roger Simon, Ron Radosh and David Horowitz. If THEY were elected as our President, Attorney General, and billionaire media mogul…to design a plan, path forward in which they take the free market democracy of this land of ours and put it under their complete control.
The setting is this: Your party is in control of the Senate and the House of Representatives. You are replacing an enormously damaged President. You control the mass media, you control Hollywood and entertainment. You control the unions. You control almost all of the educational structure, especially higher education. Because of this, you have virtually zero accountability, you can get cover for almost any act, deed or omission.
Your counterparts in Europe have seized the continent.
The economic outlook is unsteady globally.
You have an opportunity to “continue” a program in which your government can play a role in banking, finance, loans, real estate, the auto industry.
Wall Street and Congress are enormously unpopular.
Now…Roger, Ron and David…go back 40 years to your days inside the radical left…and design a way to crater capitalism. Destroy the free market democracy and replace it with small c communism, but don’t panic the herd. Do it by stealth. It’s your country to do with what you wish.
Appoint anyone you want inside your DOJ.
Sue your own states if you wish.
Send them to the UN for punishment.
Slap the face of all our allies in the Baltic, in Europe, in Asia and especially in Israel, if you want to.
Shut down NASA and make it a Muslim Brotherhood outreach program.
Shut down federal energy production and promote the fraud of man-caused global warming. Throw billions of wasted dollars at failed green energy buddies.
Seize up the banking and real estate industries with red tape and brutish thuggery.
Put unions ahead of other creditors in failed auto manufacturers.
Run guns to drug cartels and make a sieve of our borders.
Issue executive orders like a gluttonous king.
Personally attack any media outlet that dares to publish the truth or has the gall to do an ounce of “investigative” reporting.
Have your Propaganda and Lies Ministry cover up your every unconstitutional act and deed.
Crash the economy, have your secretary of energy intentionally drive up gas prices, have your DOJ intentionally not protect a class of citizens based upon race, have your EPA assault small businesses, have your Treasury print money and devalue the dollar, have your Homeland Security manifestly undermine your own safety and security, gut your military by defunding …cutting it in half, go around the world apologizing for your country’s existence, push “reset” buttons with those who want to aid in the destruction of your status as a hyper-power.
Fail to produce a budget for three years, push even more strangling entitlements onto an unsustainable platform.
Do all this…and blame the other side and the unpopular guy you took over from…because your opponents couldn’t message their way out of a bottle washed up on your eroding shores.
Roger, Ron and David…it’s your country to destroy. Use 1968 thought processes for a 2008 reality.
You are leftist radicals who have seized this government….and the mass communication channels for disseminating information. You own ALL the indoctrination channels, entertainment, education and news.
Your only rule is…make it JUST STEALTHY ENOUGH to not panic the herd.
Let me then ask this.
Would you do one thing differently than has been done to us since 2008?
Roger? Ron? David?
The thought experiment would be an interesting one. And Michael is absolutely correct. We have been cowed into silence. And, our home team has a miserable record in being able to confront the reality of the result. They suck at messaging. They suck at responding. They suck at building a battle plan for opposing the overthrow. In fact, there is not any real sign that they understand that it is well underway.
Now, Roger, Ron and David. The next thought experiment after you have finished the first one.
You are yourselves today.
How do you help save us?
They can’t save us, cfb. Too late.
The dam burst, the walls were breached, and all that’s left to defend us are giggling adolescents like John McCain, mumblewits like Beaner and inept jargonists like McDoody.
The pansy insiders in the Republican establishment can’t distinguish principle from program. As they did with Palin before, they step all over Rubio, the only Party figure capable of unambiguously articulating American principles.
Conservative commentators NEVER give the lie to liberals’ blatant innuendoes which then season into popular truths.
But worse, the right has no brass knuckles, no union thugs, no knee-capping bats, no foreign drug money, no vote often & frequently campaigns with which to fight the Bolsheviks who have them and use them.
It’s long over, cfg. Go Galt.
PS: … and the standard bearer Romney does not either articulate the principled arguments well, but plays instead a Big Brother Father Figure to ObaMao’s rock star celebrity sports hero.
Who do you think wins that match with today’s mouth breathing public?
Well, you left out the part about instigating the arab spring to overthrow every regime friendly to the west to be replaced by batshit crazy islamists, thus destabilizing an already unsteady region in the world. And we both know the crimes against this country in the last couple of years are too numerous to review – otherwise, you’re spot on. I think we are in the end game and we’ve lost. My only hope was a military coup, but they are on his side too. Plus, our cops are proving to be an occupying army, pushing around our citizens for fun. Yep, it’s over. Goodnight Irene.
This comment is immensely powerful and insightful, if not suicidal in its depression. I agree with the other replies to your comment: We have lost the walls, the moat, and even the inner sanctums. The only thing we have left are the men and women who are skirmishing amongst the invading hordes. The individual citizen, armed to the teeth, can only last so long in a decidedly losing battle. When the police have both the authority and firepower of a fascist military, the most powerful and most accurate guns on the market can do nothing but serve as a dying gasp amongst the oppressing forces.
The only option left for us is to form a defensive ring with what we have left and take the fight to the enemy. In these times of tyranny parading as justice and freedom, it is better to die in objection than to live in shame and as a slave.
The military won’t back Zero. Neither will the local law enforcement. Look at a site called oathkeepers.org. I don’t know any current or former military or law enforcement personnel that would take a citizens gun away from them.
Guns sales are off the chart. Guess who’s buying them.
East Texas, Remember how effective the police and other law enforcement were in Madison WI during the union riots there.
Also remember New Orleans during the hurricane, and consider the old saying that a soldier can make colonel on ability, but general only with politics.
The military is not some monolithic bloc; if Obama tries to impose martial law, there will be opportunists who will try to carry out the illegal orders to detain/round up/shoot American citizens. In fact I expect we would hear of the isolated struggles to control unit arms rooms and ammunition storage facilities. As far as the local cops, my guess is they’d see their primary duty as protecting their families from the chaos a martial law attempt would unleash.
Absolutely true.
The Democrats and the Left are evil, through and through.
But the REAL problem is, Republicans aren’t much better. Sure, as a group they are the whipping boys of the controlled media, so my sympathies and a begrudging allegiance are generally with them… but too many of them are worthless scoundrels with no concern for the Health of the Country either.
Politics is first and foremost a game of Personal Enrichment, not service. No one but an arrogant egomaniac typically goes into it. Many choose one party over the other simply because there happens to be a slot open on that team for them to get “into the game”.
They have no allegiance to anything but themselves, and respect “the opposition” more than the people they represent. Members of the Opposition are high-living Political creatures just like them, part of the ruling class we have no real control or say over. They are respectful of eachother, and contemptuous of us, the lowly outsiders.
We are faced with, as you say, a fully committed horde of True Believing “small c communists” at every level, and to fight them we have little more than a lackluster team of the lazy and entitled, going through the motions of token resistance against them.
All of them, Blue and Red, are feeding off The State, selling its treasure for pennies on the dollar. Like the crack-head who turns a thousand dollar lap-top into lunch at McDonalds and another rock to smoke, they don’t care about the Original Cost, they never bought it, so anything they get is pure profit to them.
They fight more often than not, not with each other, but over which portion of who’s tribe they will steal from. They’ll gladly sell us to the other, here and there, in exchange a better opportunity next time. A fun three-level chess game of O.P.M. only a select few get to play. Too bad Republicans never seem to win that game…no matter, they still love the thrill of playing.
Democrats are pure anti-American evil, but Republicans are too often Ball-less wonders perfectly happy to stay in The Kings Court, even as punching bags, so long as get to THEY STAY IN THE KINGS COURT.
RINOS are perfectly happy to hold us hostage to the lesser of two evils. Even WHEN defeated, the deceitful “gentleman’s gamesmanship” they played with their opponents will pay off for them in the end. Because once you Wear the Crest, and become Known, the game is won.
Republicans may not be our worst enemy, but they are NOT our Champions.
My only hope there was a take over of the party by the tea party, like the commies took of the dems. But it seems like there is something in the water in DC. It turns good, well meaning people into corrupt zombies.
Hope fails.
The problem in DC is that there are all these people in one place on a full time basis. Being a Senator or a Congressman was supposed to be a part time , minimally paid position. These pols were supposed tomake themselves useful and have full time jobs and lives in their districts and only come to DC on a periodic basis. An idle mind is the Devils’ playground and this is clearly evident in DC.We have 535 people whose full time job it is is to sit around all day thinking up new bureaucracies, laws and regulations that most of us don’t want. THey also have all day long to engage in bribery and other illegal activities that make them millionaires many times over by the time they retire. If they were busy with a real full time job, they wouldn’t have time to be destroying the country and taking bribes. They would be too busy trying to survive like the rest of us.
God Bless you, Sir/Madame! You have named my number one pet peeve! All those people should have been OF the people, and FOR the people. They should be shop owners and dairy farmers and tech geeks. These people are ALL lawyers and they are there all year round and have no interest how their laws affect regular people. They should have been regular people who have an actual interest in going home and making a living.
What we have now was NEVER meant to be how our government is run.
If the god president wins in november then it will be time for massive resistance to the fascist state that he and his Ivy League cohorts have constructed for us. We must begin to learn to resist the government in all its forms from the top to the bottom. Refuse to serve on jury duty since the legal system has been poisoned for years by the American Left. Churches should refuse to display the flag of the New American State. Churches should refuse to supply chaplains for the New military. Do not cooperate with local constabularies which will take their orders directly from the central government. Dissuade your family and friends from joining the military or police in the New American World State. Christians should refuse to send their children to govenment controlled public schools which have become nothing more than communist reeducation camps. And most of all pray for the strength to resist Evil in its present form. Non serviam…..
“If the god president wins in november…” is already admitting defeat. We are in a war to save the heart and sole of our country. If you are not willing to risk everything to win this war then it is already lost.
If hordes of Communists were landing on our beaches with guns and started shooting, you would risk your life and everything you hold dear. That time has come.
Barack Obama must be defeated in November. No ‘If’. No ‘however’.
Same thing with the illegals. If an invading army of 70 million people crossed our borders we’d go crazy. However, what about a stealth invasion with the help of our government. Send in 70 million women and children and then DARE people to do anything about it.
Same tactic islam uses to invade. Send in the weak and DARE their enemy to respond. You can’t and you’ve lost.
“American taqiyya,” the concealment of their destructive purposes under the rubrics of “Fairness,” “Tolerance,” “Compassion,” etc.
I’ve never encountered a Leftist who embodied those traits, only individuals who lay claim to them as part of an overall ruse, an effort to fool themselves and you. The Left uses those they deem poor and dispossessed as fodder in pursuit of a totalitarian agenda.
My rule of thumb, do not ever let these people have your back.
As you write, our current battle shouldn’t be approached as valid and authentic differences of opinion but as trench warfare. In any battle you intend to win, “give no quarter” must be the guiding principle.
There is a genesis to the evolution of the modern Leftist mind:
The notion of modern day Liberalism as mental illness is on the money
Well said, Michael… and welcome.
During a casual conversation about our backgrounds and political leanings, my bubbly but leftist neighbor across the street, who just happens to be Jewish, emphatically tried to convince me that she had not voted for Obama. And I mean, emphatically.
Increasingly, I believe that this little conversation is representative of what is quite likely happening all across the country.
The anger and the disgust that was so visible at the Obamacare townhalls across America is still there. And Obama buyer’s remorse is still growing, not decreasing. And since the economy does not look to recover anytime soon, people will still vote their pocketbooks.
Our job is simply to get involved, keep passing the word and bring a like-minded friend… or two, or three, or more… to the voting booth.
And I still believe that Romney will win by a more than comfortable margin.
But I also still wonder… how will he serve?
Will he enact the desperately needed reforms?
Or will he drop the ball or squander the precious few opportunities we have left?
And most of all, will “we the people” hold his feet to the fire?
Mr Walsh,
Is there any reason why we should not simply read Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals and apply those?
Every one of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals are delicious when turned on the progs. After reading “David Kahane’s” Rules for Radical Conservatives, I believe that’s pretty much what Mr. Walsh did.
Here’s a fun site that advertises “Alinsky Works for Us Now” and specializes in #5: http://www.michellesmirror.com/
Demoralization is a big prong of the Leftist agenda. We can’t allow ourselves to become demoralized.
This president is becoming a laughingstock, his clay feet exposed every day, his henchmen and women, his fixers like creepy Axelrod and dumb Jarrett, a joke.
Some of the more responsible individuals have seen the writing of lies and incompetency on the wall and left their positions in this administration in order to salvage their own so called careers.
The Chairman of the House Oversight committee sent a letter to the prétendeur yesterday stating…
“[Y]our privilege assertion means one of two things, either you or your most senior advisors were involved in managing Operation Fast & Furious and the fallout from it, including the false February 4, 2011 letter provided by the attorney general to the committee, or, you are asserting a presidential power that you know to be unjustified solely for the purpose of further obstructing a congressional investigation.”
I agree.
Totalitarians are totalitarians, and this is a war to defend Freedom.
Of course they have invaded every institution, of course they violate the Law and the Constitution, of course they have brainwashed the large numbers.
We are in the trenches, and of course we get bombed, and gassed.
Don’t give up an inch.
Resist today and resist tomorrow, and let the enemies of Freedom know that you will resist forever, and you will teach to a lot of people how to resist.
I completely concur.
MIchael, I’ve read your book and have taken it to heart. Your words in this column are sweetness to my ears. I eagerly await your next column.
Michael Walsh, as all I have been saying for years here and there, put concisely and fully in one article, I want tothank you. Its a real battle strategy. I would include one more thing. The rank and file need to reverse the role playing expectations between our Republican representatives and the rest of us. They are a very weak link, all clubby and collegial. Not recognizing nor acknowleging the wool the Democrats pull over their eyes, it is left to us to either break the spell or put some nose rings in that group to lead them forcefully away from the traps set for them.
Principles must be pushed by our forceful leadership. Pragmatism without principle is the slippery slope. Its also the normative operating principle of the whole government today. Pragmatism seems so useful. It is though, not as we would wish. It has been a hook used to amend the constitution stealthily.
p.s. to the guy who recommended refusing to serve on a jury. I happen to think an informed and independent juror is the terror of all government officials. It is where the citizen tells the government to take their statutory schemes and shove it, one case at a time. It is your other vote.
“weak and clubby”, “noserings”, etc. Love it. See my reply to cfb above.
FINALLY! Finally a contributor here says what many of us have been saying in comments here and elsewhere since the communist SOB first appeared on the scene in 2004. I’ll admit that I didn’t see him as a serious candidate for President. I thought he was a foil put up by the Clintons so she could “run right” and make herself into less of a communist than she and WJC actually are.
IF we ever restore a legitimate government, some people need to die, starting with George Soros and including everyone who bankrolled the Soros managed collape of the US economy that resulted in the coup d’etat of November 2008. Some of those people will be foreign and I suspect their first language will be Arabic, so there won’t be any due process and neat trials with the ACLU’s assistence for them, and if it has to just be a discrete “accident” so be it.
Here at home we need to start saying out loud that there is a totally anti-American element at large and often in positions of power. We control half the states, hopefully more after November. We need to ATTACK the administration of publicly funded universities and root out the communists in the administration and proffesoriate; if you have them by the budget, their hearts and minds will follow. Any conservative/Republican officeholder who hires anyone into a position of power with an Ivy League degree should have his/head examined. Every conservative/Republican officeholder in the Country should examine his/her government’s hiring processes and eliminate all the general degree requirements for being hired. Unless a job requires a specific credential, people should be able to work their way into them and advance with OJT; the general degree requirements are just a way to jump-start ideologues with “Studies” or other worthless degrees into public management. We as conservatives/Republicans don’t believe in censorship but if we restore a legitimate government, we will control the FCC and we need to take a hard look at licensure; too much of the media is concentrated in too few hands and that has made the communist takeover of most of the media all too easy. The case that the USSC fairly screamed for in the Knox case needs to be brought NOW – before the communist SOB can appoint another Justice and give us a communist court for a generation – perhaps forever. The union/agency shop in the public sector must be outlawed, at least in its current form. History, even recent history, shows us that public sector unions lose at least two-thirds of their membership and, more importantly, their dues income when they lose the power to compel dues and have the employer collect them.
We face a daunting task because so few are willing to see and hear what their eyes and ears are telling them. Politics as usual and they all do it are comfortable refuges even for many of those who don’t drink Obama’s Koolaid. I was appalled by my wife’s favorable reaction to HBO’s new “news” show. Sure it is well written and well acted and the characters say some interesting and even inspiring things but it is through and through leftist propaganda. Her response is that I’m paranoid and see lefties everywhere. My reponse is that I see them everywhere because they ARE everywhere and I’m willing to admit that I see them. Finally someone with a byline here is willing to admit seeing them.
The actress in Newsroom has condescendingly described Americans as “dangerously uninformed”
Her own view of the devil incarnate is the Bush administration
I think the lefties have a factory somewhere in which they make the M1A1 Lefty Woman: shortish dark hair, never neatly coifed, often wet and tangled, sharp features, pursed lips, small breasts, and a shrewish disposition. This one’s better looking than most lefty women – wouldn’t mind finding her under my pillow – but I wouldn’t want to have to talk to her.
I’m still reeling over how taken in by it my wife was; she’d recorded it and just adamantly insisted that I simply must watch it. As a general matter I don’t watch ANYTHING on HBO and I’m not even sure why we pay them good money. Thinking about it, the writing is very evocative, the kind of faux-inspirational stuff that insipid writers and orators can do that takes you in until you think about it. Obviously it is aimed at women and the yutes who can be manipulated by getting them to emote rather than think – it’s mother’s milk for Democrats just as West Wing was.
Propaganda with a soft touch is what the modern Left is all about.
The very deceptive technique that brought the Charlatan-In-Chief to his current position.
Every single person who got us into this financial mess was from an Ivy League school. I agree with cutting all fed funding. I wish we could close down all public schools, too.
At this point I don’t care whether we go to open war or agree to an amicable divorce. One thing I DO know is I DON’T want to live with these people anymore. I really do hate them at this point.
The second thing I know about these people is they won’t let us go. They aren’t satisfied with having almost the whole world socialist and ONE country not. NO! We have to do that here whether the people living there want it or not.
We do have to be careful to distinguish between the mind-numbed masses, the useful idiots, and the fellow travellers and leaders. I learned in dealing with unions that you really can’t hurt leaders at the local level; you take a whack at a leader and the union or some allied front group just picks him/her up and they never miss a day’s pay, so you have to hurt little people and show the mass that there is a price for following such leaders.
The biggest problem we have is that we are feeding the hand that bites us. While Slick Willie seemed to have sheathed his sword after the counter-revolution of 1994, in point of fact he very skillfully used Republican porking proclivities to fund all sorts of “sleeper cells” in government at every level. To this day there are Democrat activists in grant-funded sinecures in Republican governments at all levels in the Country. Every old union hack worth is retirement check and Vegas bimbo has a grant funded “training program” that never trains anyone but sure puts out a lot of walking around money. The whole “stimulus” was about reaching into the Treasury for walking around money for every Democrat front group in the Country. Even while we had the Congress and a Republioan President, the federal government kept feeding the Democrat front groups with the profligate spending and the fact that Republicans really just don’t seem to get who they’re contracting with and giving grants to. If you take a look at your government’s vendor list, you’ll find it dominated by people/companies that look to be NPs, but actually funnel huge percentages of the money the government gives them back to the Democrats either directly or by hiring Democrats. That’s one of the reasons that Republicans have so much trouble with recruiting and retaining loyal and competent staff; if a Republican loses an office, the staffer has to go back to selling cars or real estate back in the home district, a Democrat just shows up at some lobbying firm, union, or other front group the next day and never misses a pay check.
Mind-numbed masses and naive fellow travelers are more Marxist designations meant to describe the unenlightened proletariat. We should realize people are individuals and need to see for themselves the true choices in front of them rather than trying to co-opting them which is the opposition’s game. The people we need to wrest away from power are aggressive self-interested slobs with a need to control and become easier to identify after they are challenged and not before.
We are at the beginning of the stage in socialist leaning countries (identified by Hayak) where sheer numbers and the threat of violence are beginning to be the means of political expression and not argument and debate. We must make it clear that thuggery is the inevitable fruit of socialist managed national decline and we are up to the task of facing it in order to save society. To have peace prepare for war. To have an ally make it clear it won’t be in his interests to be an enemy.
That is the wildest thing I’ve heard since ‘Trump for President’. Every single communist country on earth has been accelerating towards capitalism for 30 years. There is no more communism! China is pure capitalism (but without real democracy) and so is Russia (though plagued with mafia)! Cuba is like a museum to communism and is changing too.
And taxes on the most wealthy Americans is just a fraction of what it was in America’s glory days!
After the stock market crash in 1929, when our tax rates on the most wealthy were similar to today’s rates, we raised the rates on the richest Americans to double or triple what they are today.
From 1930-80 the wealthiest Americans paid between 70% to 90% federal income tax and that’s what allowed us to build the American Dream. How else could we afford it? Between 1930-80 we fought and paid for WWII, the Korean War and Vietnam Wars, we built our entire US Interstate Expressway System, Roads, Electrical Grid, Telephone, our main Bridges and Tunnels; we Made every Car we Drove and we wore just the Clothes we Sewed and WE WENT TO THE MOON SIX TIMES-AND WE PAID FOR IT ALL!
Sorry, Chip, but you are somewhat blind to the reality of the history of taxation in the US. I assume you are too young to have experienced it or willfully blind to what actually happened, simply repeating the leftists talking points you might hear on MSNBC. When the marginal tax rate was as confiscatory levels, such as 70-90%, the rich simply used a vast array of tax avoidance schemes, all legal and written into the IRS code, as well as tax-free bonds, and in reality paid nowhere near the published rate. This was what Reagan addressed in the 80′s when he drastically lowere the top marginal rate to 28% while simultaneously eliminating the vast majority of the loopholes. When you want to pipe in, at least get your facts down first.
From my site…
DON’T EVEN TRY TO SAY…’But there were many deductions that made it so the richest didn’t pay all those higher tax rates.’
Really? I am listing the formal tax tables here, no one who makes this argument, that deductions negated the higher rates, has even begun to account for me what these many mysterious deductions were AND WHAT’S MORE if you add up the price of all these mega-accomplishments we made during those fifty years you will see that we would indeed need far more tax revenue from the rich to pay for them! The Hoover Dam! The Golden Gate Bridge! We can’t touch this long list of national accomplishments today, we can’t afford it! Because the Rich are not paying the ‘fair share’ they did when we built this country!
So to the rich I say, these numbers below are high, but this is what we did before to make our country strong and great!
We might be able to afford more “stuff” if half the Country weren’t parasites who pay no federal income tax, many of whom get a direct taxpayer subsidy through EITC, probably you among them.
Chip,
if you actually believe that rich folks paid 70-90% rates on their income, you should sue either the schools for educational malpractice or your parents for genetic malfeasance because no one with an IQ above room temp can possibly think those people paid that much.
There are no more communists! You can come out of your bunker now, we won!
Grow up.
Another useful idiot heard from!
“We as conservatives/Republicans don’t believe in censorship but if we restore a legitimate government, we will control the FCC and we need to take a hard look at licensure;”
aside from the self-contradiction of not believing in censorship BUT controlling licensure, there are a couple of problems here:
–conservative and repub are NOT the same thing, as Boehner, McConnell, and the rest of get-along club demonstrates. They give lip service to limited govt, but nothing else, and are merely statists of a different sort.
–the FCC is a relic of a different time when some regulation was necessary to prevent two nearby properties from having the same frequency. Your desire to control who gets a license or not is no different from Michelle attempting to dictate what you eat.
If you are a conservative, you would get govt out people’s kitchens, bedrooms, automobiles, newspapers, and damn near everywhere else govt has no Constitutional authority to be. Otherwise, you are just as much a partisan-driven team man as the union goon.
There’s a reason I said conservative/Republican and I’m well aware that they are not the same necessarily. That said, neither conservatives nor Republicans are libertarians and the Republican would just as soon the libertarians stay out of Republican politics; either vote your own candidates, vote for the R because s/he is less likely to offend you, or see if you can get the Ds to legalize marajuana and make most of your party go away.
I think using the power of the state to eliminate coercive combinations and monopolies is a perfectly legitimate exercise of governmental power even under a stringent reading of the commerce clause. The concentration of all the media in the hands of a very few companies has had a deleterious effect on the res publica and returning to the days when there were prohibitions on such concentration would be a good thing. As would breaking up some combinations of banks and other financial institutions; too big to fail is too big to allow to exist. And if those notions offend the libertarians and self-styled “true conservatives, so be it; the R behind my name stands for Republican, not Redneck.
a totally anti-American element at large
and they are the same old faces
today I looked at facebook and posted by one of my many liberal friends (I am looking at them with less friendly feelings every day as I now see them as spoilers and dupes) and what do I see?? – the old jewhater liar Jimmah Carter condemning the USA as the world’s biggest human rights violator- Ironically he has to smack down Obama himself for the drone attacks, but mission accomplished – keep the “Machine” going- USA is BAD
You mean we shouldn’t respond to harassment and lawfare and sending the police on false emergency calls to our homes by appealing to the left’s belief in fair play and free speech?
Too many of us are a little worried about November. Fear not; the results of the 2010 election say that O is going to be history soon enough. What he has done since will probably make Romney’s win a landslide.
well well.
Mr. Walsh gets it, really gets it.
If you put marxists, progressives, liberals, and repulicans on a scale of 12 inches, the first three would be crammed into the first quarter inch. Republicans would be at the 3/4 inch mark. We need to be somewhere between 6 and 9 inches, at least. The country was founded between 11 and 12 inches.
Mr. Walsh makes the key point beautifully. The thugs aren’t playing the same game we have always played in this country. It infuriates me to hear politicians like Romney act like it’s business as usual, just needing a dash of good ole republicanism. 95% of the republicans in Congress are political criminals. 99.9% of them made fortunes while the countrys’ citizens, on average, lost 43% of their net worth since the marxists tanked the economy to steal the 2008 election.
Romney doesn’t appear to be much better, although there probably is some chance that his big spending, big government exposition in Massachusetts was somehow influenced by Massachusetts already being Greece the the Lesser. Sometimes when I hear Rush say that Romney has told him he will be a one-term president, I have hope. But not much hope.
Even so, the lawlessness from the marxists is escalating, as expected. Expect violence in the fall if the polls continue to reflect a small bit of the country’s real mood. As bad as Romney is, and he could be much much worse than we hope, he can’t possibly be as dangerous as Marion Obama. If that guy isn’t gone, we’re all gone within months.
Rarely, nay never in my life have I come upon such a collection of pure balderdash as the above confessions and comments. What is the difference between George W. Bush and Barrack Obama? Same national security apparatus, same imperialist policies, assassinations, torture, etc. Same economic policies but
for some slight control imposed on certain banking activities. Yes, the health care law which demands the buying of insurance; if you drive a car you are legally obliged to buy insurance,too. It is a half-assed law, Obamacare is, but that is about right for a half-assed country that requires busing to eliminate prejudice. Obama ran a brilliant campaign in 2008 and the sheeples bought into it, and it appears most of those who dislike Obama do too, who have not realized that he has welched on nearly all of his campaign promises.
Boy Franz wish I did not post next to your SA
Perhaps what is necessary for Obama’s intent to be revealed to the masses IS a second term. Then we can start again after he is removed from office. There are good people in both parties that will rise to the occasion.
Regarding the election, have a little faith. We have a good candidate and a strategy that appears promising. I particularly like the WI, PA, MN and MI targeting potential in addition to 3-2-1 ie win all states McCain did, plus NC, IN and VA (3), add VA and FL (2) and any one or more of these: NC, CO, NM, IA, NH, MI, PA, WI.
Obama is proving to be lousy candidate with no positive messaging. He is overextended (monetarily and politically) with wolves at the door.
Please read “add OH and FL (2)” etc -ED
The NEW MEDIA and each of us as individuals in the “Army of Davids” will win the battle for America’s soul because we have GOD and the truth on our side. Be strong, be brave, be vocal and most of all DO NOT BACK DOWN from these domestic enemies of freedom and the Constitution.
you realize that the Constitution made no mention of a big-G god, don’t you? That the Founders, while generally men of faith, did not expect any deity to do their heavy lifting, nor did they believe any deity had exclusive dominion over the franchise of religiosity.
Long story short – people are given free will to make their own choices and in ’08, they made a choice. Along with free will, people also have consciences which allow them to determine when bad choices were made. This November, they have the chance to take step away from going full retard, but let’s not mistake Romney for Jefferson or anyone else in the Repub leadership for a Founder. The Repubs in charge are the same ones who turned on the tea party freshmen with the same venom as the left did, except that with the left, it was predictable.
Between the article and comments I’m moved to put on a poodle skirt and pom-poms. And I’m a fat, old, white, bald, straight guy who can’t turn right very fast.
That’s excitememnt. Nothing for tender eyes, though.
You may be naive. I’m surprised the obvious destination and purpose of Obamacare has not been stated: When the “Death Panels” are deciding who gets off the Waiting Lists and into actual cancer or heart surgeries, a POLITICAL COMPONENT will be entered into that decision. In other words, it is a PURGING (ala Mao) of any conservatives coming under their medical control. Obamacare is a type of Aushwitz
I can almost picture Obama himself doing the choosing, in much the same way that he selects who will die in a Predator attack. Conservatives are as much enemies to him as the terrorists.
I often refer to the “NAZI Effect,” which is when something is too horrific, too evil to comprehend, the basically good people say, “No one would be this evil, who would do such a thing?” That is what the good people of Europe said when the “rumors” began about the death camps. They then rationalize how it can’t possibly be true: the person stating it is insane, it’s just a rumor, no one could be that evil (this one kills me–the pattern o fhistory is clear–there is no evil capable of being imagined that is incapable of being enacted). We must convince ourselves it isn’t true. Why? Isn’t it obvious? If this evil is true, then our own sense of justice demands we do something about it. It is the “determined sloth” of mankind that has allowed evil to thrive. The devil doesn’t have to convince you to join his team, he need only convince you to do nothing, for he knows what we keep forgetting: Evil never accomplishes anything without the permission of the “silent righteous,” who, by their silence, prove they are anything BUT. WARCHICK
Not a single thing I can disagree with here, Mike Walsh hits on all cylinders in this article. We are at war, so far, a war of words, but things could get hotter. Irregardless, we need to fight back now, there may not be another chance.
Mr. Walsh, thanks…good work. I find no one taking POTUS on for his being a tyrant. I am afraid with his latest moves, he is now out in the open as a tyrant, and logically we are now experiencing the cusp of tyranny. I agree with a radio host that this is now a ‘soft tyranny’, but given POTUS latest moves via DHS I fear we are nearing a ‘hard tyranny’. Certainly, if he achieves re-election, it will become a ‘hard tyranny’, and our Nation as we know it is in trouble. Yes, the November election is without doubt, the mose important since 1860, choices are clear, and there in no ground for ‘undecided’, time to take sides, put nuances to rest, it is liberty or tyranny. Semper Fi.
The progs may go to any length to win including extreme election fraud so we need to be prepared for it. They may succeed so be prepared for that too.
If they succeed, are you sure the police and military will be on “our” side? Maybe they’ll be on the side that pays them. It is very easy to rationalize that whoever pays you is “right”.
Excellent article and advice. Spend a day on twitter and you’ll find this out first hand. Many get sucked into a back and forth that degenerates into filth coming from the progressive user and find themselves in twitter gulag. (suspended) which was the whole point of the progressive’s engaging them in the first place.
Welcome aboard, Mr. Walsh. It is good to have a writer who sees the scale of the crisis in this election in the raw terms of determining whether we shall live in capitalist democracy or a Socialist dictatorship. We are not confronting ineptitude and incompetency: we are facing calculated bloodless revolution, a “transformation” which begins with the destruction of free enterprise, free speech, and our two-party congressional legislation.
I rant regularly on the astounding insistence of 95% of conservative voices to use the terms “Leftist” and “Liberal”, along with progressive, populist, centrist, and social activist. You too are apparently on the list. Why? Why use the euphemisms that the Socialists want you to? SOCIALISM is the politics that dare not say its name, the identification they wish to deny, the term that they know would defeat them. lNorman Thomas is alleged to have said that the American electrorate would never vote in aSocialist President. But they have, and we now have a second round of a GOP candidate determined to be “honorable” and not use the bad S word.
The irony – and missed opportunity – is that the troubled, close-to-collapse countries of Europe have been openly under Socialist rule for the past four decades or longer. Social Democrats, Democratic Socialists, Hyphenated-Socialists. Printed right on the ballot! Printed in the newspapers. Sen in TV ads. So why, in this land of transparency and honesty in communication, do Socialists clothe themselves in the wimpy terms of Leftism and Liberalism? “Ain’t nobody here but us Comapssionate Democrats!” More importantly, WHY DO YOU, AND ROGER, AND RON, AND VDH, AND MITT KEEP ON AVOIDING THE WORD ‘SOCIALIST?”
Names ARE important. Sixty years ago Reds and Pinkos and Commies were commonly used, and effectively. That is precisely the reason that today’s Socialist don’t want you to use anything pejorative. It would drive them into a frenzy or absurd denial. If the sclerotic GOP wishes to win the Tea Party and Independent vote and defeat the Obama-Nation in a landslide, this simple, logical strategy could make the difference. Fat chance!
In reality, in order for this administration to enjoy one term in office, a total surge of additional “White” voter turnouts numbering some 8 to 10 million will necessarily have to vote in order to counteract double digit increases (by some additional 6 to 7 million actual voter turnouts)among the “Black, Hispanic, Asian” catagories. Argument for this statement follows:
Actual numbers of voter turnout by catagory for 2008 elections
2008
1)White…101,208,519
2)Black…16,050,105
3)Hispanic.9,815,767
4)Asian….3,316,137
Assumptions:2012 actual voter turnout
1)White… 99,184,340
2)Black… 19,420,627
3)Hispanic.15,410,722
4)Asian…. 4,808,398
Assumption: November 2012 Electoral
Total Votes (Obama Wins)
2012
Total Eligible …231,229,580
Total Actual……138,822,000
Answer: 6,144,000 increase in voter turnout in “Black, Hispanic and Asian” voter catagories will favor Obama.
Actual numbers of Eligible voters and actual total numbers of voter turnout.
2008
Total Eligible…231,229,580
Total Actual…..132,645,504
Conclusion (factual)
1)White category has evidenced a single digit decline in percentage erosion of Total Voter Turnout over the past decade (1998-2008) even though increasing numerical values over the same period.
2)Black category has evidenced a steady, single digit increase in percentage participation of Total Voter Turnout over the past decade while doubling numerical values over the same period.
3)Hispanic category has evidenced an explosive double digit increase in percentage participation of Total Voter Turnout over the past decade while tripling numerical values over the same period.
4)Asian category has evidenced an explosive double digit increase in percentage participation of Total Voter Turnout over the past decade while tripling numerical values over the same period.
Suggested actions:
Only way this swell of Obama supporters in Black, Hispanic and Asian category’s to be equaled or excelled is for an increase in “White” catagory of at least 8 million voter turnouts (or more).
Without this swelling of support for the GOP candidate in the “White” catagory…based on current figures, Chicago-style electoral thuggery currently underway will be successful. God Bless America. Amen.
The one thing I rarely see in these boxes is supprot for our leadership- that is, the leadership of America. Except for the occasional Paulbot grieving over their flawed savior, there is little or no advice, praise, or call for support for Gov. Romney.
Unfortunately, I can understand that. Romney may have great plans, a good record and an honorable personal history. I see little enough of him on any channel, and I understand why. The MSM, of course, doesn’t want to show him at all, unless he screws up. Fair enough, we know where they’re comimg from, but what about FOX, or his own commercials, or output from PACs?
The fact is, his public persona seems to be that of an interested Eagle Scout. He is polite, reasonable, and a little cheerful. A cheerful warrior like Reagan he is not. A committed, forceful leader like TR, he is not. A srern, dedicated leader, a Lincoln, he is not. He seems to treat the entire process like a cocktail party debate between proper gentlemen.
No fire in the belly, no call to arms, no sterness, no dedication to the right-no leadership. Now that may not be true, he may care deeply, have a real anger about the destruction of our Republic and gut deep convictions about how to save our nation. It doesn’t show.
Just like he basically waited out the nomination, he seems now to be waiting out the election. He is running a smart, careful campaign. He takes no solid stances, offers no policies, demands no accountability. He provides reasoned criticism, and broad visions, but nothing he can reasonably be attacked on. (Not that that avoids attacks from the left, but it limits their effectiveness.)
This is not a winning strategy. No one follows a nice guy, an uncertain trumphet, and a broad vision into battle. This is the time he needs to rally the base, to form the troops, to tell them why they must fight. It is not the time to keep a low profile and hope Obama defeats himself. If they are fighting the war the author refers to, and they are; we cannot lay back, be safe and count on the election being a referendum on the economy.
For one thing, as an aside, we can count on the other side to do everything they can to insure some economic improvement leading into the election. Soros et al, don’t need to fix it, just minimize it as an election issue. Likewise, expect Obama to talk calmingly, approve the pipeline, maybe grant a Gulf lease or two.
If this is the nation changing, fork in the road election we think it is, we need to get up on our hind legs and start fighting it. If Romney is our leader, and he acts like a manager, we are going to lose. If he doesn’t, soon, start talking and acting like a leader with some fire in his belly, a leader with a plan and a cause, he’s going to blow it.
Dave, the republicans care about their position in the feeding trough, not the country. Romney has already sated the fire in his belly by being nominated. The last thing he is going to do is piss off the leftists.
In case you didn’t notice, our dear Republican leaders did OUTSTANDINGLY financially since 2008, despite the fact that the average American’s net worth declined 43%. Every member of Congress (with one exception), increased his or her net worth. Imagine that. What good investors they must be. You would think they could turn Solyndra into a gold mine, but I guess they aren’t quite as astute with the taxpayer’s money. Maybe it’s just that there is so goshdarn much of it.
It’s not that you can’t succeed under facism….it’s just that you have to play the game properly. That’s the Republicans’ and Romney’s forte if anything is. Hey, Mitt fit right in in Massachusetts, didn’t he? Even found the time to invent a dynamite health care package that increased the commissars’ powers about threefold. He’s still fired up about it ten years later. Proud of it. He might win in 2012, and can use the whole country for his next sandbox experiment with human lives and political power.
Repulicans expect to do better in then next four years and won’t jeapordize that for some drooling Tea Partiers who think the Constitutiion is more than something to wipe your butt with. No sense skipping a payday for some ideological ninnies who couldn’t get into the club anyway.
No one has noted the pseudo-religious rhetoric aided and abetted by parts of the religious communities. They claim that their program is rights based on religious ideals such as charity in its proper sense.
Conservatives have to force the Marxist to show that to each according to need has become rights in social justice.
The problem is the inability to call people using religion as a prop for social action, be it Christian, Jewish or Islamic.
Leftists of all colours don’t think at all – they only react to fearing fear by wanting to form ever-larger groups to protect themselves from self-responsibility!
They lie to themselves, then to others, by pretending their new imaginings are old memories!
They thus always reverse cause and effect, to justify their image over reality preferences!
ALL infantile delinquent liberals pretend to imagine that:
“Since there’s always a diverse multiplicity of causes and effects for everything, not only are we all helpless victims before life’s complexities, but it’s also true that all facts are really only opinions anyway! So my subjective, fact-free opinion is the diversely opposite ‘equal to your silly objective facts! Whee! So, obviously we all need a bigger group to protect us from ourselves and from other dangerous groups! Only groups should have rights, and all merely fallible and so potentially dangerous individual human citizens should at most be assigned some temporary, revokable privileges!
And furthermore, it’s only my right to be irresponsible, and only everyone else’s responsibility to be right (as in factually correct)!
It’s my right to remain wrong, and to get you to pay for it! It’s my privileged liberal victimology entitlement dividend, and don’t you forget it, you hater racist bigots!”
Any further questions, suckers?
Yes, the problem is that liberals hate personal responsibility, so they avoid it by selling endless group-rights victimology scenarios instead. That way the cowards can pretend to be champions without accusing any individual criminals of their crimes!
Why are liberals all such infantile delinquents?!
What Walsh “et al” have dubbed “American taqiyya,” the liberals’ concealment of their destructive purposes under the rubrics of “Fairness,” “Tolerance,” “Compassion,” etc. is simply their same-old tactics:
“Treating people equally” is libspeak code-talk for:
“You work, I don’t – but, since we’re “equal,” you still owe me half of your paycheck! Whee!”
Liberals don’t liberate anyone, ever – they always only take liberties!
LIBERALSIM IS CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.
Open Letter to Internet Companies: Tell Us How Much We Are Being Surveilled
By David Kravets June 19, 2012
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/open-letter-surveillance/
Please explain the principles behind the nanny staters on the right who support Drug Prohibition. The right has some very big holes in its arguments.
Principles, not programs. Principles, not programs. Principles, not programs.
Huh? That’s supposed to be Obambus’ campaign strategy. Cuz if we talk programs, we see that all of his have failed, and/or like Obamacare are frauds scheduled to fail momentarily.
It’s time to start punching.
Good advice, but Romney’s strategy is 99% silence and 1% punching. OK, maybe 2% counterpunching. But still mostly silence.
“We often hear it said that the coming election is as raw a clash of political philosophies as can be imagined . . ”
Wait, Mitt Rawmoney has a “political philosophy”? Really? And, what would that be, whatever comes up when he shakes his etch-o-sketch that day??
Rawmoney is an empty suit in search of our highest office. Maybe he just needs to get out of the house(s) and golf gets boring after awhile. You can just ride the car elevator up and down so many time and it just starts getting old. Why not run a country just like he ran Bain, chop up the parts and sell them off and ship the jobs overseas. Strip the workers of their pensions, leave the stock-holder high and dry, and let the government bankruptcy courts sort out the mess.
Hey, wait, Rawmoney DOES have a political philosophy after all.
Two words that sap the energy and spirit from any proposed battle with the Left: Mitt Rommey. If you wish to fight the Left, you’ll have to find someone else to lead your fight.
YES! This guy gets it!
Welcome, and well done!
Let’s roll.
Factions are a virus to any republic, according to James Madison, destroying it from the inside by invading its members to reproduce itself. There will always be those seeking advantage by political pull. Especially if such advantage grants him the property or liberty of his neighbors. Boy, don’t we love to control each other.
The God not mentioned in the constitution will have the last laugh though, as we build the tower of Babel to Utopia. It seems to me this God not mentioned in the constitution has us pretty much figured out.
Yes, principles, not programs! So for you rock-ribbed conservatives out there:
1) What principle allows the Federal government to outlaw ANY drugs?
2) What principle allows ANY Federal safety nets (or safety hammocks, for that matter)?
3) What principle allows the Federal government to search us ALL prior to boarding airplanes?
4) What principle prevents us from assembling under arms on the National Mall to peacefully petition the government for redress of our grievances?
If you have an answer to any of the above, how does your answer differ from what a smart socialist would say?
Great to see you here Michael…Always a fan of your work..
I agree wholeheartedly with the author and add one more potential scenario. The far left did not scratch and claw their way to where they are today just to turn around and hand it all back in the event that they lose an election. They have never been closer and fear they will never come closer. They have always tended to lunge for, when they believe that they are close enough: and they now believe themselves close enough. No movement of the past that effervesced totalitarian- that espoused the principles (or rather the lack thereof)plagueing us today- ceded power once they attained it. I suggest we steel ourselves for a fight; a real fight or get used to the loss of great ideals. Perish the thought!
First principles indeed.
Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.
And NOTHING is for nothing.
Thoughts on political division: In 1860 the issue was slavery and state’s rights, in that order. The costly answer was the unitary principle of the nation, of nature, applied from above: Freedom for all. Today, the Conservative answer to political impasses is not unitary but diverse, popular, and unpredictable: Limitations on government and federal power; states exercising more power to decide the particulars of abortion, care for the sick, federal funding of and oversight of nearly everything, etc. (The writings of the anti-Federalists 230 years ago still apply.) The questions (and answers) of 1860 and today are almost opposite. 1860: A positive principle-all men shall be free and the State shall ensure it. 2012: a negative principle: Limits on, and disentanglement from, federal power. But the issue is the same: How to preserve and extend freedom.
Regarding war and peace: Many say it is 1938. But what if it is 1912? On the surface it is 1938. Forbodings, etc. But 1938 was really round two of 1914. We haven’t had 1914 yet. So it is 1912. The opposition of the two ages is: Then the West saw peace, prosperity, and limitless progress, all of which was tangible, and exilirating. Then came the guns of August. Today, The West seems uncertain of the rightness of its own defense, solicitous of those who wish it ill, waiting for the blow. 1914 was the beginning of an age. This is its end. Thus it is the beginning of a new age. So, now as then, we see through a glass darkly.
By 1914, the machines of war were magnified a thousand times from only two generations before. Today, they are magnified a thousand , or many thousand times, again. Then, it was a war between cousins, Europeans. Today we face a clash of tribes, civilizations. But it is a replay, writ ever larger. Will it resolve with little destruction and loss, or are we we really up a creek without a paddle?
The Progressives want to ban paddles and large sodas. Like that will help. They seem to be a real go along gang when it comes to the rest of the world. I am not encouraged. But at home they are holy terrors. Uggh. We have a ways to go before any of this is worked out. Why do these things take so darn long? Like a Russian novel. Well done, but intricate, slow and irredescently memorable.
Whether Obama is an evil man, purposely out to destroy america, or just a totaly incompetant boob with a failed inflexible idealogy who cant compromise, does not really matter to me. In the end the result is still the same, complete disaster for the US if he stays in charge.
But you do make one vital point, the dems do not play by any rules. The dems love to levy standards and rules on others, but never observe those standards themselves. The challenge for us is if we follow the hipocritical standards they will try to impose on us, we will lose. But if we have no standards at all, like them, then we could become them. I think the way out is to decide if an action is right for us, without considering what they might say.
Reality Check: Mass. Corruption as GOP Strip Delegates of Their Credentials
From Mitt Romney’s old stomping ground, where his people control the process.
http://www.libertarian-examiner.com/2012/06/reality-check-mass-corruption-as-gop.html
One can certainly see your enthusiasm in you writing. The arena hopes for more passionate writers such as you who are not afraid to say how they believe. Keep up the good work. Good wishes from the LalMashal team.
Could you ask the average voter to describe the politics of Edward M House and expect an answer? Hardly, that would not fit our public education paradigm.
http://sovereignty.net/p/gov/timeline.html
http://www.independent.org/printer.asp?page=%2Fnewsroom%2Farticle%2Easp?id=2294
Christians must unite against the amoral world. In this critical time we must recognize the fight is with humanist, Islamists and socialists– all are Godless. Mormons are good moral, loyal Americans. This is a fight for our Our Sovereignty as a Nation. Our Sovereignty=Liberty.This is a political fight not a religious one.Obama is a greater threat to Christianity than Mormonism. I do not expect Romney’s Mormonism to adversely affect his decisions.
When Church Polity embraces homosexuality,same sex marriage, many paths to the Father and salvation, evolution,cultural and moral relativism, other Christians must speak out against this apostasy–this is not bashing. . Please read the late Henry Lamb,s book Rise of Global Governance. Henry Lamb was a tireless defender of U.S. sovereignty and expert in the United Nations and moves toward global governance. We need all the conservative sites.Leftism is all around us!A massive world-wide partnership is pioneering new strategies for social transformation. The media, the entertainment industry, computer companies, government agencies, educational institutions, the United Nations and its accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have all joined together in a common quest for a global mind change. They seek solidarity — a worldwide unity based on a new set of beliefs and values. “Obsolete” and “exclusive” loyalties to national sovereignty, Biblical values, and the unadulterated U.S. Constitution stand in their way.
You really have to go looking for conservative and counter positions.
David Horowitz exposed one of the Alec Baldwin and Norman Lear Leftists site in 2003. He wrote: “Leading the leftist juggernaut in its current attack on America’s defenders is the largest and most influential hate group in America, misnamed ,People for the American Way,. People for the American Way is a permanent campaign of fear and hate aimed principally at Christian conservatives but at every group that attempts to defend America against the assaults of the left.
People for the American Way conducts a permanent witch-hunt at {Rightwing Watch Online.} No sooner was the war in Iraq successfully concluded than this site published a special [report” called 'Talking Out of Turn' The Right’s Campaign Against Dissent.] A sister leftist site, TomPaine.com ,funded by Bill Moyers among others, also posted the report. Echoes of its claims can be heard among leftwing Democrats in the chambers of the House.”
It’s all about embracing “tolerance, diversity and unity” for The New World Order. It’s no longer a question of what is right or wrong, good or bad, lawful or unlawful, but rather HOW WE ALL FEEL ABOUT IT… No absolutes, no conscience, no convictions, no laws, no Constitution, no Bible and NO GOD!!!… Only a contrived consensus.America wake-up!
Obama is like the Snake in the Garden of Eden, using Lies and Deceit to manipulate people. But the Snake is too Noble a figure to use for Obama, who is more like a maggot feeding off the flesh of the dead! Remember America, in November, Vote for the Mormon, NOT the Moron!
Hi BillWhit,
If you had a working knowledge of the Bible, you’d know the tempter in the Garden was not a “snake” in our sense of the word — but I wouldn’t understanding a ignorant, babbling fool like you to know that.
Regardless, the “snake” in the garden is (at least in your worldview) responsible for the fall of man; Obama is responsible for political policies you happen to disagree with. Who would say, now, is more noble?
Rethink what you’ve said,
John R. M. Benjamin
Georgetown University
P.S. Mr. Romney believes the Garden of Eden was in Jackson County, Missouri. Talk about a twisted, idiotic worldview.
P.P.S. Obama is not a moron in any objective sense of the word. He worked his own way into Columbia, Harvard Law School, the faculty at UChicago, and other prestigious academic positions. The pejorative label “moron” thus means nothing when placed by a fool like yourself on our academically accomplished Commander-in-Chief.