You Say You Want a Revolution
When my friend Hugh Hewitt starts bashing the Republican “leadership” as spineless jellyfish largely AWOL on the most important issues of the day, you know we have reached a crisis point:
The Speaker’s and Leader’s staffs, however, don’t show any obvious signs of understanding the new media order or the relentlessness of the president’s program. The president or Vice President Biden uses every day to push their agenda forward and belittle or divide the GOP. Every day. Yesterday the Obama machine, supported by its permanent allies in the Manhattan-Beltway media elite, acted to get the focus off the Hagel and Lew nominations and the Holder hold-over and they used Joe Biden and his “executive order” on guns to do so. Today will see a different part of the carnival throwing up different aspects of stories or new story lines altogether.
Yesterday, as the day before and the day before that, there was no sign of any GOP leader anywhere, on the nominations, on the “executive order” on guns, on the key nominations. No appearances. No statements. Just crickets.
Those crickets would be the American people, just itching for a fight with Obama and the Democrats but finding no one to lead them. If the conservative ranks seem dispirited in the wake of the last election, it’s not because we lost — it’s because we didn’t fight. Didn’t pay the slightest attention to Churchill:
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,
Instead, somebody named Willard Mitt Romney pretended to run for president in a dozen states or so, predictably lost, and vanished back to his little shack in La Jolla, leaving not a trace of his candidacy except the holes in the GOP donors/suckers’ wallets.
I’ve got mine, Jack
That’s why the abortive coup against the pathetic speaker of the House, John Boehner, was at least a little bit encouraging. The only reason the Republicans kept control of the House in the last election was that “the people’s body” is now so gerrymandered in the GOP’s favor that even Boehner and his crew couldn’t completely botch the job, although they did manage to lose seats in an election that shouldn’t even have been close. But that would have presupposed a viable candidate, a resonant message, and a media operation not run by Eric Fehrnstrom.
I hate to break the news to you, but it’s probably already too late for the GOP adequately to prepare for the 2016 campaign. A mobile media pushback team needs to be in place now, to even begin to neutralize the Democrat-Media Complex, that revolving door of Harvard grads who rotate between the MSM and the leftosphere, and whatever Democratic administration is currently in power. Those seething donors, played for fools yet again by Karl Rove and the krack kadres of GOP kampaign konsultants, need to channel their anger and their cash elsewhere.
Otherwise, go ahead: nominate Jeb Bush, let him campaign vigorously in Ohio and Florida, and see how well that turns out.
– the Speaker believes the position is ceremonial and he merely presides.
Jeb Bush? For real?
Surrender now.
The problem with this whole executive order end around thing is the other two branches are not balancing the power. When Obama issue an unconstitutional exec order, Congress and SCOTUS are supposed to counteract it. So far, nothing but crickets.
I think the only reason the GOP kept control of the house is because the American people are too stupid to vote a dinosaur out of office. Thus you have idiots like Joe Biden there for 30+ years, people like Charlie Rangel gets convicted for ethics violations and still gets re-elected with 80+% of the vote.
In 1976 Orrin Hatch campaigned on three terms in the Senate is long enough, just got re elected to his 5th term. Every 6 years he pretends to be conservative, gets re elected, then reaches across the aisle to Ted Kennedy to put together legislation that the dems like.
To add to that regarding the Executive Order end-around with no balancing measures taken, the really, really cool thing about it is, it sets precedence. And if the defecrats can either get Hillary elected in 2016 or, as has already been brought up, extend the dog eater’s presidency with no term limits, whoever becomes president from this point forward can continue to make law by decree (i.e. Executive Order). Won’t that be fun ?!
The only reason Paul “Welfare” Wellstone isn’t still in the Senate is because he was killed in a plane crash in 2002 while running for a 3rd term — after swearing he would only stay for 2 terms. Power-mad politicians always change their minds in the nick of time.
The Founders made a huge mistake when they didn’t impose term limits on Congress and the president. At least the Confederacy limited the president to a single 6-year term.
If somebody asked me,”Robbins,what sort of person would you want as leader of the GOP in the House?”…I can just see myself saying,”I want an alcoholic crybaby who gets down on his knees for Obama when commanded to”
It’s difficult to soar like an eagle when you’re force to fly with turkeys..
Not to worry though there is a revolution coming; one that would make Winston Churchill proud, even envious of the Yanks.
Americans are a different breed… slow to anger.. quick to forgive.. give the benefit of doubt.. walk the extra mile an so on.
BUT, there comes a point in time where even the mildest amongst us will rise up in justifiable rage against and strike down those who have been treating them unfairly, whether they be neighbors, friends, political leaders or other nations doesn’t matter..
Obama, the liberals and socialists think that they have completely defeated those who oppose them.. and that is their biggest mistake..
With all of their political savvy and technical sophistication they are utterly blind and clueless to the approaching storms..
Oh, brother. I think you’re out of date by 20 years. America WAS special. All good things come to an end. Americans are so slow to anger they lost their opportunity in 2012.
It’s over. Long over. Go Galt.
That’s easy for you to say – if you’re Grizzly Adams!
I’m a middle aged old woman with no survival skills.
Bingo.
You’ve got a better clue than most.
For others who are still in denial…
Time to be honest w/ourselves.
The Second Amendment is there not to grant rights, but to keep government from encroaching on our rights in any way, whatsoever, for any reason at all.
Obviously, the government has ignored this limitation for decades. It moves, even now, to remove ever more of your rights, limiting and removing your rights on a daily basis.
The Second Amendment is there so that we can kill an out of control government. All other purposes are secondary.
You need to decide when the government needs to be killed…and you have to kill it before it kills you.
That’s The Second Amendment. That’s the true responsibility of being a free man or woman. The responsibility to protect yourself. It’s your responsibility to protect and defend your rights. That right, that defense of your rights, can be relegated to no other, whether a great leader or a politician or a religious zealot, or a political ideologue. It’s your responsibility, and yours, alone.
You must make the decision about whether to kill your own government and then decide when and how it must be done.
That’s freedom.
That’s The Second Amendment.
When an American CITIZEN picks up a modern weapon, he or she belts on a tradition, a responsibility, so far unspoken, unwritten, but adhered to by western American custom. The responsibility is best spoken in the ancient French phrase “Noblesse oblige”, nobility obliges. As a weapon carrier in American tradition you are taking up the mantle of the protector, the knight that is no longer allowed by title in our society, yet it’s need continues.
AS a protector THE first order of bussiness is protecting those around you from loss of control of yourself or the loss of control over your weapon. The second is protecting those around you from unreasonable or illegal force against their persons. The third is protecting those physical assets that are deeemed essential to survival. Anyone in America who picks up a weapon without that in mind is a hazard AND OR a criminal. This includes government weapon carriers.
The knights of America ARE Yammamotos “sleeping giant”, who just cracked a 4 million semi-auto rifle eyelid.
Spoken like a true blowhard. Get your troops and your puny weapons together and comment on more websites, if it makes you feel good and raises your testosterone. So, when are you going to rise up and rebel against unconstitutional government? With the passage of Obamacare? Oh, that was done a couple years ago? Signing of the NDAA? We’re waiting.
I dunno. Mitt going back home and getting back to work as a privare citizen was something I thought we wanted politicians to do, ezpecially politicians who lose.
That said…nothing is going to change short of a ‘Concord Bridge’ moment, with the resulting war, death and destruction.
It’s too late to work within the system, kids.
You need to think about whether or not you’re ready to work outside the system…and whether you’re ready to use The Second Amendment for its intended purpose.
Do you realize how much you sound like Abbie Hoffman and the Weather Underground and the other New Left radicals from the 1960s and 1970s?
They said the same thing: Working within the system is futile; it’s too corrupt and hostile; so let’s try direct action instead.
Care to elaborate on the similarity to you between Sam Adams and the Symbionese Liberation Army? Please go on at length. Should be entertaining.
It’s not the second amendment that matters here. This will have to be be more “Ghandi” than John Adams and the militia. We need collective civil disobedience. Decide how much tax the government really needs, which of its rules and regulations are legitimate and/or reasonable and then pay and obey only those.
The difference between the Abbie Hoffman movement and this situation is that Hoffman and his ilk were not paying anything or providing any goods and services in support of the people they felt were oppressing them. They were taker/protesters who have now become parasitic rulers. We are the all-too-willing hosts. That has to change.
Lets say that American taxpayers could state on their 1040′s where they wanted their tax money to go and where they did not want their tax money to go. If we had such a power, it would return the “power of the purse” to the American people.
We are a long way from being able to create such a system but wouldn’t it be great if only limited “core” government services were paid for by mandatory taxes (a flat tax would work best here although I could go for a flat per person amount as well). Anything else that the government wanted to do would have to be paid for by voluntary additional taxes – specified perhaps in the 1040 as you suggest. Then we would really know if “the people” wanted such services because they would be “voting” for them with their purses. This would also drive better effectiveness because the government agency or program would have to continually convince the people of their necessity and appropriate cost/benefit ratio. For any operation, 2012 taxes, paid in 2013, would be earmarked for 2014 operations. That way, the agency would know its budget in advance and could plan accordingly. It would create a form of capitalism within government where coercive taking is replaced with the need to convince your “customers” that the services that you create and deliver are worth paying for.
Interesting otion. The unions have “work to rule”.
Taxpayers can have “pay to rule” !
But even if you only pay a minimum how do you ensure that the gov. actually puts that money where it’s supposed to go?
Well that’s a good question. One could hope that with only limited funds our government officials would have to make some hard choices, i.e. what services to render to the people with the money they have. Eventually – after trying to blame miserly taxpayers – they would be held accountable for how well they used the money. What a concept – politicians would have to sell themselves on the basis of being good managers and stewards of public money.
Been havin’ any luck lately within the system?
I’ll give it one last shot. Not with the Republicans. That last 38 years with them was a waste of time.
I’m beating the drums for the election of 4 Libertarians to the senate from small states; easy, cheap, doable.
With the near split in the senate, 4 Libertarians could control the government. OR, the other two twin parties would have to play real ball with each other to deny the Libertarians the controlling votes. It would play real havoc with the games played, today. Even the house would have to play ball with the demands of the Libertarians in the Senate. If that can’t be done in ’14 or ’16 at the latest, its going to be necessary for an old fashioned donnybrooke.
I don’t imagine any sort of thing happening on the scope you describe unless the American people are in really dire straits. IOW, so much interference in their lives that they cannot carry on as per usual either because of a lack of income or too much violence in the streets.
What does IOW mean? I’ve seen it here and there but I can’t suss out the meaning. Thank you
“In other words”
Ah, thank you.
“It’s too late to work within the system, kids.”
You may well be correct in that observation.
When a populace has been dumbed down to the point that instant gratification trumps substance, we might as well admit that this segment of the population has been assimilated.
That being said, the only course that remains for the rest of us is some sort of Jeffersonian revolution. Imagine that it has only taken about fifty years from being on top of the hill to being on the cusp of third world status…
“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” — Claire Wolfe, 101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution
Those words were written ~20 years ago. How many Americans have decided (or are very close to deciding) that the “awkward stage” has passed?
Hey, relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Things are just taking a little longer to work out. In the mean time, buy guns and teach your children what they are about, for you may never need them.
A fight, or a negotiation, requires rough equality of the participants;
The Republicans have nothing, and the Tea Partiers will not get anything
until the economy collapses; Any proposal for a political conservative
comeback which is not based on this bedrock assumption is pointless.
Even then, there is no point in gaining control of the Federal government.
The point is to take control of the solvent State governments, force a
return to Federalism (or failing that, Secession), get free of the
control of the Federal bureaucracies, and grow the State economies.
Beg to differ.
A fight requires first the willingness to fight, the willingness to begin, even if it is in a small way, which can grow.
Israel does it EVERY.SINGLE.DAY.
This moratorium needs to happen – it’s how the Community organissing left wins its battles. If sometjhing fails, you ananlyse it and see why, adn then work on improving it for next time.
Of course, it would have helped for 8 million Republicans to actually SHOW UP at the polls. That was the tiniest strategy available to win the country and so many didn’t use it.
That’s because people are tired of voting for the lesser of two evils. Romney isn’t a bad person, but he was a crap choice for the republicans.
I know alot of people who just won’t play anymore. This last election kinda proved that to me as well. I also won’t be voting for the lesser of two evils and don’t bother telling me I should’ve done something. I did everything – and voter fraud in my state still won the day.
Had there been a real conservative (republicans won’t put those candidates up) then perhaps those 8 million PLUS might have felt the urge to show up. And I’m not talking social issues. People who can tell the press to stuff it and keep on issue.
On the other hand, it just may be too late. Only session is left to give us conservatives a refuge from the megalomaniacs who currently rule us. And they DO rule us. Our labor is not our own, nor the fruits of our labor. Neither do we have property rights. We are slaves to the state and it is only their benevolence that allows us to currently keep any portion of our salaries. On their whim they can and will take it all.
session=secession.
Damned spell check!
“I know alot of people who just won’t play anymore.”
Lolly, this might actually have ben the last election where people actually got the chance to “play” of their own volition, according to the rules, even in light of the BlackPanther thuggery at the polls, the “malfunctioning” polling machines etc. I say that now, not necessariyl knowing what will happen in the future.
One thing I can say for sure – under communism, or fascism, or the current, increasing, tyranny, NOONE gets the choice to “play”. You are involved by fiat. Citizens are targeted economically, socially, you name it, and if you don’t “play” or defend yourself in some way, you vanish.
It’s like trying to leave the Mafia. You don’t get to decide when they leave you alone, because they don’t listen to amnyoe except themselves. You are not playing according to Hoyle, where if you politely decline to “play” they leave you alone.
They pursue you ’til they get what you have, money, property, social value, the works.
There is no such thing as “no” in their world, and the Republicans/conservatives have still not recognised this.
Again, there is not going to be any willingness to fight until people have lost a great deal more than they have to date. Complacency (along with denial) are very, very powerful things that keep people glued to their couches. People are going to have to be made really uncomfortable to the point of utter desperation before they even nip at the edges of fighting back.
Can we declare a moratorium on “why we lost analysis? Enough, already. Stop. Just stop.
No. No, we can’t, actually. Because if we don’t answer that question correctly–or at least halfway correctly–the GOP isn’t likely to fare any better in 2016 … or 2014, 2018, and 2020 for that matter. If the question doesn’t interest you, though, I’m sure you can find something with which to amuse yourself while the adults are talking–the Internet’s a biggish place.
Fine – Draft Allen West. He’s the only guy that makes a conservatives heart sing when he speaks. He’s not Reagan, but he doesn’t HAVE to be. He’s a real American hero Vet who actually loves this country.
George Washington didn’t want to serve as President – EITHER TIME! With his family history he knew his time was short and all he wanted to do was go home and fish! He was DRAFTED to serve his country and he answered that call.
We need Col. West! Don’t let hi say no this time around!
Draft Bill Whittle.
Bill Whittle? Don’t think he wants to fight in a way that readily comes to mind. His answer is to invest in parallel institutions run by conservatives. Such a thing sounds good but it’s a slow, many-years-in-the-making approach that I am not at all sure we have time for.
Republicans lost because they wanted to lose. Romney gave em what they wanted.
Anybody notice any derailments in the gravy train since the election? any Republican leaders tossed out; any strategy changes; any mea culpas; any meetings to assess the damage and take corrective action; any eentsy tiny hints of self awareness; any cease fire in blaming the Tea Party; any renewed vigor to take back the country?
Of course not. They didn’t want to win. Too high risk. They aren’t ideologues. They aren’t in it to make the country a better place. They don’t give a shit about reversing the marxist spiral. All they care about is their own wealth and power.
That’s why they aren’t worth supporting.
Excellent comment.
The GOP today is just part of the “elite”.
Idiocy (the “elite”) + fanaticism (the marxists) + true evil (islam)=
the end of the West.
It’s a plan, and it is going great.
^^THIS^^
Exactly, & most of the people don’t care because they are more concerned about that gov’t entitlement check coming in than anything else, self sufficiency be damned.
No, they wanted to win. It’s just how they define win is different from how you define win. If Romney had won, the gravy train would be fuller for his side. With an Obama win, they still get some gravy. If an actual Conservative had won, the gravy train would stop. That would be losing.
The rest of your post was spot on.
That is why Palin had to be destroyed. When she and McCain started campaigning he didn’t say, “Let’s go win this.” He said, “Let’s go have fun.”
We trotted the B team onto the field and let them play a Quentin Tarantino bloodbath scrimmage against each other and then ran a Village People general election campaign.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Paul Ryan should have been on the ticket, just not behind Willard the Dullard.
If we could have been more creampuff going after Obama, I’m not sure how. If we could have rolled over and threw our legs up in the air for the propagandist media any more willingly, I don’t know how.
We didn’t fight, because we never fight. We didn’t point at the rape of our information stream, because we never point at the rape of our information stream.
We didn’t call small c communism out, because we never call small c communism out.
We didn’t lash out at treason, because we never lash out at treason.
“WE” meaning those who oppose treason, who enter politics, presumably. Our team. The Washington Generals of politics. They are there as foils. Stooges. Chumps.
However, I’m feeling alot less “we” for Republicans and their “B” team squad …moreso each and every year. I like the “A” team in the wings. But, I don’t like the play calling or the coaching staff. Fire ‘em.
“But, I don’t like the play calling or the coaching staff. Fire â€em.”
They are not going anywhere, ever. Most of the ones who we hope are going to really change things never do because the whole atmosphere in DC created by what I like to call the “professionals” (those who just stay there from administration to administration over the course of many years) corrupts the vast majority of our congresscritters. They all manage to become big gov’t advocates whose governing styles are guided by their reelection ambitions.
We really do need to just scrap the whole damned thing & start all over again. Of course, they will wait until it’s unavoidable & one day it will be.
Duty. Honor. Country.
A past President of Columbia University, graduate of the military academy, Dwight David, died with those words on his lips.
He commanded many of the 450 thousand brave Americans, from 1941-1945, who made the ultimate sacrifice on the alter of freedom, yanking out the chains of oppression one by one, chopping off the tentacles of miscreant war mongers; tyrants from Japan to Germany.
And on cloudy days, I wonder if the beneficiaries of their sacrifices are too timid to stand up to another tyrant(s), this one on our home soil. The anointed one. The leftists. The traitors. The Democratic Party.
The core objective of these modern day tyrants isn’t to transform, but to foment anarchy, to enslave, to lock freedom in the dark, dank dungeons usually reserved for the earth’s cruelest scum:
Those who use words of hate and fear to stomp on, blaspheme and muddy the memories of steely brave Americans who gave up their tomorrows so we could live out our todays in freedom…those depraved souls deserve to live our their sorrowful days in hell.
What to do about leaders that lead us to hell, a sordid place where the chains chains of oppression wait to lock on?
Stand up to them.
In Congress, my call to arms is directed at Democrats and Republicans alike, at lovers of freedom. My marching orders: to spit back words that demonstrate a hate for America, our Constitution and its Bill of Rights. To spit back every filthy word right into their ugly hearts and pompous faces.
To you,I say: Respond with venom to anyone in your surrounds who’s an enabler of puke Obama. Don’t fail to grasp the truth. The killer at Sandy Hook was of the same ilk that tries to kill our way of life. Yes. That’s what I’m saying. The gun phobic crowd have basically the same DNA as the killer at Newtown. Wiry, skinny, deadly feelings of hate of liberty and destruction of freedom.
One wanted to kill six year olds. Your governmental chronies, Hollywood crowd, Saturday Night Live pukes, NBC, CBS, ABC, New York Corrupt Times libtard miscreats want to kill the hopes and dreams of 300 million Americans, most of which don’t even realize they’re in extremist Obamunist cross hairs.
The 29th ID storming Obama Beach had real machine gunned lead to impede their mission.
Today, in 2013, we have nothing that approaches real fear to make us back down an inch.
We, the people of America, are under no duty or obligation to follow patently unlawful orders. We are under a huge duty to defend this country from tyrants. To embrace the language of the Constitution. In the past, defending the country and the constitution involved utilizing steely hearts and free fire zones.
Why do you think 30 million citizens are arming themselves with weapons of a vastness of kind that’s broader than the wild west of the 1800′s? They are in the process of seizing the moment? Hitler? Tojo? Totally weak units when without thugs to do their bidding.
Like Yamamoto, Obamunists know they have woken the same sleeping giant. Quickly the United States is arming itself to the teeth.
I don’t doubt for one minute that more and more of the anointed one’s hours are lived in horrible daydreams of what’s to come. Dictators the world over age; hair grays, illness comes to those who sit and wait for their personal doomsday.
I’m telling you America. You have nothing to be afraid of.
Selected gems:
“What to do about leaders that lead us to hell, a sordid place where the chains chains of oppression wait to lock on?
Stand up to them.”
AND
“To you,I say: Respond with venom to anyone in your surrounds who’s an enabler of puke Obama.”
AND
“The 29th ID storming Obama Beach had real machine gunned lead to impede their mission.
Today, in 2013, we have nothing that approaches real fear to make us back down an inch.”
Absolutely.
Engage with your fellow citizens in line at the store, at school, at work, at church, at public events. There are far more people who feel the same way than most of us realize, but are looking for someone else to speak first. Be that leader. Encourage them, then help get them involved.
Another great step for anyone is to join the NRA immediately. You will make a strong statement to the progressives, become very well informed, and will strengthen a very important organization. http://www.nra-2013.org
I respectfully disagree with you on getting ready NOW for 2016. If things go the way you, me and other think they will, the next 3 years, the little old lady next door who bakes me cookies could probably run and be elected POTUS – ABO
I think it’s time to stop listening to Dick Morris and try life outside the bubble.
Well golly gee whiz. NOW someone at PJM is pointing out that Romney never bothered to put together a real campaign. Welcome to the club, Mr. Walsh! Where were you in 2012?
On PJ Media, National Review Online and in the pages of the New York Post.
Ted Cruz spoke very clearly against Obama-Biden intentions to impose new gun control measures. He also said he wouldn’t vote for Lew. I think there are several good folks, but there is nor leader that we need. The leader who is bold enough to call for a press conference and name things the way they are.
That would be Sarah Palin.
Your summary is akin to the Gettysburg address, short and to point. You are absolutely correct, the GOP has no fight in it and the enemy is just as you state. Except I might frame it like Ike did. Instead of the Government Military Complex, it is the Democrat Party Media Complex.
“4. Patience..
It’s difficult to soar like an eagle when you’re force to fly with turkeys..”
In our Country, we respect the Eagles, we shoot the turkeys.
Agree with most everything in your column except that it’s too late for 2016. A good candidate, a good speaker, a warrior, could make a huge impact in 90 days, maybe 9. Yes, the problem is that the MSM is all against it, but the MSM isn’t that smart and for all that, may not be as hopeless as it seems – they can be lead by a smart and charismatic candidate same as anyone.
Remember, Mitt was the Republican candidate because nobody better stood for office, just as in 2008 the nominee was a nice guy but totally uninspiring as a candidate.
The problem is that the MSM has broken down entirely, as has the Democratic party. It’s not that the Obamanation throws up one thing to distract you from another, they are throwing up lies on every issue and outrages in every direction with no shame – and the MSM never calling them on any of it.
An opposition (Republican) candidate has to go out and name names and call bullshit not detail by detail, but on anything that comes out of the piehole of any of these pathological liars. You do NOT respond, you do NOT compromise, you advance YOUR narrative, and in neutral negotiations there may be some room for give and take, but while the Democrats’ main approach is lie, lie, lie, you cannot take them on either point by point, nor politely.
If no Republican will do that, then I guess there won’t be any Republicans at all in a few more years, because there certainly won’t be any reason for there to be.
Consider this. The majority of women in this country, the providers of the winning electoral votes, will throw their political support behind Democrat men who promise them little more than a life of anxious dependency but on the other hand are guilty of manslaughter, alleged rapists, philanderers, serial liars, drunks, rotten cads, etc. while running away from any decent Republican, man or woman, who has the spine to look them in the eye and tell them of the perilous reality of our times and what itâ€s going to take to correct our course and provide for a more stable and enjoyable life. Solve that conundrum and you may find an individual willing to step forward and provide Churchillian leadership qualities.
Maybe it’s hopeless, but I really don’t think so, it’s just the white-shoe country club RINOs are absolutely the worst kind of candidate to put up to the eaters as an alternative.
Nixon was not that.
Reagan was not that.
Eisenhower was not that.
The Bushes – well, GHWB was a player, and GWB was a two-time governor and had good convictions and a good heart, sometimes he was a bit of a squish but he certainly stood tall after 9/11.
McCain, for all his service, was not a leader of any sort. Romney, for all he was a governor and a rich guy, was an empty suit. Even Bob Dole, a fine fellow, was just too far past his sell-by date, one of the cardinal sins of Republicans is pushing someone into office as a figurehead as a reward for past service. Whatever you say about Obama, nobody voted for him for his past service!
You go out and do what American politicians of any party have always done, you bang the drum, you view with alarm and point with pride, you ask for every vote, you eat every ethnic cuisine, you wave the flag, you show energy and initiative – and you get votes. I mean, is this rocket surgery or what?
I agree. And that would be Sarah Palin.
Excellent ID-Democrat Party Media Complex. The MSM will not give small government advocates any press time. Pretty hard to get it in conservative publications such as National Review also.
Okay. Then why are Limbaugha and Fox always bragging about their superior ratings? Are they not part of the media?
The people in this country watch ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, Fox. Even though Fox has the highest rating and most viewers, it is not enough. Is it possible to create one more national TV channel that would be different from all of the above and promote truth?
The Old Media is dying and being replaced by the New Media – the Internet. Bloggers post video clips that have not been edited by the Democrat Media Complex (Breitbart coined the term first I think), we can read legislative language for ourselves and ignore what the media elites tell us and we can communitcate information via social media. Beck is creating his own network, The Blaze is available on DISH or internet subscription. I like Wilkow the best and some of the Real News segments are good too. Hopefully, other cable networks will pick up The Blaze, it has far more viewers than Gore’s old Current TV.
http://www.theblaze.com/tv/
The battle for freedom must be fought for at the local / state level while also applying pressure to DC. The spineless GOP leadership should step aside and let those who want to speak the truth the public carry the torch – Mike Lee, Ted Cruz as examples.
I was on the phone to DC today giving them an earful on spending, debt ceiling, abuse of Executive Orders, etc. I will stay engaged, we all must, do you think Allen West will stay silent? Leaders will speak out, they don’t have to be holding office.
I don’t know how many of you have ever worked with or for Republican elected or appointed officials or have been involved in politics at a place where you actually got to know them. I have. In twenty-odd years of dealing with them I could count on my fingers the number I’ve known with whom you could have the kind of political/philosophical conversations that go on here hourly. Don’t think political thinker; think real estate agent or car salesman. A few are lawyers, but most of them are small business people or other professionals. They simply DO NOT understand trained and disciplined communist operatives! They refuse to even believe that there are trained and disciplined communist operatives. Their idea of negotiations comes from the commercial world of “Getting to Yes,” where somebody wants to sell the house and somebody wants to buy it or somebody wants a car and you have some. That ain’t where Comrade Obama and his ilk live! There is no willing buyer and willing seller in their world. There is no compromise where you get a little of what you want and the other guy gets a little of what he wants. You do NOT negotiate with these people, you do NOT compromise with these people. You impose your will on them, they impose their will on you, or the two of you stare at each other in a wary stasis each waiting for the other to lower his guard. The guys and gals from the Rotary and the Chamber really, really don’t understand this stuff.
Art, we don’t need a genius, maybe we don’t want a genius or wonk, we want an organizer, we want someone who knows his community, who can build a team and head it up. The party apparatus used to do this, it does so far less now, especially less on the Republican side. The superpacs are a step back in the right direction, but they are sort of our of control. Mostly we want someone who can talk to crowds, to reporters, to individuals, and tell a story, offer a vision, inspire comfort and confidence.
I do not believe it has to come to a bidding war for voters.
peepers @ 20, I agree with you 100%, I’ve considered whether I could step up, if not for president then for congress or state assembly or anything, but sadly I just don’t think I have the right demographics, face, friends. I might serve on the staff for someone a little better qualified – I had a friend a few years back who I thought would have been a great candidate. He dabbled a little but never ran, darn it.
I suppose, merging both these thoughts, what I or others here could do – out in the real world, not here online (though any new movement is going to have huge online components), is if I don’t have the face and hair for candidacy, get involved with the organizations that there are, local party, super-pacs, start my own if necessary, put together a business plan, a strategic vision, wangle some face time to the big money, and bootstrap it up. And the first order of business would be to find, promote, and develop BETTER CANDIDATES. That’s my small insight to the current situation.
“The guys and gals from the Rotary and the Chamber really, really don’t understand this stuff.”
Yes, and the most disappointing part comes when you try to explain “this stuff” to them. It makes them quite uncomfortable with you…not the subject per se….. but you. Conservatives, it seems to me, tend to be bashful and almost embarrassed to publicly discuss their core values. Afraid they might offend even though they know they are correct and hold their values close and dear. The other side seems to be nearly orgasmic relative to spewing their ignorance in all directions. And we tolerate it so as not to allow them to feel discomfort. I could care less if a leftist thinks I am a loon. What hurts is when someone who shares my values seems to think that I am “a little over-the-top” for expressing my views even when those views are theirs also. Start trying to engage someone at Rotary or the Chamber about “this stuff” and you’ll move to a discussion of next week’s fish fry pronto.
More Tea Partiers and Ideologues and less Rotary and Chamber members please.
Art, you nailed it. One of the top reasons why Reagan was effective is that he had been fighting the left and the communists in the Screen Actors Guild for years and knew how they operated and what their thinking processes were and therefore how to negotiate with them (or not negotiate, when necessary).
What you are saying ISMW to my mind is we need people who are ideologues from our perspective, as only they are going to stand up to their ideologues. Seems as if conservatism (AWA the Republican Party) does not attract this type of person. Perhaps this dynamic is among the things that serve to keep us perpetually anchored to hind tit in the arena of ideas & policies.
More tacticians and operatives than ideologues. I don’t much like ideologues because their ideology usually blinds them to the kind of tactical moves that will get you closer to what you want. It’s the conflict with the whole notion of compromise. There’s nothing long with compromise if the compromise results in movement towards your objective. That’s where you get things all messed up with compromising with Democrats; they throw some crazy-a**ed proposal out there that they don’t even want. Then they demand that in the spirit of compromise and bipartisanship, you move halfway to their crazya**ed position that they never really wanted anyway. That ain’t compromise, that’s surrender. The other side of it is the conservative ideologue that doesn’t get anything because what’s on the table isn’t perfect. Perfect is rare, almost unobtainable.
yes. We have extremes at both ends of the political spectrum and it explains perfectly why a 70% conservative county has elected the most radial leftist, by far, in American history to the presidency, and hundreds of others to positions of authority who would be on welfare if they had to support themselves.
On the one hand, as you say, we have the Republican good ole boy insurance salesmen with the plastered on smiles and a back slap for mass murderers hoping they can just get a sale. It’s not an exaggeration at all. Boehner is that to a tee.
On the other hand, you have professional political operatives who have devoted their entire lives to figuring out every conceivable angle for how to deceive the electorate; starting with the takeover and brainwashing of the media and intelligentsia, and now including hundreds of think tanks that spend billions to sway public policy, right down to the creation of the most influential websites in the world (i.e., wikipedia) in an around-the-clock, around-the-planet effort at thought control.
But our go to guy is still John Boehner. I don’t think he is a leftist mole. He is more effective for them by just being himself. Same for Romney, McCain, and the next darling of the Rinos’ and Ann Coulter, Chris Christie
Christie is an opportunist. I cannot understand why so many people think so highly of him.
Some days I get so frustrated I could spit in church.
You people are looking for a leader to lash out, to derail the Obamatron Limited. To limit the damage it can do. To fight the good fight. To bring this nation from its knees and reach its God given potential.
Standing tall. Standing for honor and duty and country.
We need someone willing to bring JFK’s words to life. “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Well, my friends, in my humble opinion, the answer’s not on Hannity. Or Hewitt. Or Limbaugh.
America; the America we grew up in and the America that can be greater than ever before with the right leader. That America is right here. Within PJM. His, her thoughts marinate every day. Maybe they’re ready to feed the American spirit.
American thoughts. American ideals. American values. Thoughts of courage.
The courage it takes to let the truth ring out; to hit the note that lands a Libtard, a small c communist, an Obamunist flat on his pack of lies. Jack Bauer wasn’t real, but the soul deep desire to see America rise again is.
I don’t know your faces but I read your writings. And they’re good.
And I believe this as sure as I’ve believed anything, anytime anywhere.
If I was well and young, I’d give it a try. But it ain’t me. I literally would die trying.
Yet, here at PJM, somewhere, someone, within the comments I read is the truth America needs to hear.
Among the columnists at PJM is someone with the spit and vinegar to fight the good fight. And win one for the Gipper.
I nominate three names who I’d go to war with. But I’m not talking about a war of bullets. I’m talking a war of ballots.
It’s time to name names.
Mr. J. Christian Adams esq., Mr. cfbleachers, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson. One of you must consider stepping up. The bases are loaded with huge amounts of Texas money just waiting for you. There are huge numbers of patriotic Americans thirsting for you. I’m not asking you to be John Basilone. I am asking you to be a hero.
I call. Your country calls. Who else has what it takes to light the fire of liberty? I don’t know. What I do know is that the pens that write the words I read at PJM hold ink that springs from the paper. Sometimes with anger. Sometimes with hope. Sometimes with logic. Sometimes with facts. Sometimes with frustration. But with the same ring of truth that Churchill’s words sounded.
I also know that your parents would agree with me. It’s time to look into the mirror and see how much your country needs you.
I’m talking about going into politics. And raising cane with the crooks. And righting the good ship of state, The United States of America.
I’m not ready to give up. There’s much to think about. I’ve issued the challenge. Consider. Stew if you must. Then let us know if there are any takers.
Don’t tell me the job isn’t for you if in your heart you know it is.
Too little, too late.
This speech was needed 15 years ago.It MAY be a viable speech again in 15 years, hopefully.
When your only tool is your mouth, every problem starts to look like a conversation. They are NOT.
We don’t need political leadership in this time, we need a Patton, a Hannibal. What we will probably get is a Caesar, and the end of the republic.
You know Kennedy was a liberal Democrat right? Obama is more conservative then Kennedy ever was. I wonder why you liked him, but not Obama? Hm?
“Obama is more conservative then Kennedy ever was”
Dumbest thing I’ve read all day.
You’re an idiot! John F. Kennedy’s positions on issues would cause him trouble getting the Republican nomination today. Only his last name would keep the Democrats from painting a Hitler moustache on him. There are lots of us here who were once Democrats before the Democratic Party became the Communist Party; we know our history of Democrat politics a Helluva lot better than you mind-numbed lefties do.
we must draw our strength and moral support from superior documents left to us by those who were thinking of generations to come (us) when they wrote them, our declaration of independence, constitution and bill of rights. men died to free themselves and their loved ones from tryanny. now we have it again, full blown, in your face hatred from our so-called leaders of everything we hold dear. to he who has eyes, it is plain to see that they plan no good things for us.
imho, the only reason we are still able/allowed to write these things herein, is that we still have the weaponry to overthrow our present would-be oppressors. we still have our guns, and since the useful idiots already underestimated our love for our country, they are at a loss as to how to take most of them away, except to throw caution to the wind and let loose the dogs of war, writing e.o.’s. there is no army mobile enough, large enough and powerful enough to remove all the guns Americans have. real Americans are wide awake now, and most of our military men and women are smarter than to shoot at Americans (their families) just because some elected official says so. if i were still a soldier, i would take up arms against anyone wanting to cause harm to my family and friends.
make no mistake, lawyers (congress & the courts) will not stand up to tyrants. throwing words at bullets never works. just ask nevill camberlain, the great appeaser to hitler. from what i have read, we should all thank everything good that churchill came along when he did. standing united and strong works, and we have the evidence in history over and over again to confirm it.
these are the obstacles the evil ones must find a way to overcome. if not for the actions of the incompetent ones in fast & furious and benghazi, i doubt most people buying all these guns/ammo would have ever believed this kind of evil was possible, much less already stripping our rights away. these bad guys make a lot of big/little mistakes, don’t they?
maybe someday we will find out exactly what really happened in benghazi. i remain hopeful. someday soooooon i’m sure hitlery will fill us in on what certainly didn’t happen.
Until the civil war being waged within the party by the evangelical social reformist cloaked as tea party fiscal conservaties is settled, the GOP has no messasge nor even a plan for anything.
Jan 3 – 4 2013, Rasmussen polling shows 56 percent of voters said the Tea Party became less influential over the past year, and just 8 percent said they identified as part of the Tea Party movement. Other such polls indicated similiar results in the waining popularity of the tea party.
Since 2010 today, the decimated GOP has gone from an orange crate to an egg carton to message from on the street corners of America. Truly a sad situation!
Hey Zeke / Joshua Scholar (#22 and #23)
You are unmasked. Your comments, side by side and 8 minutes apart, using the same questionable data, reveal you as the same person.
ZEKE HAS NO INTEGRITY AND HAS A FAILED ARGUMENT.
If it were otherwise, you woulndn’t need to post under two names.
Too bad really, since you have some writing talent. But like other God-given gifts, each of us is given a choice to use our gifts for good or evil.
I can only feel sorry for you and your conspiratist mind. You took all the time to calculate times of similiar commented postings and more time to calculate a conspiracy of posting under two different names only to be — completely incorrect! How very, very sad!
Fraud.
I’d like to remind you clowns something about so called “conservatives”
In 2010 24% of Americans were members of the Tea Party, more than half of all Republicans.
That number is down to 8%.
Republicans have gotten to know you and rejected your message.
You should think about that and grow up. Maturity isn’t your watchword now, and you aren’t even aware of your position in the world, you don’t even admit your own failures.
It won’t matter if 24%, or 51%, or 99% of the nation thinks just like you.
Because if the last four years have proven anything beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is that Barack Obama has provided a grave disservice to the future of this country. You can no longer cover for Barack Obama’s gross incompetence at managing this country, from finance to foreign policy to the idiocy of post-racial President.
What you are witnessing is the country being torn apart, swirling the toilet, most likely to fade into oblivion without radical change just the opposite direction of what your Dear Leader imposes.
Now if that’s what you’re seeking, congratulations. But you little man, are the party of abject failure, no matter the majority you garner. And I don’t care your connections, you will share in the consequences of your poor decisions. And you will find that Barack Obama will be neither capable or willing to save you. You can relish the idea Dear Leader won’t be suffering with you…for a time.
Frankly, you’re too ignorant to recognize that you are cutting off your nose to spite your face. The bleeding will be well deserved concerning your account.
He gets his jollies when people respond to him, you know.
“What you are witnessing is the country being torn apart, swirling the toilet…”
Tex, you are ever so right to only a certain degree! The nation is being torn apart, not by a central government. The nation is being torn apart and perpetuated by a minority special interest extemist group within the GOP for which the majority of the nation and GOP are rejecting. Furthermore, this group of extemmists have inflamed the many other special interest groups of the nation and as a whole they rise up to leverage political and social advantage.
The black special intrest groups rise up using the GOP extremist platform as justification of reviving racial divide. Corrupted labor unions rise up using the extremes platform to divide neighbors in labor.
The GOP extremists platform of overthrowing a tyrannical government has most of the nation becoming more inflamed and divided.
The GOP extremists platform of dumping the infirmed, elderly and those in despair to the curb has inflamed and created a generaltional divide. And on down the line. It is the extemes dividing the nations people and government and not the government as is their mantra.
Another delusional narcissist.
Mark Levin is fully engaged and battling on all fronts, excellent segment, please share it, he never hesitates to call out the Leftists in power and the squishes in the GOP
http://www.therightscoop.com/mark-levin-i-can-barely-contain-my-fury-at-what-is-going-on-in-this-country/
Duh, there are numerous suits going on concerning voter irregularities having to do with the mathematical impossibilities of the number of actual votes exceeding the number of registered precincts, notably in Michigan, Philly, Boston, and Colorado to name a few. It’s not so much that Romney lost as it is that the game was rigged. OK, forget Philadelphia and the 59 precincts that voted 100% for Barry, all one has to do is watch Parking Wars on A&E and you’ll see who you’re dealing with. Namely the type of people who continually have their vehicles booted and towed to the tune of $350 million per year, all because they can’t figure out to place a coin in a parking meter.
One other item, the important one, is the Liberal media’s unwillingness to vet the current illegal alien in the White House, even disregarding his insistence at various times in the past 2 decades that he was not born in America. We will however have a resolution to this fact one day when Barry has to appear before a Judge and once he’s up on that stand – or perhaps giving a deposition – he will no longer be able to joke about not having a birth certificate, as the voluminous evidence already exists, starting with the Cold Case Posse comprised of law enforcement who are sworn to uphold the law, who have irrefutable proven that Barry’s birth certificate and draft card are phonies. Add to it the fact that he told his literary agent that he was born in Kenya, and compound it by his admission, available currently on Youtube, that “I am not an American, I was born in Kenya, not Hawaii”. His own Grandmother, (not the one whom he insisted was a “typical white woman who would cross the street if a black man approached”) insisted that she was in the room in Kenya when he was born. His own wife said on one of their 17 vacations, this time to Kenya, that Barry was glad to be back in his homeland. All of these people, including Barry himself, are now lying, and he was actually born in Hawaii? It all defies logic.
Me, I can’t wait for the day that he is sworn in by a court official and sits down in the chair and faces the lawyer for whatever crime has brought him to that point. And I hope the first question posed to him by counsel is, “In your own estimation, what would your Grandmother have done if a half-black man had approached her on the street?”
#11 thom
I respectfully disagree with that prediction of the end result, but not about how things will go for the next 3 years. In the absence of a resistance by what technically is supposed to be the “Opposition”, but in fact is just another wing of the Nomenklatura, in the absence of the other two branches drawing lines to defend the Constitution, in the absence of a concerted and successful effort to restore integrity to our voting and vote counting system; elections are not going to be germane to how our government is run. That is for 2014, 2016, and perhaps beyond.
Daily we are assaulted by new horrors from the White House and its sycophants. And they are not answered. And we know that every unanswered provocation just encourages the next. We, as a nation, have had 148 years of complacent experience with the assumption that politics will stay within certain constitutional and civil bounds. We do not want to believe it, but we are being forced outside those bounds. And from the history of the last century, the distance we can be forced to go is far more sanguinary than we can yet imagine. Our imagination is about to be stretched in the absence of resistance.
The media and our elites are dedicated to business as usual, said business being highly profitable at our expense.
But this dedication-at-all-costs does not extend to those in flyover country. I am active politically, and so are most of my circle of close friends. Today I went to a local grocery store. I casually know clerks, managers, pharmacists, butchers, etc. The most common topics of conversation between them, and not only myself but also other customers who were very active in the discussions were the 2nd Amendment, the price of ammunition, and …. militias. I have never seen anything like this before.
Nothing goes on forever. Eventually, everything reaches a limit; either soft or hard. The soft limit to government misconduct is an active and aware political system and the rule of law. That has failed. But that does not mean that there will not be an eventual limit. Or that there is any guarantee who will prevail.
Subotai Bahadur
“Churchill — We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…”
Now that there is funny material! I don’t recall him trading in his cigars for a uniform and a rifle and fighting in any trenches. I think theres a good moral line to this but I shall refrain.
Actually he did in WWI. Interestingly he seemed to be able to more or less come and go as he pleased and lived “as befitted his station” but uniform up and see the trenches he did.
The fact that you think there is some “moral line” is merely a testimonial to the fact that you’re an illiterate lefty idiot. Churchill saw combat in India and Africa and acquitted himself quite well. By the time he uttered those famously inspirational words as PM, most men his age, 65 or so as I recall, were in their dottage.
Likewise Mr. Intellect, you miss the point! Political war mongers are meddlers and imperialists, especially British war mongers, for whom the U.S. has a long and ever increasing history of sleeping with. Churchill became a political imperialist war monger — a war monger you and some Americans idolize! I don’t!
Imperialism = The policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries.
Well, the post-WWII World has graphically demonstrated that most of the Empire, as well as some other empires, was much better off under British governance than the native kleptocracies. Even our own independence from England wasn’t nearly as independent as we like to make it out to be. In reality, the British lost little but the duty to defend us until the middle of the 19th Century when we began to be something of a maritime and mercantile competitor and we really weren’t much more than a source of natural resources and sometime nuisance to them until the turn of the 19th-20th Centuries. Much of our own agricultural and industrial development was done either by British firms or backed by British capital.
Art, you make several points of reality for which I concur. It doesn’t mean however, that I agree with either strategy or long term consequences. The bottomline is sadly that the Brits have never waivered in their imperialism. They only modified and in the modern world they have the CFR and the U.S. as its prime imperialial ally. The French, on the other hand, abandoned their imperialistic strategy. China hasn’t really raised up any threat indications of imperial land expansion, however, they are currently building modern militaries to become more active at least in defense and a legitimate partner of the high seas in the region. What their future is to be, is subjective at best right now.
The Brits on the other hand, cannot stay out of the business of those nations coming about after release from their pure imperial control. They have the CFR and the U.S. in their bed and so conflict prevails. wherever they and the U.S. have employed their imperial nation building strategies since 1947 we find unrest and conflict in the long term. The most prime example coming home to roost is, of course, the Middle East.
Your displays of ignorance are amusing. Keep posting Z.
Yet another object example of your ignorance of history.
Churchill began his military career in frickin 1895! He’d already been an active participant in shooting wars as well as politics for well over 40 years by the time the British got into WWII.
He was first shot at when he was 21 years old – on his birthday!
Later, in WWI, he VOLUNTEERED to go to the front lines.
I suggest you learn a bit more about the man before you become dismissive of him, and I seriously doubt your own life to date could match his accomplishments or compare to his bravery.
As usual! You miss the point!
Well by all means, if you ever have a sensible point to ponder then whip the little fella out and we’ll all discuss it.
Otherwise, your comments are still coming off as incredibly ignorant.
By the way, speaking of ignorance! If you were actually a student of Wiston you would know that he, himself, was an academic and military disgrace!
Aw, I guess I hit a little too close to home by pointing out the SUCCESSES and BRAVERY he had – which it would appear you are uncomfortable with and therefore means you likely question those qualities within your own life.
I don’t think the First Lord of the Admiralty who converted the British fleet from old fashioned coal over to more modern oil and pushed for modernization of British military forces overall would be considered a military failure.
Given how he lived his life, he certainly can’t be considered a coward.
His strategy at Gallipoli failed, yes, but no plan in war is assured of success and you have to take failures along with successes.
In light of the fact the British decided to bring him back into leadership in WWII when the going really got tough, I’d say even they have a low opinion of your estimation of the man.
Churchill’s primary political problem was he didn’t suffer fools.
I doubt he would look too kindly on an association with the likes of you.
Your folly for Winston is quite apparent. But for his parents nobility status he would have been a nobody and ignored in his life. His very limited ‘successes’ so to speak are mere tiny blips in the accurate record of his doings. But, so many americans have love affairs with fools placed on pedestals by other fools. Seems the founders of America also, had no great love for the British foundations of Winston. In his more mature adulthood he waivered between socialism and whatever opportunistic ideology would most likely give rise to his public appraisal. Most everything he wrote and spoke was fabricated with untruths to lend the best light to his own self appraisal. He was a fool but loved nontheless, only because of the family status he was born into. Very similiar to the generational Kennedy criminal and political family and some of the mob bosses who influenced so much in our social and political reformation in more recent history. Idolize them to your hearts content!
@Zeke – You know, Zeke, it is hard to tell where your craziness takes over from your ignorance and brainwashing. Under “Lefty Idiot,” “Useful Idiot,” and “Fellow Traveller” in the dictionary, your picture appears.
@ Zeke,
If by your definition Churchill was a failure then I can only conclude that you believe he should not have been successful in allying his country with the US, should have rolled over and negotiated with Hitler rather than stood up to him, and should not have made public his very prescient observations regarding the Iron Curtain he saw falling across half of Europe.
Perhaps you should consult a dictionary?
In a nicely ironic twist I spent this day watching the documentary film Gallipoli, in conjunction with my reading of the brilliant biography of Churchill by William Manchester, The Last Lion. Yes he was a flawed man, shocking that! But here is the thing: He learned from his mistakes, just like we all do at our best.
Your POV doesn’t allow that fact into consideration.
Zeke is a fraud.
Michael, like the articles and the attitude. I’m with you.
However in fairness, we need to admit to one truth. Whether Ryan, Romney, Christie, Rubio, Rove – they aren’t the real problem. Any listed no matter the personal foibles or approach are infinitely superior to Barack Obama.
Isn’t it time to admit the real problem is out here? This is an ignorant, uninformed, disinterested, leftist indoctrinated, and gluttonous country – and this problem didn’t just arise circa 2006.
It will take an entire generation to correctly address what ails us – or a national calamity so severe, that people are forced to admit they are weak and they are wrong. And that part that scares me is that no matter our efforts, we may have crossed the Rubicon because we are quickly running out of time.
Michael, like the articles and the attitude. I’m with you.
However in fairness, we need to admit to one truth. Whether Ryan, Romney, Christie, Rubio, Rove – they aren’t the real problem. Any listed no matter the personal foibles or approach are infinitely superior to Barack Obama.
Isn’t it time to admit the real problem is out here? This is an ignorant, uninformed, disinterested, leftist indoctrinated, and gluttonous country – and this problem didn’t just arise circa 2006.
It will take an entire generation to correctly address what ails us – or a national calamity so severe, that people are forced to admit they are weak and they are wrong. And that part that scares me is that no matter our efforts, we may have crossed the Rubicon because we are quickly running out of time.
Supporters of limited government and individual liberty have left some battlegrounds uncontested. First, there are many Democrats who have not faced a serious challenger in decades. Republicans never win in these districts so why waste time and money on a sure loser? Instead, why not try to run some moderate Democrats against hopeless leftists in Democrat primaries? Second, there are many local TV news departments that always come in last in the ratings. Why not buy a few local TV stations and follow the Fox News formula to success. Create local news outlets where conservative voices are neither ignored nor ridiculed and watch ratings rise.
Regarding gun sales and revolution, I don’t see people preparing to overthrow the government. Instead, I see people preparing to protect themselves and their families in the event that government collapses under the weight of debt and incompetence. This video from the 1992 LA Riots show what the guns are for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCiC6qTtjs Despite what the clueless newscasters say, notice how much more peaceful things are in video segments where people are armed.
I have been watching a BBC Documentary – The Nazis: A Warning from History and was struck by the parallels between the chaos, the lawlessness and the ruthless bullying of opponents by this administration and that of Hitler’s in the 1930′s.
True, there isn’t the overt violence or the street marches or the emphasis on the nation but the indolence, incompetence and inability to plan by the leader coupled with the jostling for place and praise by the followers determined to carve out power regardless of the law or factual evidence is very like. Here is what Laurence Rees, the writer and producer says in connection with the murder of a retarded boy who was “not wanted in the Nazi’s perfect state”:
The catalyst that caused his death was a chance letter to Hitler brought to his attention by an ambitious Nazi (the letter was from the boy’s father, asking permission to have the boy put to death). Any idea in this system could with the combination of a leader who spoke in visions and enthusiastic supporters anxious to please could grow radically to an extreme in an instant. This was the way Germany was ruled in the 1930’s. Now the world was about to suffer the consequences of the radical way the decisions were taken in this Hitler state.
Anybody who thinks this president will stand down in 2016 is kidding himself.
“True, there isn’t the overt violence or the street marches ”
Perhaps you should remind yourself of the union violence during their massive street marches in Wisconsin and Michigan. Not to mention that cabal of terrorists called OWS.
Also don’t forget the black “flash mobs” that terrorized many large cities the last 1-2 years. That was just a dress rehearsal for what the regime has in store for us. Those mobs are the “civilian army” Obama campaigned for in 2008.
Conservatives talk, liberals act. Conservatives think if they make their argument air-tight, they have won. Liberals force others to live under their rules and will be for/against X at any moment, whatever is required.
How many thousand more conservatives are going to call up a conservative talk radio host and desperately try to explain why raising taxes in a recession is wrong or why passing another gun law will be ineffective?
Liberals didn’t persuade everybody to agree with them, they passed a law, infiltrated the schools and courts and media, and imposed their will. The Left even publishes their how-to manual and conservatives insist on talking about the details of some policy.
Just how pathetic are conservatives as political brawlers, well more than a few of them have actually be seen describing their plan to pay all of their taxes and comply with all regulatory burdens as “civil disobedience.” If that’s civil disobedience the Left will be very happy for everybody to disobey and forever.
+1 in nearly every respect
We must ACT
Never dawns on the righteous intellectual elite GOP that their opponents are far more intellectual and strategic savvy. Their opponents ‘use’ human nature and the general themes of the Christian Bible as their strongest strategical approach to governance. The GOP intellectuals and radical extremists have their corrupted capitalism and religious hypocrisy as their only strong suites these days. Thus, its not to difficult to pick the winners from the losers, short term or long term. Probably 95% or more of chruches side with ‘liberal’ democrats on social issues, the constitution and individual responsibility with only one exception. Those churches remain moot on capitalism, economic and fiscal discipline the only stong suites of the GOP.
The national population demgraphics and values are changing fast as the GOP works hard with its radical extreme component, to further isolates itself from all these changes. Stupid should hurt — and it will!
Lazy and thieving should hurt, and it WILL.
You’re probably right! Producing such a society, I’m sure, will be claimed a production of government — right? How sad!
It’s a toxic side-effect of (relative) wealth and ease. When people are nurtured the exact opposite of Spartans, a certain percentage, (much larger than normal) act the exact opposite, dishonorable, cowardly, lazy and thieving.
A certain percentage of every population will always gravitate toward positive functionality no matter their education, due to their inherited nature. The rest will eat the lotus of official ignorance because of THEIR nature.
That perfect storm of nature and nurture produces some of the least educated, most self adsorbed, useless, skill-less, selfish crybabies ever seen en mass since the 1912 Hapsburg Christmas party. In this case about 100,000,000 of them.
And YES, it can be blamed largely on a system that rewards incompetence, general idiocy and sloth over generations.
Walsh, you are preaching to the choir. For more information on the dire state of our Republic check out freedomfiels.blogspot.com Lord Howard Hurts
I am coming to the conclusion that the New World Order either owns both sides or at least the Republicans are too corrupt to really care. I’m about to give up on Republicans at the national level. We elect Republicans for Prezzy, Speaker, and take to the House of Reps. And do things change. No, the march is always leftward. Bush: NCLB, prescriptions drugs, and the “Patriot Act”. Oh and don’t forget the grab and gropers at the TSA. So what to do?
I am going to redirect my money to the State level. I am going to double my support to the National Right To Work Committee, support a gun lobby, and the Republicans in a light red or purple state. The corrections will not come about at the federal level. There is too much lobbying money against anyone who wants to take money away from anything already in the budget. And why not? Chase Bank makes a fortune off SNAP Cards, O’Dismal supporters get play money for their pet “green” projects and Warren Buffoon gets to preen about taking the rich, all the while he sells life insurance to them out with taxes.
Get ready for the crash by getting more state governments in the “red” column, so they can drive the changes.
“Those crickets would be the American people, just itching for a fight with Obama and the Democrats but finding no one to lead them.”
Bull. 51% of the American people showed their preferences quite clearly by voting for Obama.
Stop thinking that the majority is just itching for a leader to fight the Lieberals. They *are* Lieberals.
Ummm, 51% of the voting public. Did 100% of people eligible to vote vote? I think not. Thus, less than 51% of the american people voted for Ofumble.
After 2012, I’ve learned my lesson. I will not vote in any election again. Why waste my time fighting for a party that will not fight for itself. It is like betting on the New Jersey Generals to defeat the Harlem Globetrotters. There were so many opportunities for the republicans to bring the fight to the democrats, call out their failures, call out Obama’s shady, radical associations, call out their foreign policy disasters, etc. Attack, attack, attack. But like country club cowards, the republicans decided to bring featherswords to a gun fight, and allowed months to go by where the democrats defined Romney as the devil incarnate, a rich woman hating racist vulture capitalist who hates the poor and gives people cancer. Republicans are great at destroying each other, but will not raise their voices at the neo communist in the White House, left they be seen as racist or mean. What Obama wants, Obama gets. Don’t expect any republican to put up a fight for their constituents. They would rather roll over and die than mount an effective challenge. With all the evidence of voter fraud and voting machine irregularities in 2012, where was the challenge by the GOP ? If Obama decided to confiscate all guns tomorrow, you think the republicans would fight? But if a republican decided to ban partial birth abortion, you betcha that every democrat would be screaming about a republican war on women that will send them back to back alley coat hanger abortions! The dems will indulge even the most extreme leftists in their ranks, while republicans will only indulge their desire to get a bit more crumbs from the democrat gravy train.
“After 2012, I’ve learned my lesson. I will not vote in any election again.”
If you want to wave the white flag of surrender, do it privately. No need to post here. Then, go move to France where you will be more comfortable. This is America. Here, we fight for our liberty. We do not ask for the company of timid souls, and wish you well, but do not spread your contagion here.
Quit confusing fighting with voting. You will vote, we will fight. You will waste your time. We may die, but we will NOT be wasting our time. You moderns with your one tool, your mouth, come to believe every problem is a conversation, solvable by talk.
All the common man has to do is wait for this administration to start the war, and they will. Obama is too stupid to listen the experts hes got, currently they are telling him he cant win a civil war without the destruction of America’s infrastructure. Obama doesn’t care, he’s rolling with it. You flap your gums at posters here who appear to have a better grip on whats going on then you do. your take on things are decades out of date.
On the day before the election, Michael Walsh was predicting a Romney landslide. If he now says Romney “predictably lost,” it either means that he does not think highly of his own prediction or perhaps tacitly acknowledges that his own prediction was a lie.
In fact, in that past column, Mr. Walsh predicted: “Romney’s upper Midwest strategy pays off when bellwether Wisconsin pays back the Democrats for their recall treachery and delivers the state to the GOP.”
So back then, he thought Romney had a good strategy. But now he says that “we didn’t fight”?
It’s typical of losers that they try to rationalize their defeat by saying “Well, we didn’t really try,” or “Our opponents cheated!” It’s a lot harder to admit to ourselves that we got outsmarted and outfought.
Geeeeezzzz! You ain’t possibly contending that the intellectual elite — ain’t so intellectually elite, are you?
True enough, but you left out the rest of the statement — “On Wednesday, the stock market goes up 300 points. Hiring booms. Flowers bloom. Pretty girls smile again. The sun comes out” — which was meant as a light-hearted response to a site-wide prediction request. Still: guilty; I too fell victim to the GOP’s internally cooked books, which had numbers showing Romney much stronger than he turned out to be. For a fuller assessment of Romney’s deficiencies as a candidate, please google my columns on him in the New York Post, at NRO, and here at PJ.
For the record, though, I am still surprised at the loss of Wisconsin, which is a testimony to just how bad the Romney campaign was — all the motivated infrastructure in the world, and a terrible candidate who inspired nobody.
“I too fell victim to the GOP’s internally cooked books…”
Thats to ones persoanl faults, following some idolized fellow(s) and his cronies who come out of the kitchen just long enough to appear on FNC to broadcast their lies. Anybody with a two-digit IQ knew the election was over just watching the primary and general debates and what was going on in the tea party controlled states. How close the contest was, is relatively, irrelevant. It was the GOP’s to run away with and they didn’t even get a heads ahead at any point. Add to this, a divided and decimated party with no messaging, what rational thinking perosn would give them winning odds?
While Hew Hewitt waking up may be a good sign, too many on the right want to believe that Republican leaders are doing just swell and people should just get off their back. This “the establishment is always right” mindset seemed to fossilize somewhere during Bush 43′s public relations disaster of a presidency. The purveyors of this mindset have now come up with a new montra to explain all, “The American people got the government they voted for.” This, apparently, is an excuse for Republicans to eschew trying to change people’s minds, by doing things like opening their mouths and arguing, criticizing and denouncing as appropriate. Since they don’t want to do that, and just constantly cut their losses by pretending Democrats are reasonable and negotiating with them, the conservative opinion makers are glad to opine that that is exactly what they should be doing. Opinion makers should instead be a constant thorn in the Republican establishment’s side until it starts being a constant thorn in the left’s side.
To say conservatives aren’t willing to fight is completely bogus.
There was a LOT Of energy, as evidenced by the Tea Party movement, and a LOT of people couldn’t wait to vote against Obama in the last election.
The problem was in the leadership of the Republican party.
They say a fish rots from the head down, and it’s true of political parties as well. I watched Karl Rove turn easy elections into squeakers the entire time Bush was in office – and he’s the kind of guy the leadership looks to for advice!
Any organization, in order to be effective, needs leadership. We just don’t have that in the party right now, and it’s a long festering issue that’s been ignored to our detriment.
Take Obamacare, for instance. That individual mandate was originally an idea of a so-called “conservative” think tank!
Obamacare is the most deeply unpopular government program ever (except maybe for the military draft), yet the Republican party sends out the guy who implemented Romneycare as their standard bearer!
WTF???!!!????
I drug my butt to the polling places, and enthusiastically voted against Obama.
Instead of bothering with the political process anymore, I am wondering if my time in the future might be better spent focusing on getting my family into a safe position to weather the coming storm.
I am not a Ron Paul supporter – I think he caused damage in his own way by his actions that undermined everyone’s efforts in that election. But I would definitely consider Rand Paul, and would honestly prefer Palin.
Christie ain’t nothing but an overweight version of Romney. Rubio gets squishy too easily. Jindle is still a lightweight and doesn’t inspire people to follow him.
Anyone who wants to criticize Palin as a choice needs to explain first why the last two choices the party made were so much better!
Perhaps it’s time to get Palin at the top of the ticket? It is a fact she could not have done worse than who did run, and she may even have won had she been the choice.
After all, the left ran a radical leftists that SHOULD NOT have won in the first place – but that candidate appealed to the core base of that party and held them together and won as the opposition was fractured.
If the right runs a candidate who can clearly articulate freedom for the individual and smaller government based on the Constitution, rather than technocratic punditry intended to make the machine run just a little bit longer, then maybe – just maybe – the right can coalesce around someone they actually agree with and feel good about voting for!
The GOP is the problem. It has consistently served to block the “passing lane” for any true opposition to the ruling class elite in DC. I am convinced they have merely pretended to support conservative causes–never mind social issues. (as if the inner city issues aren’t an economic issue)
I have watched their consistent appearance of ineptness and have long concluded that they merely play games. The left pretends to help the poor, the right pretends to support the constitution (though noticeably silent when the Catholic church and all religious freedom is openly attacked.)
It’s a charade. They are not inept-which is the greatest sham excuse ever. Don’t blame us, we tried….
I suspect that the ruling class has gone too far and soon we will see history repeating is saddest self. Bad days are just ahead–the inevitable result of dumping our God, who alone gives us our rights and sane direction for living.
Normally I read all the comments before I post. However, this time I skipped to the end. Churchill was a fighter. Most photo’s of Winston show him as PM of England at age 65+; the pictures don’t show the vigor and intensity of the great man. Churchill had looked into the face of evil; he knew who Hitler was, he knew who Stalin was and the damage Marxism and Leftism did to humanity. That’s why Obama hates Churchill and had his bust sent back to the British Embassy.
Yes, we must prepare for 2016, but our candidate won’t be Jeb Bush. It will likely be Gov Chris Chritie. Gov Chistie proved his mettle dealing with Hurricane Sandy and it’s aftermath. he’s a tough, smart political street fighter willing to confront, challange and take down opponents.
Hillary take note…
You’re trippin.
Christie is Arlen Spector with blubber.
If he doesnt party-switch I’ll be VERY surprised. Christie had a large hand in obamas re-election, WHY would you vote for him?
Rand Paul Has A Plan To Force Obama’s Hand On The Debt Ceiling  Jan. 10, 2013
http://www.businessinsider.com/debt-ceiling-rand-paul-obama-spending-2013-1
Chris Christie is a big Agenda 21 supporter. Don’t put your faith in him. It wouldn’t surprise me if he did the photo op with O’Dismal to help push him over the finish line. There are traitors and treachery all around.
I got no good feeling from reading “We didn’t fight.” I’ll grant you the leadership failed but to say they didn’t fight would be a disservice. The thing was neck and neck for months. You don’t get that kind of result from not fighting. I agree, Romney should have won in a cakewalk. There are more than half the voters who indicated otherwise.
The failure is in leadership, not in fighting spirit. The Republicans are for the same big government as the Democrats. The Democrats want the social entitlement half to grow. They’re Socialists. Republicans want the crony capitalist half to grow. They’re fascist. Oh yes they are, as a party.
The Democratic voter hates the fascist, crony capitalists. The Republican voters hate that too and the socialism of the left. We’re split. They aren’t. Conservatives MUST abandon the Republican party. It is contolled and bankrolled by proponents of big government involvement in business. It can’t be overtaken in time to go to step two and stop socialism from wrecking the country. Further, fascist and socialists seem to get along just fine as long as they can tax you to death and beyond.
There are “alternatives”. For example, removing “government” from medicine would mean no prescription laws, doctors no longer have monopoly control over medical drugs as they do now. No more unnecessary office visits or lab tests that do nothing but put money in the doctor’s pocket. Effectively the “professions” are all “unionized” just like the auto workers in Detroit. They use lobbyists to get Congress to “carve out” special privileges and monopolies for themselves that cost hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Then controlling “where” our tax money goes takes that power out of the hands of Congress. How many people would vote to send their tax money to support wasteful government agencies that for the most part are composed of unionized civil service workers who have the power to do almost anything they want? The Constitution does not give the federal government anywhere close to the regulatory powers it has seized for itself. Repeal of the commerce clause would also prevent “Uncle Sam” from doing many of the things that there is no Constitutional justification to do!
In thinking about how the so-called “conservative” movement has foundered in this last election (not agreeing totally with it, look at the state governments right now), I got to thinking about where support from both sides comes from.
Now, when I refer to “conservative”, I’ll admit to being a little bit sloppy as my views are more conservative/libertarian oriented and I just want things to abide by a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
When I say “liberal”, I’m basically referring to the socialists/leftists amongst us.
Now, with that explanation out of the way, where does each side regenerate its support from?
I’d say those on the political right get their support from the school of hard knocks and life in general.
Nothing like trying to stretch a paycheck to make one wonder at the amount in taxes being yanked out that affords our dear leader the vacationing lifestyle he has become accustomed to while we weigh a choice between hot dogs and balogna sandwiches for supper and the news broadcasts a story about someone getting a free obamaphone.
So where does the left regenerate its support from?
I’d suggest that the left in this country is constantly getting a new crop of supporters via the basic and higher education establishment in this country.
They spoon feed the kids all through K-12 whatever the latest dogma is (global warming?), then when they go to college (you know they HAVE to go to college to get a job) they are further brain washed to have certain social views.
In the end, you have an overeducated young person who really doesn’t have a firm grasp on life’s lessons who at the same time wants to identify with the “in” group and the “cool” kids.
As such, they vote for socialist policies because they’ve been taught their whole lives by authority figures as to what to believe.
Reality, however, can be a real b#tch when it comes up and bites them in the a$$ in their later years. Unfortunately, by that time the education system has already created new generations of replacment voters.
The challenge, if “conservative” leadership feels up to it, is to break that cycle.
You may call me naive but the only way this nation is going to be run well is if we pray to God without ceasing to help us rid ourselves of this obama scourge and then we put God first in this country. We have nothing to lose and God will help us if we ask Him.
Katinka is on to something, actually, the only SOMETHING. Evil always wins. While the innocent naive young girls goes to school/work, stops at Starbucks, giggles with friends at the mall, the rapist stalks, plans, schemes for weeks, maybe months before he pounces. While fatuous, humanist nitwits like Neville Chamberlain and FDR, piddled and twiddled and mouthed cliches about “peace in our time”, Hitler plotted every step of his terror upon Europe. That is precisely how the Left took over a free people of the freest nation in history, with conservative values and imposed their toxic, corrosive, Statist ideology and values upon us.
yet all is not lost. Those that remember, it wasn’t that different in the 60-70′s. The same totalitarian crowd was on the rise, taking over the schools, the media, the streets while decent Americans just cowered and shook their heads and went back to watching, “The Beverly Hillbillies.” But somebody called out to the God Who Hears. And subversively, almost undetected, millions of us youth, lost in drugs and the Leftist ideology we were being brainwashed into by our elites, suddenly found ourselves overwhelmed by a power we had not known or even knew existed – the love of God. For those that remember the Jesus Movement, will remember how millions of youth left the Borg, the Leftist culture and ideology, and became fervent Christians. WE elected Ronald Reagan, and held off the disaster…until now. Time to pray again. there is no other way, my friends.
I called the election for Obama. I am no fool. Many on the right lost their heads, I kept mine.
Until the conservatives of this country, see the Republicans, as great an enemy to the country as the Demomcrats, then they can all got to hell and die.
We must form a NEW polictical party, the first tenet of is this: if you are A Democrat, or a Republican, THEN YOU ARE NO AMERICAN.
Conservatives must realize, and start behaving, as a persecuted minority. Because that’s what they are.
The Libertarians have a good idea…pick a state, take it over.
Our forefathers braved machine gun fire for freedom, will you be brave enough to move?
I nominate, North Carolina, and Texas, as bastions of American freedom! New Hampshire is for the Libertarians, should they want it.
We need banks, armorys, official resistance to the Federal tyranny. We need safe houses, safe states, for our future warriors.
We need, most of all, THE WILL TO POWER.
We need, most of all, organization. If I should go to jail for the cause, who will take care of my family? Who will hire me afterwards?
What business, will hire only CONSERVATIVE employees?
We need FREE STATES. We need STATE NATIONAL GUARDS.
We do not need, a large army. A very small force, is all that is needed, as long as it is backed by the people. People, who fear the Lord, but not the enemy!
Speaking of the Lord…a long, pointless, and very stupid war has been waged these ten years past. Pointless, by any worldy standard.
The veterans come home, experienced in fighting, and the methods of modern warefare, and intelligence. For what purpose, have they fought? Their skills are useless now.
But, all these military men, and women, now back…there is the hand of God in this, I think.
“I nominate, North Carolina, and Texas, as bastions of American freedom! New Hampshire is for the Libertarians, should they want it.”
New Hampshire is for Independents.
New Hampshire is for guns and against taxes; is pro-gay marriage, and anti-Massachusetts.
New Hampshire bitch-slapped Conservatives hard this election.
There is a lesson for you here, should you want it.
You seem to be unaware of whats going on in NH. look it up, Libertarians, and NH.
The point Zeke misses is that Churchill won.
After the fall of Singapore and the Battle of Dunkirk, Japan and Germany had every advantage; the British had none. Remarkably, the English Prime Minister rallied his people and lived to see the unconditional surrender of his nation’s enemies.
Take heart. Those who dwell in darkness have often prevailed when all hope seemed to be lost. God may one day soon raise up another Churchill, Reagan or Gideon who will lead the fight against His enemies.
You can consider yourself, winner! That out of the way, what you insist on missing and or ignoring is the Fact that the Brits have a few centurines of history as political imperialist war mongers. Fact two. The U.S. is bedfellows along with those of the CFR with the British political imperialist war mongers and nation buillders. Name a global conflict, post WWII, in which they haven’t been central too in either back channels or overtly.
Since the origins of the UN and its five permanent security member nations, it has exclusively been the U.S. and the UK who have actively pursued nation building and war/armed conflict, around the globe. The U.S. has willingly, almost eagerly, carried the vast majority of economic cost and for certain the greatest costs of lives lost and lives maimed. A strategy and costs that have not produced a single instances of long term resolution — only long term eventual conflict. Everybody who rejects their nation building efforts finds themselves the subjects of political and economic sanctions. Russia, France and China only agree when their is some signficant economic or treaty deal offered from the U.S. and the UK, to their benefit. Otherwise, its the U.S. and UK by themselves, attempting to forcing nations of the world to submit to their every whim.
Imperialism!
Winston Churchill had zero interest in capitalism or anything economics. He was an imperialist war monger! An imperialist war monger both the Brits and the U.S. foolishly idolize.
You do nothing but further substantiate either your ignorance – or your foollishness – with every post.
You clearly are brainwashed about Churchill……but I don’t believe the uprisings in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1992 were aimed at England.
Those uprisings were aimed at throwing off Soviet control.
That wall separating East and West Germany was not to keep the English influence out .
That wall was to keep those trying to escape the Soviet brand of commmunism in.
The US and Britain didn’t try to overturn the government of every nation in Asia.
That was the Chinese and Soviets.
South Korea didn’t invade North Korea – it was the other way around.
South Vietnam didn’t invade North Vietname – it was the other way around as well.
The current troubles in Afghanistan can be directly traced back to the USSR invading that country and toppling it’s historical government. A government that had been in place for a very long time.
When they finally pulled out, they left an unmitigated mess the results of which we are still dealing with today!
The Soviets set up arms factories all over the world as a standard part of their so-called foreign aid. Those AK’s will be around a loooong time….
China, that last major communist power, has pi$$ed off their neighbors to the point the nations of Asia are creating a self defence alliance to deal with Chinese belligerance.
I guess they might as well, I doubt Obammer would stand up to his communist idols……
Crack a real book open once in a while and you might find out just how little you really know!
You represent the problem with todays self proclaimed intellectuals who have no points of reference other than what you read in a book by one who interprets according to their own ideological bend. For example, how many ‘books’ have you read about Winston that was not authored by a Brit or an American? Then you miss the simplest of things to find even on the internet such as: “An element of British public and political sentiment favoured a negotiated peace with Germany, among them Halifax as Foreign Secretary, but Churchill refused to consider an armistice.” “Although Churchill’s role in the Second World War had generated much support for him amongst the British population, he was defeated in the 1945 election. Many reasons for this have been given, key among them being that a desire for post-war reform was widespread amongst the population and that the man who had led Britain in war was not seen as the man to lead the nation in peace.” I could provide endless examples of the ‘behind-the-back’ two-faced, imperialist war monger Chruchill.
You must be a really young one aside from bein brainwashed! Explain if you can, precisely how, the “domino-theory” came about and why. Then try to rationalize and explain the difference between it and UK, U.S. and CFR nation building strategy beginning essentially in 1947. Again, if you can, rationalize and explain how such strategies conform to our constitution. Idolizing an imperialist war mogering Brit in developing our foreign relations strategies post WWII has seen NO long term benefit and has driven arms races globally, and today widespread global unrest and conflicts. You’re in way over your head kiddo!
If communism is to be so feared, why do we station troops around the world to combat it, but essentially ignore its spread from Cuba to South America in our own hemisphere? If the cold war is over and Westeners accept that communism/socialism is a failed and self defeating force geopolitcally why does the U.S. and UK continue its own failed nation building containment strategies around the world at a horrible cost of treasure and blood? Digging past all the fluff of the CFR organization, what do you ‘really’ know about it? The ONLY time that their strategy has been remotely correct was about Vietnam in which the U.S. government and State Department rejected.
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” ”
Enough with the soaring rhetoric. We aren’t bearing any burden,a nd we cannot afford any price. It sounds nice; it’s nonsense. There’s a tradeoff to everything.
We’re broke.The feds cannot keep their promises.
These insane wars, while not the only reason, have been a disaster.
There are 2 different conversations going on, and many on the left as well as much of the DC GOP don’t get it yet. We have the political/media orbit still talking about the merits of Obama his party, and the flaws of Romney and the GOP.This is window dressing, worrying about whether your faucet is leaking while your house is engulfed in flames.It might have mattered in the past, it doesn’t matter now in our time of $16 trillion debt.
But beyond that many of us grasp it’s so much bigger. We’re on the cusp of fiscal disaster. And the politcal/media orb doesn’t want to deal with this bigger issue. And worse we have a president who will not deal with these issues or is knowingly breaking things. And it’s clear he will demonize, attack, marginalize and destroy anyone who dares discuss this.
Let me tell you this-my mom woke up on Ocotber 30th to find her house burned to the ground in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. It was devastating. We all someday soon are going to have such a day, very collectively, very soon abesnt somebody standing up for fiscl sanity.
You cannot borrow on this scale long term. We are fast approaching the the debt service causing real damage and harm. It didn’t work for the Romans, nor the Brits nor the French after WWI, nor Weimar Germany, nor the Soviets, nor Galtieri’s Argentina. It doesn’t work.
The trillion dollar coin is in fact magical thinking run amok. And in fariness the “growth” idea is magical thinking. along it’s corollary about the percentage of debt to GDP. Lawrence Kudlow says much the same-wrong-thing often. Growth is wonderful, but to get out of this mess the level of growth would have to match that of the 1950s times 2 or even 3. And there is no way America can hope for that kind of growth. It was a special set of circumstances which cannot be replicated.
Things have to get cut. We can either do that sensibly now, as Canada under a liberal government did not long ago. Or we can do them in a panic like Greece. Obama is putting this country on the path to Greece.
Obama thrives on crisis rather than stability. First day of economics class we were taught what an economy needs more than anything else for businesses to thrive is stability; tomorrow will be like today, so you can plan. When we have crisis afetr crisis after crist, nobody can plan long term. Not only is growth unlikely on the scale you hope for because it’s unrealistic, under President Obama the things we need for business growth are by his rule precluded.
Simply nobody can borrow 40 cents of every dollar they spend forever. If a Republican toyed with something as insane as the trillion dollar coin, he would rightly be institutionalized. But the media is too busy dropping rose petals onto Obama’s path instead of asking any hard questions sbout how he will address this. We have a spending problem,and Obama has no plan at all.