Some rather funny stuff here by PJMedia’s Roger L. Simon. Every time I think of that guy and his funny hat, I think of this scene from the Three Stooges short, "Disorder in the Court.":
Tag: politics
UPDATED — Memo to Megan McArdle: No, No and No.
UPDATE: See the UPDATE BELOW!
Megan McArdle the Libertarian Party’s version of Ann Coulter, a privileged white woman, who grew up in a wealthy family; and has the narrow world view to show for it. Thinks that the only way for the GOP to be able to win election, is by becoming more like the Libertarian Party. Here are some snippets from her so-called advice for the GOP:
I think the obvious place to start is with immigration reform. Increase the number of visas available. Explore guest-worker programs. Establish a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who were brought here as children and have never known any other home. This not only gives the GOP a shot at the Latino vote, but also softens their image in the eyes of the professional class, who might be willing to give the party another look if it didn’t seem so committed to deporting poorer, darker skinned people who just want a shot at picking fruit, trimming lawns, and cleaning houses.
The GOP would also help itself with those people by embracing gay marriage. To be sure, this might cause them some problems with the evangelical base whose organizing support is crucial to Republican get-out-the-vote efforts. But the GOP could assuage that tension by promulgating a hard-core, Republican version of gay and straight marriage. That’s why they should pair it with making marriage mandatory, and eliminating no-fault divorce. The message should be that if everyone can get married, then there’s no really excuse not to be. Oh, I know, the divorce changes might cause friction with the kind of Republicans who go through wives the way other men go through undershirts, but this seems like a small price to pay for a shot at the 1-3% of the electorate that is eligible for gay marriage.
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For example, they need to stop the demented focus on tax cuts, and start putting their energy into closing the budget deficit. Their first step should be a revenue-raising tax simplification. Polls show that Americans care about the deficit, and of course, so will markets if we don’t do anything about it. So eliminate the corporate income tax, and tax capital gains and dividends as ordinary income. Get rid of all the tax deductions: charitable donations, mortgage interest, child tax credit, subsidies for buying Priuses and installing insulation in your house. Add in a hefty carbon tax to curb the negative externalities of our out-of-control carbon emissions.
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This is also the time that Republicans need to really rethink Social Security: means testing benefits for the very richest recipients, like Warren Buffett; reducing the disincentives to work, like the fact that benefits are taxed at a higher rate if you have other income; raising the retirement age for everyone. This may encounter some resistance from the AARP, but the GOP should counter the way Paul Ryan did with his innovative Medicare plan, saying that this is not about cutting benefits, but about ensuring that the program is still there for future generations.
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And they can seal the deal by embracing drug legalization. This country’s drug laws are a moral outrage, an economic disaster for poor neighborhoods, and a major factor in the very expensive growth of the mass incarceration state. The passage of marijuana legalization initiatives in two states shows that this can be a winning issue if it’s handled right. The GOP should be leading, not following. Tell the youth of America that at last, there’s someone willing to support their constitutional right to get high. It’s no longer necessary to fight for your right to party. The Party will do it for you.
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So, yes, the GOP should try to expand it’s base, by becoming the Democratic Party-lite and try to emulate the Libertarian Party’s idiotic position on open borders, pander to the faggots, raise taxes on the wealthy, give dope to the pothead. 
…..And this blonde-headed dingle berry bitch gets paid to write this stuff? Just who the hell does she think she’s kidding? I have never been a big fan of Mark Levin, I have always found his voice to be annoying, and plus, he is a protected minority, which is why he gets away with what he does. But, in this case; he is absolutely correct. All of this blather above, is just nothing more than moderate B.S. that is touted by people who want the GOP to be popular, like the Democratic Party. Which will never happen, because the liberal controlled media will never allow that to happen at all. Plus too, the Democratic Party gives people stuff, like handouts and that is what makes them popular. Case in point: Social Security, Medicare and so on.
Then there is this stupidity:
Tall people, for example, have had their civil rights violated for years, with no party willing to stand up against the rampant injustices that afflict us. Women’s clothes are almost never made in tall sizes, forcing us to wear dresses with waistlines pitched 5 inches too high, and pants that terminate mid-calf. This causes social isolation and also, makes us a figure of fun to small children.
Greedy airlines cram extra seats into airplanes by shortening legroom, until we are forced to take advanced geometry classes just to figure out how to fold ourselves into our seat. This is why 18 of the top 20 origami experts in the world are tall people.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Kitchen counters are too low for us to work comfortably, desks and tables are practically designed to make us bang our knees, basement ceilings scrape the tops of our heads. Millions of tall Americans suffer these indignities silently, because there has been no one to give us voice. The GOP can become that voice by making People of Height a protected category under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
And don’t forget foodies. Our access to ingredients like black truffles and Iberian ham is severely limited by the vagaries of the market, which has made these hard-to-find foods very expensive. The FDA should be given the authority to regulate such price gouging, enabling hard-working average foodies to produce the kinds of dishes that are now almost exclusively the province of top chefs. Of course, we won’t get very far without the kind of equipment those chefs have access to. Unfortunately, their equipment, like their high quality ingredients, is currently unaffordable for working families. That’s why the Republicans need to get behind a $5,000 annual refundable tax credit for the purchase of high end stoves, Sub-Zero refrigerators, sous vide machines and other expensive kitchen gadgets.
Well, Megan, why don’t you ask your multi-millionaire, construction company owning Father to buy you a private Jet, so you can have a damn comfy seat on a private plane! While you are at it, ask to him to buy you all the rest of that dumb idiotic stuff that you listed up there, so people like me, won’t have to listen you damned whine and cry; because the world does not cater to your every damned little whim! 
While you are at it, little miss rich white girl; you might want to invest in a halfway decent computer, with a damned spell check feature, because I just had to spell checked and corrected three of the most idiotic and stupid spelling errors, that only maybe an eighth grader would make! But, yet, you get paid by that broad that owns Newsweek and the Daily Beast to write such idiotic tripe. I am high school dropout, and even I know to spell check an article before hitting publish. No worries, I spell checked your quotes here, I at least want you to look like you know what the hell you are talking about, even though, you really do not.
Also too, I just want to make it known; this is not about class warfare. McArdle is a product of her environment, as am I. She came from a wealthy family, I come from a tough inner city, blue-collar, working class family. Hence the attitude and the mouth. I do not fault her for her background at all; what I do fault her for, is her idiotic and asinine assertion that the Republican Party ought to sell out its principles to become more like the Democratic Party in a foolhardy attempt to become more popular with the public. Like I wrote before, we do not need the stupid vote; and this right here, is why we do not.
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Update: Well, now that I have made a complete ass of myself; I guess I should point that out. 
As they would say, in southwest Detroit and on the eastside of Detroit — “Whitey got played!” Yes, it seems that Megan was trying to be funny. Good ol’ doctor obvious here, didn’t catch the humor, how stupid it might have been. I should have known better, but I didn’t. 
Thanks to Bill Quick for pointing this out. I’ll leave the posting up, so people can laugh at my stupidity, including me! 
But, she still spelled stuff wrong! So, there! Nyah! 😛
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Video: Jack Hunter says “Constitutional Conservatism or Die”
It seems that Jack Hunter has been spending time in my head again.
Transcript at Jack Hunter’s website
One little quibble with the video. I do not believe that Mitt Romney was nearly as hawkish as Bush. Which, might have been his downfall with the right. Again, that is a sad thing.
Pat Buchanan makes a good point
Continuing with my previous thought; I came across Pat Buchanan’s post election column, in it he makes some very good points on the GOP’s failures.
Quoting Mr. Buchanan:
At the presidential level, the Republican Party is at death’s door.
Yet one already sees the same physicians writing prescriptions for the same drugs that have been killing the GOP since W’s dad got the smallest share of the vote by a Republican candidate since William Howard Taft in 1912.
In ascertaining the cause of the GOP’s critical condition, let us use Occam’s razor—the principle that the simplest explanation is often the right one.
Would the GOP wipeout in those heavily Catholic, ethnic, socially conservative, blue-collar bastions of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Illinois, which Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan swept, have anything to do with the fact that the United States since 2000 has lost 6 million manufacturing jobs and 55,000 factories?
Where did all those jobs and factories go? We know where.
They were outsourced. And in the deindustrialization of America, the Republican Party has been a culpable co-conspirator.
Unlike family patriarch Sen. Prescott Bush, who voted with Barry Goldwater and Strom Thurmond against JFK’s free-trade deal, Bush I and II pumped for NAFTA, GATT, the WTO and opening America’s borders to all goods made by our new friends in the People’s Republic of China.
Swiftly, U.S. multinationals shut factories here, laid off workers, outsourced production to Asia and China, and brought their finished goods back, tax-free, to sell in the U.S.A.
Profits soared, as did the salaries of the outsourcing executives.
And their former workers? They headed for the service sector, along with their wives, to keep up on the mortgage payment, keep the kids in Catholic school and pay for the health insurance the family had lost.
Tuesday, these ex-Reagan Democrats came out to vote against some guy from Bain Capital they had been told in ads all summer was a big-time outsourcer who wrote in 2008, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt!”
Yes, the simplest explanation is often the right one.
Pat makes a very good point, however, I think it would be a disaster to start pandering to any sort of class of American at all; as I said earlier on this blog:
Furthermore, I believe the GOP needs to stop pandering to minorities. The majority of blacks and Latinos; and every other damned minority in this Country are going to vote Democratic. The reason is the Democratic Party is going to promise them stuff, it is the way it has always been and always will be. Also, I believe that the Republican Party needs to stop trying to pander the the middle class. The truth is the middle class in this Country are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. If the middle class are that stupid to continue to vote for a Party that continually wants to kick them in the teeth, then fine, screw them. We do not want their vote. A decision to go against the socialist mentality of the Democratic Party is a personal one and involves an educated voter, not a clueless one. We do not need the clueless voter, sorry. Let them vote for the other party.
Just as well, the Republican Party needs to stop apologizing. Stop apologizing for being white, stop apologizing for being the party of the financially successful. The liberals in this Country, over the years, have made the term “Rich” a dirty word. What with comics like “Richie Rich” and shows like “Archie Bunker”, the white business person has been made a mockery of and the stupid GOP has allowed it to happen and not fought back! The Republican Party needs to start saying, Yes, we are the party of the successful people! We are the party of people who built businesses from nothing and made them into something successful. There is no shame in that at all. Everyone wants to be financially successful, why try to hide it? There are two types of people, those who are content to be a wage slave, and those who actually want to be a free American. I chose to be the latter and I do not apologize for it.
I still stand behind that comment above; however, let me add the following thought: I think that one can try to appeal to a populist base like that, but one has to make sure it is appealing and not pandering. It is a delicate balance and if it is done properly, it can work great. If it is done wrongly, it can be devastating to the Party. I really believe that the message should truly be, “We will fight for you, and keep Government off your back, and keep your taxes low.” But I do not believe that the GOP ought to start giving lip-service to anyone like that, the Democrats have done that for years and it works for them. The problem is, that the 90% of the time the lip-service is empty. We do not need to start doing that to broaden our base at all. If we do, it could very well come back to haunt the party.
Again, Pat Buchanan does tell the truth, but I think he misses the broader point; the GOP became too much of a moderate, pandering Party for many years and now it is catching up with them. The Bush era did not help either. What I mean is that Iraq will be a black mark on the GOP for many years to come. Some people have long memories, and they have not entirely forgotten about what happened after 9/11 and how Bush and Co. used that to start a war, that we all know now, had zero to do with 9/11. The Democrats did a very good job of reminding people of that; and the GOP had no message to counter that, at least none that made any sense. The best they could do, is say, “Blame Bush.” Well, yes, some people do blame Bush! You have to be able to answer that accusation or reminder better than just deriding the other side for bringing up the GOP’s Wilsonian past foreign policy ventures. Also too, I believe that George W. Bush’s “Big Government Conservatism” policies are still fresh on the minds of some populist, grassroots Conservatives; like “No child left behind” and other such stuff as well.
I think another problem with the GOP and the Conservative movement as a whole is that some Conservatives and Republicans have a penchant for simply making things up, that they know not to be true. This is common in politics and both sides do it, to a certain degree. It is called “scaremongering” and to me, as a Christian man; (Who is not without faults!) it just strikes me as morally wrong. If the Republican Party and the Conservative movement is a truly a socially Conservative movement, that they claim to be. Then they should really get the whole “telling the truth” thing down pat and stop with the scaremongering nonsense. Fact checking is not a sin, and it should be a top priority. Because we can get much further with the American people, with the simply, clear-eyed truth; than we can with scaremongering and stupidity. Most people, these days, with the internet; can fact check quicker than most politicos can! Although, there is that segment that believes the chain letters can go out via e-mail, than they do when someone tells them the plain truth. The Conservative Movement needs to be less chain letter, and more factual arguments. Boogieman headlines might bring profits to those who promote them; but it does not win elections.
Another thing that is on my mind, that goes along with the above paragraph; is that we simply need to remove the Alex Jones element to the Conservative movement. Alex Jones is a nothing more than a damned charlatan. Jones caters to particular group of people, commonly known as the “tin-foil” hat crowd. For years, nobody ever, in the political world, ever took that guy seriously. This was, until Obama got into the White House and then from that moment on, it was full on Alex Jones in the Conservative movement! I really began to notice this, when Matt Drudge began linking to Alex Jones and added him to his list of sites on his website. This, I feel, was an tragic error. The Conservative movement should be known for its disdain for big Government and its refuting of the idea that socialism is not the ideal path forward; and not for its promoting of idiotic conspiracy theories.
Another thing that I believe needs to happen, is that the Republican Party establishment needs to either become more grassroots in nature and cease to exist as a political party. The old school way of doing thing needs to stop. This idea that the big money people controlling the party, has to stop. Because, as the GOP has found out, the populist Conservative grassroots, which makes up everyone else in the movement, that is not establishment; is not real pleased with the GOP at the moment. This divide within the ranks needs to stop; the GOP needs to stop with the mentality of “You guys need to become like us!” and the grassroots needs to quit with the “The GOP needs to be more like us!” This gets nothing accomplished at all. My advice is to find the things that unite you both and work together on them. This would create a unified front and much could get done to fight back against the socialist movement and against the Democrats.
Again, these are just some thoughts of mine, that I started writing at about 4:30am and it is now 5:21am. I hope that you will consider them.
Was Romney’s failure among the white working class voters?
Someone over at VDare.com thinks so.
For the record, he has a point. Before I decided to support Romney, my gripe was that he came off as this stand off’ish rich white guy. The truth is, they all did that to me. Herman Cain sounded very sincere, but his personal life overrode that a bit.
WOW: Someone in Russia speaks the truth about America
This comes via John McTernan.
I searched, because I wanted to be sure the content is real, and sure enough, it is.
The article is at Russia’s Pravda. It is too good to quote, you really have to read it all for yourself.
If anyone would know about the evils of big Government, it would be them; the Russians.
Wow…Just Wow. We had a chance and we blew it. 🙁
HEH!
Hey Rod? That’s usually a sign that you’re getting…. Well, old.
I don’t much care for the owners of that place, but stuff Rod writes is incredibly funny.
Nice Herman, but, No.
It seems that the Republican Party’s resident failed magic Negro is calling for a Third Party:
But on the other side of the fight, Herman Cain, the former presidential candidate who still has a robust following via his popular talk radio program and speaking tours, today suggested the most clear step to open civil war: secession. Appearing on Bryan Fischer’s radio program this afternoon, Cain called for a large faction of Republican Party leaders to desert the party and form a third, more conservative party.
“I never thought that I would say this, and this is the first time publicly that I’ve said it: We need a third party to save this country. Not Ron Paul and the Ron Paulites. No. We need a legitimate third party to challenge the current system that we have, because I don’t believe that the Republican Party … has the ability to rebrand itself,” Cain said.
Fischer, a social conservative leader, noted that he predicted this summer that if Mitt Romney loses, evangelical conservatives would start a third party. “If Barack Obama wins this election the Republican Party as we know it is finished, it is dead, it is toast,” Fischer said in September at the Values Voter Summit in Washington.
No Herman; what the GOP needs to do is stop letting one man minstrel shows like you run for President. I guess the skirt chasing business is getting a bit slow, come the winter time. 
But, seriously, the GOP needs to STOP promoting and supporting carnival acts; like Cain, like Carrie Prejean, like Sarah Palin, like Ann Coulter, who got famous for what — Leaking Documents in the Clinton scandal? Whatever happened to promoting people like Rush Limbaugh, someone who came from nothing, and was on track to being nothing —before he began in talk radio?
Furthermore, I believe the GOP needs to stop pandering to minorities. The majority of blacks and Latinos; and every other damned minority in this Country are going to vote Democratic. The reason is the Democratic Party is going to promise them stuff, it is the way it has always been and always will be. Also, I believe that the Republican Party needs to stop trying to pander the the middle class. The truth is the middle class in this Country are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. If the middle class are that stupid to continue to vote for a Party that continually wants to kick them in the teeth, then fine, screw them. We do not want their vote. A decision to go against the socialist mentality of the Democratic Party is a personal one and involves an educated voter, not a clueless one. We do not need the clueless voter, sorry. Let them vote for the other party.
Just as well, the Republican Party needs to stop apologizing. Stop apologizing for being white, stop apologizing for being the party of the financially successful. The liberals in this Country, over the years, have made the term “Rich” a dirty word. What with comics like “Richie Rich” and shows like “Archie Bunker”, the white business person has been made a mockery of and the stupid GOP has allowed it to happen and not fought back! The Republican Party needs to start saying, Yes, we are the party of the successful people! We are the party of people who built businesses from nothing and made them into something successful. There is no shame in that at all. Everyone wants to be financially successful, why try to hide it? There are two types of people, those who are content to be a wage slave, and those who actually want to be a free American. I chose to be the latter and I do not apologize for it.
The GOP needs to promote, support, and even glamorize the hell out of owning your own business! Business ownership has been demonized by the left in this Country for eons. I would love to get this small business of mine, off the ground and get it running to where it is generating some income. The problem is, that it takes a bit of investment capital to get it going, which I really do not have — and I am not interested in taking a loan out or taking a handout from the Government to get it going. The GOP needs to encourage investment into small businesses, not by the Government, but by private individuals who would be interested in helping others get started in their own businesses.
So, no, starting another party is not the answer. The answer is the GOP needs to stop with the stupid and get with the program!
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The Day After: Now that I have had a little time to think
Just got in from being outside, freezing what little derriere that I have off. Leaves here at the Adkins Manor needed tending to. So, me and my Dad and my second Cousin, Benjamin took to it and used the lawn mower, a leaf blower and sucker,(*snicker*) and a whole bunch of back muscle to make the back and front yards look reasonable decent. Ben cleaned the gutters out, and made sure everything up there on the house was working properly. We are all tired, but pleased with our work.
I come in the house and check the blogs, and I noticed that Chris Smith, one of the nicer bloggers around, is going into semi-retirement:
What I do is what Christians do: pray. Pray for wisdom, peace, guidance. Also, rest. I slept poorly on 05 November, and haven’t done well since dragging home. I’ll be going into semi-retirement from blogging, cutting way back on the amount of time I spend on all of these social network endeavors, and finding therapy in fiction. At least until I get hauled off to Room 101.
Believe me, I know how he feels, last night, I was feeling like just shutting all the sites that I own down. But, you know? This is precisely what the left wants. They want us to quit, they want us to toss in the towel and just accept what the liberal controlled Government wish to foist upon us. I have read about the “Doom and Gloom” too and folks, listen. It might not be as bad as some are predicting.
Well for one, we kept the house and those guys in the house are not going to back down. I tend to believe that John Boehner is going to get tough. I tend to suspect that there are going to be house hearings on the Libya situation, as well as on Gunwalker thing too. The House might and believe me, when I say might, I mean MIGHT — actually have enough on Obama to pursue articles of impeachment against the President. It all depends if the House has the stomach to do such a thing. I really doubt that it will happen very quickly.
Either way, I think slinking off and quitting, is a mistake. I am not changing my stance on anything. The Democrats are wrong, have been wrong and will ALWAYS be wrong. They just were able to keep their Presidency. Whether by malfeasance or legitimate means is irrelevant at this point. What matters is this; we have to regroup, get our message together and move on. Plus, we will have to continue with our voices of dissent against the left. We still have the right, they have not taken that yet.
Now, there is something else, I have to agree with as well; and it is this from the Tea Party News Network:
WASHINGTON D.C. – Leaders of the Tea Party News Network (TPNN) and TheTeaParty.net offered an unflinching assessment of Election Day results. Todd Cefaratti, editor of the Tea Party News Network said, “We’re disappointed in Governor Romney’s loss. But this goes to the heart of what we have been saying all along. Bob Dole didn’t win. John McCain didn’t win. And now Mitt Romney hasn’t won. The lesson the GOP and Americans need to learn is that weak-kneed Republicans do not get elected. Conservatives do.”
“The Tea Party has not yet begun to fight. It’s time for a wholesale reassessment of the D.C. establishment politicians and party grandees who have no commitment or courage to reduce the size of government. We now have another four years ahead of us with Barack Obama leading the charge against liberty,” TPNN News Director Scottie Hughes said. “There were some bright spots tonight from Ted Cruz to Jeff Flake, to a decisive win in the U.S. House where Tea Partiers have a mandate to stand against Obama’s big government second-term agenda. ”
“I eagerly await the day the GOP establishment figures out that the ‘safe’ candidates are not getting the job done,” stated Hughes. “The GOP needs to adhere to stricter ideological purity and put forth candidates that represent a significant difference in viewpoint from the Democrats that are creating devastating policies for Americans. The Republican Party has been shoving ‘their’ candidate down the throats of conservatives for years, and it’s not working. It’s time for them to wake up.”
Cefaratti said, “We are disappointed tonight, but tomorrow morning the work begins. We will search every corner of this country for strong conservatives, not wishy-washy moderates. There’s a change coming to our national politics, and TheTeaParty.net and the Tea Party News Network will be on the frontlines waging this battle.”
Outside of the obvious self-promotion in the release; I have to agree with what is said here. We have to stick to core principles and pick someone who everyone will vote for. Mitt Romney was, in fact, a Mormon and there is a deep-seated mistrust of Mormons among evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians. It has been that way for years. Also too; the Republican Party needs to run someone who will embrace the three legs of the Conservative stool; Fiscal, Social and Defense. The fiscal is easy, however the other two require skill. You want a social conservative, who is not going to come off sounding like a Theocrat. You also want a defense conservative who is not going to be a warmonger, but that the same time not be a Ron Paul type of isolationist.
All of these things have to be thought about, when the next election comes around. Again, my friends, it is not the time to give up. Now, is the time, as I wrote before; to plan.
Others: The Pirates Cove, Daily Pundit, Nathan J. Martin, Daley Gator, Stacy On The Right, The Lonely Conservative, and Hogewash.