Month: September 2012

Karl Rove is making friends as always

Yes, the title is sarcastic in nature. It seems that old “turd blossom” is causing Conservatives to lose their minds again.

Phyllis Schlafly and Mike Huckabee are not happy with him at all.

It seems that Rove made a very crass joke about Todd Akin, who did make a bit of an idiotic statement about rape. Anyhow, Schlafly is not happy at all, from her Eagle Forum blog:

Karl Rove has made himself toxic to Republicans by his incredibly offensive and dangerous statement suggesting the murder of Congressman Todd Akin of Missouri. Any candidate or network who hires Rove will now be tarnished with this most malicious remark ever made in Republican politics.

Just imagine if someone had made that statement about Barack Obama. The Secret Service would go on Red Alert and you can bet that the author of that remark would be in jail by now. As quoted by a Businessweek reporter and now on the internet, Rove in Tampa told some 70 big donors to his Super PAC, American Crossroads, that every attendee should apply pressure to “sink Todd Akin” and force him out of the Senate race for which Missourians had nominated him. Then Rove said that if Akin were “found mysteriously murdered, don’t look for my whereabouts.”

This stunning attack on Akin is now reported as a joke. Sorry, Karl, it isn’t funny to joke about murdering a Congressman.

Rove has disliked Akin ever since Akin was one of the principled members of the U.S. House who voted against George W. Bush’s extravagant expansion of Medicare when the vote was called at 5:53 am in November 2003. Akin is a man of principle who doesn’t cave in to political pressure, so he’s not Rove’s kind of politician.

Rove tried to excuse his obscene joke by saying he would not have said it if he had known a reporter was in the room. That makes his statement worse! Is murder the kind of secret political advice Rove gives to Republican donors and candidates who hire him?

A private phone call by Rove to Akin to sort of apologize does not erase the public offense. At the very least Rove should make a public apology. But even that can’t wipe out his gross political mistake.

Karl Rove is an embarrassment to the Republican Party. We don’t want any more of his advice in secret briefings or publicly on Fox News. Missourians don’t want politicians from other states telling us who to run for the Senate.

Ouch. Now before any dismisses her as some angry old bitty, Schlafly happens to be one the very “old school” Pre-Reagan-era Conservatives. She goes back to the Barry Goldwater era and she does carry some influence in the Republican Party.

Even Mike Huckabee was not to happy with it either, while not as harsh as Schlafly, he also spoke out against Rove’s remarks:

If making a foolish remark about rape is bad, then making a joke about a United States Congressman being murdered is as bad or worse since Akin didn’t wish anyone to be raped, just spoke awkwardly and incorrectly about the likelihood of pregnancy in the event of a rape. In light of the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, the remark was disturbing.

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….Todd erred, apologized, and we need to help him win, not convince ourselves he can’t. Karl erred, apologized, and we need to treat him in the way we want Todd Akin to be treated. If Todd is continued to be alienated and Karl doesn’t suffer the same fate, then I will encourage all the activists I can to spend all their time, money, and effort in Missouri. If the party doesn’t want us, then I guess they don’t need us. Akin will. Janet and I are sending him the maximum we can under federal law.

To me, there is nothing more awesome, than watching the Conservative grassroots stand up to the Republican Party establishment. Especially, people like Karl Rove; who is the perfect example of what was wrong with the Republican Party between 2000 and 2008.  The sad thing is, that there are indications that the Republican Party might be making the same mistakes again. I would hope that this would not be the case; but it does look that way.

I will say this, if the Republican Party and Mitt Romney do go the way of big Government Conservatism again; this blogger will be there, fighting them every step of the way. I will write about it here on this blog. I will not let them get away with it, you can count on that.

 

Quote of the Day

Kwame Kilpatrick is facing 33 counts:

• One count of racketeering conspiracy, punishable by up to 20 years in prison

• Nine counts of extortion, punishable by up to 20 years in prison; $250,000 fine

• Four counts of bribery, punishable by up to 10 years in prison; $250,000 fine

• 13 counts of mail and wire fraud, punishable by up to20 years in prison; $250,000 fine

• Five counts of filing false tax returns, punishable by up to three years in prison; $100,000 fine

• One count of income tax evasion, punishable by up to five years in prison

I knew this was coming….

This is what happens when you do not vet your ranks.

I knew the left would try and tie that crap to Romney, I knew it! 😡

Bill Murphy, Mitt Romney’s Social Media Director, and his colleague Ali Akbar have ripped off a lot of people. They ripped off the Tea Party with the American Liberty Alliance. They ripped off movement Conservatives with the National Bloggers Club. They even ripped off Andrew Breitbart. But their days of making it rain misbegotten right-wing dollars may be numbered.

In 2009 Murphy and Akbar worked together at American Liberty Alliance, an organization which collected “donations” throughout the summer while claiming they were just waiting for their 501(c)3 application to go through. It never did. Then they worked together at National Bloggers Club, a group which solicited “donations” for the past six months while actually calling itself a non-profit (status pending). But according to the IRS, they never bothered to file the necessary documents.

via Romney Staffer Bill Murphy Committing Charitable Fraud.

If we lose this damned election, I know who to blame! Damned idiots. I figured one of them had ties to Romney. 😡 I am still supporting Romney, But I hope like hell Romney gets rid of these clowns and quickly.

Others: The Moderate Voice

Only self-absorbed douchebags close comment sections on blogs

Go Here and Here to see what I am referring to.

Mine are open and everyone here is welcomed to comment. Trolls, of course, get banned. But, most of the time, those who comment, are good people.

A blog without comment sections is not a community, it is a bully pulpit. I never want to be accused of running a bully pulpit. This is why I have comments here.

Just my two cents on that one.

 

Video: Alex Jones on Ron Paul’s campaign manager

I happened to have found this on Facebook.

I know what I said earlier about Ron Paul.

Alex Jones’s delivery and acting aside; the information is interesting.

Watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18PgaZzJDzE

I had heard about this before, but didn’t realize the extent of it.

Interesting indeed.

Defending real Christianity from Daniel McCarthy’s smug papist idiocy

I have quite a number of sites in my RSS reader, one of which is the decidedly anti-Semitic — to the point of the publisher of the attending an occupy AIPAC demonstration —The American Conservative. In it today, I happen to see a blog posting by a one papist Daniel McCarthy, in which he basically accuses the Protestant Christian world of supposedly “loosing it’s mind.”

He then goes to blather on about how much more vastly superior the liturgical version of Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church is to the knuckle-dragging Bible Believing Protestant Christians. Which, in this writer’s opinion, says a bit, about this man and the condition of his heart. Furthermore, it does reenforce my belief that Roman Catholics are not Christians at all. I know that might bother some, but I have Bible scripture to back that up, as I am sure you know.

My direct response to Mr. McCarthy is: I suppose Priests, which are forbidden in the Bible —defending the abusers of children, as being victims, is the sign of how much more superior your papist doctrine and supposed “Christianity” is to ours? Furthermore, I suppose that the Roman Catholic Church Inquisition towards various people, including my Baptist forefathers was a sign of the vastly superior papist doctrine and so-called “christianity” to ours?  Also, I suppose that the systematic sexual abuse of young children, and coverup and justification by the Roman Catholic Church and its so-called “priests” is proof positive of the vastly superior papist doctrine and so-called “christianity” of the Roman Catholic Church? I really would love to see Mr. papist McCarthy answer these questions.

You see this, is why I have such an issue with so-called Christian bloggers, especially ones who are papists. The Bible has a word for it, it is Highmindedness. (It is defined here.) It is the very silly idea that somehow, his Church, which, by the way, is riddled with false doctrine; is somehow vastly superior than anyone else. This is why I steadfastly refuse to ever own or write at a “Christian Blog.” For the record, this blog is not a Christian Blog at all. It is a Conservative political blog, that happens to be owned by a Christian.  This is because I will be the first to tell you, that we Independent Fundamentalist Baptists are far from perfect, as recent events have proven. Although, I will be the first to say, that there were many of we Fundamental Baptists, including myself, who saw that recent coming from a mile away.

In closing: While the title of this blog posting might suggest otherwise; this should not be taken as an ad hominem attack against Mr. McCarthy. But rather a defense of Protestant Christianity and Fundamentalist Christianity from those who have an agenda against it. A perfect example of that agenda is in the writings of Mr. McCarthy. Mr. McCarthy and those of his ilk have tried to discredit protestant Christianity for years and this is proof of that. Well, someone has to stand up for those who choose not to submit to the utterly Satanic and without Christ Roman Catholic Church and it may as well be me.

 

The folly of the liberal left

Please take time and drink in the stupidity that is Kevin Drum and his idiotic liberalism:

I don’t write about national security and civil liberties issues as much as I should. Partly this is because I find much of it too grim to bear. But it’s also because it seems so hopeless: there’s really no significant difference between the two major parties on most of these issues, and therefore no real chance of any of them being changed. There are differences at the margin — Obama banned torture and Eric Holder at least tried to institute civilian trials for terrorist suspects — and during campaign season even modest differences become magnified. But really, there’s a pretty broad bipartisan consensus on all the big stuff: drones and assassinations and secrecy and military intervention and the ever increasing role of surveillance in our society, just to name a few items.

via It’s Official: No One Will Ever Be Prosecuted for Bush-Era Torture | Mother Jones.

Maybe it is because no one really actually did anything illegal and if legal boundaries were pushed, it was because there were actually people wanting to protect this Country from terrorist attacks. However, Liberals cannot be bothered with that; because they are too defending those who want to kill us. Yes, Abu-ghraib prison was horrible thing and quite the isolated incident, in which the people who committed those crimes were tried, convicted and served their time. Now, of course, those people are going to say, “Oh yes! I was told to do what I did!” Do you really think those idiots are going to say, “Yes, I was a treasonous a–hole and I admit that.” — honestly? One would think the smart answer to that would be no. But then again, we are talking about Liberal Democrats here.

Which brings me to my real point of this posting: This is precisely why I stopped voting for the Democratic Party. Because of the acute anti-Military attitude exhibited by them. This piece quoted above is nothing more than a nice way of saying that our own military are nothing more than “battlefield terrorists.” Something that has been expressed by the liberal left before.  This attitude is also found in the some of the libertarian and strict Paleoconservative circles too; which is why I am not too friendly with them.

When it comes to foreign policy, I tend to follow the Reagan line. Military only as a last resort — peace through strength, not domination of the World by military might and not irresponsibility by foreign policy disengagement.  I believe that Wilsonian foreign policy is wrong-minded and has caused more harm, that it has ever caused good. The outcome simply is not worth forcing western style of Government and Politics on those who do not want it.  Both Iraq wars proved it, Vietnam proved it, Korean War proved it,  World War I, which eventually caused World War 2 — proved it.

However, I do believe that defending the Republic is very important. I also happen to believe, that if we are going to fight wars, that we should actually declare a war, and do it according to the Constitution. This is something that I actually agree with Ron Paul on. However, the problem with the Ron Paul and his followers, and also with strict paleoconservative crowd is that they conflate or at least confuse the terms “defending the Republic” and “defending empire.” There is a fine line between the two and Ronald Reagan walked it very well. Ron Paul and the strict paleoconservatives, not so much. To be fair, Bush blew it too.

Not to mention that a good many of the Paleoconservatives have an issue with the idea of a Jewish state, not to mention some of them just outright hate Jews with a passion. While I might have an issue with some of the actions of some of the American Jews and their supporters. I have no issue at all with the Jewish State at all. This is one of my big issues with the paleoconservative right, and it is why I tend to distance myself from most of them. It is okay to be against Wilsonian foreign policy; but to use nuanced Anti-Semitic rhetoric to denounce it does nothing for that cause.

Now the difference between Kevin Drum and the strict paleoconservative is this; Kevin Drum believes that big Government is just fine, while the Paleoconservatives find big centralized Government to be terrible. Which is why Paleoconservatives will never be in the mainstream of Conservative politics; between the hatred of Jews and their state — and the unrealistic foreign policy — it is just something that is not ready for prime time.

The only reason, however, that the liberal left and their policies even remain mainstream, is because of the lip service and handouts that they give to the minorities in this Country. Otherwise, the Democratic Party would have been marginalized long ago. Housing meltdown and failed economics be damned; there people who will always support the Democrats and the left, because of what they can get them.

It is a truly a sad thing; but very true.

For the Record: Ron Paul will never be satisfied

This is why Ron Paul is not the GOP’s candidate for President of the United States:

Rep. Ron Paul said GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s convention speech left him “very skeptical” that the country’s economic policies will change.

“The speech is what I would expect,” the Texas Republican said Friday on Bloomberg Television’s “In the Loop.” “I remain very, very skeptical of hearing anything that will change the course of history. We have a debt problem. We have a spending problem, but how many things did he list to cut?”

Not enough, he said. The former GOP presidential candidate said the “most disturbing” part of America’s fiscal problems is the Federal Reserve, which Romney did not focus on during his speech.

“There was no talk of the Federal Reserve,” said Paul, advocating the elimination of both the Fed and fixed interest rates. “As long as we have the concept,” he later added, “we will linger a long time because debt is a problem and no one is willing to face up to it and I certainly didn’t hear that last night.

via Mitt Romney speech leaves Ron Paul ‘skeptical’ – Kevin Cirilli – POLITICO.com.

Ron Paul; for all the good things about him, this is one of his many flaws — besides his unrealistic foreign policy —- is that he is just too ideologically rigid. The only way that Ron Paul and his many legion of fans would be happy, is if the Federal Reserve were closed, the military were dismantled and America went back to gold standard. Of course, all of those things are just unrealistic at best.

He followed up those remarks with this bit idiotic nonsense:

So what’s his take on the Republican Party?

“Well, it is not my party. I do not like politics at all,” Paul said. “I think both parties are Keynesian economists and support positions that I do not like. So, the party, in many ways is irrelevant.”

Which is precisely why Ron Paul will never be President of the United States of America or thankfully anything else in the Republican Party ever again.  I mean, if the man cannot tell the difference between an Marxist and an Republican; then he needs to get the heck out politics for good. because it is quite obvious that he is not fit to serve in any sort of capacity.

The Bottom line is:

Vote for and support Mitt Romney — He might not be perfect, but he is much smarter than Ron Paul!