Category: politics

Rand Paul talks about the future of the GOP

The Video: (H/T HotAir.com)

Quoting Ed Morrissey:

Paul the Younger has always seemed to have a better grasp on reality than Paul the Elder, and so far has managed to shed the disturbing connections to the fringe that his father courted. I don’t think that Paul will have enough of a following by 2016 to make a serious run for the Presidency, but his talents might be better used in the Senate to build a conservative wing along with Jim DeMint that can stop the excesses of Washington and fight for fiscal sanity. The presidency will always be critical to that fight, but it can’t be won without having solid players in the legislative branch as well.

Paul is an element of the future of the Republican Party, and if he works wisely, he could be a driving force for a deeper commitment to limited government and large-scale reform. That would be good news for everyone.

I kind of agree with this, and kind of I do not. For one, Rand Paul does have some questionable ties; namely his Father for one. Two, he has made some questionable statements on the Constitution and the civil rights act of 1964. However, I do admire his stances of taxes and states rights when it comes to social issues, which is something I believe that really kneecapped the GOP in this election, especially seeing that they ran an establishment figure.

Again, I believe, like Ed, that Rand Paul would be better suited for Congress. I believe Rubio could make some headway for the GOP in 2016. Some might disagree and say that Rubio would pander to minorities. This might be the case, but seeing the changing demographic in this Country — we got to do something or risk fading into a regional party.

Just my opinion. 😀

The Beast?

Please note: This post is simply humor, nothing more, nothing less.

I write that for the Christians who read this blog; who are, for what it is worth, a little bit slow on the uptake. Kinda like this guy here.

Anyways… Every time I hear someone mention the word BEAST in the context of politics or, well, the United States. I think of this song:

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I just ended up on the hit list of every Fundamentalist or as I like to call them, every Funny and Mentalist, in America. 😉

Update: Yes, I know about this here; it is what I was referring to. 😛

Allen West finally concedes to Patrick Murphy

I wrote once before about this affirmative action Republican and now it seems that Allen West has decided to take his big bucket of chicken and go home, which is right where he belongs.  That’s right I said that about you, jar-head West, sue me. 

Politico reports:

Florida Rep. Allen West — the tea party pugilist and face of the class of House Republicans that stormed to power two years ago — conceded Tuesday to 29-year-old construction executive Patrick Murphy in one of the nation’s highest-profile congressional races.

After two weeks of battle with St. Lucie County elections officials — and a recount of early votes that wound up extending Murphy’s lead — West acknowledged that he couldn’t surmount his 1,904-vote, or 0.58 percent, deficit. That difference was just outside the 0.5 percent threshold to automatically trigger a recount of all votes.

So the brash conservative opted to bow out rather than wage a long and costly court battle he was unlikely to win.

“For two weeks since Election Day, we have been working to ensure every vote is counted accurately and fairly. We have made progress towards that goal, thanks to the dedication of our supporters and their unrelenting efforts to protect the integrity of the democratic process,” West said in a statement to POLITICO. “While many questions remain unanswered, today I am announcing that I will take no further action to contest the outcome of this election.”

West congratulated Murphy, saying, “I pray he will serve his constituents with honor and integrity, and put the interests of our nation before his own.”

You mean, like when you put your own interests ahead of the people who elected you? Like, when you called members of the congressional black caucus communists? You mean, like when you broke the damned rules of engagement in Iraq, all so that you could look good supposedly save the lives of your fellow troops?

Sorry to say this sir; but you are nothing, but a goddamned disgrace to this Country, to the United States Military and to the political process in this damned Country! Furthermore, if there was any sort of decency in this Country or in the United States Military, you would cooling your heels in a Military prison in Leavenworth, Texas!

You seem to think that because you are black, and because you served in the United States Military; that somehow or another you are entitled to be in politics and are somehow or another special enough to represent this Country? You sir, deserve nothing at all, but scorn from this Nation. I happen to be a white conservative, who believes in rule of law and you sir did not uphold that principle, not only during your time in Iraq, but also during this election, where you got your little black butt kicked.

No, this is not about racism, not at all. Anyone that reads this blog, knows that I have nothing but disdain for this sort of stuff. What this is about, is me having a personal problem with someone, who used his Military credentials, despite the fact that he was a known law-breaker, to get public office. If it were not for the so-called Tea Party movement, and for the money of some rich white people in south Florida, who wanted a puppet in Congress. This guy would be shining shoes at the five and dime store.

Some of my long time readers and those who used to read my old blog, remember that I used to support this buffoon, when he ran for office and then after he was elected. Then, after he was elected, he started making these ridiculous statements to the media. This is when I knew that this man was not quite ready for prime-time. I regret any and all that I ever wrote in support of this guy. Because, quite franking, this idiot made the conservative movement look quite stupid.

Here is to sanity in south Florida and in Conservative politics. Congratulations to Patrick Murphy in a decisive win against a total buffoon.

Others: The Moderate Voice, Crooks and Liars, CNN, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit,Mediaite, Wonkette, Truthdig, Gawker, The PJ Tatler, Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway, The Lonely Conservative (via Memeorandum)

Why because Obama is black?

Sorry, even I cannot sit here and not think that some people are just being racist. No, this is not a joke either.

Creepy? Seriously?

What they’re talking about is this:

A mural made for the United States first black President, in Burma.

It was done out of respect for the President. But yet, the so-called “Conservative” media and blogosphere says its “creepy.”

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Sorry, but this little piece of so-called “Conservative media” makes me so angry, that I actually feel the need to fire up the word processing program and write a couple good lines about it.

As many of you know, I, at one time, was a Democratic Party voter. I grew up in southwest Detroit. I went to Church there for over eleven years. I lived in southwest for seventeen years. I grew up with, went school and Church with blacks, Latinos, and yes, the occasional white person. Therefore, this idiotic nonsense that the conservative media seems to think is funny, is just not registering as such on my humor meter.

Could it honestly be that the word “creepy” is the new racial codeword for black? I would really hope that the right is not that stupid and not that great of bigots. I fully admit in my day, of taking potshots at minorities and doing that in an inartful manner usually, because I was angry.

Therefore, I am issuing a message to the so-called “conservative media.” You are all on notice from here on out. No more, am I going to just sit here, chuckle, and not bring up the racist undertones of things that you say. I am going to start highlighting it. You say, “What about what is on your header?” Yeah, what about it? Sorry to tell you, but that is not racism that is the truth about Islam. Therefore, that little defense is out.

I am sorry, but I am becoming a little bit tired of the stupid hatred, by the so-called “conservative media” and so called “conservative blogosphere” towards the President of the United States of America, and all because he is a black man. It is getting to be a little bit old, at this point.

Here is a bit of a dose of cold, hard reality for you stupid idiots on the right. You want to know why you lost this election —- Because of stupid stuff like this right here! You do know that there are people who actually read those blogs of yours and my blog as well — from all sorts of racial backgrounds — Blacks, Whites, Hispanics and many more. Do you really honestly think that some undecided voter is really going to want to vote for a Republican candidate, if they happen to read some nuanced racism on a Conservative blog towards the President? I really think not.

Therefore, I am just going to tell it like it is. Therefore, men and women of the Republican Party and the Conservative movement hear me loud and clear: either this idiotic continuing use of nuanced racism of blacks and Latinos stops, or I am not voting for your party any longer. I voted for the Republican Governor here in Michigan. I voted for the Republican candidate for President of the United States and I do not regret that vote. However, I will not continue to vote for your party, if all you people, who claim to support that party can do, is continue to belch forth nuanced or otherwise — racism towards minorities. It has to stop, and I have just about had enough of it for one lifetime.

I will make a full admission on this blog, right here and right now. I never really was a Republican or that hard of right wing Conservative. I am simply a thinking American, who happens to be a bit of independent politically. I am also someone who was opposed to the nomination of the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States back in 2007. It had, and still does have nothing to do with his skin color. It had and still does have to do with the fact that the man was a full on hard leftist. To his credit, he is trying to run the Country as a centrist, but failing at it badly.

Therefore, I issue this dire warning to the Republican establishment types, to the conservative grassroots, to the so-called “conservative” blogosphere. Quit it with the racism — nuanced or otherwise. Because you know what — You are really starting to piss me the hell off. I have been known to mock and deride the White Nationalists on this blog. In fact, I have done so, on my old blog. If you think that, I will not start doing this to you all, think again. Furthermore, I will just say it: President Barack Obama is in his second term, he cannot be reelected again; much of what he hopes to accomplish, will be stopped by the house — if they do not impeach him first. The Democratic Party has nowhere to go from here, but back to the center. Otherwise, that party will go extinct.

If all of you, and you know who you all are — do not think that I will not bail back to the Democratic Party side of things. Think again. Hillary might run again, and I think I could live with her being President; she cannot do any worse than Obama. I love this Country, but I cannot sit here and overlook this sort of stuff much longer. There needs to be reform in the conservative movement and this is one of things that needs to be reformed and that is the nuanced racism on the right. It is sickening, it cheapens the movement and it makes us looks like idiots or worse.

In closing: I love my Country, and I hate what the Democrats in the Bill Clinton era did to it. I also hate what Barack Obama did to the Country as well. However, I hate equally hate what is happening in the Conservative movement right now. It sickens me to my core, as an American, as a Christian and as someone who wants to see the Republicans win in 2016. As Mitt Romney said, we can do better than this and the Conservative movement CAN do better! This nuenced racism towards minorites needs to stop! It is not funny, it is not Conservative, it is not Christian and it should not even be named in our movement at all!

The above is what I think, and I would like to know, what you think. Leave a comment, if you agree.

Thanks for reading,
-Charles Patrick Adkins
Owner
Thinking Americanist

Homeboy?

Oh….my….word…. Doh

From the Weekly Standard:

Visiting victims of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey today, Vice President Joe Biden told them not to worry, saying, "you’ve got a homeboy in the deal who gets it." Biden was referring to President Barack Obama.

From the pool report:

So as the president said when he was up here with the governor, we’re not going anywhere. We’re not not going anywhere. And you’ve got a homeboy in the deal who gets it."

Homeboy? What if a Republican had said something like that?

Of course, if this President keeps up this course, we’re all going to be singing this song here, with plenty of homeboys in it.

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Of course, if Larry Sinclair is to be believed; it’s really….wait for it…. Homo-Boy! WinkingTongueSurpriseLaughingRolling on the floor

Others: Weekly Standard, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, Michelle Malkin

It’s funny what they’ll write about you, when you’re dead

Recently, a local treasure here in Detroit passed away. Sonny Eliot who was one of the funniest broadcasters ever; passed away a few days ago. It would seem that someone like Sonny Eliot would be exempted from controversy or even criticism from the PC liberal left.

Well, if you believed that, you would be wrong. Dateline Detroit, a left-wing liberal rag website has brought the long knives out to capitalize on a dead man’s memory:

Broadcast colleagues and media acquaintances speak of Sonny Eliot, the 91-year-old Detroit weathercaster Sonny Eliot who died at home Friday, with affection, admiration and acknowledgment that he definitely was a piece of work.

Recollections shared publicly and privately provide glimpses of a brash, brazen figure who enjoyed crossing boundaries and grabbing attention.

Back when his career was accelerating, “hostile environment” described icy roads in Engadine, not workplace behavior. He reflected the tone of that Mad Men era and continued to do so, insiders suggest.

This hit piece on Sonny Eliot goes on to talk about some of Sonny’s antics off the air, some of which are anonymous; which were reserved for the worst of the comments about the man. Some of you out-of-town folk may not know this, but Sonny Eliot was not the man’s real name. His real name was Marvin Schlossberg and he was Jewish. (Thanks to Jewish in the D for that information.) I have to really wonder, what was Alan Stamm’s motivation for writing such a slanderous article?

Could it be that Alan is, like his fellow Democrats; slouching towards Hitler-like Jewish hatred?  It is no coincidence that Israel now is fighting for its very existence. Now you have someone who is writing for a publication that bills itself as the “homegrown media revolution.” Revolution against what, the Jews?

Let me just say this:  I am not trying to play the Semite card here, at all. However, I found this article to be quite distasteful and morbid, seeing that the man recently passed away. Sonny Eliot was a different person from a much different era; sort of like my Father, and it very much miffs me, when some ideology driven media hack decides to slander and defame a man, after he is dead. Whatever happened to just saying that he was a nice man and leave the rest of the stuff alone?

The one quote that really miffed me was this one:

However, another anecdote passed along by a longtime print reporter is edgier and less amusing:

Amid all the Sonny Eliot tributes, I won’t [publicly] mention the time I was alone with him in an elevator and he asked: “Did you know that a woman is raped every 60 seconds in America?” Then, as the doors opened and I fled: “Got a minute?

In other words, he made that part up. No name mentioned, just a random anonymous quote that most likely he made up, to make his slander piece sound good. All to defame a well-known, and well-loved, Jewish man.

In closing: I really hate having to write articles like this; but, by golly, sometimes these things just need to be said. In this day and age of so-called “Democratic Journalism” where there is no integrity, this sort of tripe is allowed and accepted. Well, this is one blogger that is not going to allow this sort of bovine excrement got unchallenged. I am not Jewish, and I have no Jewish heritage at all. However, if I were, I would be shouting from the rooftops about this slanderous article about a Jewish man, who simply sought to make others happy.

It is truly a sad time in America; when even the dead cannot even get any sort of peace from the PC police.

Maybe Because the Bush Administration did it too?

This is too funny.

Via The Daily Caller:

The House science committee is demanding the White House explain why top administration officials are using secret e-mail accounts and other techniques to conceal their taxpayer-paid activities from public oversight.

The evidence of officials’ efforts to evade transparency laws includes EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s use of the fake name “Richard Windsor”, and hidden e-mail accounts, according to a Nov. 16 letter sent by the committee to several White House officials, including Jackson.

The committee’s letters justified their startling statements with evidence published in The Daily Caller. The Caller’s report was based on an investigation by Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the author of a new book “The Liberal War on on Transparency.”

“The use of these [hidden] accounts could seriously impair records collection, preservation, and access, therefore compromising transparency and oversight,” said the letter, signed by committee chairman Rep. Ralph Hall.

Hmmmmmmmm…. ThinkingI dont know

I seem to remember another Party that did this, while they were in power in the White House and in the Justice Department.

Ah yes! It was the Republican Party! There was Attorney Generals who lost their jobs over it too.

I have to really honestly wonder; did Tucker Carlson report that little scandal as passionately then, as he is this one here?

I somehow highly doubt that to to be a fact.

Others: Politico and The Lonely Conservative (via Memeorandum)