Seen over at Taki’s Magazine:
A very well done video, I might add.
Seen over at Taki’s Magazine:
A very well done video, I might add.
Do I dare go there? Why hell yes I dare! ๐
I got this via e-mail… It’s wrong as hell, but it’s funny… I think anyhow…
It’s going to be one funny 4 years. ๐ ๐
I am really unsure what this feckless woman’s problem is, but she really needs to find something else to do. Like maybe get a real job? Instead of sitting behind a keyboard and trashing everything that does not meet her quite flawed ideas, as to what the Republican Party really is about.
This little feckless wretch publishes in her latest the following:
As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook or dismiss the gorilla in the pulpit.
Three little letters, great big problem: G-O-D.
I’m bathing in holy water as I type.
To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn’t soon cometh.
Simply put: Armband religion is killing the Republican Party. And, the truth — as long as we’re setting ourselves free — is that if one were to eavesdrop on private conversations among the party intelligentsia, one would hear precisely that.
The choir has become absurdly off-key, and many Republicans know it.
But they need those votes!
So it has been for the Grand Old Party since the 1980s or so, as it has become increasingly beholden to an element that used to be relegated to wooden crates on street corners.
Short break as writer ties blindfold and smokes her last cigarette.
Which is to say, the GOP has surrendered its high ground to its lowest brows. In the process, the party has alienated its non-base constituents, including other people of faith (those who prefer a more private approach to worship), as well as secularists and conservative-leaning Democrats who otherwise might be tempted to cross the aisle.
Here’s the deal, ‘pubbies: Howard Dean was right.
It isn’t that culture doesn’t matter. It does. But preaching to the choir produces no converts. And shifting demographics suggest that the Republican Party — and conservatism with it — eventually will die out unless religion is returned to the privacy of one’s heart where it belongs.
Religious conservatives become defensive at any suggestion that they’ve had something to do with the GOP’s erosion. And, though the recent Democratic sweep can be attributed in large part to a referendum on Bush and the failing economy, three long-term trends identified by Emory University’s Alan Abramowitz have been devastating to the Republican Party: increasing racial diversity, declining marriage rates and changes in religious beliefs.
Suffice it to say, the Republican Party is largely comprised of white, married Christians. Anyone watching the two conventions last summer can’t have missed the stark differences: One party was brimming with energy, youth and diversity; the other felt like an annual Depends sales meeting.
With the exception of Miss Alaska, of course.
Even Sarah Palin has blamed Bush policies for the GOP loss. She’s not entirely wrong, but she’s also part of the problem. Her recent conjecture about whether to run for president in 2012 (does anyone really doubt she will?) speaks for itself:
“I’m like, okay, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is…. And if there is an open door in (20)12 or four years later, and if it’s something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door.”
Let’s do pray that God shows Alaska’s governor the door.
Meanwhile, it isn’t necessary to evict the Creator from the public square, surrender Judeo-Christian values or diminish the value of faith in America. Belief in something greater than oneself has much to recommend it, including most of the world’s architectural treasures, our universities and even our founding documents.
But, like it or not, we are a diverse nation, no longer predominantly white and Christian. The change Barack Obama promised has already occurred, which is why he won.
Among Jewish voters, 78 percent went for Obama. Sixty-six percent of under-30 voters did likewise. Forty-five percent of voters ages 18-29 are Democrats compared to just 26 percent Republican; in 2000, party affiliation was split almost evenly.
The young will get older, of course. Most eventually will marry, and some will become their parents. But nonwhites won’t get whiter. And the nonreligious won’t get religion through external conversion. It doesn’t work that way.
Given those facts, the future of the GOP looks dim and dimmer if it stays the present course. Either the Republican Party needs a new base — or the nation may need a new party.
Yeah, I published it all here, because I want to show just how ignorant this woman really is. This is coming from someone who is a advocate of Separation of Church and State! Okay, as much as I feel that the Church should not be meddling in the affairs of the State and such; I also know where the term Conservative originates and I also know where those Conservative values originate from, that would be the Holy Bible, which is the cornerstone of Christianity and the values it represents.
What Kathleen Parker is suggesting here is nothing less then Political treason, making the Republican Party into a Atheistic Party or in other words — Liberal-Lite or Democrat-Lite.ย To do this to the Republican Party would be like taking a hacksaw to someones leg, and that person being awake to watch it! It would be a disaster; not to mention painful for that person! ๐ย What the hell good are Conservative Values, if you do not have the very reason for those values active within the Party? Telling the Christian Community that their services are no longer needed, would be a death sentence for the Republican Party. Senator Barry Goldwater Sr.; As much as I respected him for his stance on that unconstitutional civil rights bill; tried to kick the Conservative Christians to the curb, during his run for President in 1964, you see what that got him, don’t you? It him sent back to the Senate!ย This is why Ronald Reagan won way back there in 1980, because he saw what Barry Goldwater did, and purposed that he would not try and alienate any one part of the Conservative Movement. I have to give Reagan credit, it worked quite well.
I’ve told the story here on this blog many times, it was relayed by Goldwater’s niece, Cee Cee; Some reporter asked Goldwater what Jerry Falwell and his “moral majority” could for him. Goldwater replied, “I don’t know; but I know what I’d like to do to him.” The Reported asked what that was, and Goldwater replied in some quite explicit terms, “I’d like to put my foot up his behind!”; of course, I deleted some rather nastier words and substituted a few! However, I think you get my point! In other words, he wanted to keep the Conservative Christians at bay and in the World of Conservative Politics you just cannot do that. Especially in THIS day and age of Democrats trying to target everyone!
Many people keep wondering, “Why did Obama win?” Well, I will tell you, for the one hundredth time why he won. Barack Obama, when he first started, was running as a Liberal Democrat, he was doing the talking points of the far left. That all lasted until the primaries started and the Media started paying attention, he stuck with the hard left stuff until the Media REALLY started paying attention. That was when Obama’s campaign people said, “Okay you’ve got America’s attention, now it’s time to start talking to the REST of America!” That was when he started all the Hope and Change business….. and it you know what? It worked. Obama came off to the Reagan Democrats and the White middle class Independent average Joe voter as a sane, reasoned alternative to the fear-mongering and “supposed” racism of the far right. It had zero to do with John McCain, it had to do with the dummies running his campaign.
Because of THAT, we now have a Democratic Party President.
Others: Townhall.com, The Corner,, Stop The ACLU,ย Eunomia, Don Surber and The Other McCain and more via Memeorandum
He’s back with a new video! and a cool looking Website too! ๐ (Language Warning!)
Lew Rockwell Relays an excellent piece on why Bob Barr lost and why the Libertarians did so poorly.
I am about sick and tired of blogging about this subject. But it appears that the Republicans were basically correct about Bill Ayers.
Go on over and read about it. I’m not quoting it here, because at this point, it is a non-issue.
Others yammering on about it: Jules Crittenden, Macsmind, Gateway Pundit, Whiskey Fire, www.redstate.com, Flopping Aces, Atlas Shrugs, Tim Blair, protein wisdom, Hot Air, Patterico’s Pontifications, Stop The ACLU, Doug Ross, Pajamas Media and Fausta’s Blog, Wake up America, Commentary, Gateway Pundit, Little Green Footballs
(H/T to HotAir.com)
I knew this was going to happen… I am again forced to criticize Michelle Malkin. (or say the stuff that Ed and Allah want to say, but will not, because they do not want to get fired!)
In this Video Michelle is carping about the way that the Sarah Palin was treated and because John McCain didn’t jump on the sofa like Tom Cruise and scream to the top his lungs, “The EVIL Liberal destroyed my changes of being President! and My former campaign staffers are trashing her now, shame shame shame!”
Here’s the nail scratching the chalk board video:
However, this is what I heard the whole time I watched it:
I think if women, Conservative or Liberal want to be taken seriously in Politics, at least by this writer; they need to act like adults and not crybabies when things really don’t go their way.
I mean Michelle criticizes the homosexuals over prop 8 and tells them to move on. So, why doesn’t she practice what she preaches?ย ๐
Just sayin’
It is not everyday that I agree with a Republican. In fact, there’s quite a bit that I disagree with Republicans on.
I have had disagreements with Ed Morrissey, him and I disagree on the whole “Right to life” idea. I think abortion is a Moral issue and the Government should not be used to make moral decisions. Ed disagrees and that’s his right. Could you imagine how boring America would be, if we all agreed on everything? Besides, Barry Goldwater agreed that one cannot legislate morality. This is why he was not elected President in 1964.
Well, today Mr. Morrissey posted one of the most level-headed entries on HotAir.com, that I’ve read in a good long time. Basically, Ed advised Republicans and Conservatives not to act like their Liberal counterparts. Not surprisingly, some Conservative Bloggers trashed Ed for his position.
So, because I happen to respect Ed quite a bit. I’m basically posting a defense for the guy.
I happen to think, as an ex-left of center Blogger, as a now Moderate Conservative, as a Moderate to Right-Libertarian; I happen to believe that Ed Morrissey is one of the most level-headed and more “in touch with Reality” Conservative Bloggers out there. More so than his own boss. I respect Michelle, don’t get me wrong; but there are times when she goes a bit overboard.ย I do it too, I get caught up in my emotions and say stuff, that I later look at and go “ack!”. It happens.
Anyhow, I just happen to believe that if more Republicans were a bit more like Ed, (and perhaps me! *snicker*)ย I think a bunch more Liberals would believe that we Conservatives were not the crazed, Gun clinging, Religion humping, Bitter crazy people that they believe that we are now.ย (or is it…. Religion clinging and Gun Humping??? Hmmmm…)
So, Please, leave Ed alone… he’s making sense…and Considering the position that the Republican Party is in, this is a good thing. Because nothing is more of a buzz kill and that’s a crazy minority political party. ๐
Others: (Including those carving on poor ol’ Ed)
Political Punch, Raleigh News & Observer, www.redstate.com, Patterico’s Pontifications, Political Machine and protein wisdom
The election is over with for goodness sakes… Let’s work on rebuilding and not on the killing of one other.
…and for goodness sakes stop with the damned navel grazing already! ๐
We lost, big deal, life goes on, we became the minority. It isn’t the end of the world ya’ll.
Don’t make me come outta this bunker…. ๐
The Blind Leading The Greedy
By J.J. Jackson
When you look at the 2008 Presidential Election, American was screwed either way and no matter who won. ย That is exactly why I neither supported nor voted for either of the two major candidates. ย I refused to play a game where we either elected a man in John McCain, who while at times talks a good game, really has embraced the socialism that has infected America or we elected a man in Barack Obama who does not think that socialism goes far enough and has talked extensively about full blown Marxism. ย Although listening to your typical newscast you would not know of the later.
When the dust settled, America decided to give enhanced socialism and Marxist principles one more whirl despite its dismal track record, and to redistribute wealth at the point of the government’s gun. ย Khrushchev was right when he predicted that we Americans would eventually embrace communism (or at least what passed for communism in the Soviet Union) after years of being slowly forced fed bits of socialism.
The political leaders of this nation who are preparing to take over this nation are blind to the truth that whatever shade of socialism they give to us to vote for fails. ย Whether it is communism (Marxism), fascism, Nazism, Corporatism or some other version, they are all just different flavors of the same ice cream and all taste just as bad. ย They are all the same with only minor differences in texture and sweetness. ย They only vary inasmuch as in whom the power to dictate from the top down rests. The only real difference between them is the fine details. ย But all have the same overarching goal; to control and punish by government force those that are not deemed worthy and to inhibit inalienable rights. ย And the greedy have supported them in droves.
The greedy are those that think someone else should work hard for their benefit without any say in the matter. ย They are the people who want to tax other citizens so that they can be given a check by the government for money they did not go out and earn. ย These are the people at the top of corporations that work hard to punish their competition through the tax code and crush them by flooding them with regulations while seeking tax breaks, government favors and subsidies for themselves. ย There is no starker example of greed if ever there was one.
Now America is going to get what they think is “change” that they have “hoped” for. ย But rather than actually listening to what Obama has promised, those Americans that voted for him, mostly out of their own greed, are going to be surprised to learn that the “change” they expect is really just more of the same.
The “change” America can expect is more federal welfare programs. ย But we already have such things though. ย We will just have more now. ย The “change” America can expect is higher and more progressive taxes on the successful. ย We already have those though as well. ย The “change” America can expect is more vilification of hard working and successful entrepreneurs. ย Yes, we already have that in spades. ย The “change” America can expect is big corporations gaming the socialist system to punish their competition that they see as doing things better and cheaper. ย Oh … yeah … that’s right … we already have that too.
We have been promised a lot of “change” by president-elect Obama. ย He has promised a new tone in Washington and to bring in new faces so as not to get locked into doing the same old thing in the name of “change.” ย But in one of his first official acts he has named Rahm Emanuel to be his Chief of Staff. ย This is a man who has ties to Freddie Mac and served on the board of the institution while it was underwriting the bad loans that eventually lead to its collapse and while the government run enterprise was misreporting profits by the billions. ย This is a man who after Bill Clinton was elected to his first term repeatedly stabbed a steak knife into a table as he rattled off a list of political enemies and labeled them as “dead.”
So much for “change” and “hope” huh?
So if “change” means more of the same then I guess we have indeed gotten our “change”. ย Amazing how the meanings of words evolve isn’t it? ย Change, for example, used to mean something different. ย Now “change” means more of the same. ย And the greedy would have it no other way. ย They clamor for what they have decided is theirs because of some imagined harm visited upon them by people they have falsely vilified.
The same thing has happened with the term “greed” as has happened with the term “change”. ย Its definition too has been redefined. ย Greed use to mean, “a selfish desire for more of something than is needed” (Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary). ย The term “selfish” though has been completely removed from the definition to assuage the consciousness of the truly greedy who clamor for the productivity of others and think that they are not greedy.
Being selfish means of course means, “concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself : seeking or concentrating on one’s own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others.” ย Now, with these smooth reworking of definitions, “greed” is no longer defined as such. ย Being concerned with one’s self at the expense of another (like greedily demanding money from the American taxpayer) has become a virtue. ย The term “greed” never meant simply “a desire for more of something than is needed,” as it does today and is now used to vilify hard working Americans paying the freight for the majority of America.
But I will continue to use the term as properly defined as must we all despite the howls of those that do not want to be labeled as greedy while they scramble for the wealth of others.
I weep at the thought of the blind leading the greedy with false promises everyone knows are false promises. ย But that is where we are at this point in time in America. ย We will be lucky to survive and I will not sugar coat the bitter pill that must be swallowed. ย Because the greedy, those that believe they are entitled to what others have for their own advantage, have destroyed every nation that has ever attempted such policies. ย But the blind spouting platitudes to appease the masses of the greedy continue to lead on regardless because their eyes cannot, or will not, see the lessons of history.
And for those of you that still do not understand, stay tuned for next week’s article: “Welcome to Obamaburger! ย May I Take Your Money Please?” ย For those of you cannot understand the simple and failed principles Obama promotes, you will get a spoon fed example that even you can grasp.
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J.J. Jackson is a libertarian conservative author from Pittsburgh, PA who has been writing and promoting individual liberty since 1993 and is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. He is the lead editor contributor to American Conservative Daily and also the founder of SignalCongress.com. ย He is the owner of The Right Things – Conservative T-shirts & Gifts (http://www.cafepress.com/rightthings). His weekly commentary along with exclusives not available anywhere else can be found at http://www.libertyreborn.com