CIRCLING THE TOILET
Re: Robert P. Kirchhoefer s
Elections Have Consequences:
Another piece of RINO crap, much like Thursday’s bouquet to
Olympia Snowe (In
Defense of Principled Moderates).
Conservatives and patriots would not have been better off with
McCain. He would have sold us out to all manners of government
interventionism to be bi-partisan, and no Republican opposition
would have been forthcoming. As the country comes to know the
programs Obama has in mind, there is a building opposition. While
Republicans are still in bad odor (and for good reasons, based on
their feeding at the trough), people are coming to understand
that “hopey changey” is just another expression for the
regressive statism that the left always sponsors, and for the
celebration of American defeat that the left holds so dear.
Here’s what would have happened if McJerk had been elected. The
economy would have been just as bad. McCain would have given the
left a half loaf. The left would have demanded a full loaf, and
continued to pound Republicans, with the media cheering on the
“progressives.” Republicans would have lost even more seats in
2010.
With all the Obama/Reid/Pelosi nonsense in play, the public
revulsion, and the continuing economic crisis, the Republicans
have an opportunity to rebuild their brand and support the many
grassroots efforts to bring the government under some sort of
rational control. After all, if we want to look for systemic
risk, look no farther than the White House, the Capitol, and the
Fed.
Of course, the Republicans could blow this opportunity, just as
they blew the chance to make a real difference once they were
ensconced in what they must have thought was permanent power.
Look at the sad leadership in the Congress. Look at New York 23.
I fear the Republicans still don’t get it. I used to think the
Republicans were the stupid party. I’m beginning to think they
should trade symbols with the Dems. They are as stubborn as a
donkey, and getting hit with a two by four doesn’t seem to
overcome that stubborn belief that people will esteem them as an
alternative that stands for nothing.
And that brings me to defending “principled moderates” like
Olympia Snowe. Mr. Hillyer, are you out of your mind? It’s one
thing to pretend to be moderate, as is true of most of the blue
dogs. It’s another thing to actually vote with the liberals, time
and again, and to thereby continue to undermine the battered
Republican brand. Sometime you might want to look at the various
voting surveys produced by interest groups. The “moderate” Dems
always end up with high liberal scores, the “moderate”
Republicans always end up with mid to low conservative scores. If
the Republican Party doesn’t stand for an essentially
conservative outlook that its prominent legislators, and
presidents, support in most respects, it will continue to lose
ground to the party of government. Note that despite all the Dem
bluedogs and “moderates,” the discussion among Dems is not
whether the government should overhaul the American healthcare
system, but merely whether now is the time for a “public option.”
Good grief!
Keep supporting those “moderate” Republican losers, and watch the
Republican Party continue to circle the toilet. It’s time to
bring conservative beliefs to liberal states and districts. The
Dems seem able to compete in Republican areas, and without
betraying the major interests and messages of their party. When
are we going to learn to do the same?
— Stephen Zierak
Kansas City, Missouri
Of course John McCain would be a better President than Barack
Obama. Of course his administration would be very different.
That doesn’t make McCain a conservative. Nor change the fact that
he continues to do his level best to cut down anyone remotely
resembling one, or betraying Republican administrations in hopes
of currying favor with the “left-stream” news media.
I voted for Sarah Palin to be Vice-President, knowing that she
was the only conservative in the race. It wasn’t a lack of
conservative votes that did in John McCain. It was his
too-foolish-to-believe faith that his friends in the media would
be fair to him, it was independent voters switching parties, it
was tremendous liberal-voter turnout and not a few illegal votes
on the Democrat side that did him in.
Stop blaming conservatives for the faults of others.
— Lloyd Daub
Greenfield, Wisconsin
HISTORICAL ACCIDENT
Re: W. James Antle III’s Third
Way:
I would think it inevitable, that conservatives would eventually
tire of voting for those who don’t believe what they believe,
don’t support what they support, and don’t oppose what they
oppose. That conservatives go under the Republican banner is a
historical accident…
— Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida
James Antle III’s antipathy to Reagan’s Republican Party (Reagan
was a Republican first and foremost) and infatuation with groups
like Obama’s blue lapdogs (who can forget Antle’s rhapsodizing
over Obamanation Jim Webb) makes him a “conservative” Democrat’s
love — one that keeps them in power. Rather than envisioning
Hoffman as some far fetched model for third party “conservatives”
we should see him as the catalyst for a renewal of the GOP’s
conservative base. That’s why so many establishment Republicans
have endorsed Hoffman — he’s one of us unlike either of his
opponents.
Like a majority of conservative Republicans I am mystified that
local Party bosses chose an Obamacon to represent the GOP in this
special election. Had they selected a solid Republican (a center
right candidate) there would have been no need for a Hoffman
candidacy or even the abhorrent thought of a Democrat winning the
marginally Republican seat.
To defeat Democrats (all who are liberals even Antle’s prized
blue dogs) conservatives must stand by Ronald Reagan’s GOP — a
party further to the right than when Reagan was President. Unless
that happens then Obama, Pelosi and whoever replaces Reid will
continue to control the political agenda and try to morph America
into a Euro-trash state west.
— Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina
A VENDING MACHINE AWARD
Re: J. Christian Adams’s
The Precedented Peace Prize:
I heard the Nobel Committee is going to have vending machines to
distribute the Nobel Prize next year.
— Jim Tecson
Virginia Beach, Virginia
DIRECTED BY MUSLIM FAITH
Re: Jay D. Homnick’s Go Fly
Al Qaeda:
The men who flew those airplanes into the World Trade Center
towers were not Muslim terrorists? They were Al-Qaeda terrorists
who happened to be Muslims, and their being Muslims was
incidental to the actions they took that day? Not really
relevant, eh?
They were Muslim terrorists in the ordinary and correct sense of
that usage. Their conduct was animated and directed by their
Muslim faith.
What you propose, that is, identifying these men as “Al Qaeda
terrorists” is akin to writing a history of the Second World War
that notes Hiroshima was attacked on August 6, 1945 by a Glenn L.
Martin Company bomber, rather than by an American bomber. Would
that make any sort of sense?
— Paul Kotik
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida USA
IN DESPERATE NEED OF PUBLICITY
Re: Patrick O’Hannigan’s Arguing
with Bono:
Sounds like Bono and Sting, though talented, probably should
refrain from anything related to things other than their music.
They have benefited from the “American Way” with their huge
riches, and now, like many others, glow when mentioning Obama’s
name, because of their own racist tendencies. It seems to me that
many of them just cannot help themselves lathering praise on this
radical leftist, do-nothing, with an empty resume and a book or
two filled with racist comments. Perhaps Bono, assuming he can
read, hasn’t read about the “controlling Whitey” in “Dreams from
my Father”!! Methinks that Bono and Sting, both well past their
prime and in need of ANY publicity, had better get out of their
writing tents and try keeping up with the news. Of course, they
are both from semi-socialist societies, from which they both hide
their wealth, lest it be taken from them by taxes!!
— Bob M
Ft Myers, Florida
Sting’s right: The virtual Obama is the real Obama.
Frightening thought, isn’t it, that we have a president that is
illusion —or, as a Western saw goes, “All hat, no cattle”?
— C. Kenna Amos
Jr.
DEATH ON DEMAND
Re: Ken Blackwell’s Playing
for Keeps:
Obama and the Democrats are careful to avoid stating that they
are the party of abortion on demand — paid for with federal
funding. They skillfully cloak their intent with talk of rights
and hide abortion riders in their 1000 plus pages of health
insurance bills. They do this knowing that even their most ardent
supporters, especially church going minorities, Latinos and
blacks, do not support abortion rights. In fact, the vast
majority of church going Democrats fall within the ranks of
pro-lifers.
As the Democrats, especially Madam Pelosi and Madman Reid, spin
and rename the health care debate, Conservatives would be well
served by shining a spotlight on the wording of the bill that
guarantees abortions on demand and the funding that follows it.
Keep the point short and simple: the same people who want to
bring us the “Death Panels” for the elderly are the same people
behind the legislation for death on demand. The argument lacks
subtly, but what has subtly done for the GOP lately?
Conservatives are fighting not just for the fiscal soundness of
America. They are fighting to save its very soul from The One and
his disciples.
— I.M. Kessel
NOT FREE
Re: George Neumayr’s Thin
Reids:
I have noticed that the actual costs of this plan according to
Harry Reid, have been forgetting in the heat of whether or not to
have a “public option”, by any name! What a ruse, almost as if we
have accepted that there is a need for this turkey, damn the
torpedoes. I can say, as a physician, who has worked both in the
private and government sectors (US Navy), that those who have
“free” coverage, will flood the system, leading to more
expenditures, less care for those who really need it and more
expensive for all!
Health care is available for all currently. I know as one who has
been to the ER countless times to take care of an uninsured
person, receiving NO compensation, and then subject to lawsuit,
if the guy doesn’t like the scars he caused by driving drunk and
crashing his car! Funny isn’t it, how attorneys are not liable
for mistakes in judgment, ever, while doctors are expected to
have complete control over the healing processes inpatients
entirely out of their control. Tort reform will eliminate much of
the waste and fraud perpetrated by the plaintiff bar.
— Robert Mandraccia MD
The launch by Nancy Pelosi and her fellow liberals and leftists
of their 1,990-page-that’s approximately four reams of paper-
“entitlement reform” package today puts a unique twist to the
phrase “getting reamed.”
With the lies and illusions from desperate Reid and his
out-of-touch colleagues, as well as Obama, though, perhaps they
all will learn politically what that’ll mean to them, if they’re
foolish enough to pass and then sign such legislation.
Should they, surely lawsuits will occur. As I heard someone on
the radio say tonight, our only hope then may be the Supreme
Court, which could be the only firewall still standing between us
and these leftists and their arrogant madness.
— C. Kenna Amos Jr.
TURNING POINT
Re: William Tucker’s Unscientific
American:
Well done a good read.
Only one thing, The Silex laser enrichment is being developed by
GE, I think.
I agree this will be a real turning point for the nuclear
industry.
I think it is worth an article on its own!!
May be something to report on?
I bet people would love to know a little more about it.
— Stewart
PAST THE ACRIMONY
Re: Quin Hillyer’s In
Defense of Principled Moderates:
I like it. We need to get past the acrimony. That said, if the
other side won’t play ball NUKE-EM!!
— Jim
