What Governor Perry actually said was that the institution of a QE3 would be economic treason. The Republican nannies out there immediately wrung their hands and rushed to the nearest statist media outlet to soundly repudiate the newly-announced presidential candidate in their most pontifical tones.

These are the same establishment Republicans who will do anything, it seems, to derail any Conservative candidate… man or woman. It seems they care more for their own agenda than the salvation of the country. These are the RINOs that we’ve come to despise.

Governor Perry is right. At this stage of our dead-in-the-water economy, another devaluing of our dollar would have serious implications to the citizens of this country. Bernanke is wrong… he’s been wrong all along. Is he a traitor? Perhaps. He’s a hard leftist, but there’s no law against that. We want to find who’s pulling Bernanke’s strings, among others. I have a feeling that when the dominoes start to fall with this administration, the extent of the rot and corruption will astound even the most skeptical.

There is virtually no area of American life through which Obama and his regime have not marched like Attila the Hun. The shameful mismanagement and abandonment of the mission in Afghanistan could be construed as treasonous by some. Certainly, the misadministration’s embrace of radical Islam, all protestations to the contrary aside, is seen by many to be treason.  read more »

Barring any major revelations or an implosion of the Perry campaign, the Texas governor has the easiest path to the Republican nomination right now.  The majority of the candidates are on life support already, if indeed they were ever breathing on their own in the first place.  So, realistically it comes down to Perry, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Congresswomen and Tea Party darling, Michele Bachmann.  And, again barring any surprises, even with only a few days of being a candidate under his belt, Perry is the de facto frontrunner.  So, he’d better get ready for attacks from all sides and especially the most obvious one: the Dubya Connection.

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It has become fashionable lately for those in the media as well as the political class to ponder over the question of whether or not our political system is “broken”.  Most recently we have seen this in the course of the debate over whether or not (and by how much) to raise our country’s national debt ceiling.  From the lowliest scribe all the way up to Obama himself, references to “broken” or “dysfunctional” government have been everywhere.

But are they right?  Is government truly broken?  In short, the answer is yes, but not in the sense that liberals would have everyone to believe.

Our federal government is not broken because of any recent events or failure to compromise and “get things done” on anyone’s part.  The breakage came under the crush of everything that has been heaped upon a system that wasn’t designed to carry its present load.

For the last sixty to eighty years liberals have worked to make Washington the epicenter of American political life and the arbiter of whether or not and how anything and everything can be done.  In the process the federal government has appropriated power to itself that it wasn’t constructed to handle, and that is why it is broken.

As far as our Constitution is concerned, the vast majority of what the federal government currently does was never intended to be handled by a single government.  Most of those functions were meant to be handled more locally, that is on a state by state basis.  It is worth pointing out that if the people who wrote our Constitution, living in a country of less than four million people, didn’t trust a single government to handle that much power, why would anyone trust it to do so for a nation of over three hundred million, (let alone think it could do a good job)?  read more »

Just when my heart was about to heal and I was ready to move on with my life, a sadder, wiser man, a suitor comes a’ calling.  I want to, I really, really want to believe you’re the man for me, Rick Perry.  But I’ve just been hurt so many times before.  Sure, you say all the things that I like to hear:

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, I realized that the United States of America really is the last great hope of mankind. What I saw was systems of government that elevated rulers at the expense of the people. Socialist systems cloaked maybe in good intentions but were delivering misery and stagnation. And I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God.

Oh my! Lincoln, Reagan, God, capitalism and country all rolled up into one.  There’s no denying that you have a way with words.  But, words are just words and may ex said a lot of the same words before he starting spouting dribble about “compassionate conservatism” and running up the national debt like the bill would never come due.  Those kinds of wounds heal oh so slowly! 

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The results of the Iowa straw poll are not surprising to those of us who have watched the Republican lineup with some interest. If nothing else, the outcome highlights the failure of the extreme left and the Republican establishment’s failure to destroy her… Sarah Palin is waiting in the wings, while the political winds sweep away some of the chaff.

Either one of these ladies is more than capable enough to sweep the so-called Tea-Party to victory in 2012. That’s precisely the reason that both Michele and Sarah have both been attacked viciously and repeatedly by people of low character, who mask their venom under the cloak of media journalism. They have sold their souls to the Marxists who are sworn to our destruction. They are no longer the American media… they are the statist press.

As far as the Republican establishment is concerned, there is reason for their open hostility towards both Michele and Sarah. They know that if either of these two mini power-houses reaches the presidency, their days of rolling over at the first hint of opposition and going along to get along will be finished.

This should be a huge eye opener for all. It’s an absolute measure of the leftists’ and the Republican establishment’s real fear of both of these Conservative ladies. If it came to a choice between these two, I’d be hard pressed to make a choice.  read more »

In the most exciting and momentous period in the 2012 election cycle, the declared Republican candidates will come together to engage in another spirited debate on Thursday, August 10th and then will breathlessly await the outcome of Saturday’s straw poll to see who is REALLY the frontrunner in this talent-rich field of potential challengers to President Baracpdfkoadlfk…sorry, I collapsed under the weight of my own BS.  Yes, the candidates will debate again and then, two days later, there will be the Iowa Straw Poll which is said to count for something.  But, truth be told, it’s meaningless.  Even more meaningless than usual, I should say.  The fact is, the 2012 Republican primary season will not really start until the two elephants in the room step up to the microphone and make it official. Until either Texas governor Rick Perry or former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin step into the ring, the current crop of declared candidates are just placeholders.  The whole process is simply in a holding pattern, waiting. 

I say this not to disparage any of the declared candidates.  There is, generally speaking, nothing wrong with any of them.  As a matter of fact, I am in 95-97% ideological agreement with even the least palatable of them, and ANY of them would make a better president than Barack Obama.  But, they all represent the right message being carried by the wrong vessel.  The exception to this being the current frontrunner/co-frontrunner Mitt Romney.  The former Massachusetts governor is a photogenic and articulate vessel but with the wrong message or, at least, the right message but too little too late.  This a conservative year, a Tea Party year, and Romney is a Bush 41 candidate, the revenue man at the moonshine party!  He has been weighed down by the albatross of RomneyCare from day one and his unwillingness to repudiate what eventually became the template for ObamaCare won’t carry him past the Super Tuesday states if a popular, conservative alternative emerges.  If that happens, he will be competitive in Iowa and maybe even win New Hampshire, but his 2008 total of 11 primary wins will probably be 5 or less this time. The only state south of the Mason-Dixon Line that Romney won in 2008 was the purplish Florida and even a repeat performance of that is probably overly optimistic.  Again, IF a viable conservative alternative emerges, Romney will probably drop out about the same time he did in 2008, which was early February, unless his ego and personal fortune keeps him in until March.

On the other hand, if that challenge doesn’t emerge, Romney may benefit from the GOP’s “next-in-line” syndrome that gave us McCain, Dole, Bush 41, etc as well as the idea that he may have the best chance of shoring up swing voters in the general election.  He’s 2012’s safe candidate.

As far as the other declared candidates go:

            Michele Bachman: right message at the right time but the media has already succeeded in “Palin-izing” her.  The “crazy-eyed” Newsweek cover, her “gay curing” husband, and the fact that she is the next GOP woman after Palin, won’t be going away and would only ramp up if she were the candidate.  Sure, conservatives love her, but general election swing voters won’t and no matter how much the Tea Party may still love Palin, it can’t be denied that the Left’s caricature of her has become her de facto public image.  The same will happen to Michele Bachman. She will probably stay in the race, putting her eggs in the Super Tuesday basket, but probably won’t make it out of March.

            Tim Pawlenty: I find it REALLY hard to believe that this man was once considered the frontrunner! Again, he has the right message but its being delivered by a man who has all the charisma of a small town pharmacist.  He’s a distant third in the popularity contest behind Romney and Bachmann and probably won’t stay in past January. 

The rest of the declared candidates are all very good men, except for Rick Santorum who is a 2x4 in a suit, with good messages, but barring a miracle, most will be out after South Carolina, all will be out after Florida.

So, what of the “what if’s”? 

Sarah Palin is the most interesting because of the double edged nature of her standing in the party.  Among a large segment of the Right, an almost mythic quality has been created around her, one part Boudica, warrior queen, rhetorically slaying legions of liberals every time she appears on Fox News.  But also, one part victim who, since 2008 has had every aspect of herself and her family dragged out into the mainstream media and torn to shreds by jackals who seek nothing more but pure character assassination.

My feel on Palin right now is that she won’t run.  For one, she relishes the outsider role, and what could be more outside than not even being a part of the process.  Secondly, I think that she likes being looked upon as a sort of Tea Party Delphic oracle.  Every media talking head is probably beating down her door to do their show, raise their ratings, just to wax politically about her party and the political environment as a whole.  If anything, Sarah Palin may make the perfect RNC chair.  The Right loves her, the Left hates her, and she has credibility with what is currently the most dynamic movement in the country: the Tea Party.  That position may give her the best of both worlds.

On the other hand, Texas governor Rick Perry is almost certain to enter the race and to do it in a way to intentionally upstage all of the other candidates.  On Saturday, when Romney, Bachmann, et al are the Ames, Iowa state fair, shaking hands, gorging on corndogs and waiting on the results of the straw poll, Rick Perry will be in South Carolina totally invalidating the results of that poll and everything that has happened in the GOP race so far.

 It is presumed as of this moment that Perry will officially announce his candidacy this Saturday after weeks of will he or won’t he.  Well, he will! The question is: to what end?  Many conservatives are vesting a lot of their hope in what they want Perry to be, the “real” conservative, the charismatic candidate, the new Reagan.  Does this sound familiar?  It should.  Much of the same pre-announcement excitement surrounded actor, senator, lawyer and lobbyist Fred Thompson.  With his drawl, his folksy wit and belief in constitutional conservatism, he was to be the Ronald Reagan to John McCain’s Bob Dole establishmentarian Old Guard.  Sadly, the “Fredheads’” enthusiasm was short-lived.  Running a lackluster campaign from the start, Thompson was out of the race by late January, never having won a primary and only coming in second in one.

It should be proven very quickly if Perry is the savior of the party or just a footnote, but you can almost count on one thing: if Perry isn’t what many think he is, the nomination will almost certainly go to Mitt Romney.  If that is the case, God help the party and God help the United States of America. 

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An associate watching a home repair show informed of an episode where an owner could not get the permit to remodel unless he promised not to remove poison ivy on the property since it is classified as a "non-invasive species".

If the Oslo tragedy will be invoked to justify how guns and those questioning immigration are a threat to social order, can't it also be used as an example of why you shouldn't automatically obey someone in a police uniform since they might be an impostor?

I thought European social democracies had extensive gun control regulations.

The act of violence must remain the primary focus regarding the Oslo shooting tragedy.  But isn’t it creepy that a political party is running a youth camp?  Are the same tolerancemongers opposed to Promisekeepers rallies and the Answers In Genesis creation science museum going to speak out against such closed recreational associations and environments?

If one wants to hold to the relativistic multiculturalism derided by the Oslo attacker, on what grounds does one then condemn this atrocity?  To do so appeals to a set of universal values above culture and individual preference.

Unlike the Palestinian mobs that took to the streets in celebration of 9/11, there are no Christians dancing in glee over the Oslo shootings.

If the Oslo gunmen did not exhibit a prominent place in his worldview for Jesus other than as an outdated phenomena, on what grounds can he be categorized as a Christian Fundamentalist?

If the Oslo shooter considers himself a Knight Templar, isn't Dan Brown actually more responsible than Sarah Palin, talk radio, or the Tea Party movement?  read more »

Obama really wants your money… that’s where his idea of ‘balance’ comes from. Can’t call it what it is, taxes… no, that wouldn’t do… ugly word, taxes… doesn’t sell very well. ‘Balance’, now… well, that’s just a hop, skip and jump from ‘shared sacrifice’, that old Clinton standby.

Taxes… that’s it. That’s the whole game plan. Your money, his distribution. He likes that. He loves spending money, as a matter of fact he’s already throwing more government goody ideas out there through his statist media outlets. New and improved unemployment extensions. More ‘shovel ready’ jobs that will go only to unions supporting ObaMao and the DeMarxists.

Raising the debt limit has given Obama another huge slush fund which he will use to full advantage against us. He’ll pump millions of our kids’ money into freedom loving organizations like SEIU and ACORN (in all of its new manifestations) who in turn use, as it has been proven, highly questionable and outright illegal methods in voter registration and in funneling unqualified voters through polls. These people are his foot soldiers. They don’t worry much about legality and some of the SEIU thugs have roughed up people, usually smaller or weaker than they are.  read more »