Monday, December 19, 2011

When dad gets home

Some conservatives are whining because a real Constitutionalist is in the race for GOP nominee: these naughty Republicans are acting like misbehaving children who feel the fear of when dad gets home

I acknowledge that there is a reluctance among many post-modern conservatives in America to quickly align themselves with a Ron Paul revolution to restore our Constitutional republic.
What I want to do is take a stab at explaining that reluctance.
These conservatives have been calling for restoring the Constitution's rule of law, wanting judges to interpret the Constitution according to original intent, and not to legislate from the bench.
These conservatives say they want lower spending and fiscal restraint. They say they want a strong military and that social causes like pro-life and true marriage are important to them.
Then an authoritative, Jeffersonian Constitutionalist runs for the Republican Party presidential nomination, and these conservatives are very slow, and somewhat reluctant to join his side.
I compare their difficulty with Ron Paul to children who, after crying for dad to come home, don't like to hear dad tell them that they really will have to clean their room, then they need a session with the family's board of education for their disobedience.
Yes, these conservatives need a spanking for their very liberal interpretations of the constitutional rule of law, their social engineering and manipulations that amount to unconstitutional excess.
There are among these conservatives those who screamed for a fight when the 9-11 attacks happened, and they supported the nation's responses regardless of the fact that they circumvented the rule of law that requires the president to seek a declaration of war through congress.
That rule of law requirement has been forgotten, and complaints about presidents abusing the concept of their war powers have been scoffed at, often by these very same hawkish conservatives.
And they argued for the Patriot Act heedless of the marshal law style despotism coded into it.
On the pro life front, these conservatives want the federal government to end abortions through the jack-booted thuggery of centralized, national enforcement.
Some get angry over the frustrating way that the pro-abortion cause has been manipulated through activist judges, and, as voiced by one of the other presidential nomination candidates, would like for a president to violate his limitations of authority and directly punish judges for their violations of judicial restraint.
You can almost hear the rancorous debate: THEY STARTED IT!!! DID NOT!!! I WANT MY POWER BACK!!! NO, GIVE IT TO ME!!!
Children, and they don't like to be corrected, now do they.
There is a problem in America because of liberal welfare programs. There is also a problem in America because of liberal warfare programs.
There are problems because of spending on social manipulation agendas, and also because of spending on corporate manipulation agendas. TARP to HUD, GATT to NAFTA, and a constellation of other Constitutionally lawless acts, need to be on the table for judgement.
But there are Republican Party conservatives who are ready to join the whiners when its their unconstitutional toys that are up for consequences.
These are the conservatives who need to grow up, and their emotional immaturity shows with their feeling of when dad gets home.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

TEA Party Patriot organizers bungle straw poll survey

A straw poll of 23,000 conservative activists on Sunday went awry when organizers messed up the instructions for phone-in participants to follow for choosing who they want for GOP presidential nominee.
The polling of TEA Party Patriots listening to four of the seven lead contenders who participated with the phone-in forum were told that they would first vote for who they thought did the best in providing answers during the questioning period.
Instructions explained that then they would be given a chance to choose who of all the seven remaining top contenders they would support for Republican nominee, regardless of participation in the forum.
It was after the forum that the straw poll began, first with a choice of who listeners liked among the forum participants. Only the question was: who do you support from among these four to be the Republican nominee.
Then the instructions changed further, compounding the problem even more. When the second question came, asking whom of the other three candidates do you support, the rules also changed again: only the three, Ron Paul, John Huntsman and Richard Perry, were included for the choices of the second question.
To make matters worse, respondents were only just then informed that if they chose a candidate from among the first four, during the first question, then their response to the second question would not be counted.
This confusion led many to chose from the four forum participants first, then have no recourse to chose a favorite candidate if their favorite was among the second group.
The fact that the straw poll did not place all candidate choices together in a clear selection process with clear instructions that did not change negates the straw poll's credibility.
It is sad that the whole event was completely bungled. It was advertised as a means of gauging conservative TEA Party support for Republican presidential contenders without media manipulation.
Then with the confusion about the instructions, and how the instructions changed, the result was a bungled survey that can't be trusted.
The TEA Party Patriots website indicated the results of the bungled straw poll would be posted at 8 a.m., Monday - December 19.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Sara Palin, the Wiffle Molly


In the present and despairing political environment of Coke or Pepsi parties, Palin comes across as effervescent like a Diet Shasta.

It really is a shame we can't have someone to step up like a true statesman.

I would take on to a stateswoman, but that 90s shill about "gravitas" comes to mind: I wish Palin could put on a serious sense of grinding visionary leadership and tough minded verbal attribution like Britain's Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher.

Put them side by side, and the "hockey mom" sounds like she couldn't lead us out of a sideline spat over a bad call, let alone an international crisis. I do believe that in a campaign that nears the stretch for one or one other having the nuclear codes, there won't be a majority of serious voting Americans who would be able to chose Palin over Obama.

Sorry to say, Palin is much more wiffle-molly than Iron Lady.

So I believe she will find some hurdles rising in the primary road ahead - the new dynamics of the actual primaries will make things very tight for her as a real race for a real nomination begins.

Palin's situation is an education for those of us who are issue visionaries - who like some verbal content, but suddenly have to seriously reconsider a person's context and capability.

With Palin, I can see her legacy taking a place near H. Ross Perot the more this nation puts her into the rear view. She would be the wiffle molly and he would be all ears.

Bottom Lines

The documents that provided a foundation for our nation can grade the way for others

The U.S. Constitution and our Declaration of Independence are some of the unbreakable things about our republic.

After being tortured into saying whatever they needed it to say so they could gain the extreme ends of whatever they wanted, this republic's domestic enemies will never be able to take away the legacy of what the Constitution means to the cause of proper self government.

Though maligned and misunderstood, and now largely ignored for its content and contextual meaning, the Declaration of Independence stands gigantic among the keynote statements for the cause of human freedom.

If a day comes that this country is overrun by every conceivable enemy within and without, if the militant power of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, our revolution, our republic, is undone, yet will these documents remain unbroken, ready to provide the seeds to grow the next tree of liberty - to flourish for whatever next generation is willing to plant, grow, nurture and protect it.

As astute historians have already pointed out, if the revolution had failed to begin with, or the new republic been wiped out in its infancy, either one of these documents would still be worthy of note among the most preeminent and compelling achievements of the millennium.

Our fight is not to bring meaning to these documents but to bring their meaning to us - our land and people - before it's to late, today, for us.

We still have the militant power to assemble ourselves together, to redress our government, to launch judgment on Election Day and speak convincingly at every opportunity for the restoration of our proper, legal system.

We still have the militant power to expose the lawless federal government agencies, the ones not described and delineated in our Constitution, for the fraudulent corruption and illegitimacy that they are.

We still have our voice, and we still are locked and loaded, powder dry - ready to respond if the ballot box is taken away from us. There are still some patriots in America who know how to fight - AND - who would rather fight than squish.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Gifford statement "Sheer bigotry"

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head Saturday when an assailant opened fire outside a grocery store during a meeting with constituents, killing at least five people and wounding up to 18 others in a rampage that rattled the nation.
Among the killed, a 10-year-old girl and a federal judge. Among the wounded, a nine-year-old child barely clinging to life, according to preliminary reports.
President Barack Obama said in his comments that it was time for the nation to come together during a time of grieving. I believe it is not a time to assume a major expression of patriotism by millions of Americans is responsible or in any way connected to this tragedy.
The congresswoman's father, the elderly, 75-year-old Gifford, answered a Post question if she had any enemies, and he said, "Yeah, the whole Tea Party movement."
Very ignorant, emotional - and we have to endure such vile attacks in the heat of the moment. But no one should, when emotions calm, choose to make this into an opportunist shill for political gain.
For instance, looking into Jared Lee Loughner, 22, according to comments attributed to him, gathered by several major news sources, reveals a picture of a self-proclaimed atheist whose ramblings on redefining language and new currencies appears to indicate favoritism of the Articles of Confederation over our Constitutional Republic.
Also, he is flagged as a flag-burning self-proclaimed terrorist, apparently identified in Twitter chatter as a lift-wing radical.
Conclusion: taking a gun and using bullets to advance a flag-burning atheist lunatic's incoherent, apparently left-wing agenda is NOT Tea Party Patriotism.
Snapping to anti-Tea Party Patriot conclusions on a tragedy like this? SHEER BIGOTRY!!!
In the long run, I say, "good luck" to you if you use this to create a political statement of attack against millions of patriotic, community-oriented and genuinely caring Americans.