The gifts just keep rolling in.
I’m not sure it will all fit in Santa’s Sleigh.
Newt is being touted as a possible new chair of the RNC. It is said a close friend says he would accept the position.
The totality of the loss yesterday will not be seen by the masses for some time. Tony Blankley at Townhall Has this:
We have allowed the elites of the GOP drift from the core beliefs that they (reluctantly I believe) endorsed in electing Reagan and in Gingrich’s mini revolution. The endorsement by the elites was self serving – it gave them power. They never really believed in smaller government and lower taxes. They used the Conservatives as a granite staircase to climb to the heights, but once they attained Olympus they ignored the granite they stood on and tried to build a new platform of clouds – clouds of big government ideas, trying to buy the affection of those who would never love them.
The elites have been knocked down, we need a new leadership from the base – willing to rebuild the party on the core principals and ignore those who held that only by purchasing the admiration of the greedy left could we succeed.
Back in January the “Progressive” Third Way Dispatch had the following:
Bad economic times are red meat to many progressives, who will be jumping on the chance to talk down the economy still further and trumpet a message of neopopulist pessimism.
Progressives should resist that temptation. We shouldn’t be trying to convince Americans that we’re on the brink of a new Depression, or that the middle-class is teetering on the precipice of poverty. Rather, we should be working to persuade Americans that we understand what it takes to get the economy moving forward in a way that benefits average families.
Why Obama and his crew decided to abandon the advice of Third Way comes down to crass opportunism. They saw the economic turmoil they helped create and could not restrain themselves, their natural instinct is to spread gloom and doom and blame Republicans and Conservatives.
Now, I know many are wondering “exactly what is the “Third Way”? I was. It appears not to be related except by name to the Third Way idea that was espoused in Britain and found favor with Tony Blair. I say this because of this description of that movement I dug out:
The Third Way is in favour of growth, entrepeneurship, enterprise and wealth creation but it is also in favour of greater social justice and it sees the state playing a major role in bringing this about.
It seems the current Third Way group took the last half of that description and ignored the first half.
They may be more related to the French Third Way:
a French Third Position organisation founded in 1985 by a merger of the small neo-fascist Mouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire,
And I am guessing they don’t feel much kinship with the UK’s position:
Third Way still described itself as “a nationalist and separatist movement … committed to the preservation of our national and ethnic character” and at least as late as 1997 it was advocating voluntary repatriation of “non-Europeans”
But then again, Obama’s ideas do not seem so far from the National Socialist Party ideas of Germany in the Thirties or the party in power in Italy during that same time period. (Trying to remember – did that all turn out well for those countries?)
I wrote this back in February when is became clear McCain would be the GOP candidate. Lately it has been getting a lot of hits from people Googling that question.
This seems to be the big question. Why should we Conservatives vote for and work to make John McCain the next President? Because that is what will be required for him to win.
Without the conservative base, if they stay home, Obama will win. There are some claiming that it will be no different, that somehow under a McCain presidency the same sorts of bad things that Obabma wants to do will happen. They claim that because of campaign finance reform, the amnesty bill and his opposing Bush’s tax cuts that every bad liberal idea in Obama’s socialist agenda will magically become part of the McCain Presidential legacy.
I see a vast difference between McCain’s and Obama’s presidential agendas. The first is judges. We can be sure that Obama will litmus test every judge he appoints and they will ALL be pro abortion. McCain’s will NOT.[Lately Obama has said "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."]
Obama:Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism
[McCain said "The moral authority of our judiciary depends on judicial self-restraint, but this authority quickly vanishes when a court presumes to make law instead of apply it."]
Voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions.
[Obama has also voted not to provide to infants with medical care if they happen to be delivered alive in a "botched abortion" His claim that he would have supported the Federal version is disputed by Fact Check: "We find that, as the NRLC said in a recent statement, Obama voted in committee against the 2003 state bill that was nearly identical to the federal act he says he would have supported. Both contained identical clauses saying that nothing in the bills could be construed to affect legal rights of an unborn fetus, according to an undisputed summary written immediately after the committee's 2003 mark-up session. "]
[McCain voted for the ban on partial birth abortions
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Next is vetos, McCain has promised “No new taxes” and to veto any passed by Pelosi and Ried (assuming they hold the majorities).
STEPHANOPOULOS: But under no circumstances would you increase taxes?
MCCAIN: No.
Obama on taxes:
Sen. Barack Obama told George Stephanopoulos he would raise taxes
[On using taxes as social policy Obama said "What I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness." He is all about class warfare.]
On the war being waged against us by Islamo fascists, would I prefer a war tested veteran who understands intimately the sacrifices of our all volunteer military over Obama (whose foreign policy and military credentials are….?)
Obama [has] gone on record as supporting the “redeployment” of US troops. Two weeks ago, Obama announced a senate bill, “The Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007,” ostensibly aimed at curtailing the Bush administration’s escalation of the war in Iraq and mandating a “phased redeployment” of American forces to commence by May 2007 and end by March 2008.[I love when openly socialist groups support closet socialists]
[Lately Barney Frank slipped up by admitting their plan is to cut the military - in the middle of a war - by 25%]
I like this quote from Al Regenery:
But McCain wakes up in the morning and says to himself in the mirror.
“Duty, Honor, Country.”
HT Joe at Tech Republican
[I've not mentioned the 2nd amendment, fairness doctrine or probably dozens of other reasons, hopefully after tomorrow this will all be moot, after McCain is declared the winner (or in December when Obama's lawyers finally lose all appeals)]
Obama is not just channeling Chairman Mao with his Righteous Wind comments but his campaign is blatently copying communist propaganda posters.
Gateway Pundit found this:
Then there are his offices with banners of Che Guevara:
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:y9e-vn0PBmUPAM:http://sibbyonline.blogs.com/sibbyonline/images/2008/02/14/cheobama.jpeg
And then in the office of a judge who obviously sees the connection:
On Fox News just now former secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger said the only joy he will have if Obama succeeds in “buying the election” with untraceable donations and “stealing it” with ACORN will be writing “I told you so!” letters to all his friends.
I have not had any money in the stock market since 1987 (doubled my money and got out about a month before the crash) but I am making a bold prediction that on Monday the DJIA will be up substantially. I am basing this on the tightening of the polls putting Obama and McCain tied within the MOE on several major polls. I don’t give much credence to polls – haven’t since the first time I blatantly lied to an exit pollster and then laughed all the way home. The multiplier effect (much like the leverage effect of trading on the margin in the market) means that it takes a very few deceptive respondents to polls to throw off the results.
Think about it – if the poll is asking 1000 people a question and extrapolating that to the whole population (as it is done every day) just 5 people saying they will vote for Obama when in fact they intend to vote for McCain that is a full one percent inaccuracy. The MOE (margin of error) is based on the idea that as hard as they try the sample will not be exactly representative of the whole population. All polls rely on all who actually respond will be honest. But I know they are not.
Any way, with the tightening of the polls along with the recent news difficulties the Obama campaign has seen – his illegal alien aunt living in taxpayer subsidized housing in Boston – audio of Obama promising to bankrupt the coal and electric industries – Joe the plumber actually joining McCain’s campaign – all of these add up to my prediction that the market will bet that Obama will not win on Tuesday – therefore I believe the market will be up.
Do college literature or poli sci classes include Ayn Rand any more in their required reading? If they do I don’t think the students who seem so enthralled with Obamanation actually read him – must be Cliffs Notes or whatever this millennium’s equivalent is. Certainly none of the “journalists” in the MSM understand his works.
The following seems to be a press release so I’ll quote it entirely:
Are We All Socialists Now?
October 10, 2008Washington, D.C. –The Treasury Department, as part of its ongoing assumption of control over the financial industry, is preparing to inject cash into U.S. banks in exchange for preferred shares of bank stock.
“Are we all socialists now?” said Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. “Have we learned nothing from the devastation that socialist policies wrought worldwide in the twentieth century? Government intervention distorts markets and causes economic dislocations, no matter whether Uncle Sam controls private companies by regulation or assumes public ownership outright.
“A crisis doesn’t transform poison into medicine. Over decades, government manipulation of money, credit, and mortgages poisoned this economy and left it dangerously weak. Now Hank Paulson and his comrades are hooking up IV tubes filled with more of the same poison–bailouts, loan guarantees, cheap money, and more burdensome regulations–and hoping we will lie still and trust in their cure.
“But the real cure is capitalism, not more doses of socialism. We should act quickly to put government in its place, by rolling back the interventionist measures that caused the present emergency. Government’s proper role is to punish fraud and enforce contracts, not to own and manage the economy. We cannot achieve financial health unless we are willing to free the markets.”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3IAjphhw6E[/youtube]
This ad from the National Republican Trust PAC calls out Obama for never objecting to Wright’s bombastic anti-American sermons until it became a campaign issue.
