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Calling Them Out

Posted by Sanity 102 on Friday, July 03, 2009 6:08:33 PM

 

The below was in answer to a huge fight over a group of bloggers who insisted that finding fault in GWB and McCain would somehow get Independents and cross over Democrats to vote GOP in 2010 and 2012.

Of course the “real” conservative Ronald Reagan was mentioned quite frequently and how those two men fell way short of Reagan's high standard.

So I wrote:

Yes, LET’S discuss Reagan’s failings, shall we?  After all, you all believe that this kind of criticism helps sell Palin and the GOP.
 
The fact is that Reagan DID spend, big time.  In fact Ronald Reagan, not George W. Bush, set the precedent of a Republican piling up large federal deficits not just on defense but on a massive bail out of one particular social “new deal” program called social security. (And yeah, I do know why he had to bail out SS, it was for the same reason that GWB had to give seniors a drug plan, but no one gives GWB a pass, do they?)
 
Tax increases may have been passed by a Democratic Congress but HE signed those increases into law.  By the way, Reagan signed into law as governor of California one of the most liberal abortion laws and do we even want to get into a discussion of his SCOTUS picks?
 
His talks of nuclear disarmament had conservatives like Patrick Buchanan, Richard Perle, and Caspar Weinberger pulling their hairs and if I’m not mistaken Cindy did a whole spread on exactly what the “real” conservatives who attacked GWB said about Reagan back then.
 
Do you want to talk about the various resignations, palace coups, and job switches that involved Al Haig, James Watt, David Stockman, Bill Clark, James Baker, Robert McFarland, Oliver North, Michael Deaver, Don Regan, and tons of others who freelanced and squabbled under a boss that was supposed to inspire the kind of loyalty you blame GWB for not getting from his staff?
 
Let’s discuss Iran-Contra and the precipitous withdrawal from Lebanon that weakened America’s reputation abroad among its most hostile enemies.
 
Do you guys REALLY want to get into the failings of a man that was very human?
 
Do you REALLY think these kind of discussion will help to foster a united group to defend Palin and other GOPs?
 
If so, let’s do it.  I’ve got 8 years of Ronald Reagan failings to go over.  And then we’ll go over Huckerbee’s…and Hillary and whoever else this group likes….ending with criticism and failings of Sarah Palin.
 
Or maybe, just maybe, you guys are starting to get my drift. 
 
By the way, it sounds like I disliked Reagan or I didn’t think he was a good president, doesn’t it?  Well I do like him and I thought he was wonderful which is why I only bring out his flaws when people insist on bringing out GWB’s.  Otherwise, I think of what he gave and the good he did and I tell people THAT is why you vote GOP.  I do the same with GWB and McCain.  I sell the good the GOP does and can do, Not what they didn’t or should have done.

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Sarah Palin - Major Contender

Posted by Sanity 102 on Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:42:42 PM

As many who has followed my blogs may know, I was a supporter of Gov. Palin months before most of America had even heard of her.

Steve of the then CampaignVictory2008 blog had asked me to take a look at a possible VP offering on the GOP ticket.  A young college kid had found her while doing research on VP picks.  Like everyone else, my initial reaction was “huh?”  And ALSO like everyone else, the more I saw and read and heard, the more I liked.

For months I kept finding more reasons to add Palin to the ticket…but truth be told, I didn’t REALLY think someone would be smart enough to actually put her there.  I mean, come on…Palin was Governor of one of the largest states in the union…she had more executive experience than any of the two candidates running in the top seat…she was famous (in Alaska) for being so tight with the tax payers’ funds that it was said that she acted as if it was her money that was being spent…she was respected by both business and unions, managing to bring prosperity for both.

On top of that she was: 1) a woman  2) gorgeous with a beautiful family.

To put her into the 2nd spot and give her national experience, setting her up for 8 years in the White House was sheer smarts…and such political acumen seemed to have left when Karl Rove and D*ck (won't allow me to spell his name which is wierd since he's a contributor writer) Morris retired.

Palin came out like the “White Queen” on the political chessboard that I had written about in my blog a year earlier, but with moves I had not foreseen.  Gone was the soccer mom that only a few people could relate to or the American Idol beauty that many would cheer (and later vote) for.  This was the old time politician that talked of good ol’ values when teachers like her parents and hard working union guys like her husband were looked up to and respected.  She painted a portrait of an America that could don Reagan’s cowboy hat and stand tall for what America represented and what America has done.

But she was fresh, TODAY’S woman…giving kudos to the feminists before her that gave one half of the population the vote and made it possible for a female to run for the highest office in the nation.  She told the woman of America that the battle begun decades earlier had one purpose…to allow woman to JOIN not supplant men in the eternal battle for a brighter future.

She gave voice to every female in America…from the stay at home moms to the diner waitress to the corporate CEO who made choices that either gave them no audience or expected too much.

She also allowed men to relax.  She was their mom, sister, wife…the woman they knew in their lives, not some hard nose elite who would cut off their arm for offering a hand and bite off their nose for ignoring their feminity.

For all of a week she was the darling of conservatives…and more importantly, Independents and cross over Democrats started taking a look at the GOP ticket.

So what happened?

The MSM went after her…but let’s get this straight, if we’re going to be honest…if Palin represents a real shot at winning in 2012, we need to take a hard look at what went wrong.

The MSM went after Palin the SAME way they went after GWB and all heavy hitting contenders.  And like with GWB, the people that was supposed to be on her side, folded.

From Peggy Noonan to Kathleen Parker and bloggers everwhere JOINED the MSM in painting Palin as a small town hick that had no business in the major leagues.

Months later, they are STILL attacking Palin and STILL conservatives are trying to argue style not substance.

I have said and I still maintain, UNTIL bloggers that claim to support the party of Republicans understand that this battle began and has to end with GWB, Palin and all GOP contenders will not stand a chance.  UNTIL bloggers and pundits start to argue issues such as the War, the Courts, the Economy…issues that GWB AND Palin IS GREAT at and stop all this rubbish about what was said or NOT, the MSM will continue to crucify and ridicule Palin and her family.

They will because it works and like all bullies, because THEY CAN.

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In Answer to How to get more Minorities

Posted by Sanity 102 on Saturday, June 13, 2009 5:51:01 PM
The following was in answer to an email that was sent to me asking "how do we get more minorities".
 
You don't get this, you really don't.  This compulsion to be "honest" about Bush's and McCain's failings says nothing about them; it says everything about YOU. 
 
To those millions of Independents, minorities, women...all of which I AM.  What you're basically saying is...WE OFFERED YOU A MISTAKE FOR 8 YEARS.
 
And in 2008 we offered you a mistake (McCain) against a really great cool operator (Obama) who is now running this nation broke.
 
But vote for our candidate (Palin, Jindal, Romney) because this time we will have it right.
 
Sorry, they aren't going to buy because you offer NOTHING but a hope and a maybe.
 
The issue isn't the product...it's the GOP's LACK of belief in the product.  You cannot sell what you don't believe in.
 
Telling voters to trust you one more time after they bought the bridge twice and had to hear for the last 4 years how that was all an error in judgement... conservative judgement...is the ultimate in fantasy.
 
I am suggesting telling voters the truth...when it came to what really counted,  keeping us safe, cutting taxes to go with the spending that was needed because we DID NOT have a super majority, and putting sanity in the courts...Bush, McCain, AND the GOP produced all this in spades.
 
And I am saying that unless you stop bashing the product, you will NEVER sell your candidate, because every time you tell the voter how the GOP messed up, every time you ignore the things that Bush and company DID that was actually remarkable...like purple fingers and the end of those rape rooms and two recessions that no one remembers...you give the voter...the Independent, the minority, women...NO reason to vote GOP.
 
All the fancy slideshows and rhetoric about listening to minorities isn't going to cut this one fact (according to you)...the GOP offered nothing but failures for 3 elections.
 
Good luck in getting Palin, Jindal, Romney elected or getting the GOP to take back Congress and stop this insane socialism.
 
I am saying to everyone that will listen about the really incredible things accomplished by Bush...I am reminding them about the empty towns and the lay offs in this tourist town (and Disneyland, Vegas) and how in less than 6 months that was turned around by a president that went to the people and gave them confidence to go back to living...I talk about the zero unemployment when our greatest fear was having our people stolen by a competitor and the two recessions that no one remembers.  And how we checked daily to see how much our stocks went up instead of how much longer it will take to retire because our stocks are worth next to nothing.  I talk about the end of that barbaric partial birth abortion and how the elderly didn't need to choose between life saving drugs and eating...and how gracious Bush and Lady Laura was to our visiting allies...
 
And how all that is changing now that we have a real spender in office who acts like a kid that has gotten a hold of their parent's charge cards...
 
By the end, I have them yearning for the "good ol' days".
 
THAT'S how you sell the GOP. 
 
We've been thru this before. The choice is yours. You can continue to be negative and hope that the same negativity doesn't continue with Palin/Jendal/Romney. 
 
For my part, I will continue to tell people why the GOP is their only chance of  holding on to the American dream, that they need to start paying attention to what has been accomplished and what can be accomplished if you have people in office who knows what they are doing and are willing to take the political heat for doing so.
 
And I will NOT apologize for what Bush and the GOP did NOT accomplish. I am done with apologies...I won't apologize for America...for slavery...for offending someone.
 
And I believe I am not alone in being fed up with all this self flagellation. 
 
If it weren't for 9/11 and my political awakening...I would stay as far away from the GOP and their negativity.  The question of how to get more voters for the GOP was asked...and I gave my opinion.  The choice to listen is truly up to you. 
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In Answer to Selling the GOP

Posted by Sanity 102 on Sunday, May 03, 2009 4:47:13 PM
The following is in answer to an email regarding how the GOP can win elections.  The original email is expressing the belief that once again, it is GWB "wasn't a good salesmen", that he failed to sell himself...
As someone who has been in retail all my life, I agree, you need to sell the product.  However, and here's the big but.

 Imagine if you will, bringing in a contractor to maintain your data systems.  For most of the 8 years, the contractor does a good job despite having his competitor AND the contractors' employer critiquing his every effort. 

 Now, at the end of his 8 years, something goes wrong and you decide to give the competitor a chance.  The competitor rips out your entire computer system because "the other guy did such a terrible job" and the previous contractor's employer is agreeing that the guy did a terrible job and probably was doing so for the entire 8 years.  Now four years later if the system is still a mess, will you go BACK to the previous contracting company and give them another chance to send someone to mess up your system or will you look for someone else?

Libertarians aka "conservatives" are hoping to be that someone else.  That is why they have spent the last 4 years telling the American voter what lousy leaders Republicans choose.  It is why Palin never stood a chance or will stand a chance if we continue to look at who is selling the product rather than who is actually trying to undercut it.  It is why they are demanding that the only Republicans with any power join Specter and leave the party that they hope to take over like a phoenix rising from the ashes.

The biggest problem with the below list is that none of these people are salesmen. 

 It is welll known that Reagan was an ACTOR surrounded by fabulous speechwriters that rewrote his legacy AND SOLD his revised conservatism...the guy who out SPENT the Russians remember?  Who gave REAL amnesty to illegals....and a whole bunch of things that would have had him labeled a RINO today.

Obama can't speak without his teleprompter--and he doesn't write what's in it.

You can't blame Bush and McCain for being lousy salesmen but excuse Palin and Romney by saying the media did them in.  Remember the SAME Bush who won and carried a bigger Congress in 2004 is the same guy on the list of bad salesmen...should he be in BOTH lists?

The fact is Bush didn't fail any more than Palin...it is WE, those of us who CAN write and communicate that failed to push the issue.

If we had done what we had done prior to 2004 and did a counter point to every Democratic attack, the results would have been as it was in 2004...and we'd be looking at the demise of the Democrats.

One of the first things we are taught in Retail is to look at your product honestly.  If you can not sell it, then leave.  If you can, then you fight for that sale and you do so by understanding who and what is trying to undercut you.

In the case of the Republicans, it is the conservatives aka Libertarian.  And you can tell who they are when they talk about being moderate like it's a dirty word.

I'm having a big discussion about Ronald Regan not having to give up his "principles"...that he brought voters to HIS conservative values, not moved to theirs.  The fact is that the big spending, amnesty giving Reagan didn't have to give up anything to attract the American voter to his side.  He was, by today's standard, a moderate conservative.

He was, in other words, a REPUBLICAN.

It is way pass time that Republicans took back their party.  Think of this as getting rid of the sales people that want to take over and fight like you would if your company was going to lose some hot shot salespeople...like Palin...Jendal...Steele...

Because you will if you continue to expect the worker to be the salesmen too.

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Why the GOP lost--really

Posted by Sanity 102 on Thursday, April 30, 2009 2:53:43 AM
Dennis Prager had a challenge today...he wanted to know if his listeners believed that the Republican party had moved to the Right.  And if yes, then to give examples.
 
Now, I admit that prior to 9/11, I had very little interest in politics but that only makes me more qualified to say how those 125 million Independents saw Democrats and Republicans. 
 
For many years during the GOP Congress and WH, Conservative media told their listeners that the more Liberals listened to moveon.org, the more American voters would reject the Democratic party.  Well somebody must have listened because Democrats started running and backing moderate Democrats.  At the same time, Conservative media, feeling their oats, started badgering Republicans to the Right.  The following are a few examples:
 
1- Republicans understood spending and deficits for things like defense and appeasing the other party to get funding during Reagan's time but became allergic to ANY spending by Bush during a time of war.
 
2- Republicans had priniples, now they have ideals where basic principles like loyalty is an option.
 
3- Republicans used to believe in live and let live, now they believe in rounding up illegals, giving blank checks to build a Berlin type wall, and shipping back to Mexico the friends and families of the largest growing racial voting block.
 
4- Republicans used to be plain spoken people who had pride in their down to earth style, now Republicans want slick communicators that will win the word games of twisting meanings the Democrats excel in.
 
5- Republicans enjoyed their individuality, now they agree with those who attack their leaders and use their party but refuse to take the name "Republican".
 
6- Just 4 years ago, Republicans presented the American voter with two sides to every issue...now Republicans join their Democrat counterpart in telling the American voter how crappy the Republican party is.
 
7- Republicans used to hold their candidates to the same standard as all politicians, now those running under the GOP standard are expected to walk on the waters of purity and ideology.  In fact any fall from grace...as in Jendal's delivery of his speech...Palin's and Steele's less than stellar interviews...will cause Republicans to dismiss such imperfect politicians.
 
Do you want to know why the GOP lost...really?
 
Think about just 3 years ago...the Democrats had lost 2 elections and was looking like the Republican party is today...facing dissolution.  Hillary found her Christian roots and many Democrats were talking about the tragedy of abortion and perhaps it should be discouraged...then they went out and found Bluedog Democrats to run.
 
In otherwords, Democrats moved to the middle.
 
Republicans moved to the right.
 
The former won back Congress and the White House.
 
The latter LOST.
 
Get it?
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Explain to me

Posted by Sanity 102 on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:22:06 AM
It began with a discussion on the first 100 days of the Obama administration...and evolved into, again, Bush.
 
What he did wrong...agreed to by the talk show host...what he didn't do right...agreed to by the talk show host.
 
Can someone please explain to me what purpose raking Bush's presidency over the coals is serving for people who claim to be the base of the Republican party?
 
Does anyone really expect all this insistance on being "honest" about Bush to somehow make people vote for the party that nominated Bush twice?
 
And as they go from Bush to the rest of the "sorry" lot...McCain, Palin, Jendal, you name the Republican...and how somehow, somewhere we have got to find REAL conservatives who will be the kind of president that only real conservatives would love...tell me exactly how all this bashing of Bush and the GOP supposed to get rid of Obama and his Democratic Congress?
 
Does anyone realize that the man is gone...really, he's honest to God not president anymore. 
 
This constant parading of Bush's supposed sins serves what purpose?
 
I'd really like to know.
 
 
 
 
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Why would a "nice" Independent support the GOP?

Posted by Sanity 102 on Sunday, April 26, 2009 10:57:27 PM
Someone once called me a "pragmatist" and I thought that described me perfectly. 
 
I believe in God because it is practical to believe that a higher being created our bodies, "machinery" so complex, scientists and doctors are STILL trying to figure out how to repair it when it breaks down.
 
I am pro-life because I believe that a civilized society cannot afford to allow the criteria of being "wanted" to decide who lives and who dies.
 
I am for lowering taxes because I am one of those that actually pay them, but I realize that as a society that has been blessed, Americans will never tolerate hungry and homeless people.
 
For many years, I voted mostly GOP primarily because of their pro-life stand.  Yes, many times it was mere lip service and it angered me when Republicans allowed their opponents to get away with announcing their "pro-choice" stand as though being "pro-life" was somehow unAmerican and anti-woman.  But being "practical", I choose politicians that would give me lip service instead of those who would insult my values by implying that they shared mine.
 
Then 9/11 happened--and the idea that my world, my comfortable little world that I had worked hard to create, was going to come to an end and that politicians' decisions really can affect that world--put any other issue I may have thought important on the back burner.
 
I took moments from my busy life to hook up with the only party that seemed to be taking the war seriously.  For a period, I even flirted with the idea that I may in fact be a conservative.  But I have never been one to cut off my nose to spite my face and conservatives seemed bound and determined to shrink their number until the party they claim to be the base of became unelectable.  And "winning", "succeeding", are fundamental traits of non-losers.
 
I would not become a loser.
 
Still I tried for 4 long years to get conservatives to comprehend one simple fact, the only way you can get a GOP president to be ONLY a president to conservatives is to have a nation only of conservatives.
 
We are NOT a nation of conservatives.  Conservatives don't even make up the majority.  Neither do Liberals.  The party that rules is the party that wins.
 
Let me repeat this: the party that WINS, get to make the rules.
 
And if they win big as the Dems did, they get to ignor Republicans and spend money like there will always be a tomorrow and wealthy kids willing to foot the bill.  They get to make criminals of our troops and strip safeguards that make our nation safe.
 
If they have slight majorities as GWB had, then they have to deal...and yes, here comes the grown up word...COMPROMISE with Senators and Representatives that represent Democrats.
 
For 4 years, I, the Independent, has shown more "loyalty" than many conservatives...why?  Because in the end, MY world depends on the survival of this nation...and this nation's survival depends on the only party able to stop the Dems.
 
It's as simple and as practical as that.
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Lies told to Conservatives

Posted by Sanity 102 on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:25:19 AM
1- The Contract With America won Congress for Conservatives
 
Let's try and understand exactly what would be needed for the above statement to be true.  This document, made by POLITICIANS, was actually BELIEVED, so much so that American voters gave Republicans the majority in Congress and later the White House?  When has anyone actually believed what a politician said, much less promised?
 
2- The GOP lost the last two elections because they weren't conservative enough
 
It is a political reality that neither Democrats nor Republicans can win without the 125 million Independents.  It is also well known that Reagan, Clinton, and GWB won with cross over Democrats/Republicans.  Now does it make any sense that being MORE of what Independents and cross over Democrats are not (conservative) will help Republicans win?
 
3- Reagan was the perfect Conservative
 
Reagan accomplished a great deal and gave this nation her pride back, but he also spent tons of money, left Bush senior a huge deficit, and gave illegals amnesty.  Which made him, per the "real" conservatives of today, a RINO.
 
4- GWB's presidency was a failure
 
Bush kept this nation safe for 7 years, a feat no one thought he'd accomplish.  Most of Bush's years had near nero unemployment.  He brought down two terrorist regimes, gave two nations their own Bill of Rights--and purple fingers, ended female apartheid in those nations, and convinced two more nations to give up their nuclear ambitions.
 
NO presidency that accomplishes all of the above, can, be any stretch of the imagination, be considered a "failure".
 
5- Liberals and their MSM coharts caused the GOP to lose.
 
Yes, the MSM was unfairly bias and yes, they picked on GWB unmercifully.  But very few people expected different; Democrats ARE after all the competition.  What hurt the GOP was when their own people, the ones that was suppose to be on their side, decided that LOYALTY was an option. 
 
6- The only way to show our moral superiority is to be honest about our own people
 
Ever notice how many times a person will use the excuse of "being honest" to hurt and destroy the person they claim they MUST be honest with? The fact is that your friends do not need to be honest about your faults; your enemies are only too glad to point them out.  A true friend, someone who really does want you to succeed, spend most of their time finding and magnifying your virtues.
 
When you donned that "mea culpa" hair shirt and aired the Republican leaders sins, you didn't convince Independents to trust conservatives, you validated the fact that conservatives make lousy choices.
 
7- Everyone, including my Hispanic friends, was against illegal immigration.
 
Only FOUR states border Mexico and even the towns directly on the border had no wish to end cheap labor or the commerce generated by illegals.  For most Americans, illegal Mexicans wasn't the big issue.  And most LEGAL Mexicans resented the racism implied in the effort to stop only illegals to the South.
 
8- Illegal Immigration was all about national security
 
Right, which is why the wall being demanded to be built was to the South NOT the North...nor was there an outcry to stop illegals from arriving by the thousands of ports on both oceans.  It is why all the vitriolic rhetoric was aimed at Mexicans that had a financial vested interest in the survival of America and NOT at the Canadians who join their European cousins in looking down their noses at Americans.
 
9- We need to follow the intent of the Founding Fathers
 
The Founding Fathers were great men who created a truly impressive document.  But they lived in an era of slavery, child labor, and gender inequality.  We cannot demand strict adherence to their wisdom and cherry pick their morality.  If these men needed future generations to correct inhuman injustices, then we must accept the idea that the wisdom of governing wasn't the exclusivity of the Founding Fathers and that the greater wisdom may have very well been found in our time.
 
10- "Compromise" and "Cooperation" are dirty words
 
Show me a person who has never had to compromise and cooperate and I'll show you someone who has not grown up--or someone very lonely.  Show me a group too proud to compromise and cooperate and I'll show you a group that loses every time and fails to build anything of worth. 
 
 
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Republican stories to tell

Posted by Sanity 102 on Saturday, April 11, 2009 7:17:43 PM
I am in retail.  It is my job to understand how the average consumer thinks.  In the case of politics, that "consumer" is the voter.  One of the tools used to make a "sale" is the telling of "tales", little antidotes that foster a connection, and a little bit of trust between the person trying to make the deal and the person making the decision. It is in this context that I have been trying for nearly 4 years to get conservatives to comprehend what happens when they insist on being "honest" to the point of talking themselves right out of making the "sale".
 
The following are two antidotes that can help bring the consumer back to the Republican "store".

Getting "Capitalism"
 
The other day, a caller told Michael Medved's substitute host (Medved was on passover leave) that he was leaning toward socialism because he had built a mountain of debt in student loans in pursuit of his M.D. Now the doctor was injuried and would not be able to make use of his degree or pay off his debt.  If America was socialist, the debt would not have been made as Medical School would be free. 
 
The host asked if the doctor had NOT been injured, would he have paid off his loans?
 
The man quickly answered: "Of course.  But--"
 
The host interupted, "And would you have then gone on to CAP your wages?"
 
"What do you mean?"
 
"CAP...say the average person made $60,000, would you agree to also accepting $60,000 per year?"
 
"Excuse me," the man replied, indignation all over his words," $60,000 for a man with my education??? That's ridiculous!"
 
The host said: "So you DO get capitalism".
 
The Ace in the Race Card
 
I used to get into huge "discussions" with a Liberal colleage in Britain (obviously not my business partner) after 9/11 when I no longer would tolerate America bashing.

One day, we were watching on t.v. Colin Powell discuss America's plans in the war...and Simon (the Labor colleage) got real quiet.

"You know," he said finally, "that would never happen in England".

I was about to go off on him and what I thought was going to be his "Britain always does it better" tirade, when he continued. "We pay lip service to Blacks, but we'd never let a Black man get that high up in the government."
 
 

 
 
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Liberal Negatives--from an Independent viewpoint

Posted by Sanity 102 on Sunday, April 05, 2009 9:22:36 PM
A few posts ago, I promised to write about the vulnerabilities of the Democratic party; positions that are their weakest point--and should, be pressed at every opportunity.


The Race Card
 
Most of our mega bucks athletes are Black.  They are the highest paid t.v. talk show host...generals...CEOs...stars of music and movies.  America even voted a man with zero experience to the highest position in the world because she wanted to have the first Black president.
 
Independents bristle at the taboo of any but Blacks to call a Black a derogatory name. They are told they can't even think it.  If they must use it, it must be with a letter aka "the n word". They hate the implied apology in anything having to do with Blacks, the idea that just because of the color of their skin, they share guilt for something that happened before many of them was born and before many of their ancestors arrived in America. They cannot comprehend how a whole generation has grown up expecting Blacks to be given preferential treatment but this generation is being asked to pay for the sins of humanity.  A sin that was shared, in EVERY nation, in EVERY culture, the evil that is slavery.  They do not understand the logic behind EQUALITY in all races, yet Blacks NEEDING the government to give them priority in attending the better colleges and getting the better position in a company, as though Blacks cannot do it on their own.
 
The "race card" is coming to the end of it's usefulness.  The Liberals know it, but they also know that the Blacks will never allow them to give it up.  Why should they?  They have used it to climb the highest position in every area of American life. 
 
There WILL come a time when the accusation of being "racist" will cause the same rolling of the eyes that the cry of being a male chauvinist causes.  
 
When I get accused of "not giving Obama a chance because he is Black", I reply that I am condemning his inaction/action BECAUSE I am not racist; because I hold him to the SAME standard I do anyone holding that position.
 
Independents are more and more, simply saying..."Oh pah-lez"
 
Owing The World An Apology
 
"I'm sorry...so sorry...please, accept, my apology".  Liberals LOVE to show their moral superiority by apologizing for America  being richer and more powerful.  They are the first to admit to the "sins" of our military, first to condemn our laws of justice, first to condemn our sense of humor and our colorful culture.  They see "millions" of slaughtered civilian lost in the effort to stop the rape rooms that terrorized millions of Moslem women and ignore the graves of children whose parents didn't "cooperate" well enough with dictators.
 
They celebrate those who will bad mouth a leader of a free nation where they have all the rights of free speech, but look away at the purple fingers and the true courage it took to mark themselves as free people voting against terrorists who threatened their very lives.  They do so solely because GWB is given credit for that extraordinary event.
 
The problem is that because GWB was our president at the time, his glory was America's glory.
 
I think most Americans stood just a little bit prouder--and grinned when pictures of what was second class citizens--women--PROUDLY displaying their courage.  GWB may not have said anything cool like "tear down that wall" or "ask not what your country can do for you", but that vision of "true grit" will be in the minds of many of Americans for many years.  It will be the most powerful rebuttal to a Liberal feeling the need to say "I'm sorry".
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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In Defense of GWB - Communication

Posted by Sanity 102 on Friday, April 03, 2009 3:53:52 AM
"The Teflon President"..."Slick Willie"..."Lincoln" and "Jackie"...how the world loved these great communicators!  Compare them to GWB who didn't take time off from fighting two wars, getting this nation pass two recessions, trying to use his political capital in 2004 to fix Fannie Mae and Freddie Max (and avoid what happened in Oct. of 2008) and Social Security (which will eventually come to bite us in the rear with a vengence), to convince his own party to support him or to sell his policies and decisions in the public arena.
 
Think of all the great blogs that could have been written, the talk shows that could been broadcast, if only GWB had allowed the Left and the Right media to pick him apart publicly...
 
Think of the ratings of Ingraham...Hewitt...Rush or Fox???
 
He could have, as this president is doing now, go on Jay Leno's show and 60 minutes.  Of couse they wouldn't have given him half a chance to explain his decisions and they certainly wouldn't have given him the respect they are giving Obama.  But surely he could have taken a few days out of his leading this nation to entertain us...like bait among blood sport dogs.
 
The fact is that nothing GWB could have done would have ever stopped the bloggers, columnists, talk show hosts, pundits on both sides from attacking and blaming Bush. 
 
The proof is in the fact that GWB has been out of office 2 months and they are STILL attacking him. 
 
It is also a fact that unless the Right stops joining the Left in this obsessive need to blame Bush, Independents will go on voting for the party that at least has their own members supporting them.
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In Defense of GWB - The War

Posted by Sanity 102 on Friday, April 03, 2009 3:22:56 AM
Bush's greatest mistake was taking us into the Iraq war.
 
I find it utterly amazing how many people have forgotten that Sadam had made it perfectly clear that he intended to destroy America.  And he didn't need WMD...he was the biggest supporter of terrorism, funding not just Al-qaeda groups but regimes in Syria and Libya; nations that upon seeing Sadam's teeth being examined decided they didn't want to mess with GWB and America. Don't people realize how much money and lives were saved by these nations volunteering to end their nuclear ambitions? 
 
Then there was the Bill of Rights of Iraq and Afghanistan...the end of the rape rooms of Sadam's boys...the incredible courage of purple fingers...
 
THESE were mistakes?
 
Millions of innocent civilians died.
 
Did you expect us to fight and win a war where no one died?
 
Innocent people were captured and taken to prison where their rights were violated and they were tortured.
 
And many of those prisoners were released, to go home to become a high level officer in a terrorist cell...that killed civilians and captured and BEHEADED innocents.
 
We have to be better than the terrorist; otherwise what makes us different from them?
 
It is the height of arrogance to hold non-Americans to a LOWER standard than the one we set for ourselves.  Why do we have to be extra-ordinarily good to the point of stupidity?  Why can't we expect them to be as civilized as the rest of us--and punish them as we would one of ours that murder and terrorize?
 
Americans have nukes, why shouldn't other countries?
 
Just because the sane has weapons, doesn't mean the insane should have them.
 
GWB acted like he was the god of this world, he didn't even try to reach out and communicate with the terrorists.
 
GWB acted like the leader of the world's sole super power.  The rest of the world thought he was god, blaming him for hurricanes, tidal waves, earthquakes, global warming. 
 
 
 
 
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In defense of GWB-the economy

Posted by Sanity 102 on Friday, April 03, 2009 2:51:48 AM
As I mentioned in a previous post, my belief is that we have got to stop the Bush bashing now if we intend to stop the Dems from bankrupting this nation and removing our satelite defenses.  The following are things said about GWB by Liberals as well as Conservatives who refuses to let go of blaming Bush even though we have a new president and the Democrats have all the power.

Bush left Obama a 1.3 Trillion dollar debt
 
Actually, the number was more like 150 billion dollars until the last few months where it jumped to around 1/2 a trillion.  Did you know that in GWB's time, we had near nero unemployment?  That he dealt with 2 recessions (dot com and post 9/11)?  Most people barely noticed because it was dealt with quickly and correctly...GWB did not use the "crisis" to do some social engineering or to further a conservative agenda.
 
Speaking of the economy...did you know that Alaska has no income tax and that their governor, the GOP VP nominee Palin, got the oil companies to give the public rebates?  Did you know that she has managed to work with these companies for their profit and to increase jobs for Alaskans?
 
Did you know that McCain, the GOP presidential nominee, never took pork in his 20 something years in Congress and proved by being elected time and time again, that politicians don't have to buy votes?
 
But didn't Bush spend, spend, spend?
 
Absolutely, on what a president is supposed to spend money on--the war 9/11 plunged us into.  He also spent money on the no-child left behind program which made teachers accountable for what their students learned; as long as the Federal government was into the Carter created public educational system on a Federal level, GWB wanted to make sure that teachers couldn't just pass their students onto the next grade without learning what they should be taught in that level.  This did not make him particularly popular with teachers who felt it put an undue pressure on poorer schools with lesser educators.  GWB also refused to have Republicans be known as the party that would force the elderly to choose between spending their meager Social Security check on the new (and expensive) miracle drugs and eating.  He pushed forward and enacted a drug plan, that thanks to free trade drug companies vying for Senior Citizen's business cost far less than originally expected.
 
After 9/11, GWB's deficit was around half a trillion dollars.  By the end of his second term, mere months before the THIRD recession of his two terms, the deficit had strunk to a fourth of the post 9/11 and the deficit left by Reagan.  This happened because while GWB DID spend money, he also gave what those before him and Obama after him did NOT...TAX CUTS.
 
Did you know that McCain is famous for his demanding spending cuts?  And Palin has been accused of acting like the Alaskan tax money is HERS, because she guards it as though every penny spent is her money that needs justification and full accounting. Every time I hear about the trillion being spent here and trillion being spent there, I think of McCain and Palin and how these two would have given the Democratic run Congress a real accounting nightmare.
 
 
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The Fight MUST Begin with GWB

Posted by Sanity 102 on Sunday, March 29, 2009 5:00:52 PM
The Obama administration is hard at work trying to sell this economy as being "Bush's".  Now this is rather expected, the dot com recession had been blamed on Bill Clinton even though Clinton had a Republican congress.
 
The difference is that now, conservatives claiming to be the base of the Republican party is accepting and apologizing for "Bush's failed presidency".
 
Now, let's start with some honesty here.  If Clinton had taken us pass two recessions (dot com and post 9/11), got purple fingers, put an end to female apartheid, made two nations give up their nuclear ambitions, presided over almost 8 years of economic boom, kept us safe for 7 years years, the Left would put any criticism of Clinton on a par with treason.  He would be liken to Washington, Lincoln, and Churchill all rolled into one.
 
But because GWB belongs to the party that has loyalty as an option, the first reaction is to agree to any faults and hope that Palin or Jendal or Romney can somehow escape the crucification of GWB. 
 
Let me tell you here and now, this is NOT going to happen.  Why?  Because it works so well.  GWB could be out of office for 20 years and the Dems will STILL be making every candidate with an "R" in front of their name answer for the "sins" of GWB.  I can understand that some of the base, aka Libertarians and third party wannabes, feel this justifies the making of a new party.  But they know that a party that represents one view point with no room for cross overs and Independents will NEVER seriously challenge Democrats much less win. 
 
Bloggers, Columnists, Talk Show hosts are fond of saying how they read Liberal material as if getting the Liberal viewpoint arms them to win points with the group that wins elections.  Who they should be listening to is the very people they are trying to win to their side.
 
That people, are Independents--125 MILLION voters like me.  And while it is true I lean more Right, I can tell you how Independents may view an issue.
 
In the case of who owns this economy, my British partner (and strong Tory) believes that most people don't care who is at fault.  They just want their jobs back, their credit restored, their 401ks showing a future again. 
 
To some extent I agree.  Most people may blame Obama no matter what he says because he is the man in charge NOW.  But unless, the Right...pundits, bloggers, talk show hosts start RIGHT now to defend GWB, in 2 years or 4, voters will remember that Republicans make bad choices...that they leave impossible economies and wars that cannot be won.
 
All during McCain's campaign, Obama attacked him for Bush's decisions and every Republican has had to answer for GWB's supposed sins against this nation.  Like it or not, to most Independents, Bush IS the GOP.  He can either be the GOP greatest asset or it's greatest liability.
 
If you believe that Obama and his Congress is destroying this nation's economy and weakening her defenses, then you need to use every means to defend the man who's biggest sin was that he was a Republican, not a "real" conservative, not a Democrat. In any other time, GWB would be praised for what he did, instead of crucified for what he didn't.  History, most people agree, will be kind to him. 
 
Unfortunately, America cannot wait for History.  Every attack on GWB is an attack on the only party that can stop the Democrats from destroying this nation. 
 
It's as simple as that...it's time to end the GWB bashing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Belonging to the other party

Posted by Sanity 102 on Saturday, March 28, 2009 3:56:22 AM

Sandra Wise ( who write the blog "A word to the Wise") replied to my post:

Amen!

I'm so tired of hearing conservatives who are still saying Bush failed. I too miss his quiet strength, resolve and love of country.

It seems that conservatives contemplating running for President are running against Bush!

And then there are the talk show hosts...Today Glenn Beck on Fox, stated that everything we are going through now was started by Bush.

Another thing, Republicans have got to stop apologizing for "getting things wrong." So, they weren't perfect...When has a Democrat ever apologized for anything?
 
 

and this was my reply...

 
Every apology says "the party of Republicans make lousy choices" for it was Bush and McCain that Republicans put on their tickets.

And it's catching...every day I hear "real" conservatives apologizing for Jendal, Steele, Palin.

If Bush had been a Democrat, we'd never hear the end of this great man...HE got us thru two, count them TWO recessions with hardly a wimper on mainstreet America...HE freed two nations and ended female apartheid! HE put fear into the hearts of our enemies and MADE two nations give up their nuclear weapons program...HE appointed Blacks in high places and most of his closest advisors are WOMEN!!

And McCain would be up for a belated Congressional Medal of Honor...his every moment of torture required reading...his no taking pork and his ability to work across the political aisle would be lauded as the ultimate statesmanship, an American Churchill!

Jendal and Steele would be proof of the parties respect for minorities and the reward of a good educational system that MUST be government supported forever.

Palin would be the first "serious" female candidate and her rural upbringing, her union husband, and her teacher parents would be examined and fawned over...

But they belong to the party where loyalty is an option...and thus, apologies are a requirement.
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