There’s strong evidence that the elections in 2008 and 2012 were severely hampered by voter fraud. After the George Bush win in 2004, George Soros got busy with his infamous SOS Project flipping several Secretaries of State across the nation from R to D. Remember that the SOS decides if voter fraud actually happened (to see how that works for Dems, review the Coleman/Franken circus in Minnesota). Anyway, Soros wanted to make sure that there would never be another R win in the White House. He’s succeeded for two major elections. America is held hostage by far left radicals and an uninformed/misinformed or moronic population many with outstretched entitlement sullied hands. There are many things that need to be done to save what’s left of our Republic. But none of it will matter if we can’t get it right at the polls. We still have the votes but we have to make them count.
I am firmly convinced that Obama intends to steal back the House and increase his control on the Senate. Unless stopped, massive voter fraud which is a winning strategy for him will work again in 2014. And he MUST win the House to complete his agenda. I’m not foolish enough to believe that instituting Voter ID in more states is all that will win an election–electronic audits of rampant tampering of software (remember Reid and Angle and the magically changing SEIU voting machines?) –must also be performed. Voting integrity must be returned to the voting booth and it is a monumental task. The DFF (Democrat Fraud Factor) has permeated all states in the Union. But most of us know that where there was Voter Photo ID, Obama lost. In 2014 and beyond, it is my contention that the only way Dems can win elections is through voter fraud.
“The left is constantly working on these voting issues,” Mr. von Spakovsky says. “They have dozens of organizations, with a lot of money.” The goal, he says, is “to change the rules to give them an advantage in elections. The other side of the political aisle just doesn’t do that.”
In this same article in the Wall Street Journal, we learn about the Voter Empowerment Act (another radical lefist twist of phrase):
“The Voter Empowerment Act would also mandate automatic registration of individuals on motor-vehicle, tax and university rolls, many of whom are aliens or have multiple addresses in different states: “You’re basically going to be registering lots of people who are ineligible and leading to many duplicate registrations.” The groups pushing such efforts—among them the Brennan Center for Justice, the ACLU and the NAACP—include “the same organizations that have been filing lawsuits over the past few years trying to prevent states from verifying the accuracy and eligibility of people on their voter-registration databases,” Mr. von Spakovsky says.”
Now, you probably didn’t know there was a difference between Voter ID and Photo Voter ID and REQUIRED Photo Voter ID, right? There is a difference. As the chart below shows, there are states with NO VOTER ID required (I live in one–IL–DFF alive and well); REQUESTED PHOTO VOTER ID (if you want to cheat, how does this make sense? Reminds me of the question at airports before 9/11–”Do you have anything dangerous on your person?” before boarding a plane); VOTER ID (without photo); and REQUIRED PHOTO VOTER ID (this is the one we want, people, and the one the liberals are fighting).
How do we accomplish this? First let me explain something I call “THE DAILY PATRIOT.”
Everyday, every American needs to do something to promote our Republic. First, scan the internet for the latest headlines on what the liberals are doing each day to destroy the Republic. This is easy. They are working every day–you can follow Drudge or Bad Blue (be careful on this one of inaccurate information–do your research!) or listen to Mark Levin, etc. to find out how they are destroying America each day. Reputable blogs abound–TCH, The Gateway Pundit, Red State, etc. Another way to keep abreast of what is coming up for a vote (and monitor how your own reps are voting) is by following Mega Vote–you get this right in your email inbox and always have the latest information). Your job is to do something to counter the Left–every day. You call/fax/email your representatives to tell them how you want them to vote. If you want to go further, you can be a little creative. Write or fax OTHER representatives in OTHER states. It is my opinion what they do affects ALL of us so technically, they represent ALL of us. I contribute across the country so in effect, I am their constituent. In my letters to them, I say as much. I announce myself, “As a constituent…” and then state my case. It is easiest to fax. Links are at the end of this blog. If you need to write, it is more tedious as they expect you to know their 5 + 4 zip codes and it is a rep by rep contact. That is OK. I use their home office 5 + 4 which can be found here. I just methodically write them day by day going across the country. That is my Daily Patriot and I suggest you make up your own Daily Patriot and get busy. We have no time to waste.
Here is a place to start with REQUIRED PHOTO VOTER ID: Along with writing Senators and Congressmen/women in each state without it, we need to start writing/calling/faxing campaigns to those in the GOP who have a vested interest in passing Voter ID–Republican Governors and Secretaries of State. They like to stay in office and it will be increasingly hard for R’s to stay in office without required photo voter ID. We also need to be requesting independent audits of the voting software in each of these states and governors can make this happen. In this blog, I’ve provided you lists to start your Daily Patriot. But here are valuable fax/call lists of the 2013 Congress for Senators and House Reps.
Below is a list of Republican governors in states where there is no REQUIRED Photo ID to vote:
The Daily Patriot requires that we begin writing each of these governors and pushing them to work with their Secretaries of State to bring Required Photo Voter ID and software audits to their states BEFORE the 2014 elections. An additional group with whom to get involved is TRUE THE VOTE. They are fighting an uphill battle for voter integrity.
Many would agree that early evening on November 6th, 2012, life took a decidedly downward turn. Conservative pundits tried to put a positive spin on the spiraling tallies but deep inside many of us, we felt a deep foreboding. We backed off watching the news, listening to talk radio or reading blogs and some of us have still not yet gotten back to our regular listening/watching habits and for me, my writing schedule. Why? It is not just depression although that is a part of it. It is not just shock and grief although that is part of it, too. And it is not just anger although for sure there is anger. Many of us know that the election was possibly a close one but one thing some of us know is that it was stolen. There are many reasons why we feel this way and I will include some of that research here but it is easy enough to do yourself if you are interested. Even now, True the Vote is suing St. Lucie County in Florida for voting misconduct.
Why didn’t Romney fight back? Why didn’t the GOP address the fraud? Maybe Romney knew he would lose before he did and all of it was play acting–there are the conspiracy theories out there. Maybe he knew when he lost that the GOP would not fight for him. In 1982, the GOP agreed to walk away from Democrat voter fraud to avoid legal ramifications of discrimination. A recent March 2012 attempt to reverse that ruling failed. The DFF (Democrat Fraud Factor) is with us to stay and now it’s winning presidential elections–by only 400,000 votes or 69 electoral votes. Some might say, “How did some R’s win at all?” There’s a theory for that where a total 100% loss would be too obvious.
We found it difficult to listen to the news because what we knew to be true wasn’t being reported. Romney and the GOP were being blamed for the loss. Those who did not vote were being blamed–and while certainly both reasons were factors, we saw the throngs at Romney’s events; we saw polls and research that pointed to landslides. And then we saw 149% voting in PA and 109% in FLA and 1 out of 5 voters ineligible to vote in Ohio. We saw the lineup of non-residents voting in Maine. We saw and read and heard and knew nothing would be done about it. In fact, if voter fraud is not tackled soon , a vote at all in 2014 is an act of lunacy. Obama needs to win back the House and keep the Senate to complete his agenda against America. For that reason alone, the DFF will continue.
Obama and his administration have put forth executive orders and mandates and fiats as if he had won in a landslide. There will be no compromising with the right nor consideration for the majority of the country who are vehemently against his policies and lawlessness. Everything from moratoriums on drilling in the Gulf to executive “actions” for gun control, shows we have a runaway despot in the White House.
“The problem is that Obama has only greatly accelerated everything Bush did wrong, and reversed everything Bush did right.”
Spending alone is bringing America to her knees which of course is the point and Obama’s plan all along to topple the greatest country ever created and in the process eliminate its Constitution.
Once you start to mistrust your “leaders” it’s hard to not get caught up in conspiracy theories. And they abound. Blogs daily sift through fear and reality. From gun control to stockpiling ammunition to plans for martial law to kill lists and murdered conservatives and heroes, informed Americans are having trouble sleeping at night. That foreboding is still with us but our guts are telling us not all is mere conspiracy.
“..the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.”
And we are overloaded. Many are beginning to stockpile weapons and ammunition. Survival/protection of one’s family several years ago was the stuff of horror films but are popular topics now since Obama’s re-election. Friends have told me they feel a creeping malaise stemming from a lack of control–their own inability to redress the instability that has seized the nation…and them. Houses underwater, Obamacare, a complicit media and conspiracy has made for a cocktail of doom–a feeling that the ship can never again be righted and we are destined to sink.
And so it is. Life has forever changed since The One took office for the second time. Yet something in us won’t give up…I can’t and don’t think God wants us to stop fighting evil, but I must admit I’ve added to my work studying the end times in Revelations. I find it essential to believe God is ultimately in control.
Our Constitution is a roadmap for fighting despotism and totalitarianism and we must continue to fight for it and for our Republic. If we conservatives were sleeping before, we’ve certainly awakened and our fight has expanded from national to local levels where we feel we still have some power (more on this in a later blog). And our efforts must expand to installing Required Photo Voter ID in every state but especially swing states (again, more on this later). Like our founding fathers, we are in the battle until the end however that happens. Like many of you, I’m not going under without a fight.
I woke with a start at 4 AM this morning. I felt a sense of foreboding and the same dread when I got a call another eerie dawn three years ago which marked the first day without Grandpa. I don’t know why, but I’ve been thinking a lot about him lately…having trouble sleeping…waking early. And here it is early morning again and finally it is emerging why he’s been in my thoughts so much these last days. I think he’d want me to write this letter…to all our kids.
Dad was in the Millright’s union. He was a hard worker and proved himself on the job rising in his position of labor to eventually owning his own company (and got to see the other side of unions). But if Grandpa was anything, he was a patriot. At age 17, during World War 2, he joined the Navy and that experience and love of liberty and country shaped the remainder of his life.
He was a good man who was honest even when it was not politically acceptable to be so. Grandpa’s public political life started when he got involved as an alderman in Burbank, IL. He got elected I am sure because of his intelligence and easy going personality. He got along with others and always had a lot of friends. Many of these friends came to him for advice because he listened more than he talked and when he talked he waited until he had something of value to say. He meant what he said and said what he meant. You could always depend on him to follow through. And he expected the same of all of us kids. He would be more disappointed in us if we lied than if we failed. Failure was OK if we had honestly tried at something and followed through till the end.
I remember that, as an alderman of our ward, Dad got a lot of phone calls after work. Mom did not appreciate these as each one would take quite a bit of time because my dad took his responsibility very seriously. This caused more than annoyance at home. Because he was honest, it was hard for him to accept the expectations placed on him to go with the status quo and be a place holder for the “powers that be.” He was not a “yes” man and this eventually made him somewhat unpopular; he voted for what was right and true and this made some people with power very angry at him. My sister and I, at the time in high school, had become lifeguards at the local park district pool. We had always been excellent swimmers, had taken the training courses, passed our tests, were interviewed and hired. Again, our parents always expected us to do our best so we were excellent at what we did. But because Dad didn’t “go along to get along” these jobs were announced to be “political favors” and were taken from us as a punishment to him. He was beside himself that we were hurt because of him. He had gotten into politics to make a difference. But because he had no aspirations of ascension, he eventually finished out his term to not return. We easily found other employment but he never forgot what happened to us because of his integrity.
Integrity somehow falls out of politics. My parents originally were members of what is now called the “old Democrat Party” or the “Kennedy Democrats.” John F. Kennedy was no saint but that was before media gave everyone who entered politics a thorough anal exam. When we now look deeply into President Kennedy’s past, we see many moments in his private life that would not have made my father admire him. But that kind of behavior was not in the public eye then or maybe it was the beginning of poor behavior being shielded by the media for one party over the other. I’m not a historian so I cannot say when that trend began. Regardless, in his public life, Kennedy , though not a perfect leader, lead with integrity. He was trusted and well loved by the people he served. And he was a servant–not someone who was in office for ideology or personal gain. I was in 5th grade when he was assassinated. By the time I was in high school, all hell had broken out and the Viet Nam war was raging. Boys were dying overseas, no one seemed to know why we were there and politicians, to my young mind, for now the second time, became people not to trust. The Viet Nam years spawned a new generation of liberals and I was proud to be one of them–excitedly participating in a “walk-out” against the war in high school.
Liberalism had already gotten a stranglehold of America by the time I was a a young mother but I didn’t even notice. Rights were being eroded more and more every year. What started as an erosion of small rights…like when smokers could smoke and where has ballooned into New Yorkers being denied a large size soft drink. What started as a seemingly good idea–a way to help the impoverished (who by the way have grown by leaps and bounds because of these programs)-the Great Society–has turned into the Welfare State, Baby Mamas, ghettos and an huge erosion of culture and family. What started as “caring about the earth” has turned into farmers’ lives being destroyed because of a fish and CA residents having to live without using plastic bags.
As our country began to spend more and more on entitlement and other “programs,” our pocketbook became smaller and smaller. When people begin to depend on someone for their basic necessities, they become a slave to that someone and are controlled by them. A short history lesson: “Until 1937, for the first 150 years of its existence, US government spending was less than 10% of the nation’s GDP. In 1937, with vastly expanded powers, Congress embarked on a spending spree that has only grown over time. Since 1937, in war and in peace, in recession and expansion, under Democrats and Republicans, government spending as a percentage of GDP has only increased, until today it is nearly 35%.”
I could go on and on with myriad examples but you get my point. We’ve been living like the frog in the boiling caldron and the temperature is just now at boiling. And we have a president who disregards our Constitution and Bill of Rights. For some examples,
–Launching an illegal war in Libya. Article I, Section 8 gives Congress the power to declare war. Under the congressionally enacted War Powers Act, Mr. Obama had 60 days to get congressional approval after U.S. bombs started dropping in Tripoli, but he didn’t bother. Putting the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of yet another Arab nation appeared to be a higher priority than following the law.
–Undermining the nation’s armed forces. Article II, Section 2, names the president commander in chief. Instead of asserting American power, Mr. Obama projects weakness, emboldening our enemies. The murder of our ambassador and three other staff members in Benghazi, Libya, and the attacks on our embassies in Egypt and Yemen are bitter fruit of that reality. In addition, Mr. Obama rammed through Congress a bill homosexualizing the military despite failing to make the case that this won’t hurt readiness, morale, retention or recruitment. He is unfit to be commander in chief.
–Violating religious freedom. Mr. Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services ignored the First Amendment by issuing a Soviet-style order to Catholic and other faith-based institutions to violate their beliefs and provide insurance covering abortifacients, contraceptives and sterilizations.
–Appointing agency “czars” without Senate approval. Article II, Section 2, gives the president the power to appoint ambassadors, judges and top agency officials, but only with the “advice and consent of the Senate.” Mr. Obama has appointed, without Senate approval, more than two dozen czars in federal agencies.
–Making illegal recess appointments. Article II, Section 2 allows the president to “fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate.” While the Senate was in session, Mr. Obama made recess appointments of Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three members of the National Labor Relations Board.
–Forcing Americans to buy health insurance. Article I, Section 8 gives Congress the power to regulate commerce and levy taxes. It does not give Congress the power to force Americans to engage in commerce. During policy debates in 2009, the White House denied that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate was a “tax.” But in court, the administration argued that it was a tax after all. In a shocking ruling, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. bought the logic, upholding this unconstitutional monstrosity.
–Refusing to enforce laws that he doesn’t like. Article II, Section 3 states that the president “shall take care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Mr. Obama directed Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to ignore the Defense of Marriage Act and even work against it in the federal courts. Mr. Holder also suspended newly enacted photo ID voter laws in Texas and South Carolina.
–Stonewalling on Fast and Furious. The Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives “walked” more than 2,000 firearms to drug gangs across the border to Mexico. U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed, along with at least 100 Mexicans. The administration has shown contempt for Congress, and Mr. Holder denied knowing about the debacle despite evidence indicating otherwise. This is not “faithfully” executing the law or defending America’s sovereign borders.
–Violating equal protection and voting rights. The 14th Amendment guarantees “due process” and “equal protection of the laws.” The 15th Amendment guarantees that “the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race.” Mr. Holder ditched the case of New Black Panther Party members videotaped intimidating Philadelphia voters in 2008. Two former Justice Department officials testified that employees were told to ignore white complainants.
–Using the EPA to attack America’s energy industry. In 2010, the Senate refused to pass the “cap-and-trade” bill that would have created a carbon-tax system, vastly increasing federal power over energy. The Environmental Protection Agency declared carbon dioxide a pollutant anyway and began exerting raw bureaucratic power. Mr. Obama’s green zealots nixed the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada and virtually shut down new oil exploration and drilling.
–Allowing the FCC to grab the Internet. The Telecommunications Act gives the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authority over wire and broadcasting, but not broadband. Congress and a federal appeals court rejected the FCC’s claims of authority, yet the FCC released “net neutrality” rules in December 2010. This violates the First Amendment’s protection of free speech. The FCC has no more authority over the Internet than it does over the musings of Vice President Joseph R. Biden.
–Attacking a state for upholding federal law. The 10th Amendment says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” In July 2010, the Justice Department sued Arizona for a law requiring state officials to enforce federal immigration laws. Nothing in the Constitution prohibits states from assisting in enforcing federal laws. Meanwhile, the Justice Department ignores “sanctuary cities” that openly violate federal law.
–Giving a foreign leader platforms to denounce an American state. In May 2010, Mexican President Felipe Calderon addressed Congress, where he blasted Arizona to cheers from Democrats. Mr. Obama joined him later at a White House press conference where both men trashed Arizona. The president takes an oath that he will “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution,” which guarantees that states are part of the United States, not part of a foreign country by default.
–Using the National Labor Relations Board as a goon squad. The NLRB sued in April 2010 to shut down the Boeing Co.’s new $750 million Dreamliner plant in right-to-work South Carolina because unions objected. Nowhere does the Constitution give the federal government the power to tell businesses where they can operate.
We can’t forget our $16 trillion dollar debt, more debt created than that of the other presidents before him. And then there is Benghazi where the character, competence and credibility of Obama and his entire national security team have been called into question. There is more and will be more in a second term. This knowledge has created a fear in me that is astronomical especially as we approach Tuesday. I understand that the main stream media has kept this information from the public ear so that many do not realize what they are losing. As stated in The Erosion of Rights: “Rights do not disappear suddenly and noticeably, but slowly and often subtly. The price of democracy is eternal vigilance, but not all people are vigilant all the time, and most are willing to see various freedoms erode and even disappear. Fear drives people to consciously give up rights in exchange for security. Apathy permits one group that does not value a particular freedom to stand by and watch while it is taken away from another group that does value it. Out of Hate one group will actively try to oppress another and take away their rights. Out of Selfishness one group will infringe on another’s rights for their own economic benefit. Ignorance lets some people sleep while the rights they never knew they had slowly disappear. Conceit describes the justification of the ‘elite’ to make decisions for the masses as a parent does for a child. Friedrich Hayek called this the ‘fatal conceit’ because of the impossibility for a bureaucracy, however smart and well-educated, to be better informed than the people collectively. Distrust of others’ judgment and motivations makes us willing to give up our own freedom in order to restrict theirs. Impatience with the pace of non-coercive solutions to very real and troubling problems leads people to reach for the easiest solution: pass a law.”
“A democracy is measured by how it treats its minorities, but great energy and will are required to defend the rights of other groups with which you don’t personally identify. The Holocaust was not an aberration, but is repeated all around us on a smaller scale every day.”
As a young woman, I was not paying attention. By the time 9/11 happened, I began to be increasingly aware of America’s spiral into liberalism as I watched a liberal media attack President Bush. His lack of defense was one of the reasons we got Barack Obama. Liberalism had a great triumph in his election. The threat of a behemoth Obamacare literally caused me to get in my car and drive to Washington DC to protest.
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At this point in time, 2009, I was fully awake. I returned in 2010 to protest its passing–a bill so large and overpowering it will finish the job of shredding our precious Constitution and control over 1/6th of the economy pushing us over the fiscal cliff and into socialism. If you wonder what socialism will be like in its totality, please watch this advertisement:
And so we come to this letter I am writing to you. Despite its length, I’ve asked you to read it in its entirety. You love me–you’ll do it as you’ve done so many other things because you love me. You are “humoring” me by reading this. Until recently, some of you haven’t voted. Some of you have told me you don’t know who you’ll vote for. Some of you have told me you delete my emails filled with evidence of what I’ve told you today. I love YOU. That is why I have written this piece–I will be 59 later this month. If fate allows, I figure I have 15-20 years left on this earth. YOU are the reason I have been fighting night and day for every local campaign to save our country. It is essential that we stop Obama–with a new president–but also with an overturned Senate and a solid House–to keep them all in line to repeal Obamacare, bring order and the Constitution back into our governance and reduce the size of government so you can have liberty for you, for my grandchildren, for our country.
If you know who were the last winners of American Idol or the plots of latest sitcoms better than you do who is representing you in Congress, you and your children are in deep trouble. If we are lucky enough to remove Obama from office on Tuesday and to get a majority in the Senate, we will have a short breather to begin the long hard task to save America–it will take more than this election to do that. If we lose either of those objectives, we will either sink into the hole of tyranny or tread water for a short while before we sink. Voting is not enough, dear children. You have to get involved. If Obama is re-elected, you will be the first generation of a despot America. When Obamacare is in full force, in 2014, you’ll see and feel it for the first time. You will complain but there will be nothing you can do about it. Oh, Congress will tinker with it–for decades–but it will never get smaller or less powerful. It will only grow until your memory of liberty was a thing of the past. Obama will pass more and more executive orders so that at the end of four years, even those who have not been paying attention, will notice the change. I’m afraid it will be too late then.
Tomorrow night I’m going to bed knowing I have done everything I can to save this country. I’ve made phone calls, walked in parades, contributed more than I could afford to conservative candidates, walked streets I never knew to try to convince people what was happening and how they needed to vote. Did I wake up late to the reality of liberalism? Yes. But I’m not going down quietly–without a fight. Grandpa was a proud Democrat when the Democrats had morals–before they made a far-left turn. He died a staunch Conservative and I will do the same.
After Tuesday, I don’t know what the forecast will be for our liberty. I sincerely doubt America can withstand another four years of untethered liberalism. It is my fervent prayer that you wake to the reality before all your liberties are gone and that you begin to act every day to keep or regain them. That will mean beginning to read more, getting involved locally, and knowing for what and why you are voting (and reading my emails once in awhile)!
I love you more than words can say and I promise I will fight until my last breath to restore America for you and for my grandchildren whomever they may be. I pray you, too, will pick up the gauntlet before I am gone and continue the fight for those you love.
Conservatives are nervous. And exhausted. But wasn’t this the plan? The Alinsky/Cloward-Piven strategy overwhelms the system which is why we are fighting on every front. From Wayne Allen Root:
As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University . They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues… Taken individually they’re alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival … and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
We are told repeatedly that the race to the White House is over. And yet Rush tells us: “…the only way any of this can be true is if the American people are at a record level of stupidity. The only way this narrative today can be true is if we have lost the country and everybody in it, or a big enough majority that’s gonna vote Democrat is just plain dumb now, just ignorant and stupid.”
For those of us who fight, depression, exhaustion and eventually retreat can ensue. I believe this depletion of energy is further exacerbated by an uphill battle to get the truth to those who can change our country–the American voter. And a voter–asked me if Pelosi is Democrat or Republican. Yes. I had this question last week from a voting US citizen with a master’s degree. At least I convinced him to vote R but what of those with whom we cannot reach? And what of the elderly lady we stopped to talk to on the street who asked us, “Why do all the other countries get free stuff and Americans do not?” We walked away shaking our heads. Then there was a young woman who said, “I want free health care because I can’t afford it–and that’s what Obama will give me.” These folks will also vote in November based on misinformation or on lies purported by the leftist media. These people will get nothing free and they will pay–in many cases–with their lives. Yet they are lied to by a press that was designed,in the beginning of our founding, to tell the truth. And the lies continue. Obama’s lies, Axelrod and Reid and Pelosi’s lies. Carney’s lies. And the left wing media carry their water into the depths of the parted Red Sea where complying Americans will drown before awakening to truth. This same media care not nor bear any responsibility for their part.
“It is one thing to bias the news, or have a biased view. It is another thing to specifically decide that you will not tell the American people information they have a right to know…”The press’s job is to stand in the ramparts and protect the liberty and freedom of all of us from a government and from organized governmental power. When they desert those ramparts and decide that they will now become active participants, that their job is not simply to tell you who you may vote for, and who you may not, but, worse…what truth that you may know, as an American, and what truth you are not allowed to know, they have, then, made themselves a fundamental threat to the democracy, and, in my opinion, made themselves the enemy of the American people.
The question repeatedly asked–is Romney running a weak campaign? For once I’d like to see the GOP pundits support what he says and does and instead of joining the MSM in criticism, actually analyze the strategy rather than make judgment on how the left views the result. We are like the kid on the block who has not only the bullies after him but those he thought were his friends turning their back on him too.
And what if his campaign IS weak? Will it matter? No–not to conservatives–we are voting our ticket come hell or high water. But to those in the middle….the undecided and there are literally millions of them–those who only absorb what the media feeds them–what about them? And do we have enough conservatives who will come out to vote in numbers enough to overcome—the dead voters–the traveling multiple vote voters–the dog and disney voters–the early voter fraud–the software fraud–the votes found in the trunk fraud and the write-in idiots for Gary Johnson and Ron Paul? While the media maneuvers the news to depress and keep conservatives from voting, I see fear on faces when I walk the precincts–conservative voters refuse yard signs because of vandalism. Fear is rampant, but if Obama wins, there will no longer be two parties and that fear will turn into self-preservation. I hope we make enough voters understand the importance of standing down those threats in our last chance to save the Republic.
And the polls. Always the polls. They’re up for Obama. That is all we read. And there’s severe oversampling of Democrats in just about every one. So from Rush we hear: An August study by the left-leaning think tank Third Way showed that the Democratic voter registration decline in eight key swing states outnumbered the Republican decline by a 10-to-one ratio.
And I ask myself: Did 2010 not happen? Was I dreaming through that election? We would have won even bigger–taken the Senate were it not for the Franken and Reid fraud. Did the 2010 patriots disappear? No, but many of them hoped for more of a conservative nominee than Romney. They believed their win meant we could turn America around in one election. We can’t. (This is foolish thinking and I pray it doesn’t turn into the Perot effect in the most crucial election of our lives.) Regardless, we in the trenches need to tattoo “2010″ to our foreheads, and for those who read this, for heaven’s sakes, please get out there and join us!
Yes, conservative activists are exhausted–emotionally–physically–psychologically. This MUST be how the Founders felt. Farmers without training came out of their small homes with rifles and guns to band together to fight against the enemy who would steal their liberty. Many gave their lives to save a fledgling country on the precipice of tyranny. They, too, for different reasons, had no one to tell them everything would be OK. They faced a powerful force–the British military Red Coats–backed by an entire country well armed to take back power. This is where we are and our formidable foe is from within–a tyrannous administration and determined to take America down with media renegades to protect them from discovery. And though they have the same tyrannous motives, they’re not wearing red coats–
–at least on the outside.
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
–Frederick the Great
This is a very sad day for our country and I fear it portends an ominous future. I can’t help but think the bowing and pandering of this administration toward Islamic regimes has portrayed America as weak and ineffective. It is a show of true strength that has gotten this country to where she is and without it, we will indeed be lost.
In a recent video, the former Navy Seals have it right–we should bow to NOBODY:
In addition, the support of the Muslim Brotherhood both inside and outside our own government is misguided and foolish. To ignore radical Islam and its growing peril is dangerous folly. What happened unfortunately is not an unusual outcome if you look at the timeline of events in Libya. Yet we could say that Obama “owns” Libya. He is the one who did the pushing of Gaddafi out and the Muslim Brotherhood in without pause for the consequences. It was a diplomacy “photo op” in his campaign.
In an article in Newsmax entitled: “Hayden: Obama’s Libya Adventure to Blame for Ambassador Death” Violent protests in Libya that claimed the life of the U.S. ambassador were the result of President Obama’s decision to intervene in the Libyan revolt without a “deep appreciation” for what would follow, Michael Hayden, a former four-star Air Force general and CIA Director shared regarding the events in Libya:
“I’m reminded of Secretary of State Powell’s comments about Iraq going back almost a decade — the Pottery Barn theory that if you break it you own it.
The U.S. Embassy isn’t scolding protestors for attacking the Embassy, but instead are attacking free speech itself by condoning radical Muslims who were protesting against….free speech, or in other words, protesting because someone simply said something they didn’t like.
Townhall.com
It is my belief and that of many others that these extreme actions must be met with strength, not weakness or merely regret. Case in point–recall when Gadaffi backed down after Bush invaded Iraq and captured Sadaam.
And, as in the Bush administration, we need to be keeping Israel as our ally. Obama hasn’t treated them like an ally. He’s tiptoeing through the middle and in the process has all but convinced Netanyahu, our only stable Middle East partner in democracy, that while he’s busy asking all his donors to “have his back”he doesn’t have Israel’s. And earlier this week he denied Netanyahu a meeting...he’s too busy campaigning while Israel faces a nuclear Iran.
Netanyahu said that those who do not place “red lines” in front of Iran’s nuclear capability have no moral right to put a “red light” in front of Israel when it comes to military action. Netanyahu’s words came in the wake of statements by Clinton on Sunday, and State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on Monday, that the United States had no intention of putting either red lines or deadlines in front of the Iranians.
Unlike Obama, Reagan created a strong America: Ronald Reagan’s three most important pillars of national security policy were (1) peace through strength; (2) trust but verify; and (3) beware of evil in the modern world. We followed that wisdom. And communism collapsed. The Soviet empire crumbled. Tyrants everywhere fell onto the ash heap of history. And emerging democracies and markets gave promise to the long held desire of human kind for peace and prosperity.(Family Security Matters)
Obama’s response of condemnation was 9 hours too late following his apology to those who killed Americans on the anniversary of 9/11. They were killed because there was no real security (and should have been–Obama again missed his intelligence briefing this week) around the Islam based compound on this historic day. America has lost its image of strength around the world because we have a weak and compliant leader. Yesterday’s events prove this point more than any words can say.
Obama may call his actions strength but we know from our experience that his words are slights of hand for what is America’s reality. As Clint Eastwood famously said, “It’s time to let {Obama} go.”
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli
What has occurred to me is that in November 2012 conservatives will attempt to do what they have always done…and that is, like a permissive parent, yet again save liberals from their own poor choices. And like the consequences that permissive parents often experience, the longer our liberal children have been allowed to raid the coffers and do whatever they want, the harder it will be to reign them in. For decades, the GOP establishment has acted like a permissive parent in taking a backseat to its responsibility to the constitution and the country–allowing liberal miscreants to drive us to where we are now. And like spoiled and foolish self-centered children, the liberal citizenry will wake up someday surprised to find themselves with very few choices and a life or death existence.
What I see in our future…within a decade (long past Obama’s tenure and blame)…our options in the marketplace will be few, and government will control almost every aspect of our lives from mere choices in the grocery store to whether or not we will live or die due to poor healthcare.
And our task is formidable! We have to try to change the presidency, keep the House and flip the Senate–all of this while facing massive mob-like voter fraud in every precinct in the country! Our choices for the executive branch were less than stellar–a situation we ourselves created by a generation of complacency. But because of that, we have a depressed conservative constituency–many of whom–out of foolish conscience–will not vote for the one candidate that will oust our liberal dictator. Those who say a majority win in the House and Senate alone is enough are simpletons. Our lawless president has shown us the fruitlessness of that aspiration–he governs without Congress.
Our GOP candidate SHOULD win in a landslide, but I doubt he will for reasons stated. But even a win creates another daunting task: not only will our lukewarm conservative president have to work with Congress to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act but our elected representatives will have to fix our now compromised constitution–and only if we have enough true conservatives in both Houses to override a Democrat/RINO filibuster.
We have a glimmer of hope. But it is only a glimmer. The long historically predicted outcomes of the fall of a civilization happening after 200 years have been oft stated:
(The quotation below is old, and most people have attributed it to Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (1747-1813), a Scottish attorney and writer, although it has been attributed to several other men as well.)
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to selfishness;
From selfishness to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
A conservative win in November will be a miracle and a loss securely tied to fraud and fools.
It is time to oust the king. Treason is defined as the betrayal of one’s own country by waging war against it or by consciously or purposely acting to aid its enemies. There are several examples of Obama’s involvement in activities that deliberately step on our Constitution: From DCX Exposed:
—President Obama has appointed numerous people to cabinet level positions without the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate, as is required by the Constitution.
—The push by Pres. Obama to pass healthcare legislation in the Congress of the United States that he was fully aware was unconstitutional.
—Despite the fact that the United States Senate refused to pass the Cap and Trade bill , the President has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to use regulations to implement key portions of the bill, including those regulating so-called greenhouse gases.
—Through the Department of the Interior (DOI) Obama has placed a moratorium on offshore oil drilling or exploration off both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States and in parts of the Gulf of Mexico. He has also prohibited new drilling exploration on federal land in any states in the United States. These actions by the DOI have continued in direct defiance of several court orders issued by Federal Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans, Louisiana declaring that the department had no authority to issue such a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf.
—President Obama has abdicated his responsibility to enforce the laws of the United States against illegal immigration. He has also ordered the border patrol not to arrest most illegal immigrants entering the country, and has stopped deportation proceedings against thousands of people in this country illegally. He is in effect instituting the so-called “dream act” bypassing the Congress of the United States which has sole authority over immigration matters.
—President Obama has ordered the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt regulations giving the federal government control of the Internet and its contents , including providing Obama with a kill switch that gives him authority to shut down the Internet if he sees fit.
—One of the paramount responsibilities of the President of the United States and his executive branch of government is to enforce and defend laws adopted by Congress unless they are declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court. He has unilaterally declared that the Defense of Marriage Act passed by the Congress is unconstitutional, and further declared that he will not have the Justice Department defend it against lawsuits.
—His administration has also refused to enforce laws against voter intimidation and federal law that requires states to purge their voter registration lists of deceased individuals and those that are registered illegally. In addition, the Justice Department is refusing to allow states to enforce laws requiring proof of identity by voters at the polls.
—It has been widely reported that acting through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms the Obama administration was involved for months in getting legitimate and law-abiding gun store owners along our southern border to supply weapons to straw buyers who the government knew would deliver them to the drug cartels in Mexico. This data was then to be used, and is being used, to try to justify new gun control regulations to limit the rights of American citizens to keep and bear arms.
—The President of the United States is not authorized by the Constitution to take our nation to war without the consent of the Congress of the United States. The only exception to this is the authority granted to the President by Congress under the War Powers Act. This law allows the President to take immediate action without the consent of Congress if there is an imminent threat to the security of the United States, or its citizens. Although there was clearly no such imminent threat caused by the Civil War in Libya, the President committed members of the United States military to combat missions in a foreign country without the consent of Congress. He based his authority on a United Nations resolution, and a resolution by the Arab League.
—Since taking office the President has used executive orders, laws pushed through Congress in the dark of night, and administrative actions by his departments to nationalize and control automobile manufacturers, banks, insurance companies, and portions of the healthcare industry. There is absolutely no authority in the Constitution of the United States that allows the President to do this.
Were this earlier in his tenure, it would be imperative that we push our elected representatives toward impeachment proceedings for treason against our country.Though certainly he deserves impeachment for treasonous acts against America, the American people unfortunately cannot count on many of our weaker GOP leaders in Congress to do anything but whimper. So although we would like to see him tried for his heinous acts against America, we need to be expedient–at this time–we just need to get him OUT of office. And what are we up against to do this? He is working on gathering not only his radical left wing base (by engaging in the above listed acts) but also pandering to all of the minority fringe factions: LBGT groups support him via words alone–even though he always (secretly or otherwise) supported same sex marriage, his words have changed nothing except votes (which of course is his point in doing all of this), . Latinos have increased in great numbers to support him regardless that his immigration “statement” in reality changed nothing in terms of what is already taking place–he just gained more support with parsing of words. (His recent response to the Arizona SCOTUS outcome is a different issue) Nothing he SAYS changes the plight of any of these groups…but like true liberalism…it makes them “feel” better and also makes those that hang more on words than actions be more inclined to vote for him. Which again, is his point.
So, through voter fraud, intimidation and fringe faction support from minorities and widespread main stream media support, Obama is pushing hard for a win in November however he can get it. Many say Obama will lose in a landslide. I wouldn’t count on it. Like most of us have learned in life, what happens in our lives is UP to us. Wake up. Pay attention. Vote. Vote locally against Democrats and RINOS. Vote nationally against Democrats and RINOS. Become a precinct captain. Assist your precinct captain. Canvass. Call. Volunteer locally in your GOP or Tea Party. Volunteer nationally. Donate. SHOW UP–DO something. Work however you can to OUST THE KING and help us find our way back to a Republic.
I’ve never had a green thumb. If a plant grew for me it usually was by accident. I’ve learned a few things about gardening over the years, though. One thing I’ve learned about flowering plants is that you must prune them so that the new buds can thrive and grow. This is where we were with Democrats in 2010 and this is where we are with remaining Democrats and RINO Republicans in 2012. Prune the deadheads and bring in new growth.
Tea Party Patriots, of which I am one, began our fight over watching the country we love (and took for granted far too long) being dismantled by liberals and RINO Republicans. We bristled over John McCain’s lack of backbone in a 2008 race to the White House that never got off the starting block. And in this present time, we have built our anger to a fevered pitch to get the most radically liberal president and his minions out of power and begin the long road back to a republic and our founding fathers.
I read something about the Tea Party recently that disheartened me. “Who pulled the plug on the Tea Party?” the writer lamented “What happened to them?” We are still here. We’re working our asses off to pay the bills, donating, calling and volunteering when we can for the fights we think we can win locally. Sometimes we cross state lines to win the battle, but we are here and we are still strong. We’ve just got our noses to the grindstone to do the work that turns the wheels of conservatism. Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts is an example of what we can do even though Senator Brown can be classified as a RINO–we did what we needed to do to keep the liberal out of his seat. For Scott Walker, we fought a huge almost year long battle to save him from recall and from a leftist liberal win in Wisconsin. There were fights we did not win–like Norm Coleman who lost by political fraud. Doug Hoffman and Joe Miller were other losses–but we must realize we have not only had to fight liberals–that is almost a clean fight (even though liberal dogs cheat, steal and lie) compared to fighting the Republican establishment. That fight is a dirty and sickening one where the cancer is eating its way through you and you’ve no one but yourself to count on. The ones you thought had your back put a knife in it. It’s ugly and it makes you ashamed to be in the Republican party. But I’ll never be ashamed to be conservative. Never. And that is where the Tea Party comes in and stays in. If we ever think from this point forward that we can rest on any laurels, we are fools. We will be fighting this battle until the day we die. And we’d damn well better teach our kids to pick up the gauntlet.
Of course, I am disappointed we don’t have as a nominee someone who is a true conservative like me….like you. There is a large faction of conservatives who are so angry at not getting the Holy Grail of conservatism–a Reagan Republican–that they are threatening to not vote or to write in a vote for Gingrich…for Paul….for Johnson. I am a very passionate conservative–fiscally, socially–in every sense of the word. Yet I struggled with the concept of the Romney nominee for about a week. And then I let it go.
{Paul is saying} I’m a good soldier for the GOP. Make no mistake: The Republican party establishment will never embrace Rand Paul as one of their own — nor would he want them to. But, it is possible that Paul playing the role of loyal Republican in the 2012 election could well neutralize some of the fears the party regulars have about the prospects of him carrying their standard at some point down the line.
Let’s face it, our 50 years of laxness was unable to get us a true conservative nominee for the White House in 2012. We woke up 5 or 6 years ago, but were asleep for generations. One of my favorite quotes goes something like this: “It took a long time to get this way; it ain’t gonna change overnight.” And I’ve also learned that everything of value is expensive–in time, in effort, in blood, sweat and tears.
So we have a nominee that is not Reaganesque. Let’s surround him with true conservatives. We need one as a VP running mate and we need to stack the Congress with genuine conservatives. Radical liberals must be voted out and we will help RINOS follow suit. If Romney is surrounded by true conservatives, I’m not stupid enough to believe he’ll become one, but my contention is that were this the case, Romney will be forced to move to the right. Even Clinton shifted to the center.
We will be working, at the same time, to revise the Republican establishment—if Congress changes and we keep vigil–the Republican establishment must change, too. We will build a conservative fortress around this country making it impossible for liberals and RINOS to penetrate. To vote third party is to give up on saving our country. It is biting off your nose to spite your face. By not voting or voting third party you will have won your emotional battle and you will have lost the war. And Obama will win. You can keep your values and belief system and still vote for Romney.
Will it matter who wins the GOP Primary? Will it matter that the late great Andrew Breitbart’s Obama vetting videos get out to the public? Obama has his automatic voters–most Blacks still blindly support him because of his race. Many of the over 40% of the entitled non-taxpaying citizens will support him for what he delivers via our hard-earned dollars. All of his followers entrenched in the Democrat party will vote for him because they can’t imagine doing otherwise or are just ignorant and don’t pay attention. Those who do pay attention and are conservative do not worry about these voters–we know and have always known they are are a part of the scenery in the developed election process we now have. We even know and reluctantly acknowledge that Obama has a complicit media and celebrity elites who have become a propaganda arm of the liberal left omitting, twisting, paraphrasing and sometimes out and out lying to support their leader who in turn provides for them in their continual quest for elitist status.
What we DO worry about is the systemic fraud that has been set up and is even now active in several far reaching areas to give Obama another 4 years and our country a permanent socialist status. The Chicago Machine has gone viral. Sharon Meroni and her colleagues from DefendtheVote.com have unearthed many illegal or unsanctioned actions throughout Chicagoland making many precincts ripe for fraud. We have Democrats fighting everywhere against voter ID.
And voter fraud, by design, is and has been a huge factor in elections across our country. It WILL play a large factor in an Obama win. Project Veritas, a group headed by James O’Keefe (of Breitbart/ACORN fame), states:
A new study conducted by the Pew Center on the States shows that almost TWO MILLION dead Americans are on active voter rolls, and almost THREE MILLION people have active registrations in more than one state. In all, the study said, approximately one out of every eight voter registrations in the United States are either invalid or have “significant inaccuracies.”
Each state must make its own fight against voter fraud which is sure to be an uphill battle especially in this upcoming election. Ms. Meroni and her team have found help through the GOP in Illinois which is very encouraging. They have had very recent victories: A Brief Overview: Chicago changed their security procedures on Election Day equipment. New Seal procedures have been added providing greater security. They added a Democrat and a Republican election judge to every early voting site in Chicago. They added the requirement early voting sites will be administered only by US Citizens. They agreed to work with security experts on safe-guarding the electronic vote. They changed their Human Resource procedures. Chicago is very active in purging their voter registration rolls. They purged late in 2011. Chicago takes particular pride in how they administer the military vote and provided details of their active role in promoting and securing the military vote.
There is more: The meeting was truly an open forum. The Commissioners answered every question the public had. They were open, approachable and responsive! What a difference compared to last Wednesday’s Illinois State Board of Elections meeting (listen to the audio of this meeting HERE)! You can contribute through DefendTheVote.Com or volunteer to help in Illinois by becoming a Vote Auditor. For other states, contact your local GOP, the Save America Foundation, your local precinct committeeman/woman and/or join Project Veritas.
The following is an interactive map of the Voter ID requirements in the United States:
And who will be voting besides dead people and double voters? Concerns abound about illegals and felons voting. I had asked Ms. Meroni about the Illinois felon vote that took place in our recent governor race. She said the numbers were not high enough to make a big effect here. I’m not so sure about our state times 50. Obama is working hard to get the illegal alien vote and through “last minute legitimacy” or fraud or a stronger Latino vote, this would surely affect his numbers. Recent 2010 reports show that presently 11,200,000 illegal aliens live in the US. I’m assuming since that report is 2 years old our numbers are even higher. If Obama is successful in his backdoor amnesty efforts, this many more votes are added to his coffers.
As Rush Limbaugh had stated–our hope of winning in 2012 is through a landslide–it is very hard to achieve your win via fraud in a landslide. May it be so.
We watch the machinations of the press whittling down each GOP candidate like the rotating duck shoot at a carnival. We watch this when we know that ANY of the GOP candidates as president would be far above the current administration. Those who at this point in time cannot see this are hopelessly lost. I believe a true conservative platform is the Tea Party Platform. Our running candidates seem to gravitate toward the Tea Party at least in their speeches. But are they really conservative? My premise at the outset is that no matter who is ultimately chosen by the GOP to run, those who understand the gravity of another 4 years with Obama will vote for him/her.
1. Eliminate Excessive Taxes – Excessively high taxes are a burden for those exercising their personal liberty to work hard and prosper as afforded by the Constitution. A fiscally responsible government protects the freedom of its citizens to enjoy the fruits of their own labor without interference from a government that has exceeded its necessary size, scope and reach into the lives of its citizens.
2. Eliminate the National Debt – By implementing fiscally conservative policies at all levels of government, progress can be made toward eliminating the U.S. National Debt. Massive increases in the National Debt have created and continue to create a huge burden for the next generation of Americans, thus imperiling the country’s short-term and long-term economic health and prosperity.
3. Eliminate Deficit Spending – All deficit spending must be eliminated immediately. We insist that government representatives at all levels maintain a fiscally responsible budget and balance the books as would be expected of any American business.
4. Protect Free Markets – America’s free enterprise system allows businesses to thrive as they compete in the open marketplace and strive toward ever better services and products. Allowing free markets to prosper unfettered by government interference is what propelled this country to greatness with an enduring belief in the industriousness and innovations of the populace.
5. Abide by the Constitution of the United States – The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land and must be adhered to without exception at all levels of government. This includes the Bill of Rights and other Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and their provisions designed to protect states’ rights and individual liberties.
6. Promote Civic Responsibility – Citizen involvement at the grassroots level allows the voice of the American people to be heard and directs the political behaviors of our representatives at both the local and national level so they, in turn, may be most effective in working to preserve the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of this country’s citizens.
7. Reduce the Overall Size of Government – A bloated bureaucracy creates wasteful spending that plagues our government. Reducing the overall size, scope and reach of government at both local and national levels will help to eliminate inefficiencies that result in deficit spending which adds to our country’s debt.
8. Believe in the People – The American people, given their guaranteed freedoms, will thrive in a democratic, capitalist environment which allows individuals to strive toward ever greater achievements, innovations and the efficient production of needed and valued goods and services.
9. Avoid the Pitfalls of Politics – American politics is burdened by big money from lobbyists and special interests with an undue influence on the peoples’ representatives. The Tea Party movement is seen as a threat to the entrenched political parties and thus is the continual target of smear campaigns and misrepresentation of its ideals. We choose not to respond to these attacks except to strongly and explicitly disavow any and all hate speech, any and all violence as well as insinuations of violence, and any and all extreme and fringe elements that bring discredit to the Tea Party Movement. We are a peaceful movement and respect other’s opinions and views even though they do not agree with our own. We stand by the Tea Party beliefs and goals and choose to focus our energies on ensuring that our government representatives do the same.
Conservative issues with our candidates:
First–Herman Cain: Goodbye Herman. Many of us are sad to have lost what you stood for. We are sad you may not have been upfront about the skeletons in your closet whichever of them were true. And if true, had you been honest about them, most would have accepted your human failings and still supported you. As it stands, the present concern about a lack of transparency stands out far beyond any mistakes you may have made in your life.
1.) Jon Huntsman:
Issues with Jon: He has a leftist record on the environment and global warming. He stood agains 70% of his state of Utah’s voters in his support of civil unions His quotes out of a spring 2011 campaign ad: “I think health care is a right” and “putting a value on carbon either suggests that you get a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system underway.” . In addition, Huntsman supported…the most fiscally irresponsible bill in American history…the $800-billion Porkulus (also known as the ARRA). All House Republicans and all but three GOP Senators (Specter, Snowe, and Collins) opposed it, as did Gov. Palin, Gov. Perry, and many others…Huntsman thinks that the problem with the Porkulus is that it wasn’t large enough! On energy, President Obama and Nancy Pelosi tried to impose on America an unconstitutional cap-and-tax scheme. Jon Huntsman believes that it’s a fantastic idea. He also has singled {defense} out for massive reductions, even though it’s already at a historically low level of 3.50% of GDP and less than 15% of the total federal budget. Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/john_huntsman_wasting_conservatives_time.html#ixzz1gTcAX45V(FromAmerican Thinker).
In the last debate, Huntsman argued for defense spending via strategy. He has more foreign policy experience than any other candidate though under a Democrat administration: Huntsman argued that defense spending should follow strategy. Terror will remain a challenge for decades, he forecast. It should guide spending, procurement and America’s alliances. Gingrich added another element—America’s heavy military presence in Europe which no longer serves its strategic interests. “The Russians aren’t coming anymore,” said Huntsman. That’s not isolationism, he added. It’s realism. His economy plan calls for major changes to the U.S. tax code and the passage of new free trade policies to improve job growth in the U.S. My issue with Jon is that he has worked for Obama and is a textbook definition of a RINO (Republican in Name Only). Like McCain, Collins and many others, we want to weed out these folks from our leadership, not place them in the presidency to do more damage to what our Founders had in mind for this country.
2.) Rick Santorum: He remains strong on social conservative issues and defense. Santorum laid out the socially conservative principles of his “Faith, Family and Freedom Tour” at his first tour stop in Iowa on Friday. He calls for: banning federal funding of embryonic stem cell research or any family planning or medical group that performs abortions; repealing a mandate that health insurance plans cover contraceptives; defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court and forbidding military chaplains from performing same-sex marriages on military bases. In addition, he has a concrete plan on Iran.
Santorum would call on Congress to abolish the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has drawn criticism for its liberal rulings; to reinstate the ban on military service by openly gay men and women; to allow prayer at school functions; and to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Santorum also supports a “personhood” amendment to the Constitution, which would state that life begins at fertilization and would result in banning abortion, banning certain kinds of birth control, and potentially making in vitro fertilization more difficult.
He consistently defends defense. and is a proponent of a strong economy having presented his Made in America plan. While I like a lot of what Rick stands for, I worry that he could not gain re-election in his own state and am concerned about his ability to rise to the top and annihilate the Obama machine.
3.) Michele Bachmann:Like Rick, Michelle is a social conservative. She is strong on defense and has a plan for the economy called–American Jobs Right Now Repatriation, Cutting spending and government, Cutting taxes, Repealing Obamacare, Repealing the Jobs and Housing Destruciton Act )(Dodd-Frank), Legalizing American Energy Production and Natural Resources, Repealing any Job Killing Regulations, Increasing Exports, Enforcement of Immigration Laws, Paving an Innovation Pathway, and something called Unleasing American Investment. Michelle stands with Rick Perry and Santorum as one of three truly conservative candidates fighting for the nomination. A nomination the establishment of the GOP wants to avoid for fear of losing the precious “Independents.”
I like Michelle. I would like to see her as the GOP nominee. I know they see her as too much of a Tea Party supporter. That is a problem. For them and us–because of their Tea Party prejudice.
4.) Ron Paul: Ron Paul is a stanch Libertarian. Ron has a platform called: Plan to Restore America The synopsis of this plan is as follows:
SYNOPSIS: America is the greatest nation in human history. Our respect for individual liberty, free markets, and limited constitutional government produced the strongest, most prosperous country in the world. But, we have drifted far from our founding principles, and America is in crisis. Ron Paul’s “Restore America” plan slams on the brakes and puts America on a return to constitutional government. It is bold but achievable. Through the bully pulpit of the presidency, the power of the Veto, and, most importantly, the united voice of freedom-loving Americans, we can implement fundamental reforms. Sorry Ron, I see Ron as too kooky and off the charts on his defense and foreign policy. During the Ames debate in August, Paul said the following about Iran: “Even our own CIA gives me this information that they have no evidence that they are working on a weapon.”
Shortly afterward, Paul elaborated that the United States has no right to interfere with Iran, suggesting that Iran can develop nuclear weapons to “successfully compete with other nations.” Accordingly, conservative talk show host Mark Levin countered Paul’s statements with the following: “Hitler would have wanted nukes too.”
Paul’s remarks aside, Iran under Ahmadinejad is armed and dangerous in all regards. ( From The Washington Times).
Paul takes his Libertarian views and walks over the edge with them. Many of us can’t follow.
The American Competitiveness Act
• Reduces the corporate income tax rate
The Open Markets Act
• Implements Free Trade Agreements
The Domestic Energy Act
• Directs the Department of the Interior to undertake a comprehensive survey of American energy reserves
The Retraining Reform Act
• Consolidates the sprawl of federal retraining programs
The Down Payment on Fiscal Sanity Act
• Immediately cuts non-security discretionary spending
FIVE EXECUTIVE ORDERS FOR DAY ONE
An Order to Pave the Way to End Obamacare
An Order to Cut Red Tape
An Order to Boost Domestic Energy Production
An Order to Sanction China for Unfair Trade Practices
An Order to Empower American Businesses and Workers
The Tea Party conservatives don’t agree however because he has flip-flopped on several of their issues–abortion, environment, and immigration for starters. Then there is Romneycare…always a problem.
6.) Newt Gingrich: The big concern with Newt aside from his own flip flops (Pelosi commercial, Doug Hoffman issue, etc.), seems to be his “inability to govern himself.” …elite conservative media are rolling their eyes, with National Review editorializing last week against the Gingrich candidacy.
His character flaws, including impulsiveness and half-baked concepts, made him a poor Speaker, the magazine wrote. “Again and again he combined incendiary rhetoric with irresolute action, bringing Republicans all the political costs of a hardline position without actually taking one. Again and again he put his own interests above those of the causes he championed in public.”
“Gingrich has always said he wants to transform the country,” it concluded. “He appears unable to transform, or even govern, himself. He should be an adviser to the Republican party but not again its head.” But even if a TV-loving and increasingly newspaper-averse public doesn’t quite get the insider aversion to Gingrich, would their publicly-voiced doubts persist if, say, he were to win and thus face President Obama in the fall? Would partisan pragmatism trump the seeming moral convictions being voiced by so many who know him so well? “McCain was seen as a hot-headed crazy guy but, once he got the nomination, the Republicans were less inclined to trumpet that,” said Dallek.
Newt’s plan for the economy is based on his Jobs and Prosperity Plan as follows: Stop the 2013 tax increases
Make the United States the most desirable location for new business investment
Move toward an optional flat tax of 15%
Strengthen the dollar
Remove obstacles to job creation imposed by destructive and ineffective regulations, programs and bureaucracies.
Implement an American energy policy
Balance the budget
Repeal and replace Obamacare
Fundamental reform of entitlement programs
Regarding his social conservatism, he has a Fidelity Pledge that some question.
It may be that the “extraordinary” tension between Gingrich’s rank-and-file support and elite-Republican disdain is starting to break down.
While I love hearing Newt expound on his brilliant historical analogy, I do worry about his off the edge commentary with seemingly little thought behind his statements regardless of context.
7.) Rick Perry: Perry believes: Government’s role is to create an environment ripe for growth, then get out of the way. Texas has gained more than one million jobs while the rest of the nation lost over two million jobs. Since June 2009, nearly 40% of all net new American jobs have been created in his home state. Perry’s plan is the Cut Balance and Grow Plan which reforms the tax code, adds a flat tax, eliminates some taxes and preserves deductions, etc. He stands as a social conservative and is strong on defense and foreign policy. His problem with public speaking is on the verge of ending his candidacy.
On Greta VanSustern’s Fox News Show, Rush Limbaugh stated that Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum were the three truly conservative choices for presidential candidates.
If we look at all of the candidates, we see similarities and differences:
Three important legs of the conservative platform are economic freedom, social issues and a strong defense/foreign policy. We know that with Obama, our country’s demise is rooted in his lack of action and opposing action in all three. But we also have conservative candidates that are less than strong in their commitment to our conservative values. But all of the concerns mentioned pale in comparison to the consideration that Obama may get a second term–a second chance to bring this country to total degradation.The decision seems to be a no brainer: Any of the candidates are BETTER THAN OBAMA.
