Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
What Now?
A week from today will mark the beginning of the fall election season. Labor Day has been the traditional starting block for the fall campaigns and yet it appears as if we are in a never-ending story of running for office. One sign comes down and another goes up. One white shirt, red tie, and gray suit replaces another. No wonder the voters are apathetic. The candidates might as well be in a Charlie Brown cartoon where the adults utterances are unintelligible to the kids. In this case, it is to the voters.
I have one idea that may make this change. How about trying some leadership for a change? You know, good ol' fashioned leadership. I was watching one of Ronald Reagan's speeches on YouTube to remind myself what leadership looked like. He was funny, intelligent, but never demeaning. He told the truth. He stated clearly what was going on and most importantly he told people what he would do to correct the mess.
I watched Beck and Palin this weekend with the same stuff: leadership. You can't bottle and sell it. You have to have it in yourself. You have to be willing to put it all on the line and not care who gets the credit.
But I am afraid that the winds of September won't bring any leadership our way, just a series of attack ads hoping that we will choose one as the lessor of two evils.
I have one idea that may make this change. How about trying some leadership for a change? You know, good ol' fashioned leadership. I was watching one of Ronald Reagan's speeches on YouTube to remind myself what leadership looked like. He was funny, intelligent, but never demeaning. He told the truth. He stated clearly what was going on and most importantly he told people what he would do to correct the mess.
I watched Beck and Palin this weekend with the same stuff: leadership. You can't bottle and sell it. You have to have it in yourself. You have to be willing to put it all on the line and not care who gets the credit.
But I am afraid that the winds of September won't bring any leadership our way, just a series of attack ads hoping that we will choose one as the lessor of two evils.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
It used to be that the Democratic Party boasted that they were the party of the little folk, the dispossessed, the abused....you know the list. They would croon on and on about how the evil rich folks were making a fortune off their backs and how the holier than thou Dems would make sure that the people would get what they were entitled to once the rich were soaked. So they got in power. But guess what? Instead of taking care of the folks, they bailed out the fat cats. rewrote regulations to favor the rich and powerful and exempted themselves from having to partake in Obamacare, and started ripping off the little guys calling them greedy and selfish by increasing all kinds of taxes and fees ("Tax and spend, tax and spend, the people are too damn dumb to understand." Col. House to FDR)
Now it is election season. Their fearless leader is AWOL on countless vacations and golf games. If he shows up to campaign, it is the kiss of death for that candidate. To make matters worse, the Republicans are telling the truth to Democrat voters. They are unabashedly converting them to vote Republican. All you have to do is look at the unemployment rate, the decrease in the value of savings, and no end it site to make a compelling case for switching.
One of the most devastating trends for the Dems is that intelligent Black conservatives have found their voice and are encouraging others to leave the Democrat Plantation. In almost a fever pitch of fear the Dems are calling up the usual suspects to protest the Glenn Beck event this weekend in DC. With promises to disrupt the event and block people from attending, the Dems are revealing their thuggery to everyone.
I say to quote W "Bring it on." And I will cheer as Johnny comes marching home to the party of Freedom.
Now it is election season. Their fearless leader is AWOL on countless vacations and golf games. If he shows up to campaign, it is the kiss of death for that candidate. To make matters worse, the Republicans are telling the truth to Democrat voters. They are unabashedly converting them to vote Republican. All you have to do is look at the unemployment rate, the decrease in the value of savings, and no end it site to make a compelling case for switching.
One of the most devastating trends for the Dems is that intelligent Black conservatives have found their voice and are encouraging others to leave the Democrat Plantation. In almost a fever pitch of fear the Dems are calling up the usual suspects to protest the Glenn Beck event this weekend in DC. With promises to disrupt the event and block people from attending, the Dems are revealing their thuggery to everyone.
I say to quote W "Bring it on." And I will cheer as Johnny comes marching home to the party of Freedom.
Like Pictures in a Museum
Have you ever wondered why the more things change the more they stay the same? Why after all of your hard work and pleading on your knees for things to change they don't? I have asked myself those same questions after almost every election where the candidates that I have supported have failed to win. This time I am backing off of the emotional backlash that I usually rely on as I felt the hurricane force of someone laying into me because of my personal and political views and so will not spew more vitriol into the current climate. What I came to realize is that it really is up to me to do something. No wailing and crying and gnashing of teeth will ever move the voters one iota. With only 23% of registered voters in the state taking the time to cast their ballot, it appears that they are too busy watching Lady Gaga on YouTube (over 300,000,000 views) to get off their collective *s to take part in what well could be the last battle for freedom and liberty in this nation.
So for me I will continue to fight the good fight, preserve the principles of the Founders, and look to November as the next battle in the war for Freedom. When David Letterman asked "Who do they want to take the country back from?" I thought of Pilate's famous line "What is Truth?"
Now wanting Freedom from an oppressive federal government, the New American Plantation, where all your needs womb (if you make it out alive) to tomb are taken care of as long as you give your allegiance to the slave daddies in Big Government, is considered a radical stance, un-American, unpatriotic. Letterman is representative of the New Aristocracy where a subhuman can earn over $20 million a year by pushing the company line. "If you're a good boy, Dave, you can have Barry join you on the set and we will see to it that those pesky sexual harassment charges disappear."
So will it be that the very idea of a Republic disappears and the only remnant of it is a series of portraits hung in some dusty museum where few ever go as it is so passe?
As for me, this day, I choose Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. What do you choose?
So for me I will continue to fight the good fight, preserve the principles of the Founders, and look to November as the next battle in the war for Freedom. When David Letterman asked "Who do they want to take the country back from?" I thought of Pilate's famous line "What is Truth?"
Now wanting Freedom from an oppressive federal government, the New American Plantation, where all your needs womb (if you make it out alive) to tomb are taken care of as long as you give your allegiance to the slave daddies in Big Government, is considered a radical stance, un-American, unpatriotic. Letterman is representative of the New Aristocracy where a subhuman can earn over $20 million a year by pushing the company line. "If you're a good boy, Dave, you can have Barry join you on the set and we will see to it that those pesky sexual harassment charges disappear."
So will it be that the very idea of a Republic disappears and the only remnant of it is a series of portraits hung in some dusty museum where few ever go as it is so passe?
As for me, this day, I choose Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. What do you choose?
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