Trailer Trash For McCain-Palin

Today, I learned that the BBC has conducted a poll that indicates that the citizens of 22 countries that were polled favor Barack Obama in the Presidential election.  The mainstream media reported this because they believe, along with most enlightened liberals, that this should show us that Obama is who we need to elect.  The media, most college educated liberals, academics all admire modern Western Europe.  They admire Europeans' supposed sophistication.  They admire their ability to separate their religion from their day to day decision making.  They admire their aversion to war and they admire their commitment to socialist ideals.

Liberals, and most media members are liberal, believe that the United States would be better off if we emulated those above described attitudes.  Peace and fairness are the Holy (if I can use that word) Grails of liberal elitism and those goals require the diluting of religious belief and an increase of governmental control over "selfish" capitalist impulses.

Liberals believe that they know what is best for the masses.  They want (sincerely I believe) to improve the lives of ignorant trailer trash.  Ignorant?  Look at the social programs devised by leftists.  Go back to the beginning of socialism in America.  Social Security was based upon the belief by leftist elites that the average American was too stupid, too oppressed and incapable of planning for his own seniority.  Gun control laws are based upon the belief that we are children who shouldn't be allowed to play with dangerous toys.  The Department of Education was based upon the belief that Washington DC elites knew better than local parents and educators what our children needed.

Leftists do care about us in Red State America, but they think we're trailer trash.  Barack Obama admitted as much when talking to fellow elites in San Francisco.  He believes we're bitter.  He believes that bitterness is due to the fact that we don't have our needs met by an enlightened benevolent government.  He believes that bitterness causes us to "cling" to unsophisticated things like religion, guns and patriotism.  In his eyes, enlightened people don't cling to those things and content happy masses don't need to cling to those things.

I'm one of those "bitter clingers".  I'm part of trailer trash America.  I was born, raised and live in rural East Tennessee.  My Daddy (yes I really called him "Daddy") only had an eighth grade education.  He raised my brother and me on a farm while also working in a factory.  My mother taught Sunday School for decades.  I learned to shoot before I was eight.  My first experience with wine was with the homeade variety.  My first car was a truck.  In fact I even lived in a mobile home for two years.  I'm the folks that the liberal elites want to help and I'm the folks that don't want their help. 

I actually believe in God and believe the Bible is the Word of God.  (Ewww!  Did he really say that?)  I'm a flag waving patriot that believes that the United States is the greatest nation on Earth and has been specially blessed by God.  (He's one of them!)  I don't immediately look to Washington DC when trouble comes.  (Well now, that's just dumb.)  I actually believe that the right to keep and bear arms is just as important as any other right.  (Gun nut!)

The media is shocked that so many people in small town America have identified with Sarah Palin.  The media is less than thrilled that so many people in small town America have been humbled by John McCain's personal story.  They are convinced we must be simpletons.  They don't get it.  Sarah Palin is one of us.  Of course we identify with her.  Senator McCain's story exhibits the patriotism, honor, and self sacrifice we admire.

We aren't Europe.  We don't want to be Europe.  I know that is horrifying to the elites, but it's the truth.  That's the one thing that liberals don't get.  We may be trailer trash, but we are American trailer trash.  And there's more of us than there are of the "enlightened" media and the "enlightened" liberal elites.  And for most of us, Jesus is the only Messiah we need.  Sorry, Barry.

 

Tags: election, europe, obama, palin, mccain, messiah, trailer trash

Falling In Love With McCain

It's no secret, John McCain was not my first choice for President.  He wasn't my second choice and probably wasn't my third or fourth.  Senator McCain alienated me on two issues, campaign finance reform and his willingness to compromise with Democrats regarding the confirmation of originalist judges.  The First Amendment to the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech."  Either the sentence means what it says or it doesn't, and I want judges who believe it means what it says. 

I knew John McCain's story and was thankful for his  service and heroism, but that wasn't enough.  I believe in limited government.  I mean really limited government, and while I was disappointed with President Bush for not fighting for limited government, I didn't and don't believe McCain truly understands the benefits of limited government.

Last night, though, as I listened to Senator McCain's acceptance speech, the contrasts in this election hit me like a sledgehammer.  "Country first".  "Service".  "This Country saved me".  "Stand up".  "Fight".  Those were the key phrases from a powerful speech by a remarkable man.  Hokey?  Perhaps.  Parochial?  Of course.  However, John McCain isn't running for President of the World.  He isn't trying to be the leader of a Gene Roddenberry dream world wide utopia.  He is running for President of what he believes is the greatest country on earth.

Unlike Michelle Obama, John McCain didn't have to wait until 2008 to be proud of his country.  Unlike Michelle Obama, John McCain doesn't believe this is a "downright mean country".  Unlike Barack Obama, John McCain doesn't believe that America isn't what it once was.  John McCain believes, "In America, we change things that need to be changed.  Each generation makes its contribution to our greatness."  That is a stark contrast.

Another stark contrast is the fact that John McCain showed himself as a man of principle who isn't afraid to take on the power.  Leftist Democrats like to use the phrase, "speak truth to power".  A confusing statement that implies that the powerful are lying to you and they must be confronted.  Senator Obama, though, got where is today, by being part of the most corrupt political machine in American history.  He has never challenged the Cook County Democratic party.  He has been a loyal lap dog of that party.  Senator Obama has never stood up to the Daily Kos, Moveon.org left wing kooks who want to see this country ruined. 

John McCain, though, does not owe his allegiance to party or machine.  His allegiance is to the country he fell in love with while in agony in a box in Hanoi.  Even when you disagree with him, you have acknowledge that John McCain is a man of principle who truly does love the United States of America.

John McCain is right when he says that when conservative Republicans took power in Washington since 1994,  they allowed Washington to change them instead of changing Washington.  They became addicted to the power and the pork and the parties and the compulsive need to spend the people's money.  At least, though, conservative Republicans never stopped being patriots.

Leftists deride those of us who bleed red, white and blue as fascists.  They take our love of country and make fun of it using phrases "my mother drunk or sober", implying that we conservatives are willfully blind to our country's faults.  They are the ones who are willfully blind.  We know the United States, through its citizens and its government, have made mistakes.  We also know, though, that no nation in the history of the earth has used its power for good like the United States.

Another thing the left doesn't understand is that a majority of Americans feel the way we do.  We aren't a nation of "bitter clingers".  We embrace our nation.  We embrace our God.  We embrace our freedoms.  I'm not saying that conservatives make up a majority on every issue.  I'm saying that a large majority of Americans believe this is the greatest country on earth.  Leftist elites, of which Obama is one, are uncomfortable with this belief.  John McCain shares our belief in the greatness of America.

Can you ever picture Barack Obama, the man who has made a career of associating with people who dislike this nation, ever talking about "falling in love with my country"?  No way.

I still don't agree with John McCain on every policy point.  Last night, though, it became obviously clear.  Barack Obama isn't worthy to be mentioned in the same sentence with John McCain.  This election shouldn't even be close.  Only one candidate for President is in love with his country.  Why would we even consider the other one?

 

Tags: country first, service, politics, election, obama, mccain

In Touch With America

The Leftist Democratic party in this country has preached for years that Republicans are "out of touch" with the common people.  In fact, Bill Clinton took this attitude and focused on a previously undefined group called "soccer moms".  It's not just Bill Clinton, though.  If you listened to the speeches at the Mount of Transfiguration in Denver, nearly all of them talked about how Democrats are in touch and that the Messiah cares about real Americans.

 

What is the truth, though?  Quite frankly, real Americans don't like losing wars.  Real Americans don't consider themselves bitter, even though God is important to them, the Second Amendment is important to them and securing the border is important to them.

 

Few "real" Americans associate regularly with convicted terrorists who now teach our young people.  Few "real" Americans attend churches where the pastor wants God to "damn America".  Few "real" Americans, even those who call themselves pro-choice favor partial birth abortion and even fewer would support legislative action that permits aborted infants who are born alive to be tossed in a closet trash can to die.  Few "real" Americans want to see Wal Mart punished causing their prices to rise and few "real" Americans want to be forced to give up driving automobiles with internal combustion engines.

 

That brings us to Governor Sarah Palin.  The Leftist Democrats are attacking Senator McCain's choice for vice president with a viciousness that is usually reserved for Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush.  This is a woman who has  achieved in spite of not having a well connected family, not going to an Ivy League school nor being part of the good old boy network.

 

She's raising five kids, one of whom is deploying to Iraq, one of whom has Down's Syndrome and one of whom is having a baby.  She has a husband who isn't rich, had a DUI when he was twenty two, and who races snowmobiles.  She's fought tax increases.  She's led her local PTA.  She's had to make choices related to having a child, meeting a family budget and has actually shopped at Wal Mart.  She isn't jaded by either K Street, Wall Street or Capitol Hill.

 

As governor, she's actually dealt with energy issues in a way that none of the other candidates have.  She understands the need to balance environmental issues with energy needs, something that "real" Americans want, as opposed to the environmental ideologues in the Leftist Democrat party who would take us back to huddling in caves if it would "save the planet".

 

Having her oldest child in the military, she certainly doesn't take issues of war and peace lightly and has a perspective that is absolutely the perspective of "real" Americans.  Unless you think that she wants to see her son killed, then you cannot claim that she willing to let soldiers die in a "war based upon lies".

 

Having a child that is going through an unplanned pregnancy, she knows what it's like to have your child give you the news that changes all your hopes and plans for that child.  She also knows, though, that you cannot allow that news to become the end of the world.  She knows that you deal with the issue, pull together as a family and do not view the baby as her daughter being "punished".

 

The Leftist Democrats can claim they are "in touch with America" all they want.  However, they are the party that actually considers people in small town heartland America to be racists, religious bigots and the great unwashed.  Their only interest in "real" Americans is to claim we're victims.  Victims of our own ignorance and victims of nefarious corporate conspiracies.  They tell us that we need the benevolent ruling class of leftist elites to protect us from corporations and ourselves.

 

Real Americans aren't victims.  Yes, they have struggles.  Yes, they face challenges.  Your average American deals with  those challenges and does the best they can to make a better life for them and their family.  Their first thought isn't to abdicate their lives to a governmental agency.  Your average American looks to himself or herself, family and community before they ever think about handing over the reins to Washington.

 

  Sarah Palin is a real American and is truly in touch with the issues of real Americans in a way that few national politicians have ever been.

 

 

 

Tags: politics, Palin, real, soccer moms

Definitely Not One Party

I have forced myself to watch bits and pieces of the Democrats' convention.  It's hard listening to "enlightened" leftist elites trying to act like normal patriotic Americans but occasionally I'm overcome by morbid curiosity.  One thing that is clear is that there is no such thing as THE Democratic Party.  If you look on the floor of the convention in the State delegations you will see what I mean.

Let me preface this by stating that I already knew some of what I'm about to say.  My business partner is a lifelong Democrat, although no liberal by any stretch of the imagination.  She is pro-America, pro-gun ownership, pro-capitalism, pro-God and while pro-choice opposes partial birth abortion and infanticide.  Her politics are very similar to our Circuit Court Clerk who is a client of ours and also a Democrat.  Both have said that Obama is too liberal for them.  They are Democrats because their parents were Democrats and they were raised to believe that Republicans are the party of the rich.

Most rank and file Democrats between the ages of 45 and 80 fall into this category.  If they are Southerners, they have always been Democrats for the same reasons that Robert Byrd has always been a Democrat.  If they are Northerners, then more than likely their families became Democrats because of and during the Great Depression.  It isn't policy driven, it's based upon an emotional belief that has been handed down to them.  Most of their individual views are very conservative, but they can't break away from that emotional attachment to the name "Democrat".

If you look at the young people in the Democrat party, they tend to be naive, spoiled children who have few core values but are convinced that the world needs to be "changed" and have believed their professors when they said that if they fight against corporations and nationalism they can create a world where the lion will lie down with the lamb and no one will ever be hungry.

The elites of the party, though, tend to be unrepentent 60's radicals.  They see little wrong with William Ayers because they agree that the Pentagon is a genocidal tool of malevolent corporate interests.  Privately, they agree with Jeremiah Wright that the United States brought 9/11 on itself.  Michael Moore is considered normal.  Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are considered to be geniuses.  They agree with John Kerry that the United States should submit itself to a "global test" before acting in its self interest.  They agree with Nancy Pelosi that "trying to save the world" is more important than becoming more energy independent.  They agree with Michelle Obama that this is a "downright mean" country.

These are the elite radicals that Barack Obama was talking to in San Francisco when he talked about average Americans "clinging" to guns, God and racism.  These are the elite radicals who claim to be for the common people, but who actually look down their noses at them and in many cases despise them.  These are the elite radicals who actually have power in the Democratic party.  These are the elite radicals who actually make policy.  They are the ones who wink and nod when Barack Obama talks about change.

That should scare all of us.

 

 

 

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. ... it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.  Frederick Bastiat

 

Proud for the first time?

"...and let me tell you something, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country..."- Michelle Obama, February 18, 2008.

Michelle Obama was born in January, 1964.  She graduated from high school in 1981, and she's only now really proud of her country.  I'm only a little more than a year older than her, so I think I have much the same frame of reference, but apparently she and I haven't lived in the same country.

I remember 1980 and being proud to be an American the day that the United States hockey team beat the Soviets.  I can still see Jim Craig wrapped in the American flag.  Apparently, that memory didn't evoke the same emotion in 16 year old Michelle Robinson from Chicago.

Also, in 1980, how could anyone hear one of Ronald Reagan's speeches and not be proud to be an American?  Reagan's speeches were all about the greatness of America and her people.  Reagan truly saw the United States as that "shining city on a hill".  Michelle Robinson Obama, though, is a liberal.  THAT is the difference between our memories and our pride.

Liberals don't see America as the shining city.  They don't see America as great.  They don't see her as exceptional.  Liberals see America as a land of corporate greed, racism, sexism.  Liberals see America as the tool of corporate globalists who exist to oppress Third World countries.

Liberals were aghast when Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire.  Most Americans, though, nodded in agreement with the President.  Liberals said "who does he think he is?" When Reagan demanded "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

I didn't intend for this screed to be about Ronald Reagan, but it's fitting that is has become so.  No one in my lifetime embodied pride in America and a positive outlook for his nation the way our 40th President did.  Reagan wasn't a Pollyanna that saw America as perfect and without flaws, but he sure didn't let her warts hide her beauty.

Liberals like Michelle Obama, see the warts, pick at the warts and deny that there is any redeeming quality in this nation.  I would love to sit down with Mrs. Obama and ask her what she felt when she saw the following:

1981- Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court.

1983- Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

1989- Berlin Wall falls.

1991- The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

Ronald Reagan saw optimism and inspiration when he looked out over this country.  When we saw America through his eyes, it only confirmed the pride we already felt in this nation.  There was no reason to be trapped in a malaise.  We were Americans. 

No other nation on the planet has used its power for good the way the United States has.  No other nation has championed the cause of freedom and individual liberty the way the United States has.  No other nation has sought to break the chains of bondage throughout the world the way the United States has.  None of this has made Michelle Obama "really proud", though.

Why  would anyone want to be around a liberal, let alone vote for one?

 

 

 

Maybe If We Took A Piece Of This One And...

Am I the only one with this problem?  I would like to play Dr. Frankenstein and take pieces from each Republican candidate and make one good choice.  There are pieces of each one that I like, but each one has fatal flaws that make it almost impossible for me to truly get behind him.

Ron Paul is the one that is closest to my beliefs regarding the Constitution and the proper role of government.  In fact, I don't think that any of the other candidates understand the proper role of government.  Unfortunately, Ron Paul doesn't understand that we are in a clash of civilizations, a struggle to the death with Islamofascism.  He believes that we can retreat into our isolationist shell and the world will leave us alone.

Mike Huckabee is good on social issues and supports the FAIR tax, but he wants us to grovel to Europe, the United Nations and stop being an "arrogant" superpower.  If that is his belief, then he is truly too naive to be commander in chief at a time when it is us against the world.

Rudy Giuliani is a liberal.  He has no clue about the Constitution, original intent or the proper role of government.  He thinks the Second Amendment  is unimportant and that unborn children are merely parasitic cells that are subject to the whim of the pregnant woman.  Yet, he, more than anyone else in the campaign wants to win this war for our survival with radical political Islam.

Mitt Romney looks good, sounds good, and says all the right things.  However, he sounded good to the Chomskyites that populate the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts too.  As a result, I don't trust him.  Particularly if you recall that in 2005 Human Events magazine called him a RINO (Republican in name only).  Further, he has done nothing to make me believe that winning this war is a priority for him.

John McCain has a military background and has stated his determination to win the war, but he's the same John McCain that has spent the last eight years pandering to the mainstream media, siding with the Left seemingly more than the Right in the Senate, and most unforgiveable; he flipped the bird to the Constitution with his sponsorship of the McCain-Feingold limit free speech bill.

Fred Thompson is a good Tennessee boy who seems to be truly conservative, but he looks tired and old.  Remember, this is the visual information age.  People don't read, don't listen, they LOOK.  Fred looks like he's ready to sit on the front porch and drink iced tea, not march and fight to victory.

I'm not dumb enough to think that a perfect candidate will appear.  I realize that I will have differences with anybody who might run.  Right now, though, each candidate's flaws are slapping me in the face.  None of them seem to be interested in leading a conservative movement to take us back to the Constitution and take us to victory against our enemies.  In fact, I'm not sure that any of them would even understand what I'm talking about.

 

 

Ford, Webb and Shuler conservative. So what?

If one more idiot tells me that Harold Ford, Jim Webb and Heath Shuler are conservatives  I'm gonna scream. 

My simple answer, though, is "so what if they are?"

People like Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, Charlie Rangel and Alcee Hastings run the Democrat party.  THEY are liberals.  No, they are anti-American leftists who are invested in America's defeat.

Candidates like Harold Ford, Jim Webb and Heath Shuler can claim to be conservative all day long, but the fact of the matter is that, EVEN IF ELECTED, they will have no power and be told to shut the f*ck up and follow their liberal masters. 

THAT is why what John Kerry said and what he repeatedly has shown he believes is so important.  Kerry was perfectly espousing the leftist elitist position of the leaders of the Democrat party.  Leaders that CANNOT be put in charge of our government during a time of war.

 

Liberals like Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Durbin, Frank et al hate our military and alternately view them as victims or predators depending on what benefits their political goals.  They hate the idea of the United States fighting its enemies and create artificially narrow justifications for war.  They love to point out supposed war crimes and hope the American public is fooled into believing they are only talking about the Administration and not the troops they accuse. 

If leftists were only socialists, they could, at least be tolerated in a time of war.  They aren't.  They also want to see America defeated.  They talk about "arrogance" and "unilateralism" as if the United States were an enemy state.  Perhaps, to the Left, it is.