A Short Round Up
Dec 2, 2008 Political
The City Of Brotherly Love
A worker at a K Mart was shot by the angry boyfriend of a fellow worker and is in critical condition. A man and a female employee were arguing at the store and when the other employee intervened he was shot. Some people are animals and should be locked away or exterminated. But, I must say that it does not surprise me that it happened in Philly. This is the place where people were intimidated at polling places on election day by a couple of Black Panthers, one of whom was carrying a night stick. My Way News
Fred Thompson Has A New Video Out On The Economy
Fred Thompson has a great video out that explains the economic situation and how we got here as well as the “plan” for fixing it. He says that we are being told to do more of what got us into trouble and equates it to telling a fat man that in order to lose weight he has to eat more doughnuts. You can see it at Fred Thompson PAC.
Harry Reid Does Not Like to Smell The Commoners
The New Capitol Visitor’s Center opened way off schedule and way, way, way over budget (gee, government over budget, who would of thought?). The area will allow people to wait inside while awaiting a tour of the building. Harry Reid is happy with the center because now he won’t have to be bothered with all the smelly tourists, you know, the people who pay his salary and who he is supposed to work for. Harry said that in the Summer when people are waiting outside they get all smelly and then when they come in he can smell them. The government spent $621 billion so that Harry Reid would not have to be bothered with the smell of the peasants. DC Examiner
Bill Clinton To Fill Hillary’s Seat?
If Hillary Clinton is confirmed as Secretary of State (she will be confirmed but I hope they ask her really tough questions about her past and she gets treated like she treated Bush nominees) then the Governor of New York will have to appoint someone to take her Senate seat until the next election (in 2 years). There are plenty of names in the hat but Governor David Paterson needs to be careful that he does not crack fragile egos when he makes the selection. There are a lot of people who want that seat and his selection will tick all but one of them off. He might just select Bill Clinton to fill the vacancy. None of the others can say they have more experience than a past president (maybe as much as). I am not sure Bill would want it because it would keep him tied to DC. He likes to jet around the world and spread his seeds of Hope across the world. He might take it though because the Clintons have never really worked in private industry (if you count what they did as experience then it was very little) and they always want a government job. They are part of the elite. Right now I am sure Chelsea is boning up on all she needs to know to run for some office so that she can get her gubmint job. Why not, she already helped screw up the financial world. If he does get it, it will probably be the first time Bill filled Hillary’s seat since Monica…CNN
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Tags: clintons, crime, fred thompson, Harry Reid, philly, smelly tourists
Fred Thompson With Some Straight Talk
Oct 31, 2008 Political
Fred Thompson speaks about the upcoming election:
The full length video, where Fred spells out what and who we face, is here.
Tags: fear, fred thompson, Obama, socialism
Tancredo Trades Principle for Politics, Blows Immigration Stance
Dec 20, 2007 Immigration, Political
Tom Tancredo officially dropped out of the GOP race today and he threw his support behind Mitt Romney. Tancredo has great positions on immigration but he is a one trick pony. All he ever talked about was immigration. I am sure there are other issues he has positions on but he failed to come across as anything more than an advocate for tough immigration law enforcement. The one trick got old fast for a number of people who realize that there are many issues in addition to immigration. In dropping out Tancredo had the chance to show how principled he was with regard to his signature issue. Unfortunately, he failed miserably.
Tom Tancredo threw his support behind Mitt Romney who Tancredo met with to receive assurances that Romney would be tough on the issue of immigration. In throwing his support behind Romney Tancredo stated that he was “the best hope for our cause.” This is where I have problems and where it appears to me that he abandoned his principles and went for the politics of the issue. Romney is not as bad as Giuliani or Huckabee when it comes to immigration but he has had his issues with it. I don’t believe that Romney should be held accountable if the company he hired employed illegals. It is the responsibility of the company to do that. However, the company in question had been caught using ILLEGALS before and Romney failed to keep an eye on them or to replace them all together. It took a news report showing admitted ILLEGALS working on his property for him before he fired the company. This man is running for the presidency. He is under much higher scrutiny than the guy next door and he should have been on top of this. He says he is tough on immigration but it does not appear that way.
Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul are the only remaining GOP candidates with records that reflect tough immigration policies. If Tancredo wanted to show that he was absolutely concerned about the issue he should have selected one of these candidates to throw his support behind. Ron Paul has a very good plan with regard to immigration and while I am not in favor of many of his other policies I like his stance on immigration and our borders. Fred Thompson has an equally good plan at his site as does Duncan Hunter. Any of these guys would have been a better choice to be “the best hope for our cause.” Yet, Tancredo neglected each of these people, people who have stands and would not need to provide reassurance, in order to support Romney, a man with questionable views on Immigration. Before the Romney crowd beats me up, remember, Tancredo needed to get reassurance. That is usually not necessary if you have been clear and consistent.
It is unfortunate but Tancredo traded his principles. It gives the impression that Tancredo was not all that serious about immigration because he could not back one of the people who is actually tough on the issue. Since that was his only issue he could have at least picked someone who held the same beliefs. If Romney gets elected and he ends up signing an amnesty bill Tancredo and his efforts will go to the ash heap of history. He will be viewed as a man who backed the guy who gave the country away.
It is unfortunate that Tancredo could not get this right but at least it shows that he would not have been a good president. If he blew this easy choice this badly think about how terribly he would do with judges, justices, and just about any other appointee.
Source:
Des Moines Register
Tags: fred thompson, Immigration, mike huckabee, mitt romney, ron paul, rudy giuliani, tom tancredo
Estrich and Sajak on Celebrities
Nov 28, 2007 Political
Pat Sajak and Susan Estrich have each written items about celebrity endorsements and they have both taken slightly different paths with regard to their views. Sajak, a conservative, stated that people do not need celebrities telling them who they should vote for . He discussed Oprah and her endorsement of Obama and the Streisand counter endorsement of Clinton. Sajak basically said that celebrities are the least qualified people to tell us how to vote:
If any group of citizens is uniquely unqualified to tell someone else how to vote, it’s those of us who live in the sheltered, privileged arena of celebrityhood. It’s one thing to buy an ab machine because Chuck Norris recommends it (he’s in good shape, isn’t he?) or a grill because George Foreman’s name is on it (he’s a great guy, so it must be a great grill!), but the idea of choosing the Leader of the Free World based on the advice of someone who lives in the cloistered world of stardom seems a bit loony to me.
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I suppose anything that gets people engaged in the political process is a good thing, but the idea that a gold record, a top-ten TV show or an Oscar translates into some sort of political wisdom doesn’t make much sense to me. Trust me, one’s view of the world isn’t any clearer from the back seat of a limo. Pat Sajak [Human Events]
Now, some idiot at the Huffington Post addressed Sajak’s piece by saying that Sajak wrote all this but he has endorsed Fred Thompson by donating $2300 to him. I understand that it is difficult for the people at Huffington to keep things straight between bong hits but I think Sajak was talking about public endorsements. His donation to a political campaign was not him going around the country campaigning for a candidate. He donated money. If this constitutes and endorsement then Babs Streisand has endorsed both Clinton and Obama because she gave them BOTH money (as have many Hollywood libs). Sajak’s point, one that was missed by the HuffPo bong passers, was that public endorsements do little good in swaying the vote. Interestingly, the HuffPo idiot in question did not take Estrich to task for her piece.
Estrich, a liberal, wrote that Oprah is great at recommending soap and books but when it comes to candidates her support will not make much difference for Obama. Estrich said that endorsements from celebrities were not what swayed voters because people are not sheep (where has she been):
No one doubts that Oprah is remarkable. But presidents are not soap. Trusting a beloved celebrity to recommend what you wash with is different than trusting them to tell you who should run the country. In my experience, what celebrities bring is crowds and attention. They don’t bring votes. In fact, almost no one does. Susan Estrich [creators.com]
I believe that Estrich is correct in her assessment but she made that assessment with a bias toward Hillary. She did not mention Streisand or indicate that Babs would not bring in votes for the Hildabeast. She only mentioned Obama because Estrich supports Hillary and wants her to win. It is even more interesting that while the Huffington Post was mocking Pat Sajak they ignored the piece by Estrich, who said something very similar to Sajak. If they wanted to ridicule someone for saying that celebrity endorsements did not matter by pointing out an endorsement it seems to me they would have been better off using Estrich than Sajak because while Sajak donated money as a private citizen, Estrich wrote a book about why Hillary should be president. The entire purpose of the book is to persuade people on why Hillary Clinton should be elected president in 2008.
One other thing that Estrich failed to mention while she was saying that celebrity endorsements do not matter (at least for Obama) is that Bill Clinton is a celebrity and he has endorsed Hillary. They trot him out all over the place because he has star status among Democrats and they use his celebrity to pack the folks in. I seemed to have missed the part in Susan’s piece where she said that Bill was good at selling sex but that people would not trust him on who to vote for. I guess she was afraid of what people might think if she used the phrase “good at packing them in” with regard to him.
Sajak wrote a piece indicating that celebrity endorsements are not some wonderful thing because celebrities have no better view of the world than anyone else (I would argue that they have a worse view because they do not know how we actually live). Estrich wrote her piece indicating that celebrity endorsements for Obama were no good and ignored those for her chosen candidate, Queen Hillary. The HuffPo showed its bias by taking Sajak to task for the piece by pointing out his personal donation to a candidate and ignored Estrich altogether even though she has done more than just give money to a candidate. She wrote a book to convince people to vote for the Hildabeast.
To be clear, I would not listen to any of them. I have seen how they lie their very public lives and I would not trust their judgment with regard to anything. How can they tell me how to do things when they keep screwing up how they do things for themselves?
Tags: bong hits, celebrity endorsements, cloistered world, Democrats, fred thompson, Hillary Clinton, huffington post, Obama, pat sajak, political wisdom, President, public endorsements, susan estrich