Tag: Painful Truths

The DNC considers new re-election strategeries…

A ringing, and touching, endorsement of Romney from a transplanted Aussie.

To start with, there’s the matter of his faith. To Australians, Mormonism is one of those funny not-quite-a-cult things that Americans produce in ridiculous numbers. Before anyone gets up in arms — Australians hold this same opinion of most of the Baptist churches, practically all the mega-churches, 100% of televangelism, and a good chunk of the traditionally “black” churches. For most Aussies, if it doesn’t fall into the buckets of Catholic, Anglican (aka Episcopalian), or Uniting (formed by a merger of Methodist and Presbyterian), it doesn’t really count as Christian.

Anyone who gets up and talks about how their faith says they should do this or that is an automatic target for ridicule in Australia, because it’s invariably either a holier-than-thou thing or a way to browbeat everyone else into doing what they want. The Aussie view leans much more towards “the actions make the person.”

And Mr. Romney simply doesn’t talk about his faith. He just gets on and does things. As far as I can tell — not being Mormon and not knowing much about the faith — he simply does his best to follow the principles espoused without making a fuss about it. It’s just … something he does.

Pretty much how I feel about the man myself. Perfect? No. Incorruptible? Probably a lot more so than most of us. Strong? Yeah, I think there’s plenty of evidence of that. Right all the time? Oh hells no.

Just compare and contrast to what we have now.

I fully expect the man to be hated and reviled within a year of taking office, simply because I believe he is able to make the hard decisions that are going to have to be made, and take the heat for them. It could well be he is just old-fashionedly honorable enough (remember that word?) to do the right thing and let the devil take the hindmost. With any luck, we’ll see.

via Glenn

Remember that while we indulge our partisan bickering, sons and daughters all over the world are giving their all so that we have the peace and freedom to do so-

Gold Star Memorial

Comment at BlackFive:

It is located in Yonkers NY and it backs up what I have been saying for years. I only have to keep my head down,do my job, not get shot and hydrate. My wife is back home on the farm with 4 kids under 5 and my parents have the thought that they will outlive another child. I have the easier job in my opinion.

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I just find this stuff folks

via @adamsbaldwin

2009, that is –

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I must be really old because I’ve read enough history to get every reference.

via Gerard

From Ace

This is what we’re facing-

Don’t even think of letting up now.

… and now, just maybe, a large chunk of folks who only get their news filtered by the ABCCBSNBCMSNBCCNN conglomerate are asking themselves- “Who is this guy and how did he become our President?”. 24-hour rule applies though, the spinmeisters have all night to work it. For now, though- Romney shoots, he scores!

Nick Gillespie at Reason has a mild comment on the total media failure during the current and past elections:

Whatever else you can say about Barack Obama before he beat John McCain four years ago, his actual presidency has been far, far worse than could have been predicted. Was his boyhood mentor “Frank” a secret communist? Did Bill Ayers write his books? Did young Barry harbor a soft spot for Franz Fanon and smoke dope like a Cheech & Chong extra? Did he get into Columbia despite being an adult illiterate raised in Kenya by Rosicrucians? Let’s play along and say yes to all this and more.

So freaking what? Compare any and all of that to the grim landscape that Obama has presided over like a dime-store Ozymandias. The guy got just about everything he wanted – expanded auto bailout, mega-stimulus, health-care reform, troop surge in Afghanistan, a free pass to deport immigrants and raid legal-under-state-law pot dispensaries. And it hasn’t worked. The best that the Obama administration can do to defend its objectively awful record – don’t forget the inability to muscle a goddamn budget through the Democratic Senate or deliver a deficit under $1 trillion – is to say that it would have been even worse if McCain had been elected. That sort of counterfactual – and the insistence that it’s alway George W. Bush’s fault – is the last resort of a scoundrel. That was the essence of Clint Eastwood’s bizarre but memorable appearance at the Republican National Convention: Obama hasn’t gotten the job done. If anything, he’s made things worse.

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Everyone in the country knows that Obama has been a failure (that’s the essential acknowledgement of Samuel L. Jackson’s sad-sack “Wake the F*ck Up!” video). All the Republicans needed to do to win in November was tie a bow around a vaguely plausible candidate and push him or her out on to the stage. All they had to do was produce someone who would hammer home the dismal failure of Obama’s economic interventions, gesture a bit toward the Middle East and Central Asia where things are as messy as they’ve ever been, and promise to spend less and do less.

Alas, that task proved too difficult for the party of Lincoln…

Actually, I think he’s too hard on Mitt; the guy’s a manager, a damn good one, not a freaking rock star. Frankly, I could do without a rock star for the next eight years or so- a competent businessman that won’t end up selling us down the river and will make the hard choices is good enough for me. Boring is good.

And there has been one good effect- the media have been exposed as the lying cheerleaders I’ve felt they were since the Reagan years, to the point of having been regarded as somewhat of a wacko wingnut. Well, there it is, people- just as I said- and I wish I could take pleasure in saying “I told you so” but it gives me none. Too many have too much invested in this SCOAMF to ever admit what is right in front of their eyes. Hopefully in the silence of the voting booth you’ll vote your conscience and not your ego.

Well, the vaunted Daily Caller video has been released and played on Hannity(who I cannot stand) and the general consensus seems to be- meh. I swear it seems that the Lightbringer could barbecue live kittens on stage and his poll numbers wouldn’t deviate an inch.

I’m thinking that many folks have ‘way too much personally invested in their support for Teh Won too ever admit that the events of the past few weeks have done anything to change their opinion of the man; any admission that perhaps they made a mistake in voting for him will directly reflect, poorly, on them as a human being. This is what happens when you identify a candidate too strongly with your own self-image.

As for me, I’ll vote for Romney, not because I identify with him in some deep way, but because I think he’d be a better hire for the job of President than the current employee. No more, no less.

The Good Lord help us if we keep the current guy though- he flat just isn’t working out at all…

Of Me I Sing

For the best reporting from the front lines against Islamicization in Europe, you could do worse than Gates of Vienna. Holger Danske is stirring…

Or is this picture a little- disconcerting?

Police in training, Kennebec County Sheriff’s Department, Augusta, Maine. Just another day on the job.

OK, I’ll say it- frelling STORM TROOPERS

via The Agitator

I don’t see a single thing to disagree with here-

1. Taxation: Everybody pays income tax. Enough to feel, regardless of income. (Say, 2-5% of gross income?) And the amount goes up and down each year in tandem with federal spending. Also, Hollywood fatcats will be expected to pay their fair share. And there will be sharper limits on charitable donations, and on universities’ ability to hoard their endowments while raising tuitions.

2. In foreign policy, a strategy of rewarding our friends and punishing our enemies, instead of the reverse. An idea so crazy it just might work!

3. Education: Abolish the Department of Education. Take half the current budget and turn it into education vouchers. Put the rest toward deficit reduction.

4. Budget: A 5% across-the-board cut in spending, repeated each year of my first term, said cuts to be actual reductions from prior-year spending. Also, federal budgeting to be done according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, not the current hocus-pocus. Anyone calling something a “spending cut” when it’s really just a decline in the rate of growth shall be mocked publicly and pitilessly by the Official White House Mocker, Iowahawk.

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