The Conservative Quandry

As evidenced by my last post, I am disappointed with McCain and find myself loath to vote for him. But America's alternative is actually worse.

Barack Hussein Obama has become the proverbial fly in the ointment for conservatives everywhere. Most of us would rather vote for some third party, just to drive home a point to the sniveling, whining "moderates" out there. But a vote against McCain is essentially a vote for the racist, anti-American, B. Hussein Obama.

What do we do? Can we hope for a mircle intervention in the form of a medical tragedy? Can we pray for a complete and devistating upset at one of the primaries? Generally, I am one who has an opinion on anything and everything...but this quandry really has me stumped.



I found this video and found it enlightening, succinct, and terrifying...enjoy...
http://www.urbanconservative.com/2008/06/11/bringing-it-all-together-obama-video

Poor Lonely McCain...

John McCain has been sending me serveral letters appealing to my anti-liberal nature. He gave me a self-addressed, stamped envelope to send him some cash in. I used one of those envelopes to send him this letter.

Dear John,

Like many of those who are tired of the enormous amounts of B.S. coming out of the RNC these days, I regret to inform you that I will not be able or willing to support many of the Republicans running for office this fall. This of course will have to include fiscally supporting the whims of a political party that seems so quick to spit in the face of those who work to support this country and the institutions and traditions that have made this nation the greatest the world has ever seen.

Simply sir, you and your ilk, have let us down.

From taxes, to border security, to the absolute CRAP that is the global warming hoax (and more importantly the crap-n-trade-scheme that you endorse and support), you have consistently and regularly chosen the wrong side of the issue… every time!

You now stand as the head of what used to be a party of conviction, a party of freedom, of personal achievement and individual rights. You stand sir, at the helm of a sinking ship (!) and yet you ask me to support you, one of the individuals responsible for all the holes in the hull?

You signed-off on your letter “I hope to hear from you soon.”, so I will oblige you with this letter and some common-sense demands from those of us desperate for leadership. John, there are so many of us who are terrified at the prospect of an Obama presidency. All you would have to do is take up the banner of freedom, the notion of American exceptionality, and the ringing truth of conservatism and the presidency would be yours!

#1) Drop any and all notions of cap-and-trade in regards to global warming. In fact, announce that your presidency will give no credence to the half-baked pseudo-science that IS global warming. The evidence is there that this is a manufactured crisis. It is something devised to line the pockets of those with interests and to snatch freedom from the masses. Denounce it and I will follow you.

#2) Give the American people your most absolute and solemn vow that ANY illegal immigration amnesty bill that reaches your presidential desk will be immediately and unequivocally vetoed. Convince us that you mean to secure our borders and perpetuate (not dilute) Americanism. This county got to be great by being this country, not Mexico or China or the Netherlands. Support immigration, absolutely. Legal immigration! Denounce illegal immigration and I will follow you.

#3) Forget tax “cuts” and look into HR Bill 25 (aka the FairTax). Announce that you support getting rid of a system of taxation with 67,000 pages! A system that is set up and perpetuated so that politicians can buy their way to electoral victory by choosing “winners” and “losers” through the ever changing tax code! Give us “little guys” back our freedom by getting an obtrusive, overreaching, and suppressive federal, state, and local tax system off our backs. Do this, and I will follow you.

Do these things and I (and many others I suppose) will support you. I will send you cash. I will put a sign on my front lawn. I will canvas door to door for you. Give America something to believe in other than its government, and you will see great things happen. Both for the country, and for your personal fortunes as well I would imagine.

If not, if you choose to remain the status quo candidate of the right, that’s fine. Obama will win and send this country down a dark path. But, America will survive. The intangible that we label “the American spirit” is simply the human soul and as long as humans have souls, the dream that is the American Experiment will never die.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Respectfully Yours,
Douglas

Save XP? give me a break...

I saw this and I couldn't resist posting a response to it... here. I signed in as Midwest Guy, but in case they take it down here's the original...

I know many of you won't hear this. You'll assume I am some granola-crunching, Teva-wearing, long hair. But I have to try and help my fellow nerds out there. What are you doing to yourselves?  

Three years ago, I was a hardcore Microsoft guy. I was weened at the Microsoft teat. Until, in an act of what I thought was lunacy, my business partner bought a Mac for our company. It took me about 15 mins to get the hang of the system, all of the new stuff coming out (generally) works with all the old stuff you have, and Leopard is amazing!

I ask again... what are you people doing to yourselves? You're sitting around using poorly mimicked Mac OS's. There are some of you that are "threatening" that you will continue to use an outdated OS (XP) until Microsoft's "new" system comes out in 2010?!?! (With all the bugs that it will inevitably have) You're pleading to be sold old software? Does this make sense? Why not just go back to Pong and the Commodore 64?  

I know that the price of Mac scares many of you... but think, how much did you pay for Vista? And it's upgrades? How many times have you dealt with the blue screen of death? How many times does your sphincter tighten up every time you get one of those "virus alert" spams? How many more generations must we lose?!?! 

Instead of making demands to the demi-gods of mediocrity, why not just bite the bullet and come into the new age? 

Just one final thought... how many petitions and websites are there out there to "Save 'Tiger'" (Mac's previous OS)? How many Mac users do you know (and admit it, you know one or two) that are bitching about how much Leopard sucks, or are going to keep using Tiger until the next OS comes out? Save yourselves!

Sign of the (End) Times? Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

I know I should probably let this drop, but sometimes the internet puts things in your path that you just can't ignore. H-Date.com is a website where people with herpes can hook up with others who have this disease. I am not that old, I have no sexually transmitted diseases, and I am sure I sound like the most out of touch individual on the planet when I say...What the hell?!

I know that everybody needs some lovin', but does it strike anyone else as odd that a group of people who got themselves in trouble by having sex, created the equivalent of a club and website where they can troll for MORE sex? Here's a guy who is "looking for a casual relationship" BUT he has morals of distinction...he can "only sleep with someone he knows well".

A quick Google search for "aids dating" turns up almost 300,000 websites!! Are we that far along in the "free love" movement that we need to have that many sites?? I thought teaching our youth about how to put on a condom was going to spare us from this nightmare. 

I was taught, way back in 1995, how to put a condom on in school. The logic, then and now, was that "kids are going to do it anyways", so some crusty old lady took all the boys one afternoon and put a condom on a banana in front of us. Not only do I now hate bananas, but I learned absolutely NO applicable skills, because, let's be honest...

...when you're young, the possibility that you might be about to have sex is an almost crippling proposition. And while we ALL know better, there are just too many things that get in the way of that darn condom being put on properly. Sweaty palms. Shaking, nervous fingers. The voices in your head screaming, "This is it! This is it!" and "Oh my God, what are you doing?". The fact that putting a cold condom on a warm "special area" is the equivalent of thinking about Margaret Thatcher on a  cold day. See? Lots of things to cause a young boy to chuck the whole idea of a condom. And none of these things are ever adequately covered, because, honestly, they never could be. There is just no way to prepare the young mind for all the things that come with not only the act of sex, but all the things that come along afterwards either. Like, let's just say, having to go to special websites to find dates because that "youthful indiscretion" has left you with one of the many "rewards" of the free love movement.

I, for one, am tired of the old saw "they're going to do it anyways"... of course they are! That's how "they" got here in the first place. But for us to think that teaching them how to do "it" will make them any more careful then we were is simply ridiculous! How about we engage them in ways that our parents never did? How's about teaching them the truth?  How's about we teach them that abstinence, as old fashion as it sounds, is really the only 100% effective method against, herpes, gonorrhea, AIDS, all the other STD's, AND pregnancy; and that everything else is a hopeful dodge at best?

Instead of continuing to insist that more contraceptive education will make them better informed and safer, why don't we accept the facts and admit that what we have been trying for years is not working?

"They're going to do it anyways"...Is that what you will tell your kid when they're going up?

"Hey Johnny, you're going to do "it" anyways...so be safe and put on this condom that has a recordable success rate ONLY if you use it absolutely properly. And if you use it wrong, then just pray to a God (that we don't really believe in) that your partner doesn't have AIDS (or gets pregnant)"

While we're at it, why don't we say this...

"Hey Johnny I know your probably going to try smoking, so here, at least take this pack of smokes because they're safer than the other brands. They still might kill you... but there's a chance that they won't. And here's a lighter with the safety lock taken out so that you have something to light it with."

A Dish Best Served Cold

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?

Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'

He chortled in his joy.”

I am near giddy. I am laughing and laughing and laughing. I heard this little tidbit in a 15 second segment of my local radio newscast. I looked through CNN, (p)MSNBC, US Today, and even Google News and I was shocked, SHOCKED, to find that it wasn’t covered. I would have figured that this great news would have been plastered across the headline banners of tons of websites.
We have turned the tide against global warming. We are winning!! (for the tree-huggers; that was sarcasm…we were never losing.)

Turns out that not one… not two… not even a mere three but, (count ‘em) ALL FOUR major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released data which shows that the warming trends of the last one hundred years have come to a screeching halt and been replaced by the “single fastest temperature change ever recorded”. The part that makes me giggle is the part where one realizes that the change was to the colder, not hotter.

And when you look at the charts one start to see that we’ve “gotten back” almost all of the (almost) one-degree rise in temp that has occurred in the last one hundred years. Meaning that it got hot for a while, and then it got cold real fast.

Let me throw my layman view onto all of this.

No one. Not one damn person on this planet predicted this. (Except maybe this guy.)

One of the principle tenets of Algore and his ilk has been that CO2 causes global warming. We have had no shortage of CO2 in the last year, especially with lesser-developed nations joining in the industrialized fray. Therefore, if Algore was right, there was no way that this cooling could have happened. If Algore was right, the massive amounts of the dangerous gas “CO2” that are currently in our atmosphere should have kept heating the planet. There is no conceivable reason; using the logic of “consensus”, that this might have happened.

The debate was over, remember?
CO2= more heat.
(No more questions please.)

So I guess the question now becomes, how do the religious left spin this?

We’re going to hear about how it’s not global warming; it’s global climate change. The “Inconvenient Acolytes” (IAs) are going to start telling us, “Of course we’re going to see dramatic changes like this. We’re doing so much damage to the planet; it’s all out of balance.” Do not be fooled my friends. This is, and always has been, about power and money.

But now that those of us who have always erred on the side of common sense have some proof that the IAs were just as wrong as we thought, what do we do?

We have to gently take our misguided friends by the hand and suggest to them that perhaps Algore is not as all-knowing as his accountant wants you to think he is. We have to reiterate to them that until meteorologists can (at least) predict the next 30 days accurately, we should NOT trust them to predict the next thirty years. And finally we must explain to them, slowly and carefully, like a child who is on the threshold of discovering the truth about Santa, the Tooth-Fairy, and Supply-Side Economics, that we should never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever think (or allow others to go on thinking) that #1) taxes can fix ANYTHING and #2) we should trust our government officials blindly.

They’re just as messed up as the rest of us.

Left and Lefter (a choice no one wants to (or should) make)

Throwing up your hands and surrendering. 

That plan may work for people like the Cubs in September or the French any given Tuesday, but it's not an endearing plan and I find that those who embrace it are not usually endearing people. Sadly, it has become, as of late, the mantra of true conservatives in the country in the last week or so. And I can't help but stop and wonder what the hell is wrong with us.

McCon has won Florida and S. Carolina, so what? Let's look at some hard facts. McCain has 97 delegates out of a needed 1,191. That's 8%! and not even a strong 8% (0.0814442). McCain has won in races where liberals and "independents"  were allowed to vote for the Republican nominee. Look at the exit polls for Florida and South Carolina. Abortionists who don't go to church very often, voted for McCain.

A slim margin in the delegate counts (Romney has 76) and a win in a state where half the population couldn't figure out how to vote for Algore all those years ago, and our side is ready to throw in the towel. We've got folks like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh saying that if it's McCain and Clinton on the final stage, they're rooting for Clinton so we don't get blamed for all the socialist crap she's going to pull (as opposed to all the socialist crap he's going to pull). 

I say... that's crap!! We're going to get blamed no matter what happens. How's about this? Instead of throwing up our hands and giving them McCain to blow out of the water, what if we circled the wagons and put up the best candidate we can at this point? At least if we put up Romney, there might actually be a choice in candidates as opposed to "Left and Lefter".

We cannot give up. What if General Washington had said "You know, this Valley Forge thing sucks, and the Brits are probably going to win anyways. Let's roll up out tents now and head home. At least then the colonists won't blame us if the Brits pull something."? 

Make no mistake, we are in a battle of the same caliber as the Revolutionary War. There is a war going on for the soul of this nation. Washington fought, so that all men might be free to choose their own God-given destinies. Two-hundred plus years later, the dreams of Washington and those like him stand as a beacon of light that the whole world flocks to. It is this same epic dream that we fight for now. On one side stands the dark shadow of socialist oppression and on the other, the same fire of liberty that was lit all those years ago at our countries founding. I would hope that those who lead us now would harken back to the greatness of our forefathers, strap their boots back on, and get back to the hard work of forging a nation. 

This nation is always moving forward. The question becomes, who guides its path? Socialists and haters of the human soul or champions of that internal freedom and light that all men carry?

Hillary Just As Tough As Any Male Candidate (unless she's behind in the poles.)

You’ve got to be kidding me.
Mrs. Bill Clinton beats B. Hussein Obama by a few points in New Hampshire, so what? A complete political novice gets beaten by (pardon the expression) an old hat in the politics game, by a fairly slim margin, and the pundits and talking heads are falling all over themselves to call her “the comback kid”. They try to make it sound as though Clinton had thrown in the towel after Iowa and (shockingly) she’s now back in the race.
If Ron Paul had won New Hampshire (or indeed placed at all), THAT would be shocking. This isn’t that big of a deal. And if you think it is, you either…
1) haven’t been paying attention to Clinton’s war machine or
2) you suffer from a severe lack of imagination.

The big news isn’t that Mrs. Bill Clinton won. It’s really how she won. Listening to all the mental musings of the confused pundits, one thing started to show itself. They all seem to think she won because she got emotional. Poll after poll flashed across the screen tonight. Women came out for Clinton. Independents made up their minds this week. And the thought is that the independents and women came out for Clinton, because of her little “I’m so emotional about all this” moment in the New Hampshire diner this week.

I can just see the future Clinton presidency…
Mrs. Bill Clinton sits in the Oval Office. She looks morosely at the camera as she says, “I have tried so hard to get Iran to not nuke Israel, but I (sniff) just (sniff, sniff) can’t make him see reason.” She wipes some tears from her eyes, and bam! World War Three will be averted.

There are moments when I can hold my head high and say proudly “I am a conservative.” The contrast between myself and the New Hampshire Democrat voting block has just created one of those moments. Conservatives (true conservatives, not RINO’s like McCain) have the auspicious distinction of actually voting for substance. We use our sets of guiding principles accompanied by our pursuit of truth to make our decisions. Which is part of the reason true conservatives are in such a quandary when it comes to our political choices this election season. We don’t let thoughts like “Wow, she’s so emotionally invested.” dictate our course of action in the voting booth. We look at things like voting records, suggested legislation and proposed courses of action to determine our candidate of choice, all things that seem to be somewhat unfamiliar terrain for certain members of the voting populace.

This is the woman who wants to lead the free world? This is the woman that the women and independents of New Hampshire want to lead them? She almost cries and gets a boost in the polls? If you listening to the talking heads, the coronation is back on, because she got emotional. Her feelings got hurt, because she was losing, the people of New Hampshire saw this and said to themselves, “Oh, she almost cried. She’d make a great president!”

You’ve got to be kidding me.

I'm with Thompson (wake me when it's over.)

I hate wasting my time. It’s not that I’m that important. It’s not like I am making money in large enough sums that I could try and measure it by the minute, as in “he makes $109 a second”. (Which I believe is what Al Gore earns to peddle his fear-based initiatives.) I just hate wasting my time, because it’s the only thing we really have. Even though it’s a man-made constraint and has no meaning beyond what we apply to it, time is the one thing that every person personally owns. I may not own the “stuff” that I’d like to, but I own my time. Self-employment (and a healthy distain for “organized” industry) has taught me that.

So how is it, after twelve months of campaigning, we can sit on the eve of the Iowa caucus and have a statistical tie in both major parties? How is it that all of the front-runners, on both sides, have managed to move the needles on the meter exactly nil? (Worse, if truth be told, we’ve gone from “It’s Hilary and Rudy.” to “It could be anybody.”)

I have had to listen to this crap for twelve months, for what? A last minute montage of all the major candidates running around shaking hands and kissing babies? As though that’s supposed to affect a persons vote.

After all the crazy shenanigans in the Democratic party, from Hillary’s insistence that she has the experience, followed closely by her inability to cope with being “picked on” by a bunch of men, to B. Hussein Obama’s pitch for hope, followed by the “youthful indiscretion” of cocaine use, to John Edwards very expensive haircut, followed up with his recent “I’m for the middleclass” farce, you’d think that somehow the Dems might have sorted through all of this after 9-12 MONTHS to pick some sort of front runner. But no, it’s anybody’s “game to win”.

And don’t think the Republican’s are any better. They’re all playing some sort of shell game with their records. “I AM a Reagan Republican,” they all say. “Just ignore my stance on guns, abortion, health care, gay marriage, free trade, and taxes.” It’s impossible to figure the GOP guys out, because if you watch the mainstream media, they’re virtually indistinguishable from one another. (Except for Fred Thompson who hasn’t established anything beyond the idea that he’s an actor who is channeling some kind of autumnal bear.) They all say they’re not the Democrats. That’s essentially their theme…they like God and they’re not Democrats.

 Until you start looking at things like voting records and proposed legislation (you know, pesky little things like the truth), and you notice that what they call “not being a Democrat” looks suspiciously like being a Democrat. Things like, voting for tax increases (Huckabee), voting to limit free-speech (McCain), being anti-gun and pro gay-marriage (Guilianni), etc. ad nauseam.

 

So the upshot of all this campaigning is that we are exactly where we were when everyone got all there underwear in a bunch because “this guy” or “that guy” or “that woman who might be a guy” threw their collective hats in the ring for president all those months ago. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been kind of fun, but still undeniably, one gigantic, hugely colossal waste of everyone’s time.

 

And we wonder why more people aren’t interested in the democratic process in this country.