Ron Paul? Not For Me

I will not vote for Ron Paul, EVER

I realize that this stance may result in the reelection of a President that I believe is hell-bent on destroying the principles that this country was founded on. The policies of Barak Obama have done nothing but hurt the economy while driving more people to government dependence. When the government is the primary provider for the citizenry, you have a socialist country. This intentional restructuring of our free country should have been obvious to the electorate before the last presidential election. In a remarkably transparent moment, Obama revealed his intent to Joseph “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher in response to a question while on a photo op in Holland, Ohio. Obama told Wurzelbacher that he intended to tax the prosperous to “…share [read: redistribute] the wealth” of the job producers in our country. The conservatives of this country then chose not to heed this omen and stayed home on election day as a protest against the Republican candidate. Now we have had three years of 17% REAL unemployment, near zero job growth, and the weakest dollar since the depression.

If this country continues on its current course, we will not survive as currently constituted. A vote for Ron Paul will ensure that this destruction happens. However, I will not vote for someone whose stated positions are to legalize harmful recreational drugs, sacrifice the security of the Republic with strict isolationism, gut the military which provides that security, and through pacifism empower enemies determined to destroy our country. As liberal as Barak Obama is, and he is the most liberal president since Johnson, Ron Paul is more liberal. That’s right. The above stated positions of the Paul campaign are to the LEFT of Barry Obama. His myopic plan will speed the destruction of our country and ensure no serious conservative could win the presidential election for the next 20 years.

Paul has bet everything on the Iowa caucuses. He is “all in.” His plan is to succeed in Iowa and then parlay that into additional fundraising allowing him to continue in the campaign as succeeding primaries occur. Yes, there are those in the establishment of the GOP that are nervous. I believe that the establishment of the GOP needs to go because they are more concerned about the power of their position and caving to the liberal cabal than the good of the country. However, the continued Paul campaign would drain resources that are going to be critical to the final battle against Barak Obama’s nearly 1 billion dollar war chest. The only way to ensure the defeat of Obama in November of 2012 is to choose a candidate that draws a stark contrast to the President’s liberal/socialist agenda. A contrast that does not camouflage a liberal perspective behind libertarianism. Ron Paul is not the candidate to beat Barak Obama.

Don't Drink the Kool-Aid

Within minutes of the Fort Hood tragedy, we had representatives of the government, in the military and out, avowing that the shooter simply was distressed about deploying. The response was too quick and too uniform. I am not a conspiracy theorist. George Bush and Dick Cheney did not blow up the WTC with satchel charges. I've had lunch with people who were in the Pentagon on 9/11/01 and were feet away from the impact of the aircraft. They weren't brainwashed, threatened, coerced or for that matter lying.

But when the government comes out and says "All is well!" I still see Kevin Bacon standing before the onrushing riot screaming for calm with the party lie (if you don't know what I mean, go rent Animal House).

Now, with the calm of a couple of days to conduct an investigation into the shooter's life and background, we begin to see hints that perhaps the public persona did not match the private truth of Maj. Hasan. I do not know that any of these rumors are true. They may very well prove to be fabrications of morons that are just as dangerous as the government patsies.

However, I have discovered that healthy skepticism is warranted when our government is so quickly publicly stating a position and they have no greater grasp on the facts than any supermarket tabloid. The rumors are:
1. That Hasan had been a frequent (at least recently) visitor to known Al Queda websites.
2. He had been under advisement of an iman in Falls Church, VA that also advised the hijackers of Sep 2001.
3. He had made several statements publicly, verbally and on the Internet, that showed him to be more loyal to the radical viewpoints of Islam than to this country.
4. It could be inferred that the act was premeditated for several months as his behavior took on traits that would be contrary to his religion. It has been reported that he drank and frequented strip bars. Not a big deal in itself but out of character for a devout Muslim. Unless perhaps he expected absolution through martyrdom.

Some or even all of these rumors may prove to be false. Perhaps the government was accurate in telling us that he "just snapped" and was not motivated by ideological desires. But I have to remember that this is the same government that told us not to worry, the shooter was dead. Perhaps I could believe that -- nope, that's not a flavor of kool-aid that I'm going to drink this time. I'm just saying. So that you can read these stories for yourself, and make your own determination, here are links:
Canada Free Press
FoxNews
Northeast Intelligence Network
CNN
ABCNews

Not By The Hair On My Chinny Chin Chin

The audacity of a congress to try and "sell" me on any plan is preposterous. Why is it necessary for the elitist elected to present a stage managed forum, stacked with their bought and paid audiences, to try and convince me that they know what is best for me? Why do they feel it necessary to stifle free speech that vociferously disagrees with their premise? Why are leftists who protest a war aimed at stopping terrorists and their sponsors before they attack us concerned citizens but opponents to their socialist agenda crackpots?

As a person who experienced socialized medicine for 20 years, I know firsthand about the poor service, long waits and doctors who have no incentive to provide excellent care. There is no accountability and no recourse for redress for inept practice.
Regardless of the focus group named program, Obamacare is socialized medicine. This however, is not a surprise from the socialist candidate that ran on the Democrat ticket.

Shouldn't our elected leaders be talking with their constituency and getting a true measure of the people that they pretend to represent rather than forcing a liability on us that will take generations to pay for it? A representative democracy (that used to be called a republic when I was in school) derives its power from the electorate and expresses and acts upon the wishes of the same. If the plan is so bad that it requires a re-education of the masses, then it should never be considered in the first place. I have seen excerpts from the plan and it is a startling intrusion into the lives of Americans. It is an attempt to dispose of the constitution and re-institute a socialist based government by subversion. The true ideology of the president was expressed to the man known as Joe the Plumber, Joe Wurzelbacher, when he said that he wanted to redistribute the wealth of the American achievers. Obama is a socialist and the popular press is his state organ.

Make no mistake, Americans are intelligent enough to recognize socialism's wolves in sheep's clothing. No screaming is necessary. We are witnessing the same tactics that were employed by another dynamic speaker and his cronies in Berlin in 1932. The Democrat party has the unmitigated gall to accuse the citizens that elected them to office of brown shirt tactics. Who staged a planted and bought audience? Who brought in party (union) thugs to prevent opposing discourse? Who has initiated all of the violence to portray themselves as the victims? The Democrats let by the speaker ad nausim Nancy Pelosi.

The greatest generation vowed to never again remain silent to the atrocities of political ambition. That has been passed down to us and we will not be silent. Ever.

Not One Penny

How much of the stimulus, signed into law last week, is responsible for the stock market rebound? Zilch. Nada, Zero, Zip. The government has not sent one penny of the stimuls into the economy. Yet we are going to see them claim credit and say, "If a little worked so well, let's do it again and really get the economy going." Hold onto your wallets.

The Semi-American Dream

It is incredible to me that so many people are buying the class envy that is promulgated by the leftist elite. The aim seems to be to pit race against race, gender against gender, and brother against brother. This isn't a shocker but it is indicative of the lack of a quality education in the U.S.

Joe Wurlzelbacher was thrust into the national spotlight last week when he asked Barack Obama a question about his tax plan. Joe is a single father who is trying to live the American dream of having his own business and providing a better life for his son and himself. When Sen. Obama came to his neighborhood to campaign, Joe walked forward and asked the candidate a question. He asked the Senator if his taxes would go up under Obama's economic plan. He plans to buy the plumbing business where he works and it makes about $250,000 per year. After a sanctimonious verbal pat on the back, Obama said that while he supports Joe's ambition to succeed, he (Obama) wants to take the fruits of Joe's success and "...share the wealth."

Actually Joe, the tax on small businesses that you would see would be an increase is $200,000 because you are single. In later interviews, Joe accurately observed that Obama's plan is simply socialist philosophy. All that is missing the rhetoric decrying the bourgeois and red hammer and sickle flags behind the podium. Obama's campaign is a brazen attempt to change the government of America by stealth election. By running as a liberal Democrat, he hopes to get elected and then use that as a mandate to implement $1 trillion in new spending strengthening the iron fisted grip that government already has over the pocketbooks of the average American.

In case you are skeptical, let's look at some facts:

1. Obama wants to penalize the success of hard-working Americans making over $250,000 and re-distribute that money to people who did absolutely nothing to earn it.
2. Obama's campaign, by demonizing the "rich", is hoping to maximize class envy in a propaganda campaign that would make any true Marxist proud. Saul Alinsky would be so proud.
3. Obama wants to socialize the health care system in America. By mandating mandatory coverage for everyone, the government will be forced to pick up the slack when employers can't foot the bill.
4. Obama pledges to raise the corporate tax which is already the second highest in the world on the greedy corporations. These are the same corporations that employ the majority of Americans. Can guaranteed jobs be far behind?
5. Obama wants to curtail a citizen's ability to invest his earnings and better his life by increasing the capital gains tax.

Where does he get this Marxist philosophy?

1. Barack Obama embraced, applied, and taught the philosophies of Rules for Radicals avowed Marxist author, Saul Alinsky.
2. Barack Obama chose as close confidant and business partner unrepentant terrorist David Ayers. Ayers was the founder of the weather underground, a group that sought to bring about a socialist America by violence.
3. Barack Obama worked for an associate group for ACORN, was a trainer to ACORN in radical community organizing, and provided legal services for ACORN. ACORN's stated mission is to destroy capitalism by overloading the system with its own regulations and bureaucratic red tape. It is unclear if the goal is anarcist or socialist.
4. Barack Obama and his wife chose membership in a radical racially bigoted church that espoused hatred for white America regularly from the pulpit. Obama was a member and attender for 20 years before he disassociated himself from the church for political expediency.

The list could go on and on. The point is that the Democratic playbook has been supplanted by the Socialist Worker's Party playbook. What, or who, gives Obama the right to determine how successful you can be? That is exactly what he wants to do. He has decided that you are only allowed to be successful up to $250,000. After that he will make sure that your American dream goes to provide welfare for the derelict who would rather live off of your hard earned success. Should your dream include owning a business, mandatory health care, and astronomical minimum wage, and an oppressive tax system would limit your income, forcing you to hire less employees or go out of business altogether.

The American dream is not about amassing wealth. It is not about living in the largest house, driving the newest car, or wearing the most fashionable clothes. The American dream is about opportunity. It is about the chance to go as far and as high as you want if you work hard enough, are innovative enough, and are willing to risk failure for the prospect of great gain. An Obama presidency would suppress and water down that American dream. Under Obama you can't have the whole American dream, just a semi-dream. To me, that is a nightmare.

Why is the ACORN scandal important?

The federally supported group ACORN has been all over the news lately for faulty votr registration. No one can say that I don't have a firm grip on the obvious. I work with a blue-dog Democrat that is trying to tell anyone who will listen that this doesn't matter. "They can sign up as many as they want and it doesn't matter because they won't be allowed to vote." That is the mantra that I heard a dozen times today ad nauseum. That is, unless you live in a state like New Mexico.

In New Mexico, you don't have to show any ID to register to vote. You don't have to show a picture ID to cast your vote. Those are normal ballots cast at a polling center. Throw in absentee ballots on top of it and all of a sudden the potential for fraud becomes a lot more real. In a race that has been projected to fall according to several swing states, the actions of ACORN cast a looming shadow of doubt over the legitimacy of the election, regardless of the winner.

Perhaps the greatest problem of the ACORN scandal does not have a direct impact on the election. If it so wanted, the FEC could declare that because of unreliable voter registrations, all voters in the federal election must show a picture ID to cast a vote. Absentee ballots would have to be signed by an officer of the court, clerk, our military officer. You would have to quarantine the votes already cast and count them all but separate them to insure that they were not disenfranchised. The greatest ACORN scandal problem though is the use of federal dollars to fund a group whose stated agenda is to bring about the collapse of the capitalist economy by overloading it with regulation. I'm not going to regurgitate the best article on the topic. Read it here. The fact is that ACORN used deception to receive federal taxpayer support to advance its radical agenda, strong arm tactics to force the mortgage lending industry to issue worthless loans, and illegal voter registrations to throw elections into chaos and receive more funding for their socialist cause. The cause of destroying the capitalist economic system of the U.S.

The past days have demonstrated that they almost succeeded. But there is no accounting for the resilience of the American people and the unbridled potential for growth in the proper environment. That environment rewards innovation with success, hard work with personal satisfaction, and risk taking with wealth. In that environment a computer geek and his friends took some risk, worked hard and created an innovative system and business model that made them the richest men in the world. In that environment a WW II vet went from appliance salesman to developing and selling his own vacuum and now it is the largest vacuum cleaner company in the world. There are literally millions of stories similar to these on different scales throughout the American landscape.

That environment does not include the socialist paradigm of wealth redistribution to the witless, lazy, and timid. Barack Obama believes that it is unfair that the hard work of Bill Gates and David Oreck goes unpunished. His economic scheme would take away the incentive for future Gates and Orecks to make their mark in American history. If there is the intent to penalize and take away success beyond $250,000, why would anyone aspire to exceed that threshold? Why should a man who has never done anything for society except expand his political ambitions, determine what is a fair wage for everyone. That's what the $250,000 is. In a perfect ACORN/Obama world, everyone would receive $249,999. The producers would have their success stripped from them and given to the lazy, petulent, and apathetic.

I hear what he's selling and I'm not buying.

New Medical Crisis: Obanity

This is an urgent message about a huge medical crisis that is spreading across our country. This is a new mental illness that threatens the very foundation of our country. The symptoms are pretty much the same: a visceral hatred of G.W. Bush, an unfounded loathing of Sarah Palin, or an ignorant acceptance of the left wing media mantra of the Obama worship.

Yes, I've heard about all of the conspiracy theories on both sides. But there is a wide-spread ignorance of what and who Barack Obama is. I don't mean a lack of knowledge, although there is plenty of that. No, as more comes to light about Obama and his true past, not the covered-up, manufactured, Manchurian candidate that MSM feeds us, people are choosing to IGNORE the facts about this unqualified, leftist, radical, puppet of the financiers of the socialist agenda. I call this "Obanity".

When voting records are examined of Obama's vote for infanticide, the victims of Obanity say that is only a technicality. When his work with, for, and organizing the radical group ACORN is verified, the victims of Obanity claim that is just a right-wing smear (they have quit arguing that it isn't true because it's be proven over and over). When his voting record in the Illinois state senate is examined, where he voted"present" 129 times, the victims of Obanity say that he's nuanced, kinda like John Kerry. When graduates of high school argue that Obama's math doesn't add up in his tax policy, the victims of Obanity cry racism. When his big government ideology falls right in line with his membership in the Socialist New Party of Illinois, the victims of Obanity scream, "San Dimas football rocks!"

Please help stamp out Obanity by intervention. If you hear someone who is afflicted with Obanity spouting the stupidity of this disease, the immediate cure is to walk up to them and slap them on the left cheek. If they continue to regurgitate the socialist screed a second application of the antidote may be required.

Please do not hate these people. They are the tragic victims of a horrible disease. Please apply the antidote in a loving, caring, and firm manner and help eradicate this American tragedy before it's too late.