This Couldn’t Have Really Happened

I know this didn’t really happen because liberals tell me that voter fraud is not real. And yet somehow, even though it is fiction, it made the news and the Justice Department actually prosecuted it. What probably happened is that he forgot to tell the local guys in the Justice Department to call Eric Holder for verification that voter fraud doesn’t exist.

Stark For Sure

Things were very interesting at the DNC last night. Bill Clinton and Sandra Fluke were wildly cheered, while God and Jerusalem suffered through some loud nays and boos. Sandra Fluke was hyperbolic and pretty silly. Bill Clinton put on an impressive display and attempted to bring Obama back to the center while demonizing Republicans. He claimed nobody could have fixed the mess Obama inherited and did some typical Clintonesque calls for cooperation. That was so familiar. Nobody could decry partisan politics better than Bill Clinton while simultaneously sticking a knife into Republicans.

Clinton hearkened to the past, but this ain’t Clinton’s economy. Clinton (and the Republican Congress) balanced the budget. They were the beneficiaries of the end of the Cold War and the dot com boom. Clinton initially tried to move left but when repudiated by the 1994 elections moved back to the center. Will Obama now follow Clinton’s lead and move to the center? I doubt it. He may make some speeches that appear that he wants to do so, but nothing in his behavior or history indicates he has the capacity to move away from his ideology.

The Republican fiscal record is spotty at best. You’ve always had a mix of true limited government types and big government spenders. Romney/ Ryan seems like a shot to move in the right direction. Obama wants to continue to push the big government answer. We think we know what we will get in Romney/ Ryan. We know what we will get in Obama. On social issues the divide between the two parties is pretty stark. The Democrats are radically pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, anti- Israel, and are trying to contain a simmering hostility to religion that dares to actually believe something. The GOP, while not always consistent, does maintain a pro-life, pro-family, pro-God platform. On energy, regulation and union policy the two campaigns also stand in stark contrast.

Here we sit with 16 trillion in debt, spiking gas and food prices, bad unemployment and underemployment numbers,and a shrinking workforce staring at a coming massive “free” healthcare entitlement that will be a monstrous drag on economic growth. Last week Obama said there were stark differences between the two campaigns. I can agree with him on that.

You Might be a Liberal

The White Shark has been on an extended hiatus but is back and thought I’d have some fun.

You might be a liberal

…if you believe punishing your employer with higher taxes, brutal regulations, and insane union demands enhances your job security.
…if you believe marriage is an antiquated institution but that gay marriage is the issue for our day.
…if you believe that a cold blooded killer doesn’t deserve the death penalty but an inconvenient baby does.
…if you believe that the Constitution has magical protections for things like abortion and bathrooms for cross dressers but doesn’t matter where guns and religion are concerned.
…if you believe that government benefits are the path to prosperity.
…if you believe that voter I.D. is racist but I.D. to get food stamps and government benefits is okay.
…if you believe that Christianity is the greatest evil in the history of mankind while mass murdering atheist regimes have nothing to do with atheism.
…if you believe that Jesus wasn’t real and that the inquisition murdered millions.
…if you believe that the United States of America has a terrible human rights record while China, North Korea, and Cuba have been bastions of tolerance and kindness.
…if you believe that you can spend your way out of debt.
…if you believe the government has its own money.
…if you believe that a tax cut that reduces the tax burden on those who pay the most is unfair to those who pay nothing.
…if you believe that Ronald Reagan was an idiot and Barack Obama is a genius.
…if you are sitting at home with no job because unreasonable union demands caused your plant to close down and move but that the problem was the evil business.
…if you think that NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN are centrist but that FOX is way to the right.
…if you believe that MSNBC is something more than low brow comedy.
…if you believe that Bill Maher’s show which puts an idiot and two liberals against one moderate is an example of a fair fight on the issues.
…if you believe that Bill O’Reilly is a right wing nut job.
…if you believe that Al Gore actually did invent the internet.
…if you believe that climate change has never occurred before the industrial revolution.
…if you believe that liberals think for themselves while conservatives are brainwashed by the Bible and talk radio.
…if you believe that killing baby seals is bad but killing baby humans is okay.
…if you believe that Christianity is a religion of war but Islam is a religion of peace.
…if you believe that racist and misogynistic remarks by liberals are okay if their heart is in the right place.
…if you believe that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton deserve the title of reverend.

Real Hope and Change

Next week we face an election that is pivotal to the future of this country. We have gradually slipped away from the ideals of the Founding Fathers to the point where our national character is radically changing. The response to the Tea Party movement is instructive. The Tea Party movement stands for fiscal responsibility, limited government and accountability from our elected representatives. I’ve yet to have someone explain to me why those are bad things. Oh yeah, I get all the rhetoric and paranoia and talking points about the “real” sinister agenda of the Tea Party folks, (along with how stupid and dumb and redneck and racist they are) but I get nothing on real issues. There could be a couple of reasons for that. First, true believers in the push for socialism and the big government utopia know their message is unpopular and won’t float so they avoid it like the plague. They prefer to wildly blaze away with pejoratives. Second, you have this mushy element among liberals. These are people who “feel things deeply,” but can’t really espouse much in way of an argument. They are easily frightened of the weather, guns, unborn babies, belief in God and people with an opinion that is different from theirs.

On a national level we have allowed ourselves to be redefined by revisionist history that is fed to us by public schools, the mainstream media, unions, and colleges and universities. Without these heavily entrenched allies the Democratic would be hard-pressed to win anything in most parts of the country. Our national ignorance has led to the election of a president and Congress who have an agenda to radically transform this country.

Make no mistake. Some people say that elections don’t matter. They say that both parties are the same. While the GOP has had major issues (principally being that they keep wanting to gravitate left as the Democrats move to the far left) this election does offer some real choice. Even at worse it is an opportunity to stop the slide into the abyss that our nation is facing.

The United States of America did not become the greatest nation in history by accident. It was because of the vision of the Founding Fathers and the core values that mobilized this country. That was the foundation for where we are today, but we have too many people in power that despise that foundation. Yes. it wasn’t perfect. Sigh. It seems like you always have to say that. It wasn’t perfect, but those principles guided this nation through its historical ups and downs. We lay them aside at our peril.

Get out and vote. There’s a good chance that there will be voter fraud. Some has already reared its ugly head. There will be efforts to suppress the vote. There are efforts to push third party candidates to siphon off votes. The mainstream media will skew reports to encourage you to stay home. There is no telling what kind of dirty tricks we’ll see between now and next week. Go vote anyway. It is time for some real hope and change.

Silly Democrats

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Don’t Panic

I hear all the doom and gloom. Conservatism is dead. The GOP is now a small tent and is doomed to obscurity. The Democrats are trumpeting the end of the Reagan Revolution. Socialism is being foisted on the the American people disguised as hope and change. Policies favoring abortion, homosexuality and big government are being pushed while national defense and the war against terrorism are being hamstrung. The Democrats are cocky and condescending.

There’s cause for doom and gloom but we’ll see. It hasn’t been that long since the Democrats were reeling and pundits were wondering if they would ever be able to make a comeback.

The biggest enemy to a GOP comeback is Democrat control of the mainstream media. The mainstream media has dropped any pretense to objectivity and acts as the cheerleader and mouthpiece of the Democrat party. It has truly become ridiculous. Many, many Americans are influenced by what they watch and read and pretty much take these sources at face value. What used to pass as news is slanted with innuendo and comments from so-called objective sources. But there is hope. Take a lesson from Ronald Reagan.

So how does the GOP come back?

1) Don’t panic and don’t compromise. The GOP has been hurt by abandoning their principles. Looking at post-election data and turnout stats from 2008 we see that, contrary to expectations, turnout was only marginally greater than 2004. We know African-Americans and young people showed up at significantly increased levels to vote for Obama. All things being the same turnout should have increased dramatically based on these two demographics. The final turnout was only around 1.5% higher than 2004. Why? Somebody stayed home — a whole lot of folks who would not vote for Obama but could not bring themselves to vote for John McCain. If they show up for McCain like they did for Bush you have a different horse race.

2) Get on message and stay on message. To do that you have to have a message in the first place and not fly all over the page trying to make everyone happy. Don’t worry about the mainstream media. Stop trying to compromise. Democrats think the meaning of the word compromise is Republicans doing what we want.

3) What message?

How about less government and lower taxes for everyone? Don’t be afraid when the democrats play class warfare with you. Stay on message. Let people know how much in taxes they really pay. That includes Grandma on fixed income when she pays her electric bill, phone bill or buys a gallon of gas.

How about fiscal responsibility? Obama and the dems decried Bush’s spending and now have proceeded to make him look like a Scrooge McDuck. Where’s the outcry? Oh yeah. That media.

How about being bold when dealing with social issues like abortion and the defense of marriage? Gay marriage is a great example of media bias. When Miss California defends traditional marriage she’s controversial despite the fact that most Americans agree with her.

How about separating yourself from the Democrats on National Defense and the War against Terrorism? As an aside, I hate the phrase War against Terror. Terror is a feeling, terrorists kill people. Big difference.

How about standing up for the Constitution? Democrats love to monkey around with it. Stupid, stupid, stupid. The less we stand on our founding document the more it endangers us all.

How about taking a stand against illegal immigration? This one issue bled the GOP white over the last four years. It’s not racism to actually know what’s happening on your borders. In a post 9/11 world you would think this would be a no-brainer.

Get a message and stay on it. Their are millions of Americans who are cynical and think both parties are the same. As long as the GOP continues to wimp out and let the left define them that will continue. The Democrat Party has become the party of socialism while the GOP has been sucked into a vacuum in the middle with no real identity.

The irony is that polls show that most Americans still believe in the ideas I’ve espoused above. These are not controversial positions. They are what most have always believed. The GOP had an opportunity eight years ago and blew it.

Don’t panic Mr. Steele. The Democrats have a tough row to hoe. The challenges in the economy won’t go away. You’ll have some opportunities to make hay. When people find out how much socialism costs they won’t be happy.

Arlen Specter Comes Out of the Closet

Well, well… Arlen finally decided to become a democrat. I’m not surprised — he’s been acting like one for years. I haven’t really had a problem with Arlen. My problem has been with the GOP for pandering to him when it was obvious that Arlen was a liberal at heart. George Bush threw his support Specter’s way in 2004 when it was looking like he was in trouble against Pat Toomey. Specter, as the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, seemed to delight in siding with the democrats to slow down or block Bush appointments and yet when it came time for re-election politics as usual kicked in. Way to go W! I’m sure you’re thrilled today.

As Pam said on a recent episode of The Office, “When a child gets behind the wheel of a car and runs into a tree you don’t blame the child. He didn’t know any better. You blame the thirty year old woman who got in the passenger seat and said, ‘Drive kid. I trust you.'”

Oh the irony. The bigwigs of the GOP get behind Specter and support him and five short years later he holds his finger to the wind and jumps ship. Drive kid. I trust you.

The cost of political expediency is pretty high. You end up with Arlen Specter in a powerful position in the Senate and John McCain running for president.

Notice to Michael Steele — the GOP isn’t getting savaged because of conservatism it’s because you keep trying to be a lesser version of the democrats. Your only hope is to differentiate yourself. Don’t listen to left wing pundits tell you why the GOP is in trouble. Why would you trust them anyway? You have enough trouble with a mainstream media that has become the mouthpiece of the democrats without driving former GOP supporters to smaller parties. Make no mistake, a big part in Obama’s victory was due to the failure of the Republican Party. A whole lot of former GOP voters stayed home in 2008. Check the numbers and see who voted for Obama and then try to figure out who was missing. It’s not hard.

Maybe, just maybe, the leadership in the Republican Party will learn a lesson from this. I doubt it, but you never know.

Obama’s Magical Tax Program

Barack Obama has loudly trumpeted his plan to cut taxes on 95% of Americans.  I’m for tax cuts as much as the next guy but here are some interesting stats from the IRS–

The top 1% of earners pay 39% of gross tax revenue.

The top 5% pay 60%.

The top 10% pay 70%

The top 25% pay 86%

The top 50% pay 97%.

Everybody else pays 3%.

The top 5% pay 60% already and Obama wants to raise their taxes.  Obama also wants to get after mean and nasty corporations and get them to pay their fair share.  Hammer businesses and see what happens.  You’ll have even more Americans not paying taxes because they won’t have jobs.  This mentality that somehow punishing “big business” helps the little people is ridiculous.  Every extra dollar that is squeezed out of your company to pay more taxes is a dollar that can never go to give you a raise or fund another position or even to keep your position intact.  What happens when the local steel mill or auto plant closes down because of reckless tax policies?  And yet the same people who are so often victimized by the closing of a plant will vote democrat because the dems are for the little guy.

Why do local and state governments work so hard and offer tax breaks to bring a business to town?  It is in everyone’s best interest to have a nation where people have jobs and are self- sufficient as opposed to a nation that lives on the government dole.  I’ve never seen anyone get rich because they lived on government money.

The last democrat that sat in the oval office also promised to cut taxes on the middle class during his campaign but somehow within a month of taking office he announced a tax hike.  Regardless of what Obama says, what does his history say?  Obama’s history in the Illinois State Legislature is a picture of a man who is fond of taxes of all shapes and sizes.  He voted against extending the Bush tax cuts and seems to love punitive taxes on business.

Heard of wealth redistribution?  What if the tax cut you get that is offset by the taxes on your company ends up costing you your job?