Posted on 05/14/2010 1:49:47 PM PDT by Christian_Capitalist
On May 18th -- we win, you lose.
All the sour grapes in the world won't change that.
I have no dog in the Kentucky fight. My fight is against the Pauls and their jihad loving, Jew hating, dope smoking truther cult. That doesn’t end next week. It’s just getting started.
In the Kentucky race, it's Rand Paul versus Trey Grayson. If you're anti-Rand Paul, you can scarcely claim that you haven't a dog in that fight.
Fortunately, on May 18th, your dog loses.
Happy days are here for the Hizballah wing of the Republican Party. Viva la Kokesh!
"Those grapes were probably sour, anyway," whined the fox.
Over his career, yes.
However, in fairness, it should be mentioned that in the National Taxpayer Union's most recent survey, the honorable Senator Jim DeMint actually beat Congressman Ron Paul's "Taxpayer Friendly" Fiscal Conservatism score for this session, by 1%. (Hey, when you're both in the high 90s, there's not a whole lot of margin between the top few scores).
Jim DeMint who... just endorsed Rand Paul. (Which hopefully means that Rand Paul will feel like he owes Jim DeMint a big favor. Because he kinda does).
This is going to be sooooo good. I’m going to crack the seal on a 15 year old bottle of good scotch to celebrate Rand’s election and then return to FR threads to read RINO screams of anguish!.
Then again, I only drink liquor maybe 2 or 3 times a year any more -- mostly just to remind myself of why I stay away from liquor. I might find myself draining a couple glasses of merlot come the 18th, though.
The scotch was a birthday present that I recd’ as a present. I was saving it for a special occasion, and Tuesday will be it!
Regards, Nucluside
Made calls for Rand Paul. Most people responded favorably. A few Dem householders said they were looking forward to voting for him in the fall!
Our prayer.
As far as 2012 -- I'm still with Palin, for now.
DeMint might make a great President, but unfortunately(?) he may be too humble and insufficiently ambitious to seek the office. Although some people would call those Character Virtues, not Vices.
"I want to continue doing what I’m doing. Leadership is a liability for somebody like me who’s trying to build grassroots support around the country for conservative candidates." -- Senator Jim DeMint, 5/13/2010
Keep at it, Jim.
Don't get me wrong. I love Palin. I trust her to follow her heart. I just want to be absolutely sure her heart is in the right place. I'd love to see her really come out against statism with intellectual conviction. If you've got some quotes that demonstrate her commitment to eviscerate the elitist federal leviathan (#1 target: Department of Education), please post them.
Sure! I'll mention just the first one that comes to mind, here, and then give it some additional research:
Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin used her first trip to Asia to attack the Federal Reserve for creating asset bubbles and encouraging excessive risk-taking that hurt working-class Americans.
The Fed and the government sent a message to companies that “the bigger that you are, the more problems that you get yourself into, the more likely the government is to bail you out,” Palin said in the closed door speech, according to a tape of the event given to Bloomberg News. “Of course the little guys are left out then. We’re left holding the bag, all the moms and pops all over America.”
Palin criticized Obama’s plan to give the Fed powers to monitor risks to the financial system. A meltdown last year led to $1.6 trillion of bank losses and writedowns and triggered a global recession.
“How can we think that setting up the Fed as monitor of systemic risk in the financial sector will result in meaningful reform,” she said. “The words ‘fox’ and ‘henhouse’ come to mind.”
While much blame must be laid at the feet of pork-barreling Congressmen and Imperial Presidents, I submit that The Federal Reserve's ability to serve as the Government's constant "lender of last resort", by directly monetizing the Government's debt if necessary, and the corrosive devaluing effects these policies have on the value of the currency, as well as the work and saving ethics... altogether makes the Federal Reserve perhaps one-third to one-half responsible for the extreme depth and severity of our current financial problems and dangers. And, as noted, steady corrosion of the value (i.e., "trustworthiness") of a society's money money is not even completely innocent of baneful effects on that society's public morals, as well.
By attacking this most sacrosanct of Big Government institutions, Sarah Palin does seem to have her heart in the right place on this important issue -- which is to say, she's rightly skeptical of the Fed and its operations. "Who is that man behind the curtain, anyway?"
As the author of the linked article says: "...'we the people' finally get to learn more about the 'Hockey Mom' from Alaska. And so far ... I like what I'm hearing!"
Thanks, me too!
If what’s going on in Washington right now is defined as sanity, sign me up for the nutcases!
Palin can beat Obama and win in 2012 if the right can resist running or encouraging a third party.
It's not a question of the right resisting anything. It's a question of liberty minded conservatives finding candidates that are truly, deeply, intellectually, ideologically liberty minded conservatives with convictions, that can articulate and fight for the truth, and give God the victory or the consequences.
Palin, DeMint, Rand Paul are all viable. Who will God choose?
That, more and more, is exactly how I see things shaping up.
As an unreformed political and news junkie, I find myself day by day looking up, and seeing this in the context of a much larger battle and a much larger battlefield.
At the present, I hope and expect that both of the latter two will probably want to continue doing fine jobs as Senators; so, my way-early prospective Presidential support continues to rest with the Governor. But that's just my own sentiment.
Especially so, however, if the chief alternatives turn out to be Romney, Gingrich, Huckabee and the like. Palin may not be perfect, but sheesh -- in the midst of those clowns, she practically glows.
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