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“The American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed.”

Not my words, and no need to wonder how completely the drive-by MSM is covering comrade Obama’s tracks anymore. Pravda is now more conservative than the New York Times. Yes, these are the printed words of Pravda. Pravda!

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists…

Pravda summarises our dire situation nicely in it’s final sentences. Please be sure to access the full article in the post article link…T

…The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?
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Obama speaks at Notre Dame. He is“Christ-like”, “bipartisan“, and non confrontational in the face of protests from “right wing extremists” while simply trying to convey that we should, well “C-C-Can we all get along?“

“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness“

Then there are the words of C. S. Lewis:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of it’s victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience“  

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It has been said recently that the Republican party is “too far right” (think Arlen Specter). I would vehemently disagree, and say that if we want the GOP to get back to actually BEING the “Grand Old Party,” we need to get back to choosing TRUE conservatives in our electoral processes. The Republican party has alienated myself and scores of others. I no longer consider myself a Republican, but a Conservative.

So what IS a Conservative? Here is my list, and it is by no means comprehensive.

A Conservative is someone who:

• Believes in upholding the Constitution; that, in fact, the Constitution is infallible and the law of the land. Period.
• Values life.
• Values morality.
• Champions small government.
• Promotes free trade.
• Believes in lower taxes.
• Believes you and I are the ones to decide what’s best for us.
• Knows that you and I should keep our money and spend it as we see fit.
• Knows that a handout is not a hand up, and not the way to solve problems.
• Knows keeping the military strong keeps us safe.
• Knows freedom of speech is necessary to a free republic.
• Understands gun ownership is expressly provided for, and critical for a free republic.
• Believes that most government programs do more harm than good.

Now there are more I could add, but the point is we haven’t had one around in awhile. They are an endangered species. I think George Washington was maybe the last one.

I firmly believe that there are two reasons we lost the election. First and foremost, John McCain was NOT a true Conservative: McCain-Feingold is a glaring example. He also said that Obama and Clinton were nice, and we would be OK if one of them won the election. Bless his heart, but I think he lost all his “fight” fighting his gaolers. He couldn’t articulate how he was better than Obama; how he was more conservative and it cost us. Second, if the differences are minor, then why not vote for the guy who could make history. I know some of you don’t believe me, but I heard with my own ears people who wanted to vote for Obama because he “looks like me”, because he was black. I heard them say it. Now I would like to believe that this was a small segment of the population, but I doubt it very much. And, honestly, I don’t fault them for that too much. If the conservative had been black, I would have been so excited to throw my vote in his corner; to make history.

It was assumed from my last post, that I was a Bush fan, and that now, it was my turn to whine. Well guess what? I did vote for Bush…Could you IMAGINE how badly things would have gone with either Gore OR Kerry at the helm? I shudder to think
But Bush let us down. I still think he’s a good man, but he blew it, and blew it big time. I’m not talking the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein was a meanace, and a harborer of terrorists; he had ignored SIXTEEN UN resolutions. Why have a UN, and Resolutions if we aren’t going to enforce them??

But I digress.

Bush gave us the Perscription Drug plan and No Child Left Behind, two examples of his enlargement of the government behemoth. These have no Constitutional basis. He was not a Conservative.

So who is? That remains to be seen, but one thing we have to make sure of, is that whoever it is has a great love of the Constitution and believes in the infallability of it. We can no longer afford to say that something is “no big deal.” We have to look at everything through the lens of the Constitution and there will either be a basis for it or not. We have to make sure that whoever is elected counts states rights as a top priority.

Moderates need not apply.

I thought I might take a moment to reflect on Presidents past, specifically George W. Bush and how he compares to Barack Obama. It’s obviously no secret that I dislike the direction Obama is taking the country, but one thing you may not know is that not all anti-Obamunists were pro-Bush. In fact, there is a vast number of us who felt just as bad over the past 8 years as we are feeling now: completely controlled by unrelenting dogmatic philosophies on how everyone should live. With Obama, we teeter on the brink of becoming a socialist nation. With Bush, the threat was a church-state. Why do we have to keep electing such polarizing idealogues? Where are the fiscally conservative, socially liberal candidates? Where are the people who can think and reason critically?

I live in an area where being white makes me the minority. It’s difficult then to let anyone know that I am an Obama detractor. Immediately, I am simply a “racist” in the eyes of his supporters. It boils my blood that someone would assume that I look past all of Obama’s policies and land on the color of his skin as his “flaw.” When Bush was president, I lived in a different area where not liking him made me either a “terrorist supporting liberal” or a “satanist.” Of course, you can see where I am going with this. I am none of these things that people assume, but the Presidents we elect seem to give the people carte blanche to make such assumptions. It’s simply not healthy for half the country to always be ready with such an angry, thoughtless attack.

Whenever I can actually have a civil conversation with someone about my politics, they are often surprised to find out that I am not an Obama supporter. After the first few incredulous exchanges, I can eventually start explaining the problems I have with socialism. When I get to the part about how to solve problems without government intervention, I start getting nods. “Oh yeah,” they say, “that’s more of how I feel about it too.” So many people do not realize that they are centrists until you get them to say it out loud. Generally, until that point, they haven’t seen far enough down the road to understand the consequences of what is taking place.

Too often our “problems” are boiled down to “rich versus poor” or “black versus white” or “religion versus non-religion” or (under Bush) “good versus evil.” I believe that generally people want to do the right thing. It’s just that no two people are ever going to agree on how to do it. Is it sad that there are poor people? Yes, absolutely. Should you legislate the “rich” (I put that term in quotes because as of late it means families with $250,000 whereas in my eyes you aren’t rich until you’re well into the millions) to pay for the poor? Absolutely not. Redistribution of wealth is not a right of the federal government. Is it unethical for “rich” people to sit on the sidelines while the poor flounder? Maybe. But do you know how many “rich” people already give large amounts of money to various charities? Do you have a tally of all the humanitarianism in which each “rich” person takes part every year? Most pragmatically, have you thought about how many jobs that “rich” person has created with his or her wealth? People don’t care about those kinds of questions because the leader tells them they don’t have to.

My point is that the pendulum is swinging too far. Extremism may seem admirable, but in practice it only alienates and divides. Bush and Obama are no different in this regard. Abstract away the details of their respective agendas, and you have the same figurehead destined to help rip the country apart. Hopefully, eventually, the pendulum will lose momentum and land somewhere in the middle, bringing us a leader that can actually unite and not just campaign.

Is it just me? Am I the only one who would do almost anything for one night with Ann Coulter?! Oh well…

I see that the press – MSNBC in particular – and the fanatic leftists in congress are clamoring to put Bush and Cheney in jail for “torture” related war crimes. They use as their latest shallow justification that WWII Japanese war criminals were executed for “waterboarding” American POW’s (execution is what the press and the left really want for Bush of course!).

Problem is, as is the case with most of what the MSM states as fact, and almost all of what the left claims, this case is patently false, and provably so.

In fact – the CIA just this very day released the transcript of the EIT congressional briefing, attended by Nancy Pelosi, which now proves not only that she knew and approved of the waterboarding EIT, but that she knew it had already taken place, and upon whom it specifically had been used (Abu Zubaydah). Again, she signalled her approval at this time.

- Hypocrite, thy name is liberal statist!..T

…Given what the Japanese did to prisoners, waterboarding would be a reward for good behavior.

…To claim that the Japanese – architects of the Bataan Death March – were prosecuted for “waterboarding” would be like saying Ted Bundy was executed for engaging in sexual harassment.

What the Japanese did to their POWs made even the Nazis blanch. The Japanese routinely beheaded and bayoneted prisoners; forced prisoners to dig their own graves and then buried them alive; amputated prisoners’ healthy arms and legs, one by one, for sport; force-fed prisoners dry rice and then filled their stomachs with water until their bowels exploded; and injected them with chemical weapons in order to observe, time and record their death throes before dumping them in mass graves.

The Japanese “water cure” was to “waterboarding” as practiced at Guantanamo what rape at knifepoint is to calling your secretary “honey.”

The Japanese version of “waterboarding” was to fill the prisoner’s stomach with water until his stomach was distended – and then pound on his stomach, causing the prisoner to vomit…

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