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January 20, 2012

What if The GOP Loses?

In the wake of the Tea Party limited government wave in the 2010 election the GOP primaries are a bit of a disappointment.

Romney is a supporter and advocate of government run healthcare. That he thinks, for now, it should be the states running healthcare and not the federal government is a difference without a distinction. And I say for "for now" because the man seems entirely bereft of core principles.

Gingrich is an unprincipled, ethically and morally challenged bombast who though he occasionally makes sense, just as often leaves me scratching my head asking WTF? He also likes government solutions to everything, as long as they're his government solutions.

Rick Santorum is a party politician. That is all he is. He is not a leader. He is not a thinker. He is a politician. In my book that makes him slime.

Crazy old Ron Paul? I like his fiscal policy of don't spend any money you don't have. Unfortunately that same idea is the core of his foreign policy and it leads him to some outright looney positions. Positions that seem to be based entirely on short-term budget savings, but with no reference to what those policies might mean in the real world.

Republicans have managed to narrow the field down to this entirely uninspiring foresome, along the way reminding me of why I am not card carrying member of the Republican Party.

To borrow phrase from another GOP also ran, here's my unconventional endorsement. I unabashedly and whole heartedly support whomever the GOP nominates to run against The One.

I will support Romney despite RomneyCare. I will support Gingrich despite everything. I will support the party politician Rick Santorum. I will support Crazy Old Ron Paul despite his misguided isolationism.

There is simply too much at stake. Another four years of an administration that rules with complete disdain for its subjects and utter disregard for the Constitution is something from which we as a nation might never recover.

If The One wins reelection there will be no chance of repealing the federal takeover of healthcare.

If the example of Kelo v New London is any indication we cannot necessarily rely on the Supreme Court to uphold the Constitution and protect individual liberty from the rapaciousness of government's quest for power.

ObamaCare includes not only the liberty killing "individual mandate" but panels of government bureaucrats whose job will be to review healthcare treatments and determine if they are cost effective. Government will be involved with, if not directly making, every healthcare decision for every individual in the country.

Those individuals, all of us, will have no say in who is making those decisions. The One has clearly shown his complete disregard for the advice and consent authority of the Senate. The Constitution clearly states that one house of the Congress cannot be in recess without the consent of the other. The House of Representatives did not consent to a Senate recess over the Christmas and New Year holidays, therefore Constitutionally the Senate was not in recess. The One decided that since that interfered with his wishes he would simply ignore the law and the Constitution and make "Recess Appointments." The Constitution be damned he will have his way.

We cannot survive four more years of a lawless and unconstitutional government.

I don't have a high level of confidence that electing any of the current GOP hopefuls would result in reducing the scope and reach of the federal government. I would be pleasently surprised if they managed to stop its growth. Much more likely we will see what we always see, that once elected their need to go along to get along will result in merely a slowing of the rate of government expansion.

A second term for The One, however, would mean full steam ahead and don't look back at "what it once was like in America when men were free."

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September 01, 2008

McCain/Fiengold Meets Obama/Ayers

Writing the post below, I hit on something I have been ruminating on for a few days that goes to the core of why I cannot support John McCain for president. I was writing about my reaction to the selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate:

I don't think I can cast a vote based on the Vice President - except on the notion that if we could survive four years of President McCain/Fiengold there would be a great candidate waiting in the wings.

I started thinking about McCain/Fiengold and what it means in terms of free speech when I put up this post on the Obama/Ayers ad being run by American Issues Project.

The ad details - based on documented fact - Obama's relationship to unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. The response of the Obama campaign was not to refute the content of the ad, or even to try to spin the ad and paint as a tempest in teapot. Their response was to ask the Justice Department to invenstigate and prosecute the group runing the ad and it's primary donor for violating campaign finance law.

McCain/Fiengold.

As appalling it is for Obama to go the Justice Department to request that they shut down speech he does not like - and cannot refute - it is more appalling that a law exists that makes such a request an option.

It is a disgusting situation - and both candidates share in the blame.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 09:03 PM | No Comments | Add Comment

June 03, 2008

A Familiar Ring

Powerline offers an interesting snippet of a John McCain speech on Obama's Iranian foreign policy ideas. Part of it sounded sort of familiar:

Yet it's hard to see what such a summit with President Ahmadinejad would actually gain, except an earful of anti-Semitic rants, and a worldwide audience for a man who denies one Holocaust and talks before frenzied crowds about starting another.

For Obama, this would just be like going to church on Sunday.

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May 28, 2008

As the Wind Blows

I think I figured out why Obama does not wear a flag pin on his lapel.

His position almost everything depends entirely on which way the political winds are blowing. Wearing a flag would just be redundant.

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April 05, 2008

Election '08

People send me stuff all the time. Sometimes it ends up here. Wayne sent me what is probably the best photographic interpretation of the 2008 Presidential Election.