Let’s start at the beginning.  You know, the on-going claim for reparations, which alone embraces all the race arguments in one.  Although constantly voted down as a terrible idea, reparations have actually been in place without a vote (just like abortion and soon gay marriage) for many years.  We have transferred at least 3 trillion to the “Poor” since LBJ’s “Great? Society” of ’60′s vintage.  Affirmative action and set asides have transferred trillions more as well.

Along with the obvious difficulties of instituting such a thing, several others argue against reparations for any rational person willing to listen:
1. No one alive today had anything to do with slavery.
2.  All labor during the antebellum period was paid by subsistence wages, i.e. food and shelter only — no large amount of money was “stolen” from those blacks used as laborers
3.  Even if a price could be placed on their labor, whatever the total, it was more than spent by the southern landowners who financed and fought the Civil War — IOW — it’s all gone
4. Who is owed and who would pay is an intractable puzzle

5.  Most whites in the pre-war south were dirt poor share-croppers who barely made a living (see #4)

6. Only 5% of antebellum whites owned big “Gone with the Wind” type plantations like Tara (see #5)

7. Slavery was being practiced on the continent of Africa a thousand years before any white laid eyes on the place.

8.  American whites never entered the interior of Africa to capture blacks (Contrary to “Roots” propaganda, they were far to suseptible to malaria, as well as other plagues for which mass production of antidotes had not yet been invented.)  They didn’t have to, Africans sold their own slaves to slavers of all colors (see #10)

9.  Slavery was the way of the world since its beginning — it still exists in many parts of the world today (see #7)
10. Are reparations to be collectd from western African Countries and American blacks descended from the black slavers and profiteers of the time? (see #4)
11. One million white men died to set American blacks free.   Other whites, like William Wilberforce, spent there entire lives ending the Atlantic slave trade.  The entire American abolitionist movement was begun and carried to fruition by a bunch of white, New England Christians (Puritans, you know, the butt of many a Hollywood joke, the ultimate “squares.”)  Do their descendents need to pay reparations? (see #4)

Of course, no price could ever be paid which would erase the degradation, denigration and humiliation visited on these suffering people.  Human dignity is priceless.  And that’s just the point — nothing can really be done to correct the horrible wrong that was American chattel slavery.  Reversing victims today only doubles the tragedy.

We can attempt to shape political conditions in such a way so that blacks can catch up.  I was an early proponent of civil rights and affirmative action plans (back when it was more dangerous than popular to do so.  Any fool can be “pro civil rights” now without exhibiting courage or experiencing fear.)  However, the movement soon turned into a race for quotas and a rank racial spoils system developed which is so odious I could no longer support them in good conscience.  Let’s face it, even Dr. King disliked Jesse Jackson.

So, lowering standards is NOT the way to help anyone.  It simply reduces our country to a collection of mediocrities who cater to the lowest common denominator.  In any event, racism is no longer a major problem for blacks.  Sure, there will always be the occasional racist, but now blacks are at the mercy of political manipulators who have rendered them violent, dependent and fatherless (70%+) – and all by design.  Believe me, the KKK could not have done more damage to the black race in America than have the (usually rich, white and liberal) apologists for why blacks cannot be full participants in the richest country on earth.  There is a party which keeps plying the black majority with tales of racism and trumped-up outrages like the Trayvon Martin shooting.  (Where are these people when 40 black teens a year are shot in places like Chicago’s inner city?)

Until they realized what horrible public relations it provided for them, the National Assoc. of Black Social Workers opposed inter-racial adoption on the grounds that black orphans were in danger of losing their “cultural heritage” should whites adopt them.  (They, with the help of lib judges, still throw up more subtle road blocks to such adoptions today.)  What the children were in danger of losing was their suseptibility to the “evil white racist America” meme constantly being floated by so-called black “leaders” and thus splitting the solid block vote expected from blacks (not to mention bearing tales of how at least two white people in America loved and cared for them.)  The rank use of black orphan children as political pawns is particularly despicable to me as I was an orphan in a Salvation Army home for un-wed mothers.  I was lucky enough to have been adopted by a decent, educated, Christian couple (I did not care what color.)  I know that the only “cultural heritage” small orphan babies need is warmth, love, food, clothing and shelter — regardless of the color of those who provide them.  And the rest, you can be sure, is rank B___ S___.

No, I would rather spend any “reparations” money hiring a tutor for every struggling black kid in America than spend a nickel of tax money on another gubmint program or teachers’ union benny.  But it would all go for nought anyway.  Modern American black youth culture is foreign and hostile to education.  (Caring about your schooling is known as “acting white” among the rap/gangsta’ crowd in today’s primary and secondary school environment.)  As long as there are political forces at work who must have a near 100% block vote from blacks in order to remain politically viable, blacks will continued to be used as necessary, if disposable, tools by them.  And, unfortunately, they will continue to suffer the sociopathological consequences therefrom paid out in short, brutish lives of crime, poverty and early death.

Thomas Sowell recently wrote a couple of articles entitled “A Cynical Process” parts One and Two.  He concludes the second thusly:

“At the local level as well, history shows that some of the most successful politicians have been people who ruined the local economy and chased job-creating businesses away. Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit in the 1970s and 1980s was not worried when affluent whites began moving out of the city in response to his policies, because they were people who were likely to vote against him if they stayed.  Of course they took their taxes, their investment money and the jobs they created with them. But that was Detroit’s problem, not Coleman Young’s problem. Barack Obama may win re-election by turning the United States into Detroit writ large.”

Sowell had just finished explaining how many American firms had recently created thousands of jobs – just not in the U.S.  You see, with all his class warfare rhetoric, Obama has created the most hostile business climate in this country in living memory.  Although no one has gone to ”The Gulch” as yet, at least that I know of, businesses are retrenching.  (John Galt where are ‘ye?  I’m ready to go…)  They are cutting back, holding off and hunkering down until this wealth killing, Coleman Youngesque charlatan moves on.  Can they stand it for four more years?  Who knows.  Can the country?  I don’t know.  What the beneficiaries of gubmint welfare (the looters) don’t understand is that gubmint has no money of its own.  Only what it takes from others.   So far, “the rich” have responded by voting with their feet and moving from high tax blue states like New York and California to low tax red states by the thousands.  If Obama gets in again, they will move to low tax countries – many of which would just LOVE to have them.  And that’s the rub.  They are rich, they can do what they have to and need to do to survive.  The average American cannot – we are stuck here.

Now, none of this is to be misinterpreted as a disparagement of our country.  I served proudly in the U.S. military as did most male members of my family.  I love my country and always will – and that’s why I hate to see it destroyed from the inside out a la the prophetic words of Alexis de Tocqueville:  “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress [read Obama] discovers that it can bribe the [idle] public with the [working] public’s money.” and “A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.”  However, we are not going to have a country left if we keep allowing people – ANYONE – to get away with vilifying “the rich.”  Remember when the Dems class war rhetoric against “luxury” items like yachts blew up in their faces?  Yep.  It seems many blue collar workers, the so-called traditional constituency for Dems, made a living building, selling, repairing, crewing and otherwise dealing with, that’s right, yachts.  Of course, the Dems are more careful now and the Non Fox Media covers for them more effectively now as well.

Anytime I hear a pundit, politician or pontificator of some type bloviating on and on about “the rich” I know they have been had.  For the ten millionth time: WHAT THE RICH DO OR DON’T DO IS A DIVERSION.  It doesn’t matter to the average American in the short run.  Their wealth may go up or down, but it has little effect on the average bear until the “rich” are run off completely.  Then we will be talking about “the rich” all right, as in, “How can we get some rich people to move here?”  Yes Virginia, there is a name for countries without rich people.  They are called “POOR” countries.

That’s exactly what happened in the last giant misguided and murderous experiement in socialism – the Soviet Union.  Those geniuses persecuted, murdered, robbed (taxed?) and otherwise ran off all or most of “the rich people” and guess what?  The average bear (pun intended) stood in bread lines for 70 years.  And we haven’t even gotten into the fact that the top quintile of wealth changes often and that everyone, EVERYONE, in this great country has a chance to become “rich” without winning the lottery.

We also have not discussed what happens when millionaires and billionaires move out of the country.  Guess what?  Now people who make $250K a year are considered “rich.”  When they are gone, $100K is “rich.” Then $50K.  Then $25K.  Then  $10K.  Are we beginning to get the idea children?  And there will always be a small, privileged coterie of elitists like Hillary, Van Jones, Eric Holder, Rev. Jesse, Barry and so on (party members) who live well on whatever can be coerced from the remainder of “rich” people barely making ends meet (you and me.)

The fact is, while the class warfare hacks keep getting themselves elected with zero sum game economic myths and “the rich must pay their fair share” nonesense, the average U.S. citizen gets poorer and poorer because not only is the gubmint taking more and more, there are few left who are willing to risk and work to the degree necessary to create wealth.  There are no incentives left.  No one will work seven days a week, risk everything they have and worry all the time to support a gang of pot smoking baby-makers hangin’ on the corner or in the trailer park all day who collect a check from the gubmint for some long ago forgotten claim to entitlement.

Yes, let’s blame all our troubles on “the rich” and feel superior to them due to our unpretentious and pseudo-humble commoness.  Oh, and pass that crack pipe over here will ‘ya?  What’s that you say?  ”SURPRISE – you’ve been had.  Alas, too late my friend, too late…”

What have I been doing about it you ask?  Well, I have been writing about such things for the last several years on this very RS forum.

I have taken every opportunity to make the point in casual conversations that identity politics eventually harms most those it is ostensibly designed to help.

I have written letters to the editor on the topic and made responses and replies on every other forum available.

I have been strident to the point of being called “racist” by people who had formerly pretended to be friends.

I have been active in local conservative politics - telephones, bumper stickers, etc.

And most of all, I spent most of last year arguing with “acat” and others here at RS about why we likely will not win in ’12 with another vanilla white boy like Mitt, Newt, Rick, Ron, etc.  (I hope and pray I am wrong about that one.)  My reasoning was that all Obama & Co. had to do was turn it into a racial election and we would be lost.  With the Trayvon/Zimmerman affair, they and their stooges have done just that. They have set the subtext, printed the programs and called the tune.  All we have to do now is show up.  Or not.

My hope was we could nominate someone like Sarah Palin who, for many reasons, would not be nearly as susceptible to such things because:

1. People are already tired of the race thing, but they are basically trapped into the constantly forced duality of making a “choice” and what that might “mean” about them.  Most people don’t need the hassle in their lives…

2.  People would love a chance to vote for a woman…especially conservatives.  Finally, finally, finally we could beat the Dems to the “historicity” prize of offering a woman at the top of the presidential ticket of a major party.

3.  People may believe a lot of things about Sarah Palin, but no one will believe she is some kind of racist – that I can guarantee…in other words, one may safely vote for SP without fear of meaningful (if not of gratuitous) accusations of “racism”…

4.  The countercharge of being a “misogynist” for voting against Palin would be just as irrational – and just as effective…

5.  Sarah Palin is one of “us” or as near as we are ever likely to get in the W.H. – a smart, straight-talking Alaskan with a proven record of taking on hacks, crooks and establishment types in her own party…and staying clean while doing it – every so-called “ethics” charge brought against her was tossed out…

6.  The Non-Fox-Media (NFM) is frightened to death of her.  They know good and well how smart she is; they know she knows where Russia is; AND they know she is NOT afraid of them.  Even now, HBO is propagating a hit piece on her disguised as a movie and SHE ISN’T EVEN RUNNING FOR OFFICE…

7.  Barry is the emptiest of empty suits.  He was the scion of globe-trotting intellectuals; raised by wealthy, educated white folks; given handshakes, pats on the head, smiles and special advantages and privileges everywhere he has gone his entire life.  Indeed, from private prep schools to Harvard law to phony quasi-gubmental “jobs,” he has been treated like a hero since his youth.  As editor of the Harvard Law Review he wrote not one article – unprecedented.  (His staff will not release his grades – from anywhere.)  But as he was annointed, he needed not do such unGodlike things as write articles for journals to which he had been crowned “ARTICULATE BLACK CHIEF.”  All his positions and “accomplishments” were achieved without exerting a drop of sweat or suffering in the slightest degree.

Now, try to imagine Barry the Empty standing up onstage opposite the spitfire Sarah Palin, about as real a person as one can imagine.  Someone who has worked tirelessly for family, state and country and at great personal cost, I might add.  Someone who has fought “the machine” of her own party and WON.
I’d give a month’s pay to see it.  And the NFM would move Heaven and Earth to prevent it.

Just imagine, the gaunt, arrogant Obama, haltingly spouting his vacuous, spurious platitudes and specious bromides in that imperious, holier-than-thou tone of voice while SP stands up and speaks truth to power with her wisdom-of-the-heart common sense and practical, no-nonsense manner.  Make that two month’s pay…

Any more questions?       PALIN/ROMNEY in ’12            !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The subtext for the 2012 election has already been set.  Presto! Chango! With a dazzeling flash and mighty “Hi-Oohh, Silver”, a vote for Barry will now be counted as a vote for Trayvon and a vote for Mitt will be seen as a vote for Zimmerman.  See how easy that was?  Now, Obama’s thoroughly politicized DOJ will wait until a pivotal point in the election process to find Zimmerman “Guilty as charged!”  And voila!  There you have it.  Yet another case of racially induced homocide.  (Never mind that Zimmerman tutored black kids.  Never mind that some 40 odd black teens are gunned down in Chicago every year by other blacks.  And certainly never mind that the VAST MAJORITY of inter-racial crime is black on white.  Heard of any black on white hate crimes lately?  Neither have I.)

Yes kids, in the blink of an eyelid, our entire tradition of deliberative politics; our cherished system of checks and balances; the most rational and beautifully constructed Constitution ever written — all of it has been thrown out the window and replaced with the Alleged Rev. Al Sharpton’s lowest common denominator thinking, i.e. “We good, they bad.”  As The Rev. Jesse “I have a scheme” Jackson has reminded us repeatedly – no justice, no peace.  Wecome to the brave new world of identity groupthink.  No real choices, just a herd mentality and thug enforcement.  October’s federal show trial for Zimmerman will be a spellbinder, no doubt.

What has replaced it?  I’ll tell you what: a devil’s brew of Godless political correctness, children without parents, teachers without control, nihilism in theory and practice, and Hollywood glamorization of guns, sex and death.  Will someone please explain to me where this character T. J. Lane’s parents were when he was posting stuff like the following on his FB page?  (I’ve redacted some of the more “poetic” sections.)

In a time long since, a time of repent, The Renaissance. In a quaint lonely town, sits a man with a frown. No job. No family. No crown. His luck had run out. Lost and alone. The streets were his home…. His thoughts would solely consist of “why do we exist?” His only company to confide in was the vermin in the street. He longed for only one thing, the world to bow at his feet. They too should feel his secret fear. The dismal drear. He was better than the rest, all those ones he detests, within their castles, so vain. Selfish and conceited. They couldn’t care less about the peasents they  mistreated….  They had no enemies in their filthy orgy. And in her, the castles every story, was just another chamber of Lucifer’s Laboratory. The world is a sandbox for all the wretched sinners. …“Stay back!” The Guards screamed as they were thrown to their knees. “Oh God, have mercy, please!” I am Death. And you have always been the sod. So repulsive and so odd. You never even deserved the presence of God, and yet, I am here… they shall not mind the mud on my feet if there is blood on your sheet. Now! Feel death, not just mocking you. Not just stalking you but inside of you. Wriggle and writhe. Feel smaller beneath my might. Seizure in the Pestilence that is my scythe. Die, all of you.

“Vermin in the streets”?  “…He was better than the rest”?  “…all those ones he detests”?  “…their filthy orgy”? “…blood on your sheet”?  “…I am Death”? “…Feel death…inside you”? “…Die all of you”?  Really?  If my 17 y/o started posting stuff like this on FB I would have him commited for crying out loud, or at least taken in for a thorough mental examination by a trained professional.  What in the world was he thinking?  My guess is some little high school girl gave him some sex and then witheld it for whatever reason.  To some teen boys, sex is still so new and powerful it evokes all kinds of drama and is redolent of courage, knights in shining armor, chivalry and, dare we say it?  Romance.  Certainly, thier take can be quite warped and may conjure all kinds of feelings of shame, “love”, rejection and immediacy with which they cannot cope.  Of course, I could be wrong.  It may simply have been depression.  It may just have been another confused teenager.  Whatever it was, it took the only form now acceptable in schools – nihilism, violence and death.  Call it the leftist PC zeitgeist if you will.

Whatever one thinks of self absorbed teachers’ unions, idiotic enviro propaganda masquerading as curriculum and godless, media inspired PC trash considered as the only acceptable guide to speech and behavior, prior to the state’s removal of God from the classroom,  I cannot recall one school shooting, can you?  Philippians 4:8 states: ”Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”   Might not be such a bad idea.  It certainly would have helped this T.J. Lane character.  And where were his parents again?  Oh yeah, I guess they were trying hard to be his “friends.”

Left wing academics cum politicians are great at the art of misdirection and Obama is nothing if not an academic/politician – a poor one, but one nonetheless.

So why do so many voters keep on believing him?  He would dispute it, but his contention that, say, The Heritage Foundation is only concerned about tax cuts for the rich is right out of the Communist Manifesto.  He believes conservative think tanks, as well as conservatives in general, do not care about “the working  class.”  Surprise, he is not a member of “the working class.”  He aspires, consciously or not, to the ruling class and I’ll tell you why.

Whatever one thinks about the Heritage Foundation, we need the rich.  We like the rich.  We want tax cuts for the rich.  The rich provide jobs, investment and opportunity for us.  Our economy now is in dismal shape due almost entirely to Obama’s war on “the rich” combined with misguided attempts to make the housing market “fair.”  Meanwhile, “the rich,” are simply sitting on investment money until a more favorable economic (read political) climate comes along.  The reason Obama doesn’t care about the rich (and indeed is free to vilify them) is that he is paid with the tax money which is extorted from taxpayers at the point of an IRS gun and has been all of his adult life.  He has no conception of earning an honest living.  Probably half of “the working  class” does not pay taxes now anyway.  It’s the “wealth creating class” that pays most of the taxes, but that could soon end.

Consider, if we took EVRYTHING the rich has, not just their “obscene profits” as Obama would put it, but ALL of their assets, together the sum would not run the federal government for a year.  That is precisely what the old Soviet Union did in the name of Marxist “equality.”  They either killed or ran off all the rich people in a vainglorious “class struggle” to protect “the proletariat” and guess what happened?  Breadlines, gulags, block watchers, warrantless raids by the state police and KGB murder for seventy years.

No, brother, there is no guarantee that the U.S. must be rich and prosperous.  We could easily be as poor as Biafra and we WILL be if we continue to listen to political/academic eggheads like Obama.  He sees everything  as a function of top down “fairness”, but the market does not work that way.  It can indeed appear very unfair.  No system operated by man will ever be completely “fair,” however.   But rewards (note: not “privileges”) earned (note: not ”distributed”) through market capitalism are provided by the most fair of all economic processes.  It generally, though not always, rewards merit, industry, frugality, sobriety, maturity and persistence.  Big government and high taxes are the enemy of “the working class” far more than some mythical entity known as “the rich.”  Most folks who occupy the top quintile of wealth in this country have earned their way up.  If you want to get down to it, the six wealthiest Congresspersons are Democrats and most of them inherited or married their wealth, think John Kerry, Jay Rockefeller, Mark Warner, Diane Feinstein, the Kennedy clan, etc.  The liberal rich give away a far smaller percentage of their income than do wealthy
conservatives.  So much for the vaunted liberal claim to “compassion.”  As the old saying goes, I never got a job from a poor person.

The government does not have any money.  Yes, it prints money, but it has no wealth creation capacity of its own.  It can hinder or enhance wealth production, but in and of itself it is just a giant drag on the economy, that is, beyond its Constitutional mandates for defending the country, securing its borders, regulating interstate commerce, enforcing contracts and whatnot, most of which it does poorly.  In fact, a preponderance of what the government does nowadays in unconstitutional and unlawful.  Remember, every pencil used by the government, every pointy-headed professor hired by state universities (the vast majority of whom are liberals: sheesh, talk about “unfair”), every car used by the government, every toilet seat, every scrap of paper discarded by some government flunky comes directly out of and is paid for directly by the private sector.  Except for the Constitutional caveats mentioned, you can think of the government as pure debt (and much waste, fraud and abuse.)

And while we are at it, public employee unions should be banned forthwith as well.  The original ban on them was lifted by JFK and as you can see, government has metastasized from a group of civil servants into a gang of uncivil masters.  Now, I’m not talking about the individual NASA engineer or the lone school teacher, for the most part, they are just looking for a job or, at worst, in the possible  case of the school teacher, are “useful idiots” as described by Marx.  But there now exists an army of faceless, nameless bureaucrats whose sole purpose in life is demanding that they receive cradle to grave benefits along the line of kings and screaming bloody murder when they don’t get them.  As we’ve seen repeatedly, there exists a scant few felonies for which they will actually be fired.  They can literally kill someone, sit in prison and collect their federal or state salary.  For crying out loud, if you don’t like government service or the way you are being treated – quit.  There is no law saying you MUST work for the government.  Try it in the private sector for a while.  Obviously then, no rational, objective reason exists for government unions, except to soak the taxpayer and gold plate the lives of superfluous bureaucrats.

We simply cannot all work for the government, sell insurance to each other or run restaurants.  Someone has to create wealth and Obama and his crowd are daily killing our ability to do that.  He stopped the Keystone Pipeline; he slowed down domestic drilling in the Gulf (and everywhere else, for that matter); his EPA is closing factories or hamstringing them with redtape as quickly as it can — all without Constitutional authority.  Even prior to the ’08 election, Obama told us the problem with the U.S. Constitution is its failure to include “positive rights,” that is, it does not enumerate the right to healthcare, the right to housing, the right to food, the right to shelter, etc.  And thank God it does not, because if it did, the implication would be that rights come from the state.  And if rights come from the state, they can be taken away by the state.  As mentioned above in relation to the old USSR, when the state starts handing out and taking away “rights,” it soon becomes genocidal.

The American way has always been for individuals and families to care for themselves.  A so-called safety net may seem reasonable for a “rich society,” but such compassion soon becomes a rocking chair for the indolent and a magnet for the fraudulent.  Churches used to fill the gap.  Unfortunately, modern liberals want to do private benevolence the easy way, i.e. by letting unaccountable bureaucracies handle all the dirty work while they themselves munch brie, sip Chablis and feel morally superior to me and thee.

Constant attention to “the rich” is simply a red herring used to distract people from Obama and his government-union/aggrievement-mongering class warfare and subsequent plunder of the wealth producers through confiscatory taxation and crushing regulation.  We will end up with a Soviet/Greek-style economy soon if we don’t wake up, stop vilifying the rich, stop glorifying the poor, start looking after market capitalism and stop listening to the likes of egg-headed Harvard Law Review editors like Obama who never wrote a review or held a private sector job (“guest lecturer” does not count.)

Remember back when?  Back when Warrior and others were straining to get a real conservative to run?  Oh, we were accused of the most awful things.  They said we were in love with Sarah Palin.  They said were were a one note samba, a one horse town, or we were “fixated” on Sarah Palin.  Don’t we wish we had that fresh, cool, conservative breeze now instead of the heated and gaseous winds coming from Newt and Mitt.  Market capitalism?  Why, that there is detestable.  Newt took mony from Freddie Mac.  Mitt closed Unimac (and others) and has now become the Bain of our existence.  Holder and Obama must be having late night laughing parties about the very public Republican train wreck now on display everywhere.

Remember back when some of us said the race card or some other device would be used to undermine our candidates.  Who knew it would be used against a black guy too (Cain in addition to Perry)?  How much sillier the current candidates look.  With liberals voting in the caucuses, they’ve again run the conservatives out (e.g. Bachman) and we are left with the worst market capitalism has to offer – millionaire RINOS with giant egos and voracious appetites for public swill or private greed (and I don’t use that term lightly).

Let us all say a collective prayer that whichever rich Republican phony wins the primary can beat Obama.  We will no longer have the country many of us have known, loved and fought for.  We will be left as a weak sister of Greece, Britain, France all the other failing socialiats European regimes.  Well, even though Warren Buffet can afford to pay higher taxes, I cannot.  Especially to bankroll an army of entitlement happy cast-abouts who believe they have a right to live out of my back pocket.  Ultimately, we cannot all work for or live off of the government.  Someone will have to know how to work and create wealth.  And the work ethic will be just as difficult to rekindle as the welfare mentality was easy to instill.

Why don’t we all take a second and read this:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/07/8684597-fourth-woman-details-sexual-harassment-allegations-against-cain

I know Glory Alred is a gadfly in the conservative ointment, but this looks serious.

And it won’t be the last.  Can Mitt stand up to the public baggage laundering? (Talk about mixed metaphors!)  What about Perry?  Oh yeah, the painted rock incident.  And this will go on and on.

So, I know you don’t want to hear this, but we need to BEG, get on our collective knees and BEG Sarah Palin to rejoin the campaign.  Read my lips: She has been thoroughly vetted.  No October surprises.  No painted rocks. No bimbo erruptions. Etc.  She took on the powers that were in Alaska and won.  Naturally, she created enemies, but she also withstood and WON against all comers.  All the dirt was turned and it is clean.

And let the Left drag Tina Fey out of the closet.  It will look mean spirited by this point.  As much as I wanted to cheer for a Black conservative, I think he may be toast.

BTW, she has had some leftwing freak living next door to her for two years with a camera and a telephoto lens for the express purpose of turning up dirt.  So far, all he has come up with is a book full of lies for which he is now being sued.  PALIN in ’12!

BEG HER I SAY.

Now I hope Streif, Acat and all the other doubters and detractors understand what I was talking about a few months ago.  Gov. Rick Perry has gone from front-runner to fall-behind because of a word painted on a rock, at a hunting camp leased by Perry’s father, which had been painted over many times before, and to which Perry has no real connection.  I said that as soon as the Dems arrange for the most vulnerable Republican candidate to get the nomination as they did with McCain, come October they will pull a big, fat racist surprise out of their hat.  Several commenters told me I was crazy, one even intimated that I was a racist.  And yet, here it is for all to see.  The most nebulous of connections to the “n” word is now enough to bring a candidate down.

And here we are again.  Everybody likes Perry, Perry believes like we do, Perry won’t back down, and, Voila!, the WaPo and son of illigitimate baby-daddy Jesse Junior pull a racist rock out of their collective hat.  If only the Wapo had investigated Jesse Senior’s love life or Jean Francios’ war record as closely.  Alas, this is how we run the risk of 4 more years of incompentent, socialist and puerile bullying from the Black-Lung-in-Chief. (Google images of cigarette smokers’ lungs…)

And this is why Palin is our only real hope.  What are the chances that Mitt Romney’s second cousin’s uncle’s friend once sat on a wooden bus bench under which was scribbled the n-word and later, Romney had a chance to remove the term by scratching it out with a knife (obviously, painting over it is not satisfactory for the angelic hosts at the Wapo,) even though he did not realize it was his duty to do so since the bench was not his?  A HA, you say, but that could happen to Palin.

My answer is, doubtful.  Number one because it is unlikely.  If the left had anything remotely on her, they wouldn’t be so frightened of her.  Number two, she’s had a greasy cretin renting the house next door to her and spying on her and her family for years (a fact which would have sent the big mouths at the Wapo yelping in high dudgeon at the “unfairness of it all” had party affiliations been switched) and he has only been able to scribble a rag full of gossip, lies and calumny of the worst sort and over which he is now, justly and rightly, being sued.

Third, after laughing in their faces, she can respond that she is being attacked by the sexist Obama because of her gender.  He may be used to lording it over every other female in his life, but this woman will not back down.  She is being attacked by a craven sexist, a la Bill “underpants” Clinton.

And finally, she will take the battle to them.  She is not afraid of them, does not respect them and is not intimdated by them.  And that’s all they’ve got.  If they can’t bloviate from the imperious heights and have everyone else shake in their boots, they have NOTHING and she knows it.  She’s got more courage than all the other candidates from both parties and the libmedia knows it.  She will make them look like the pathetic loonies they are just like Ronald Reagan did because she can relate to the average American man and woman.  Will the libs pull out Tina Fey again?  Even that schtick is getting a little old.

And please spare me the details about how she doesn’t have enough experience in this or that area.  We’ve seen from Oh Brother Obama that no one expects world’s of experience anymore.  But the fact is, she has lots of experience and it is just the kind we need — the kind required to stand up to the establishment and say: No more DOEnergy, No more DO Ed, No more CPB, No more NPR, No more foreign aid (except immediate disaster response), No More means tested welfare, No more set asides, No more year-long unemployment benies, No more min wage, No more public schools spoiled by self-interested teachers’ unions, No more self-aggrandizing (and extremely costly) public-employee unions of any kind, No more! No more! No more! etc.

That’s the kind of “experience” we need right now and it scares the heck out of a lot of people — in both parties.

So ya think House Republicans are like terrorists for trying to stop America from going broke by constantly raising the debt limit rather than by fiscal restraint?  Weren’t you once accused of plaiserism?  Let’s see, in ’88 I think it was, you delivered parts of a speech by British Labor leader Neil Kinnock without attribution.  Also, a serious plagierism incident occurred while you were in law school, n’est pas?  You exaggerated your academic record publicly and after reporters started digging, it wasn’t the first time truth was a slippery quality for you.  It seems you had a history of taking quips from other politicians’ speeches without acknowleding their source.

Well, being a forgiving people, we won’t mention any of that today.  We will assume you really did make those terrorist remarks even though you are in full denial mode now.  Let me see if I can find a way to explain how a national debt spiralling into the teen trillions is more dangerous to our national security (much less the “full faith and credit of the U.S.”) than those who oppose it.

Let’s say Obam is like a spoiled 16 year old white girl (yes, hard to imagine, I know.)  She wants what she wants, when she wants it, and without hesitation.  If she doesn’t get it, well, those of you with teenagers know what she does: she screams, she stomps her feet, she cries, she blames others.  Now,  the other characters are dad, the guy who has to pay for the mess.  We will analogize him to Uncle Sam, the U.S. Taxpayer.  Next is Liberal Mother, that is Pelosi, Reid, Sharpton — you know, the usual suspects.  Finally, we have brother “on the dole” Dan - the almost 50% of Americans who now “draw a check” from Uncle Sam under various pretexts, otherwise known as grievance mongering and malingering.  (Yes, I know some folks are legitimately disabled, elderly poor or fatherless children.  They probably make up 15% of the “takers.”  And public policy creates many of those with all kinds of perverse incentives.)

Anyway, back to our story.  Let’s look in on this dysfunctional family.  The Princess (you can guess who she is) is carrying on about wanting a $200 dress for the prom, a car for her Birthday, a $100 purse, and a bump in her allowance to $500 per month.  (She cannot work, you know, that might be asking too much.)  Dad Sam replies, “Princess, we just cannot afford all these new goo gaws.  We are $14 Trillion dollars in debt now.  In fact, I was planing to cut your spending back some.”  The Princess faints at this point.  When she awakens, she dispatches her friends at the New Black Panther Party to man all the poll booths in Philadelphia.

Soft hearted (with OPM) Lib Mama chimes in at this point, “You’re just being hard hearted and selfish.  You know the guy at the (international) bank said we could raise our credit (card) limit.”  “Yes dear,” replies Dad (Uncle) Sam, “but if we do that, in a short time, ALL of the household income will be going to pay the interest on the debt.  We will have to borrow even more just to by groceries, pay the rent, etc. (that is, pay for Constitutional gubmint functions like defneding the nation and maintaininng federal courts, and so forth.)

Stirred from his lethargy induced stupor on the couch, brother “dole” Dan speaks up, saying we can always borrow more, we’re the Big man on the block.  Besides, he needs another COLA for his disability check (pot’s gotten expensive lately.)  Dad says, “Yeah, but we won’t be for long if we owe our soul to everybody in the world.  And quit smokin that dope in the house.”  Sister Princess is emboldened now, and begins to scream that if she doesn’t get the money, she will tell the media that Dad is abusing her (by “threatening” the full faith and credit of the U.S.)  The Princess is never questioned by the media.  any thing she says carries the weight of gold with the simpletons of the dino media. “I want more!” she screams, “I want more!”

Dad is about driven to distraction by the endless caterwauling, so, after endless nagging by lib Mama, dole Dan, the Princess and the Media, he finally gives in.  Tune in next time as we visit the dysfunctional family in five years or so.

Oh great.  Now the presumption of innocence is on celebrities and their thugs, even when the incident has been clearly recorded on a security video.  You can view it on YouTube by typing in: “Houston Airport: beating West Point cadet assault”.  What you may not see, depending on the version you view, is the cadet, Houston resident Richard King, walking out of the terminal PRIOR to the incident.  He was not weaving, he was not stumbling, indeed, he was barely distinguishable from the other deplaning passengers exiting the building to catch a ride home.  This is important because Houston Police later dismissed the incident, or rather, took Madame LaBelle’s side of it, because the cadet had allegedly “been drinking.”

My question is, so what?  It’s not illegal to drink in this country, especially on airplanes.  And, as you can plainly see, the cadet had not imbibed enough even to impair his gait.  Several witnesses stated that LaBelle ordered her thug crew to push King away because he was, get this, standing too close to her luggage.  The video shows the thugs plainly pushing King first and throwing the first punch.  Then, he obviously was attacked by not one, not two, but three of LaBelle’s cowardly pigs and as a result fell and hit his head against a concrete pillar.

Hang on, the worst is yet to come.  Later, the video shows two of Houston’s finest, or at least oldest, police officers showing up to…investigate?  No.  Take statements?  No.  Search for clues?  No.  Conduct  forensic tests?  No.  These two clowns end up having their photos taken with the fat has-been LaBelle while practically standing in a pool of Cadet King’s blood.  Too bad her thugs did not beat up one of their sons, we might have seen a different response.  Their actual explanation for such lackadaisical and thoroughly unprofessional conduct?  Well, said they, King smelled of alcohol.  Again, so what?

Here we have a young guy who has dedicated himself to serving his country.  A man who has suffered some of the worst hazing and most stringent discipline still in existence in this country.  A person who is likely to end up fighting in one of Obama’s three wars.  And even he cannot get a break.  That’s the chilling part.

Although I’m a veteran, I’m really nothing special in the grand scheme of things.  So, if I have the misfortune of standing too close to some fat idiot’s luggage after having had a few drinks, I run the risk of being  beaten by thugs and ignored by police.  This is not the America I grew up in.  And the worse is still yet to come.

Not only did the Keystone cops at HPD not render assistance, or even the presumption of innocence to this fine young man, they called his superiors (obviously in rank only)  at West Point.  The commanding weenies there, purely on the basis of a telephone conversation, initiated severe punishment on the kid.  According to published reports, the cowardly command staff at West Point stated King would have to serve in the enlisted ranks for a year before being considered again as a cadet and/or as an officer.  All this on the basis of the arrogant whims of a fat, smart-mouthed, over-indulged celebrity has-been. Boy.  That beats everything.

One is reminded of the Duke LaCrosse team’s experience with so-called justice in North Carolina.  Yet, one might say that at least they initiated their incident by hiring a couple of strippers for entertainment.  Yes, bad judgement, I agree.  Of course, college sports stars are not necessarily known for their maturity.  But this guy?  He was just standing their talking on his phone.  It easily could that have been you or I.  How many of us blab away endlessly while being nearly oblivious to our surroundings?  Yes, most of us.

Here’s what should happen.  First, the three thugs involved should be charged with aggaravated battery at least.  Since it was a black on white crime, it qualifies as a “hate” crime as well and should carry an extra long sentence.  (I know it doesn’t, but it should.)  If it is proven that the obese tub of lard LaBelle ordered it, she should be charged with a conspiracy to commit battary and do serious time as well.

Both, or all three, Houston Police “officers” should be stripped of all rank, privileges, pensions and retirement benefits and fired from the force forthwith.  Charges of neglect of duty should be investigated.  They should be made to do 1000 hours of community service in the ER of a major hospital mopping up blood.

The “commander” or “commanders” at West Point who ordered punishment on the basis of a phone call should also be stripped of all rank, privileges, pension and retirement benefits and sent packing with a dishonorable discharge.  To ruin a man’s career on the basis of the specious and horribly flimsy evidence offered in this case is dishonorable at best.  I frankly have had enough of the kiss and tell, panty-waist, PC military that jumps on it’s knees and whimpers at the hint of any politically incorrect whining by anybody.  All future commanding officers at West Point should be checked for a pair BEFORE being allowed to command there.

Finally, Cadet King should sue and sue and sue: the Houston Airport; the City of Houston; the Houston Police Department; Patti (the FAT sow) LaBelle; the three thugs in her employ; the U.S. Army; the U.S. Gubmint and anyone else in sight who might possibly be culpable.  Now, I’m not usually a litigious person.  But this nonesense begs for it.

We are eventually going to run out of fine young men who are willing to put their lives on the line to defend us.  And what exactly are they defending?  A country in which a minor, has-been celebrity can get away with assaulting an innocent man for no reason.  This is truly Obama’s America.

A lot of cheap politicians like
Clinton, Obama and Jackson run around blaming this, that and the other thing
for Americans no longer being able to realize the American dream. Such an
assertion may or may not be true, but what these types usually mean is that
somehow “evil forces” are at work. The usual implication is that big
corporations, racism or Republicans have treated certain segments of the
population, e.g. “the poor,” unfairly. The idea is, of course, that
the private economy is a zero sum game and thus anyone enjoying wealth must
have “gotton” it from someone else. If only people were so easily
convinced that as untrue as that assertion is for the private sector, it is an
exact description of every dime, nickel and cent spent by the federal gubmint.
Alas, that will have to wait for another article.

First, what is the American dream?  Well, it is certainly not what it has become
in the popular imagination, some kind of guarantee of the good life.  No one ever had that, except maybe a Kennedy.  It never meant putting in 19 hours at the
Wal-Mart and doing hair on the side was going to get you out of the projects, trailer
park or wherever you are now that you do not want to be.  It never meant that even if you had a full
time job and put in 40 hours a week you would end up with a home, car and
vacation.  It never meant that because you
work hard someone owes you more than your productive worth.  

It never meant the gubmint owed
it to you, either.  I don’t care if you
are a high school drop-out and managed to get yourself a job at a union shop
making 80 dollars an hour.  If that
little gig folds, it is not the gubmint’s place to ensure that you continue to
live on wages that are far above you productive worth.  And working for the gubmint itself at any
level is not (or should not be) some kind of life-long access to an overly generous
and eternally bounteous claim on the federal, state or local treasuries. 

First, no one is forced to work
for the gubmint.  Second, the job
security written into the civil service code (even without union meddling) is enough
to keep gubmint people on the job until retirement barring anything short of murder,
and I’m not too sure of that.  Third, no
adversarial management exists to demand low wages, indeed, the opposite is
true.  What passes for management are
politicians beholden to union money for their next re-election, so they have absolutely
no incentive to say “no” to almost any request from a public employee union
(and every incentive to say yes.)  And
that’s why public employee unions were banned until JFK came along.

What the American Dream has
always meant was that, after one has secured food, clothing, shelter and insurance,
paid their taxes and debts for themselves and their families, then were they free
to get a second or third job, enroll in night school, start a company, work
seven days a week and so on to pursue something more.  It is not magic.  It just requires hard work, sacrifice and
delay of gratification.  Does this mean
one is free to drop out of high school, run out and have two or three children out
of wedlock and then expect to enjoy an affluent lifestyle?  Probably not. 
That is some kind of dream-world alright, but it is not the American
dream. 

In America, one is free to do for
one’s self, or at least one once was.  Obama
& Co. are about killing the American dream and installing the Marxist nightmare.  We cannot all be equally successful (for
reason having to do with character, not race, creed, color, or the other usual
suspects.)  But we can certainly all be
equally poor, which is exactly where the “O” man’s policies are leaving
us.  Only someone who is thoroughly corrupt,
maniaclly ideological or just plain stupid would think that using the gubmint to
spend us into penury by the trillions is the solution to the debt crisis and
slow national economy.  Boy, he must
think we are the stupid ones for buying into such nonsense.  I guess he can always count on his lap dog
media to put the quietus on any speculations to the contrary. 

In any event, we need someone who
is not afraid to point out this idiocy and call it what it is, not another blue
suit, red tie wearing go-along-to get along like Boehner.  I used to love Gingrich, but talk about
baggage!  Wasn’t that the big criticism
against Sarah Palin?  Seriously, we need
a fighter and a winner come the ’12 elections. 
A smooth-talking white guy with a genius for oh-so-clever double-speak
WILL NOT DO. 

The American people have now seen
Obama play this role for the last four years and they get it.  Yes, black people are capable of being poll-obsessed,
air-headed, valueless, insider, both-sides-of-their-mouth speaking, TEL-E-PROMP-TER
reading mouthpieces for whatever-ya’ll want to hear disasters, too!  Kum-ba-yah and we have all seen the
light!  Hallelujah, we have been healed and
are cleansed of ALL middle-class white guilt from now until the Second Coming,
HooRay!  However, now we also have a real
crisis on our hands and we need a real leader and not only that, one who is
impervious to taunts of “privilege,” “dynasty” “boring white guy” and all the
rest. 

We need someone who had the guts
to stand up to oil-rich fat-cats in her own party and WIN.  Yes, I know she’s not perfect, but she is the
only conservative candidate people can vote for without feeling the imaginary,
media created lash of “racism.”  And it
is because she is representative of another “minority” group which has been oppressed
for many years that she is impervious to charges of “ruling class” elitism and
such.  2012 can be the NEW decade of the
woman if we have the guts to make it so and Katie Couric be DAMNED.

Let’s see…Bush ’43 was castigated by the dino media for a whopping 4% unemployment rate.  Lately, one rarely hears of the ‘O’ man’s killa’ 10% rate in the lame-media.  G.W.’s economy was growing at a “languid” avg. of 3.3 % (first three years,) yet MSNBC is “optimistic” about Obama’s 1.8 % in the first quarter.  G.W. was lambasted by members of his own party as a “big spender” for running up a $500 billion debt.  After Stim I, Stim II, QE I and QE II (do I have them straight?  Please correct…) we now host an outstanding public debt, as of 8 May 2011, 02:38:21 AM GMT, of $14,330,530,472,254.16 — a full 60% of GDP (8 trillion dollars.)  NPR’s reaction is anger at the Republican House because it is unlikely to vote for further deficit spending and impatience with voters because the idea of refusing to throw good money after bad has achieved “resonance” with voters.  [I'd say it has achieved a great deal more than that with me.]  To keep up current spending levels, even NPR suggests the only real solution is to go borrow more money from China.  (Does everyone realize if we lose our triple A bond rating it will cost much, much more to do this?)  

Politically, in ’08 Obama ran on “bringing the boys home,” closing Gitmo, getting to the bottom of the CIA’s use of EIT’s and universal healthcare.  The budget problem he “inherited” from G.W. was of course formed, amended and enacted with the help of a neophytic senator from Illinois named Barack Hussein Obama…same with foreign relations problems; the Soc. Sec. problem; the Medicare problem; the health care problem; the DADT problem; well, you get the idea.  And so boys and girls, between McCain’s refusal to mention Obama’s nefarious friends, pals and fellow travelers; Chris Matthews’ “first black prez” leg tingling enervations; and the implied threat that to oppose Sen. Obama was like, man, despicable racism – the big “O” got himself elected.  Yes he did. 

Now, in ’12, he is going to run again?  On what?  Jobs and growth will not be happenin’ anytime soon.  Cuts sufficient to dent the enormous debt will not be happnin’ in the near future either.  We are engaged in three wars rather than two.  And now, worse for Obama, the GWOT has culminated in great success with the termination of one Osama bin Laden.  (G.W. did all the heavy lifting on this one.  Anybody heard the ‘O’ praise him for it?  Me neither.)  And A.G. Holder is still prosecuting the CIA men responsible for dropping the SEALTEAM SIX BOMB (Hoorah!) on Osama thanks to info gathered from KSM (and just two others) by, guess what?  If you said, “by using Enhanced Interrogation Techniques,” go to the head of the class.  Furthermore, Obama’s ultra-left base must be incensed that Gitmo remains open and busier than ever.  (Prosecutors for the KSM trial are buying their whites even as we speak.)  And Obamacare?  Investigations have already begun into the exact criteria for receiving a waiver allowing one to dodge this monstrosity.  Over a thousand waivers have already been issued to various politically favored entities, e.g. unions, big DNC contributors, the state of Maine, etc.  [BTW, if universal healthcare is so great, why do all of Obama's pals and cronies want out of it?]

The solution for Christian conservatives, female conservatives, secular-conservatives, neo-conservatives, gay-conservatives and plain old conservatives, if not necessarily Republicans, is not going to be Mitt Romney, Donald Trump or any other white guy.  Obama got elected because he is black.  He had no administrative experience, none in the private sector, indeed, no real record of any traditional kind — nothing.  As Boy Clinton famously said, he would have been getting Clinton and Kennedy coffee had he not been black, much less running for and getting elected president.  If the ‘R’ ticket contains another white man, Al not-so-Sharp-ton and Co. will just crank up ‘Ye Ole Racism machine’ again and it will work again!  Remember, a great number of folks in flyover country still cling to white guilt as if it were a salvic talisman or gold-plated “Get Out of Jail” card.  (Please do not suggest a conservative black guy, the country is not really ready for that yet.  Think Michael Steele.)  There is only one real answer: Sarah Palin.  The Historicity.  The Conservative.  The Victory.

However, playing the devil’s advocate, let us say that Palin is out for the time being.  We still have Michele Bachmann and a host of other attractive and qualified conservative women who can run (an explanation for why “looks” are important will be forthcoming.)  If Hillary runs, we will lose with Mitt Romney.  We have to run a woman if the Dems do in order to take away what Warrior has coined “the novelty coup factor.”  Look, a barely qualified black guy beat a much experienced, respected and revered war hero simply so Brian Williams et al. could holla about the “Historicity” of electing the first black prez.  It will just be a repeat with the first woman prez if we do not counter.  The only reason some blacks voted was to bring a black guy into office.  So will it be for the first woman president. 

Now, yours truly claims no expertise on the handicapping of national electoral politics.  I do know it is an art as well as a science.  The zeitgeist plays as much a part as poll numbers, demographic studies, and voter trends.  But, as mentioned in Palin or Bachmann, Vol. I, several critics have put me off my Sarah feed for a while, anyway.  They often cite the Dem primaries in ’08 as instructive of how gender is not relevant, since a black guy beat a woman in that mash up.  However, the ’08 primary encounter was a totally different animal.

First, Hillary had Bill Clinton baggage.  Second, in the oppression/grievance sweepstakes, blacks are (or were) number one.  Now that that particular fire has been doused briefly, women are the next protected class to demand their representation (and who can blame them?)  If the Dems run a woman and we run a man of any race, we will lose, period.  And if we do not beat them to the punch and chose a woman AFTER they do, they will simply call our candidate a token or Jenny-come-lately- chosen only for her plumbing.

As mentioned, we have a parade of attractive conservative women available, starting with Michele Bachmann.  One must wonder why attractive conservative women are so threatening to the left.  The lamestream media vilifies everybody from Sarah Palin to Christine O’Donnell to Ann Coulter to S.E. Cupp.  Why are looks so important to the Dems?  To begin with, one of their major constituencies is the MTV crowd, i.e. the youth vote.  But beyond that, psychologically and historically, it goes deep into who they present, and actually believe, themselves to be.  Also, starting with the Nixon/Kennedy debates, they have realized and traded on the power of visual appeal.  Camelot is not an enduring leftwing delusion for nothing.

Basically, it’s sex appeal, but not in the traditional, cheesecake kind of way.  With the Dems, it is part and parcel of their whole philosophy.  “Look at us,” they say, “we are newer, younger, prettier.  Our IDEAS, therefore, are new, fresh and exciting.  We are the party of the future, the new kid in town, the fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”  Or, as “O” the Oracle once put it, “We are the change we’ve been waiting for.”  This is the Obama girl cheer.  This is why they are never held responsible for the enduring mess they’ve made of this country. 

(Just think about it.  Almost every problem with which we are now dealing as a national polity began as a great new idea from the left.  Social Security?  We are now drowning in debt because of it.  The Great Society?  We now have a veritable army of gubmint dependents and fatherless children.  Medicare/Medicaid?  It has skewed the marketplace provision of healthcare to the point that another charlatan from the left now wants to make it systemic as well as endemic with the snake oil of “Obamacare.”  HA!  The whole problem began with gubmint interference in that field.  And we have not even begun to discuss the moral hazards involved, the law of unintended consequences, the vast expansion of gubmint intrusion, power, corruption, etc.  However, I digress, that’s for another diary…)

And this is why ANY conservative woman, especially an attractive one, will be anathema to the left and why they will stop at nothing short of assassination to stop her — whomever she may turn out eventually to be.  And this is also one of the main reasons why, with John McCain mechanically labeling everyone in sight with the robotic, inauthentic, almost comical if not so scary “My friend,” we lost the presidency in ’08.  Yes, I know there were other reasons.  However, even for an election coming immediately after the two-term presidency of another Republican, and even with McCain failing to mention Obama’s close association with racists, communists and felons, it was still a mighty close call.

Many critics, several on RS, have just about quenched my fire for Sarah Palin.  I guess I like her because she is not intimidated by the media.  Or maybe it’s because she sounds like an average woman when she talks and not some over-prepped, Tel-E-Prom-Ter poseur.  Maybe it is because she stood up to the oil cabal in Alaska and won.  But, let me answer a few anticipated arguments against her running as a viable presidential candidate one by one. 

First, if we can elect a freshman STATE senator with no experience at anything but community organizing, i.e. extorting money from various private and public entities, I will not even address the “underqualified”  charge, except to say that Gov. Palin had more admin experience in ’08 than the “O” man had.  Next, as to her supposed divisiveness, the lib media is going to make any conservative candidate appear “polarizing.”  Look how they vilified a couple of rank middle-of-the-roaders like Bush ’41 and ’43!  And as far as needing to stay home and take care of her family, I’d like to see anyone on the left make that remark.  They would suddenly experience a huge Juan Williams moment for buying into a stereotype as crass as anything approaching “a woman’s place is in the home.”  As for media hostility towards her, NO conservative is going to get an “even break” from them in this country.

Other critics say she has reached the tether end of her competency, i.e. the Peter Principle argument.  It does not apply to Sarah Palin because she did not seek national celebrity or office.  It was thrust upon her.  Her neighbors encouraged her to run for the Wasilla city council.  Others saw and appreciated that Sarah’s strength and intelligence could be used in the political realm long before she did.  Indeed, you would have never heard of her had she not been persuaded to run for local office.  And remember, it was John McCain who picked her out of the blue as his VP candidate, she did not offer or politic for it.

As far as Sarah Palin being a known quantity, i.e. damaged goods, this is probably the weakest argument.  Everyone from Nixon to Kennedy to Reagan had been a known national quantity before being elected president.  Besides, what is known is almost all admirable.  She was raised in a modest home in Alaska.  She raised five children herself in another modest, but godly home in Alaska.  She courageously chose to have a baby with problems rather than taking the easy way out.  She served twice in the city council, twice in the mayor’s office and again as governor of the state.  She transmitted these values to her family as she now has a son serving in Afghanistan as we speak.

And finally, Gov. Palin is paying a huge personal price for what she did not ask for, but only accepted as her duty.  She now has some intrusive man living next door who surveils her and her family’s every move.  She is not rich.  She does not live behind security fences and guard dogs.  She was forced to resign from the governor’s office and self-promote in order to fend off specious ethics charges lodged against her by political enemies who neither experienced nor risked any repercussions, regardless of their accusations’ known veracity or lack thereof.  Under Alaska law, she had to personally finance her defense against this unjustifiable calumny.  And every one of these baseless counts has either been dropped or decided in her favor.

Yes, her enemies on the left know her and they are scared to death of her.  Remember, she has been tried by the national political media fire and has come out a winner.  She chose her family over politics.  She has extricated herself from a vicious and totally unethical ethics attack and overcome.  Once her domestic situation has calmed, she can choose to return to national politics.  Let us welcome her in some capacity – especially since she will likely be the one to choose it. 

Oh, so you think my wife and kids are ugly, huh?  I got news for you dummy.  Beauty is skin deep, but ugly is to the bone and brother, your as ugly as they come.  Ugly is as ugly does and your big mouth is beyond ugly.  You need to wake up from your (alleged) cocaine infested delusions and smell the coffee.  Nobody cares about you, your (alleged) drugs, your whores, your useless sycophants or your sick life style.  I would not trade my life for ten of yours.  You’re pathetic.  The rest of us are happily going about our business, enjoying our lives, raising our families and not giving you a second thought — not until you show up on radio and TV to insult us. 

But Charlie Sheen, you are the denoument of the left wing dream.  Your rant is indicative of the self-righteous arrogance which characterizes nearly everybody on the left.  You think you are better than everyone else because you believe you are prettier?  Ha!  What an imbecile.  I agree that you are a pretty boy, but your intellect is a vast wasteland.  With all that money, all you can think of to do is hire hookers and get drunk.  What a lame-brain!

This is exactly where value free, non-judgmental, politically correct socialism leads — to a life bereft of meaning and purpose.  Charlie, the only thing you have left is a coterie of drooling lackeys telling you whatever you want to hear in an effort to stay in the supposed “circle of cool.”  Surprise, even mindless debauchery has its limits.  The tide is swiftly turning so that soon your “big star” cachet will dim to the point that even your crowd of (alleged) dope using pals will desert you.  Where will you be then, genius?  If anyone ever wonders what a country dominated by godless, leftist mooonbats will look like, all they need do is cast a weary glance your way.  The river of putrid sewage which has become your life would very soon become characteristic of our national ethos.

As one grows older and, with hope, wiser, one begins to see that a life free of personal responsibility is not worth living.  A completely selfish existence is in truth a hellish nightmare – kind of like yours.  Look at all the supposed “little people” you have put out of work.  And some of them may even be decent folks trying to raise families.  You are the harbinger of morbid excess, not George W. Bush.  You are the anti-paraclete of the Evil Spirit and the demon of the sinful Nature of Man.  You are what happens when a man makes choices free of moral obligation or personal conviction. 

The sad thing is, there are thousands, nay, millions of poor slobs just like you out there who have drunk the kool-aid of personal aggrandizement and abhored the milk of personal responsibility.  Unfortunately, but thanks to your example and the example of others like you, they are leading lives which are equally empty, disgusting and sick.  Some sit in boardrooms and some stand in welfare lines, but they have all been duped by Hollywood’s endless show of holier-than-thou haughtiness and infantile mockery of decent Americans in “fly over” country.  The tragedy is, most do not have the money to buy their way out of the crappy mess they make while pursuing the “glam lifestyle” so often portrayed by Hollyweird.  Most of them end up as wards of the state who now must live off public assistance.  Here’s another news flash Charlie — I cannot afford much more of that crap either!!!

So, congrats to you, Carlos Irwin Estevez.  You are living the fantasy of every thirteen-year-old boy in the world.  Too bad you are a 44 year-old “man” with SIX children.  What a ridiculous loser.  Get help Charlie, you are one sick star.

in most states.  Not when there are unions which have to be sated.  And not when 20 year-olds who would rather have a Wave Runner than a healthcare policy must have it foisted on them by the gubmint.  But we have taken several steps backward in the care of the mentally ill over the last few decades.

The 1971 Wyatt lawsuit in Alabama, for instance, sought to stop truly brutal treatment of the mentally ill and misuse of the system as a whole.  Ricky Wyatt was a 15 y/o who had been sent to Bryce (the state’s mental hospital) for misbehaving at a children’s group home.  Since he was not mentally ill, this was obviously a horrible violation of the spirit of such institutions, if not of the law at that time.  And there were many other abuses.  But the answer was not to virtually close the hospitals down and send the patients to non-existent “community group homes,” for which there never has been sufficient funding. 

Even today, forty years after Judge Johnson’s ruling, many mentally ill in Alabama (and elsewhere) continue to live on the streets, under bridges and in boxes by choice.  Indeed, due to lawsuits backed by the ACLU and other leftie outfits, most states have had to close some and turn the remaining hospitals into temporary hotels for the mentally ill, keeping them for observation a few days, then turning them loose.  Less known or understood is the fact that many states were more than happy to oblige, since such facilities are a huge drain on the state’s budget.  So, now, the mentally ill have become living footballs for the state and the various localities to kick back and forth in the name of “budgetary priorities.” 

“These people have rights” one hears the advocates of such policies say.  Well, of course they do.  But with rights come responsibilities and given the nature of their mental incapacities, many are unable to rationally make important decisions about their lives.  They simply cannot function in society and truly should be cared for in a humane, supervised environment.  All the left has done is throw these very vulnerable babies out with the otherwise stinking bathwater.  So, the reality of unrestricted “rights” for the mentally ill, as mentioned earlier, is the right to live on the street where they are prey to every thug and criminal; the right to be stabbed to death for the coat on their backs; the right to starve in hobo jungles or freeze to death in a cardboard box. 

And they are free to give in to the awful mental demons that beseech them to hurt and kill themselves, or others, or both.  If you’ve ever seen “The Soloist” with Jamie Foxx or “A Beautiful Mind” with Russell Crowe, you have some slight idea what these guys are going through.  Is it really more humane and compassionate to sentence them to a life on the street than to a warm, safe hospital or other group facility?

Now, of course, I don’t know this character, Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged Arizona shooting suspect.  What I do know is that unwilling thought insertion by nebulous gubmint entities is almost a textbook description of the fixed delusional sytsems at play in many persons with psychotic disorders.  And such has been the case long before the advent of the Tea Party or the indroduction of Sarah Palin onto the national scene.  I also know that the onset of many severe mental illnesses is in early adulthood.  Mr. Loughner is 22 I believe.  So, chances are good that the man was trying to relieve some psychic pain which could, to his mind, not be otherwise ameliorated.

Yet, here we are again.  One injustice, i.e. Ricky Wyatt, or even a series of them, and we over-react and make the problem worse.  We simply cannot write blanket laws to cover every possible situation.  At some point, someone’s judgement has to be used and not second-guessed.  Someone, somewhere has to appeal to common sense and not fear being sued or put in jail for it later. 

I truly believe the excesses of plaintiffs’ attorneys and other lawsuit happy frauds like John Edwards have gone a long way towards undermining even an approximation of justice in this country.  And here we see again, in painful and stark relief, the results of such a misguided system.  The perfect has now, at long last, become the enemy of the good and we as a society will continue to pay the price.  For as long as Democrats and libs believe man and gubmint can be perfected, we will continue to witness gruelling and graphic examples of why that will never be true.

So says Obama, but one wonders.  Is it only sycophants who are starving on a “modest” $172K a year?  What about the carpet layer in Sheboygan who employs his brother-in-law and son and who splits his $200K gross earnings with two relatives and gubmint at all levels?  Is HE, then, the “rich” slacker lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills?  (And what about the avg family income in the U.S. — $55K per year.  Man, they must really be in poverty by the “O’s” standards.) 

And yet, The Won stated very recently that earning $200K per year meant one was a member of the hated “rich.”  Which is it Oh Great One?  The carpet layer?  His job certainly is as difficult as is that of the sweaty pool boy Gibbs.  And, in addition, he provides a needed service, employs two other people, supports three families AND contributes to the “modest” salary of the ever-truthful Gibbs (and thousands of others like him.)  I’m sorry.  It doesn’t wash with me.  I’ve got far more education and have been in my field far longer than Gibbs and I don’t make an eighth what he makes.  And pressure?  Let’s not talk pressure.  My job has at least as much pressure as being official mouth-piece for the One.

No, I’m afraid Obama’s Freudian slip is an excellent clue into the mind of the average Federal worker.  They believe they don’t make near enough while the rest of us slobs should get used to starving.  We OWE them, don’t you see.  Yes, yes, I know the avg fed worker has a more specialized skill set than the avg private sector employee, but that is only because the private sector employs a much wider range of occupations.  However, even after allowing for that anomaly, fed “workers” bring home nearly twice, in salary and benefits, what the avg Joe (in a comparable private sector job) makes. 

And, due to public employee unions, this is a trend that will be very hard to break.  Now, the left will respond with, well, conservatives are not serious about cutting salaries in particular or budget cuts in general “until Defense is on the table.”  Nonesense.  Defense is one of the few Constitutionally mandated perogatives of the Federal gubmint.  We NEED Defense.  So, I have a more accurate proposition.  The Dems are not serious about cutting the budget until all non-Constitutional programs have been wiped out.  Then we can worry about cutting “waste, fraud and abuse” from Defense.  Besides, I really don’t mind paying Defense people well.  We don’t want the lowest common “civil service” denominators and shiftless time-servers working on advanced missle systems, for instance, do we? 

No, I’m afraid the welfare mentality has seeped into the thnking of otherwise mature and responsible people working for the gubmint.  The old deal was, you got a job for life, more or less, but you will not make as much as the risk-takers.  (Which is another reason Omama wants to bail companies out and another good reason to oppose such shenanigans, but I digress…)  I think everyone was willing to live with that.  Now, however, we have a gynormous force of gubmint people at all levels who believe, not only should they make more than us, they are better than us as well and so are ENTITLED to as much of our earnings as they want.  And we better not forget it or our streets will not get plowed.  When the federal gubmint starts bailing out states overextended by golden retirement and health programs, we will truly begin to see the error of our ways.  I hope.

As everyone knows by now, Juan Williams was sacked by the taxpayer funded NPR yesterday for suggesting burka and keffiyeh clad muslims boarding airplanes give him the willies.  Well, guess what?  They do me too.  Any sentient being who has read a newspaper in the past twenty years should be similarly affected.  Kinda’ like the Reverend Jessie “Love Child” Jackson’s admission that he is relieved to look behind him on a dark street and the teens behind him turn out to be white.  None of this is really debatable or surprising to the average jack or jill.

Ah, but we’re not in Kansas anymore.  We’re in the funhouse mirror distortion of left-wing spin on the eve of a 21st century election cycle and no you may not assume that “up” is above you and “down” is below.  Now, the very evil part of me really wants to gloat at Mister Lib Williams decrying at full bleat that “I am not a racist” and doing that while sharing a couch with a bunch of conservatives on a FOX News show.  Personally, I feel sorry for the guy.  You try to be open-minded around here and the Nina “Maybe Jesse Helms wil get AIDS through a transfusion” Totenbergs of the world will serve you up to the wolves every time.

And poor Juan looked SOOO surprised!  It always amazes me when libs get shafted by their very own fascist PC enforcers and then end up being shocked, shocked.  Look, here’s a message from an old hand at being called a “racist” –  if you express an honest feeling or an original thought which doesn’t pass muster with the PC gestapo, get ready…it’s coming.  It’s inevitable.  It’s their ONLY weapon.  That’s why we could be discussing how to divide the cheese on the moon and conservatives or anyone else who steps out of the Brian Williams, John Colbert, George Soros Axis of “thought” will be labeled a “racist” and called out for misbehavior.

Don’t like gubmint healthcare?  You’re a racist.  Tired of seeing poor black children locked into failing gubmint schools by the teachers’ unions?  You’re a racist.  Object to left-wing academicians filling vulnerable 18 year-old heads with stale socialist swill?  You guessed it — racist.

I’ll never forget my first personal accusation of racism.  A guy I had known, and more illustrative, who had known me, for twenty years, suddenly decides I’m a racist because I suggested that moving the poverty, crime and chaos of the inner city into the suburbs, at taxpayer expense no less, was a terrible idea.  My thought was, “What is anyone to learn or gain from this besides a healthy snicker at the fools who have worked all their lives from the former ghetto dwellers and a serious hate for the gubmint from the suburbanites?”  But I digress.

Unfortunately, my first response to this erstwhile friend was “And you’re a f**king idiot.”  ( I later apologized for the profanity.)  If I hadn’t been so surprised at my formerly even-tempered “friend” calling me names, I would have retorted, “And you’re a fascist,” which is far more descriptive, if not nearly as satisfying.  Alas, it was ever thus.  Get used to it.  Until people tire of such obviously juvenile railing and ubiquitous puerile baiting, we’ll never hear the end of it.

One thing’s for sure.  It’s time to pull the tax-money plug from NPR, CPB and all other gubmint broadcast outfits which have become little more than elitist bully pulpits from which the liberal gliterati scolds us commoners at our own expense.  If they can bear Nina Totenberg practically begging for the death of Jesse Helms on air, they can handle Juan Williams suggesting that yet another muslim suicide bomber may be boarding yet another jet airliner to blow up yet another symbolic outpost of the Great Satan.

But maybe I’m expecting too much of the American people.  Maybe we are, in Eric Holder’s famous words, a bunch of cowards.  Want lower taxes?  You’re a racist!

–  “O.K. boss.  You are right.  I am so sorry for suggesting that half my income and half my inheritance is too much for the gubmint to take, especially when they waste, steal or lose 40% of it easy.  Please don’t call me any more names.  I’ll be good.  I won’t rock the boat anymore.  Please, just let me keep what I got now and I promise to be a good little citizen.  Allow me to run my business and I’m O.K. with whatever you let me keep.  I dare not raise a ruckus because, unlike my forefathers who pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for freedom, I’m willing to swear away all or most of my earnings for a little temporary safety and security.  Please oh please, just don’t call me any more names…”