Come On Mitt

Governor Mitt Romney spent a few bucks on a full page ad in the New Hampshire Sunday News, September 23, 2007. It explains why he stays permanently locked in second place.

The page was a solution free zone—all box, ribbon, wrapping and no content. Any presidential hopeful could have submitted it with a few minor alterations for party affiliation.

Hey Mitt, we already know that terrorism, illegal immigration, energy, the emergence of China and India as economic powers, the vilification of our military and a Congress with an insatiable appetite for taxes are looking down our throats.

What’s your point? Do you have solutions? The ad referenced your Website, stating, “For your copy of Mitt Romney’s Strategy for a Stronger America, “50 Ideas to Change Washington,” visit MittRomney.com.”

I checked the site. The list exists, but it is well buried. Is it possible that your solutions are so insightful that you don’t want to share them with your competitors? Or, does your campaign marketing staff believe the electorate isn’t ready for in-your-face, concrete policies?

Unfortunately, your ad is emblematic of all the Republican candidates’ lack of traction. The campaign rhetoric is all ruffles and flurries. The contenders dance around the ring, feigning punches and prolong the match, while Senator Hillary Clinton re-defined herself as a centrist on the Fox Channel Sunday News program.

She has deftly moved to the political right, positioning herself in the dead center of the leftwing. This calculation is designed to appeal to the majority of liberal voters in the primaries, without destroying her chances in the general election. This strategy is called triangulation. Of course, the politically unsophisticated call it “bait & switch.”

But staying in the center of the leftwing guarantees her defeat in the general election, because about 75% of the voters would still sit to the right of her current transformation. Thus, after winning in the primaries, Senator Clinton will bolt to the right. Her “shared responsibility” will be cloaked in conservative fleece.

We all see it coming. So Governor Romney, why don’t you stop this socialist juggernaut before it’s a real contest? You are an accomplished, energetic man with a beautiful family. Your political, executive, economic and business credentials dwarf her resume by comparison.

You’re competing with a person who has spent most of her life on the government dole. She has never created a single job, or done one thing to improve our nation’s strength and reputation. And her moral standards and ethics make swamp life seem noble.

Earth to Governor Mitt Romney. If you want to win, stop the charm offensive. Come down here and tell us mere mortals, without your lace and chardonnay politeness, what President Romney’s top legislative priorities will be. Don’t pussyfoot! Be decisive! Be specific!

Hey Mitt, it’s about realistic solutions.

Now That's Republican!

It would be wonderful if our medical scientists could assemble a presidential candidate, grafting traits and features from all the current hopefuls.

The composite could look like Governor Romney, have Senator Clinton’s ambition and Senator Obama’s gift for oration.

Insert Senator McCain’s senior statesman qualities, Senator Edward’s smile, Mayor Giuliani’s quick wit, Governor Richard’s voice, Governor Huckabee’s decency, Representative Paul’s intensity, Representative Hunter’s clarity, Representative Tancredo’s sense of mission, Representative Dennis Kucinich’s honesty, and Senator Dodd’s determination.

Of course, if the experiment failed, we could be stuck with a candidate who looks like Kucinich, with Clinton’s ad hoc ethics, Edward’s shallowness, Obama’s inexperience and Dodd’s partisan fever—one who would regard the voters as the proletariat.

As is, all the Republican candidates stand head and shoulders above the pack of Democratic contenders. Yet, there is no traction in the Republican ranks. They are flailing about. The candidates’ campaign chests are filled with cobwebs, their vision unheralded and their talent muffled.

The Party’s principles were sidetracked by the Bush administration’s lack of fiscal restraint, the Iraqi theater, the push for amnesty and the decision to leave the southern border uncontested, Attorney General Gonzales’ incompetence, the usual congressional corruption, the President’s eagerness to contract the management of our ports to a Muslim nation, and his willingness to appease the opposition on domestic issues.

In summary, President Bush capitulated every time Republican principles were challenged. He never stood his ground, except for his position on Iraq and the struggle against terrorism. And his steadfast refusal to abandon Iraq has slowly convinced the majority of Americans that victory in Iraq is critical and achievable. He has the savvy Democrats running for cover on this issue.

There is something to be learned here. Americans are looking for an ethical person who takes and defends hard nosed positions—a candidate with a realistic, achievable agenda.

While the Democrats sing the song of shared responsibility, the code phrase for higher taxes, open borders, more entitlements and government encroachment, let’s pray that one Republican addresses the issues that outrage Americans. We are not asking for a lot. Just promise:

1) To use this nation’s might and economic influence to crush terrorism and to go nose-to-nose with the countries sponsoring these murderers.
2) Guarantee only English will be used in our government and our schools.
3) Lead us down a path toward energy independence.
4) Stop illegal immigration and demand legislation that discourages their stays.
5) Balance the budget without new taxes.
6) Protect our natural environment without hysterics.
7) Veto any new programs until Social Security and Medicare are financially sound.
8) Replace the current tax monstrosity with something simple.

Please note Republicans! With the exception of the cost of a fence and additional personnel on our borders, no new spending is required to close the deal with America’s voters. Now, that’s Republican!

Lie and Stay Amnesty

Senator Richard Durbin (D–IL), and the other Democrats seated in the “Weaken America Zone” of the United States Senate, are sneaking blanket amnesty for illegal aliens into the current defense appropriation bill.

The crafted legislation—The Dream Act and provisions of the SKIL Act—has been sitting around for years. The leftwing knows both are too contemptible to ever pass as standalone bills.

Here is why. The Dream Act immediately grants all illegal aliens permanent resident status if they are willing to claim they entered the United States before the age of 16 and that they have lived here for five or more years.

The qualification process is a hoax as no solid proof of either claim is required. That’s right! It’s based on the honor system. It’s unadulterated Lie and Stay Amnesty.

Senator Durbin and the equally duplicitous Democratic presidential candidates want us to believe that they are merely protecting a few thousand helpless children born of illegal aliens.

But that’s an unmitigated subterfuge because there is no age restriction on the applicants. Every illegal alien over the age of five can apply. Even better for illegal aliens, as long as their status is pending, the federal authorities will be prohibited from deporting them.

It gets worse. The parents, cousins, siblings, aunts and uncles of those granted this status automatically qualify for what amounts to permanent green card residency and eventual citizenship.

The SKIL Act all but removes the cap on the number of temporary non-immigrant visas by imposing “time restrictions” on the approval/rejection process. The already swamped U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will lose total control of legal immigration under the guise of streamlining the process.

This is a fast track for welcoming terrorists to our towns and cities. After listening to the Democrats side with al Qaeda, Syria and Iran during the General Petraeus hearings, this betrayal of our national sovereignty should be no surprise.

We know the Democrats’ real motivation; they want to win the Hispanic vote in 2008. By selling out America’s sovereignty, they can capture the allegiance of what will soon be thirty to forty million Hispanics. This will guarantee the election of Democrats for generations to come.

Entitlements and welfare compose the hook that will keep Hispanics faithful to the party. Keeping their constituency dependent on the government dole is a tried and true Democratic strategy. The legislation exemplifies this mainstay of socialist survival.

A clause in their amendment repeals the 1996 federal law which prohibits any state from offering in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens unless the state offers the same opportunity to all US citizens.

Of course, all illegal aliens will be entitled to federal student loans. That’s right! Former illegal aliens, but not American citizens, will be eligible for discounted tuition rates paid for by American taxpayers, and be allowed to apply for government subsidized loans.

This undermining of our national sovereignty will be realized if the Republicans cower. And there sits President George W. Open Borders and Amnesty Bush in the White House.

If this anti-security, anti-sovereignty, anti-taxpayer legislation passes and he doesn’t veto it, historians will identify George W. Bush as the president who catapulted the most successful nation in history into a third world, socialist country.

The Clintons' Legacy

President Clinton was out warming up the campaign audiences for Senator Clinton over the 2007 Labor Day weekend. It sent a chill down my spine when I watched snippets of the two pretending to be folksy and lovey-dovey.

They are quite a team and have more than just greed in common. Neither is ethical, principled, trustworthy, generous, spontaneous, nor noble. Excluding gender, one major distinction differentiates them: President Clinton is an amiable, amoral Democrat and Senator Hillary Clinton is an unpleasantly evil socialist running as a Democrat.

When the Monica escapade and impeachment hit the fan, President Clinton’s supporters claimed the nation was in good hands because he could “compartmentalize.” It’s obvious how he honed this skill. The couple’s marriage is as cold blooded and contrived as Hillary’s smile. They aren’t even friends. At best they are shrewd accomplices—business partners on a quest for the wealth that springs from power.

The nation forgave President Clinton for his sexual indiscretions as his legal mate reminded most onlookers of a woman who would bring a stop-watch to bed. This doesn’t justify his infidelity. But her role playing the “hurt little woman” was equally shameless. Granted, they are immune from shame because that human attribute requires a conscience. And that’s why they’re still hanging around.

Most believe that Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton was aware of his extra-marital dalliances. Many believe she welcomed them as an alternative to sharing a conjugal bed. Only the public exposure, which threatened her political ambitions, engendered her outrage and her crocodilian expressions of grief.

Illegal campaign finance shenanigans too numerous to count, Whitewater, the White House Travel Office affair, selling presidential pardons, selling restricted US technology to China, charges of sexual misconduct, the Waco, Texas massacre, hidden documentation, disbarment from practicing law, lying to a grand jury, and walking off with the gifts that foreign countries presented to the nation are all part of the Clintons' legacy.

They truly are a pair of miscreants. They deserve each other, but our nation deserves better.

Of Lice and Men

On Monday, September 10, 2007, the Democrats in the United States House of Representatives reached a new depth of depravity. Their Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Representative Lantos (D, CA), told the nation that General David Petraeus, seated before him, came to lie to the nation about Iraq.

Ordinary Americans have come to expect little from this body of minuscule life forms. They are infectious, parasitic insects, dependent on mankind for their survival. But unlike lice, these loathsome creatures only attack our nations’ best and bravest.

Representative Lantos’ opening statement was so despicable that his staff closed his Website. They crawled into a dank hole and hide from America. In fairness, they practice what they preach—they cut-and-run in the face of adversity.

General Petraeus is a soldier. His presence in the chamber dwarfed this body of Lilliputians. He came as an American, and sat silent and taciturn, as was his duty. He never signaled his personal feelings when Representatives Lantos and Drexel (D, PA) spewed their anti-victory venom.

The General’s strength of character and resolve must have made every family, with a son or daughter stationed in the Iraqi theater, proud. He cares about his mission and his troops. His sense of honor was as apparent as his appraisal of the situation was forthright.

He left no doubt that he would not waste a life, or dishonor the valor of those who have died in the defense of this nation, if he thought the goal was untenable. His assessment and perseverance should have been a warning to the terrorists and had them cowering in rat holes.

Tragically, this national opportunity to cement our solidarity and resolve to defeat the terrorists was missed. In front of the world, the Democrats split with America and sided with al Qaeda, Syria and Iran. This grotesque display of betrayal was an outrage; and an unforgivable blemish on America.

Terrorists, worldwide, must have been thrilled and bolstered by their support. How many additional graves will be dug to bury innocent civilians, our allies and our troops because of their betrayal? The number is countless.

The congressional Democrats unholy union with the terrorists was only overshadowed by the treachery of Senators Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Dodd, Biden and Representative Kucinich.

These Democratic presidential candidates refused to condemn the blasphemy of George Soros’ proxy, moveon.org. Each candidate, individually, refused to condemn the ad placed in the New York Times by this vermin—an ad equating General Petraeus with Benedict Arnold.

Any American with a shred of pride in our nation should take the patriotism of these political lice at face value. They are an ethically bankrupt gang of collaborators. Not one placed the nation’s security above their political ambitions. Not one is worth the sweat of an American GI.

Masters of Suppresion

We are barraged with footnotes every time race, religion or gender is mentioned in connection with some outrageous behavior or event. A prime example came from the lips of President Bush after 9/11. He thought it necessary to remind the US citizens, and our “friends” in the Middle East, that not all Muslims are terrorists.

Whether the subject is illegal immigration, Muslim cab drivers, the Duke Lacrosse Team, crime, education, Michael Vick, welfare, Senator Craig or terrorism, we are besieged with defensive, now rote, notices that clarify the speaker or writer is not a bigot.

By inference, these clarifications of intent suggest Americans are prone to making decisions based on their inherent bigotry. Although rarely voiced, the vast majority of Americans are tired of living in this asterisk laden society. We are not bigots; we are realists. We have eyes that see, ears that hear and minds that can discern.

How did everyday Americans become so defensive? How did common sense become suspect?

The doublespeak fostered by political correctness is partially responsible. The fear of litigation and bad publicity is another. The advent of organizations dedicated to scanning the horizon for the slightest insult to their constituencies is still another. And don’t forget the pack of national attack dogs waiting to condemn the slightest perception of racial injustice.

But the leftwing, the voice that dominates our media, is the driving force. It created and nurtures this environment to silence its critics. This engine of intimidation is a masterpiece of suppression.

There are boundless examples of this politically driven strategy in our news.

The leftwing brands anyone opposed to illegal immigration as anti-Latino and anti-poor; English only adherents are condemned as intolerant; those who question the root cause of global warming are defiled as devious capitalists; those who debunk affirmative action and diversity are anti-black, and those who object to the removal of religious symbols from the public square are labeled religious fanatics.

The list could fill pages, but you get the point. The other side of this sword of suppression is equally insidious—the leftwing media’s subjective conscience. It eagerly condones and encourages slander against capitalism, traditional Christian values, white men, patriotism, the American flag, the military, motherhood and personal responsibility.

It has a neat little catchall to defend these attacks against the values of Middle America—freedom of speech. They would have us believe they are merely providing a public forum for political and artistic expression. And that they feel obligated to feature the venom spewing from the Christian and America haters circulating in the ultra-leftwing.

Of course, they reserve freedom of speech for themselves. Those who oppose their wanton vulgarity and secular agenda are drowned out with shrill obscenities, distortions and lies.

And these are the ardent supporters of Senators Clinton, Obama, and Edwards. Birds of a feather . . . .

Huckabee Could Sweep in 2008

Presidential candidate, Governor Michael Huckabee, was recently asked: What are the top three items/issues that a “President Huckabee” would immediately address in the first term of his administration? The answer was short and sweet: 1) Go after al Qaeda, 2) send Congress a plan for energy independence, and 3) seal the border.

At the heart of these three initiatives is national security. And national security is the foundation upon which all domestic programs and initiatives rest. Governor Huckabee gets it!

He understands that energy independence is the key to a formidable foreign policy and sustained economic growth in this age of globalization. Our military and energy entanglements in the Middle East, coupled with Russia’s constant threats to close its oil pipeline to Western Europe create economic instability.

France’s sudden appreciation of the US efforts in the global war against terrorism signals its realization that the western democracies are at risk. Energy independence safeguards our economic engine and reduces the world tensions created by the competition for energy.

Equally important, it drastically reduces the volatile conditions—and associated readiness costs—for a military response to prevent or recover from a disruption in the world’s energy supplies—a terrorist goal. Thus, a large scale effort toward energy self-sufficiency is ultimately revenue neutral.

Governor Huckabee remembers 9/11, and understands that Iraq is the major front in the war against the Islamic terrorists. Yes, he wants to disengage, but understands that a premature withdrawal “would have serious strategic consequences for us and horrific humanitarian consequences for the Iraqis.” And he is prepared to deal firmly with Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia—terrorism’s financial instigators.

Of import, he doesn’t blame our nation for the ambitions of the Middle East vultures vying to dominate the oil fields. His prescription for energy independence offers an intelligent, mild mannered, yet hard nosed, solution to the problem. While our military combats terrorism, he wants to simultaneously eliminate our economic dependency on the region. That makes sense.

His down home approach to border security is refreshing. His statement, “Before you fix the damage in your house caused by a leaking roof, you stop the leak.” He endorses adding 23,000 border agents, drone air surveillance, 700 miles of fence and 300 miles of vehicle barriers, and installing 105 radar and camera towers along the US/Mexican border. Again, he gets it.

He has also declared that he would enforce a "catch and detain” policy for those caught entering illegally, and crack down on those who overstay their visas. His demand for tamper-proof, ID cards, with a finger and/or retinal scan, for visa applicants and temporary workers, would end the employer I-didn’t-know charade.

Although the Governor was against the McCain & Kennedy amnesty bill, he has not clarified how he would deal with the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens currently residing within our borders. That’s a question that must be answered without equivocation.

His moderately conservative stance on Second Amendment rights, healthcare reform, the definition of marriage, the sanctity of life and education harbor no innuendo—and required no recent conversion to traditional American values.

And his FairTax proposal, which eliminates the Internal Revenue Service, the DC lobbyists’ cookie jar and the font of much federal corruption, is brilliant.

Everything in his personal and political life denotes a decent man. The political pundits question whether Governor Huckabee can defeat Senator Hillary Clinton. With exposure, opportunity and the backing of the RNC, he could beat her in a landslide on character alone.

The Duh Hall of Fame

Who would have guessed that a NFL franchise quarterback, running an illegal dog fighting venture, would have been discovered by the authorities? It seems the answer to that question is everyone, except Michael Vick. This makes him the poster child for the “Duh Award.”

Michael Vick, the Atlanta Falcons’ quarterback, must be one of the dumbest people on the planet. Let’s be honest. There is no other rational explanation for his decisions. He managed, by his own hand, to trade a guaranteed $130 million contract, plus millions of dollars in product endorsements, for a jail sentence and a blanket condemnation by most of the human race.

If dogs could talk, they probably wouldn’t endorse him either. In fairness, there is a rumor circulating around animal shelters that a large number of cats are willing to forgive him. They are not alone.

The national discourse about his seamy avocation is filled with apologists. They think Americans are equally stupid, wanting the citizens to believe that Mr. Vick is a victim of a poor childhood, and that he was singled out for prosecution because he happens to be black. Right . . . and Senator Larry Craig isn’t a closet gay.

His soliciting sex from a male, plain-clothes officer in a public restroom was just a misunderstanding. The Senator obviously failed geography. Evidently he thought he lived in Massachusetts, where sleeping with seventeen year old aids and running gay call-houses guarantees reelection and near beatification.

There is no doubt about it, the Massachusetts voters have a soft spot in their hearts for creeps. It’s conceivable that Mr. Vick could be appointed to head the state’s Animal Rescue League. With little imagination, one could almost picture Senator Kennedy expounding on Mr. Vick’s experience with injured animals.

The political correctness oozing from most of the articles regarding Michael Vick never quite get around to the truth: Trash is as trash does. Now we are told that Mr. Vick recently found Jesus. Anyone believing in this sudden conversion belongs in The Duh Hall of Fame.