Some advice to the GOP leadership….
If you want to win elections, your strategy should not include what the Karl Roves of the world are telling you. I like Karl and respect him. But facts are facts. The advice coming from the inside the beltway types has been anything but good. Such advice has lost you the last two elections, both of which should have been cake walks.
To win, ponder these points.
1. The number of people not voting is going up year over year. Its to the point now where the vast majority of Americans simply do not vote at all. Polling data tell us that the majority of Americans come down to the right of anything that either party has puked up since Reagan. That situation has become more pronounced over the last 6 years or so. Nobody is representing the majority of America. So….Forget chasing the mythical political center. It doesn’t exist. Instead, go after those not voting. Give them someone to vote for.
2. Don’t let your opponents pick your candidate. Democrats, every year, give advice on who they would like to see running for President from the GOP. Such advice invariably gets played loud and often on the lapdog media. But I wonder a bit… Has it occurred to anyone in our erstwhile GOP leadership that the Democrats in so doing, are picking people that will be the easiest to beat, or at least, cause the least damage to the leftist mantra should such candidate by some miracle actually win? We let them pick the top of our ticket with Dole, McCain, Romney. The last time we didn’t take the left’s advice was in 1979/80. Do the math.
(Consider, too, that the GOP leadership of the time wasn’t too happy about Reagan running. I know. I was there in 1976. I saw it. How’d their pick work out that year?)
3. You have to nominate a TRUE conservative to win the Presidential election. If you are going to claim being the small government party, you’d better actually BE that party. The citizenry isn’t as stupid as your actions suggest you think they are. As an example… if you’re going to castigate the Democrat for his big government healthcare fiasco, you might want to make sure the guy at the top of your ticket didn’t write the majority of the bloody thing. Democrat lite which is all you guys know how to do, ain’t gonna cut it, gang.
4. Don’t listen to the lamestream media lapdogs when they try to tell you why you lost. Same reasoning as number two. A look at our elections history, who has lost and who has won big, exposes their lies as such, and gives you your path to follow.
5. The conservative agenda needs to be properly explained and sold tominorities and single women. It does not need to be altered to make it valid to such people. It already IS valid. It needs to be pointed up what a disaster the left and its policies has been to minorities… what moving away from small government conservatism has done to them, and is still doing to them. As Charles Barclay says, poor people and minorities have been voting Democrat for generations… they’re still poor.
Now, get going. We have a country to save.
I have problems with farmers and problems with farmers from Iowa in particular. The cluster fark of using food stuffs for motor fuel, that is the ethanol mandate, was, and is, nothing more that a payoff to Iowa corn farmers. We would be all better off if Iowa farmers were more concerned about filling our bellies than our gas tanks.
That said, our once proud government of the people, for the people and by the people has devolved into government of the lawyers, for the lawyers and by the lawyers. The last thing we need is yet more lawyers in government. In face of that once Bruce Braley, candidate for United States Senator from Iowa goes all in for the greedy one percent which are the lawyers, video:
Transcript:
[I]f you help me win this race you may have someone with your background, your experience, your voice, someone who’s been literally fighting tort reform for thirty years, in a visible or public way, on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Or, you might have a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school, never practiced law, serving as the next Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Because, if Democrats lose the majority, Chuck Grassley will be the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
You can eat what an Iowa farmer produces. You can not eat a law suit.
Hat tip, reax and source: Dan McLaughlin, Red State.
Well done, Bruce Braley, well done. This might even get you 47% of the vote.
I admit that we actually do need some lawyers. Yet does not even pretend to he interested in the welfare of any non-lawyer. At least some Iowa farmers attempt to grow food.
Joani Ernst is running for Congress in Iowa. Call her campaign humor cutting edge, video:
Hat tip: Drew M, Ace of Spades.
One candidate who managed to cut pork before being elected.
The King, Adolf Hitler, is dead, long live the King, Anthropogenic Global Warming.
First, Godwin’s law, From Wikipedia:
Godwin’s law (or Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies)[1][2] is an Internet adage asserting that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1”?[2][3]—? that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or Nazism.
Second, from Mother Jones (March 21):
Scientists say man-made climate change has fundamentally altered the currents of the vast, deep oceans where investigators are currently scouring for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, setting a complex stage for the ongoing search for MH370. If the Boeing 777 did plunge into the ocean somewhere in the vicinity of where the Indian Ocean meets the Southern Ocean, the location where its debris finally ends up, if found at all, may be vastly different from where investigators could have anticipated 30 years ago.
Left is just a synonym for stupid.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak statement on ML flight 370, video:
Color me confused.
I notice today over at Q&O, that Bruce McQuain has written an article as regards Europe’s gas problem. It’s a problem that we should have predicted a long time ago and done something about. And I’ll tell you true, that if we didn’t have our head so firmly implanted between our butt cheeks as regards energy and its usage and the global warming myth and all the rest of the nonsense that the left usually picks up when these subjects come up, that we could have solved the problem a long time ago.
A lot of people on these shores don’t understand this, but the only thing that’s kept rush of floating these last few years financially speaking is its huge natural gas and oil deposits. In short, Russia is a huge energy company offering up its wares to the EU. Says Bruce:
Another thing that is happening is Europe is discovering it has managed to put itself in an energy situation that isn’t at all to its advantage. 30% of Europe’s natural gas flows through Russian pipelines (Germany gets 40% of its natural gas supplies from Russia).
So the scramble is purportedly on to change that situation.
European leaders will seek ways to cut their multi-billion-dollar dependence on Russian gas at talks in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, while stopping short of severing energy ties with Moscow for now. EU officials said the current Ukraine crisis had convinced many in Europe that Russia was no longer reliable and the political will to end its supply dominance had never been greater. “Everyone recognises a major change of pace is needed on the part of the European Union,” one EU official said on condition of anonymity. As alternatives to imported gas, the Brussels talks will debate the European Union’s “indigenous supplies”, which include renewable energy and shale gas.
Now, one would think that such a situation would call for drastic and speedy action. Anyone want to bet how long they dither and, should they decide to exploit their “indigenous supplies”, how onerous the rules and regulations will be?
When leaders of the European Union’s member states meet today and tomorrow (20-21 March) in Brussels, they hope to reach consensus on the EU’s long-term climate goals. But agreement appears unlikely because of deep divisions between east and west. Ahead of the summit, ministers from 13 member states signed a declaration supporting a European Commission proposal for an EU commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 40% from 1990 levels by 2030 – up from a 20% target set for 2020. This ‘green growth group’ includes France, Germany, Italy and the UK. But Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia are wary of the target and the timeline, and are resisting any such commitment.
The latter group will most likely be all for moving ahead as speedily as possible to exploit “indigenous supplies”. They’ll meet some pretty stiff headwinds, apparently, from the Western EU nations. You can almost see this train wreck coming.
Meanwhile in the pursuit of “green energy”, Europe is apparently ready to toss in the towel:
Governments across Europe, regretting the over-generous deals doled out to the renewable energy sector, have begun reneging on them. To slow ruinous power bills hikes, governments are unilaterally rewriting contracts and clawing back unseemly profits.
You have to laugh. “Unseemly profits”? They’re subsidies, sir. Not profit.
It’ll be interesting to see if the EU has the will to sort this all out in the next couple of days. If one is a betting person, you’d have to guess that the odds for success are long, given the EU’s recent history.
Well, it seems to me that if we really wanted to stop the expansion of Russia, all we would really need to do is provide the Europeans way to get their energy supplies without having to bow to Putin’s thuggery. Now, consider… we have, in our grasp at the moment, more and natural gas available to us under this country than anyplace else in the world, Russia and the Middle East included. Of course it means Fracking, which has put us safely and efficiently into an oil and gas producing boom the last decade or so, in spite of the efforts of the left to stifle such growth. What do you suppose the chances are of our actually making use of those resources to quell this situation? I mean, all we’d need to do is offer a portion of our gas and oil to the Euroweinies, and tell them they can stop buying from Russia, now. We make money, they fall on their faces, the world is safer and our own economy gets a much needed boost.
The answer to that of course, will entirely depend on removing the current occupant. Sarah Palin of all people saw this quite clearly back on 07, and took an awful lot in the way of slings and arrows from centrist GOP types who told us although she didn’t know what she was talking about
And of course the current occupant of the White House and those backing him are far more prone to put us back to the fourteenth century in terms of energy usage . All in the name of saving the planet.
As to that argument, I merely suggest that a nuclear exchange between a recently reempowered Russia and the remainder of the world could possibly cause more damage than using the energy supplies within it for peaceful purposes. At this stage of the game it comes down to the political priorities of the White House, I suppose.
A parade of bossy bitches.
First from Breitbart, Mireille Miller-Young
The official report released by the UC Santa Barbara Police Department on the confrontation between Professor Mireille Miller-Young and a group of anti-abortion activists, provides new details to the story I wrote about, last week.
As you may remember, the feminist studies/queer theory professor, who is pregnant, had stolen one of the activists’ signs, and allegedly clawed at and injured the sixteen year old girl who trying to get it back.
Asked by police if there was a struggle for the sign, Miller-Young, answered frankly, “I’m stronger, so I was able to take the poster.”
Hat tip: Nice Deb.
Vladamir Putin was bigger and strong. He wanted the Crimea. He took it.
Second Bossy Botox Bitch, a/k/a Speaker Table Cloth, b/k/a Nancy Pelosi, video:
Hat tip, Karen, Lonely Conservative.
Last and least, Sandra Fluke, via Twitchy:
Words matter. It’s time to #BanBossy.
Hat tip, Other McCain.
This from the cheap slut who did not want to ed to pay nine dollars a month for her own birth control, so she threw a national hissy fit.
Ban bossy? Hell no! I’d rather just ban the bossy bitches who want to push us around. The word fits and I propose to continue to use it. Any you?
Snark of the Day from Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom:
The Female Supremacists are Leftists and the “rape culture” meme is no more valid as the “gun culture” one. Actual rapists will not be deterred by demonstrations, college kangaroo courts, speech codes, etc; any more than criminals are deterred by the Leftist drive to strip citizens of the right of self-defense.
It is not about rape, any more than guns. It is about control- See more at:
From Ta-Nehisi Coates, Atlantic:
On Sunday, I took my son to see two movies at a French film festival that was in town. The local train was out. We walked over to Amsterdam to flag down a cab. The cab rolled right past us and picked up two young-ish white women. It’s sort of amazing how often that happens. It’s sort of amazing how often you think you are going to be permitted to act as Americans do and instead receive the reminder—”Oh that’s right, we are just some niggers. I almost forgot.”
Comments:
- In this world, for a father, having him and his son snubbed, racism has to hurt.
- In a better world, we could just forget about race.
- Alas, in world in which we do live, race does matter.
- Racist cabbies are old news.
- Alas, while cabbies may be racist, they are not necessarily stupid. All things being equal, it is better to pick up two white women, than a black man and his son.
While was can, and should, hope and strive for a better world, we still have live in the world that we have.
The continuing saga of J. Forbes Kerry quest to save the World, from Buzz Feed:
The Ugandan president committed to meeting with American “experts” on homosexuality to try to change his mind about the Anti-Homosexuality Act signed into law last month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday during a forum at the State Department moderated by BuzzFeed.
One wonders just what Forbes Kerry is going to tell Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
- That the same so-called experts who concocted the global warming hockey stick have also told him that sodomites “are born that way.”
- That right after scientists discovered the hockey stick, they then discovered the “gay” gene.
- That if President Museveni persists in his anti-homosexuality laws, that President Fifty Seven States, b/k/a President Barack Obama will impose similar sanctions which caused Russian President Vladamir Putin to pull of of Crimea and abandon all claims to Ukrainian.
- That Forbes Kerry’s medical experts have assured him that the alimentary canal is really a sexual organ.
- That the North American Man/Boy Love Association is merely a fiction invented by the evil Karl Rove.
This is Wednesday. Can Forbes Kerry give us Middle=East peace by Friday?
Snark of the Day from Mother Jones:
For every pound of pot grown indoors, 4600lbs of carbon dioxide goes into the atmosphere. California’s production equates to emissions of 3 million cars.
Hat tip: Watts Up with That.
Paging Algore and Jon Kary.
What we have here is failure to communicate. The regime would rather chase imaginary dragons than confront real world problems. Ripped from Memeorandum circa 4:10.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Most see Russia as a threat to U.S. — Washington (CNN) – As the crisis in the Ukraine continues, a new national poll indicates that for the first time in more than a decade, more than half of Americans see Russia as a serious threat to the U.S. — A CNN/ORC International survey …Discussion: Post Politics and Politico
Discussion:
Tal Kopan / Politico: Poll: 69 percent say Russia ‘a threat’RELATED:
In U.S., Most Do Not See Global Warming as Serious ThreatDiscussion: Firedoglake, Public Religion Research … and Taegan Goddard’s Wonk Wire
Obama wasn’t much of a community organizer, law review editor, lawyer, state senator, senator and now President.
Snark of the Day from Stacy’s crazy older cousin, John McCain:
“John Kerry and the president, they could be hitting the trifecta here. Gross failure on all three. So he has to go over to Asia and talk about climate change and say it’s the most important issue? Hello? On what planet does he reside?”
Sure I just love it when Rochester makes the national news, but this just not the kind of attention I want, video:
Dear Weather Channel, welcome to Rochester. Now please go home.
On the bright side, this would be the wake up call for Senator Diane Feinstein massive apathy to the Obama regime’s whole disregard for privacy. On the factual side Feinstein is just not all that bright, from the Washington Post:
Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) accused the CIA of secretly removing documents, searching committee-used computers and attempting to intimidate congressional investigators by requesting an FBI inquiry of their conduct — charges that CIA Director John Brennan disputed within hours of her appearance on the Senate floor.
Look Di, the regime doesn’t give fig about my privacy and it sure doesn’t care about yours either. About the only secret the regime want to protect is Obama’s college transcripts.
