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Absolutist?

That sophisticated online shill, SLATE, picked up the foaming-at-the-mouth-quadrennial drumbeat of the mainstream press this week in accusing the Republicans of becoming 'absolutist' in their abortion plank. I will concede that point that the GOP platform is rather cut and dry on the issue and calls for the right of the unborn child to be protected unless there is a danger to the life of the mother.
 
So is the Democratic one. And that makes for two party platforms that are farther on each side of the position that a vast majority of Americans are on this, the most deeply divisive of any social question of our times.
 
The Democratic plank, which the media joyfully ignores, is equally uncompromising and even more extremist: it calls for taxpayer funding of abortion on demand for any reason, anywhere, anytime, and on girls and women of any age and a federal law to statutorily mandate this(you'd think my neighbor George Tiller paid money to have that plank put into the DNC platform).
 
The fact of the matter is that a vast majority of Americans actually AGREE on many things about abortion. They want it legal in first few weeks after conception and even a little later in cases of rape and incest. They also want it legal in the event that the life or physical health of the mother is in danger. They want it prohibited in the second and third trimesters unless the life of the mother is in imminent danger. They want those doctors prosecuted who perform the ghastly brutality of partial birth or born alive 'abortions'. They don't want taxpayer money to subsidize abortions at all. They support parental consent laws with judicial bypass.
 
As you can see, both the GOP and the Democrats are out of touch with the American people on this. The only one 'absolutist' here is the left wing mainstream media that sees the best chance since 1932 of having radical liberals control the White House and Congress and don't want to lose it.
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Pit Bulls

The difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom?
 
"Lipstick", according to the next Vice President of the United States, Sarah Palin.
 
Now I see why phony professonials like Campbell Brown, Jefferey Tobin, and David Gergen of the Washington media mafia are so spiteful of Governor Palin. She puts the fear of Margaret Thatcher in them.
 
I think the Obama-Biden ticket should be renamed the Obama-CNN ticket.
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Of a love story and a Democrat

You'll pardon me for my rather scattered thoughts and perhaps syntax today as I am on pain medication due to a thumb injury. Not to worry (or to worry, for lib Dems..lol), it should be all good in a couple of days.
 
Tonight I remember a line from the opening of the convention..a line uniquely Reaganesque...that America is a love story of hopeless romantics, the story of a love greater than self. And that is where I mention a liberal Democrat today.
 
Few men in our times, and fewer still amongst them are politicians, have shown the courage and decency of the 2000 Democratic nominee for the Vice Presidency, Senator Joseph Lieberman. At a time when the Democratic Party is in the ascendant and his very committe chairmanship, and indeed his very career, is in jeopardy if he crosses his party, Joe Lieberman has thrown partisanship overboard to clutch to the lifeboat of country. Senator Lieberman is a liberal and has everything to lose by his support of his friend John McCain, no matter who wins the presidential election. But there he is...putting personal honor and patriotic duty above partisan loyalty. For Lieberman truly believes that America will be safer with John McCain at its helm.
 
This, my friends, is what the love story of America is all about.
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Problem with McCain

The problem with John McCain is that he instinctively assumes that all men and women are honorable like he he is. They are not. Specially the mouth foaming radicals amongst the liberals who, in 2008, see their first and only opportunity to elect one of them as the leader of an essentially conservative country.
 
All McCain has to do is to observe how the lefty bloggers and their supplicants in the mainstream media have scurrilously attacked Governor Palin and now her underage daughter with such savagery. Don't get me wrong..I think the families of candidates are fair game for scrutiny...but underage children?? Heck no! Never mind underage children, McCain didn't even go after the forty something lobbyist son of Joe Biden who has been milking consumers two million bucks a year on behalf of credit card companies. The essential difference in the class and character of the two tickets.
 
Now, they raise fingers are Bristol Palin, the expectant seventeen year old daughter of the Alaska governor. She is a child for goodness sake who made a horrible mistake. But unlike many, many, adults on the liberal side, she is owning up to her mistake and fixing things. You won't be seeing Bristol Palin coming down to my homicidal neighbor George Tiller to help kill her child and you won't be seeing her her go around touting her 'choice' of being an unwed teen mother. What you'll see is het getting married to the father of her kid next year and, hopefully, live a happy and productve life.
 
The left uses the struggles of a seventeen year old to score public policy points by mocking the Alaska governor's principled stance on Planned Parenthood. Is that what liberalism is reduced to now? Use a child as a crutch to help your big money donors through taxpayer money? Well, if I read Sarah Palin right, chances are she will continue to stand firm and say no to the skullguggery of the Planned Parenthood syndicate. I suspect she will keep vetoing every bill that provides one red cent of taxpayer money to an organization whose activities are deeply offensive to the religious beliefs of more than half of America, not to mention an organization which aids and abets the the statutory rape of young girls.
 
The Obama/Biden/Planned Parenthood ticket should pick on someone its own size....not a seventeen year old kid.
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A woman above their league...

All this snickering-and the petty attacks- about Governor Sarah Palin by the liberal Democrats simply display the liberals' fear: here is a woman who is Alaska's version of Baroness Margaret Thatcher. True reformer who took on her own party, wife and mother, hunter and sportsman, and head of the National Guard of the only US state bordering Russia...Sarah Palin is the embodiment of the independent strong woman that liberal Democrats fear the most.
 
America's women are rightly upset that they did not find a place at the top of the Democrat ticketeven after those eighteen million votes. Well, there is good news: women are welcome at the top of the Republican ticket. For all those supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton who felt cheated...there is a home for you and it is with the millions of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents who are backing the Country above Party ticket of John mcCain and Sarah Palin. It is about time for America to elect a strong woman to the top offices of the land.
 
Barack Obama...Joe Biden...be prudent for Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin is a notch above your league.
 
McCain-Palin 2008
 
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The Second Half of the FDR revolution

What we saw Thursday night were two men dispaying their class...class as in character, upbringing, values. On one hand, unprecedented in our history, a John McCain took out televised national ads to congratulate his opponent on winning the nomination and wishing him good luck. On the other hand, Barack Obama stood in his Greek temple like a demi-god and attacked the decency of John McCain....and then had the chutzpah to pledge a restoration of civility in our body politic.
 
And by the way, Cicncinnatus Imperator Barrckus promised to have the federal government take over healthcare, energy, and education so that we can all be happy. Ah...like Vladimir Ilyavich Lenin did..and Castro did...and Mao Zedong did. This is the coming of the second half of the FDR New Deal revolution...the socialization of what is left of our private sector. No wonder, the Barrackster mentioned FDR as one his heroes.
 
 
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A decent speech

Moments ago Hillary Rodham Clinton finished speaking at the Democratic National Convention. With the exception of the required few nasty digs at 'her friend' John McCain, the speech was remarkably decent and fair for a political convention. I was pleasantly surprised at its display of civility, coming from a personality generally associated with polarizing politics. This is specially so given my last post. I did notice, however, that in her tribute to the 19th Amendment (the right to vote for women), Mrs. Clinton plainly overlooked the historical legacy of the suffrage movement: it was a struggle that was backed by the Republican Party and generally opposed by the Democrats (just like the fight for the rights of slaves and of the unborn). But bless her heart, she managed to deliver a good upbeat political speech with no more than three personal attacks at John McCain. That is a huge accomplishment for any Democratic Convention speaker. And it speaks volumes of both the growing maturity of Senator Clinton and the undeniable respect in which Senator McCain is held by all patriotic Americans.
 
Her famous 3 am ad, which she avoided bringing up, is still valid though: is Barack Obama the guy we want answering the 3 am call about a world in crisis? Hillary Clinton doesn't think so; John McCain doesn't think so; I don't think so; and deep in your heart, I doubt you think so either.
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Here's to you Mrs. Clinton!

She is unarguably the smartest, cleverest, and most driven woman in politics since the late Eleanor Roosevelt. The sheer grit and chutzpah she brought to national politics when she emerged beside her husband was simply breathtaking.

I say the aforementioned about Hillary Rodham Clinton without an iota of doubt…and I am the guy who spent most of my college years bashing her hard in almost article, essay, and letter I wrote for journals or newspapers. And in the years to come, chances are pretty high that I will continue to harshly criticize the politics and personality of Mrs. Clinton and do my part to help defeat her in general elections.

That said, while this is the week of Barack Obama, let us not for a moment forget the transformational nature of Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy as it enters its official death throes. Never in our history has a woman come this close to breaking the last remaining glass ceiling and, doing so, trail blazed a path for young women for generations to come. I sure hope that the first woman president of the United States will be someone whose philosophy and values will be very different from that of the senior senator from New York, but make no mistake about it that whoever that future female president is will owe a small sliver of gratitude to Hillary Clinton.

It is the irony of ironies that the Democratic Party-the one that spoke loudly of counting every vote equally not too long ago-denied Mrs. Clinton the nomination at the behest of party bosses (superdelegates) who hold veto power in her party. To add insult to injury, she was never even considered for the vice presidency. I guess the snobbish wine-and-cheese crowd of the Obama wing of the party didn’t care much for the no-nonsense working class Democrats that Hillary Clinton represented in the primaries. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that many Hillary supporters, placing country above party and security above appeasement, are choosing to back the only truly bi-partisan candidate for President, John Sidney McCain. Most Democrats are no less patriotic than Republicans and these former Hillary supporters should find a hearty welcome in the country first campaign of former POW John McCain.

She fought a good fight and was gracious in a defeat she didn’t deserve. For the first, and hopefully the last, time in my life here’s a heartfelt cheer to you ‘ole gal!

God Bless America and God Bless Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Never a real job

Joe Biden never has had a real job. His entire working life..yes the entire life since he got out of law school...good ole Joe has been on the public dole. And we are supposed to think HE understands what ordinary hard working Americans go through in tough times when jobs are cut suddenly, benefits lost overnight, and performance reviews made a tool of downsizing? A man who has NEVER had to pay health insurance premiums somehow knows the healthcare crisis in America?
 
No wonder he looked like a high fluting ironic fool when he questioned the struggles and well earned accomplishments of that great American success story, Justice Clarence Thomas. No wonder, lacking for words that connect to the ordinary American, that Biden plaigarized an entire speech from former British socialist leader Neil Kinnock in 1988.
 
This is a man who speaks of Bush's 'horrible record' on civil liberties and yet authored the law that eviscerates due process protections for hundreds of thousands of Americans, makes gender bias the law of the land, and helps thousands of predators prey on vulnerable children..all on teh federal dime (the so-called Violence Against Women Act). This is a self-proclaimed Roman Catholic who considers infanticide to be a federally protected right. This is a politician who claims to be a foreign policy guru and yet couldn't bring himself to say a word of condemnation when the Russians brutalized Afghanistan in the 1980s or as they do the same to Georgia today.
 
This is a man who shouldn't be Vice President of the local chamber of commerce..let alone of the United States.
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Saddleback Substance

My apologies to readers about not posting my perspective on the substantive issues raised at the Saddleback forum. The key difference was that of middle of the road, thoughtful judgment born of experience on one hand and ideological idealism buttressed by freshness on the other. In times of war-and we have at least two going on-it is imprudent to trust a man whose sole experience in national policymaking has been 143 days in the Senate where he has been rated the most left wing senator in the 109th Congress.

John McCain's domestic policy approaches are based on thoughtful consideration of the impact of all sorts of taxes on the American family..something of vast importance when the slightest additional tax burden on producers or consumers can launch us straight into recession. His opponent offers a well packaged old product: tax the rich. Senator Barack Obama should remember the famous words of his state's most famous son; "You cannot tax the rich to enrich the poor or tax the employer who creates the employment for the employee."

Those were the words of a small time Springfield lawyer named Abraham Lincoln.



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Styles: When Talk is King

Even before I touch on the substantive aspect of the Saddleback Forum tonight, a key difference in style emerged between the candidates. It is a difference that is not surprising but perhaps had not been in the public eye with such glaring spotlight: Barack Obama is very post modern and lawyerly in his long drawn out conversations whereas John McCain reflects the Cliff Notes, to-the-point approach to dialogue, as befits a military man with an English-Scots heritage (remember the dour Scots Calvinists).  In that love of brevity, Senator McCain is a man with whom I can identify. I don’t like long drawn out conversations, emotional greetings and goodbyes, or even endless phone conversations (no wonder my favorite method of communication is the email). Doesn't mean McCain doesn't care or doesn't have feelings..it just means that he perhaps keeps to the Biblical precept that 'too many words are not of the Godly'.

But many Americans in this generation do worship the spoken word (even when they cannot form a proper sentence in English..never mind any other language).

We live in an era where ‘talk’ is king..there are talk shows and talkathaons, and we are told to ‘talk it out’ no matter what the issue is. Every problem, even when there isn’t one, is assumed to be fixed by a visit or two to a counselor/therapist/social worker/shrink etc. I mean we, as a society, distrust silence and solitude. Being succinct and brief is not a virtue in politics in this day and age; hence my concern for Senator McCain. I guess we won’t know the answer till the numbers come in on election night.

Tomorrow’s post, I will focus on the substantive issues raised in the Civil Forum.

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Sarah's Law

Six years ago, a 15 year old girl was raped in Southern California, became pregnant as a result, and was taken to a Planned Parenthood clinic to get an abortion by her rapist..a much older man in his thirties. She died during the abortion because the businesses that perform abortion are quick fix places that have no desire to involve family members or others who can help. Loving parents who could have helped with Sarah's medical history and reached out with comfort were never notified until the coroner called them. The rapist was never prosecuted because, thanks to the abortion industry's immense clout in the country, most states actually forbid  abortion businesses from reporting suspected statutory rape ( Yes there are letters of the law but so many loopholes that they don't mean much. Think about it, if all statutory rapes were to be reported by the likes of George Tille and his cohorts, how the heck are these hacks with medical degress going to make money?).
 
Unfortunately, Sarah's is not a unique story. Fortunately, the people of California do have an opportunity to push back against the combined political and financial might of the abortion industry, the child predators, and the lawyers who protect both. Despite continuing to be outspent five to one, pro child welfare advocates were able to qualify Sarah's Law (Proposition 4) for the ballot in the upcoming November general elections. Proposition 4 requires an abortion business to notify the parents of minors prior to conducting an abortion on a minor (with the provision of judicial bypass in special cases of at home abuse), mandates the reporting of suspected sexual abuse, and establishes a 48 hour waiting period unless otherwise warranted medically. Polls suggest that most Californians, including a plurality of Democrats, support the ballot initiative and, like most Americans everywhere, want to bring some sanity back to the outright abortion on demand regime foisted on America's children by the abortion industry and its radical extremist supporters. While it is true that Americans remain as divided as ever over the question of abortion, there is little doubt that an overwhelmingly majorty of Americans, including a plurality of self described 'pr choice' people strongly support common sense middle ground positions like getting rid of taxpayer funding for the likes of George Tiller, full disclosure to patients, and parental consent/information laws with judicial bypass.
 
Sarah's Law is commonsense protection for the children of California and the people of California have a stark choice this November. Either they can show the courage to defy Hollywood and vote for their vulnerable children or they can bend to the money and might of the the abortion industry-predator-lawyer combine. It is not about pro choice versus pro life this time. Rather, this round is between pro child versus pro predator.
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Saving Georgia

It is a time honored practice of invaders to bide their moment till the eyes of the world are elsewhere. The wily Russians are no different. As the world turned its attention to Beijing, the Russians struck in Georgia. Now, the tiny but sturdy Republic of Georgia is battling for life and death against a nation whose history has been marked by a rapacious appetite for plunder, conquest, and rapine of its neighbors for a thousand years. Time is of essence for we know not how long the brave but far outgunned and outmanned Georgians can hold out against the might of the resurgent Putinist empire in Russia. We know that old Europe-that is England and France-are no good for anything but appeasement and meaningless communiques; we know that Germany is too mired in its apologia for the Nazi past to want to do anything. It is up to the United States then to banish forever the ghosts of the years past when we were, somewhat rightly, accused of leaving allies to suffer because of old Europe's opinion (the Shah of Iran and South Vietnam come to mind). By diplomatic means and otherwise the Russians need to know that America will not stand by idly while its democratic ally gets pummelled into submission. We will do well to remember that tiny Georgia is one of the few European countries brave enough to be an active part of the Coalition of the Willing in Iraq.
 
The Russians must be stopped cold and the only language they understand is one of purpose backed by power.
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A coincidence?

Politicians make the laws (or lack thereof) about the functioning of a civil society like ours. John Edwards, the good 'ole boy Democrat who was just caught cheating on his cancer-stricken wife is one of them. But one thing occured to me as I went through the list of most recent high profile politicians who have been caught cheating on their wives:
 
Bob Packwood (former Republican Senator from Oregon)
Rudy Giuliani
John Edwards
Bill Clinton
Eliot Spitzer
Teddy Kennedy
Dave Patterson (new Democrat Governor of NY succeeding Spitzer)
Marc Dann (disgraced former OH Attorney General)
Paul Morrison (disgraced former KS Attorney General)
Ernie Flecther (disgraced former KY governor)
Guy Newsom (Mayor of San Francisco)
Antonio Villiraigosa (Mayor of Los Angeles)
Jesse Jackson
 
They all have two things in common: they are adulterers and they are loudly 'pro choice'. No wonder their political position is such...I mean if they get their mistresses pregnant, it is much easier to get rid of the 'evidence' and child support payments with abortion on demand (my neighbor Georgie Porgie Tiller does it for 500 bucks a pop, I am told). I guess now I finally understand why these guys feel so passionately about the issue. Hey, it is their self interest on the line, LOL.
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Repeal Should Be First Order of Business in 2009

When the very conservative legislature of Montana and the equally liberal legislature of  Rhode Island both overwhelmingly ask Congress to do the same thing, we are on to something. When law and order conservative and former Georgia sheriff Bob Barr and ultra liberal activist Ralph Nader agree on the same issue, we should take notice. For all these institutions and individuals want Congress to repeal the so-called Real ID Act, which has imposed a heavy burden on states, made regular bureaucracies even more cumbersome, and, most important, mandated federal instrusion into the constitutionally protected domain of the states. No matter who becomes president in 2009, the first order of business should be to forever gut the abominable Orwellian-sounding Real ID Act. That law will go down in history as one of the most despicable ones pushed by this President and lapped up by spineless Congress that can only bark when the President's poll ratings are low. And no, it's not the GOP's fault alone; most liberal Democrats who want to repeal it today in Congress, were gladly co-sponsoring that bill when it came up in 2002 (those days when the president was sitting at 70 % ratings).
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