Day By Day (August 3, 2010)

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Good Morning! It's a wonderful life if we just take it Day By Day.



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- JP

Quote of the Day (August 2, 2010)

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Matt DeLong at The Washington Post:

"Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Sunday that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has 'the cojones' that President Obama 'does not have' to take on illegal immigration... This may be the most high-profile political use of the word 'cojones' by an American woman since then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright famously said in 1996 that Cuba’s shooting down of planes flown by anti-Castro exiles was 'not cojones' but 'cowardice.'"

h/t: JewsforSarah.com

- JP

How to make a Congressional campaign ad

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Of course, it doesn't hurt to have earned a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters and one Valor Device, the Army Achievement Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, a Valorous Unit Award, an Air Assault Badge, a Parachutist Badge, a number of additional service medals and ribbons...



... and an endorsement from Sarah Palin.

- JP

Kansas GOP Senate primary election is Tuesday (Updated)

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Republicans will begin casting their votes in the Kansas Republican primary for U.S. Senate in less than 12 hours. The polls will open at 7 AM in the Jayhawk State and will close at 7 PM. Two U.S. Congressmen have been battling to be the GOP nominee, a candidate who will be all but assured of victory in the November general election in Republican Kansas. The Senate seat is being vacated by Sam Brownback, who is the front-runner to be the state's next governor.

Todd Tiahrt and Jerry Moran have been waging a contest to convince voters that each is the true conservative in the race. Moran has the larger campaign war chest and has led the lead in the polls, but Tiahrt has been narrowing the gap in the most recent polling. Although a Survey USA poll released on the eve of the primary election showed Moran with a 10-point lead, the race could actually be closer than that:

The pollster says that compared to two weeks ago, Moran is down one percentage point, and Tiahrt is up three. Tiahrt’s strategy to paint himself as the true conservative appears to be working, at least among conservative voters. Today he leads among conservatives by five percentage points, where two months ago Moran led by 21 percentage points in this group.

The poll notes potential trouble for Moran: “Most ominous for Moran: Among the 17 percent of voters who report they have already cast their ballots, Tiahrt is nominally ahead, 46 percent to 43 percent. Among those who tell SurveyUSA they are likely to vote, but have not yet done so, Moran leads by 13.”

If these potential Moran voters don't turn out tomorrow, it could be good news for Tiahrt.

Moran has been endorsed by Senators Jim Demint (R-SC) and Tom Coburn (R-OK). Tiahrt has the backing of 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, former White House chief of staff Karl Rove and political activist Phyllis Schlafly.

Updates...

Gov. Palin wrote tonight on her wall at Facebook:

Sarah Palin I want to remind the good people of Kansas to vote on Tuesday for Todd Tiahrt for U.S. Senate. He is a strong commonsense conservative who will serve Kansans with honor and help put our country on the right fiscal track.
About Todd
www.toddtiahrt.com
Kansans for Tiahrt

And from NRO's The Corner, "(Mostly) Good News from Kansas"

- JP

Rush: Palin not the first to say Obama has a cojones deficit

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Rush Limbaugh on Monday's show, regarding Sarah Palin's "cojones" remark:

Sarah Palin says that the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, has something that Obama lacks: cojones. You have to love this because she's one of the few Republicans in Washington that has cojones herself, and accusing the president of the United States of not having any.

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You know, this is big. I think this is a little bit more noteworthy than a lot of people are saying, especially inside the White House. Obama may not know how insulted he's been here because he doesn't know how to speak Spanish. If somebody in there speaks Spanish they're going to know what she has just said, but I mean here you have somebody with ranking in the Republican Party, a female, saying that the president of the United States does not have cojones. Now, it sounds like, ladies and gentle, if she's correct, who does our president blame? If she is right that Obama has no cojones, who was it that suggested at one point removing them? That would be the Reverend Jackson. Wednesday, July 9th of 2008:

"Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson complained on Tuesday that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama can seem to be 'talking down to black people' at times and should broaden his message. ... Jackson, talking to CNN on Wednesday, said Obama has given what amounts to 'lectures' at African-American churches. 'I said it can come off as speaking down to black people. The moral message must be a much broader message.' ... In an aside to another guest after a Fox News Channel interview on Sunday, Jackson had said Obama had been talking down to black people and added: 'I want to cut his n**s out.'"

That was caught on tape and it was not part of the interview, the microphone was still on.

So Sarah Palin says the president of the United States has no cojones and the Reverend Jackson has expressed a desire in the past to make that a reality.

"He said on CNN: 'I was in a conversation with a fellow guest at Fox on Sunday. He asked about Barack's speeches lately at the black churches. I said it can come off as speaking down to black people. And then I said something I felt regret for -- it was crude. It was very private, and very much a sound bite -- and a live mike. I find no comfort in it, I find no joy in it.'"

We saw it, the video, the Reverend Jackson seemed very happy when he made the statement. And back in May of 2008, none other than James Carville, the Clintons' ubiquitous former aide, booster and informal advisor made the point even more vividly, giving Clinton a two-gonad edge in her primary rival. James Carville said that Hillary's got more gonads than Obama. Now, Hillary took it as a compliment, by the way. What Carville said was:

"If she gave him one of her cojones they'd both have two."

So, folks, can you remember at a time ever in your life whether or not the president has any cojones has been discussed and people on both sides of the aisle have suggested no, and that women, the governor of Arizona and Hillary Clinton have more gonads, cojones, than Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm. And that's not all. May 6th of 2008:

"Evan Bayh was halfway through telling a story about 'a steelworker in Northern Indiana' on stage beside his Senate colleague, Hillary Clinton. 'Anybody know what he said?' Bayh asked at the Saturday rally, starting to quote the steelworker: 'Our candidate is the one in the race --.' Clinton cut him off with a whisper and an urgent gesture. 'She doesn’t want me to go there,' Bayh told the crowd. 'OK. I won’t. Alright, alright.'"

The Politico, by the way, reported this May 6th, 2008:

"Clinton may not like the story, but her supporters love it: The sheet metal workers union official in Portage, Indiana cited by Bayh had praised her 'testicular fortitude' before lighting into unnamed 'Gucci wearing, latte-drinking' opponents,"

such as Barack Obama.

So Evan Bayh, James Carville have questioned the cojones of the president while he was a candidate, claiming that Hillary had more. Here comes Sarah Palin, Fox News yesterday. You might say piling on. I mean people are laughing at the president of the United States over whether or not he's a man. They are laughing at his toughness, they are laughing at his manhood. And now we've got Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who wants to debate Obama, not have negotiations, not have talks, but he wants to debate. Meanwhile, the Castros have decided socialism may not be the answer, that communism may not be the answer, they're going to fire a bunch of government workers and say, "You're on your own, people, go out and get your own jobs." Same thing the western socialist democracies are doing, cutting back on all their socialism when Obama's out there to the DAV today, Disabled American Vets and he's promising even more spending, money that we don't have.

- JP

Handel to Deal: Stop whining and man up. (Updated)

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Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidates Karen Handel and Nathan Deal faced off in a Sunday night debate sponsored by Atlanta television station FOX 5:



One of the more memorable quotes of the debate came when Deal complained about the attack ads the Handel campaign were running against him. Handel, who has been endorsed by Sarah Palin, replied that the attack ads of the runoff were nothing compared to what will be seen after the GOP nominee is settled and Democrat Party candidate Gov. Roy Barnes takes his shots:

"This is a race for governor. Things are tough. Campaigns are tough. It's frankly time to put the big-boy pants on because, candidly, if you can't handle this, how are you going to handle Roy Barnes?"

Update: A new Landmark Poll hows Handel leading Deal by 9 points.

- JP

Be afraid, Arianna. Be very afraid... (Updated)

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On the website which bears her name, ersatz-conservative-turned-leftist Arianna Huffington tries to figure out Gov. Palin's appeal:

I've been thinking about this paradox: the most important political ad of 2010 so far did not play on television, and came from someone not currently running for any office. It was Sarah Palin's latest web video, "Mama Grizzlies."

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Palin's message operates on a level deeper than policy statements about the economy or financial reform or health care or the war in Afghanistan.

To really understand her appeal, we need less policy analysis and more psychology. Specifically, we need to hear from that under-appreciated political pundit Carl Jung.

It's not Palin's positions people respond to -- it's her use of symbols. Mama grizzlies rearing up to protect their young? That's straight out of Jung's "collective unconscious" -- the term Jung used to describe the part of the unconscious mind that, unlike the personal unconscious, is shared by all human beings, made up of archetypes, or, in Jung's words, "universal images that have existed since the remotest times." Unlike personal experiences, these archetypes are inherited, not acquired. They are "inborn forms... of perception and apprehension," the "deposits of the constantly repeated experiences of humanity."

This is the realm Palin is working in...

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As a matter of fact, another very popular Republican politician once used the image of a bear in an ad.

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And a very successful ad for Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984. It raised the question of whether Walter Mondale would be strong enough to stand up to the lurking bear -- in this case, the Soviet Union. Reagan won 525 electoral votes to Mondale's 13.

Like Palin, Reagan was not thought to be a policy heavyweight, and, like her, he was often ridiculed by the punditocracy. And, like Reagan, Palin has come to prominence in a time of national crisis, a state of affairs in which appeals to the collective unconscious are much more powerful -- and dangerous -- than in normal times.

What a load of moonbat manure! Leave it to an elitist "progressive" to indulge in over-analysis and excessive intellectualizing.

Huffington and her fellow travelers on the left will never understand Sarah Palin nor the reason why she makes such a solid connection with everyday Americans. All the talk about archtypes and courses in Jungian psychology won't help them understand, either. To get it, the moonbats would have to understand everyday Americans, and as someone who rarely ventures into flyover country, Arianna doesn't have the first clue about common folks.

The average Joe and Jane out there are very much concerned with issues. They are deeply concerned with jobs and economy; with how they will ever be able to feed, clothe and educate their kids; with how record debt and deficits will hinder those same children and grandchildren; with a federal government which has grown too big for its britches; with a health care bill they never wanted in the first place and now want repealed; with the march away from the Republic of the founders towards a socialist state like those which are failing in Europe; and with an administration and a congress which won't shut up long enough to listen to their concerns.

These everyday men and women don't need detailed white papers from Sarah Palin to know that she and they are on the same chapter and verse. They have heard enough of her speeches and read enough of her Facebook Notes to understand that she is one of them. They share the same disgust and mistrust in an unresponsive federal government which does as it pleases, not what they want it to do. They share the same hopes and dreams for the future of their children, and they have the same concerns that our leftist government is killing those hopes and dreams.

Huffington is dead wrong. It is about issues. But much more than that it's about the fact that Sarah, Joe and Jane have the same position on those issues. A position 180 degrees away from the collectivist position of Barack, Markos and Arianna. If Huffington sounds worried in her op-ed, she has every reason to fret. Her left-world is about to come crashing down around her.

h/t: Smith

Update: More from Moe Lane, Mark Whittington, Noel Sheppard and Nicole Coulter.

- JP

More Quote of the Day Honorable Mention, Part 86

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White House "Yes we have no cojones" Edition...

Vicki McClure Davidson at Frugal Café Blog Zone:

"Sarah Palin is gloriously fearless. She landed several punches decisively on the president’s jaw... on FOX News Sunday in an interview with Chris Wallace on illegal immigration and securing our nation’s borders. Palin commends the efforts of Arizona’s Gov. Jan Brewer, who, per the former Alaskan governor, 'has the cajones' that Barack Obama apparently lacks to protect our unsecured borders and protect American citizens. Ouch. Bravo, Sarah, bravo."

Doug Powers at MichelleMalkin.com:

"Unfortunately, all too often, the only balls to be found in Washington are the inaugural kind."

Free Us Florida:

"Sarah Palin appeared on Fox News Channel with Mike Wallace and she was spectacular. She pointed out the Chicago Community organizer has merely created more red tape and tax…heaping more burden on the producers… killing off JOBS…..increasing the grip and grab of the hellish NANNY STATE."

Bluegrass Pundit:

"Plain speaking, tell it like it is, Sarah Palin strikes again."

Jenn of the Jungle at the Political Jungle:

"I've gotta admit that this is why at times I do really enjoy Sarah Palin. She was on Fox News this morning with Chris Wallace and said 'Jan Brewer has the cojones that our president does not have.' She went on to say, 'If our own president will not enforce our federal law, more power to Jan Brewer.' I agree."

Melissa Clouthier at Liberty Pundits:

"For those of you still flummoxed by Sarah Palin’s influence and power, here’s a brief explanation: She’s plain spoken and does not tip-toe around issues. Americans are disgusted with double-talk. Palin is nothing if not clear about her message. Think back through the issues and the politicians. Popular or not, she has made choices and stood by them. No other conservative politician has been so bold."

goon at Say Anything:

"Sarah Palin is dead on when she talks about the Amateur in the White House."

Anti-antediluvian:

"Jan Brewer’s got em, Obama Don’t... That’s the conclusion Sarah Palin’s come to... Not only will Obama not enforce federal law but he and his so-called justice department attack those who do. This administration has done everything diametrically opposite of what the American people want and they will pay for it this November."

Reagan to Palin:

"You have to hand it to SARAH…she cuts through the fog and speaks in terms everyday Americans appreciate."

Yael at Boker tov, Boulder!:

"Gd bless her, Sarah Palin has said outright that AZ Gov. 'Jan Brewer has the cajones that our President does not have...' You betcha! (And Brewer's not the only one with cajones). Sorry sorry, but one has to ask the obvious, Where are the menfolk?"

Bruce Walker at American Thinker:

"As I have written, this is the Year of the Conservative Woman. Jan Brewer, Susana Martinez, Mary Fallin, and Nikki Haley are part of Sarah's Grizzlies -- confident, sure, conservative women set to change the balance of women in politics with a decisive turn to the right... The face of women in politics, increasingly, will be bright, strong, kind conservative women and not old sourpusses like Barbara Boxer."

John Nolte at Big Journalism:

"Politico might be... a part of the New Media, but when it comes to corrupted, left-wing arrogance they make the Washington Post look somewhat honest … somewhat... These are the same... 'journalists' who launched a smear attack on a private citizen for asking Their One a perfectly reasonable question [and] obsessed over Sarah Palin’s wardrobe..."

Sixty-plus at The View From Here:

"I am not a Sarah Palin supporter but when you read how [the Journolistas] agreed, before they even knew that much about her, to do all they could through planted falsehoods to destroy her and her family as a way of hurting McCain's chances, it will turn your stomach."

Ken Hughes at The Land Of The Free:

"Sarah Palin has done more to bring the right together than all the speeches by John Boehner and Michael Steele combined."

Cassy Fiano at NewsReal Blog:

"Consider Sarah Palin, a feminist if there ever was one. She’s an empowered, self-made woman with a high-powered, successful career. She also has five beautiful children, and a loving, supportive husband. She’s even admitted to struggling with the thought of having an abortion, but chose instead to give birth to her son Trig. But because she is a conservative, and because she is pro-life, she is shunned by the fascist feminist set."

- JP

NY Sun Editorial: Cordoba’s Opportunity

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The NY Sun's Seth Lipsky has authored an editorial in Monday's edition regarding the controversy over the Ground Zero mega-mosque. Mr Lipsky suggests that the Cordoba Initiative has an historic opportunity to demonstrate respect, understanding, and forbearance, a move which would diffuse a contentious situation :

The battle over a proposed $100 million mosque and Islamic center at Ground Zero could well be at a turning point, the New York Times reported over the weekend. Its assessment was made after the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, came out in opposition to situating the site adjacent to the epicenter of the attacks on September 11, 2001. We telephoned Mr. Foxman to offer congratulations. It had to have been a hard call for him, with so many supporters of the project suggesting that the sole reason for opposing it had to be bigotry.

That suggestion has struck us from the start as a libel. There may be some bigots in opposition to the project, but they would be a small percentage, in our guess. We thought Mr. Foxman put it exactly right in suggesting that the fact that the Cordoba Initiative may win the right to build at the site where extremists acting in the name of Islam slew so many innocent people doesn’t make building such a center there the right thing to do. We mentioned to him that we’d been impressed with the way Sarah Palin articulated her early opposition to the project.

“She’s got seichel,” we remarked to Mr. Foxman. It was a reference to the Yiddish word that has no single-word English translation but means a combination of intelligence, wisdom, and common sense. Mrs. Palin’s short messages on Twitter were crafted as a call not on the government to prohibit the project but on the moderate Muslims themselves to — in her now classic formulation — “refudiate” the plan. Her call was for forbearance out of understanding of the special nature of the Ground Zero site in the city’s and the nation’s memory...

Read the rest of today's NY sun editorial here.

h/t: Benyamin Korn

- JP

Day By Day (August 2, 2010)

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Good Morning! It's a wonderful life if we just take it Day By Day.



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Quote of the Day (August 1, 2010)

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Doug Giles at Townhall.com:

"For mama grizzlies truly concerned about the health and well-being of their cubs and the environment they grow up in... you have two options for this public school mess: either get into the system and fight this virulently anti-American agenda … or remove your children from it."

- JP

Michael Bresciani: You can't make history without a real homie

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Rev. Michael Bresciani serves up some food for thought at Renew America:

While we can thank God we finally have crossed into post racist times with our first black President it just doesn't seem like he is one of us. Perhaps he is not even one of our own blacks like Martin Luther King who left a legacy instead of a trail of doubt and disdain. King fought for America not against it and proved in so doing that black Americans have the same grit as any of our best American heroes, innovators, statesmen, scientist, preachers and politicians.

He does not exude the intense convictions and patriotism of Alan Keyes or the political clarity of author Kevin Jackson. He calls on science to resolve problems in the environment and our system of education but he lacks the natural savvy of sable genius, Benjamin Bannecker.

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Will history adjust itself or will we tinker with it once again. It seems a sure bet that those who pull the levers in 2010 will not just be tinkering but rather, they will be sending out the message that America still has a great deal of pride and will not be swept away by the flights of fancy produced by someone who can't even prove he has homey status.

In 2012 America may make different choices as well. It is then we might try to alter history once again with someone who has a love for America, a strong faith in God and the Bible, integrity and honesty, and the ability to weed through differences between right and wrong that Americans have nurtured so long, but of late have forgotten.

We may elect someone who would never have been considered in times past, someone whose time has come. That sounds a lot like Sarah Palin to me. Maybe it's time for a Madam President to shake and shape American history. That's change we really can believe in. If history has proven anything it is that you can make history with an authentic homie or a good old fashioned American woman.

Be it male or female, or from a troubled inner city ghetto or frozen tundra, African American or Native American, we are long past the days when this matters at all. We have not gone past the place where we want someone who doesn't fervently love this nation and respect its people.

Read the rev's full op-ed here.

h/t: roy y

- JP

ADN: Say... maybe Sarah Palin WAS right about that 'largest island' thing

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It's not called the lamestream media without reason. Don Surber explains how the Associated Press contradicted itself:

Oddly enough, Mike Dunham of the Anchorage Daily News fact-checked the Associated Press and found that yes, Kodiak Island is bigger than the main island of Hawaii, which AP listed at 4,028 square miles...

“I thought Daily News readers deserved something a little more authoritative. So I went to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition, ‘The Official Dictionary of The Associated Press.’ There on page 794, it gave the area of Kodiak Island — not the archipelago or islands, plural — as 5,363 square miles.”

Yes, that’s right. No one in the world’s largest news-gathering organization bothered to read its own dictionary.

Perhaps AP should assign 11 reporters to fact-check itself.

- JP

Susan Duclos: The Top 10 Sarah Palin Haters

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From the nutroots end of the Blog pool, the media, crude "comedians" who aren't funny and other Obama supporters, Susan Ducloss has compiled a list of the Top Ten Palin Haters and (language alert) published it at NewsReal Blog:

Since August 29, 2008, when Sarah Palin was first introduced as John McCain’s Vice Presidential choice of a running mate, reactions to Palin were and continue to be extreme.

The extremity of Palin hatred started within hours of the announcement, as did the hideous rumors (about her son Trig for instance) that were passed from one leftist website to the next without one shred of evidence to back them up.

The goal, simply put, was to destroy Sarah Palin by any means possible. Being as passionate as they always are, progressive bloggers, media pundits, leftist groups and even comedians started their hate campaign instantly.

This top ten list of Palin haters was not hard to compile. All that was difficult was putting the names in the right order. After all, how does one measure levels of hatred and vitriol that many can never imagine feeling?

At the top of her list are these five moonbats:

5. David "Creepy" Letterman
4. Keith "Bathtub Boy" Olbermann
3. Maureen "The Spleen" Dowd
2. Chris "Tweety" Matthews
1. Andrew "Power Glutes" Sullivan

Read the full story at News Real Blog.

- JP

Video: Sarah Palin on FNS - August 1, 2010

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Gov. Palin made her third appearance on "Fox News Sunday" today. Here's the video from Fox News:



- JP

Is Sarah ready to unite...and conquer?

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I've been thinking a lot about how to get the federal government under control. So much bureaucracy is not going to be easy to unwind, but I have a few ideas.

First off, what should the Executive branch look like? What departments are truly necessary for the things that a national government should concern itself with? What about:

1. Defense - It used to be called the Department of War. That's a good [re-] start. Homeland Security should be part of it's purview, not a bunch of bureaucrats that manage our transportation system and their supporting unions.

2. Commerce - There needs to be a return to PROMOTING commerce as opposed to regulating it, which is all the Commerce Department does nowadays. I could spend a few months in the Commerce Department and streamline their reporting mandates in a way that PROMOTED commerce. The existing efforts stifle it. It's a pet peeve of mine.

3. Treasury - The Treasury Department needs to manage the finances of our national government and not anything else. How in the hell did we get to a point where the Treasury Department is managing our entire economy? This has to stop! I could go on and on about all the ridiculous federal bureaucracies that fall under this department (FNMA and FHMC come to mind) and need to go.

4. Foreign Affairs - I think that the State Department needs to go in its present form. What we really need is a department to manage our foreign affairs. It should operate within the dictates of our national interests, not as a cabal of bureaucrats that patronize left-wing dictatorships. If a foreign country is all-in for capitalism, we should be all-in for supporting them. Why waste time and resources on a country that doesn't support our national interests in a market-based economy?

Anyway, I hope you get my drift. Re-establish priorities and put them in place. Once you've done that, staff the departments in a way to further the goals of that department.

Unions are not welcome. They should be abolished from any form of government. There should be absolutely no negotiating on this point. Working for any level of government is a service to your country, your state or your local jurisdiction. Unions do not have a place in this service. They are anathema to our Constitution.

Once you've established the proper departments of the Executive branch and staffed them to the level needed to perform their functions (within their established budgets), cut the rest free. This may displace thousands of governments workers, but they really need to be in the private sector anyway.

Freeze all government pensions that are not part of the surviving structure. They get what they get, as of their termination date. Why should they be treated any differently than private sector employees?

Now, you'll notice that I have not talked about entitlements. There's a reason for that. As of [name your date], they cease to continue. Notice that I didn't say "cease to exist". There are far too many citizens of this great country that accepted the "New Deal" and planned accordingly. They should NOT be penalized. Anyone over the age of 65 years old needs to be "grand-fathered". Anyone younger than that needs to have their contributions to Social Security transferred to an account that THEY control.

Going forward, there is no Medicare or Social Security, as we know it. What is in its place is a actuary-based system that weans people off the government dole and places them in a privatized system. I have the utmost confidence that our free enterprise system will find a way to assist them, albeit at a price.

So, who is positioned to lead this charge?

I can only think of one, and her name is Sarah Palin.

Who is the one that espouses all that is the free market? Who is the one to focus our attention on the roots of our society? Who is the one that "gets it" and opposes the ruling elite? Who is the one that speaks to our values and stands opposed to a mosque at Ground Zero? Who is the one to stand up for our Christian beliefs? Who is the one that stands willing to battle a progressive ideology? Who is the only one committed to unite us in conquering our socialist foes?

Who amongst us hails from Alaska, the last bastion of rugged individualism?

- ev

Tx4P contributor ehvogel resides in North Texas where he presides over Generational Dysfunction.

Sarah Palin: Brewer Has 'Cojones'; Obama, not so much (Updated)

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Sarah Palin offered praise for Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Sunday morning for defending her state's immigration law in court against Eric Holder's lawsuit. Gov Palin said her friend Brewer has the "cojones" that President Obama lacks on the critical issue of border security:

Palin said on "Fox News Sunday" that Brewer is tackling border security and putting her faith in legal immigration where Obama is not.

"Jan Brewer has the cojones that our president does not have," she said. "If our own president will not enforce our federal law, more power to Jan Brewer."

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Palin called the judge's ruling "unfortunate" but hopefully "temporary."

"There are many, many more steps to take," she said, adding that the case could come before the Supreme Court.

Gov. Palin also called Obama and congressional Democrats "all wet" for planning to let the Bush tax cuts expire, adding, "It's idiotic to think about increasing taxes at a time like this."

Asked by host Chris Wallace what she had written on her palm, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate held up her hand to show the words "$3.8 trillion over 10 years," the cost, Republicans say, of allowing the cuts to expire. Wallace inquired why she wrote the palm note, and she replied:

"...so I don’t say ‘$3.7 trillion’ and then get dinged by the liberals saying I don’t know what I was talking about."

We'll have the video of her comments up when Fox releases it, and, no, we're not going to link to any of the biased lamestream media stories on this FNS appearance. The usual media suspects can float down the River Styx in a hand basket to Hades. Frankly, we've grown weary of giving them page hits to spread their DNC attack memes about Sarah Palin.

Update: More quotes from Gov. Palin's FNS appearance via Chris Wallace's blog:

"To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you rein in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his. His commitment to let previous tax cuts expire are going to lead to even fewer job opportunities for Americans, because it's the job creators who will be taxed.”

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“I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today. It just amazes me that he continues to look backward and blame solely President Bush for the conundrum that we're in right now… We're not out of the problem. We have a jobless recovery and that's no recovery in the minds of most Americans.”

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“As for the unfavorable, you know, I don't blame people for not really knowing what it is, in some instances what I stand for, what my record is because if I believed everything that I read in or heard in the media, I wouldn't like me either.”

- JP

Thanks, Palin Promotions

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A thank you note to Palin Promotions for re-posting and linking back to our recent commentary about The Christian Science Monitor acting as an amplifier and stenographer service for the moonbat mudflatulence blog, the sort of practice which has become standard operating procedure for a lamestream media which, without any shred of shame, beds down with the nutroots leftosphere, the DNC and the Obama administration like a cheap prostitute.

A must read at Palin Promotions, by the way, is Robert Wiles' standout post "Why We Need Sarah Palin To Succeed." Robert's op-ed was posted on Facebook and cross-posted at Sons Of Liberty Riders in March, and as a comment at A Time for Choosing in May. But it's a timeless piece, and in that regard, it shares a kinship with Dewey Whetsell's op-ed about Gov. Palin, one which has been bouncing around the web since 2009. The original posting of Chief Whetsell's much-emailed and re-posted commentary is on his personal blog here.

- JP

Jacoby: Massachusetts for Palin?

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Jeff Jacoby, a conservative columnist at the liberal Boston Globe, addresses the left's latest effort to subvert the republic that our founders so carefully constructed in his Sunday commentary:

IT IS Election Night, 2012. The polls have closed. State by state, the votes are being counted, and gradually it becomes clear, to the bottomless horror of some voters and the unbridled delight of others, that Sarah Palin, the Republican presidential nominee, has bested President Barack Obama in the popular vote nationwide.

In Massachusetts, where Obama crushed Palin in a 79 percent landslide — the most lopsidedly anti-Palin vote of any state — “bottomless horror’’ doesn’t begin to describe the political reaction. For in 2010, Massachusetts joined the National Popular Vote compact, making a commitment to cast all of its electoral votes for the presidential candidate receiving the most votes nationally, regardless of the results in Massachusetts. The compact took effect in December 2011, when California became the 15th state to join, thereby uniting enough states to control a majority of the Electoral College. Now Massachusetts, the bluest of the blue states, must award its presidential electors to a candidate Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly opposed.

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Well, that’s one scenario. Maybe it won’t be Sarah Palin, maybe it won’t be 2012, but sooner or later a Republican is going to win the largest number of votes in a presidential election, and that Republican probably isn’t going to carry Massachusetts. What will Bay State liberals and Democrats say when the National Popular Vote compact that so many of them endorsed requires Massachusetts electors to line up behind the Republican? Imagine if Massachusetts had been compelled to give its electoral votes in 1972 not to George McGovern, but to Richard Nixon. Or to the first George Bush in 1988, instead of Michael Dukakis. Or to George W. Bush, not John Kerry, in 2004.

As the National Popular Vote bill was making its way through the state Legislature last month, Senator Thomas Kennedy, chairman of the Election Laws Committee, warned opponents against trying to block it. “We’re committed to this,’’ he said. “It’s the will of the people.’’ The will of which people? Not the people of Massachusetts: The whole point of this scheme is to frustrate their will. From now on, anytime Massachusetts voters march to the beat of a different political drummer than most of their countrymen, the National Popular Vote compact will make sure their votes don’t count.

Massachusetts is the sixth state to approve this end run around the Constitution, following Illinois, New Jersey, Hawaii, Maryland, and Washington. It is no coincidence that all six are Democratic strongholds. The movement is fueled by lingering Democratic resentment of George W. Bush, and of the Electoral College system that made him president in 2000, even though Al Gore drew more popular votes. It is a comical irony that if the compact ever goes into effect, its only practical impact in these states will be to occasionally award their presidential electors to the Republican nominees their voters reject.

Democrats talk about 2000 as though it represented some colossal subversion of democracy. “Something happened in the 2000 presidential election that should never be permitted to happen again,’’ writes Michael Dukakis in the Salem News. “The candidate who failed to win the popular vote became president of the United States.’’

But the national popular vote total has no constitutional significance and never has...

Read this Jeff Jacoby op-ed unabridged here.

Related: Paul Greenberg explains why casting aside the electoral college is not only a bad idea, but a dangerous one:

Edmund Burke tried to tell us: "The Constitution of a State is not a problem of arithmetic." Rather, it is a way to take into account the many dimensions of an electorate and forge a consensus that is greater than all its parts. That's where the Electoral College comes in. It may be an antique piece of clockwork, but it performs a valuable function within all the gears and levels of our constitutional system. It needs to be saved, not sacrificed to an empty slogan.

In our view, one of the best arguments against turning our backs on the wisdom of the founders is that so far, the only states to approve the compact are the bluest of blue states. If the left has its way, it will destroy this republic.

- JP

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