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Sarah Palin: Media Nemesis (3 of 3)

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I think I know what Palin is doing: I’ll never know for sure until proven wrong or the post-game reports starting in mid-November 2012.

[pullquote]she is going to draw the media out, to give the conservative candidates a series of shots to take[/pullquote]

I think that she is going to draw the media out, to make them keep going over the top in their hatred and bias, to give the conservative candidates a series of shots to take at the media.  Along the way, she will be more than happy to sideswipe RINOs, and I like it.

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Sarah Palin: Media Nemesis (2 of 2, er, 2 of 3)

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Fox on the run

Things are developing even as I write.  Sarah Palin’s bus tour has taken off, with that fox leading a pack of ten to fifteen barking cars of the mainstream media.  MSNBC’s Martin Bashir demands to know what she’s doing, and charges her with violation of federal law for having a flag motif painted on the bus.  CBS’s Ryan Caruso insists that the situation is unsafe, and blames Palin for not telling the media where she’s going.  She rode in front at Rolling Thunder, to which CBS dutifully records the irritation of a few RT office-holders, and this demonstrates the essential divide: CBS is talking to the “national legislative director” for an organization’s … Continue reading →

Robert Fisk: The Unbearable Uselessness of Obama

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Infamous columnist Robert Fisk has an interesting piece on the uselessness of Obama:

Amid all these vast and epic events – Yemen itself may yet prove to be the biggest bloodbath of all, while the number of Syria’s “martyrs” have now exceeded the victims of Mubarak’s death squads five months ago – is it any surprise that the frolics of Messrs Netanyahu and Obama appear so irrelevant? Indeed, Obama’s policy towards the Middle East – whatever it is – sometimes appears so muddled that it is scarcely worthy of study

all quotes in this post via Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says? – Robert Fisk, Commentators – The Independent

He is right and wrong.  He rightfully points out that the US position has been … Continue reading →

Sarah Palin: Media Nemesis (1 of 2)

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The MSM accomplished what it set out to do; to destroy Sarah Palin.  In doing so, they have destroyed themselves.

[pullquote]It is this media which brought us Obama and ObamaCare, and any fight against it is a good fight[/pullquote]

The approaching season of politics is an opportunity for Palin to pursue her goal, and I think I know what it is.  She will use the occasion of a Presidential campaign to wreak vengeance upon the media: her campaign or somebody else’s.  Assuming I am correct (humor me), that may sound inappropriate or cynically manipulative, but this is the fight of fights which the right should be engaged in.  While the debt has become the most visible threat to our future, and the totalitarians currently in office are the … Continue reading →

Marvel, DC Comics: Only American When Profitable

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Marvel can go to Hell with DC.

Timed to the upcoming July 22 release of the Captain America: The First Avenger movie — starring Chris Evans as the star-spangled superhero —Marvel Comics is releasing a series of variant covers for its July superhero titles with an “I Am Captain America” theme.

via ‘I Am Captain America’ covers depict real heroes – USATODAY.com.

That would be great except that my memory is a little longer than this. I remember in 2003 when Captain America was was used as a vehicle for pro-terrorist, anti-American propaganda. I also remember Superman’s renunciation of US citizenship, just before we shot bin Laden. Suck it, Supe.

G.I. Joe is no longer an American soldier, but some globalist bullshit. Why must the Communists and … Continue reading →

Watch Out for the Hattiesburg H8ter!

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There is a letter circulating via Twitter etc. which purports to be from a disappointed Tea Party supporter to the Hattiesburg American.  In fact this is a poorly-written bit of leftist agitation.

The first three paragraphs attempt to establish the writer’s bonafides as a Tea Party supporter who is now angry, bitter, disappointed, let down (let me check my thesaurus here), and is going to share a bit of good old-fashioned conservative spleen.

Except that what follows in the letter is a laundry list of Marxist talking points.  So I have posted them with rebuttals:

  • attempting to destroy Medicare
    • Saving Medicare, unlike simply letting it fail, as it is currently fated.
  • by privatizing the program with vouchers,

Obama Don't Need No Steenkin' Badges

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The silence of the left, while cowardly, is nonetheless refreshing.

White House on War Powers Deadline: ‘Limited’ US Role in Libya Means No Need to Get Congressional Authorization – Political Punch.  via Drudge

This is an awfully convenient way of looking at things.  It does not happen to be correct.  The reason that only Congress can declare war is to make sure that the American people run foreign policy.  The Executive branch is there to execute the will of the American people as expressed in the laws passed by Congress.  There is no requirement for the words “We Declare War”, but Congress must pass a resolution authorizing these actions.

But ah,  do you hear that shrieking?  Neither do I.

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Tea Party Dilemma

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The Tea Party constellation of groups and individuals is in a state of flux.  Central to the change is the strategy to take in 2012; pragmatism or dogmatism, and frankly, it will require both.

I suppose this vexes every political movement, but the pragma/dogma dilemma is particularly striking the Tea Party groups.  On one hand, the Tea Party is largely a subset of traditionally Republican voters, with a healthy dose of libertarians and Constitutional fundamentalists thrown in.  These are the people who found the Republican party too passive and pliable in years past.  This makes them a naturally ideological movement, prone to reject a reasonable candidate with a decent shot at winning because he or she fails one or more hot-button tests.

[pullquote]they were still furious at Republicans, … Continue reading →

Newt Gingrich Unhorsed

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Newt Gingrich was an overpowering force on the Op-Ed pages, and could have provided crucial support over the next two years.  He was always an establishment man, but his personal baggage meant that he could not return to the front.  He cast away an important back-bench responsibility in pursuit of a post more glorious but impossible to attain, and is now hopelessly on the defensive.   Newt is already defeated, because he should not have run.

For some reason, he chose to denigrate a damned good plan and along the way, to wound a man who is under a sustained personal attack from the other side, even from the President himself.  Gingrich now says that he supports “improving the plan”, but for a man who has had twenty … Continue reading →

Disappointed in Newt Gingrich

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I have always liked Newt Gingrich.  He gave an address in 2002 at some dinner somewhere, and this was the first “Podcast” I ever heard.  This was perhaps the height of his oratory, in the days when “federal chipmunk” featured in many of his speeches.  I have long been impressed with his ideas and his presentation.

I saw him as a magnificent piece of field artillery, able to deliver withering fire in support of any truly conservative position from behind the lines, perched on the editorial pages with a commanding view of the valley below.  Military minds know not to scoff at the big guns in the rear of the battle area just because they are in the rear:  the ability to bombard the enemy at a time … Continue reading →