Who’s Costing Who the Election?

I’ve just seen—for the gazillionth time—some pseudo-objective pundit asking the question: “Is Palin costing McCain the election?” It makes me want to tear my hair out. The sad and unspeakable truth is: McCain is costing Palin the election. The pundits gravely question what her selection says about his judgment, all the while fighting with each other to be first in line to lick Obama’s boots.

The Left, and its wholly-owned subsidiaries—the Democratic Party and the mainstream media—would have the gullible believe that McCain is a right-wing firebrand and our beloved and passionately embraced nominee. How soon they forget. McCain became our nominee by virtue of being the only semi-corpse still twitching on the battlefield after the primary bloodbath. In that overly crowded field, McCain was my second-to-last choice for the nomination. Only Ron Paul made my stomach queasier.

In fact, and virtually without exception, candidates for the GOP nomination were eliminated in order of my preference for them. George Allen goes down in flames for saying macaca? It’s pathetic that the Left saw fit to seize upon this bit of harmless on-the-spot word coinage as a weapon to bring him down. It is a biting indictment of the limp-wristedness of our society that it instantly caught traction. My choice for the nomination was Tom Tancredo. He was aligned with my political philosophy to the tune of 90-95% overall, and dead on with the issues that mattered most to me. He went early as well. Mostly for the sin of telling the truth.

For most of us, McCain was a double whammy. He has long been the most wishy-washy Republican in the senate, well deserving of the epithet RINO. He has had a long history of sacrificing his own party and constituents on the pagan alter of bipartisanship. Many of us thought it would be better to elect an honest Democrat than to exalt a fake Republican.

So why do we support McCain now? The reason is the classic political reason: He is the lesser of two evils. Those of us still capable of rational thought are astounded at how quickly and enthusiastically our entire nation began guzzling the Obama Kool-Aid. Logic and reason were tossed out with the garbage and an appallingly bad choice for a presidential candidate now is known as The One, The Savior, The Messiah, etc.. Obama’s only truly amazing achievement in life is making John McCain the best available choice for president of the United States.

All of which leads us back to Sarah Palin. Why the outpouring of admiration, affection, and support? Because she is the one we kept hoping for during the primaries. The one that never came. She is here now, even though we’re disappointed it’s in the number two spot, but still here. The Left has showered her with unprecedented—and unjustifiable—vitriol and bile. They don’t do it because they fear her. To say so would be to do Sarah an injustice. They do it because she fills them with gut-wrenching terror. More than anything else, the Left fears the appearance of another Republican with the effectiveness and political invincibility of Ronald Reagan. The Left knows, even if we don’t, that Sarah Palin is a Ronald Reagan that looks good in heels and a skirt.

Let’s just all pray for the sake of the nation, and our own sakes, that McCain doesn’t cost this wonderful woman the election.

Liberal Democats: Welcome to the Conservative Republican World

Reading the Washington Post article started with a certain giddy delight. That feeling turned into pure unadulterated schadenfreude when I read this:

That’s how it goes in the Heath home, and how it has always gone. It’s a household that explains much about Palin, 44, and how she acquired her set-jawed, swaggering demeanor, one that her mother first noticed “about the time she started to walk.” Above all, the house suggests how she came by her dissident, out-of-category feminism, a code by which she tackles old-boy networks relentlessly, while remaining blank if not unsympathetic on traditional women’s issues with a capital W, such as sexism in the workplace.

“I’m a little absent from that discussion, because I’ve never thought of gender as an issue,” she told Alaska Business Monthly after being elected governor in 2006.

All of which reminds me of a favorite Ann Coulter quote which I’m likely paraphrasing: “When we solve a problem, we lose an issue.” All of which may explain why professional grievance-mongers can convince the droves of voters with short memories to vote them back in to deal with problems they caused in the first place.

Welcome to our world, leftists of all kinds. You work feverishly to solve a problem, then along comes another generation of voters who didn’t grow up with the problem and—voilà!—everything that was traditional is radical again. Such as the hard-working professional woman who dreams of the day that her husband makes enough money that she can stay home and raise their children. “Blasphemy!” they shrieked.

Women have had, and still do have, legitimate grievances that need to be addressed, but not so many as feminists have frantically tried to have us believe. For instance, the average woman’s attitude about the right to be drafted and sent into a combat zone consists mostly of: Would you butch bitches please stop helping us? In the 60s and early 70s I lost count of the number of women who said that, other than equal-pay-for-equal-work, feminism offered nothing that they wanted.

I’ve pondered the issue for years and I think that, for the majority of real-world women, feminism should be a process of “adding to” as opposed to the elitist feminists “substituting for”. That means that many women wish to keep what they’ve traditionally had as women while adding to it certain things which were unfairly denied. The sisters of the latter-day feminist movement have insisted on a throw-out-the-baby-with-the-bath-water approach. Then they affect amazement and hurt when most women balk at the idea of being penisless men.

The Left may succeed in destroying Sarah Palin. I hope they don’t, purely on the basis that the words “President Obama” frighten any rational person to the point of incontinence. But it is possible they can destroy her— temporarily. The plucky gal didn’t have much time to prepare for this ordeal, but her razor sharp mind can absorb a lot in 4 to 8 years. Then we’ll be treated to the sight of Katie Couric running from the interview room in tears.

Memo Writers’ Observations on Life #3

It’s not such a bad idea.

Memo Writers’ Observations on Life #3

1. Empirical evidence supports the theory that marriage is the only known cure for nymphomania.
2. When environmentalists seek to gain the support of Joe and Mary Sixpack, they show pictures of cuddly deer and bunnies, along with the occasional bald eagle, never the disgusting slugs, snails, biting insects, and weeds that actually stop or hold up highway construction and commercial development.
3. Liberals hate everything that makes life worth living.
4. Most liberals that support getting back to nature have never even been on a camping trip.
5. It’s odd that the only marriages the left doesn’t support are those between men and women.
6. The Mainstream Media’s relationship to liberals is equivalent to that of a parrot to its owner.
7. All liberals secretly want to be French.
8. Environmentalist consider your recently restored muscle car to be the moral equivalent of a bloody axe.
9. Women are the way they are because of the way men, which is because of the way women are.
10. Your children will manifest your worst habits and qualities before any other.
11. Teenagers consider ignorance and inexperience to be virtues.
12. Liberals have their development arrested at the teenager phase.
13. Americans are too trusting.
14. Minority conservatives deserve our utmost respect for their bravery.
15. The only thing a feminist hates more than a man is a happy woman.
16. Women are right about cuddling.
17. Your mother will spend the first 20 years of your adulthood trying to plug the umbilical cord back in.
18. Leftists can’t see the connection between the housing shortages and rent control, restrictions on land usage, and high property tax rates.
19. Most people can’t make a rational choice about a lifetime mate until they’re in their 40s—at the earliest.
20. We’ll have to save Europe again—soon.

Step Up and Meet Henry A. #2: Master Logician and Keen Military Mind

Next on the Henry A. hit parade is a brief conversation that occurred while on the bus coming home from the work site. The topic? Our shiny new president, Ronald Reagan, and the policies he was implementing

Henry, of course, was convinced that the bowels of Hell had rent asunder and vomited Reagan out upon an unsuspecting Earth. He very likely would have said that Reagan was the very quintessence of evil, if Henry had know what the word quintessence meant.

Henry was heartsick about the welfare reforms that were going down. Mr. A. is one of those tragic folks that doesn’t realize that the phrase “vital social programs” is oxymoronic. President Reagan was killing that stuff, Henry insisted, “Just as it was starting to work.” And no, Henry didn’t see the irony of mega-expensive programs that had been in place for over 50 years just beginning to work. Which we all know that they weren’t, but that’s beside the point.

I reasonably pointed out that we could no longer afford to waste money on programs that either did nothing to solve the problem, or actually made it worse. Henry protested that those programs could easily be funded by eliminating or reducing unnecessary government expenditures. His top candidate? The military, whose funding he proposed reducing by 99%. All of which led to the following exchange:

Me: But we would be attacked by our enemies.

Henry (rolling eyes): Ain’t nobody gonna attack us.

Me: Why wouldn’t they.

Henry: ‘Cuz we got the biggest military.

Me: But you just reduced it by 99%!

Henry: “Cuz we didn’t need it.

Me: Why didn’t we need it?

Henry: Ain’t nobody gonna attack us.

Me: Why not?

Henry: “Cuz we got the biggest military.

It actually continued on for several more cycles, but I won’t inflict that on you. Just know that after I jumped off the merry-go-round. I criticized his logic, for which comment I was informed, “White people just don’t get it.”

My point? This is an example of what lies behind the multicultural BS that’s killing us. This is a man from a culture that is notorious for exalting “passion” over logic and reason. A culture that has failed dismally and yet is still regarded as superior by those born into it. A culture that honestly believes that the only reason they can’t have two mutually exclusive states existing side-by-side is the “Man’s” narrow-minded thinking or outright oppression of them.

Another point: There is no point trying to bring people like this on board. When they get to this point, they either save themselves or they don’t get saved at all. When a human being makes it all the way to adulthood with beliefs like these festering in his brain, he is pretty much beyond redemption. I grieve for all the time, effort, and money wasted trying to redeem the irredeemable, as you should.

The Liberal Lexicon: “H” Words and Phrases

The Fine Art of Liberal to English Translation

Contrary to popular belief, Liberals do speak a form of English. Their dialect, though strange, is quite similar to American English. In fact, the vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and even the accents are identical. So what accounts for all the heartache and confusion that plagues Libero-American relations? The answer is semantics, the linguistic field of word meanings. The concepts identified by the same words are often quite different between Liberal and American English. As a token of my desire to bridge this gap I humbly submit these translations.

The Definitions

1. Halliburton—an interjection frequently uttered by liberals when losing a debate.
2. Hate Speech— what occurs when a conservative’s lips move.
3. Heterosexual— An unimagination sexual partner. Also: an agent of impending Malthusian overpopulation.
4. Holocaust—the execution of convicted murderers.
5. Homephobe—any person who objects to men tongue-wrestling in front of an elementary school.
6. Homosexual—Highly imaginative sexual partner, marked by concern for population issues and a high degree of creativity.
7. Housewife/Homemaker—a fomer class of debased and degraded women who were rescued by feminists. Their liberation has freed up the time and resources necessary to research the mysterious increases in suicide, homicide, drug abuse, sexual abuse, theft, rape, prostitution, divorce, and academic failure.
8. Husband—slavemaster, sexual exploiter.
9. Hyphen(-)—a typographic character used with various demographic terms to ameliorate the offensiveness of the term “American” Example: Pervo-American.

Who Are All These People and Why Are They Cheering?

Years ago in my nebulous past I saw or read an item that claimed the Austrians, much like Lucy Ricardo, had “a lotta ’splainin’ to do”. Many people commonly assume that the Nazi’s annexation of Austria (the Anschluss) back in World War 2 was just another in a long line of fascist outrages from the era. No doubt that was true for many, but the fact remains that when Nazi troops marched into Austria they met, to their surprise, no resistance. Rather, they were treated to throngs of cheering locals giving fascist salutes, waving Nazi flags, and throwing flowers. The event has been referred to as the blumenkrieg-the war of flowers. The author of that long-ago piece wanted an end to the Austrian silence about those days. Most of all, he wanted to ask those cheering throngs: Exactly what were you cheering about?

I find myself asking that same question about my fellow Americans as we skip and dance blithely toward Obamageddon. An ocean of warnings about the man have gone unheeded, if not unnoticed. In a nutshell, they reduce to, “We know almost nothing about this man and the little we know is bad.” I watch my fellow Americans react to the Obamessiah and I see orgiastic scenes of my national brothers and sisters foaming at the mouth with mindless, virtually orgasmic ecstasy. I must admit, I truly didn’t realize how bad it was until an exchange I had with my best friend of nearly 30 years. I made a casual, and mild for me, comment about Obama and was shocked and astounded when he nearly bit my head off in anger. He is the most intelligent man I know. If he was sucked-in to the madness, what chance do we mere mortals have?

I have my theories about why this is, and I hope they’re all wrong. I’ve already been forced to revise my opinion about my country downward too many times already. For a man virtually defined by his patriotism, to do so is pure torture.

There have been any number of atrocities committed throughout history: the Holocaust, the Reign of Terror, bloody purges of all kinds, and so on. I’ve heard thoughtful people look back at history and ask: “How can an entire nation simply lose its mind?” I fear they soon we have all the empirical evidence that they will ever need.

Left-Wing Wasteland

Because it’s time for another song parody. I would actually record these but the only musicians I’m friends with are Left-wingers.

sung to the tune of Baba O’Reilly

Left-Wing Wasteland

Out here on the streets
After Left-wing conceits
We push our cars to keep them moving
But we’ve got no rights
Humanity’s a blight
If we’re gone, the Earth’s improving

Don’t whine
Don’t waste your time
Finally, Left-wing wasteland

Daughter, take my hand
Let’s run while we can
Don’t look behind
It’s just Atlas Shrugging
Now the Ummah is here
Children tremble in fear
The Chosen Ones are raging
Our girls’ hopes are ending

Left-wing wasteland
It’s just a Left-wing wasteland
A Left-wing wasteland

John McCain and Global Warming

I just watched the focus group testing of John McCain’s new global warming ad. In it he assures somebody, most likely not his own team, that he believes in global warming.

I’ll take a different tact on this just for a change. Believing in climate change is like believing in sunrises and sunsets. They all happen, have happened, and will continue to happen. It’s not all that daring just because the time frame is different. As I’ve posted elsewhere, even if true, the effects of global warming will be the slowest moving catastrophe in recent history. In one of the breathlessly panicked forecasts I’ve read we’re told that sea level will soon rise by a fraction of an inch a year. This would allow more than enough time for a responsible government led by grownups (read that ‘not liberals’) to respond. The people could evacuate entirely, move to a higher elevation, or (far more likely) postpone the inevitable by a massive spending project on a system of dikes and levees.

Even if none of this works and coastal cities are destroyed, don’t cry! Celebrate! You’re environmentalists for Gaia’s sake! You hate cities anyway. This also has the additional benefit of making the land you bought out in the boondocks, to get away from the human blight, into highly desirable beach property. You can sell it on the sly, and become filthy rich, all while hypocritically condemning the capitalist system. You know! Just like all of those people you slavishly vote for.

More seriously, few people I know seriously deny climate change. The climate has always changed, and will always continue to do so. The question is whether humans caused it. The, answer of course not. It’s an ongoing process. Well then, do humans make it worse? Probably, but only to an insignificant level. About the same way that coupling one extra boxcar to a 100-car train makes the wreck worse if it jumps the tracks. In other words, it only matters if you addicted to shame.

I think maybe Obama and McCain should share a campaign slogan this cycle: We’re screwed in ‘08.

Compare and Contrast

Memorandum

From: Memo Writer
Topic: Obliviousness of Political Left

There is too much time being spent around the water cooler while speculating on the ability of the political left to come to conclusions that are 180 degrees out of sync with the facts. Management is deeply concerned by the loss of productive time  and has researched the issue for you.

Item 1: The Liberal-Leftist side of the spectrum is deeply concerned about whether people get their feelings hurt of not.

Item2: The Conservative-Rightist side of the spectrum is concerned about whether people get killed or not.

No need to thank us. Now, get back to work.

Why the Democratic Party Does Everything for “The Children” Now

Ever wonder why the party of abortion, childlessness, and voluntary extinction is suddenly so interested in the little ones? Me too! The results of my research:

1. Everybody’s caught on to the ” women and minorities hardest hit” thing.
2. Liberal’s attention spans are now so short that staffers couldn’t make it to the end of long phrases such as “women and minorities hardest hit”.
3. Adults aren’t intimidated when you threaten to kill Santa Claus.
4. Democrats are used to constituents who either can’t or won’t vote for them.
5. They’ve finally realized that they’ve aborted and birth-controlled their future base into extinction and, just like your money, if you have more than you “need” they should be able to take some.
6. They need the children to translate ballots so their parents will know who to vote for.
7. Democrats can’t tell the difference between real children and immature self-absorbed adults.
8. The party leadership feels most comfortable when dealing with people who have never worked for a living.
9. The magic words, the children, no longer cause opposition to instantly disappear. Unable to shift their paradigm, liberals believe the magic will be restored by saying the words louder, and more often. Kind of like a skydiver keeps yanking on the ripcord of a parachute that has failed to open.
10. The focus group shot down their first choice for a slogan, “Because we’re better than you are.”