So Sara Palin not being an option.....and the Republican Party getting all giddy with excitement over Scott Brown needs to recognize the reason for his win. Which is, that he campaigned on listening to his constituents and seeking to represent their will. Suprise, Suprise! It's the same thing Obama campaigned on! Now, rather than just lip service let's put legislators in office who follow through. From what I've read about this guy, Ilario Pantano, he fits the bill.
Noteworthy quotes from soon to be Rep. Pantano:
"If you think the largest piece of the federal budget is not fraught with fraud, waste and abuse, you're smoking crack," he said. "And I am going in there with a butcher's knife, and we are gong to get to the bottom of some things." This will include going after the practice of senior congressmen directing billion-dollar programs into their districts for jobs when the military goes without critical resources."
"I am not a typical Republican," Pantano told Military.com in a Feb. 3 telephone interview. "In fact, I think the Republicans have done a lot of things that disgusted me, that have disgusted the American people over the last couple of years. And the Republicans absolutely deserved the comeuppance they've gotten. "
"And just because there have been some successes in Massachusetts and elsewhere is absolutely not carte blanche to return to … tone deafness to the American people."
"I went out to do a dirty job for my country and in the process I got jammed up," he said. "I never broke with my Corps. I never broke with my country. I never said I was a victim. I took responsibility. I did what I did. I killed men in combat and if you don't like it, don't send men to war."
I found this from one of the comments on Pantano's article post. It's outlines precisely some of the principles of true conservativism:
ReplyDelete1. The United States of America is good.
2. We believe in God and He is the Center of our lives.
3. We must always try to be a more honest person than we were yesterday.
4. The USA American Family is sacred. It is the ultimate authority not the Government.
5. Justice is blind and no one is above the Law.
6. We, the USA Electorate, have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, with no guarantee of equal results.
7. Government cannot force us to be charitable. We will work hard for what we have and we will share the results with whom we decide to.
8. It is not Un American to disagree with authority or to share our opinions.
9. The Government works for us. We do not answer to the Government, It answers to us.
So nobody has anything to say about the un-electability of Palin?
ReplyDeleteI'm not entirely sure that anyone is unelectable if Barack Obama can come from nowhere to win and that Joe Bidden is the Vice-President. Lets face it, the odds were stacked against them and they won.
ReplyDeletePalin is growing in real popularity the same way that Obama did. Small and obscure to national player. Give her time to appear less radical to the left and you might find her to be quite electable.
Valid point James, however I disagree because from my perspective the media is what elected Obama. And the media will crucify Palin if she gets the nomination from the Republican party. There is a vacuum of leadership for the Republicans. To validate my point, Leno did those candid interviews on the streets in Brooklyn and attached all of the political ideologies of McCain under the guise of Obama's name and the people on the street were unanimous in voting for Obama even though his true ideology was masked. The media manipulated and continues to manipulate for the Obama team, and there is some real fervent hatred against Palin by the mainstream media. Furthermore, people always want to bring up Fox and its' bias, (which it is) but they don't recognize the bias of seemingly unbiased news sources like CNN. MSNBC, ABC, CBS, are 3 other major networks that manipulate information for Obama so you're talking 4x the information manipulation in comparison to 1 network that is just as biased in the other direction. Hence, there's no fair news source out there and Americans as a whole are too apathetic to research and vote for something other than what the two parties give them.
ReplyDeleteBefore anyone gives me a hard time for using Leno as a source to validate my point, I'd like to say that he's not the only one, there have been others that have drawn the same results from similar encounters on the street. What it boils down to is Obama was elected because of the color of his skin and because the media whisked him into office.
ReplyDeleteI can see your point. The media did play a huge role. However, the media is not saving Obama right now. They may not come to his rescue come election time which means Palin might be the one they go for because the idea of a female president is as gripping as it was to have a black president.
ReplyDeleteBy the time the election comes around, Obama will be old news, and the people will most likely hate him then (at least the way things are going now). That means the media will need a story. What is bigger from the republicans other than Palin?
I hadn't considered that the media might be more interested in a story than that they just propagate liberal ideology. You're perspective is more positive than mine. I can dig it...
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