A few weeks ago as Congress held hearings on the oil industry, Congress woman Maxine Waters, Marxist from Los Angeles, let slip the word “socialize”, then stuttered and said, “take over the oil industry.” Congressmen seated near her and in camera range, giggled! Maxine had let the cat out of the bag! But the timing wasn’t good. 

Fast forward to today in the Congress and Maurice Hinchey, Marxist from upstate New York, suggested it was time for the government to take over the oil industry and nationalize it.  Hinchey, spoke about refineries.  His message was simple, if Hugo Chavez can do it, so can the democrats!

So today, June 18, 2008, the democrats finally came out of the closet and for the first time, openly spoke the words Marxists, communists and socialists have uttered for more than ninety years! Beware, take these threats seriously and make sure you vote these people out of office!

Hillary Clinton must choose her daughter Chelsea as VP! Why? Compared to Hillary’s 35 years of experience, no other dem now in the race has an equal number of years experience that Chelsea Clinton has, a total of twenty eight! That’s right! Chelsea was bred for politics, by politics and represents the lengths her family went to to curry votes.  She has lived both in the governor’s mansion in Arkansas and the White House! She was there at every big decision her baby sitters and nannies made on the crucial issues facing society!  Chelsea has the same respect for the military, the Secret Service and our nation her parents have. She has spent her entire life, from the moment of birth, involved in politics and serving an administration in one capacity or another all her life.  Surely this portfolio of “experience” should and cannot be ignored.

What better VP candidate for a Presidential candidate than to have a person who not only has the same last name but has served so often as a tool, a prop, a talking point since birth for Hillary and Bill?  It’s her turn! She’s entitled, and she’s a single woman who has done it all on her own! (cough, snicker, laugh, guffaw!)

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Beth Fouhy of the Associated Press, (or as I call the AP-Asphyxiated Press) that Hillary Clinton played flight hostess to a press corps on her chartered plane. She made what I believe were obvious rehearsed comments, among them:  “If you look out from the right, you will see an America saddled with tax cuts for the wealthiest and a war without end. If you look out from the left, you will see an America with a strong middle class at home and a strong reputation in the world.”  Again the woman who feels it is her turn to be President because she was married to Bill, and will probably try for more sympathy on an interview tomorrow night and who often made the claim to be a Goldwater Girl, though I have never heard of a verified report where a person swicthed from Conservative to Liberal in my life!

This brings to mind the comments this woman has made over the past year as she stopped “listening” and began talking ad nauseum!  She was going to take billions in profits from the big bad oil companies, the drug companies and teach these capitalists a lesson!  Charlie Rangle, the Clinton’s “house boy” announced his plans for a multi trillion dollar tax hike! 

Jonah Goldberg’s newest book “Facistic Liberalism” is I think exceptional.  The following sentence I feel fits Mrs. Clinton’s ideology: ” A statist ideology, fascism uses politics as the tool to transform society from atomized individuals into an organic whole. It does so by exalting the state over the individual, expert knowledge over democracy, enforced consensus over debate, and socialism over capitalism.” 

This is the America the dems and in particular the very Marxist Mrs Clinton, wife of an equally devoted Marxist and socialist activist and what she promises. Regulating our lives, removing our civil liberties more aggressively, taxing and punishing hard work and success. Mrs Clinton is of the petty jealousy school of retribtuion poitics. Charlie Rangle can’t wait to levy that $3 trillion tax hike on all you working people! Hillary said you’re too well off!

“Many of you are well enough off that … the tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

“The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.” –Hillary Clinton 1993 on health care reform

And from Neal Boortz his website:  Who Said it?

“It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few…and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.”A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the AboveA. LeninB. MussoliniC. Idi AminD. None of the Above3) “(We)…can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”

A. LeninB. MussoliniC. Idi AminD. None of the AboveA. Nikita Khrushev
B. Jose f Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above

4) “We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own…in order to create this common ground.”

A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above

5) “I certainly think the free-market has failed.”

A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above

6) “I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched.”

A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above

Answers:

(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005

Then in Las Vegas, as she pandered for the illegal vote:

“There are no illegal women.”

Or How about this: “The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.”   And her supporters say she isn’t a “socialist”?  Well, that may be true, she is more a Marxist!

The more Hillary speaks, the more we see how dangerous she will be.  Obama is no better.  The democrats have fielded three one term junior Senators who have accomplished nothing.  Each of them is a liberal in the strongest sense. They believe government is the savior and the people are the problem! 

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Last night’s Republican debate gave me hope!  Fred Thompson finally showed the spark I have been waiting for. He was commanding in his responses and now that the primaries switch to a state where there is a Conservative base we may finally see some shakeout.  Now, don’t get me wrong, as much as I like Fred Thompson, I also like Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. 

What I liked most about Fred was he told the audience what a conservative was and he hasn’t been all over the map on issues.  We do have a serious illegal alien problem.  I know there’s talk on the left about the economy, but today’s LA Times carried a story that Rush Limbaugh read parts of and anyone who could draw a conclusion that the economy was in trouble from the attempt by the LA Times to pull the lib crying towel have to be so far removed from reality that I suspect walls and wire mesh in the windows separate us from them!

Fred and Mitt don’t rattle easily.  McCain rambled a bit, Rudy was solid. Huckabee is an entity I am just not willing to bet the farm on.  Yeah he said he kept getting re-elected in Arkansas, but so did Bill Clinton and Jim Guy Tucker, a Clinton hand picked replacement, who I believe is still in prison!

I like Fred Thompson and his slow start, I thought was a killer.  But, I’ve evolved my thinking.  Iowa and New Hampshire are not places a real conservative could win based on those states voting demographics.  I hope Fred is on a roll from here on in. 

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Barack Hussein Obama, junior one term US Senator from Illinois has posters all over his appearances proclaiming: “Change We Can Believe In”.  But until recently, Barack H. Obama was touting his vote against the war in Iraq as his measure of leadership.  Hillary Clinton does have a point, as does Bill, Obama is not experienced enough in the ways of the world.  But, then who is?  Certainly Hillary’s references to her thirty five years of experience revolve, in my opinion, solely around Bill Clinton and what he did or didn’t do.  Sure, Bill promised a “two for one” if you voted for him in 1992, but up until then Hillary was just the wife of a multi term governor of Arkansas. Bill also promised “the most ethical administration…” And, we know what happened there.  She failed the D.C. Bar exam, never argued a case in front of a judge or reprensented a client in a court of law.  Instead, she had some various political type jobs in the Carter administration, and was part of the Nixon impeachment crowd. 

But what about Obama’s experience? Aside from the usual steps of local government there really isn’t much else. Obama ran against Alan Keyes who was by far not the best choice to run in Illinois.  He’s been a Senator for a short time.  There is no “Obama” bill in the Senate now, and there has been none in the past either.  He’s voted with the liberal side more than not, and he is just as much a liberal as Hillary.  So what change is he talking about? 

Is it change to propose the government do it all for you?  Is it change to suggest “national healthcare”?  Is it change to not support what the public wants?  I understand that campaigns are tough on the body, the mind and on the family of the candidates.  But as you look at the top three contenders in the democrat party what do you notice?

• Each is a junior one term Senator from their State.
• Each talks about universal healthcare as a right
• Each one is in the “Blame Bush” scenario
• Each one is about bigger government
• Not one speaks about “educational choice” - VOUCHERS
• Not one talks about reducing your taxes
• Not one speaks about cutting government spending
• Not one talks about eliminating duplicate federal programs that haven’t produced results

Personally, I’m not sure what the attraction is.  Okay, he’s Black.  And?  This is America, and over and over again, I have not seen where the color of a person’s skin has been an impediment to their achieving their goals.  Now, I know some might argue that there is prejudice.  And, I would agree some people are prejudiced, but overall people who are successful got there through hard work and if they failed they tried again and made no excuses.  Look at professional sports, does anyone care what color the player’s skin is? Look at movies.  Does Will Smith, Denzell Washington, Eddie Murphy or Bill Cosby get held back because of the color of their skin?  I have always seen hard work get results.  It didn’t matter what the skin color, ethnic background or religion was of the person.  Okay, Will Smith will never play Robert E Lee, FDR or JFK in a movie, but neither will Warren Beatty!

But, what is Obama’s overall message?  I can’t seem to pinpoint it.  Maybe primaries are just too numerous and too disjointed in our system, but I know where Fred Thompson stands, Rudy and Mitt.  The rest of the pack seems to have a similar “theme du jour” meantality which is irritating.  I suppose what bother me most is, how can three, junior, one term Senators from their states even be considered to run for the highest office in the land by their political party?  How shallow, how uninspired and how cliched has the level of quality sunk to in the democrat party that these are supposed to be “the best” to be offered the voters of America?  Is just mouthing slogans enough to get elected these days?

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Coming off a serious defeat in Iowa, a dejected Hillary Clinton lashed out in the Democrat debates last night and despite the leftwing media spin, the junior Senator from New York appeared angry and getting close to a “Howard Dean” style scream!  Once again she used that new phrase the focus groups approved, “change”. Hillary claimed she’d been an agent of change for thirty five years.  She of course, offered no proof of her statement, and never will.  She should have been prevented from speaking by the moderator, but again this was ABC the (All Bill Clinton) network and the debate rules abuse was just one of the factors that turned people off.  Again and again, it has been successfully shown that when Hillary opens her mouth and gets above that decible range called screeching, her approval numbers plummet like a rock in water.

She stated that because of her 2700 New Hampshire school children have health care.  That 7000 Natiuonal Guard members have health care and that she “pushed” through the Senate a “bi-partisan” bill that she forced despite threats of a Bush veto.  So, did anyone ask her to name the but of legislation?  And if only 2700 school children in NH are affected, how many in other states? And if this is only a small percentage of results encased in huge spending why no challenges? 

Polls are showing some bad numbers for Hillary now in New Hampshire because of the very poor third place showing in Iowa.  Nationally her negatives remain high despite all the grooming efforts to make her softer, gentler, kinder and more feminine.  Her campaign’s going negative on Obama and Bill Clinton’s justification are telling indeed about how these two campaign in general.  They are the purveyors of “the politics of personal destruction” which they imported from Arkansas when they arrived in Washington in 1993.

The USA Today/Gallup Poll in NH today:

Democrats.

• Obama: 41%; up from 32% in the last USA TODAY/Gallup New Hampshire poll, taken in mid-December.
• Clinton: 28%; down from 32%.
• John Edwards: 19%; up from 18%.
• Gov. Bill Richardson: 6%; down from 8%.
• No one else above 3%.

Rassmussen’s Poll is qouted: “The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in New Hampshire shows Barack Obama earning 39% of the vote while Hillary Clinton attracts 27%. The survey was conducted on Friday night and Saturday afternoon. All interviews were conducted after the Iowa caucuses and before last night’s debate.”

WMUR/CNN Poll in New Hampshire:”The latest WMUR/CNN tracking poll shows that Barack Obama has moved into a significant lead over his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.The poll, taken on Jan. 5 and 6, shows Obama leading Clinton, 39 to 29 percent. John Edwards has slipped to 16 percent from 20 percent…”

Hillary assured her big money backers in Southern Califronia that she would be the nominee no matter what happens.  She’s got the “super delegates” sewn up, perhaps, but there were reports that the money people were more than nervous about continued support.  But, I think there is a larger issue at work behind the scenes.  Hillary and Bill are no longer popular as a President/Co-President duo in the USA.  Her constant reminders to people about how great things were under her and husband Bill during those eight years, as if she was a policy maker, cabinet advisor have always worried the Democrat Party nationally.  And, by extension, the democrats looking at the high negatives of a Hillary, combined with the potential for all the reminders of the campaign finance scandals, intern scandals, bimbo eruptions, Travelgate, Filegate and the Billing reocrds/Rose Law gate, could produce a defeat of such landslide proportions that it would pull down Senate and House seats and give them to a bunch of younger Conservative Republicans who believe in victory not bi-partisanship over the democrats.  This fear of being relegated to a near 3rd party position may compel the Clintons to withdraw from the race.  The democrats may have preached equality for the past fifty years, but it took Republicans to make it happen under LBJ with the help of the late Sen Everett Dirksen.  So, the democrats may have to give Obama the nod or face losing more of the Black vote. Besides, Obama is more likable! The democrats, in my opinion are concerned that the damage done by the Clintons cannot be undone by letting Hillary run. 

As Hillary gets more shrill and her numbers continue to decline at a pace that is unheard of for such a top tier candidate, let us also remember that the democrats have fielded three one term junior Senators as their best hope for the White House in 2008.  You need to ask yourselves, what are we afraid of?  If this is the very best they can do, we should be able to beat them decisively by being who we are, conservatives!

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Guess no more!  The Iowa Caucus results are in and what seems like the never ending coverage by the media, though not yet over, has at least done their projections.  On the Democrat side, Barack Obama wins with a convincing first place victory.  John Edwards came in second and Hillary a close third.  I expect the campaign from here on in by Hillary to get visibly nasty.  I think Hillary’s people would have much more desired a second place to John Edwards rather than a third place with a Obama lead going into New Hampshire that makes it much more difficult for the coronation of Hillary to take place.  The spin from the Clinton camp will be unique.  I want to hear how a loss means nothing and how the cold kept people away or other excuses.  But most of all I expect to hear that Iowa was just the opener in a series of long campaigns.  Despite outspending everyone on a better than 6:1 ratio, the best Hillary could do was 3rd.  I wonder what her financial backers will be thinking now?  It’s not over of course, but she doesn’t quite look so pre-ordained does she?  This must be upsetting her to no end this evening there in Iowa.  I suggest Mr. Penn re-evaluate the constant morphing strategy of Hillary and stick to something people might believe about her.  But, if Penn does that, she’s unelectable!

On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee gained a victory over Mitt Romney. I wasn’t fond of bringing religion into the campaign but it seems that what the media calls “the evangelicals” made a big showing for Huckabee. What is it they find so appealing?  I suspect that this is one of the few victories Mike Huckabee will have in this race.  I think the real challengers are Rudy Giuiliani, Fred Thompson (if he doesn’t drop out tomorrow), John McCain and Mitt Romney.  That field of Republicans brings more experience to the table than the entire democrat lineup.  Considering Rudy Giuliani didn’t invest much in Iowa and McCain investing more in New Hampshire where he previously won I suspect a Huckabee will not do well in that kind of field. 

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The Republican field is trying to outdo each other by trying to portray themeslves as Reagan conservatives.  But they aren’t.  So here are a bunch of things Ronald W Reagan, among the greatest Presidents in our history, with an enormous talent to deliver a phrase or speech that defined as issue that stayed in the public mind:

On Leadership:

• “…I know it’s hard when you’re up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp.”
  - February 10, 1982
• “We did not seek the role of leadership that has been thrust upon us. But whether we like it or not, the events of our time demand America’s participation.”
  - October 12, 1972

On Politics:

• “I’ve learned in Washington, that that’s the only place where sound travels faster than light.”
  - December 12, 1983

And from a Speech:

• “Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you’d think that the 1980s were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting awfully tired of the whining voices from the White House these days. They’re claiming there was a decade of greed and neglect, but you and I know better than that. We were there.” 
  February 3, 1994 (Republican National Convention Annual Gala)

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Here are some quotes from Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence.  The beauty of the words in that stretched piece of parchment reflect on the clear, coherent mind of Jefferson and of the Founding Fathers:

• The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
• Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
•  Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
• “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)
• The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
• The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
• No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
• To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
• I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
• When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
• I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
• I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Think about what the Democrat Party and its candidates are saying to you.  They want to control your life from cradle to grave with their ideology.  The fact that those who vote for them are willing to abidcate their rights and privileges as American citizens should be all the more reason for us to confront the laziness and deliberate indifference by these fellow Americans. We should fight with a renewed fervor towards making sure our children are taught history in the schools the way we were.

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Listening to democrats on the campaign trail the people in Iowa must be thinking they have suffered through a series of “deja vu” moments to last a few lifetimes!  There are all the democrats lined up talking about the same old, tired, useless and age old problems they haven’t managed to fix in seventy plus years!  They roll out Social Security on a wheelchair followed by their endless “healthcare” lie which they exhume every election cycle when their party isn’t in the White House.

But there is something unique about the upcoming election.  Since the democrats regained the majority in both the House and Senate their list of accomplishments can be literally counted on one hand!  I may be overstating it a bit.  You might be able to count their accomplishments on one finger!

Hillary speaks of “change”.  This is the same theme Bill used in 1991.  He was going to come to Washington, D.C. as an outsider and run the most “ethical government”…yada, yada.  But, instead of change directed by Bill, he got change forced by the voters in 1994 and was led kicking and screaming by a Republican Congress to do the things he jawboned about.  He did lie a great deal and I seriously doubt anyone can forget his first act as President.  Fire all 93 US Attorneys! Many were working up cases against Bill’s political supporters before he was elected.  A few had Arkansas drug dealers in their sights.  But with one wave of the pen, Bill ended all that.  Then of course he raised taxes. 

That tax hike of his doesn’t get much attention from the liberal media, not now and not then either.  But when he raised the taxes to include SS pensions he made certain that people who were living on SS would live on a lot less.  And over the next decade and a half, the democrats would do anythikng and everything to prevent any relief to SS recipients, just one more way of saying, “gotcha”!

So, as the folks in Iowa listen to a new batch of wannabes rehash the FDR mantras, some of the candidates have the benefit of having some of the descendents of the FDR socialist plan on staff!  Hillary’s got Harold Ickes!  The dirty tricks guy for the Clintons is the son of Harold LeClair Ickes the FDR hatchet man.  Some interesting bits of info on Mr Ickes of the Clinton campaign and White House fame:

• Co-founder and unofficial director of the Democrat Shadow Party
• Sought chairmanship of the Democratic  Party in February 2005
• Ran Hillary Clinton’s successful Senate campaign in 1999-2000
• Former Deputy Chief of Staff for the Clinton White House
• In his law practice, he represented Mob-run labor unions with ties to the Lucchese, Colombo, Genovese, Gambino and other major crime families.

“Ickes quickly became a political operative for the Democrats, working on various campaigns, including the 1968 and 1972 presidential runs of Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. 

Ickes met Bill Clinton while both were working on Operation Pursestrings, a grassroots lobbying effort aimed at pushing through the 1970 Hatfield-McGovern Amendment to cut off all military aid to South Vietnam. (Hatfield-McGovern was defeated, but subsequent measures promoted by Senator Ted Kennedy succeeded in slashing U.S. aid to South Vietnam by 80 percent in the next three years. By 1975, South Vietnam and Cambodia could no longer afford to defend themselves. They fell to the Communists, who promptly slaughtered 2-3 million people in Indochina.)” … “Ickes also headed the Clintons’ fundraising apparatus, collecting record-breaking quantities of soft money — much of it through such means as labor racketeering; soliciting payoffs from U.S. businessmen seeking inside access to overseas trade missions; and — as Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II document in their book Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton and Al Gore Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash — cutting deals with Chinese intelligence agents eager to loosen up U.S. export controls on military technology.”  http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1624  contains more information.

And Harold is Hillary’s favorite.  And once again, Chinese money flows into the Clinton campaign and the media pays scant attention to the selling of America, the old “quid pro quo” game played by the entire bunch!

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