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February 03, 2008
Time for Some Real Straight Talk
Time for Some Real Straight Talk
JB Williams
January 31, 2008
Republicans had better rush to come to grips with the reality that all of our smart options for the 2008 election cycle are already off the table. Unlike past elections, Republicans actually had two very strong conservatives to unite behind in the 2008 primaries, Thompson and Hunter, and they failed to unite behind either of them.
The time to stand up for a true traditional conservative Republican has passed. The chance to do something smart no longer exists. Now we have one last shot and less than one week to do something that is at least half-smart.
John McCain Is An Outright Liar
It is no less than Clintonesque to listen to John “amnesty” McCain call himself “the official new leader of the conservative movement in America.”
McCain is not being nominated by conservatives. He is being nominated by liberal Independents in open primaries and liberal RINOs in closed primaries. He has very little support among conservatives and he can’t win in November as a result.
But more importantly, on the issues facing our nation today, John McCain is no more conservative or Republican than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. In fact, after more than three decades in Washington DC, his friends are not Washington conservatives, but Washington liberals like Clinton, Obama, Kennedy, Lieberman, Graham and Martinez.
Bold Faced Lying On The Issues
John McCain says he “changed the strategy in Iraq” and now we are winning in Iraq. But John McCain changed nothing in Iraq. He only supported beefing up the existing strategy in Iraq by putting more boots on the ground. A good move that should have happened sooner, but by no means a “change in strategy.”
Worse yet on this subject, McCain is on record fighting for open borders, legalizing illegal immigration, closing down Gitmo and giving known terrorists access to the US criminal courts, while refusing to aggressively interrogate those who can tell us when and where the next 9/11 might happen. Yet, to hear him from the campaign stump, he’s strong on national security, just not any of the measures needed to actually secure a nation under attack.
McCain now says he is for the Bush tax cuts that he railed against and indeed voted against in the Senate.
McCain sided with Kennedy, Lieberman and Russ Feingold in passing the first legislation to limit free political speech in US history, some of which has since been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Yet he sees himself as a conservative champion of liberty and freedom.
In short, McCain’s senate record is that of an inside-the-beltway Washington liberal, not any form of a conservative or even a Republican. McCain is so far left that he is fully on-board Al Gore’s Global Warming Swindle and promises to usher in the economically disastrous policies drafted and advanced by international socialists for the sole purpose of bringing America to its economic knees.
But none of this is the John McCain touted from the campaign stump. Almost every word coming out of McCain’s so-called “Straight-Talk Express” is an outright lie.
South Carolina & Florida Change Everything
Like it or not, the worst possible Republican candidate has emerged from key conservative states the liberal victor of the early Republican primaries. In an instant, I went from being for a conservative or no one else, to being a reluctant Romney supporter as a result.
There is NO meaningful difference between a vote cast for Clinton, Obama or McCain. Ideologically, they are the same person and the same vote. All three are cut from the same cloth. It matter’s not a bit which of them wins the November election as all three believe in the same things.
Remember, all desirable smart options are already off the table. Only one half-smart option remains and the clock is ticking fast on this one.
One Shot And One Week To Do Something About It
No matter how I feel about Mitt Romney, or disagree with some of his past positions, some of which he now disagrees with as well, he is not Hillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama or John “amnesty - weak on terror” McCain.
I am a staunch conservative who supported Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter until they were no longer in the race. Even then, I was quite temped to vote for them in the primaries just to make a statement against all others. In part, this is what happened in Florida, making it possible for the most liberal Republican to claim he now holds the conservative mantle. What a joke! Except not so funny…
The fact is, Republican ideologues like me, clinging to my principles and my principled but failing candidate, helped John McCain become the unlikely front-runner for the Republican nomination. Thompson, Hunter, Paul, Giuliani and Huck fans all put McCain in the lead. That means we have the power to take him out of the lead.
Straight Talk About Principled Voters
Standing firmly and unapologetically upon American values and principles is never wrong. It’s in fact the basis of conservatism and our founders called upon each of us to do exactly that.
But it is not always the best political strategy for doing all we can to protect and preserve those principles and values. The founders also warned us to be forever vigilant and somehow, we failed to head this mess off at the pass and avoid the need to make less than attractive choices.
Sometimes, when vigilance has been forgotten for too long and smart options are no longer available, a half-smart alternative is the best we can do. It seems to me that this is the crossroads we conservatives find ourselves at once again.
Four Candidates Standing – Two Choices Available
Thompson and Hunter dropped out of the race a week ago. Giuliani dropped out last night and endorsed the other liberal in the race, John McCain. The Huckaboom has already enjoyed its last bang in Iowa. Paul was never in the race, other than as a Perot type spoiler with much less support.
The Republican race is down to McCain and Romney, neither of them ideal, but one of them an outright career backstabbing liberal liar and the other, at least a reasonable hope for something much better.
Republican voters have six days to decide whether to hold their noses and help Romney defeat McCain on Super Tuesday, or stink up the entire country by voting against Clinton, Obama or McCain in November. No matter which of these three we vote against in November, we will get the same result.
Tomorrow, John Edwards will drop out of the DNC race. Clinton or Obama will be on the Democrat ticket in November, maybe both of them.
Four candidates remain and three of them are equally dangerous to America. Only one offers even a glimmer of hope to Republicans and conservatives, Mitt Romney.
Straight Talk About November
McCain has been propped up by the leftist press ever since he lost to Bush in 2000. He is the darling of the lame leadership of the Republican National Committee who has clearly determined that joining the left is the only way to compete with the left.
Romney is at least a Washington outsider with significant experience, strong family values, a moral compass and a general sense that America should be what the founders established it to be. McCain is none of these things.
Romney can attract most Republican voters under these conditions. If we propel him ahead of McCain, then help him continue to move right in the coming weeks and help him choose the right running mate at the convention, we can at least limit our losses. We have hope…
But McCain will never attract the support of the conservative base he has spent years stabbing in the back. Doubt me on that one and you can inaugurate Hillary for certain.
You Decide
We passed on the smart option of pro-actively and aggressively supporting a true conservative. It’s time to cut that loss loose and do something smart now. You can decide to sit back, lick your wounds and complain about losing America to the left, be it under Clinton, McCain or Obama.
Or, you can take immediate pro-active measures to stop the train wreck called McCain and limit our losses by making certain that the choice in November is at least a choice between wide open socialism under a Democrat White House with a Democrat congress, and a Republican who owes his presidency to the people who carried him to victory against the odds, the MSM and the Martinez RNC.
You decide, but decide fast! Super Tuesday is your last chance to do something at least half-smart. The consequences of failing to do so are immeasurable.
JB Williams is a business man, a husband, a father, and a writer. A no nonsense commentator on American politics, American history, and American philosophy. A hard hitting columnist, attacking the socialist cancer plaguing America today. He has a pragmatic “common Joe” approach to even the toughest issues facing our nation.
This is another article he wrote:
How the Republican Party Committed National Suicide....This one is excellent as well!!!!!
Wild Thing's comment........
I never heard of this man till Tom sent me one of the articles in this post. I think JB Williams makes valid comments in both of these articles. I stand by what I said after Fred Thompson pulled out and I had already voted for him. If Romney makes it to November, I will be voting for Romney.
McCain is radioactive. McCain has has made a career of stabbing us in the back and worse yet has stabbed in the back the POW's in the Vietnam War.
In McCain's heart he does not want to secure our borders and securing our borders is very much a part of the war. How dare our country ask our troops to risk their lives, make sacrifices, and then in return not make our country secure back here at home as much as possible. This isn't the Great Wall of China we are asking to be built! We have existing laws for immigration and plenty of people follow them, they wait a long time to do it right and follow our immigration laws. And we are to cater to the illegals coming in here and re-write laws for THEM??? To make it easy for THEM??? I THINK NOT!
It is one thing to vote for a candidate who wants to fight a war in the Middle East, but quite another to listen to that politician tout his “war” credentials and then vote to allow any illegal over the border regardless of nationality or creed. And McCain will do this, and will not stop till he does.
McCain is also against the use of interrogation techniques that our intelligence agencies have stated has procured information that was used to stop terrorist attacks against this Country. Would these attacks have been successful with a President McCain? Just something to think about. During the debates Romney said he disagreed with McCain on this and that to even put out there for terrorists to know what we would do and not do is dangerous for our troops.
As far as the Supreme Court judge issue - he has said that he doesn't like Alito because "he wears his conservatism on his sleeve for everyone to see". He clearly hates conservatives.
And the 'if we don't support the GOP nominee' well...... We are in the position we are now because the GOP pushed for someone who's allegedly electable, but only because he's more liberal than what a GOP candidate should be. Supporting McCain now will only reinforce what the fools running the party now believe- that in order to beat the Democrats, the Republicans must become more liberal.
You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. It never works. imo Rest assured, the GOP will never recover from this annoitment of McCain. Never. They will not change as long as we keep supporting liberals like McCain.
Conservatives didn't choose McCain. He was chosen by the MSM, the RNC, the GOP good old boys, and the RINOs who support them.
.....Thank you so much Tom for sending this to me.
Posted by Wild Thing at February 3, 2008 03:47 AM
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Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at February 3, 2008 06:17 AM
This would be thigh-slapping funny if it weren't reality.
I keep my hope in this generation of young men and women who are coming home from war and seeing clearly for the first time what liberty means and how we're losing it at home. So many Soldiers and Marines I've spoken with are gunning for the Dems (not liking the Dems' kind of troop support). Some are seriously thinking about politics and others are wanting to be teachers. There will be a change. You can't build up a troop to be self-sufficient, a leader, honorable and loyal and brave and then expect him or her to roll over and be controlled by a Nanny State. Sheepdogs aren't wired that way.
Posted by: yankeemom at February 3, 2008 08:16 AM
So how did we get to this point. The three most viable candidates are: Liberal, More Liberal and Most liberal.
Supposedly, 70 % of the America People are in favor of building a fence to keep out the Illegals and any other terrorists trying to get in.
Supposedly, most of the American people are in favor of winning the war on terror.
And supposedly, are against Government controlled health care. All the Leftist touchy-feelly feelgoodism.
So how did we end up with candidates that should fall into the category of 'None of the above'?
The true conservative candidates are now out of the race and what is left are the ones who should be out of the race. Does this sound bassackwards to anyone else ?
We have two liberal candidates McCain and Huckabee working together to get rid of the only quasi Conservative left in the race, they both deny it of course but their footprint is obvious even a blind man can see it.
So what is so enticing about these three, they all favor amnesty for at least 40 million (Illegals) new citizens, they favor, social security for the 40 million(Illegals) new citizens, they all favor, granting special favors to the 40 million (Illegals) like free health care, Student loans, all of these benefits are NOT afforded to Legal citiznes. So where does that leave the Real American people, between a rock and a hard place and the bill to pay for all this nonsense.
They are now trying to buy votes by giving a Stimulus package, in order to 'stimulate the economy'. This tells me that in truth we are already over taxed and if they can afford to give some pittance back then they already have more than they need. But is this an omen of bad things to come. In other words are they really saying take this thirty pieces of silver and enjoy, because when the next congress and libeal President gets in we are going to tax you into servitude.
The American people are by far the most industrious, generous and compassionate People on the face of this earth, but also, we have got to be the MOST sutpid because this makes no sense at all.
Posted by: Mark at February 3, 2008 09:27 AM
Sadly, Huckabee is selfishly staying in the primary and will draw off votes that Romney should get. Too many evangelical Christians are not the brightest voters around and their anti-Mormanism will probably ensure McCain's victory.
The good old boys club in Washington politics is funded by wealthy globalists, and they have been successful in getting their people in more power for decades. Our last three presidents prove that. I do not know how to counter this. The nanny state is producing more special interest, bloc votes that make it almost impossible for independent thinking voters to match in number. By bringing 20-30 million illegal immigrants in and giving them benefits and the vote, pretty much assures that this socialist trend will continue.
The only counter to this I can think of is a third political party of conservatives. The obstacle to that is that a viable movement would need strong men and women of great character and faith like our Founding Fathers. Our present dilimma shows that we are short of these Reaganesque types.
Posted by: TomR at February 3, 2008 11:47 AM
I was watching Fox yesterday, and they showed a clip of Ron Paul, by profession he is supposed to be a Doctor. He doesn't look anything like what a Doctor should look like, He looks more like an Undertaker. Mousey looking, stooped shoulders, a little bent over, probably from trying to fit too many oversized guys into a box that is already too small.
His voice is soft and soothing, something like what a Funeral Director would sound like. ..." And for a few hundred more we can put your loved one in a nice pine box, that he actually fits into, and hermetically sealed to keep the gurb worms out".
OMG this is what our elections have come down to.
Posted by: Mark at February 3, 2008 12:47 PM
Darth, good one!
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 3, 2008 12:54 PM
Yankeemom, me too. My hope for the furture is in those fighting for it now. Our wonderful service members that know what freedom costs. Great comment, thanks Yankeemom.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 3, 2008 12:56 PM
Mark, I agree so much with what you said. I wish I could wake up from this nightmare but I know it is reality and I truly hate it.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 3, 2008 01:00 PM
Tom, yes well said, thank you. I can't get over how the inside of our party has changed it is so disheartening. Hunter didn't have a chance or Fred either when so many were already pushing for the rino's.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 3, 2008 01:08 PM
Mark, YIKES, I have not seen that ad yet. How horrible OMG is right.How horrible!
Thanks for telling about it.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 3, 2008 01:10 PM
Let's see, compare U.S. Navy lieutenant, junior grade, H. Ross Perot, who resigned his academy commission but never actively served, who's paranoia brought him down and whom we trusted when we voted for an alternative for the Bush's. Here is a man who at least tried before letting us down. Perot organized and sponsored a successful rescue of two of his employees imprisoned by the government of Iran in a contract dispute. Something the Carter administration feared to try. The rescue team led by retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Arthur D. ('Bull') Simons(The Son Tay Raid) spirited the two prisoners out of Iran via a risky border crossing into Turkey. Then there was the time throughout 1969 and 1970 when Ross Perot tried to win the release of American prisoners of war being held in North Vietnam, driving Tricky Dick and Henry Kissinger to distraction.
Now let's look at Ron Paul, he became a U.S. Air Force flight surgeon from 1963 to 1965, attending to the ear, nose, and throat problems of pilots in South Korea, Iran, Ethiopia, and Turkey, but was never sent to the Vietnam War zone, he quite honorably finished his obligation in the Air National Guard, he fancies himself as the Libertarian Party standard bearer, all well and good standards.
Yet he favors the Socialist reforms put forth by the Democrats and the Hillary care that would keep he and his kind on the public payroll although the tards deny it. This is what makes him an instant diplomat?
Beyond 36 years of rhetoric Ron Paul has yet to put his carcass where his mouth is.
What he, the schools and historians fail to iterate are committments. Committments made long before most of us were born, during WWI, before WWII, post WWII, during the cold war and after, that commit us to certain obligations internationally. Ron want's to abrogate those commitments and have the nation bury it's head in the sand, leaving our ass exposed to be gnawed at by the enemies.
Both the Democrat and the Republican parties have successfully blocked any third party from competing and in their slide left any semblence of former party recognition are gone. It's doesn't matter if that third party has demonstrated their patriotism throuth the exploits of Perot or that of Paul, they both lack the commitment to uphold our traditional values.
As for values, the world runs on oil, like it or not. Stop the flow and we're back to the agrarian culture of the mid 1800's without fuel, fertilizer or transportation infrastructure. We'll be trying to finance a Communist "give all a share economy", welcome to America, Mogadishu style.
We have watched John McCain wheel and deal for 25 years of collaboration in the congress and for how many more before that? We bought into the notion of his being a maverick. WTF is that? Is maverick a code word for closet Communist? The same Maverick McCain was one of fourteen senators -- seven Democrats and seven RINO's -- who signed on to the deal against Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's invoking the so-called "nuclear option" when Democrat obstructionists were blocking the president's Judicial appointments.
When party functionaries at the top of the GOP ignore their base, preferring power corruption, then they too are in for a fall, we as conservatives may be only a minority but we can still wield a club financially to get their attention.
Duped once by a Reform Party candidate unwilling to go all the way in the presidential arena isn't going to garner much support or trust for any third party candidate not willing to turn around the status quo whether they have the R, D, I or Reform suffix behind their campaign title. You either respect this nation's sovereignty and free status or that of the global community. Clearly the Paul Tards, the Rino's and the Democrats do not. God in heaven I hope you are right Yankeemom.
Posted by: Jack at February 3, 2008 05:05 PM
Things look bad enough with the possibility of a McCain vs. Clinton race next November. But it gets worse. Who, in their right mind, would want to run as VP with McCain who has been taking Internet ordered steroids from Nigeria labeled "Conservative"? Same for Clinton. Who in their right mind would want to run as the "token" VP with Bill and Hillary calling all the shots?
Posted by: Les at February 3, 2008 05:18 PM
The Republican Party is doing what the Democratic
party does,Shoot them selves in the foot! We had
a chance with Hunter and a damn good one and blew
it.The only chance we have is if the Obama and
Hillary get in to it again and Bill slips his
chain and goes after Obama, the folks aint going
to put up with that crap...As for me my man didnt
run, Newt Gingrich he is far above any of the clowns out there to-day,and like Newt says the
Republicans had best get it together or it's
2 Terms for the Hill or the OB along with the House and Senate...As for me Crow tastes like
S**t...
Posted by: Tincan Sailor at February 3, 2008 05:54 PM
Jack, really interesting and important to know, thank you.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 4, 2008 12:24 AM
Les, yes fo rme no matter who McCain picks it will not change for me.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 4, 2008 12:26 AM
Tincan Sailor, that's true, it is not an election a person can get excited about for we conservatives.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 4, 2008 12:30 AM
