“The country needs a fighter. There is a war on the American people; we are under attack from within, and the Republican establishment has been meek, cowed, defeated. Gingrich is fierce. We need a fighter to go toe-to-toe against the silver-tongued snake in the White House.” – Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs (more…)
Gingrich wins the GOP debate in the first five minutes
Posted: January 19, 2012 in 2012 election, AmericaTags: debate, gop, marianne gingrich, newt, republican
* * * GOP DEBATE SUMMARY – SC – JAN 19 * * *
Posted: January 19, 2012 in 2012 election, AmericaTags: cnn, debate, gop, marianne gingrich, newt, republican, summary
“If you get CNN TV at home through a participating provider, you can watch CNN TV on the web at no additional charge,” CNN TV perfunctorily informed me when I tried to access their live online debate coverage. Having assassinated my TV several years earlier, however, I’ve found no need for a participating provider so am unable to provide a summary for you.
The two big stories, though, as you may read anywhere, are 1) the exit of Rick Perry and 2) the ‘Caining’ of Newt Gingrich by a vindictive ex-wife, whose charges he denies, resulting in his second rousing standing ovation of the debate season – and a sound scolding of a talking head who ought to be working for the National Enquirer. When women make unfounded accusations against men’s character, it’s called news. When men make unfounded accusations against women’s character, it’s called slander. ‘Nuff said.
Ron Paul’s absurd ‘golden rule’
Posted: January 18, 2012 in "Religion of Peace", 2012 election, America, antisemitism, Iran, Islam, jihad, war on terrorTags: ron paul
Only three years after the United States won its independence, when there was no Jewish state for Muslims to resent, and no American troops on Muslim soil,Thomas Jefferson, then U.S. ambassador to France, and John Adams, then U.S. Ambassador to Britain, learned from a Muslim ambassador to Britain why the Muslims were so hostile towards Americans. – Joseph Klein, FrontPage Magazine (more…)
* * * DEBATE REPORT – SC – JAN 16 * * *
Posted: January 17, 2012 in 2012 election, AmericaTags: debate summary, gop debate, jan 16, mitt romney, newt gingrich, quick, republican debate, rick perry, rick santorum, ron paul, sc, south carolina
Fox News apparently had trouble with its live video coverage, so I missed the first 20 minutes.
When we last saw them in New Hampshire the candidates had split into two factions, the Liberals (Romney and Huntsman) and the Conservatives (Santorum and Gingrich). Ron Paul continued to be his own faction and Rick Perry continued to appear irrelevant. Now that Jon Huntsman has dropped out, Romney has moved to the center, deferring to his opponents more than attacking them: “Newt is right … Rick (Santorum) is right.”
Although not asked many questions, Rick Perry seemed to emerge somewhat from his irrelevancy tonight by giving at least one solid answer. Asked about whether Turkey belonged in NATO, he replied no, and added that we should also cut off foreign aid to that country and other Islamist states. “There should be no space between the U.S. and Israel, period,” he added. Incomprehensibly, however, he volunteered that the U.S. Marines who urinated on enemy bodies should be “punished” but that their actions were “not despicable.”
Ron Paul clarified his proposed defense cuts by saying he wanted to cut overseas bases, not domestic ones, and might even support reopening some domestic bases that previously had been closed. He explained that he did not oppose the killing of Osama Bin Laden, but he thought it should have been done according to international law, or that we at least should have captured him first and gotten some information out of him.
He soft-pedaled U.S. policy on the Taliban by saying that they had once been our allies, that they simply resent foreign presence in their country, and that we should apply the Golden Rule and treat them the way we want to be treated. Newt Gingrich disagreed, saying we should treat them the way Andrew Jackson advised treating your enemies, i.e., kill them.
Rick Santorum said the U.S. should remove Bashir Assad as dictator of Syria, but he did not explain how this should be accomplished and, incredibly, nobody asked him.
Mitt Romney said he would veto the Dream Act (amnesty for illegal aliens), repeal Obamacare, refuse to sign any new laws against gun ownership, and refuse to negotiate with the Taliban. However, when asked if he would have signed the NDAA as written, which permits the detention of U.S. citizens without being charged or having recourse to an attorney, he replied “Yes.” Santorum and Ron Paul both stated that they would not have. Romney also refused to release his tax records until and unless he becomes the nominee.
When whining reporter/race baiter Juan Williams tried to get Rick Santorum to admit that blacks are inordinate victims of poverty, Santorum’s comeback was that, regardless of race, Americans who work, graduate from high school and get married before having children constitute only 2% of those living under the poverty level, and he cited his source.
Undeterred, Williams then tried to corner Newt Gingrich, asking if he didn’t see how having to work as janitors “belittles poor people.” In the other best response of the night, Gingrich replied, “No, I don’t see that,” and recalled that his daughter’s first job had been as a janitor at her high school. He went on to explain that, for every full-time union janitor a school hires, it could hire 30 part-time low-income students to do the same work, which would also furnish the students with cash while giving them work experience.
Williams got audibly booed; Gingrich got a standing ovation.
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Info czar is watching you!
Posted: January 13, 2012 in America, cass sunstein, censor the internet, censorship, communism, fairness doctrine, first amendment, freedom of speech, ObamaFEEL SOMEBODY’S HOT BREATH on the back of your neck? It could be Cass Sunstein monitoring your posts to be sure you aren’t “conspiracy theorizing,” for instance, not believing in global warming. The operation has been under way since 2010 but don’t feel singled out – it monitors Matt Drudge too. Your taxes at work. Hiya, Cass. Your mother wears Soviet army boots. – Aaron Klein, WND (more…)
Looks like BHO is going to have to come up with some documents if he wants to be on GA’s 2012 ballot
Posted: January 12, 2012 in 2012 election, America, birth certificate, illegal aliens, Obama
h/t: Paul Humber
3 fundamental mistakes in dealing with Islam
Posted: January 12, 2012 in "Religion of Peace", America, Islam, jihad, war on terrorTHE MUSLIM WORLD IS A GRAY ZONE full of alliances written on sand where every principle can be bent … By initiating violence, the Muslim world turned us into their rats. We reacted to their stimuli as we desperately looked for a way out of their maze of violence. Except when we took the initiative by attacking them – the locus of control was always in their hands. – Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish ( more…)
“DEMOCRACY IS LIKE A STREETCAR. YOU RIDE IT UNTIL YOU ARRIVE AT YOUR DESTINATION AND THEN YOU STEP OFF.” – RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN
Compromise Impossible
Posted: January 11, 2012 in "Religion of Peace", America, Islam, jihad, war on terrorWHILE WESTERN DIPLOMATS chatter about democracy, the Muslim votes with his bomb vest. And his vote is the decisive one. The value that civilized morality assigns to life is absent in a culture where the individual is only an extension of the family, whose honor matters more than his or her life.
The Western fixation on non-violent solutions has no common echo in the Muslim world. There a non-violent solution is strategic, not moral. The Jihad is approved by the Koran. But treating on equal terms with infidels is immoral. If Western leaders think that war is immoral, the Islamists view the lack of a war as immoral. This is a gap that cannot be bridged with any manner of compromise. – Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish (more…)
* * * DEBATE REPORT – NH – JAN 7 * * *
Posted: January 8, 2012 in 2012 election, Quick 2012 Debate Report, Source: Marylou's AmericaTags: gop debate, john huntsman, mitt romney, new hapmshire, newt gingrich, nh, quick, republican debate, rick perry, rick santorum, ron paul, summary
“CANDIDATES TRADE BLOWS” one headline reads. Well, they weren’t particularly hard blows. Apparently all participants have resigned themselves to losing the state to Mitt Romney who is favored in that liberal stomping ground with a 42% poll rating.
Romney, apparently feeling more need to blend in with the conservative pack than to compete with them, said little controversial. Ron Paul, on the other hand, tried to initiate debates with everyone except, inexplicably, frontrunner Romney. When he accused Newt Gingrich of dodging the draft during Vietnam, Gingrich denied this, saying he was married with a child so was never called and never applied for any deferment. Rick Santorum distinguished himself by clearly identifying the enemy as radical Islam, not just Al Qaeda or the Taliban, and Gingrich agreed. No one else commented on this.
Rick Perry set himself apart, and possibly slit his own political throat, by contending that we ought to send troops back into Iraq.
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