Seriously, is it just me or is everyone else appalled at the complete lack of quality of what gets foisted upon us for national office?  These people can’t debate.  They can’t offer reasonable plans.  They can’t take a stand and stick to it.  They can’t keep their pants on.  They can’t avoid putting their feet in their mouths up to the knee.  Granted, one or the other may be able to manage avoiding a couple of these pitfalls but they’ll walk face first into another.  I know people like this in real life.  I understand nobody is perfect.  But none of the successful people I know regularly makes these kinds of mistakes under pressure.  They aren’t carting a thousand pounds of baggage with them, either.  Part of the reason they are successful is because they did not personally self destruct at the first hint of accomplishment.

More, they know who the enemy is, why he’s their enemy and to at least be prepared for what such an enemy will do.  They have appropriate rebuttals.  And if money grubbers say nasty and unsupportable things they step on those gold-diggers with lawyers and evidence and a history of personal integrity.  They don’t fumble around with inconsistencies while playing CYA.  But then they’ve never put themselves in a position for such claims to gain traction in the first place.  In short I, and I am certain you, too, know a better grade of people than what we keep seeing put up by the Establishment as “leaders”.  If these people can’t lead their campaigns through the mine field of leftist extremists(by definition the Democrat Party) and the salivating Drive By Media how the hell are they supposed to lead a nation?  Let alone lead it back from the brink it’s been taken to by the incompetent US-Hater currently soiling the White House?

Most important, perhaps, would be why does the “Party Elite” keep offering these losers?

Because of this proclivity for finding the worst among us the Republican Party is once again in the process of snatching defeat from the jaws of certain victory.  The upcoming presidential election is already a wash for conservatives.  The best we can do is replace Obama with a warm body which is, admittedly, a step up.  But we could have had more.  We should have had more.  This nation is full of successful, honorable, intelligent, constitutionally well versed men and women who could hold the office with dignity.  Instead we get the usual cadre of politicians and lawyers and poseurs who make easy pickings for the enemy and its smear machine.  Why?  Is the Old Guard Republican Party that outright stupid?  Do they have a reason to want to lose?  Is it that important to them to barely hang on by appealing to a non-existent segment the media euphemistically calls “Moderates”?  I don’t know, but I do know we can’t keep this up, swapping between the high-speed-rail to hell(the Socialist Democrat Party) and the diesel freight train to hell.

Unfortunately it’s too late for this time around barring some kind of miracle.  We’re going to get a flip-flopper with baggage for a president.  Or we’ll get Obama II which this nation simply can’t endure for another 4 years.  So finally I find myself on the ABO bandwagon, even if that means Mittens Romney.  But in being reduced to this once again we have got to do damage control.  That means it’s time to let this presidential circus come to it’s eventual absurd conclusion while we pursue getting the most conservative House and Senate we can.  We can not allow the Dems to hold the Senate.  We can not allow them remain meaningful in the House.  And we can not settle for “electability” in our congressional candidates.  We’ve got to set a higher standard there and we’ve got to pack CONgress with decent conservatives who will steer a Romney or Newt and totally block Obama if he wins again.

Otherwise we are going to see the end of this Republic this time around.  What comes after may still be called the US but it won’t be anything the Founders, or even our grandparents, would recognize as a free nation of liberty and individualism.  This is the election that decides between Republic and banana republic and we’re already stuck with the rear guard option.  So get busy, it’s later than you think.

I don’t like Ron Paul, but I do like his message.  Dr Paul may or may not be a nice enough guy.  No question he’s been a consistent supporter of our Constitution for his entire political career.  I don’t dislike him on a personal level because I don’t know the man.  But as a presidential candidate he’s lacking.  He’s weak in debates and he’s weak in interviews.  He’s not a politician who inspires people and these days, if not always in the past, that is a requirement for a presidential candidate.  Sadly, despite our nation’s dire straits, this is once again a personality race first and issues trail somewhere far down the list.  Thus Paul can’t beat Mittens or Perry…though he has Huntsman and Bachman in the bag.

What we need to find as Conservatives and Constitutionalists is a genetic hybrid of Dr Paul, Governor Perry and Sarah Palin.  A Constitutional literalist with a grizzly bear mentality and a polished political persona.  And that person needs to be able to speak well and with only the bare minimum of gaffes.  I mean, seriously people, I could do better in front of the camera than anyone we have seen in politics since Reagan and, maybe Clinton.  In fact, we need Slick Willy but with a constitutional bent and a moral center.  We need Ronald Reagan resuscitated, rolled back to age 50 and given a crash course in constitutionalism by Ron Paul.  Not that President Reagan lacked a grasp of it but he was too willing to go along to get along.  That’s how he was snookered by the Dems; a mistake Paul wouldn’t make.

So what do we do?  What’s the answer for 2012, since Ron Paul is not going to get elected, or even nominated.  Since we can not afford 4 more years of Obama.  Since the best we can hope for is probably Perry…  I refuse to even consider Mittens because we might as well HAVE 4 more years of Obama if that’s who the ‘pub leadership gives us to “support”.  Since it’s conceivable we won’t have a financially viable nation by 2016 if we don’t do something soon we need to start focusing on more of the solution than just nominating a conservative.  We need to start pushing the likely nominee to do the right things to keep this nation viable for another 4 or 8 years.  And my solution is not to say let’s push for Dr Paul for VP.

Not what you were expecting, eh?

No, the best candidate we have right now in a two party environment is Rick Perry.  We need Herman Cain as his VP pick.  We need to put Dr Paul over the Treasury and we need to start lobbying both he and Perry for this arrangement now.  While we still have time and before things get so rushed that no organized push is even possible.  In doing it this way we get what we need, even if we have to spread it over three people.  Perry provides the dynamic politician.   A “leader” figure that US Citizens, sadly, demand.   A younger Reagan who can be presented as the conservative we need…whether he is or not.  Herman Cain is the smarts.  Not that Perry is dumb because he isn’t.  But Cain has business savvy and this nation needs that now.  Right now.  Even before the election, but there’s nothing we can do until then so oh well.  And then we have the Paulster.  Dr Paul over the Treasury.

Think about that.  Imagine the Fed running scared.  Imagine no more fiat paper “money” being printed for every random, pointless banker-loving bailout the porker good-ol-boy politicians of both parties can dream of.  Imagine someone actively pushing for an audit of the Fed.  Someone pushing for veto of every unconstitutional bill that comes through the Oval Office.  Backed by a business man with common sense experience in how things work.

It’s not perfection.  We need to find this trifecta in one person to run in 2020.  But for this coming election it’s the best idea I can see that has a chance of happening.  It’s the most effective way of staving off ruin, if not actually saving the nation, we have available to us in the few short months before November 2012.  And despite how far off that may seem it’s not.  It’s tomorrow.  You’ll wake up and it’ll be here.  So get past the argument over the nominee; it has to be Perry because that’s what we’ve got to work with.  Get past that and worry about making sure Mittens goes home and Perry picks the best, read effective, people to support him in the crucial areas.  Start pushing now, all of you who want to see Paul in a position to make a difference and Cain in a place to pull the race card out of the Dems greasy hands.  Because otherwise when you wake up tomorrow Mittens will be your man, just like McCain was, and you’ll be stuck with the choice, once more, of the lesser of two evils.

Personally I can’t abide that choice yet again.  Whether I like Ron Paul or not, we need is ideals and however we get them into power it beats the alternative.

It has begun. Every election we see a couple “name brand” candidate’s minions show up at rallys and on forums, chanting their master’s name like, well, Obots. And as usual this time around it’s a RINO they are fellating. Mitt Romney. Mr Romneycare. Mr \"I don\'t line up with the NRA\"

So watch that video ladies and gents, and when some Mitten comes along telling you why only Romney can win, you can tell him why that would be no win at all for conservatives. And when he starts crying about “party unity”? Remind him it’s not about the party and watch his eyes roll back in his head as the spasms and droolling begin.

I see things like this and it makes me thankful my time in a union was mercifully short.  I spent my life in business, including construction, throwing union thugs out for the most part.  What interaction I suffered through was almost without exception one screw up after another.  Now, on the subject of screw ups I present the SEIU and their baseless, cowardly, dickless propaganda piece…

You figure the link out.  Then notice these pussies have the comments shut off.  That’s because these boys have no balls.  They pick fights with old ladies at Tea Parties.  They slug black men trying to make a little money, then laugh at racist slurs.  Then they trot out this garbage because they have nothing to say, no facts to fall back on and still lack the manhood to defend their mindless spew even on the internet.

Here’s the deal, Thugs:  There is no Nazi connection and anyone who would fall to such depths to try and excuse their little-dicked corruption is too pathetically stupid to take seriously.  Why are unions dying?  Because of people like you.  You are stupid.  Not foolish, not ignorant, actually mentally defective.  That’s what “union” has come to mean in the minds of people who work for a living.

Now you go even further to make yourselves irrelevant.  You once again prove you have been bought and paid for by the Obama socialist machine and you’re not only too stupid to grasp this fact, you’re so pathetically weak-minded you apparently think nobody else will get it, either.  It’s simple, thugs, enforcing immigration laws has nothing to do with the Nazi-esque regime you and yours seem so dementedly desperate to service.  On your knees.

For those of you with a brain in a union like this the time is coming where your choices are limited.  You need to step out and away from these pieces of garbage, do something to remove them from influence or accept that you are no better than them because you keep associating with them.  There really are no other choices.

For the rest of you, when this keeps going and you’re cowering in your double-wides like the cowards you are the rest of us, those who actually made it on our own, will be laughing as we walk by, confident in the fact you sure as hell won’t do anything about it.  Hell, maybe I can hire an illegal to beat your asses on her way out of the US.

Recently Anwar al-Awlaki put a price on the head of cartoonist Molly Norris.  Her crime?  To suggest that people expose The Prophet through artistic means.  Her catalyst was the censoring of South Park and their portrayal of  Mohammed in a bear suit.  That’s a not so subtle nod to Pedo Bear for those who’ve never encountered 2channel.

Now it’s not really that important who Norris is, especially since she backed down and recanted her cause.  At that point, as someone noted so well, she became just another coward with a fatwah on her head, instead of the person of honor with a fatwah on her head she could have been.  No, even al-Awlaki isn’t individually that important here.   What he is and how he and his “religion” crush opposition and dissent through intimidation is.  That the mere statement they might do something bad is enough to make people from Norris to Comedy Central to movie makers like Roland Emmerich avoid even implying something negative or destructive about Islam or it’s holy places, that’s what is important.

And that can always only lead us one place:  Mohammed.  The Great Pedophile himself.  We see sharks circling the Catholic church over systemic pedophilia and yet fear keeps people silent, too cowed to publicly, loudly, repeatedly call attention to a religion founded on the acts of a pedophile.  A violent religion that survives not by prayer and faith but by violence, intimidation, perversion and murder.  And it will continue to survive, and continue to do these things, as long as we continue to back down every time a coward like al-Awlaki vomits up his impotence based threats of violence.

I admit I paid little attention to this particular event at first for the simplistic reason I don’t have the talent to participate in Draw Mohammed Day.  I  can draw very well.  Houses, cars, machinery, in inks with little depth or shading.  Very technical and rather cold is my version of “art”.  Scenery, people, caricatures, no.  I just don’t have the ability, or if I do I never developed it.  But I suddenly realized something I already knew that applies here:  One can draw an image very well with words.  One can make a person far more “visible” in text than any picture or caricature ever can.

So, let’s draw Mohammed and with him, his followers.

Pedophile is a serious charge and one not to be thrown around lightly.   As such it’s necessary to consider whether Western views color this issue.  It’s actually a short consideration.   One can make an argument that Pedophilia is determined by the culture surrounding the act.   I believe most adults would agree that this argument might hold water when the subject is a teen.   Most societies including here in the US had no trouble with people marrying in their early teens.  Even “May(more like March)/December” romances were accepted.   It was common and necessarily so, and the maturity level needed can be present in the teen years.  Especially when lifespans were much shorter than today.

But Mohammed’s victim was six years old when they were betrothed, and a mere 9 when he consummated that marriage.  Any culture that can excuse such an act as anything other than a perversion is a culture with fundamental flaws to their core.  Any culture that can not merely excuse it but color it righteous and spread the self-serving propaganda of the predator at issue, like a plague on the earth, teeters on the edge of an abyss it deserves to be pushed in to.

Another argument is that The Pedo did not actually have sex with the child at that age.  Muslim apologists take a gaggle of out-of-context dates to try and assemble an unsupportable timeline insisting Aisha was 15 at consummation.   No evidence or citations for these claims are ever offered.  More important, though, are the words of Aisha herself, as well as others in the Muslim tradition.  The final answer of the Muslim “faith” is to simply ignore the issue in hope not that it will go away but that they can kill or intimidate everyone into being silent about it.

Upon the head of this “man” whose ego was so weak and desire so perverse he demanded sexual congress with a 9 year old child as his divine right rests the “Religion of Peace”.  Think on that the next time someone talks to you about “moderate” Muslims.  It’s not just about violence, you know.  There’s far more they have to ignore and that makes those mythical moderates way harder to credit.

From this child molesting old man comes the “Peacenik Religion”.  A religion that has not merely been perverted by a few violent, greedy men in the way Christianity has been  as the apologists claim.  No, it’s a religion that is based on the violent conversion of others.  Convert or die IS Islam, not a twisting thereof.  Mohammed was a raider, a fighter and a general pot-stirring attention seeker.  He repackaged an ancient Egyptian pagan worship with bits of Christianity and self-glorification and then beat people stupid until they followed.

Imagine L Ron Hubbard well armed.

Something people should realize here is that “Islam” does not mean “peace”.  It means submission to God and, more importantly, by everyone else to Islamic authority.  Mohammed knew this and so do most of his followers.  All the ones that matter, anyway.  Whether the subject is other faiths, peoples or just property like, say, women, submission was the key to Mohammed.

What they do not grasp is separation of Church and State.  Regardless of how you feel about the political doctrine the fact is we all see religion and government as being different in the civilized world.  This is a Western conceit.   It wasn’t something Mohammed ever thought of  and even if he had it wouldn’t have fit his grasping for power.  For Mohammed the creation of Islam was mostly about the ideal of power, and not the power of God at that.

Initially it was power for him.  Submission to him.  A typical politician, or bully(perhaps in most cases an oxymoron).   Beyond his life, as far as he was able to look at anything beyond his own immediate and usually violently perverse needs, it was about gaining power for his followers and giving eternal life to his name.  This agenda defined what we today call Arab culture.  That culture is the very definition of Theocracy and for them there can be no other power and thus in the end no other belief.   To Islam they are civilization, so when we consider conversion we need to grasp that it’s not just religion they are talking about, but politics and society as well.

Islamic Theocracy.  It is the personality of Mohammed writ large.  And in full compliment of his ego and goals it seeks to write itself larger.   Even now the world domination desired by Islam would be very much like Mohammed’s power over that 9 year old girl he raped so many centuries ago.  Perverse, demeaning, destructive.  It’s a world of women wrapped in burkas, ideas and opinions crushed and Draconian penalties for unproven “crimes”.  A world, in short, where the smallest of men collect and maintain the greatest political power by the most primitive methods of religious thuggery.

So what is the picture drawn?  I’d think it should be obvious and I hope those reading will look at Islam from a new perspective.  Mohammed was a violent, sick man who through brutality and intimidation gathered a following that, through brutality and intimidation, expanded a cult of personality to include an area and population broad enough to survive his death.  During his life he used this power to gratify his base needs just like any other corrupt politician.

After his death his followers used the same tactics to gratify theirs.  Control of women.  The gaining of wealth.  The control of  others for no reason other than the perverse pleasure of control.  Traits common to all tyrants and perverts, especially those who molest children and abuse women.  This is what Islam is really all about.  Not God and certainly not peace, but the religion of a political agenda in order to convey power and glory on its leaders.  Those leaders being the most violent and dogmatic of the lot.

Today this same violent agenda continues to drive a burgeoning population fanned on by the rhetoric and supported by the intimidation of people like al-Alwaki, determined to reverse their misfortunes of the last few centuries and get what they see as theirs.  It’s theirs because they are civilization and, somewhere in the backs of their fuzzy little brains, that is the will of the God they don’t even understand.

To intimidate you, silence those who speak out, murder women and children, this is their right as long as it furthers their power.  So they believe and so their Pervert, erm, Prophet, told them.  They will continue to succeed not only as long as we make excuses for them but especially as long as we back down in fear.  It will end when we finally do speak up with the truth of what Mohammed really looks like and refuse to be bullied into submission by men who, like Mohammed, have no balls and less brains.

Today in a 5/4 ruling with the usual suspects opposing freedom the SCOTUS incorporated the 2nd Amendment under the 14th, striking down Chicago’s wildly insane gun ban and remanding it back to the lower court for final action.  Finally the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, set second only to the Right of Free Speech by the Founders, has been given full legal recognition as an INDIVIDUAL Right.

Of course the the VPC could not waste a moment in lying about the decision and it’s results.  Once again we get to hear the tired lament of how there will now be blood in the streets.  We heard it about Concealed Carry.  We heard it about Vermont Style carry.  We heard it about the end of the Klinton Ugly Gun Ban.  So far the entire nation is still waiting.

For those truly interested the actual decision is available here.  Be warned, it’s a long read.

In related news, King Daley assembled a group of fellow Mindless Mayors with the intent(knowing he was going to lose) of appealing this to, are you ready for it, the World Court!  When asked if he thought this could possibly serve any purpose(except to waste even more millions of his subjects dollars) he replied “That’s why we have about 12 million lawyers.  You never know till you try”.

Well, Little Dick Daley, you and your ilk have been trying these anti-freedom schemes for decades and it seems everyone but you knows the outcome by now:  Epic failure.  Gun control, and Democrat rule, don’t work.   If you really don’t get that yet this ruling is one more indicator you’re going to be taught the lesson come this November.

This show is like a no lose scenario for me.  Wacky environuts do battle with whale-killing Japanese…well…Japanese…  No matter who dies it’s a positive for us and the whales!  And they are spending millions of the ill-gotten gains of people like Bob Barker to annoy people spending millions of ill-gotten Japanese government gains to kill something for no reason!  There is just no downside to this.  You can root for whoever is winning at the moment and never feel like a hypocrite!

I’m hoping, for the eventual series finale, we get to watch as the entire Sea Shepherd fleet and the Jap whaling fleet all engage in a massive mid-ocean collision where everyone dies and the closing shot fades to black on whales and dolphins feeding on the remains.  In the reunion show 10 years later we can send down a submersible to view the life that has taken over the wreckage.  Mike Rowe can narrate…

OK, what actually got me started on this was the only negative so far in all this potential human carnage.  This:

Which may be the coolest boat in the world, was repainted to this…

which is even cooler, until it wound up like this…

Thus proving once again that only lefties can manage to get a 70 foot speed boat cut in half by several hundred feet of sluggish Japanese enemy in open ocean.

Just ask JFK…