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April 23, 2008
Success
This is reason # 9483628 why I'm glad I gave up television:
I don't want to watch former conservative leaders making fools of themselves as they shift their position further left and pander to the loony liberals. It turns my stomach.
I have always been a fan of Newt Gingrich. A personalized, autographed copy of his book, Winning the Future, has been propped up in a place of honor on my bookshelf for years, right next to a framed photograph of the two of us taken the day he signed it. Over the weekend, I felt an urge to do a bit of redecorating... the book and the photograph are now out of sight.
They ended up in a box at the top of my closet, the box where things go that once meant so much to me, things that I am now done with. Its not a big box, and because I'm not quitter, its not a full box. But I don't tilt at windmills, and when I'm done with something, well, I'm done.
The items in the box include the framed gold embossed ticket to the George "you're with us or against us" Bush fundraiser I attended in 2004, that went in the box the day after Bush strolled around the Rose Garden hand in hand with his pet terrorist, Mahmoud Abbas. Also in the box, the coffee mug bearing the words "I blog for Fred" that used to hold the pens on my desk, inside that is the "I'm With Fred" button that I used to wear on my lapel. And as I put the top back on the box, and pushed it into the farthest and deepest corner at the top of my closet, I realized that the box holds one additional item, the part of me that is was a political activist.
I am disgusted, disgusted with politicians, political parties and the political process in this Country. I don't want to be a part of it anymore. Its hard to tell what the straw was that broke my back, it was not the video above, that was just the icing on the cake, but it may have been an accidental click on a button that used to be on my website and one word. It could very well be that in the end, it took just one word to change the course of my life, and to kill that part of me that believed in the political process in this country. One word, floating on my computer screen, on an otherwise pristine page at a political website put up to support a candidate I believed in. One word:
If you clicked on the picture, then you too now know what that one word is.
Fred Thompson is using one word to describe the results of his run for president, and if you haven't looked, that one word is "success." Yes, Fred Thomspson considers his "campaign" to be a "success." Its a strange word to use for what is an abject failure, and it reveals exactly what the goals of Fred Thompson's "candidacy" really was, to muddy the waters and to allow John McCain to emerge from the sludge with the nomination. That is Fred Thompson's "success."
Congratulations to you, Fred, on your successful manipulation of conservative voters, and your successful manipulation of the political process. Congratulations! You used conservatives to help a liberal win the republican nomination. Thank you, Fred, you lying manipulative bastard, thank you for taking my money under false pretenses, for playing a game with the future of this country and for making a fool out of me and every other conservative who believed in the political process and who believed in your lying ass. Thank you, and fuck you!
Thanks in part to you Fred, here we are in 2008, in the midst of the run up to the presidential election, and all three "frontrunners" for the presidency are loony liberal nutjobs.
This is what the republicans have given us this year and I don't know about you, but I'm reminded of Johnny Rotten's words at the end of the last Sex Pistols concert... "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
Damn right, I feel cheated.
The bottom line is... when it comes to the issues that matter, the issues that will effect how we live our lives here in the United States of America, the only real difference between the three candidates is their stated position on the war, all of them are loony friggin liberals. I have to wonder, will there be anything left of this country after the war?
There can be no doubt that this country is in an economic crisis that is exacerbated by Al Gore's pseudo science global warming nonsense. Its getting worse every day. I'm not going to bother with links to prove this, forget about what you're paying for a gallon of gas and look at what you're paying for a gallon of milk and a box of corn flakes. You don't need links to see how much your grocery bill has gone up.
Ask yourself, are you willing to accept the coming "global warming" backlash? Its bad enough now, what will it be like when our next president implements mandatory carbon credits? The first victims will be the evil corporations because "they can afford it," except... they won't have to afford it. They will cut staff and raise prices, they'll pass it down to the consumer to pay via higher prices, and guess what? We are the consumer.
How many jobs will be lost due to downsizing and corporations closing because they simply cannot continue to do business? After hitting the corporations, well then... its on to the city and state, and the increased taxes for carbon use that will certainly raise taxes, your taxes. Where do you really think that money is going to come from?
Don't like the cost of gas now? Forget about using our resources, there will be no drilling for oil around here and just wait till they hit us with a fifty-cent carbon surcharge per gallon. All three candidates support it and therefore, its going to happen. Add that to the increased cost of living and increased taxes. Add that to higher unemployment due to downsizing and closed business and the resulting lower wages, and ask yourself, how much can this country take?
Well, I sure hope that, on top of all that carbon credit global warming bullshit, this country can take a major hike in taxes, it doesn't matter which of the three gets in, your taxes are going up because all three of them think they should. Never mind that McCain now says he is for the Bush tax cuts, he'd like for you to forget that he sided against them with the democrats and he voted against them in the Senate.
I sure hope that this country can take on the costs of supporting millions and millions of illegal aliens because the three of them are all about open borders, and amnesty for the criminal hordes. I hope you don't mind being one of the hundreds of thousands of victims of illegal aliens committing car thefts, insurance fraud, driving while drunk with no license and, oh yeah, identity theft.
I hope you don't mind being one of the 13 Americans killed every day by illegal aliens on our highways or one of the 12 Americans killed every day by illegal aliens wielding guns and knives and baseball bats. I hope you don't mind being one of the victims of the 618,000 convicted illegal alien felons languishing in our prisons and I hope you don't mind paying for the police to catch them, the courts to try them and their incarceration to the tune of $1.6 billion annually.
I hope you don't mind being one of the 16,000 new cases of tuberculosis, or one of the 7,000 new cases of leprosy, or one of the countless thousands of cases of hepatitis, Dengue Fever, Chagas Disease, new AIDS cases or one of the thousands of other diseases brought across our borders and transmitted to us by illegal aliens.
I hope you don't mind paying $1.75 billion annually for anchor babies, and $2.45 billion in K-12 annually educating those babies. I hope you don't mind being one of 10,468,150 people who lost their skilled jobs to an illegal alien who is willing to work for less. They're not all picking tomatoes yannow.
I hope you don't mind the 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual offenders coming across U.S. borders illegally every day and I sure hope one of your loved ones will not suffer through one of the 130,909 sex crimes committed annually by illegal aliens.
Worried about the War on Terror? Good, because you should be. I know I am, and I also know that closing GITMO and bringing terrorists here into the United States prison system will bring jihad to the streets of America and if you think it won't, you must be a fool as well as a liberal.
Our prison system is already fertile breeding ground for jihad, angry violent black men are converting to islam by the thousands each and every day. One by one, they will be released into the streets of America.
If you tried to think of the perfect way to make that situation worse, you might come up with a plan to close GITMO and put those hardened and experienced terrorists into our prison system, men for whom jihad is not just ideology but a life style, terrorists who are familiar with the ways to wage war on civilians. Brilliant idea, isn't it, to give these hardened and experienced terrorists a captive audience made up of angry, violent, hate-filled American citizens and the opportunity to recruit and train and initiate them into Jihad, and to then release the new converts into the streets of American where they can disappear into the criminal underground, convert other Americans, and wage jihad on us all.
McCain, Obama and Hillary want to close down Gitmo and give terrorists access to our prison system and all of them are against using aggressive interrogation tactics to find out when and where the next terrorist attack might be. I hope you are not one of the victims in the next attack, but someone will be, in fact, many someones will be.
Do these ideas sound good to you? I hope so, because no matter who emerges victorious in November, America will have the liberal agenda shoved down our throats.
All you people out there who support McCain as being better than Hillary or Obama, please stop telling me he is “the official new leader of the conservative movement in America.” If you believe that's what he is, well then, I guess you have been holding your nose for so long that you have forgotten what a conservative smells like.
Its your right to pull that lever come November and vote for the liberal agenda. I just hope you're ready to suffer the consequences.
But me, well, I can't help but think about what the consequences will be if this liberal agenda is put into place by a republican.
I have to ask myself, "What's worse, a moderate seeming Republican President who can garner support for the liberal agenda.....or a wild eyed Leftist who cannot?"
When it comes to that liberal agenda, McCain will be more successful at putting those things in place than Obama, or even Hillary. Why? Well, McCain, as a perceived "moderate republican," will be able to garner support from the party republicans and the moderate democrats in Congress. They will back him, whereas they would likely view Obama and/or Hillary as extremist and fight them.
After four years of liberal rule by a republican president, what do think our chances will be 2012? Make no mistake, if the horrors of a liberal agenda come to pass under McCain, it will be deemed the failed policies of the republicans. A liberal agenda put in place by a republican will destroy any chances we have to stop this insanity in 2012.
On the other hand, an extremist democrat would not garner the same level of support and will likely have to fight every step of the way. That's a good thing. And, if its Hillary or Obama who implement some, or even all of these policies, then yes, America will still suffer but it will be an obvious liberal democrat at fault and not a liberal in conservative clothing.
If McCain is successful, it will be a deemed a republican presidential fiasco and leave us holding the bag in the next election cycle. Holding that bag is likely to mean that rather then four years, we will have eight, and maybe twelve years of liberal rule. If Obama or Hillary are successful, well... then America will see what comes of socialist thinking, appeasement and the liberal agenda, put in place by a democrat. Then, we might get things straightened out in 2012.
I won't be voting for McCain in November, and I won't be voting for Hillary or Obama either. This one will have to be decided without me because I don't vote for liberal democrats, I never have and I never will.
Posted by LindaSoG at April 23, 2008 05:50 AM
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Straight out of my personal songbook. Only diff is that I'll vote for McCain on the desperate hope that he'd pick slightly more conservative SCotUS candidates than the extremely left Obama or the left-of-left-center Clinton.
In my lifetime I can remember only two men who were the right man in the country at the time to run the show: Truman and Reagan. Kennedy didn't want the job in the first place, and was completely out of touch with middle-class America; Eisenhower was burnt out after WWII and became a softie; Johnson was tweaked too far left and had a suspicious view of anything outside of Texas and big money; Nixon was Nixon, a hopeless neurotic with all the charisma of a shotput; Carter was just a magnificent error in every category, beginning with his mother's choice to birth him; Ford was a nice guy whose intellectual strength could be summed up adequately by "Duh, what?"; Bush the elder was/is a patriot with the worst sense of political timing since William Jennings Bryan; and BJ is a lying, cheating, posturing, egotistical hypocrite. Dubya isn't as stupid as he's portrayed, but he never was the right man for the job because of his inability to select good advisors and team members. I barely remember Roosevelt, 'cause he died when I was 4; my take on him is half good/half bad, and he was too easygoing on Herr Schickelgruber in the mid 30s.
The likelihood of our ever getting a smart, savvy, patriotic, honest, level-headed pragmatist in the Oval Office is comparable to my growing a third set of teeth or seeing all my hair grow back and my putting average under 25 per round. Still a pretty good country to live in, but at the rate the lefties keep diddling with it, we may be sucking hind tit in another 30 or 40 years.
Posted by: ET at April 23, 2008 08:19 AM
When it comes to SCotUS, ET, desperate hope is all we have, especially in light of McCain's history when it comes to Judges.
I wish I could hope as you do, but I don't trust McCain with SCotUS any more than I trust him on the borders, our economy, the war, the borders, or even treating our troops as well as he will treat the terrorists in gitmo.
Posted by: LindaSoG at April 23, 2008 12:53 PM
Damn girl, that's some cold, hard and scary stuff. I wish it weren't true but I know it is.
Posted by: Grouchy Oscar at April 23, 2008 05:39 PM
Well, McCain, as a perceived "moderate republican," will be able to garner support from the party republicans and the moderate democrats in Congress. They will back him, whereas they would likely view Obama and/or Hillary as extremist and fight them.
Absolutely right. I've explained this to my friends and family when they pull the "McCain is the lesser of the evils" card. I doubt they'll listen, though. They will, instead, endorse McCain's left-wing stances with votes and then pray that the Republicans will decide to recover some of their conservatism after he's gone--which make absolutely no sense.
Hopelessness is a fertile ground for irrationality.
Posted by: Herr Blücher at April 24, 2008 09:58 AM
I agree Linda! I am so done with the RNC/GOP and their pushing rino's at us. They could care less about the conservative base and I am supposed to stay loyal to them. Dream on! They are infested with weak, liberal loving agenda seeking toads and I never believed in kissing a toad to get a prince. My Prince rides up in full gear on a white horse NOT dressed as a stupid toad.
GREAT post Linda!!!!!! I wish it could be in every newspaper and at every online news site.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 24, 2008 06:43 PM
Oh please don't give up, cast your vote in November. Numbers do matter. I agree with all that you say and nearly gag at the pandering of both parties.
I'm voting for "NONE OF THE ABOVE", to be sure my voice is heard. We may be like sheep herded to slaughter, but this old goat will resist until my last breath.
Some thinks the dye is cast already, that the Commie socialists have already won and are just before dropping the hammer on us all.
This is serious stuff, don't withhold your vote (voice), please.
Posted by: Chevy Rose at April 25, 2008 07:15 AM
An absolutely tremendous post. Where did our country go? I agree with every last syllable, Linda. I was fully prepared to do exactly the same thing (I was to write in Duncan Hunter). But I have had yet another imposing kick in the kneecaps thrown at me the last couple of days... I implore you and your readers to read as I have and render your thoughts.
We are in such incredibly deep sh*t.
Posted by: Defiant_Infidel at April 25, 2008 01:05 PM
very well written diatribe, lindasog. however, can you please tell me where you got the idea that "imwithfred.com" is owned by fred thompson? i can find nothing that indicates that as factual. it is a privately registered domain (meaning no real contact information available) setup on 05/07/07 and expires 05/06/08.
however the registrant information for fred08.com is NOT private and reveals that it was registered by fred's campaign:
ATTN: FRED08.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA 20172-0447
Domain Name: FRED08.COM
Promote your business to millions of viewers for only $1 a month!
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Administrative Contact :
Mills, Mark
bf49c65a9qz@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
ATTN: FRED08.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA 20172-0447
Phone: 570-708-8780
Technical Contact :
Mills, Mark
bf49c65a9qz@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
ATTN: FRED08.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA 20172-0447
Phone: 570-708-8780
Record expires on 27-Feb-2009
Record created on 27-Feb-2007
Database last updated on 23-Apr-2008
i have grave concerns and misgivings about john mccain. however, in light of the information i have unearthed and continue to dig through, he is SAFER for this country than obama - let's face it, hillary isn't getting the nod from the dnc.
i do think that you may be right about the motives of whomever it is who owns imwithfred.com, but it doesn't appear (at least at first blush) that it was fred's campaign.
Posted by: heidianne jackson at April 25, 2008 05:50 PM
Heidi Anne, its friday night and Linda won't be posting until late Saturday so you get stuck with me.
Maybe Linda got the idea that imwithfred.com was his official website because she visited it during the campaign, when she was backing fred, and following his campaign, and donating money. imwithfred.com was where you did all that. I guess you weren't backing fred during his run, if you were, you would have known that.
Or maybe, she got that idea from what fred said himself in an interview with Hannity after he put the site up:
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Hannity: Let's talk about where you stand now. You've created a testing the waters committee. It allows you to raise money, hire staff, gauge support. There's been talk you may announce the Fourth of July, the week of the Fourth of July. Where are you now?
Thompson: ImwithFred.com.
Hannity: Wait a minute. Is this a big announcement?
Thompson: Kind of get that out of the way.
Hannity: Every candidate has a Web site. It's ImwithFred.com?
Thompson: That's right. We just put it up. And we want to hear from the folks and check it out.
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There's video at the link in case you still have any doubts.
I don;t know where you were looking for information, because I found that in a minute or two. I also don't know where you get the idea that fred08.com was his official campaign website, did you read it?
First of all, fred08.com clearly states that the site is dedicated to "ecouraging fred to run" and its all about drafting fred to get into the campaign. Under the banner OFFICIAL DRAFT THOMPSON 2008 COMMITTEE ANNOUNCED it links to an article about who owns the site and what its purpose is. At that link, it says:
"Reps. Zach Wamp (R-TN) and John Duncan (R-TN) announced on Monday the formation of Draft Fred Thompson 2008 along with the website www.fred08.com to motivate Thompson to seek the 2008 Republican nomination for president."
Also, at the bottom of the website it very cleary states that it is "Paid for by Draft Fred Thompson 2008 Committee - Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee" and that "www.fred08.com is an unofficial website dedicated to encouraging a true American statesman - Fred Thompson - to run for President in 2008"
Posted by: me-sarge at April 25, 2008 11:32 PM
That's funny, here I was thinking I was maybe a little hard on you heidi, and then I saw the comment you made on the linked site.
Not nice heidi, especially since you are the one who posted false information here.
I hope you have the courtesy to correct yourself there and wherever else you posted that nonsense.
Posted by: me-sarge at April 26, 2008 12:22 AM
fred08.com is obviously not Fred's official website, all you have to do is look at it to know that. It only talks about getting him to run, hasn't been updated since Fred announced he would run, it doesn't say anything about the campaign at all, or anything about the primaries, or anything about him dropping out.
I went to imwithfred.com a lot in those days and I donated money to Fred there too.
Posted by: rene at April 26, 2008 07:06 AM
One other thing that was left off the list of socialist positions: gun control. Every one of the three candidates are for more gun control. We gun owners are simply not represented in this election.
This nation is finished.
Posted by: R.J. at April 26, 2008 11:14 AM
please do not call me a liar when i am simply raising doubts based on what verifiable information i am able to find.
my information was not false and was based on the best technical information available. i asked where she got the idea that it was OWNED by fred thompson. not quite the same thing.
my information came from www.networksolutions.com under the whois section. it is the standard place for people to find WHO owns a domain name.
i also know tht mark mills (the contact record on the domain) was involved in fred's campaign. the domain was registered with networksolutions.com; imwithfred.com is a private registration - meaning there is no way to find out who owns the site unless they decide to answer your email that you send via proxy to godaddy's private registrant.
and oh, btw, it is entirely possible that fred promoted the site as his without owning it. and one more thing - ALL Of the campaign information i got from fred's campaign (and the amount was sizeable as i was volunteer in iowa and south carolina) carried the website address of "fred08.com" not "imwithfred.com".
Posted by: heidianne jackson at April 26, 2008 11:32 AM
btw, it is possible that imwithfred.com was pointed to the fred08.com website while the campaign was active. i can't say for certain as i've never actually typed in that website address until i saw the post here.
i can also tell you that up until the middle of march all of information regarding the campaign was up at fred08.com - the last time i had gone up and looked was sometime during the easter weekend. again, i can't say anything in regards to imwithfred.com because i'd never been to that site.
when money was donated via paypal, it was donated to fred08.com. when i received a confirmation from the campaign for a donation it conirmed a donation to fred08.com and was sent from fred08.com. again, i did all of this through fred08.com - i can't say what information for payment confirmation came when donating throug imwithfred.com so maybe you can look at one of your donation confirmations and see. however, ALL of the campaign staffer's email was XXXX@fred08.com.
Posted by: heidianne jackson at April 26, 2008 11:48 AM
I agree with 99% of what you said above, Linda, but posting "success" is a typical bare-bones web server response. It does not necessarily convey a political statement at all. I've seen it before and as a programmer myself, I understand the logic behind doing this. The webmaster just wanted to see if the server was working, assuming that it wasn't hacked! I'd contact the owner first and ask if there are technical problems or if they're trying something new.
Posted by: InRussetShadows at April 26, 2008 06:48 PM
Linda,
To go back to the initial thread of the post, before we found out about how web sites are run in the political world (not uninteresting, though), I shall either write in a person (would you like to be that person?) or leave "for President" blank. While I respect McCain's military history, as a politician he has proven himself to be very dangerous to the conservative cause and not worthy of my trust or vote. I would rather the Democrats get the blame for all the liberal/socialist/communist (depends on the policy) goings on in Washington than the Republicans, for the reasons you cite.
I shall, however, be very careful to make sure that I vote in all the other races that are on my ballot.
Posted by: Kevin K. at April 27, 2008 10:20 AM
Heidianne, no one called you a liar here. The Sarge said your information was false, as in wrong. That's not the same thing.
You were provided a link that has fred thompson himself saying that imwithfred.com is his official website, no matter who owns it. The link you provided to fred08.com says it is not the official website. I would think that would be enough for anyone. But, you are free to insist that imwithfred.com was not fred's official campaign site, despite these facts. It doesn't reflect on anything I have posted here.
Judging by the content that remains on fred08.com today, its more likely that fred08.com pointed to imwithfred.com, after mills got into the campaign, I don't think that a private citizen could personally own a campaign website and remain within campaign laws. I could be wrong about that, and I'm too lazy at the moment to look it up. Its a petty point anyway as there is no way for either of us to prove that it was one way or the other and it has nothing to do with what I said in my post. According to Fred himself, on this issue, you were wrong, whether you want to admit or not.
Still, what you stated as your "reason" for taking issue with what I wrote is ridiculous, I never said what you claim to have taken issue with. I did not state anywhere in my post that imwithfred.com was owned by fred thompson. What I said was that the website was "a political website put up to support a candidate I believed in." How you read that to be a claim that fred owns the site is a mystery to me.
That said, I did find your comment over at Defiant Infidel to be insulting, seeing how you insinuate that shenanigans took place on my post, and that you corrected the shenanigans in your comment here, without saying what shenanigans you are talking about. It implies that my entire post is nothing but shenanigans. The Sarge was right, that wasn't very nice at all, and even worse, it wasn't true. You proved that Mark Mills owned fred08.com and that imwithfred.com is a private registration. Does "private registration" prove that fred (or his campaign) doesn't own the site? Sorry but, no, it doesn't. If you think it does, then you should check the registration information for McCain's official campaign website, johnmccain.com. Guess what... its a private registration too, imagine that!!
Your use of the word diatribe to describe what I wrote did not escape me, and I read your post. Both lead to me to think that your support for McCain is the underlying cause of your snipe at what I wrote here. You think everyone should vote for McCain, and my post has some very valid reasons not to do so.
So, you picked at the one thing you thought you could pick at, and you were in such a rush to discredit me that you didn't take the time to research the issue.
I can understand your distress, pointing out what a loony liberal John McCain really is and laying out the cold hard facts about what John McCain is, and what his presidency will do to this country and the republican party, seems to effect his supporters in much the same way.
You are not the first to snipe at me because of my politics and I'm sure you won't be the last.
Posted by: LindaSoG at April 27, 2008 11:05 PM
Inrussetshadows... there is only one thing wrong with your logic, the site was still up with all of the campaign content for at least a few weeks after fred withdrew from the race. The only thing that was taken down was what was known as fred's red pickup truck, the donation part.
There is no reason to rework the site, he's out of the race.
Posted by: LindaSoG at April 27, 2008 11:43 PM
Kevin, tell you what, you vote for me, and I'll vote for you! Might as well, right?
I'm going to polls next November, as I have for each and every election since I was old enough to vote, because you're right, there will be others races on the ballot.
But you can bet your bottom dollar I won't be voting for any liberals.
Posted by: LindaSoG at April 27, 2008 11:47 PM
This might be the most powerful blogpost I've ever read.
I don't care if I have to get up early tomorrow for a business trip... I have to go have a drink. Very troubling.
Posted by: jack at April 28, 2008 10:58 PM
It's a deal.
Posted by: Kevin K. at April 28, 2008 11:33 PM
I found you through an email sent to me by a friend. This is a very disturbing article, it makes me very afraid for the future of our country. I'm a life long republican and I was planning on voting for McCain, now I'm not sure it would be a good thing in the long run. Your right, he's too liberal and he has the potential to do even more damage then hillary or obama.
If you post any more on this subject, please send it to me. I put my email address in the form.
Rick
Posted by: Rick at April 29, 2008 07:11 PM