Category Archives: Elections

New Yorkers Are Onto The Leech-In-Chief

Barack Obama, Democrats, Economy, Elections, Israel, Judaism & Jews, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim

Liberals are denying that New York City’s 9th Congressional District is “a bellwether district.” Their perpetual propaganda cannot repeal reality. Uncontroversially (for a change), I contend, in my new WND.COM column, that “New Yorkers are onto the Leech-in-Chief”:

“Running against Barack Obama’s reckless fiscal policies (the building blocks for which were laid by Bush), a Republican, Catholic businessman has just beaten a Democratic, Jewish, pro-Israel, career politician in New York City’s 9th Congressional District, by 54 to 46 percent.

Bob Turner’s historic win over David Weprin, a first for Republicans since 1923, is reminiscent of Scott Brown’s victory over Martha Coakley in Massachusetts. Given the ethnic composition of the district—almost 40 percent Jewish—the media, however, is spinning the win as a referendum on Obama’s policies on Israel, not the economy.

Had the Democrat not outspent the Republican and outgunned him with the assistance of former president Bill Clinton and Gov. Andrew Cuomo; and had the Jewish voters under scrutiny not been primarily Orthodox, working class, and in opposition to gay marriage—CNN’s Errol Louis might have alluded to Jewish money and influence. Instead, the commentator confined himself to describing the votes cast for a fiscally and socially more conservative representative as ‘tribally’ motivated.”…

Read the rest of “New Yorkers are onto the Leech-in-Chief,” on WND.COM.

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GOP Can Calibrate Statism

Barack Obama, Economy, Elections, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Republicans

How moribund is the Republican Party? BARACK OBAMA’S latest proposals to yet again ply the people with “manna from the DC heavens” “have drawn [past] support from some Republicans and a few were even hatched by them.”

The Republicans’ defensive, counter-argument to that indictment, as reported on FoxNew.com, is that it all depends on how you mix this stuff up. Clearly Obama doesn’t quite understand how to calibrate statism:

Indeed, most of the proposals have drawn support from some Republicans and a few were even hatched by them. But the proposals have never been combined in one package in an effort to jumpstart a weakening economy and Republicans have asked the president to keep them separate when he sends a legislative text to them next week

Until it becomes preponderantly populated with the likes of Rand and Ron Paul—and provided representatives of their caliber remain incorruptible and uncompromising—the Republican Party is never going to stand for freedom.

GOP, RIP.

Perry’s Political Pedigree

Democrats, Elections, Republicans, Ron Paul

Ron Paul was one of only 4 congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan’s campaign for president. After Reagan, Al Gore found an enthusiastic cheerleader in Texas, who looked nothing like a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. According to the latest Campaign For Liberty ad, Rick Perry helped lead the Al Gore campaign to undo the Reagan Revolution. The Paul Campaign’s pitch about an untrustworthy Perry is persuasive. Rudderless is also a good description for the core of Perry.

Wrong About Ron

Democrats, Elections, Foreign Policy, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Military, Republicans, Ron Paul

The DC Establishment, left and right—the engorged organism I call the media-military-congressional complex—thinks of Ron Paul as “charming”; his “heresies—his denunciations of ‘militarism,’ even his suggestion that Iran might have understandable reasons for wanting nukes and it might not be so terrible if they got one—[as the] tolerated [and] lovable eccentricities of a cranky but harmless uncle.” Or so writes Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker.

Hertzberg has a point.

But his kind is as detached from mainstream America as the Republicans he lambastes (Let us hope that this will be their undoing.) Ron Paul’s stance against American militarism around the world makes him appealing to voters on the left, the (real) right, and the center. All are well represented among the millions who are jobless and without an income. All would prefer to see “charity” (I use the word in the loosest possible way for the evil the US perpetrates around the world) begin at home, not abroad. Like or dislike him, Ron Paul is the only Republican presidential contender whose foreign policy position can unite left, right and independent Americans.

Provided all factions begin to … THINK.