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Would You Ever Vote for a Democrat?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

On a discussion board I frequent the question was asked, “If the Democrats were not about gun control would you still vote Republican? In other words if the Democratic party blackballed all of their gun control advocates and publicly humiliate them would you vote Democrat?”

I can’t vote democrat every because of the blatant intelectual dishonesty a majority of their leaders display. Stuff like Howard Dean wanting to do away with the electoral college.

One thing that pisses me off about Dem talking points to no end is the “tax cuts for the rich” canard. Yes, the rich did get tax cuts, but no democrat I have heard will ever say why that is bad and will definatlely never tell you what the result of the tax cuts were. The whole thing is to drum up support among ignorant or stupid poor people who think the rich keep them down.

“The rich” pay 90+% off all income taxes and as a result of the Bush tax cuts tax revenues are higher than they would have been under previous tax law. Those facts are completely lost on Democrats and is representative of a larger issue. Unscrupulous pandering with extreme disregard for the facts is what turns me off, and that happens on far more issues than the one above.

I got into a discussion with a local Democrat about why he wanted universal healthcare. His position was that healthcare was a right and should be provided to everyone. I didn’t chastize him for his position, but pointed out the negative effects, such as Walter Reed and VA hospitals and other shortcoming and dangers such a the government having an interest in keeping people healthy and the slippery slope of banning smoking and trans fats. All of that stuff was completely lost on him and he doesn’t care as long as everyone receives healthcare.

Now, I am not saying all democrats are like that, but that really isn’t the point I am making. The point is that Democrat’s positions are have shaky foundations.

A don’t think I am being an apologist for republicans. This current crop is contemptable and I loathe a great deal of their actions, from the top down.

Also, I apply this thinking to National level politics.  At the local level there are probably a great deal of outstanding democrats.  Abe Lopez, a local judge, comes to mind who was very good at what he did.

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What I Have Been Up To

Friday, October 13th, 2006

First, my wife is pregnant, she is about 6 weeks a long and is doing great.  She has to take special medication so I am busy putting stuff up for sale on ebay to pay for it.

Next, I completed this a while ago, and I even bought one myself.  The Ivorydome t-shirts are for sale here.  The black one is $22.45 + shipping and handling.  I now that is expensive, so I made a white one, it is only $16.45 + shipping.  The shipping isn’t much and it gets to you pretty quick.  These shirts will be good for the next time the local liberals want to have a party commemorating the death of our armed forces.

 A couple of weekends ago I volunteered to help operate the computer system for data entry for the Susan G Komen foundation’s Race for the Cure.  My employer volunteered last year and the system they designed for themselves to enter data was garbage.  This year I wrote a web interface and MySQL database backend to manage the data.  Things went 1000% smoother than last year and of course the race was a huge success.  There were over 3700 registered participants, more than 1000 more from the previous year.

Last, consider this an open thread for the weekend.  Feel free to discuss the upcoming election or whatever else.  Happy Friday the 13th!

Update:  I decided to put some more politics into this post.

Concerning the upcoming election:  I am not worried about it.  If the democrats win the majority that’s fine with me.  They will be the ones on the pedestal and all of their promises will have to be put into action instead of being talked about.  Democrats think they can do better than republicans, well if they get the majority they will be put to the test.  I can’t wait to see what happens.

Also, something I read over at Right Wing News got me thinking, if, and possibly when, Republicans lose control of congress, who are they going to blame? Personally I would blame republicans for losing control.  The GOP won’t be like democrats and blame non-existent voter fraud and label people who didn’t vote for them imbeciles.  The GOP won’t pass the buck like the Democrats have.  I think they will own up to their shortcomings and, in the event of a loss, will hopefully reform itself come 2008 and 2010.

Lastly, I find it sickening that people being angry at the GOP are giving up on them and voting Democrat.  Those people are quitters.  I find it troublesome that people would vote for the party that embraces Michael Moore’s or Cindy Sheehan’s ideology.  I don’t deny the GOP sorely needs to get back to it’s roots and I think the people’s anger at the GOP is legitimate, but I think they should be working to reform the Republican party instead of abandoning it.

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Be Sure and Watch This

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Follow this link to hotair.com and watch the political advertisement made by David Zucker of “Scary Movie” fame.

Sorry for not posting anythign else, I am quite busy with school and family stuff.

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Fair and Balanced

Friday, September 15th, 2006

This letter in today’s Amarillo Globe news made me thank once again that I believe in personal responsibility.

James Fluegel says, among other things, “It is time conservatives who backed Bush on the Iraq misadventure admit we were deceived and wrong.”

His LTE says a lot of other stuff and makes some decent points about getting back to conservatism, which I agree with, but this is the only line I somewhat disagree with.

Fluegel, along with the left and democrats, are scapegoating Bush for their own poor decisions.  The left and their supporters have so much hatred for Bush they forget they signed the resolution to go to war and made a bug fuss about Saddam having WMDs and whatever else.  I am sure you remember those quote passed around in e-mails and in various videos out there. 

If Bush is a liar, all of the other people who repeated what he said are liars, too.  Given that, how many people do you honestly think will admit they are liars?  My bet is none.

Secondly, if Mr. Fuegel wants to think he was deceived and he was wrong to support OIF, that’s fine, but there is a lot more blame to be spread around as opposed to putting it all on Bush’s shoulders.

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Fascism? Fear mongering?

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

I caught an article today that contained words from a man named John  Orman, who is a political science professor at Fairfield University, requesting that Joe Lieberman should be kept off the ballot in Connecticut’s coming election.  I understand there might be some hard feelings among some voters over there, but isn’t it Lieberman’s constitutional right to run for Senator, or any other office for that matter?

I have heard similar claims on other democrat message boards and what not, but this is one of the most prominent persons I have seen who is advocating violating the constitution.  Actions like professor Orman’s are why I believe democrats are talking out of their back sides when it comes to civil liberties.

Back when Lamont won the Democrat primary Cheney had some harsh words to share about supporting the Al-Qaeda candidate, or something along those lines.  Democrats and leftists called Cheney out for fear mongering.  I don’t blame the dems for saying as such because that sounds a lot like fear mongering to me.  However, who do the democrats think they are complaining about fear mongering?  You would think that if liberals are complaining so much about fear mongering wouldn’t they want to do it from a non hypocritical standpoint?

Liberals are screaming loudest over the alleged loss of civil liberties (and the Iraqi Freedom arm of the GWoT, but that is a different post), all of this spearheaded by the ACLU.  What is the official ACLU position on the right to keep and bear arms?  They believe arms of any type should only be use by militias.  Read for yourself here.  Liberals are picking and choosing their battles about constitutional rights and using a fear mongering tactic to discredit Bush and win opposition votes.  Lamont’s entire anti-war campaign is based on fear mongering about Bush’s handling about Iraq.

Think about some of the stuff you read in the news and on liberal websites.  Recall the cries of “this country is going downhill,” “bush is destroying America,” “Bush is a fascist,” “jackbooted government thugs are gonna get us,” etc.  All of this stuff is fear mongering.  Don’t let the left fool you with their dishonest talking points.

Continuing with the civil liberties discussion, I will admit the Bush’s actions may very well be in violation of the constitution, however, liberals are ignoring other parts of the constitution such as the amendments that give citizen’s the right to a fair trial and presumes their innocence.  Combine this with the liberal disdain for the 2nd amendment and the denying of the right to life to countless children, and the left is no worse than the right is when it comes to constitutional violations.

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Lies?!?!

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Recently the question was asked, “Why does the Globe-Republican (Amarillo Globe News) allow letter writers to blatantly lie?“  I would like to ask the newspaper the same question in regards to Jayne Farris’ recently published letter.

Ms. Farris makes many outlandish claims that can be construed as lies, willful ignorance, brain washing, or just plain mental deficiency.  Of these claims one of the most outlandish is this: “Democrats believe there should be fair and equitable taxation. Republicans believe that only the dwindling middle class should be taxed and the rich should be exempt.”

I wonder what fair and equitable taxation would be? Would that mean the current regressive tax system we have where the top 50% of wage earners pay approximately 96% of all individual income taxes, or does Ms. Farris want a flat tax for all wage earners?  I am curious where she would set the bar. 4% would be just as fair as 100% just as long as everyone is taxed that way.

Another gross misstatement by Ms Farris is this: “Democrats believe workers should be paid for their production. Republicans believe all workers should remain in bondage and CEOs should have golden parachutes.”

I would like to see where she draws her conclusions.  I have never heard anyone on the right say that people should “remain in bondage” in any form or fashion.  I would also like to know what her problem with “Golden Parachutes” are.  Wouldn’t it be nice to receive a $400 million retirement package?  Golden Parachutes and high executive salaries are what makes junior executives and lower employees productive.  CEO’s high earnings and large benefits packages are what people set their standards and goals by.  I learned this in my economics class this summer.  I am open to hear other opinions on the subject.

Somewhat out of sequence Farris makes the claim, “Democrats believe everyone should have access to health care. Republicans believe only the wealthy should have access to health care.”

This statement comes despite the fact that anyone can walk into an emergency room and receive more than adequate health care, no matter their income.  Everyone has access to healthcare and I am unaware of any legislation or talking points from any politician that says anyone but the rich should have access to healthcare.

Continuing, Farris writes, “Democrats believe there should be an energy policy. Republicans believe that what is good for the Bush family and Dick Cheney is good for the country.”

Now I could be missing something here, but voting to keep ANWR closed is not much of an energy policy, not to mention these lines leave “non sequitur” lingering in my mind.  I bet the mentioning of Bush and Cheney has something to do with Haliburton or “War for oil” rhetoric.  Come to think of it, Bush and Cheney, if the war really is for oil, have done far more to ensure our energy independence than any democrat has.  Maybe she is referring to Ted Kennedy’s Nantucket Sound energy policy.

So really, why does the Amarillo Globe News allow letter writers to blatantly lie?”

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Laughter Abound

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

I laughed aloud when I read this the night before in reference to the Democratic party:

The Netroots along with many of the OG – Original Grassroots – are frustrated with the lack of success of the party that so obviously represents all the people.

And today I read this from righwingnews.com:

While 59 percent of Americans told an Associated Press poll this month that they disapproved of President Bush’s handling of Iraq, 64 percent disapproved of the Democrats’ handling of it. While 62 percent of Americans told a Washington Post/ABC News poll last month that they disapproved of Bush’s handling of the war, an even higher percentage of respondents, 71 percent, said the Democrats do not offer clear alternatives.

Ok, so the war is just one issue that democrats are disconnected from the people about. But it doesn’t matter if the democrats are connected with the people on other issues or not. What matters is what I think, because I say so. Do you disagree? Probably so, but let me tell you where I derive my logic.

You see, to the left, or at least a few people from that side of the aisle, argument with facts to back those arguments up don’t matter, as long as I think I am right combined with a need for laziness, as illustrated by this quote from a member of the “Truth” squad:

Bo, the reality based community has tried reasoning with wingnuts for the past 6 years. When people make stuff up, repeat known lies, and make irrational arguments it is a waste of time to debate them. It takes one minute to regurgitate some assinine talking point you can’t even recall correctly. It’s takes at least a half hour to research the stupid remarks to figure out just where such drivel originates. Then you spend days arguing over the meaning of words. It’s more effective and takes less time to just point and laugh.

This quote came after I politely requested explination as to why the author this editorial was, among other things, “…he has no f**kin’ idea of what he speaks…” and what was wrong about the article. I will point out, however, that eventually my request was answered with a thought out argument based on the author’s facts. However, the author of those comments probably fits into his peer’s category that he is not in a “career that does not have a god-da** thing to do with exploring modern economic theory,” thoughroughly invalidating his argument.

So there you have it friends. If you want to do argue against the left come up with one fact to counter their argument and either they will rationalize that you are an idiot and they will be too lazy to argue back (9 times out of 10 they are probably wrong and know it, which is why they will attack you in the first place) or they will come back with their own facts, in which case you better be able to prover your point. Don’t worry though, in the above exchange, out of 7 posters, excluding myself because I asked the question, only 1 was able to begin to rationalize why the editorial’s author was wrong.

Reality based indeed.

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