Fox GOP Debate: The Trump, It Sounds

Right now Donald Trump has caught the attention of the American people, because he is saying what many other politicians are too timid to say out loud. Trump is a egotistical showman, not a politician or a statesman. He's a wheeler-dealer. I don't trust him with the social issues with which I am most concerned, life (ending abortion) and preserving traditional marriage (reversing the gains made by the homosexual movement).

Like George W. Bush or Mitt Romney, Trump doesn't have any real core conservative principles. Trump may be in it for the glory to increase his brand recognition for his next venture. His only core value is making money and making the next deal. I believe he is as narcissistic as the current occupier of the White House.



A.F. Branco Cartoon found at NetRightDaily.com



Lisa Benson Cartoon found at Towhall.com 8/5/2015

Jeff Darcy Cartoon found at Northeast Ohio Media Group The Plain Dealer  

 

Another reason Trump may be in the GOP race is to act as a spoiler to insure a strong conservative does not get nominated. He may be working for the Clintons. I do not trust him. However, he certainly will make things interesting at least early in the campaign. I hope sooner, than later, the American people will wake up before the primaries.

I saw another cartoon today, which I could not find for this post. It showed Mr. Trump sitting like Humpty Dumpty on a way ready to fall. Maybe after the initial flame of his popularity and persona subside, the people's interest in him will fade and they will seek and get behind a true conservative like Senator Ted Cruz.

Late Night Jokes - Jeb Bush and Willard Romney, More Alike Than Not and the 2016 Election

Late Night Takes

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

 

·  Potential presidential candidate Jeb Bush will release a decade’s worth of tax returns to avoid comparisons to Mitt Romney. Yeah, they’re nothing alike. They’re just both former governors from wealthy families whose parents gave them super-weird names.

These jokes is courtesy of NewsMax.com which periodically sends out an email compilation of late night jokes, few of which are worth repeating . . . these were the exceptions.

An addendum:

In addition, both Jeb Bush and Willard Mitt Romney are Republicans in Name Only (RINOs).

Both are GOP elite approved candidates.

Both are tolerated by the main stream media.

They are conservatives only when it is beneficial and when conservative votes are needed.

They have no strong conservative convictions.

The best that can be said about these two, Bush and Romney, (and joined by Chris Christy) is that they split the left-of-center Republican vote in the primaries allowing a strong conservative to emerge as the GOP’s nominee…  

Iron Lady's Legacy Lives On

I responded to an article on Alternet.org, “Singer Morrissey's Scathing Letter to the Public About Margaret Thatcher: "A Terror Without an Atom of Humanity." The article amounted to a hit piece on one of the greatest world leaders of the 21st century. Mr. or Ms. Morrissey, like many a ‘singer’ in the music world today, probably was so stoned between 1978 through 1990, that they didn’t notice the good Margaret Thatcher did for Britain and the world. Here are my comments to the article… 

First off, who is Morrissey? I have never heard of her or him. I have, however, heard of Lady Thatcher. 

The biggest thing this great woman 'hated' with a just passion was socialism. Socialism had nearly ruined Britain before Mrs. Thatcher time as prime minister. Just like socialism is systematically destroying ('transforming', 'change you can believe in') our once great (but now perilously sliding in a 'progressively' downward spiral) nation with renewed vengeance the past 4 plus years. 

The Morrisseys of the world disliked Thatcher with a passion particularly because she did not accept the socialist utopian line. It has never worked. It never will. She fought it and had some degree of success, to Great Britain's benefit. 

What America now desperately needs is passionate conservative leadership like a Michele Bachmann  or an Allen West could provide. This kind of leader would uncompromisingly fight socialism and return American to some semblance of respect and exceptional-ism for which it was once known.

Among other things, America needs a leader like the Iron Lady, not the candidates the GOP and Media keeps foisting on America like the liberals-in- ‘conservative’-garb John (the moderate maverick) McCain or Willard (thought-I-could-sell-America-that-I’m-conservative) Romney.

Portman: A Painful Admission or a Pitiful Betrayal of Principle?

One of my two Senators, neither of which is worth a plug nickel, Rob Portman is a McCain-Romney-Lugar Republican. You spell that R-I-N-O!  George Voinovich, Portman’s Predecessor was a RINO, too. One characteristics of RINOs is that they change their minds and ‘convictions’ almost as much as babies’ diapers need changed. Their promises and their convictions are also full of it…

Well, Senator Portman did it this time. He finds out that his son is a homosexual. So that revelation ‘forces’ him to change his mind in Romneylike fashion. Flip flop, flip flop like a fish out of water… In a tweet earlier this evening I used the words “unprincipled” and “selfish” in describing Portman’s position reversal on the same-sex “marriage” issue. Where is his courage? Where is his conviction? Maybe he never had any true convictions. He may be wishy-washy, just like the “conservative” George W. Bush spending like a liberal much of his time in office.

The following is a press release that I thought captured the essence of what the wayward senator did by betraying traditional, sacred, and biblical marriage because of his “love” for his son.  What his son really needed was tough love, to remind him that homosexuality is an immoral, unnatural, unhealthy chosen course of behavior and life style.  Unfortunately Portman is too typical of the permissive parent who chooses to ignore truth and principle.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Traditional Values Coalition president Andrea Lafferty issued the following statement in reaction to Ohio Senator Rob Portman's recent repudiation of his stance against gay marriage in reaction to his son's homosexual preferences:

These past few days have been very painful ones for me.

Earlier this week one of my children came to me and told me something which was shocking.

He is a drunk driver and has been driving drunk regularly since college.

I have taken several days to reflect on this and I have decided to reverse my earlier opposition to drunk driving.

My child is a drunk driver and I love him. It is a part of his identity, who he is.

I have reflected on all of this, consulted Scripture (the story of Jesus changing water into wine when the wedding he was attending in Cana ran dry is particularly relevant) and decided that drunk driving is a generational issue. Younger people take a much different view of drunk driving than older people.

Therefore, today I am reversing my opposition to drunk driving. My child has caused me to revisit a decision which, up until now, had been based simply on morality.

My child is a drunk driver. That has personalized the issue for me and taken me above the whole discussion of the morality of it. It is now personal with me.

In addition, I would like to say that drunk driving will make all of us stronger drivers. Think of how much more interesting driving will be in the future if more people have the freedom to drive drunk. It will sharpen the defensive driving skills of the rest of us.

"This unreleased press statement follows the same twisted, self-serving logic that several public officials have used in explaining their switch from opposing homosexual marriage to favoring it.

"If you remember nothing else from this exchange, remember this: our children are learners and unable to determine morality and then hand it down to their parents and other impressionable adults. This is one factor in why our culture is so morally upside down!

"This whole line of argument suggesting that opposition to homosexual “marriage” is a personal and “generational” matter is equally silly.

"There are absolutes. There is right and there is wrong. There are objective truths. A civilization which has no governing principles or laws is doomed to collapse. That is the soul of conservatism.

"The tough part of being a parent is telling one of those young souls whom we have been charged with raising that he or she is wrong. But because it is tough that doesn’t mean that we are excused from doing it or we can delegate our responsibility to a teacher or “the village” or some other entity.

"Parents hold the primary responsibility for the upbringing of their children. Parents are fully capable of still loving a child who is wrong.

"American parents hold the power to begin the process of reversing this dangerous downward trend. Our children look to us for direction and we owe them more than a collective shrug.

"I wish no harm to either Senator Portman or his son but they are wrong.

"And Senator Portman’s attempt to use his position in the Senate to affect the future path of our culture and the lives of other Americans compounds the wrong.

"Being a good parent is infinitely more difficult than being a Senator or President. And telling someone you love that he or she is wrong is the most difficult part of that difficult job.

"A nation which recognizes this is on the road to a vast spiritual recovery."

(Please Note: The introduction to this article is satire. Drunk driving is immoral. I abhor it. I also believe homosexuality is immoral and sinful.)

Senator Rob Portman
The Face of Cowardice, Compromise, & Lack of Conviction

Are you as tired of the Presidential campaigning as Abigael is?

Check out this video. It's a kid's assessment of the Presidential campaign season!

Rand Paul Capitulates

This is like a knife to the heart.  What is this world coming to?  When Rand got elected it seemed too good to be true.  I remember that he said that he would not take money from Senators who supported the bailouts, and then went back on his word.  And now this.  I know that there are no other candidates for president worth voting for, but this is unacceptable.  I am ready to get out of politics altogether.  If these politicians are going to do this to us, what is the point???  I wondering if this is some kind of payback.

Santorum’s “Act of God”

Now that Santorum has dropped out, he has shown how wimpy he really is.  I mentioned in a comment that if Santorum really cared about changing the country for the good, he would have stayed in the race to try to force a brokered convention.  But since he is almost the same as Romney, what would be the point?

I remember Santorum’s response to the statement, “It would take an act of God…” for you to win the election.  Why then did he drop out?  I guess Santorum no longer believes in acts of God!  Actually, in one of Santorum’s responses to the statement, he made a Freudian slip and said, “I believe in act of Gods.”  Ah!  Maybe he was subconsciously referring to polytheistic faith which his major opponent professes.  Maybe he meant that the gods are on Romney’s side because he is a Mormon, a religion which teaches that Elohim (God) is just one of many and that people can become gods.  That religion would seem to suit Santorum well because he thinks that he is so great and thinks (like Mormons) that doing good works cancels out sin.  (Remember how he justified some of his bad votes like abortion funding and No Child Left Behind.)  The only problem would be that he would have to give up drinking alcohol and smoking pot.

Mitt Romney is a 'Conservative' of Convenience

George W. Bush was supposedly a compassionate ‘conservative.’ Rick Santorum claimed to be a consistent conservative. Willard Mitt Romney is a convenient ‘conservative.’

Watch for the etch-a-sketch reset if Mr. Romney wins the GOP nomination for President. His true liberal colors will shine.

All we conservatives can do now is to work toward and hope for a brokered GOP convention this summer!

"Santorum In, Tiberi Out"

That is the Election Day battle cry in Ohio. Rick Santorum is the only marginally acceptable candidate on the GOP ballot. Fellow blogger, Matt, points out in a number of posts some of Santorum’s shortcomings. However, to me the other three candidates have even worse flaws than the former Senator.

Romney and Gingrich are serial flip floppers and inconsistent. As Governor and as Senate candidate Willard Mitt Romney was for same-sex marriage, abortion, and government mandated healthcare before he was against it. Speaker Newt Gingrich sat on the couch with Nancy Pelosi touting global warming.

Despite his right-on fiscal and government restraint ideas, Representative Ron Paul believes that Iran and Islam are inconsequential threats to America. He believes that hard drugs should be legalized. He believes that the federal government should have no involvement in the matter of abortion or same-sex marriage. These issues, he claims, should be left to the states. I disagree.

John Boehner’s boy, Congressman Pat Tiberi, wants to be my new congressman, thanks to the magical process of redistricting. Unfortunately he towed the GOP line in regards to the debt deal and the debt ceiling, voting the party line on both of these matters. The Tea Party participants and members of Congress who stand for Tea Party Movement principles decried both the debt deal and increasing the debt ceiling without any meaningful future cuts in spending. Pat Tiberi, like many others in Congress went along to get along. I will vote for Bill Yarborough, Tiberi’s opponent, primarily because Tiberi is just another unprincipled, compromising “conservative.”

Who Will You Really Be Voting For in This Primary Election?

pictured at left: Pope Benedict XVI   pictured at right: LDS President Thomas Monson

Now that you know where Newt, Ron, Mitt, and Rick stand on the issues, what about their religion?

Here it is:

Candidate	Religion
Newt Gingrich	Catholic
Ron Paul	Protestant
Mitt Romney	Mormon
Rick Santorum	Catholic

The Framers of the Constitution included a Natural Born Citizen clause (NBCC) in the Constitution.  The purpose of the post is not to suggest that any of the candidates are constitutionally ineligible and it is not to discuss its exact meaning.  The four major candidates for the GOP nomination are all unquestionably eligible according to letter of the Constitution.  But don’t forget what the purpose of the NBCC was.  It was to prevent someone from becoming President who has divided loyalties between America and some other country.  It was to prevent a Presidency that would show favoritism to another country. 

So what does this have to do with the religion of the candidates?  Catholics do have a loyalty to the Pope who is a foreign sovereign.  Catholicism is not just a religion.  Vatican City is an actual sovereign nation, and the Pope is the head of its government.  The Roman Empire never completely ceased to exist--the Vatican is the remnant of it.  We are not to look for a fifth empire after the four that Daniel spoke of.  We are to look for a resurgence of the fourth. 

There are also other concerns about Catholics. The Catholic Church can blackmail them with their dirty laundry that they have obtained from the confessionals.  The Pope himself has expressed a belief that worldwide governing structures need to be even more consolidated and strengthened, eroding what is left of national sovereignty.

As for Romney, he is a Mormon which is a cult.  The leadership (The Prophet and President) of the Church of Joseph Smith, Jr. of Latter Day Aints, though an American, has even more control of the actions of his flock, than the Pope has over the Catholics.  The Mormons believe that there are many gods and that they can become gods.  The Mormon Church teaches that abortion is acceptable in cases of rape, incest, and with the baby has some certain birth defects.  Don’t listen to Glenn Beck when he says that Romney is a reasonable alternative to Obama.  Beck is also a Mormon. 

Now, may the reader understand, I don’t actually think that Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum or Mitt Romney have an ounce of sincerity when comes to their religion.  (Their real religion is Socialism.)  But I say these things for the benefit of those who do. 

Ron Paul is not a perfect Christian.  No one but Christ is perfect.  But Ron Paul is a very charitable individual, has been married to his wife for over 50 years, and believes in Biblical principles of government such as personal responsibility, tolerance, Biblical monetary policy, and Christian Just War Theory.  His sincerity is unquestionable.  The church he attends is Bible-based and not overly authoritative like the Catholic Church or the Mormon Church.

In conclusion, Ron Paul is a “safe” candidate from the point of view that his religion would not interfere with the execution of his office and his strong grounding in certain Biblical principles is a definite plus.  The rest of the GOP candidates have a very undesirable conflict of interest.

Senator Santorum Gains Steam

Hat tip goes to CBSNews.com for the video below:

As a supporter of the only marginally acceptable GOP candidate in this year’s crop of Presidential candidates, I was pleasantly surprised and encouraged by the results of the three caucus/elections last evening. I lived for a time in the states of Missouri and Colorado and would have voted for Rick Santorum had I been living in either state yesterday.

Senator Santorum is far from the perfect candidate; however, he seems to be strong on Pro-Life and True-Marriage issues. He acknowledges the threat of Islam to the American way of life. He won despite the Leftist media’s attempt to create and raise expectations for Governor Romney who is their choice to be served up in November as the sacrificial goat on the altar of Obama and statist worshippers.

Although no candidate is better than Rep. Ron Paul on fiscal and monetary matters, his libertarian views on addictive drugs and his seemingly weak positions on marriage and his naïve view of the Islamic menace scare me and make him an unacceptable candidate to me. Romney is a serious serial flip-flopper, who is absolutely untrustworthy. He is the complete antithesis to true conservativism. Gingrich runs a close second in the flip-flopping, lack of trust category. The Marxist Barack Obama is an anathema as a Presidential choice. He was in 2008 and he is even more so in 2012 with a record of criminal proportions.

Romney is not the one!

But neither is Gingrich.

I support Rick Santorum for President, he is the only marginally acceptable candidate left in the field of four!

A picture perfect finish for South Carolina GOP Primary

Rick Santorum  –  31%

Newt Gingrich  –  29%

Ron Paul  –  21%

Romney  –  19%

Wouldn’t a finish like the one imagined above in today's South Carolina Republican Primary just frost the Left, the Main Stream Media, Organizing for America, and the GOP establishment?

After Romney's poor performance in Monday's Fox News debate, and with strong performances by both Gingrich and Santorum and the typical steady Paul performance, in Thursday's CNN debate, the above scenario is very possible. South Carolina is a very conservative state and hopefully the conservatives will all show up today and vote. However, above result is not the outcome that the Media and the Obama Campaign has orchestrated, but it is realistic.

With Santorum and Gingrich finishing one-two in South Carolina, along with Paul all finishing ahead of Romney, it would really put conservatives in a great position going into the Florida Primary. It would be an especially big blow to the moneyed candidacies of Willard Mitt Romney and Dr. Ron Paul. Most of America does not want Romney, who is perceived to be weak and wishy-washy, just another John McCain, or worse. My top choice of the candidates that remain are: Santorum or a CTBNL (a conservative-to-be-named-later). Gingrich, Paul, and especially Romney and Obama are all unacceptable candidates for one reason or another.

America wants and needs a conservative in 2012 if she has any hope to change our slide toward total European socialism and eventual oblivion. This South Carolina GOP Primary could be a turning point, a real trend-setter.

Obama-Romney Running Mates? Not so strange bedfellows

Campaign 2012

“Motor City hospitality dictates a Michigan message to Mitt that our struggling families, entrepreneurs and workers think Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama are not rivals, they're running mates.” --- U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter, R- Michigan, Presidential Candidate, found in Alaska Dispatch article, “10 facts about Thaddeus McCotter and his run for president.”

Republican Presidential Debate 2012, part 2

Last week's GOP debate in New Hampshire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAiXcn6FHw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idHBfxUy8cM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOfs8-2Iz5w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKExzEpK8U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC0z6pD2oDU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVyWgyPxzz0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAxdqbykKP4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5OR9y6qyKs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O574lVfw08s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVJpBuTGgRc

GOP 2012 Ticket: Ryan-Rubio!

Bill Kristol (see his recent blog article on the www.WeeklyStandard.com) on Neil Cavuto’s TV show, see video below, suggests a Paul Ryan – Marcio Rubio (see www.DraftMarcoRubio.com) ticket in 2012. Not a bad ticket. Best I’ve heard so far. I especially don’t care for any of the so-called potential candidates like Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, or Rudy Guiliani.

Late Night Takes - Pretty Boy Romney Wins CPAC Straw Poll Again

Late Night Jokes

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

● "At the Conservative Political Action Conference, Mitt Romney was picked over Sarah Palin, in a straw poll, to be the next presidential candidate, which is kind of interesting. I mean, one is a pretty face obsessed with hair and makeup, and the other, of course, is governor of Alaska."

This joke was courtesy of NewsMax.com which periodically sends out an email compilation of late night jokes, few of which are worth repeating . . . this one is.

Romney to Advise McCain on Immigration? - The Newest NewsBusted

NewsBusters is a conservative news and comedy website. Here is just one of their bits from their current episode. See right panel of this blog and click on the video to watch this 2-3 minute comedy YouTube.com video.
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“After dropping out and endorsing John McCain, Mitt Romney may now be offered the job as McCain’s immigration advisor.

“The McCain campaign feels that (since) Romney ran the Olympics he must be very familiar with running, jumping and swimming!”

- - - NewsBusted, Episode 140

Romney & McCain: Birds of a Feather (Crows not Eagles)

One day last week I came across two independent commentaries by men named Scarborough on the two current media-favored GOP front runners. The first Scarborough is a Pastor, who runs an organization called Vision America and the other a TV political talk show, Morning Joe on MSNBC.

(RICK) SCARBOROUGH ON MITT ‘THE FLIP’ ROMNEY

The flipper often quotes the gipper. However, Ronald Wilson Reagan and Willard Mitt Romney have only six letter last names in common; they are poles apart in what they did, their actions. In addition, (Pastor Rick) Scarborough says in a recent email I received from him, “Governor Romney’s personal wealth and early start (in the presidential race) have benefited him but his attempts to base his campaign on being the true conservative in the race is being challenged by many conservatives due to his recent stances supporting homosexuals and abortion. He seems to have radio commentators Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity's support but as one article pointed out this week, Romney's Bain Capital owns Clear Channel that produces and carries both of their popular radio shows.”

Could those two talk show rating leaders be biased just as the main stream media against which they justifiable rail unendingly? Are ratings, manna, and fame more important than true conservative principles, which they swear they uphold?

As Massachusetts Governor, Romney compromised his suspect beliefs on abortion and the value of traditional, one-man, one-woman marriage. On the road to DesMoines (Iowa) he wants us to believe that he had a “conversion.” I for one do not believe no matter how often he, Rush, Hannity, or the GOP adamantly say otherwise.

(JOE) SCARBOROUGH ON JOHN ‘AMNESTY MAN’ MCCAIN

(Joe) Scarborough on his MSNBC TV show “Morning Joe” described at length to his co-host what a conservative is not. He was talking primarily about Senator Amnesty, John McCain.

He said, “Let me tell you what a conservative is not:

** “A conservative is not a man that calls tax cuts that George Bush passed that revived the economy "tax cuts for the rich." That is not a conservative.

** “A conservative is not a man who is one of two Republicans standing alone in Washington, DC voting against those tax cuts that every other Republican supported in Washington, DC. That is not a conservative.

** “A conservative is not a man that teams up with Teddy Kennedy to produce a bill that is nothing short of amnesty that would allow 12 million illegal immigrants to attain legal status the day after John McCain's bill and Ted Kennedy's bill becomes law. That is not a conservative.

** “A conservative is not somebody that goes on Tim Russert's show a couple of weeks ago and says if that amnesty bill that would allow 12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens [legal residents] the next day, he does not go on that show and say "yes, I would sign that bill, but don't worry, it's not going to come to my desk." That is not a conservative.

** “A conservative is not a man who says he wants to increase taxes maybe 50 cents per gallon on the American people, trying to push through a bill that the rest of the world won't sign onto. That is not a conservative.”

COMPROMISERS

What Romney and McCain share is their willingness to compromise any conservative beliefs, which they might have, especially social issues such as abortion and same sex marriage. They do this particularly for political expediency or political power.

Barack Obama Full of Himself

Cartoon found on GOPUSA

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I prefer to think of Barack H. Obama (D) and Mitt Romney (R) as empty suits and Hillary-Rodham Clinton (D) as an empty skirt. After all I am trying to be a diverse and equal opportunity herald of truth!