Nothing Special Today

Scott Brown was sworn into the US Senate yesterday.  The Republicans now officially have 41 members.  All we can do now is pray that he will not be swayed by the perks the Democrats in the Senate have already provided to him – Ted Kennedy’s former office among them.  I’m sure there’s a stench of liberalism in that office that I hope Senator Brown will be able to eradicate.

Now we continue with American business as usual.  The fight against the health care bill, additional debt approved by the Senate, Nancy Pelosi to have fired from her job; the American people have many challenges ahead.   Nothing really has changed except the calendar page.

I have some reading to catch up on – today might be a good day to do that.  If I find anything interesting, I’ll be certain to let you know about it.

Eeny, Meeny, Mynie, Moe

There are times when a decision must be made to stand for what you believe in or to stand for what others have shown you that they believe in even though it is different from your own belief.  Have you ever thought about what you would do if it happened to you?

Sarah Palin won me over shortly after I heard her speak for the first time on August 29, 2008, as she accepted Senator John McCain’s request to be his vice presidential running mate in the 2008 election.  I read as much as I could read; listened to as much as I could hear.  I made my own decision that I agreed with the things she stood for.  I have spent the time since then supporting her in whatever decision she made.

Until now.

I can’t support the decision she has made to endorse a Libertarian who is running as a Republican in a campaign in Kentucky.  He has said that he knows he can’t win the election if he runs as a third-party candidate, so he compromised his standing with both parties, in my opinion, to promote changes in the Republican Party, the party he thinks will bring about his election.

His goal, I think, is to change the Republican Party into a carbon copy of the Libertarian Party complete with their “if it feels good, do it” attitudes toward the issues that Republicans have fought against for years.

Abortion: He thinks it should be handled as a “states’ rights” issue.  In other words, if the state passes a law legalizing abortion, he supports it.  It doesn’t matter that abortion is murder whether the state legalizes it or not.

Homosexual lifestyle: Here again, he views this as a “states’ rights” issue.  Rather than the recognized definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman, if the state passed a law to allow homosexual marriage he would support it.

The Fourteenth Amendment: The Libertarians want it abolished.  Why?  The Fourteenth Amendment deals with citizenship of the United States.  In part it states, “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law…”  Laws, whether state or federal, are supposedly written to protect American citizens.  Why abolish the law that says citizens are protected?

What it comes down to is that the Libertarian Party believes that the individual should decide for himself how he wants to live his life and what his freedom represents regardless of the feelings of the majority.  What the majority wants is totally irrelevant if even one person wants it differently.

How is it possible to make a law that won’t offend, alienate, or exclude even one person out of the entire population of the United States or any given single state in the union?

There are two options when a person or an organization endorses a political candidate:

1. The person or organization supports the opinions and stance on the issues of the one receiving the endorsement.
2. The person or organization is compromising their own opinions and stance on the issues in order to present the endorsement.

Sarah Palin has endorsed Rand Paul for the US Senate from Kentucky.  The question now is which of the two options applies to this endorsement?

According to the Los Angeles Times, “…Palin says she’s proud to support grass roots candidates like Paul. She also says that while there are issues they disagree on, they both agree “it’s time to shake up the status quo in Washington and stand up for commonsense ideas.”

With that statement, we must rule out option number one.  That leaves only option number two.

This would not have been an issue if she had endorsed the other candidate in the race – the one everyone except conservatives who have read about all three of the major Republican candidates as well as the two minor ones ignore.

Trey Grayson is endorsed and pushed by current Kentucky Senator McConnell.  Bill Johnson is not.  He is the real grass-roots conservative in that race and agrees completely with the things that have been written, published or reported that Sarah Palin has said she believes in.

I cannot help wondering why she chose to compromise her own opinions in order to endorse the Libertarian running as a Republican as opposed to supporting the candidate who has repeatedly stated that he believes in the three R’s:  Ronald Reagan Republican.

If you think this was an easy decision for me to make, I suggest you read back through some of the articles I have published previously concerning Sarah Palin.  This is as much detail as I am willing to offer on the subject.  It is now a closed issue as far as I am concerned.

A Week in the Life

Forget the fact that she has a home and family to tend to.  Forget the fact that she has a baby on the verge of turning to the terrible twos for family entertainment.  Forget that she has a grandson who is only 6 months or so younger than her own youngest child.  Forget the school functions to attend, homework assignments to help with, encouragement to dole out, meals to cook, grocery shopping to do, laundry for six or seven people – including those two aforementioned beautiful baby boys.

Now factor in a broken fingernail or two to file, a burn from the kitchen stove, meals to prepare, cleaning the house, and keeping smiles on all the faces she comes into contact with.  What you end with is a typical week in what Sarah Palin’s “regular” life must be like.

All that would be enough for most people to slam the bedroom door, lock it behind her and say, “Leave me alone!”  But not for Sarah.  If anyone deserves a long soak in a hot bubble bath it is Sarah Palin!

In addition to the normal weekly tasks she faces, she has several appearances on FOX News in her new job as a political analyst, the reading, listening and watching she must do to prepare for each of those, and an army of Americans who wait with excitement for her next announcement or Facebook post.

I imagine seeing her sitting in her home office with LOTUS in front of her doing her famous “type, type, enter” as only Sarah Palin can do. This week in her “spare time” Sarah gave us seven Facebook entries to absorb.

On Sunday, January 24, she wrote a short note of congratulations to Friendship Circle as they received the Chase Community Giving award.  Friendship Circle is an organization which provides friendship and experiences for special needs children with teenage friends for learning and personal growth for both.

Just a few minutes later came her second gem of wisdom for Sunday – “Where’s the Oil in Our National Energy Policy?” This was a gentle nudge to Obama hoping that he would get the message that oil is part of the overall answer to achieving American energy independence.  In her own tactfully chosen words, she acknowledged that Obama just “doesn’t get it.”

Monday, January 25, brought what I thought was going to be her best post of the week.  Instead it turned out to be only the first time she took Obama to the woodshed this week.  “Mr. President: Please Try, ‘I’m Listening, People,’ Instead of ‘Listen Up, People!’” Her trademarked point blank hit started with,

We’ve now seen three landslide Republican victories in three states that President Obama carried in 2008. From the tea parties to the town halls to the Massachusetts Miracle, Americans have tried to make their opposition to Washington’s big government agenda loud and clear. But the President has decided that this current discontent isn’t his fault, it’s ours. He seems to think we just don’t understand what’s going on because he hasn’t had the chance – in his 411 speeches and 158 interviews last year – to adequately explain his policies to us.

It ended with, “Candidate Obama over-promised; President Obama has under-delivered. We understand you, Mr. President. We’ve listened to you again and again. We ask that you now listen to the American people.”

Not bad for the first two days of this week, was it?

Real women who recognize the inner strength of womanhood cheered wildly at Sarah’s post on Tuesday, “Women’s Rights Groups: Your Double Standard is Showing.” She truthfully pointed out that the message NOW was sending in their efforts to stop women from hearing that there is a choice other than abortion.  Recognizing that the strength of a woman should not be underestimated, Sarah applauded Pam Tebow for making her decision to provide life for her son, Tim. (you know, the Heisman Trophy winner?)  I wonder what it is that NOW finds offensive in a message that is so pro-woman?   One reason may be that the message Mrs. Tebow is sending requires women to use their own brains to make their own decisions rather than the decision NOW wants to make for them.

The slam-dunk posts continued on Thursday.  In the first one, “The Credibility Gap,” Sarah did a little more than poke Obama in the ribs.  Some would say she slammed him to the ground for the 10-count.  I am one of those.  Obama seems to have decided somewhere in his warped mind that there is a communication gap between his policies and the American people.  Sarah correctly tells him that the gulf lies in his lack of credibility.  Good one, Sarah!

She followed that on Friday by doing exactly what Obama has said he wants.  She was just “Letting You Know About Some “Better Solutions.” She even provided the links for him to click on as he read her post so he could get to the better solutions quicker and easier.

We had another two-fer on Friday.   The second post was a wake-up call to Obama and his group of “bad advice givers” and the American people to “Stay Focused: Relocating Terrorists’ Trial Doesn’t Solve the Main Problem.”

This tactic is in the same vein as another Washington game: creating the appearance of a “crisis” in order to push for a radical solution. (“The health care crisis must be fixed by government now or we’re all gonna die! The earth’s temperature is fluctuating; government must fix this crisis now or we’re all gonna die! Private businesses made poor decisions and bureaucrats claim they’re too big to fail, so government must fix this crisis now or we’re all gonna die!”) Politicians and lobbyists announce that there is a “crisis,” and never letting a good crisis go to waste, they propose a radical solution to fix it. The public listens intently, and in a sincere desire to help, an alternative to the politicians’ radical solution gets put forward. The politicians then “concede” and mellow out their radical solution. The public’s attention has been diverted to tinkering on the periphery, all the while ignoring the real problem at the heart of the “crisis” that started the whole debate.

In the meantime her Facebook Fans list has grown to 1,241,503 and counting.

Hey, Katie!  Yo, Oprah!  What did you do this week?

Sarah Palin on The State of the Union

This deserves front page billing rather than storing on the Sarah Writes page.  Forgive my indulgence:

The Credibility Gap

Today at 2:17pm

While I don’t wish to speak too harshly about President Obama’s state of the union address, we live in challenging times that call for candor. I call them as I see them, and I hope my frank assessment will be taken as an honest effort to move this conversation forward.

Last night, the president spoke of the “credibility gap” between the public’s expectations of their leaders and what those leaders actually deliver. “Credibility gap” is a good way to describe the chasm between rhetoric and reality in the president’s address. The contradictions seemed endless.

He called for Democrats and Republicans to “work through our differences,” but last year he dismissed any notion of bipartisanship when he smugly told Republicans, “I won.”

He talked like a Washington “outsider,” but he runs Washington! He’s had everything any president could ask for – an overwhelming majority in Congress and a fawning press corps that feels tingles every time he speaks. There was nothing preventing him from pursuing “common sense” solutions all along. He didn’t pursue them because they weren’t his priorities, and he spent his speech blaming Republicans for the problems caused by his own policies.

He dared us to “let him know” if we have a better health care plan, but he refused to allow Republicans in on the negotiations or consider any ideas for real free market and patient-centered reforms. We’ve been “letting him know” our ideas for months from the town halls to the tea parties, but he isn’t interested in listening. Instead he keeps making the nonsensical claim that his massive trillion-dollar health care bill won’t increase the deficit.

Americans are suffering from job losses and lower wages, yet the president practically demanded applause when he mentioned tax cuts, as if allowing people to keep more of their own hard-earned money is an act of noblesse oblige. He claims that he cut taxes, but I must have missed that. I see his policies as paving the way for massive tax increases and inflation, which is the “hidden tax” that most hurts the poor and the elderly living on fixed incomes.

He condemned lobbyists, but his White House is filled with former lobbyists, and this has been a banner year for K Street with his stimulus bill, aka the Lobbyist’s Full Employment Act. He talked about a “deficit of trust” and the need to “do our work in the open,” but he chased away the C-SPAN cameras and cut deals with insurance industry lobbyists behind closed doors.

He spoke of doing what’s best for the next generation and not leaving our children with a “mountain of debt,” but under his watch this year, government spending is up by 22%, and his budget will triple our national debt.

He spoke of a spending freeze, but doesn’t he realize that each new program he’s proposing comes with a new price tag? A spending freeze is a nice idea, but it doesn’t address the root cause of the problem. We need a comprehensive examination of the role of government spending. The president’s deficit commission is little more than a bipartisan tax hike committee, lending political cover to raise taxes without seriously addressing the problem of spending.

He condemned bailouts, but he voted for them and then expanded and extended them. He praised the House’s financial reform bill, but where was Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in that bill? He still hasn’t told us when we’ll be getting out of the auto and the mortgage industries. He praised small businesses, but he’s spent the past year as a friend to big corporations and their lobbyists, who always find a way to make government regulations work in their favor at the expense of their mom & pop competitors.

He praised the effectiveness of his stimulus bill, but then he called for another one – this time cleverly renamed a “jobs bill.” The first stimulus was sold to us as a jobs bill that would keep unemployment under 8%. We now have double digit unemployment with no end in sight. Why should we trust this new “jobs bill”?

He talked about “making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development,” but apparently it’s still too tough for his Interior Secretary to move ahead with Virginia’s offshore oil and gas leases. If they’re dragging their feet on leases, how long will it take them to build “safe, clean nuclear power plants”? Meanwhile, he continued to emphasize “green jobs,” which require massive government subsidies for inefficient technologies that can’t survive on their own in the real world of the free market.

He spoke of supporting young girls in Afghanistan who want to go to school and young women in Iran who courageously protest in the streets, but where were his words of encouragement to the young girls of Afghanistan in his West Point speech? And where was his support for the young women of Iran when they were being gunned down in the streets of Tehran?

Despite speaking for over an hour, the president only spent 10% of his speech on foreign policy, and he left us with many unanswered questions. Does he still think trying the 9/11 terrorists in New York is a good idea? Does he still think closing Gitmo is a good idea? Does he still believe in Mirandizing terrorists after the Christmas bomber fiasco? Does he believe we’re in a war against terrorists, or does he think this is just a global crime spree? Does he understand that the first priority of our government is to keep our country safe?

In his address last night, the president once again revealed that there’s a fundamental disconnect between what the American people expect from their government, and what he wants to deliver. He’s still proposing failed top-down big government solutions to our problems. Instead of smaller, smarter government, he’s taken a government that was already too big and supersized it.

Real private sector jobs are created when taxes are low, investment is high, and people are free to go about their business without the heavy hand of government. The president thinks innovation comes from government subsidies. Common sense conservatives know innovation comes from unleashing the creative energy of American entrepreneurs.

Everything seems to be “unexpected” to this administration: unexpected job losses; unexpected housing numbers; unexpected political losses in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey. True leaders lead best when confronted with the unexpected. But instead of leading us, the president lectured us. He lectured Wall Street; he lectured Main Street; he lectured Congress; he even lectured our Supreme Court Justices.

He criticized politicians who “wage a perpetual campaign,” but he gave a campaign speech instead of a state of the union address. The campaign is over, and President Obama now has something that candidate Obama never had: an actual track record in office. We now can see the failed policies behind the flowery words. If Americans feel as cynical as the president suggests, perhaps it’s because the audacity of his recycled rhetoric no longer inspires hope.

Real leadership requires results. Real hope lies in the ingenuity, generosity, and boundless courage of the American people whose voices are still not being heard in Washington.

- Sarah Palin

LECTURE!

There should never have been any doubt in your mind that I support Governor Sarah Palin.  If you doubted it, please change your mind!

Tonight, I have a new reason to respect her – she did what I would NEVER have done.  She actually listened to the lecture Obama made tonight calling it a State of the Union message.  Why do I call it a lecture?  Because Sarah did!

Greta asked her to describe in one word what she gleaned from his speech, the Governor – as only she could – said, “In one word? LECTURE!”

She is right, as usual.  I did not listen to the speech.  Even the sound of his voice makes me cringe.  But I could tell from the things I was hearing from other people via email and other means that he wasn’t saying anything at all about the state our nation finds itself in at the present time under his so-called administration.

How can it be that this one woman has him pegged so well?  How can she know so instinctively how wrong this man is?  And why don’t more people understand what she does?  I am watching and listening to her right now analyzing the lecture, and shaking her head in disbelief.

If someone somewhere doesn’t stand up and drive this usurper out of office (he really is NOT the office holder he thinks he is, you know), will we survive as a nation until 2012 when we can elect a REAL President?  One with knowledge and ability to actually lead our nation back to the greatness we used to know.

We need Sarah Palin to use her common sense conservatism to lead the American people back to prosperity.  In the meantime, there is a little something called a “mid-term election” coming up in November this year with primaries beginning as early as February 2 in Illinois.

One of our states has already told the Democrat controlled congress to sit down and shut up by electing Scott Brown to assume the people’s seat in the Senate from Massachusetts.  Maybe while they watch as one by one American people in all our states defeat the incumbent liberals and seat conservative voices in their place they will eventually get the message.

Nah.  Too much to hope for.  We’ll just do it and let them wonder what happened.

Cows Eating Cabbage

I told my mother once as she was rubbing some face cream into her face that if it was supposed to make her look pretty, it wasn’t working.

A friend once told me that I probably should stop seeing the young man I was dating.  She said I was a different person when I was with him.  I told her to drop dead.

During a heated disagreement with my ex-husband, he suggested that I F-Bomb off.  As I stomped back to the bedroom, I looked over my shoulder and said, “.. yeah?  And the horse you rode in on!”

Did I really mean to tell my mother that she wasn’t pretty or didn’t look nice?

Did I really want my friend to drop dead right then and there?

Just what exactly did I expect to happen to that “horse” he rode in on?

My point is that sometimes we say things that we don’t mean.  Other times we say things that are not interpreted the way we thought they would be when we said them.

When those things happen, we have a couple of options.  We can consider the source, consider the point being made, or we can take the words literally.  There are times when all three may seem appropriate at that instant.

Ask Sarah Palin what it feels like to be told that she should be shot from a helicopter; that she should just sit down and shut up; that she is stupid; that she makes inappropriate decisions; that she just doesn’t know what she’s talking about; that she didn’t really give birth to Trig.

None of those things are true about Sarah Palin although you hear those same worn-out phrases every day if you live in the world I do.  My world revolves around political figures right now because I am so distressed over the socialistic and communistic changes I see happening in my country.  I want every liberal in Washington, DC ridden out of town on a rail to be tarred and feathered at the Virginia state line.

Something akin to the misalignment Sarah has had to put up with for almost two years happened to someone I know by reputation only recently.  I have never met the young woman, nor have I even seen her “live and in person.”  But I knew when I read what she wrote that those who hate Sarah Palin would be attacking her with guns blazing.  Unfortunately, I was right.

When I read her blog post, I knew exactly what she was talking about.  Metaphors are interesting things.  They give us a way to express phrases, thoughts and ideas that probably could have been said in a different way, but would have required much more time and space and many more words to relate.   How our readers interpret the things we write is always a concern, but when we use metaphors, we expect them to be taken as exactly what they are – metaphors!

Having read many articles written by this young woman, and having respected her writing whether or not I was in 100% agreement is very easy to do because many times we write about the same subjects.  Each of us chooses different words, phrases and metaphors in our writing, but the end result is always the same point – Sarah Palin is one of the good guys, and if you don’t like her that’s just too bad!

The young woman in question here is a Christian woman who does her best to live a Godly life and would never wish ill on anyone.  I’m guessing here, but I’ll bet it even bothers her to see a dead roach, although it is much preferable to see a dead one than one running around live in your kitchen!

People on other sides of our political fences see things very differently than we do and are always excited to find something they can use against us to discredit us and our subject.  They use a tool referred to as “Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals” as a basis.  The idea is to intentionally misunderstand or misconstrue something to the point that someone will think that is what was intended by the original writer.

Well, people, you’ve gone entirely too far this time.  I may not choose the right words here, and my metaphors may be lacking, but my point is this.  Only the liberal left really, sincerely, and certainly wishes someone were dead.  They really do.  They want all of us who consider ourselves conservative out of their way.  We create problems for them, you see.  We tell the truth about the illicit purposes and results of the plans they espouse for our country, and we know there is a better way.  They don’t like that, and if all of us were put out of their misery, they would have their perfect world.

What they haven’t discovered yet is a truth I learned years ago – the grass is indeed always greener on the other side of the fence BECAUSE IT’S ASTROTURF!  It isn’t real!  It’s fake!  Just like the things they think they want for our nation.  Astroturf may be greener, but it isn’t as soft and comforting as real grass when you fall down.

The liberal argument is the very same.  They think we’re all a bunch of loons and would be better off dead.  But, my goodness, give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.  Give them a beautiful flower and they’ll stomp it because they think it has been poisoned.  Only their words, not the flower, are the poison, and one of these days those same words will come back to haunt them.

If you can honestly believe that a conservative wants a wrong to be righted so badly that even killing someone is not too far to go to accomplish the desired result, I suggest the reason is that you have the same thoughts and feelings about the conservative.

I don’t like Obama.  I don’t like him at all.  There is NOTHING that I like about him.. not even his name.  It’s just too close to Osama to suit me.  Would I love to see him found out for the liar, traitor and America-hater that he is?  You betcha!  Would I enjoy seeing him dragged out of the People’s House in chains?  Oh, yeah!  Do I wish someone would take a gun and kill him?  Not for one minute!

That wouldn’t solve anything at all and would, in fact, only make matters worse.  That is exactly my point.  And it was the young woman’s point too.  She doesn’t wish physical harm to come to anyone.  The fact that you liberals are now trying to force-feed the blogosphere and other venues as well; the fact that you are stirring up as much trouble as you can for her; the fact that you have so much hate in your heart for the truth that you will go to any lengths to destroy it speaks more ill of you than it does of her.

Back off, Jack!  Give it a rest!  Go find something legitimate to spend your anger on.  Use your hatred against policies – not people.

There was a time when we were all Americans.  That time seems to have come to an end and nobody I know is able to put a finger on the exact time that it happened.  Now it is “us against them” and everyone takes swipes at anyone else whose political visions are different from their own.

Personally, I am sick up to here with all the hatred in this country.  If it were truly an issue of racism, that would be one thing – we could chalk it up as ignorance.  If it were just a matter of political opinion – we could laugh and move forward with our own political opinions.  This is much more serious than that.  This is the difference between conservatives and liberals, between constitutionalists and ideologues, between democracy and Marxism, between Democrats and Republicans.

Next time you want to attack someone for saying something you make an intentional choice to misunderstand, stop and think how much more damage you are doing to your cause than to the cause of the other side.  The major difference is that while I see many things written about my country that I don’t appreciate, I have a big red X in the corner of my page that will remove that page from my sight if I don’t like what I see there.

I suggest you click the BIG X and close that page.  The fact that you don’t like something is not going to make that idea go away.  Get over it and move forward!  Defend your cause and your issues with the facts or shut up and get out of the way!  You are delaying REAL progress in our country.   If the best you can do is attempt to discredit one person, who by the way happens to be of the same ethnic background as half of Obama’s family tree, I suggest you reexamine your entire agenda.  You might find that it isn’t worth fighting so hard for after all.

My Own Definition of Fiscal Responsibility

I got the strangest thing in my mail today.  It’s a questionnaire from the Republican National Party.  They want me to fill it out giving them my feelings about issues facing Americans.

1. Do you agree with Barack Obama and the Democrats that taxes should be raised for the sake of “fairness,” regardless of the negative impact it is likely to have on the economy?
2. Do you believe the federal government has gone too far in bailing out failing banks, insurance companies and the auto industry?
3. Do you support amnesty for illegal immigrants?
4. Should English be the official language of the United States?
5. Are you in favor of granting retroactive Social Security eligibility to illegal immigrants who gain U.S. citizenship through an amnesty program?
6. Are you in favor of the expanded welfare benefits and unlimited eligibility (no time, education or work requirements) that Democrats in Congress are pushing to pass?
7. Do you believe that Barack Obama’s nominees for federal courts should be immediately and unquestionably approved for their lifetime appointments by the U.S. Senate?
8. Do you believe that the best way to increase the quality and effectiveness of public education in the U.S. is to rapidly expand federal funding while eliminating performance standards and accountability?
9. Do you support the creation of a national health insurance plan that would be administered by bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.?
10. Do you believe that the quality and availability of health care will increase if the federal government dictates pricing to doctors and hospitals?
11. Are you confident that new medicines and medical treatments will continue to be developed if the federal government controls prescription drug prices and sets profit margins for research and pharmaceutical companies?
12. Are you in favor of creating a government-funded “Citizen Volunteer Corps” that would pay young people to do work now done by churches and charities, earning Corps Members the same pay and benefits given to military veterans?
13. Are you in favor of reinstituting the military draft, as Democrats in Congress have proposed?
14. Do you believe that the federal government should allow the unionization of Department of Homeland Security employees who serve in positions critical to the safety and security of our nation?
15. Do you support Democrats’ drive to eliminate workers’ right to a private ballot when considering unionization of their place of employment?

Over half a legal-sized page remained filled with ways for me to send $500 (obviously the preferred amount since it is listed first), $250, $100, $50, $30, Other amount.  Don’t you just know that’s going to happen??!!

Well, I have filled out their little questionnaire, and when I mail it back tomorrow, it will also include this little hand-written letter from me.

The Republican Party will get not one red cent from me!

You have abandoned “our” conservative values and ideals as much as or more than the Obamacrats!

The only reason I will vote for even one Republican is because the Conservative Party has not yet met all the requirements for fielding candidates of our own.

You blew it with me when you failed to speak up for Sarah Palin and allowed the McCain campaign to throw her under the bus.

You lost my support when you said we need to move to the center of right.

You lost my respect when you abandoned a truly conservative candidate in NY-23, Doug Hoffman, in favor of a candidate who is anything but conservative.

You gave up any chance you had of earning my respect back by saying that we have to support the candidates that can win.

No!  No more!  Not one red cent from me!

Here is the address is you would like to join me in my determination to see to it that the Republican Party actually HEARS the conservative voices of America:

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

310 FIRST STREET S.E.

WASHINGTON, D.C.  20003

From Me to You

I had hoped to be able to use the page “Going Rogue” on this blog as a sort of listing of events for Sarah Palin’s speaking engagements and public appearances.  It was an ambitious plan at best.  I have added a new link so that it will be easier for all of us to keep up with where she will be and when.  Look for the new picture of Sarah on the right side bar.  Click on it to go directly to her “Unofficial Events Calendar.”

As for me, I am getting very busy not only supporting Sarah Palin and her family in their efforts to be private citizens, taking an occasional swat at past and continuing detractors, but also writing about our coming elections this year.  America is in serious trouble, people, and we all have to do whatever we can to set it right!  That means getting rid of every federal, state and local politician in our nation who does not have our best interests at heart.

Some of our choices will be difficult to make, but we must be strong enough to stand up to them and let them know that we are, to paraphrase, “mad as the dickens and we’re not going to take it any more!”

You may or may not know that I am also writing for the Conservative Party.  They are growing and expanding their base.  Already there are sixteen States that are affiliated with the National Party.  I am trying to keep up with elections in those states even though the Conservative Party may not be fielding their own candidate at this time.

I will rely on my colleagues who are very good at keeping Sarah’s calendar updated to inform myself – and my readers – and I appreciate your supporting them in their efforts.

I will continue to use this blog for all things Sarah with a few other things thrown in from time to time.  I encourage you to subscribe if you haven’t already done so.  I will continue to honor your requests if you ask me not to publish your comment, and I will continue to edit any comments that do not conform to the policy I created for this blog.

I have attempted to make it easy for you to subscribe and to contact me directly if you like.  The subscription requires only your email address.  I subscribe to several WordPress blogs and I have NEVER received one email from WordPress or anyone else as a result of my subscriptions.  Both the subscription request and the Kontact me labels are on the right side bar near the top.

As we fight for our country by watching our coming elections as they approach, I know that I can count on you to do your part in your state and local area.  You can count on me as well.  It doesn’t seem like the Scott Brown election in Massachusetts got the message across to ALL of our elected leaders.  We still have much work to do.  Before all is said and done, they will hear us – they will have no alternative!

Keep up the fight.  It will be well worth it when our Republic is returned to the people for governing as our Founding Fathers and Mothers intended.

Marie

Enough is Too Much, Levi!

I have admitted that sometimes I get behind on my reading.  I just read the garbage Levi Johnston is spewing after Sarah and Bristol Palin appeared on the Oprah television show on January 22, 2010, the 37^th anniversary of the beginning of legalized murder in our country.

The Supreme Court, those who are responsible for interpreting and enforcing the Constitution of the United States made arguably the most controversial ruling in its history on January 22, 1973;  Roe v Wade – legalizing the murder of unborn children.

Speaking in place of the unborn children we have lost to this legalized murder, March for Life was founded in October 1973.  They began with 20,000 marchers in 1974 and have grown to over 200,000 brave souls.

The celebration of life was the reason behind Sarah and Bristol’s television appearance.  Sarah posted on her Facebook page the reason they were doing this.

Talking About Life Today

In light of today’s March for Life in D.C., which promotes a positive, peaceful, hopeful message concerning the sanctity of life, Bristol and I are being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey to talk about choosing life. The show airs today, and you can check your local listings for details.

- Sarah Palin

I have watched only one Oprah show from start to finish – last year when Sarah Palin was there for the full hour on the day that her book “Going Rogue:  An American Life” was released.  I watched the part on January 22 this year while Sarah and Bristol were on changing the channel immediately when their segment was over.

It is common knowledge that Bristol gave birth as a single mom in December 2008 to a beautiful and healthy baby boy, Tripp.  Precious Tripp will grow up with his uncle, Trig, who is only a few months older.  Both of those mothers chose life for their sons under circumstances that were not the most desired or carried the least number of challenges.  Neither of them chose legalized murder for their babies choosing instead to give all of themselves to their children and to give their children to themselves.

Tripp’s father, Levi Johnston, has been a dead-beat dad from before Tripp was even born.  In fact, there is an excellent article written by a fellow blogger, Gary P, awarding Levi his personal “Dead Beat Dad of the Year” award in 2009.

Which brings me to an e-mail from a friend. “Levi seen cashing two $500 checks from National Enquirer at Wasilla Wal-Mart!” Not exactly news, I mean we all understand Levi is prostituting himself out for “fame and fortune”.

But it brings up some questions. While Levi is out playing “rock star for the day”, who is taking care of his son full time, working to pay for his son’s diapers, while continuing her education? While Levi is out schmoozing, or hunting and fishing, who is changing dirty diapers and taking care of his son?

And what about Levi’s new found celebrity?

Here’s an uneducated, unemployed, kid. A kid that ain’t even looking for a job. And yet, since he has become such a well known man-about-town, he has traded in his fairly new Chevrolet pick up, for a more upscale Ford. He also has new Jeep. It now seems Levi has supposedly put a deposit down on a Mercedes-Benz in Anchorage!

Now being a reformed car guy, I can tell you that folks don’t just put down a deposit on hope! (or change)

So you tell me, where does all of Levi’s money come from? I mean this is an unemployed high school drop out! Cars cost money, flashy clothes cost money, and jet setting across the nation costs a lot of money, especially with an accused drug dealing mother and a sister who seems a little to “attentive” for my taste, in tow.

If you have not read this article before or have not read it for quite some time, you may want to go back and read it completely.  A lot of things will make more sense to you when you do.

Since Gary P wrote and originally posted the article on June 4, 2009, Levi has been seen nude in Playgirl and escorting a woman probably old enough to be his mother around Hollywood’s decadent elite, but the one place he has not been seen is supporting his son.

Suddenly the news broke that Bristol has filed a lawsuit against Levi because he has not been forthcoming with money to assist Bristol with the rearing of his son.  TMZ reports that Bristol is seeking $1750 monthly retroactive to Tripp’s birth on December 27, 2008.

According to the docs, obtained by TMZ, Bristol believes Levi has pulled in “in excess of $105,000 in 2009 through various media interviews and modeling related activities.” The $105,000 figure is significant, because under Alaska law a non-custodial parent must pay 20% of income up to $105,000 a year — which comes to $1,750 a month.

Bristol says in her sworn statement, “I have received limited and sporadic financial assistance from Levi.” Bristol says Levi has forked over only $4,400 over the 13 months of Tripp’s life — $3,000 on September 9, 2009, $1,400 on December 19.
Bristol’s request is for temporary support, pending a permanent child support order.

An update has been added to the TMZ article using a quote from Tank Jones, Levi’s “manager” (read that – body guard and paid baby sitter) that Levi has paid Bristol over $10,000 since Tripp’s birth.

Where’s your proof?  Did Rex Butler, Levi’s attorney, file copies of checks with Bristol’s endorsement with his paperwork to the judge in this lawsuit?  I certainly hope so.  If not, get out your checkbook, Levi!

While you are getting money from who knows where for doing who knows what, other than the embarrassment your son will feel when he is old enough to know the stupid and childish things you have done since his birth while you should have been helping to care for him, how have you contributed to Tripp’s physical and emotional well-being?

While you are posing nude for a magazine which I am told is read predominately by gay men, while you are trying to capitalize on the “fame” of being the “almost-son-in-law” of the world’s most influential woman since Diana Princess of Wales, while you are making friends and influencing people in New York, Hollywood and all places in between, who is taking care of Tripp?

Young Bristol Palin, along with her very strong and supportive family, is tending to what should by rights be your responsibilities, Levi.  Bristol graduated from high school last year and has been working at least part time all the while taking college classes, changing diapers, mixing formula, rocking the baby, missing sleep, bathing, feeding and hugging her young son.  She has embraced motherhood with as much love and attention to her son as any good mother should do.

She is missing out on her youth in order to raise your son.  But hey… why not?  You are still just a kid yourself, aren’t you?  You’re not mature enough to be a real father.  You aren’t even mature enough to be a man.

Bristol has dreams and ambitions.  She is working very hard to fulfill those dreams and ambitions.  She is building a strong relationship between herself and her son.  One day before you know it she will have built a successful career, raised a terrific and intelligent child, and taught him to love God, his family and Alaska – probably in that order – while you have done…..

Nothing, Levi.  You have done nothing!  You can’t even hold a decent job.  Why else would you need a “manager” like Tank Jones?  Who pays him, Levi?  If you are paying him, are the payments current?  Where is the money coming from, Levi?  Services such as Tank provides for you do not come cheaply.  Neither do attorneys like Rex Butler.

Any real man in your situation would get a job, provide for his son and by the way, Levi… that money you are paying Rex and Tank would pay for a lot of diapers, clothing, doctor’s visits, day care and all sorts of other things for your son.

Until now, I have chosen to remain silent on the custody and child support issue out of respect for the Palin family and for your son, Levi.  I just didn’t think it fair to Bristol and certainly not fair to Tripp to have cameras shoved in his precious face every time they walk through the door of their home.  Bristol and her attorney had asked that the lawsuit be held in secret.  Even though the judge refused the request, I felt it would be best not to bring it out into the open any more than the lame-stream media would surely do.  I made an intelligent and conscious decision to respect the privacy of a little boy and his mother.

That is over as of right now.  I read this cockamamie press release from “The Insider” that The Huffington Post printed including the typographical and grammatical errors.

Meanwhile, ex-boyfriend and baby daddy Levi Johnston gave an interview to “The Insider” and said he’s writing a tell-book and isn’t, despite Bristol’s court filings, a deadbeat dad.

From a press release from “The Insider”:

Levi reveals that he is working on a tell-all book about his experience with the Palin family, “I am in the process of doing it.” What is he planning on revealing? “Everything. All.”

He also responds to tabloid reports claiming that he is a deadbeat dad, “I think its crazy. For them to call me dead beat dad is absurd. I call [Bristol] all the time . I try to do everything I can to see my son. It’s my kid. I want to be there for him and I am. I’ve stepped up and grown up a lot and taken on a lot of father responsibilities and have been there a lot more than others would be.”

On the possibility of having to pay more child support, Levi says, “I have no problem paying more as long as the court says that’s what I am going to pay and I get my son 50 percent of the time.” Levi alleges that Sarah Palin has already taken extreme measures to keep him away, “She already tried to have me arrested. I don’t remember when that was, a couple of months ago. My lawyer called me in and she had tried to get me arrested for violating a gag order.”

Levi tells THE INSIDER what he will do for a living if an entertainment career doesn’t work out, “I’ll go back to doing what I do. I can go home and get messy. I love working on motors and being an electrician.”

On Bristol and Sarah Palin’s interview on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” today, Levi says, “[Bristol] answered like two questions. She couldn’t answer questions without Sarah butting in and adding her own two cents.” He goes on to say that he doesn’t “buy into” Bristol’s claims on about the difficulties of raising Tripp, “She’s talking about how hard it is… if she wanted help she would let me in there.”

I don’t care what you say, Levi.  I do not believe you.  The only thing you know about family is how to live in a dysfunctional one.  Your sister is reportedly obsessed with you and your mother went to jail for selling drugs.  Good examples for your son to pattern his own life after, isn’t it?

A book?  You’re writing a book?  I hope you get a better proofreader than “The Insider” uses.  I also hope you haven’t spent your last dime on computer printer paper.  Do you have any idea how humiliating it is going to be when the only book you sell is to your sister?  Okay… you’re right.  That wasn’t fair.  Rex Butler will probably buy one, too.

Get real, Levi.  Grow up.  Stop lying to and about your son, his mother, grandmother and his father.  Get a job.  Go to church and learn about how to live a valued life in the eyes of the One Who created you.  He’s the same one who created Tripp and his young uncle, Trig, also.

Try being normal for a change.  Turn over a new leaf and learn how to be a father.  I’m sure the Wasilla library has several good books on fatherhood.  Read them.  Learn from them.  Grow up.  Before Tripp does.

** The opinions expressed here are solely the opinions of the writer.  **

Harrumph, Andree! Read any good emails lately?

FOX News is reporting this:

A judge has ruled that the Alaska governor’s office can use private e-mail accounts to conduct state business, as former Gov. Sarah Palin sometimes did.

Superior Court Judge Jack W. Smith said in his ruling Wednesday that there is no provision in Alaska state law that prohibits the use of private e-mail accounts when conducting state business.

The case stemmed from a lawsuit filed by Anchorage resident Andree McLeod.

McLeod contended such use of private e-mails denies citizens the right to inspect public records.

State lawyers argued that McLeod misinterpreted current state law. And if the practice is to be changed, lawyers said it was up to Alaska lawmakers do it.

I have just one thing to say to you, Andree.  GET A LIFE!