The Stout Republican

The robot is not a universally appreciated dance…I suppose that’s unless you’re a robot. As a white man I have no natural rhythm, unless I’m holding an electric guitar…

I watched this clip on Hot Air, I wasn’t going to say anything really about it, but it did strike me. Bill O’Reilly (of which I flip flop Kerry style on whether or not I like him) had a good point about why the Left hates so much…it’s because they can’t stand on their own debate skills or intellectualism. This was of course in reference to the active shouting down of “The Minutemen” at Columbia University. You’d think for $35,000 a year they’d know free speech means people have the right to say things that you might not agree with, but I guess you can’t buy wisdom…just knowledge.

I read another article today called “How to Talk to a Republican (If You Absolutely Must)“, and it sounded about right. No actual substance, just senseless contradiction and personal attacks, such as:

Because when you are the party of the dumbest Secretary of State to ever hold that office, who got promoted after deciding missile defense was important but Al Qaida was something to ignore, then you’ll have nothing but talking points.

Now this is of course nothing new…but published on a day where the Democratic party is complaining about how the Bush Administration should have done more to protect us from North Korea and their possible nuclear missiles, it seems odd that Schecter chooses to attack promoting missile defense…however, I suppose that would require a grasp of history (which as I’ve said before, to get a Democrat to grasp something, just take a contradictory approach, you’ll be guaranteed they’ll take the opposite).

Example:

Me: I like pancakes.

Democrat: Pancakes were embraced by the Nazis you brown-shirt reflection of Orwellian fiction. You obviously have no education and your oral hygiene is laughable. If you didn’t spend so much time oppressing minorities and the poor, you might have time to brush your teeth. Next thing you’re probably going to say you like maple syrup, which we all know is the favorite treat of pedos and rapists. If there’s a hell (which there is not…only Texas), I know you will burn there.

The article then ends:

Just tell them what they are what their party has stood for. Everyone has the power to bring about the change of which we are in dire need.

Mr. Schecter…we know what we stand for, and you’re not actually daft enough to believe that anecdotal examples and stand alone “bad guys” represent the entire culture of the Republican party…but then, if you weren’t daft, then O’Reilly’s comment at the end of the Hot Air clip wouldn’t ring quite so true to me, but you know what does…the possible future speaker of the House, saying:

The United States does not need a multi-billion-dollar national missile defense against the possibility of a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile.

Oh Nancy, if only your speech was as smooth as the resulting brow from your quarterly Botox injection. (Rumor – I hear she had to have all running water removed from her office for fear of accidental exposure, and the unavoidable melting that would follow). This of course will be blotted out by the DU and KOS Men in Black flashpen, erasing all history of it in the record…where it will reside in the long lost book of Democratic non-statements (such as the mockery of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea being named as the “Axis of Evil” several years ago…that was just crazy), and will be promptly replaced by, “Why didn’t George Bush do more to promote missile defense when we all knew North Korea was a threat.” Counterpoint….but again, no point anywhere in sight.

And now…I shuffle off to practice my skills of “the worm” with my wife…(bwahaha)…a far less subtle dance.

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Wow…I pulled this image off of Fine Dry Wit…

It’s a nighttime arial shot of North and South Korea. For those who think that somehow communist/dictatorship North Korea is somehow comparable to the democracy the we live in, or the democracy of South Korea, think again. If a government can’t provide basic services to it’s people, or create the infrastructure to allow private industry to offer those basic services. How good is that government? For all the boohooing that people here do about the “problems” that we have to fix in the US…they’re not problems in the bigger scope of things. We have power, we have water, all of the basics are there if we’re willing to work for it, and if for some reason we can’t work for it…we have government programs (granted I disagree with the “qualifications” it takes to participate in them) and private charity (which runs such endeavors way more effectively) that can pick up the pieces and try to help put lives back together.

For those who don’t mind a more offensive, but equally powerful message, this is a shirt being sold at t-shirt hell (I don’t care how thick your skin is…browse for 10 minutes and you’re guaranteed to be appalled):

We might still have the death tax, and capital gains rarely live up to their namesake with the taxes we’ve had to pay on them…but when we look at the bigger picture…

North Korea

Exposetheleft.com has the video run down by Fox news showing a quick exchange between Kerry and Bolton over Multilateral and Bilateral talks with regards to North Korea.  I feel a bit bad for the Democrats, as they seem somehow to keep the sock firmly out of Kerry’s mouth.

View the link here to see the video.

Here’s the quote:

SENATOR JOHN KERRY: This has been going on for five years, Mr. Ambassador.

AMBDASSADOR JOHN BOLTON: It’s the nature of multi-lateral negations, Senator.

KERRY: Why not engage in a bilateral one and get the job done? That’s what the Clinton administration did.

BOLTON: Very poorly, since the North Koreans violation the agreed framework almost from the time it was signed.

I think they have a problem with history and facts.  I’m relatively young compared to the people I see fighting it out on C-SPAN or in the evening recap, but even I wouldn’t invoke the Clinton name as some sort of positive with regards to any international policy…sure, people around the world liked us much more, but that’s because we didn’t do anything about their nuclear proliferations, their pursuit of weaponry, their local conflicts that led to genocide.  Most of that was deferred to the UN (credibility?) which somehow we viewed as an organization that had some sort of pull…right…

Look, like John Bolton or not, we need him to be part of the UN if we expect it to be salvageable at all…straight talk is far more important than “being liked”.  I don’t understand this “buddy buddy” mentality. 

UPDATE: This program has no spell check, and it’s driving me crazy…the first thing you have to check when making any points against the liberal status quo is your spelling, otherwise they’ll go off on a grammar tangent, an ad hominem attack, froth a little, and then pass out without ever addressing the substance of your argument.

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Pelosi Statement on North Korean Missile Launches

Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the missiles launched by North Korea:

“The missile launches by North Korea are provocative acts that warrant the strong condemnation of the United States and international community.

“North Korea is moving outside the circle of acceptable behavior and is threatening the region, the United States, and the world. We must use every possible tool to stop North Korea’s unacceptable, provocative actions including six party, multilateral, and bilateral diplomatic negotiations.

“North Korea must know without a doubt that their behavior will not be tolerated.”

Apparently, the murder and debasement of hundreds of thousand of Koreans in his own country, and in South Korea is inside the “circle of acceptable behavior”. With my “Democrat history repeats itself” Crystal ball, I can see into the future claims of the democratic party if we pursue:

• Administration pursues bilateral talks – “We need more involvement from the international community.”
  
• Administration pursues multilateral talks – “American needs to take the lead on this.”
  
• Administration pursues every possible tool – “We now know that Korea had no missiles that were capable of harming us, and posed to real threat to America. This administration’s imcompetence lead to the deaths of innocent Americans, and we should pursue impeachment on the grounds that this administration, with the help of Karl Rove, intentionally misled us into his daddy’s war.”

Hat Tip: Hugh Hewitt for actually having the patience to read Nancy’s website.

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