The Stout Republican

I received a copy of this letter from a friend of mine that he send to the RNC…yep.

Membership Director
Republican National Committee
310 First Street SE
PO Box 98206
Washington DC 20077-7561

March 2, 2009

Dear Ms. Johnson

Thank you for your letter of February 27, 2009.

I am not a Republican.

In Florida, I am registered as “non-affiliated.”

I am a Conservative!

John McCain is a hero and an honorable man, but politically he is a RINO (Republican In Name Only). I contributed $1000.00 to his campaign on the day he chose Sarah Palin to be his running-mate. She was my choice before he chose her.

President George W Bush did two, major, magnificent things as President. He reduced taxes and kept us safe from attack for 7 years. However, his big-government, big-spending, nonsensical “Compassionate” Republicanism, along with his failure to veto spending bills and pernicious legislation such as McCain-Feingold (which I equate with the Alien and Sedition Acts of John Adams), laid the foundation for Barak Obama’s electoral coup d’etat.

From 2000 to 2006, President Bush was aided and abetted by one of the most incompetent, irresponsible, self-serving, big-spending, corrupt Republican-controlled Congresses, in the history of the Republic.

President Bush and the formerly Republican-controlled Congress have defaulted the entire US Government into the hands of the Marxists (I use the word advisedly).

I have lived all over Europe (based in England) for more than 20 years of my adult life. I have seen all of this happen before. God help us!

Until the Republican Party and National Committee become Conservative, I shall not waste another nickel on it.

Until Michael Steele starts promoting the immutable principles of Conservatism, life, liberty and property, stops attacking us Conservatives (eg., Rush Limbaugh), the last best hope of America, stops saying he hopes our President succeeds in his Socialist agenda, stops promoting wet Republicanism, starts promoting strong defense, small government, low taxes, right to life, originalism and originalist Justices, the Republican Party is finished!

The hubris of the Democrat Party hands Republicans their last, best chance to save American individual liberty. But as long as Republicans act like the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, by turning themselves into a politically correct, wet, leftist, moderate Party, competing as the Party of moderate socialism against the hard, fascistic socialism of the Democrats, it will crash and burn, as certainly it should.

Sincerely,

Roger

Republican

Back to the basics.

Every now and then you need to flush out the brain, take a breather, and start all over. I haven’t changed the look of this site in about…4 years I think? So now feels like the time. Simple, streamlined. Granted, I love slick design and a good “marketing appeal”, but since I graduated with my marketing degree several years back, I started working in data and finance. Marketing not so important, it’s the meat that matters.

At this point I’d like to thank Going There, who’s been co-poster on my site for the last year or so. His help has been appreciated, and while I hate to “kick him off”, it’s time I get back to having this be, well, my political “live journal”.

Thanks to all my readers, and let’s see how this latest incarnation of StoutRepublican works out.

Republican

Can it be? I’ve been on board with this for years!! No…really…

I’ve been a fan since I saw his debates in early 2006…since then he’s been one of the great leaders of the conservative movement…a true fiscal conservative (have you guys figured out what matters to me yet)…him, Jindal, Gingrich and Romney I think are the few intellectual powerhouses on the right, and can take the party where it needs to be…essentially back to being a proactive party of fiscal responsibility and true ideas.

Republican

Because I care about political philosophy…if I was more concerned with likability and looks, I’d have registered independent.

Republican

WASHINGTON (FP) — Deep-seated racial bias could win Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an FP-Wahoo News poll that found 90% of black Democrats are voting for Obama solely because he is black.

PSYCHE! Just kidding no one would ever have the balls to conduct and publicize the results of a poll that indicated the racially based voting bias exhibited by black people. The study referenced is about white Dems showing racially biased voting tendency. Which leaves unsaid in great big PINK ELEPHANT FONT, that the real racists, Reps, will also be responsible for the O-ne’s loss.

Lan astalem,

GoingThere

Democrats, Heretic, Presidential Election, Republican

Just like the bra that dear old mum used to have. Does anyone really expect the feminist movement to ever do anything but soldier quietly along while repetitively head butting glass ceilings? The lapdogs of the democratic party and lapping dogs of Billary and Johneliza are going to just shuffle along to their master’s voice. Silence is power says the democrat-MAN. How is that working for you ladies? NOT!!!

I have never forgiven the feminist movement for selling out on the Clintons’ sexual harassment cases and to a lesser extent the follow-on Edwards’ anti-power-boinkage. I think that many men and women feel the same way as I do. Now the feminist movement has a chance at getting a woman into the whitehouse. Feminists need to grab for the brass ring when they have the chance, damn the politics…or they can stay silent or worse participate (which is when I really put them on the list of orgs and causes I would not piss on if they were on fire) in attacking Palin. Too bad they cannot see things the way MANY black voters do. Hey if it is black candidate vote for him/her, REGARDLESS of politics, it is more important to have a black person in office then what their politics are.

Shut-up and walk 2 steps behind me bitch, (or kneel for my/your power fix),

GoingThere

Careless, Democrats, Feminist, Palin, Republican

I’m excited about the Palin pick…I think it’s a good pick on several different levels (fiscal conservative!)…but, here’s the battle I look forward to.

Palin as VP, and Obama as President have comparable political experience. Does this mean that criticisms of VP by Democrats as inexperienced going to be valid? Obama has little experience and they’re okay with that. So that means that the criticism will lie on Dems criticizing Republicans for choosing someone with little experience after criticizing their candidate having little experience. This again, holds little water…the Vice President is not the Commander in Chief…and does not sign anything into law, has no veto power, and does not make policy directly. What the Vice President does (currently more it seems, not necessarily historically) is advise and council the President.

Where Palin has “credentials” is Fiscal Conservatism. In her 2 years of executive experience as Governor (this doesn’t include any of her political offices she’s held since 1992), she’s made a 180 with Alaska. Ted Stevens aside, she’s actively attempted to depork the state of Alaska, which per capita, was number one suckling at the federal teet. She cut millions from the budget, sold the unnecessary governor’s jet, and has been actively working on opening up pipelines to provide more energy to the United States. In my mind, she’s a good pick, because at each level of government she’s been in, she has taken the job seriously…and done her job faithfully, and kept true to her conservatism…she hasn’t used it as a leap pad into more power. Maybe this is me just emoting, and putting aside the more “cerebral” (to borrow Prager terms), but I like the fact this isn’t something she was looking for, and it wasn’t something she was actively pursuing. She seems to me (is this what Obama supporters feel like?) that she cares about the country first, and takes her duty seriously, not simply as ego affirmation.

What comforts me is the fact that as unknown and as inexperienced as she is, she’s not going to be number one. What comforts me is that she’s support. What comforts me is that she can’t be criticized directly for her inexperience…but can only be attacked by attacking the views of those who attack Obama, which really only validates our views anyways.

As an aside,

Dear Chris Matthews,

If you don’t vote for Palin, you’re sexist, and worse than Hitler.

You opened this door.

Additional: Mr. Coleman hit’s the nail on the top of the nail with a hammer used for hitting nails.

Republican

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.

No…really…

Republican

Straight from Christmas to New Year.

Things have been busy around the house. I’m working on a side project in addition to my real work…a web site for my local community that basically delivers all the information they care about (news, traffic, weather) in one easy to find area. So, it’s been taking a lot of my free time…

In addition…I haven’t been too “in” to politics lately. Maybe it’s the rise of Huckabee, or the constant news cycle…but I just can’t find myself getting too excited. Granted, I like some of the candidates, and dislike others…but too be this close to the primary, and to “kinda” prefer one candidate above another…well…it’s disappointing. I’m sure the Democrats feel it too…self perpetuating cycle. We’ll see who take Iowa and New Hampshire, and we’ll go from there. I’m a card carrying member of the Republican party…but I gotta say, if Huckabee gets this one, I’m going to probably have to sit this one out. I know I know…the Democrats might win…but it might take them winning for Republican to sack up and get back to what matters…fiscal and personal responsibility. We’re supposed to be for the individual, not the collective, for the person who works hard, not the person who milks the system. We’re against the idea of thought police, and entitlements…

Maybe it might take the Democrats getting into office for us to see what the destruction of personal and civil liberties looks like.

Maybe I’m just cranky and tired.

Republican

Everyone’s going to be talking about it today…as they should, it was a damn fine speech. I’m a fan of Romney, though at this point I haven’t really “picked” a candidate to support (I live in Caifornia, it’s not like my primaries matter). Romney has the civilian experience that many politicians lack, and I do believe the Presidency needs some people who know how to operate within or under a budget, Lord knows the Repubs screwed that pooch. Weird to see the “too polished” argument referenced with regard to Romney…Billy Jeff faced the same thing back in the 90’s, and had to make a concerted effort to slow himself down, and take time…even though the brain might be fast enough to keep the mouth moving pretty steadily, the voters apparently like to see some “thinking time”.

That aside, here’s the quote that stood out to me, and others it seems:

“There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church’s distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the constitution. No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith. For if he becomes President he will need the prayers of the people of all faiths.”

Even secularists got a smack for their religious fervor…against religion:

“We separate church and state affairs in this country, and for good reason. No religion should dictate to the state nor should the state interfere with the free practice of religion. But in recent years, the notion of the separation of church and state has been taken by some well beyond its original meaning. They seek to remove from the public domain any acknowledgment of God. Religion is seen as merely a private affair with no place in public life. It is as if they are intent on establishing a new religion in America – the religion of secularism. They are wrong.”

Could you imagine a Romney/Clinton debate?

In short, you’ll see people far more qualified to comment on this than me…just figured I had a shiny couple of pennies in my pocket, and felt like giving them away…

Religion, Republican