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6
Jul

The Larger Picture

   Posted by: lightfinger Tags:

I will be honest, I have not been very much in tune with local politics. I look at a bigger picture, normally – the country, the world. I see the big, overall picture much better, but I also know the best way to get the best candidates on the national stage is to promote those in the local races so they get the exposure and confidence to go far.

I did make some errors in my last large post because of this. But the point I was making is still valid, in that the Omaha World Herald was not identifying people like they should be when they write a story. I will point out that KETV did identify Jane Kleeb correctly, but I did not see their report until after I published my hastily-written blog.

However, turning on that, what happens with the Nebraska congressional races does affect the larger picture. Things like the nightmare that Obamacare is already becoming affect the larger picture. Kowtowing to Islamic pressure affects the larger picture. Letting our spending run rampant affects the larger picture.

It is our job, as the tea party activists, as conservatives and libertarians, and as Americans to point these things out. Not only to the choir, however. We do that well enough at this point. We need to get the younger people to understand they are signing away their lives when they vote for progressives on the ballot. Remember, the people of Italy and the people of Germany both voted in the despots that Mussolini and Hitler became. Russia did not. The communists in Russia overthrew not the Czars, but the democratically elected government. Hugo Chavez was popularly elected, and is currently regressing his country at an ever increasing rate, all in the name of ‘fairness’. 

I don’t have much confidence this will get done, to be honest. Yesterday on Twitter, I predicted that the Democrats will hold onto the presidency in 2012, due to the incompetence of the GOP leadership. This is because the GOP is not doing what I described in the last paragraph – all they are doing is preaching to the choir and not getting the message out to those that must grow the party to a point to prevent progressives from succeeding in turning us into a neo-feudalistic state that was envisioned in Plato’s Republic.

 

23
May

Definitions & Unity

   Posted by: lightfinger Tags:

This post won’t endear me with some folks yet again, but it has to be said.

RINO – Republican in Name Only must be defined from now on as a Republican who is not a FISCAL conservative. They are also socially liberal.

Neo-con – This is a fiscal liberal, who advocates an aggressive foreign policy presence. They are, however, socially conservative, thus putting them at odds with the RINO on social issues.

Paulite – Follower of Ron Paul, a strict libertarian. This group is very fiscally conservative, however they are social liberals and are against an aggressive foreign policy presence. Thus, they are the mirror image of the Neo-con.

True conservative – both a fiscal conservative and a social conservative.

That’s the definitions I wish could be adopted by everyone so they can understand the situation at hand in the country today. Can all four groups work together inside the Republican party? Let’s be honest – NO. That’s the problem we are faced with today. No matter what, at least one group, if not three out of four groups, are not going to work well with the others. The neo-con and the Paulites are diametrically opposed to one another, as are the RINOs and the true conservatives. But there are grey areas between various groups that people fit into and through those grey areas, there is a good chance to be able to get three groups working simultaneously together as long as one issue causing the conflict gets suppressed.

For years, the combination has been RINO + neo-con + conservative. That’s how George W Bush got elected. He is a neo-con under these definitions, and he pulled in RINOs and he got conservatives to vote for him. The Paulites were seen as the fringe (and neo-cons will always see them as fringe), and were left out of the process.

Now, we have Obama in charge of the country, and the Paulites’ power is surging with the tea parties focusing on the fiscal issues and putting social issues on the back burner. The Republican strategy now needs to shift, and the coalition that is going to win this time will be neo-con + Paulite + conservative. Yes, that does mean social issues are going to have to be pushed back a bit from the focus. I know that irks those with a single issue focus (the bane of all national campaigns in my opinion). But, it has to be done to get rid of Obama.

After Obama is gone, after the Democratic party is decimated, then the social fight can start anew. We CANNOT let the fight over social issues distract us from defeating the worst president in the history of the United States, and soon to be on par with people like Nero, Caligula, and Domitian. People see the fiscal issues as the most important now, and that’s how we win.

Eyes on the prize, is what I say. The prize is removal of Obama and the reversal of his horrible fiscal decisions like Healthcare and soon to be cap & trade.

 

21
May

Who?

   Posted by: lightfinger Tags:

One thing that really gets me worked up is when people claim credit for something they never had a hand in doing. This is why I am very upset the Washington Times was taken in by a racist idiot called Dale Robertson, who claimed to be a leader in the tea party and owns the teaparty.org domain name. The Times backed off of putting this man on the payroll for writing tea party reports when his true background came to light due to Tabitha Hale and other true tea party leaders.

I seem to recall almost everyone on that very first conference call by Twitter users in February 2009.

I know of Amy Kremer being on the call. Tabitha Hale, Dana Loesch, Michael Patrick Leahy, Rob Neppell, Eric Odom, and a number of others were on that call too. I know I was. In the end there were 32 of us on that line. Amy Kremer mentioned that call during her speech for Tea Party Express III that came through Omaha on April 1st.

This clown, Robertson, wasn’t.

Just because he snarked up teaparty.org as a website name (the original website name was changed after the February 27th tea parties to taxdayteaparty.org) doesn’t mean he is any sort of leader.

Now, those on that original conference call have separated and gone off on their own for the most part. That’s logical, as we are all independent thinkers and that’s not going to allow more than collaboration. I handed over Omaha’s tea party to the newly formed 9:12 Project Nebraska group, and now will be working on another project as an example. That is why there will never be just one tea party leader. But this fool, Robertson, has never, ever been a tea party leader except in his own deluded mind, and in the mind of the Leftists that believe his tripe.

I expected the Washington Times to be smarter than to fall for his line. I agree with Tabitha – I’d be more than willing to write from my perspective on the tea parties, as would many, real leaders. Leave the fakes at home.