Real Men for Sarah Palin

Saturday, December 20, 2008

“Red State” Picks up “Camelot Barbie” Nickname

by W. T. Howes

Men for Palin coined the nickname “Camelot Barbie” for Caroline Kennedy as she begins her quest for the United States Senate.  The point of the nickname is obvious.  Kennedy has absolutely no qualification for high office, other than high name identification.  Her name identification is from an accident of birth that made her the daughter of a great American, Jack Kennedy, whose short presidency was dubbed “Camelot”.  Apparently the good people at Red State liked the appellation, and has spread it around through their site.  Remember, you heard the nickname “Camelot Barbie” here first.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

‘09 Battlegrounds:  Bob McDonnell runs with United Virginia GOP

by W. T. Howes

Virginia and New Jersey are scheduled to be the top two battleground states in 2009.  Viriginia will hold statewide elections.  At the top of the ticket for the GOP is Attorney General Bob McDonnell.  Bob McDonnell is running at the head of a united GOP, which will enable out-of-state stars like Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal (pictured left) to visit the Old Dominion on his behalf.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Camelot Barbie Chronicles: Why Libs Love Their Royalty

by W. T. Howes

Democrats everywhere are drooling over the coming ascension of Caroline Kennedy to the United States Senate.  Despite her total lack of relevant experience, “Camelot Barbie” is going to begin her career near the top.  How can someone with no objective qualification for statewide office begin her career with statewide office in one of the most powerful states in the Republic?  It is because her party love political royalty.  And liberals love political royalty because it helps them rationalize their defeatist worldview.

She was my first long-distance crush.  When I was five, my family had coffee table books about JFK and his family.  When at six I wrote my first short story, it was about a rendez-vous with Caroline.  Caroline Kennedy was the princess of Camelot.  I never met her.  She was only an image to me.  Over the past forty years, I have gotten over my crush on Caroline.  While I respect her father, I do not worship her political family.  In fact, I have come to detest what they stand for.

Liberals across the Republic love the Kennedys.  Liberals across America allow the Kennedys to retain power, and allow Kennedys to ascend to power before they have any experience.  Why?

It is very simple.  Their concept of the existence of an exclusive class structure and a political aristocracy helps them rationalize their defeatist world view.  At the core of their defeatist world view is their egotistic notion that they are under compensated and under appreciated.  (If I had a quarter for every liberal who thought that they were paid less than they are worth, then I would be paid what I am worth!) That notion is based on the premise that they are smart.  And thanks to the Self-Esteem Revolution, so many people are taught - either by their parents or by a teacher - that they are smart in order to boost that self-esteem.

These liberals who walk around thinking that they are really, really smart quite often don’t have jobs, titles, income or any other indicator of intelligence.  As such, these liberals come to believe that there is a rigid class structure in which talent can not rise.  They believe this because if talent could rise, then wouldn’t they be richer or more powerful?

Therefore, they embrace the political royalty, and in that embrace, they are safe in the delusion that they are hidden geniuses.

So many liberals think that they are smart that the words “smart” or “intelligent” or any of their many synonyms now have no objective definition.  “Smart” can be self-defining.  That is, a person can walk around thinking that they are smart because others do not understand what they understand.  A person can walk around thinking that they are smart without any objective proof that their intelligence is anything but average or above-average. 

Thursday, December 18, 2008

‘09 Battlegrounds:  Another Dem Indicted in New Jersey

by W. T. Howes

The Conga Line of corruption in New Jersey has been leading more and more Democrat elected officials first to the court room, then to the GreyBar Hotel.  Yesterday, the Conga Line grew by one as the New Jersey Attorney General announced the indictment of a sitting New Jersey Assemblyman for using his legislative office to obtain, view and distribute child pornography.  The question for Republicans is convincing the public that they are not just more of the same.

Over the past seven years, New Jersey residents have watched one public official after another caught and convicted of public corruption, forced to resign their office in disgrace, then shuttled off to prison.  The Garden State has seen the conviction of such leading lights as Sharpe James, mayor of the state’s most populous city and a powerful state senator; Wayne Bryant, a powerful south Jersey state senator and holder of more public jobs than he could count; John Lynch, former state senate President and patron of former Governor Jim McGreevey.

Indeed, former Governor Jim McGreevey himself resigned in 2004 under a cloud of scandal.  His stated reason for resignation was the revelation that he was a “Gay American”.  However, his resignation coincided with the revelation that McGreevey was an unidicted co-conspirator in a corrupt land deal in his home county.

Despite the very public prosecution of these high profile Democrats and a host of lesser Democrat crooks in Essex, Hudson, Camden, Atlantic and Bergen Counties, the Democrats remain the majority party in New Jersey.  The Democrats hold the governor’s office and both houses of the legislature.  Democrats occupy both U.S. Senate seats and have upped their majority in the House delegation to 8-5.  They have taken control of county governments in the former GOP strongholds of Bergen County and Monmouth County, and consolidated their control in other counties.

Why is it that they can continue to make the state more and more blue each year? 

Answer number one is money.  Former Goldman Sachs CEO Jon Corzine ran successfully for U.S. Senate in 2000.  Since that time he has used his personal fortune to underwrite liberal causes, local Democrat organizations and local Democrat candidates across the state.  He has invested as much as two hundred million of his own dollars in the New Jersey Democratic Party.  The Corzine investment has made the organization flush with cash at all levels.

Answer number two is demographics.  New Jersey’s demogaphics have changed dramatically.  Its population has been in decline both in absolute numbers and in numbers relative to the rest of the nation.  New Jerseyans are moving out of the state to the west and the south.  Those emigrants tend to be more conservative and affluent.  New Yorkers are migrating in.  Those immigrants tend to the Democrat side.  Further, the Hispanic and Asian communities have coalesced around the Democrats.  The result is that the Republican base has shrunk in New Jersey.

Answer number three is cynicism.  There are many voters in urban areas who have a Machiavellian approach to corruption:  “Sure, my politician is corrupt, but who cares?  He/she gets things done for us.” Others dismiss claims about Dem corruption with the answer that the Republicans are no different.

Answer number four is politics.  Republicans held the majority from 1991 through 2001.  They ran on the core conservative principles of lower taxes, less government and more family, then gradually abandoned those principles.  Where the New Jersey Dems were the tax-and-spend party, the New Jersey GOP became the borrow-and-spend party

New Jersey will be one of two or three marquis races nation wide next year.  New Jersey Republicans have an opportunity to score an upset, thanks to the fiscal nightmare that has continued on the Dems’ watch and to the Conga Line of corruption.  New Jersey Republicans must unite around the candidate who wins the primary, and must also rally around the conservative principles that make the party great.