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"If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart and if you are not conservative at thirty, you have no brain."

Free People Need No Leader Throughout the summer’s town halls and protests, a passing question has been raised again and again by the media and their consorts: who is this movement’s “leader?� The assumption behind the question reveals something interesting about the questioners’ perspective. To ask this question, the questioner must believe that average people require a “leader� to tell them what they do and don’t want, what they must or mustn’t do and where they must or mustn’t do it. While it’s certainly true that we who resist federal intrusion into our every action must have representatives, free people...

Ever notice? When she’s angry, she starts talking a little faster, her eyes lids narrow a tad, and she talks through lips that are a bit closer together – and that faint frown of hers becomes almost permanent, yet a smile remains. She displayed all of those signs today. She didn’t say it in so many words, but if I don’t miss my bet, Sarah Palin just declared all-out war on the left – and believe me, she can wage that war like no other – as has been well demonstrated. No, she’s not about to run off into seclusion...

If only for this life we have Hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. 1 Corinthians 15:19 The days are numbered for Iran’s Supreme Mules. It doesn’t matter if Ahmacrazynutjob or Musavi is put in power by the power crazed Mooselip Marxists, Freedom is on the march. That is what unnerves dictators like a cat in a North Korean Kitchen as these protests grow, thanks to the Freedom President; George W Bush. Free Democracies are surrounding Iran and these people are finally saying, why not us? This would never be happening if Saddamn and the...

As dawn emerges over Tehran, the world awaits the outcome of the latest, great struggle for liberty.While none of us born in the US can quite grasp either the fear or exhilaration experienced by those on the streets of Tehran, they should know that we, the PEOPLE of the United States of America stand with them.To our great shame, our government does not.One day this historic injustice will be rectified.

Letterman has jumped the shark. The recent bad jokes about Palin and her daughter shows that Letterman has jumped the shark. A term used to describe a TV shows beginning of the end. This usually corresponds to the point where a show with falling ratings apparently becomes more desperate to draw in viewers. In the process of undergoing these changes, the TV or movie series loses its original appeal. Shows that have "jumped the shark" are typically deemed to have passed their peak. Face it if Letterman cannot or will not attack Obama or the Clintons so his show has...

What do you believe Obama will accomplish in his first 100 days? I'll give you a few to start... 1) Gays in the military 2) Unlimited tax funded abortion at all stages 3) Federal gay marriage laws 4) Naming sexual orientation as a federally protected class. Preach against it go to jail.

Thank you President George Bush! I believe that history will give President Bush his due - but as he finishes his second term, I thought it would be appropriate to thank him for his service to our country now. Come join me, and fight the tide of all those Bush haters! I know it is popular to trash on him, whether you are a Democrat or Republican, Liberal or Conservative. I personally have never seen a sitting President so attacked and maligned as he was in the media and the entertainment industry. The left has proven themselves to be a...

I realize I'm a relatively new FReeper, but I consulted the thread on vanity postings prior to posting this. If I've posted this incorrectly, please advise.

Since it's very obvious now that Barack Obama is NOT a "natural born" U.S. citizen and therefore unqualified to be President of the United States, has anyone considered filing a lawsuit to protect America's national security secrets, nuclear launch codes and the military chain of command in the event Obama is somehow sworn in as President? The lawsuit could state that Obama is not a "natural born citizen" based on all the evidence from the multitudes of lawsuits being filed against him regarding his citizenship status and thereby makes him unqualified to hold the office of President. The lawsuit would...

36-0 WHOOOOOOOOO. Thank God, I can go to work Monday. I've been letting my mouth overload my hind-quarters, and it would have been embarassing if the Tide had lost, or even if the Tigers had held it close. Bring on the Gators.

Let's get to the bottom of what party is better for the economy. In the last 40 years has any economic growth legislation been inspired by Democrats ?

Her VP nomination acceptance speech was amazing, energizing and excited millions. She was sharp, wholesome, down to earth, boldly conservative and beautiful. Then, the liberal media, blatantly committed to getting Obama elected, set out to destroy her. “Sarah Palin is stupid” was their mantra. Every late night talk show host, biased liberal TV interviewer, biased liberal newspaper reporter and democrat talking head united to create the paradigm, “Palin is an idiot”. Suddenly, every word out of Sarah's mouth was under severe scrutiny. Who could survive such a tsunami of attacks on their intellect? Meanwhile, Obama saying the US has 57...

At a funeral one day, the minister stood up and said, "You know, I didn't know Ralph terribly well. Could someone stand up and say something nice about him?" Silence. Finally, a guy stands up in the back of the room to offer words of consolation. "Yes?" the minister says. "His brother was worse," the mourner says. It's an old joke, but for bond investors, it rings true: The only thing good that can be said about bond funds lately is that stock funds have been worse. If you're looking for someplace to put your money, a high-grade corporate bond...

The reinvention of Spitler is underway.....we’re all supposed to forget his crimes because HE wants to get back in the game. This multi-faceted PR-driven reinvention is costing big bucks......an editorial in the WaPo, and whatnot. Probably his daddy dipped into the tax-exempt family "foundation" to bailout little Eliot. Spitzer escaped criminal charges so expect to hear him whine that since he wasn't charged with breaking laws, he should be forgiven in order to return to politics. He wants Obama to hire him----to shamelessly resurrect his tarnished image "walking on water beside the Messiah." The larger question is not who---but how...

I know that many of you were as disappointed in the last election as I was. But why was the election lost by the GOP? There were a number of factors contributing to this, and early on with the Northern states allowing open primaries for Democrats and Moderates to "cross-over" and vote for "their" candidate of McCain. Taking nothing away of the man's military service, these early primaries ensured that all we got as a candidate was a Democrat-Light who made a name for himself of "reaching out and across the aisle." And he then went so far as to...

I have to write about patriotism for an ethics course, and give a "bad" example of it.

General Motors chairman Rick Wagoner says that his company is in such poor financial shape -- indeed, Deutsche Bank considers the company's stock worthless -- that it "needs" welfare assistance from American taxpayers before it runs out of cash. Well, Wagoner didn't put it exactly like that. He called it a "federal aid package." "This is an issue that needs to be addressed urgently," Wagoner told Automotive News, adding that now is the time to "overshoot, not undershoot" the level of assistance. GM is willing to offer the government preferred stock, speed the introduction of fuel-efficient vehicles and set limits...

I was in Chicago to make speech to meeting of bankers, stock brokers, RE brokers, professional investors, etc. They all had one question: When will MSM admit that market meltdown is reaction to knowledge that Obama's people will run country, and business leaders of all ilks have absolutely no confidence in Dems? Most interesting were Social Liberals who loved Obama's social programs, but hate his approach to everything else, and blame him for market crash.

Seems like cutting the capital gains tax would have been a whole lot better than this Bailout. Cheaper too. This whole Bailout has led to untold worldwide economic turmoil and collapse. Why doesn't the president Fire the Secretary of the Treasury and cut capital gains immediately. Maybe we can cancel the bailout before much of the $$$ is spent and do what was needed in the first place. Who knows the market might be 15,000 if he a had done that in Sept. One dang this is for sure it would not be this bad and every Tom, Dick and...

Don’t get me wrong Ronald Wilson Reagan is my favorite politician of the 20th Century but it seems that ever since Reagan conservatives have made two tactical errors: 1) A reliance on personalities to carry the message; and 2) Treating conservatism as a political dogma and not an ideological movement. Our Reliance initially on Reagan and now persons like Rush, Hannity and others to carry the ball is a ‘from the top down’ attitude that directly conflicts with the very notion of conservatism. Reliance on personalities, no matter how true to the cause, allows the other side to attack the...

I would like to suggest to those who are discouraged by the results of the Republican Primary, and the Presidential Election outcome, that you join your local Republican Party as soon as possible. That you actually attend the meetings, take on the jobs, do the work, not for your own political gain, but to support your conservative priniples and conservative candidates who will have mass appeal( like Sarah Palin). Four years will be here before you know it, and we can not take another setback of this magnitude. It is time to start promoting NEW CONSERVATIVE TALENT ,not just promote...

I'm sorry for the vanity, but I'm really tired of sitting around complaining and I want to join a group to try to have an effect on upcoming elections, especially after seeing Sarah on Greta's show. I want to support Sarah and candidates like her. Dick Morris has touted The National Republican Trust, are there any other organizations out there I can support as far as time and some money goes? For the moment I'm done giving to the RNC, I'm kind of mad at how Sarah has been treated and would rather contribute elsewhere if possible to help out...

Understanding Peggy Noonan I read the other day that Peggy Noonan voted for John McCain. What's news is that that is news. You would think that we could assume a leading conservative writer didn't vote for Barack Obama, but Peggy Noonan has given us reason to wonder. After Peggy declared that “Palin's Failin'”, the notion was taken up far and wide that she wandered from the conservative fold. “Peggy, we hardly knew ye” has become a refrain among on-line conservatives. But her wanderings didn't begin with that op-ed. I have read all of Peggy Noonan's books and followed her column...

Folks, It is not too early to start thinking about 2012. I think, if he is indeed a Republican, that General David Petraeus would be a PHENOMENAL candidate for the Republicans. I, for one, do think that in four years time it will not be "bread and butter" tabletop, economic issues that will be driving national debate but instead a myriad of increasingly frightening international developments, i.e., a nuclear-enabled Iran, a collapse of a nuclear-capable North Korea, continued Al Quada militancy, and the largest one, an attack by Russia upon the independent nation of the Ukraine. Americans will tire of...

It's been over a week since the grandmother who raised Him died. I haven't heard anything about a funeral, nor more than a few perfunctory remarks by him (shades of Camus' "The Stranger"). Its bad enough that his daughters didn't see her during their Hawaii vacation this summer, but what gives? The Man won, can't they pay their last respects?

The demographics are frankly killing us. Kerry won the latino vote 53%-44% four years ago. Obama won the latino vote 67%-31%. Obama won the latino vote in Florida for the first time ever. Obama vastly increased his share of the latino vote in Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. If McCain wasn't on the ticket, Arizona would have been very competitive as well. And we probably got another decade before Texas becomes a purple state unless we reverse the trends here. Bush won Texas by 23% with Kerry getting 50% of the latino vote. McCain won it by 11% with Obama...

Shame on you Senator McCain! Not ONE word from you in defense of Sarah Palin regarding the attacks on her??? Shame on you.

The Republican Party as it is now has no chance in a large part of the country, and lacks direction in the rest. The only one I can see at this time that has his hand on the pulse of the movement is Rush Limbaugh. A new base of operations needs to be established and soon before even the remnants of the movement are scattered with such things as the fairness doctrine. So I am appealing to you Rush Limbaugh to start a new party.

Today on FOX News, Katon Dawson, head of the South Carolina Republican Party spoke out in support of Sarah Palin. Apparently he is the ONLY Republican to have done so. I think we shold CONTACT Mr. Dawson and express our support of him for supporitng Sarah Palin. Again, a check to the South Carolina Republican Committee might make sense. Mr. Dawson pointed out that the attacks against Palin are anonymous, are being spread by the leftist media, and if successful, will go on to smear Jindal, Sandford, etc, in the same way. His web site is: http://www.scgop.com/ The RNC is...

Okay, so we are looking at a few years of outright democrat control of the WH, Senate and House. The prospects for Americans is rather dour on the whole but there are ways to prosper and build "something" for the future. I fully expect people to jump on and complain about outright government confiscation of wealth and compensation and whatever else they need to say but there are other places to rant about that. What I would like to start a discussion on is how people can make money for themselves, their families and the causes that they choose to...

An Excellent Editorial posted on City on a Hill Political Observer. The mainstream media and the Obama-Biden campaign made the political assassination of Governor Sarah Palin their number one goal during the 2008 election cycle. The agile and tough Alaskan moose-hunter was able to survive the attempt on her political life, but left this campaign field bloodied. In the past few days some second-rate hacks within the McCain campaign and establishment elites within the GOP have tried to finish the job. They must not and will not succeed. It is often quoted by some random Alaskan politician that, “the Alaskan...

'Carter hailed Ceausescu, dictator of the most repressive police state in Eastern Europe, as a "great national and international leader" who had "taken on a role of leadership in the entire international community." Triumphant, Ceausescu brought home a joint communiqué in which the American president stated that his friendly relations with Ceausescu served "the cause of the world..."' - Ion Pacepa (Former Romanian head of intel, who defected). Fast forward to today: Obama hailed Ahmadinejad, dictator of the most repressive police state in the Middle East, as a "great national and international leader" who had "taken on a role of...

Question: What happened to FreeRepublic yesterday? It was unavailable? I was beginning to suffer from truth withdrawal syndrome.

There are still a few very good Conservatives in Congress, but they're a dying breed on the verge of extinction. We need to organize a grass-roots movement to support our good men and women in enemy territory. We need to send them cards and letters, call their offices, offer encouragement and support and send them pizzas during filibusters. Please, is there a reliable, organized FReeper who can organize an "Adopt a Cute Pubbie" program? This FReeper needs to research and locate the true conservatives and the RINOS. They need to develop a list of of email addresses, phone numbers and...

There has been an overwhelming response to the call to BOYCOTT FOX because of their trashing of Sarah Palin on their various programs, especially by Carl Cameron and Shep Smith. The one-week BOYCOTT began yesterday - Thursday, at 3:00 PM EST. While some of you remarked that you had already tuned them out, many of you agreed to begin doing so. To broaden the BOYCOTT, post this on as many conservative blogs that you can. The Nielsen ratings might not relfect the BOYCOTT but you can be sure that FOX's sponsors will not be happy, and it's all about money...

Okay, I think I see it now. Rush is right, McCain will do this, and Obama will get 30 million more voters for big government. Folks, we (conservatives) will never win another election. See the posts on how the Republican party in league with FoxNews are trying to destory Palin, this is being done for a reason, she was brought on merely as a ruse to play us, and it worked, they have no intention of returning to convervative values, they no longer believe, we have been royaly fooled, our own party is the enemy, how else could a socialist/marxist...

Enough already. Please.Vanities used to be well thought out, researched and/or funny and somewhat rare. Now the vanities consist of whatever crap pops in someone's head and they are drowning out whatever news is being posted.I'm not the forum police, but please add you're rant, joke or pearl of wisdom to an ongoing thread.

I hereby submit the following proposal which I guarantee will cause the LA Times to release the Obama-Khalidi Party tape: Just copy and paste the following to russ.stanton@latimes.com : Dear Mr. Stanton, Editor of the mighty Los Angeles Times: I write to you regarding a matter of great national security. I am quite worried that the LA Times may be tempted by public pressure to release materials that would set back our nations war against terror. My business provides lunch catering to the CIA's training facilities for agents looking to infiltrate Middle Eastern terrorist organizations. (You should stop by and...

This election is by no means lost. For God would not be stirring up his children all across this nation and indeed around the world, to pray, if he did not want to give us the victory in this election. And he wants us to join him in the battle. God will hear the cries of his children if we will only cry out to him with fervent, earnest, prayers for this election and this nation. If those who are being drawn to prayer by the Spirit will indeed enter into a time of prayer and seeking His face, then...

Pick up on of your children's books and read it... Does it share your values? Does it demonstrate what you want your children to learn??? I was recently given a book called "The Rainbow Fish", I read it before attempting to read it to my son and gave the book back to the person who gave it to me.... It is about this fish who was more beautiful than the other fish. The other fish wanted one of his colorful scales and he refused to give his scales away, wouldn't you know... The other fish refused to talk to him...

I was thinking about the election day debacle coming up. I don't like all this early voting nonsense, especially since you don't have to show ID to vote in all 50 states. 0bama telling everyone just to take the day off is ridiculous also, but I do support the idea of election day being a holiday. Finally, it just hit me. Since everyone in America owes their freedom to vote to our Veterans, why not move Veteran's Day from November 11th to Election Day. Make sure to keep calling it Veteran's day, because we owe it all to them, but...

Shall we start with copies of his college & law school SATs, LSATs, class rankings and overall GPA scores and grades?

I think it's pretty obvious that the MSM is NOT serving ALL American voters in this election-and has not for a very long time. Also... I work at a survey research center, and I can tell you that even if the MSM was scrupulously unbiased in its presentation of survey results, it would not matter. The surveys themselves are utterly skewed and the data is worthless. This country conducted elections before the age of 24/7 television hype so I say... return to THAT scenario. We don't need to be perpetually deluged with eroneous data in order to make up our...

As an 'observer' (I'm British lol), what has surprised me about this election is how the grass routes...i.e. FR, has dug out most of the dirt trail Obama has left behind him. All these quotes, have been turned up by the base doing their homework. This marxist really is the most despicable candidate ever put forward by one of the main parties. Is there any sort of organized campaign to research this man? Little drips and drabs have come out...but I just have a feeling, with enough of us doing out homework, searching the archives, doing a little homework...there is...

How about Ollie North. He has been MIA at FOX for at least 30 days. Shawn mentioned him last night? Will he appear the next 48 hours with something breaking like the OCTOBER SURPRISE?I sure hope so!

Anyone watching the HBO movie "Recount" about the 2000 election will notice a scene where a banner plane is flying overhead with "Surrender Gorethy". Not as famous as Sore/Loserman but one of many Freeper inspired slogans that helped shape the mood during Gore's attempt to steal the 2000 election. Back in those days it was our own "Freeper Airforce" who took to the skies to put up these political messages. Freepers "Seeking the Truth" (aka Gene) and "flygirl" seem to have been flying political messages as early as October and flew the "Surrender Gorethy" banner on Thursday 11/16/2000. So my...

I've seen others refer to this. But I don't know where they are getting the information. Does anyone know what their rating is currently?

It is time to face the real heart of what Obama has in mind for this country should he be elected. He knows, and his Marxist handlers know, that when his true social and economic plans are revealed there will be resistance. We have clues as to how he plans to handle this resistance in the way Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin, and various uppity reporters have been attacked. However, there are darker, more alarming hints.

I am a Reagan Conservative. I came of age in my political thought during Reagan’s rise and was inspired by his faith in people and the love of our Country. I think it was Reagan who said, “If people have a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, they will always choose the Democrat”. What I always took this to mean is People will always chose the candidate who held strong beliefs in core political values over the middle of the road candidate. The choice in this election is between a Democrat and a democrat (little d intentional). It is...