Posted on 01/08/2008 7:17:35 AM PST by jellybean
Keep it going!
I'm going to have to give small this time, yet it all counts!
I sent for stickers for my car, I ordered 10 because they always get bleached out from the sun. Going to put one on my husbands car too. I wish I could hand them out to my in-laws but they are all yukky demoRATS.
EVERY dollar counts! If everyone on the FRed list at FR gave only a dollar, that would add over $350.00!
Give one to them anyhow! Fred is looking for conservative, patriotic Democrats as well as Independents and Republicans.
The red truck is doing well
Red truck is doing well...317,000 he needs 540,000, but his new members that he touted about is dismal at best. He only has 3500 new members and he is wanting 50,000 by Friday? Why did he put that number so high???? That is surely going to get news that he did not make that quota. I would have said 5,000.
“Here will be the tell of the tale. If he stays, we will know it is about ego, not what is best for the party or nation. That is the question I ponder when I think of Mitt Romney...”
Well, he’ll be staying in then.
I Looked Into His Soul and Saw…An Obnoxious Liberal Democrat! By Repair Man Jack (Redstate)
President George W. Bush’s initial assessment of Russian President Vladamir Putin was grossly exaggerated.
"I was able to get a sense of his soul, a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country," Bush declared after their 2001 visit.
This obviously preceded the entire sordid Yukos Affair. (Don’t worry; the second half of this pdf is in English!) While Mikhail Khodorkovsky is not the universally revered innocent victim his supporters make him out to be, we saw a good deal of Vladamir Putin’s soul on display when he dealt with Russia’s version of T Boone Pickens. Putin seemed more committed to crushing a rival and grabbing his loot than he was to the wellbeing of the Russian oil industry.
Yes, with Vladamir Putin it all seemed to be related to grabbing up power and controlling all of the levers thereof. This is what you’d expect from a man who’s historical predecessors included Joseph Stalin and Ivan The Terrible.
With role models galore at home, from running the gamut from the aforementioned Ivan The Terrible to the ravenous Catherine The Great, Putin surprised me by globalizing when looking for a properly despotic tyrant to model his regime on. He choose America’s foremost totalistic power monger. He modeled his career on that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
This choice surprised me on first glance, but it actually made a tremendous amount of sense. Putin says of Roosevelt the following.
"Roosevelt laid out his plan for the country's development for decades in advance," he gushed at a news conference last fall. "At the end of the day, it turned out that the implementation of that plan benefited ordinary citizens and the elites and eventually brought the United States to the position it is in today." - Reuters, 18 Oct 2007
Upon further review, Roosevelt was a perfect template for Putin to follow. Putin, like FDR, had a badly damaged economy he needed to rebuild. Like FDR, Putin wanted to centralize control over Russia’s assets into his own hands. Also, like FDR, Putin can’t just take all this power by fiat. He has to convince people to voluntarily part with their power and entrust him with their wellbeing.
Thus when Frenchman Bernard Fey called FDR “a veritable dictator, supported by the enthusiasm and affection of the masses,” Fey had walked right past the essence of how modern dictators ascend. The modern dictator has to convince people that he is leading them to something better by relieving them of their responsibilities.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt laid the pathway to dictatorship with his freedoms. As a great master of propaganda, Roosevelt described his plans as freedom from want, freedom from fear. No government can guarantee its citizens freedom from want and freedom from fear. All six billion of us human beings want the world. Only one world exists to hand out as candy. The logic of Roosevelt’s fundamental immorality was right there in front of America, but our ancestors all were rendered desperate enough by The Great Depression to buy into his snake oil emporium.
So Vladamir Putin found his circumstances closely matched those experienced by FDR in the United States. Like FDR, he took economic disaster and societal hopelessness and ennui and used them as tools to acquire more power. Unlike FDR, Putin had no great institutional forces to check his avarice. Unlike FDR, Putin seems able to get away with completely destroying a democracy on the ropes.
Putin’s profound respect and admiration for FDR should be a warning to us all. His success in following in FDR’s footsteps should sound a wake up call to Americans concerned about our own state of democracy. Several of the people running for president in 2008 echo FDR’s themes. John Edwards, Mike Huckabee and Hillary Rodham Clinton all three have cast the rich and the corporate interests as villains while promoting more government as our path to salvation and better morals.
In any election where a major issue winning votes is a fundamental fear of the economic uncertainty, America’s commitment to economic freedom and private property is at stake. Sometimes the only way a demagogue can even begin to honor promises like freedom from want and freedom from fear is to steal that property and security from someone else by government force.
The voters in this winter’s primary elections owe American Democracy a duty. They need to ask Hillary Rodham Clinton where she gets off “taking things away from us for our own good.” They need to demand of Mike Huckabee what will start happening to CEOs, or any other business entrepreneurs, who get more in salary or benefits than King Mike The Minister approves of. The voters need to demand of John Edwards, and for that matter Mitt Romney, where either gets off telling the average American what their healthcare expenditures are going to be.
Whether the tyranny in question is the McCain Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, Rudy Giuliani’s support for increased gun control, or Barack Obama’s desire to mandate to automobile companies how they are going to design their cars, the vast majority of the candidates running for President this year seem to be running on the proposition that they should relieve of at least some portion of the troubling civic duties that come coupled with freedom in a representative democracy.
With the exception of Fred Thompson’s call for renewing Federalism, no candidate running in either party, has espoused any agenda that would actually give Americans more individual freedom rather than less. This is something that repulses me. Maybe Time Magazine should have made Vladamir Putin Man of The Year in 2007.
Just as Vladamir Putin idealized FDR for enhancing government power during a democracy, at least six of our current Presidential candidates show ominous tendencies to behave in a similar matter, on at least some issues facing America today. Rather than continue having “New New Deals”, let’s take away some of the cards and break up the crony poker game in modern DC.
The next K-Street Project I want to see is a demolition. Dreams of central planning can never be realized in a democracy where power has been properly devolved from the central location. When Fred Thompson calls for greater distribution of power and responsibility, he demands that we all grow up and do what is necessary to continue enjoying freedom. It calls for hard work. Doing that in modern America seems like a one-way ticket to the single-digit poll numbers.
If Fred Dalton Thompson were to look into Vladamir Putin’s soul and tell us what he saw there, the network carrying the broadcast would need a 10 second time delay to bleep out the condign profanities. Many now consider Barack Obama as a possible heir to FDR’s legacy. Fred Thompson saw Obama’s soul clearly when he said “He’s a liberal, and he’ll wreck America.” This is exactly what Putin did to Russia and exactly what another President from either party could do to us if they invested themselves as heavily in strong, centralized government as FDR.
My family are all for Fred so we just have to work on my husbands.
Fred on Radio and TV By Sean Hackbarth in Announcements
Fred taped an interview for The Sean Hannity Show today. Sorry, but I don’t know in what hour Sean will play it.
Fred will also be interviewed on The Fox Report at 7:10 ET.
OK, Jellybean. I have donated several times, but will give more to help in South Carolina. Hope he wins on the 19th as it would be a nice birthday present for me on Jan.21.
Wish I could hop on a plane and help where needed, but ‘tis just wishful thinking, so will keep the donations coming.
I just got my yard sign. A month until our primary.
I would have gotten it sooner, but I have a NASTY HOA.
I meant to contribute a few bucks over the weekend, got distracted with the race-car rebuild...I’ll make the doanation double tonite when I get home!!!
Spooky, Jellybean. Read your list of things to do without, and I had just canceled a hair appt.
I give palm readings one the side! :)
Hey, FlashBack! Someday your children will thank you for helping save the Republic!
Spooky, Jellybean. Read your list of things to do without, and I had just canceled a hair appt.
I KNEW you were going to say that! LOL
OK....I’ll do it from work now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We got him second in our precinct, wish he’d have faired better state wide.....heading over to stoke the fire....be back shortly.
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