Oh, Please…Republicans Take Knives to Gunfights
There’s a reason the New York Times endorsed John McCain in the primary. Witness the BHO (Barack Hussein Obama) controversy.
From the Nashville City Paper:
While Sen. John McCain this week repudiated using Sen. Barack Obama’s middle name of Hussein, the Tennessee Republican Party embraced it Wednesday but later backtracked after a scolding from a party elder.
and this:
Smith said that presidents or presidential hopefuls are often referred to with their middle names included.
“I think I have heard Richard Milhous Nixon, Dwight David Eisenhower,” Smith said. “I think I’ve heard Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, LBJ, on and on and on.”
When asked if Obama’s middle name though — the same as former Iraqi president and tyrant Saddam Hussein — gave off a different connotation, Smith suggested that Obama’s parents needed to be contacted.
“You can call his momma and daddy on that one,” Smith said.
Apparently, though, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) thought the press release and use of the middle name could be considered “inappropriate.”
Wednesday afternoon, Alexander spoke with Smith. Later, the picture of Obama and the use of his middle name were subsequently removed from the Tennessee GOP’s Web site.
And at some point, good Republicans like Tennessee’s GOP Chair Robin Smith need to wake up and realize that spineless Republicans like Senator Lamar Alexander are interested in their own personal legacies, not electing Republicans, and sure as heck not interested in helping elect conservative Republicans. You think a bunch of these Democrats are endorsing Lamar because he’s so very GOP? You think Tennessee is still run by Democrats because Lamar has worked his plaid little rear off? Hardly.
Robin, you should have stuck to your guns. Lamar did you no favors other than embarrass the hell out of you with his namby, pamby to-be-expected political correctness. Here’s what you should have said, “I’ll stop using his middle name when cowards like Obama stop talking about giving America a black eye by pulling out of Iraq and back-tracking on our commitment to our Middle Eastern friends.”
Obama won’t denounce Minister Farrakhan
Or how about “I’ll stop using his middle name, when BHO denounces Farrakhan.”
You know the funniest thing about all of this is that Obama never even asked for an apology! We’re beating ourselves up on this one! Self-censorship!
Democrats played class warfare over and over again by referring to the elder Bush as George Herbert Walker Bush to play up the blue blood heritage. Remember bottle-blonde Ann Richards and the “poor ole’ George was born with a silver foot in his mouth” angle?
Ann Richards: “Poor George. He can’t help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth!”
Please, you want to know why we lose elections? Republicans like Lamar and McCain who won’t dare to stand and confront liberalism at its core. They play a game of Dem-lite, agreeing to the premises of the Democratic Party, the liberal establishment, but trying to throw a GOP wig on it. For example, we’ll agree to expanding SCHIP to the middle class, but we’ll give it a GOP gloss by not going all the way up to earners making a $90 K a year. Oh, that’s Republican! Underbidding Democrats!
It’s a failing strategy.
Ms. Robin Smith has good instincts. If she continues to use them, she’ll rebuild the grassroots. But if she, like most of our former GOP Chairmen think they need the dollars from the moderate big boys, they’ll have plenty of money to spread around on races, but they won’t rally the troops in the field. And it takes troops to win.
And who told the Nashville City Paper that Lamar called Robin Smith anyway? Lamar? If Lamar wasn’t putting on a show for the media, Robin Smith could have quietly stopped using the middle name. But that wasn’t Lamar’s goal, was it? It kind of makes this statement in his latest press release about humiliation seem a tad insincere:
Alexander also hopes to help shape the GOP’s 2008 identity by what it does not do, namely the practice of what he calls “playpen politics” — an exploitation of the political and legislative processes for political gain when humiliation of your opponent is the goal. It is something he accused Democrats of pursuing this week during work on the economic stimulus package.
The story is front page, top of the fold, main headline in a Tom Humphrey article in the News Sentinel.
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I loved seeing Bill Cunningham finally get the good slapping he deserved. Even better, he wailed and moaned like a drunk who has been thrown out of a bar at three in the morning for busting up the furniture.
I haven’t even checked, but I’ll bet he, too, passed up his opportunity to serve his country.
By SemiPundit on 02.28.08 9:20 am
Yes, Semi–now if only Obama would give Farrakhan the “good slapping” he deserves. But oh, wait…folks are offended by the use of Obama’s real name, but yet intentional, overt racism is acceptable, huh?
By Terry on 02.28.08 11:06 am
Ms. Terry,
I am very distraught over our presumptive nominee’s extremely close ties to the mob syndicate through his beer distributor father-in-law. Research and see what father-in-law Jim Hensley was rewarded with, once he took the fall and served time for his mob connected boss liquor distributor Kemper Marley. McCain is particularly close to Joseph “Joe Bananas” Bonmano, head of the NY Bonano crime family who retired to Arizona.
Not only that but Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager recently facillitated a meeting between McCain and Oleg Deripaska, a Ukraninan billionare with ties to organized Russian crime. So scary. Everyone knows that the Communists said they would take us from within without firing a shot. SCARY.
As a God fearing women I am having a hard time voting for a man who’s money not only comes from the sale of beer, but is alleged to have been backed in his political career with mob money. How have you made peace with this?
I have heard talk that these men are very powerful and they are the reason the McCain was able to come from last with no money to first with money in our primary. Makes sense since you can’t find a Republican that likes him.
Does it make you nervous that we may be handing the reins of the greatest country in the world over to a mobster?
Do you think that is why the party leaders are acting so wimpy? They are afraid if they hit the Demorats too hard that they will use this against McCain? This is such a bad situation.
By slamkitty on 02.28.08 12:25 pm
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56854
Here’s the link for the Russian Mobster Story. Scary!
By slamkitty on 02.28.08 12:29 pm
Lamar! and B-Ho are in the same party – the CFR.
Do you think either one will denounce the Canadamerican army?
http://tinyurl.com/2yx4ze
The two-parties-no-choice system is quickly bringing us the North American Union. This name-calling crap is just distraction.
By Eric Holcombe on 02.28.08 12:30 pm
McCain seems to think that by protecting Barack Hussein Obama, he will do some good. Well, as a voter I don’t care one bit what he can and will do for Barack Hussein Obama. I want to know what he plans on doing for our country. McCain will lose this election yet if he keeps trying. Say it with me John; “I think I can. I think I can.” John McCain (I hope he doesn’t mind me calling him by his name) doesn’t want us to call one of his prospective opponents by their complete name. So I guess I will just call her Hillary —— Clinton from now on. Now isn’t that just stupid? Of course it is. Barack Hussein Obama just might have to thicken up that skin of his and deal with that name. I know that other people have changed their name and prisoners do it all the time. WOW. Here is a thought, they actually change their names TO Muslim sounding names. Maybe if we had socialized medicine, Barack Hussein Obama could get some sort of surgery to correct that terrible name he hides from.
That Lamar Alexander, yes I am naming names, is showing us just how much he has moved into the liberals camp and how little he is willing to stand up for what is right and for conservative Republican values. I can’t wait until his office calls looking for cash. I have not been all that happy with the TNGOP but I think that Robin (unknown middle name) Smith should have told Lamar “used to claim GOP” Alexander exactly how and where to step off. I think in the long run that this Robin Smith episode will help expose the “plaid boy” for what he is with plenty of time for perhaps some REAL leadership to make an appearance in the great state of Tennessee.
We don’t even need to talk about Farrakhan. Barack Hussein Obama will take the endorsement of the NOI, but doesn’t want to be associated with them. Does that mean he wants my vote but not to be associated with me?
Let’s look at how they can but no one else is allowed to. We probably have as many people wearing Republican Tshirts running around making sure that Barack Hussein Obama isn’t annoyed or upset at the temperature of his tea as we did to defend George Walker Bush against an attack based on false papers. The liberals certainly kept up the attack even after they were determined to be forgeries. And then in stark contrast we have McCain and our current crop of GOP sellouts.
Go ahead GOP, when are you going to call me again for a donation?
And Barack Hussein Obama is a liberal. I anxiously await Alexander’s call to chastise me.
By BCB on 02.28.08 8:45 pm
God save us from the likes of Lamar and John McCain. Don’t be looking for my vote.
By sid on 02.28.08 9:08 pm
Barack at the debate:
I have been very clear in my denunciations of him and his past statements
Perhaps you could write up a list of ways that he must say the same thing in order to get the point across.
By Sean Braisted on 02.28.08 10:23 pm
Well, you guys know how liberal I am by now. Some have accused me (kidding of course) as being 200 miles to the left of Karl Marx. That’s actually not true. It’s not Karl Marx. It’s 200 miles to the left of Groucho Marx.
Actually, a couple of years ago, I wrote to John McCain to tell him that I could vote for him and might very well do it if he ever runs for President. I meant it too. John McCain is a great American who is not wed to any ideology except honest and balanced service to the American people. That is people with a little “p.” He is a renegade. He is a maverick. When stuck between a rock and a hard place, he is a real risk to knuckle under and do the right thing.
Therefore, yes, I would agree with most of you. If you are a strong ideological conservative in the vein of Buchanan, Buckley, Bill Kristol, etc., it would be very hard to vote for McCain. It would be a crime against conscience. It would be selling out danged near everthing that you hold dear.
Remember the old TV show “Wagon Train.” There is a drought on. The water barrels were all spilled in a fight with the Indians. Water is rationed. They are down to their last ounce of liquid. Then a sniffling little coward waits until everyone else is asleep and slips back to the water bottle to take the last gulp all for himself. Is that John McCain or is that you voting for him?
I rest my case.
By Tracy on 02.28.08 11:49 pm
When doing the right thing is the right thing, then he should admit it. Were the tax cuts the right thing? What is the reason that he tries to push on us NOW that he did not vote for it? Now he says it was for balanced spending, then he was playing class warfare. He says that he is a strong supporter of border security and yet I have this quote: “goddamned fence” rattling around in my skull from a few months back. For the record he told Sean Hannity that he had NOT changed his views on immigration amnesty. So what IS the right thing? If it was right then it should be right now and political expediency should not be an issue. I just might be a maverick and a renegade and not vote for him, how would he like that? Was the right thing a limitation on my 1st Amendment with McCain-Feingold? He is very quick to criticize the Swifties when THEY were acting as mavericks and doing what THEY thought was right. Hmmm, do as he say and not as he do? HAHAHA
McCain likes the attention and will continue to go out and be a maverick for the shock and awe of it. I think most of us got it out of our system with long hair and maybe an earring when we were teenagers. He waits until he is in a position of power to try to get back at daddy.
By BCB on 02.29.08 6:52 am
Sean: So that’s why Barack continues to go to a church where the likes of Farrakhan are given meritorious awards, right?
Please, he rode the fence…which is why the Media Dean, Tim Russert, kept pressing him.
By Terry on 02.29.08 8:11 am
Terry,
He went to that church a long while before a magazine affiliated with the church gave Farrakhan an award. Do you agree with everything your pastor says or thinks about politics? Or do you go for the sermon?
By Sean Braisted on 03.02.08 11:24 pm
Sean, what we have here is more than an isolated issue or
difference between a pastor and a member of the “flock.”
A. The “church” the BHO attends is well known for its Afro-centric
teachings. The Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) has adopted
the Black Value System. Here it is:
1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the Black Community
3. Commitment to the Black Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness”
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills
available to the Black Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources
for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and
embrace the Black Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.
Perhaps we should pay particular attention to numbers 2, 3, 6, 8,
10, 11 and 12. Is that the change we want? What if the church
attended by McCain or any other candidate had the same system but
the word WHITE was in place of BLACK? How would that fly?
Racism?
B. In case anyone needs reminding or education on what the Minister
Farrakhan stands for let me give it a whirl.
He once called Judaism a “gutter religion” and praised Adolph
Hitler as a “great” man.
“White people are potential humans…they haven’t evolved yet.” —
Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/18/00
According to a journalist’s account, “Farrakhan called ‘the white
man’ the ‘anti-Christ’ to rousing applause.” — Jackson, MS,
9/19/97, Clarion-Ledger, 9/21/97
The Nation of Islam teaches that whites are descended from the
devil and that blacks are the chosen people of Allah.
We don’t even need to remind people that Farrakhan told the world
that O.J. Simpson was guilty of sleeping with the devil (Nicole
Simpson).
C. Michelle Obama is also someone with some unresolved race issues.
In her thesis divides America into white society and black society. So much for her husband’s claim of “change.” She further explains how she will work to ELEVATE blacks above whites. “There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost.” Is it reasonable to think that having a husband as President of the United States she might think he was a “resource”?
I bet that she would use her husband for the furtherance of her agenda: “Predominately white universities like Princeton are socially and academically designed to cater to the needs of the white students comprising the bulk of their enrollments.”
Reading one of the conclusions of this thesis makes me wonder how much unifying she will let her husband try or if he even wants to. “I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility.”
So let us look. His religious leader/mentor is a racially motivated person that some would call a racist if he were white. He receives an endorsement from Farrakhan. Farrakhan receives a lifetime achievement award from his religious leader/mentor. This award could not be for the support of Christianity by this quasi-Muslim so it must be for the furtherance of the black causes. Obama’s own wife has very definite and dangerous racial views too. One occurrence is isolated. Twice might be a coincidence, but three connections like that show a pattern. Is that what we want?
By BCB on 03.03.08 7:23 pm
John/”Lassieboy”: Your comments have not appeared because you used a phony email address. Have the guts to leave a real identity and I’ll welcome you to the forum.
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