The MacRanger Show - Interview with LTC (R) Allen West Ready for Download!
May 17 at 4:04pm by Macranger
I hope you were able to listen into The MacRanger Show today and my interview with LTC (R) Allen West, who is running for congress in our own 22nd District here in Broward County Florida. If didn’t catch the show you can listen again via the player on the right sidebar or via the iTunes store by searching “MacRanger”.
After getting a chance to talk with Allen I am even more impressed than before with his candor, vision and leadership. He’s just the kind of man we need to turn our conservative fortunes around by returning the Republican Party to it’s true conservative roots.
Give a listen for yourself, the interview comes in about the 30 minute mark. Additionally do visit his website at http://www.Allenwestforcongress.com and sign up as a supporter and even more important still GIVE DEEPLY over at his contribute page. He’s running up against Democrat Ron Klein who is well funded by special interest lobbies and recently used $100,000 of taxpayer money to have flyers printer for his reelection.
Klein unseated long term Republican Clay Shaw in 2006, but this is still a RED district and we can get it back if we all pull together. Please give and show your support!
Stolen Valor Hack Tom Harkin should STFU
May 17 at 10:10am by Macranger
How this lying sack of rice paddy goo is still a senator is anyone’s guess. After lying about his NO service in Vietnam, he has the gonads to slam us vets who happen to come from a long line of military men.
“Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, “and he has a hard time thinking beyond that,” Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday.
“I think he’s trapped in that,” Harkin said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. “Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous.”
Harkin said that “it’s one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that’s just how you’re steeped, how you’ve learned, how you’ve grown up.”
A McCain spokesman said Harkin’s remarks were offensive and showed that Democrats are out of touch with Americans’ values.
“Senator Harkin’s comments are an affront to the many thousands of Iowans who have served our country so valiantly for generations,” said spokesman Jeff Sadosky. “This sort of attack shows just how out of touch Democratic leadership has become with the values that have made our country so great.”
This is not the first time Harkin has commented about McCain. In April, Harkin said McCain’s temper was “scary,” and Harkin questioned whether “flying off the handle” might affect McCain’s judgment in the Oval Office.”
You know what’s scary Harkin, that you are a lying sack of crap turncoat. Hows that for scary?
Is Obama Mentally Unfit for Office?
May 17 at 9:09am by Macranger
Despite Obama’s, and his enabling minions, the fact is that he owns the appeasement label - he earned it. It wasn’t George Bush who said he would sit down with Iran without preconditions, it was Obama during a Presidential debate. But even more unsettling is the realization that the Democratic Party’s choice for President might be a few fries short of a happy meal.
First to an article today fromMark Steyn.
“President Bush was in Israel the other day and gave a speech to the Knesset. Its perspective was summed up by his closing anecdote – a departing British officer in May 1948 handing the iron bar to the Zion Gate to a trembling rabbi and telling him it was the first time in 18 centuries that a key to the gates of the Jerusalem was in the hands of a Jew. In other words, it was a big-picture speech, referencing the Holocaust, the pogroms, Masada – and the challenges that lie ahead. Sen. Obama was not mentioned in the text. No Democrat was mentioned, save for President Truman, in the context of his recognition of the new state of Israel when it was a mere 11 minutes old.
Nonetheless, Barack Obama decided that the president’s speech was really about him, and he didn’t care for it. He didn’t put it quite as bluntly as he did with the Rev. Wright, but the message was the same: “That’s enough. That’s a show of disrespect to me.” And, taking their cue from the soon-to-be nominee’s weirdly petty narcissism, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Joe Biden and Co. piled on to deplore Bush’s outrageous, unacceptable, unpresidential, outrageously unacceptable and unacceptably unpresidential behavior.
Honestly. What a bunch of self-absorbed ninnies. Here’s what the president said:
“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”
It says something for Democrat touchiness that the minute a guy makes a generalized observation about folks who appease terrorists and dictators the Dems assume: Hey, they’re talking about me. Actually, he wasn’t – or, to be more precise, he wasn’t talking onlyabout you.”
Psychologically speaking, and yes I have some education in that Barack Obama is the classic narcissist. I for one find it to be severe based on observing his behavior over the primary season. To define “severe”:
“In psychology and psychiatry, excessive narcissism is recognized as a severe personality dysfunction or personality disorder, most characteristically Narcissistic personality disorder.” - Wiki.
Narcissists are also known for their ability to lie, although they don’t see it that way. In this respect Obama’s defensiveness and especially paranoia is marked.
In fact a friend of mine who is a police psychologist examined a few of Obama’s videos and appearances where he was defending himself and we both saw the classic symptoms showed by suspects when they lie. To be specific we know that when a person is lying they will become extremely defensive, refusing to answer any questions and even accusing you of lying, meaning they have something to hide.
Of course there is nothing wrong with defending oneself against an attack, but in Obama’s case you notice it’s never about the specific charges against him, it’s always about the attacker - his “persecutor”. It’s about deflection. It’s like the kid who gets caught in the cookie jar by Mom only to complain about what his sister is doing.
Remember this?
Ok, the guy’s a ass, but re-look the video over and you can see what happens when the “persecution” is close and up front. It shows Obama rattles quite easily and without much provocation, another classic symptom.
But it really goes beyond even this.
By now you are familiar with this video where Obama talks about disarming America across the board.
Back in March CNS reported on this video citing analysts who described it “bizarre”.
“In an interview with Cybercast News Service, Baker Spring, a national security research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, described Obama as “somebody who’s a mouthpiece for arms control advocacy groups that probably put this litany of commitments in front of him, and he more or less read them without thinking.”
Spring said Obama’s proposed cuts in missile defense spending would be “a profoundly destabilizing decision [which] basically says that any state - or, for that matter, non-state actor - that wants to attack the United States, he gets the free first shot, including with weapons of mass destruction.”
Regarding Obama’s promise to reform the QDR process, Spring said, “Obviously, necessary and unnecessary is, to some degree, in the eye of the beholder. I don’t think that any administration would put out a Quadrennial Defense Review that would explicitly endorse unnecessary programs.
“In a sense, Sen. Obama is, in his comment, is so logically contradictory, that he is saying that he is going to take preemptive action to prevent his own administration, assuming he’s elected, from issuing a report in terms of the future U.S. defense structure, that would include unnecessary and wasteful programs,” said Spring. “It strikes me as a little bizarre, to put it mildly.”
It’s more than bizarre, it’s scary and quite frankly dangerous talk coming from any candidate for President.
Yet in a way it explains the “outrage” of Obama. For even while it’s clear that Bush wasn’t referring to Obama, like I said in this post it simply hit to close to home.
Since I posted the video on this site back in March it has been viewed more than 100,000 times. Mostly by people who flood my email box with outrage that a supposed leader of our country would even speak of such diarment in a critical time of war against radical Islam. But there it is for all the world to see.
Again, all of this points to the fact that Obama isn’t what he seems and there are a lot of people trying to help the real truth of Obama not get out. President Bush didn’t reference him in his speech, but he didn’t have to. It’s as close as anyone has gotten to reveal the truth of this Obama. Again Steyn:
“President Reagan talked with the Soviets while pushing ahead with the deployment of Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe. He spoke softly – after getting himself a bigger stick. Sen. Obama is proposing to reward a man who pledges to wipe Israel off the map with a presidential photo-op to which he will bring not even a twig. No wonder he’s so twitchy about it.”
Indeed. Of course none of this is concrete proof that Obama is unstable, but there is enough evidence to warrant further investigation.
The MacRanger Show - Interview with LTC Allen West (R) Candidate for Congress
May 16 at 8:08pm by Macranger
Coming up on this Saturday’s MacRanger Show at 12:30pm EST, I will be interviewing LTC (retired) Allen West, who is a candidate for congress in Florida’s 22nd District (Broward County). LTC Allen is a decorated Army veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq as well as a former public school teacher, husband and father.
He is running against a heavily funded incumbant, Ron Klein who unseated long time GOP representative Clay Shaw in 2006.
LTC West is a true conservative and the kind of man we need in Washington that will help the GOP return to it’s conservative roots.
LTC Allen’s campaign site is:
here.
Bush’s Genius - He baited, Obama bit
May 16 at 1:01pm by Macranger
Just a note on the messiah outrage over President Bush’s reference to the appeasement policy of the left.
I remember during my Army days, when I lived in the barracks. One day when I returned to the laundry room to find out my clothes (underwear and all) were missing from the dryer. I had of course left them there, hoping to retrieve them after they were done.
The next formation we had I walked out to the group and announced to all.
“To the goat-smelling, SOB, whose mama didn’t raise him right, THANKS for stealing my underwear! By the way, I have bugs!!”
Immediately a fellow soldier came up to me, mad as hell and said, “Who’s mama didn’t raise him right?”
I had my man.
Nothing hits a guilty man more than a veiled suggestion of his true intent.
Newt Gingrich on Hannity and Colmes.
Heh….
Obama doesn’t know clap?
May 16 at 1:01pm by Macranger
More lies….
Sounds like clapping to me.
Now back to your waffles.
Peg Noonan’s Pity Party
May 16 at 8:08am by Macranger
Is she even relevant anymore?
“What happens to the Republicans in 2008 will likely be dictated by what didn’t happen in 2005, and ‘06, and ‘07. The moment when the party could have broken, on principle, with the administration – over the thinking behind and the carrying out of the war, over immigration, spending and the size of government – has passed. What two years ago would have been honorable and wise will now look craven. They’re stuck.
Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party’s fortunes from the president’s. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn’t be left with a ruined “brand,” as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership.
This is and will be the great challenge for John McCain: The Democratic argument, now being market tested by Obama Inc., that a McCain victory will yield nothing more or less than George Bush’s third term.
That is going to be powerful, and it is going to get out the vote. And not for Republicans.”
Really Peg?
The problem with the GOP isn’t the GOP so much as who is running the joint. Conservatives brought the party to greatness in the Reagan Revolution. We made it the party of God, country and strength, and set it apart from the Democratic Party of No God, Anti-Americanism and weakness through appeasement. When Americans - who by and large not losers or anti-American were presented with a choice between the two they chose us.
However voters in 2006 and now coming to 2008 cannot tell that difference. Why? Because the GOP tossed it’s strength overboard in favor of becoming more “progressive” and “responsive” to the problems of people.
Yet Noonan errs in dismissing the Democrat dilemma as a “passing”. Even on a bad day for Republican’s the Democrats have proven with their bumbling leadership since 2006 that they can’t stand prosperity.
Remember, more than an acceptance of Democrats, 2006 was more a repudiation of watered down conservatism within the the GOP. People hate flaky people and the party became flakey when it failed to stand on core conservative principals of small government, spending, and yes upholding the law with vigorous immigration enforcement.
It’s not too late for a majority of Americans stand behind core conservative principles, yet though a lack of leadership we’ve allow the Democrats to hoodwink the public into thinking they are more conservative than us.
It’s an irony when you think of it. While the moderates and independents in the party attempted to get us to out liberal the liberals, the liberals were busy filling the gap by pretending to be conservatives.
It’s time to reverse that. It’s time for Conservative Renewal.
Democrats outraged at Bush’s statement evidently out of touch with Israel’s concerns
May 15 at 8:08pm by Macranger
The more I watch President Bush’s speech, the more utter genius I see. Just when The Candy Man was trying to make inroads to Jews, the President gives a speech that obviously the Jews in the crowd loved it.
Via Michael Goldfarb.
“The response from the Israeli parliamentarians, as Joe Lieberman pointed out a few hours ago on Fox, wasn’t shock, but hearty applause. Perhaps that’s because they agree with what President Bush said–which, after all, is something that every American President, Democrat and Republican, since World War II has similarly recognized: it’s a very, very bad idea for democracies to negotiate with terrorists, or to appease fanatical dictatorial regimes.
Would that the presumptive Democratic nominee and his proxies felt the same way…”
So what’s the problem Barry? Chia? Nancy? Is it that the jews don’t get it? You guys have been talking appeasing the enemy, in some cases such as Rockefeller and Pelosi - to their face. (For the Tweety Matthews fans) The same appeasement showed by Arthur Neville Chamberlain of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany with his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. In the same year he also gave up the Irish Free State Royal Navy ports.
Here’s the video.
Kiss the Jewish vote goodbye Obama, we’re playing this theme throughout the summer.
ACTION ALERT: Amnesty Fanatics Slip Amnesty Plan into Iraq War Funding Bill
May 15 at 6:06pm by Macranger
“The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday added to an Iraq spending bill a controversial provision to help pave the way for undocumented agriculture workers to win legal status, a move that may reopen the divisive immigration debate on the Senate floor.
The so-called Ag-Jobs amendment, sponsored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho), would create a process that allows undocumented workers to continue to work on farms. Without the amendment, Feinstein warned that the U.S. would lose $5-9 billion to foreign competition, tens of thousands of farms would shut down and 80,000 workers would be transferred to Mexico. The bill would sunset in five years.
“Agriculture needs a consistent workforce,” Feinstein said. “Without it, they can’t plant, they can’t prune, they can’t pick and they can’t pack.
“This is an emergency situation,” she added.
The amendment was approved by a 17-12 vote with defections from both parties. Critics say the amendment amounts to amnesty for people who entered the country illegally. A broader comprehensive immigration overhaul, with a path for citizenship for the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, failed in a divisive Senate vote last year.
“No matter how one characterizes it, this enormous amendment still amounts to amnesty,” said Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.). “I oppose amnesty. All these immigration issues should be addressed through the regular order.”
For once I agree with Byrd, it’s amnesty plain and simple. I’ve emailed the McCain campaign for a comment and will continue to update.
Here’s the contact form for McCain. Tell him you will not stand for this and will count his response in November.
NO AMNESTY, NO EXCEPTIONS!
Obama IS unfit to defend America
May 15 at 5:05pm by Macranger
Lefties in a flutter, they’re Messiah was exposed.
“On a conference call with conservative bloggers this afternoon, John McCain launched what may be his most direct attack yet on Barack Obama’s national security credentials, saying flat out that Obama is incapable of protecting America and lacks the necessary traits to keep it secure from foreign threats.
In a reference to Obama’s declared willingness to meet with the leader of Iran, McCain said:
“I think [it] is an unacceptable position, and shows that Senator Obama does not have the knowledge, the experience, the background to make the kind of judgments that are necessary to preserve this nation’s security.”
That seems like an unequivocal declaration that Obama is incapable of protecting this country. In the past, McCain has raised doubts about Obama’s national security cred, but to our knowledge has never taken the step of declaring outright that he’s unfit to defend the country.”
Posted it before, here it is again.
We have found the Kryptonite to this false Superman, let’s keep driving it home. Obama must not become president of the United States.
Time to Cleanse the Party - GOP 2.0 - The return of Classic Conservatism
May 15 at 9:09am by Macranger
“For the past 18 months, ever since the 2006 elections, congressional Republicans have been like a hospital patient trying to convince visitors that he is not really all that sick: a bit under the weather; actually feel better than I sound; should be up and about any day; thanks for asking.
Suddenly — belatedly — all pretense is gone.
The Republican defeat in Tuesday’s special election in Mississippi, in a deeply conservative district where, in an average year, Democrats cannot even compete, was a clear sign that the GOP has the political equivalent of cancer that has spread throughout the body. Many House GOP operatives are privately predicting that the party could easily lose up to 20 seats this fall.
Combined with the 30 seats that the GOP lost in 2006, that would leave the party facing a 70-vote deficit against Democrats in the House — a state of powerlessness reminiscent of Republicans’ long wilderness years in the 1960s and ’70s.
Things are not particularly more hopeful on the Senate side, where most analysts say Democrats have a strong chance of adding five or more seats to their current majority.
Panic and blame-casting for the dire condition were flowing in equal measures Wednesday inside the House Republican Conference and among party elders and operatives outside.”
Of course the article doesn’t take into account that the Democrat led congress has the lowest approval rating in history at this time, so it’s not exactly “Checkmate”. No doubt we are taking it on the chin but only because we lost our way - conservatively speaking. Infested with the RINO-Virus voters are simply confused on what we stand for.
“The lack of motivation comes from a disgust with a Republican Party that still hasn’t learned why it lost the majority in 2006. They lost those mid-term elections not because voters stopped supporting conservative principles, but because the House GOP stopped supporting conservative principles. Look at who won these special elections; they’re all Blue Dog Democrats, running in support of conservative themes such as gun rights. Now look at the Republicans who last held those seats, such as Hastert and Wicker — Republicans who spent other people’s money on waste and personal ambition.”
Exactly. The Conservative GOP, infested by moderate, overspending, do anything for a vote, RINOS lost it’s message and grasped the message of “liberal-lite”, trying to out liberal the liberals.
Won’t work folks. Conservative principals of strong defense, elimination of wasteful spending, low taxes and rugged individualism without government interference is what true core conservatism is.
Doug Ross emailed me last night about the time for renewal. He calls it GOP 2.0. I like the name, but the name should be Classic Conservatism. Just like Classic Coke, which came after suits at Coka-Cola tried to “change” and make more “progressive” a tried and true formula that failed, Classic Conservatism is going to be a return to the core principals which made the Republican Party great. Doug enumerates these principals:
“STRENGTHEN NATIONAL DEFENSE - increase the size, capability and efficiency of our Armed Forces, bringing back our defense spending to historical levels as percentage of GDP.
GAIN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE - open up ANWR and the OCS to exploration; aggressively pursue nuclear energy and green technologies; and incent private industry to aggressively pursue clean, renewable energy sources.
SECURE THE BORDERS - build physical barriers immediately as a precursor to an overarching, sensible immigration policy. If the boat’s sinking, you plug the holes first.
DEATH TO EARMARKS - zero tolerance for earmarks.
DEATH TO CORRUPTION - zero tolerance for corruption.
ENGLISH AS NATIONAL LANGUAGE - national unity requires a national language. That language is English.
IMPLEMENT FLAT TAX OR FAIR TAX - simplify the tax system by eradicating a tax code gone mad.
REDUCE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT - provide “whistleblower-style” awards for reducing the size of government and task the IRS (which will no longer have to worry about enforcing the tax code) with achieving the reduction goals on an annual basis
SPUR HEALTHCARE COMPETITION - Address health-care deficiencies - with competitive, free-market solutions, not Government largesse.
ADDRESS ENTITLEMENTS - engage a bipartisan consortium to create a multi-million dollar competition to incent teams from private industry and academia to create solutions for our social security and Medicare liabilities.
This should not be a platform. It should be a promise — an ironclad commitment — to voters.”
Call it a purge, or whatever you like but the simple fact is that we are going to take back our party by every means necessary. This will include not supporting candidates for office who do not hold core conservative principals. If this means a time in the wilderness so be it, but when it’s all said and done it will be very clear that if you want to be a part of the GOP you had been be carrying your card.
Otherwise, become a democrat and be done with it!
For the rest of us, let’s get to work, more to come.
