Savage Republican

Fifteen years ago, I met a gentleman quite by accident. I had just been hired by a company and went into the training pool for new sale hires. I got a call from this guy (I’ll call him Kent, not his name). He had sat at the desk I now occupied with the phone extension that was assigned to that desk. He related how he had sent out a number of letters with that extension as a contact number and asked that if I got any calls would I forward them or give the caller his new number. I said I would do both so his bases were covered.
I went upstairs to meet with Kent and we became good friends over the months.
Kent was an Airborne Ranger. And an officer. He had a very impressive resume’. Very impressive! One thing that impressed me greatly was his affiliations and assignments during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Kent was a Lt. Colonel.

In 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected, he resigned from active duty Army. His service and acumen was so highly regarded that he was offered the rank of Brigadier General, jumping two grades, if he would re-up for five years. He passed. What he told me was that he wasn’t the only officer that resigned. “The resignation letters fell like snowflakes in a winter storm.” The Army lost a significant number of officers and sergeants with twenty plus years of experience. And this thought occurred to me last week: what will happen to the experienced officer and sergeant class if Barack Obama is elected President? If there were these resignations sixteen years ago with Bill Clinton coming on board as Commander in Chief, what will happen with a radical left winger as the near term future CinC? Just when we (and believe it or not, his Messiahness) need that experienced officer and non-com class, I believe we will see those resignations come flowing in.
Just one more item to put on your punchlist before you vote.

From nearly three years ago:
I opened up my email today, and had a link here and got the following list.
And it reminds me of the question I asked my screaming socialist buddy a while back (screaming socialist: his plan to save Social Security? A 100% estate tax.). I had asked him when is it that whomever was elected, when were they inculcated with the incredible wisdom and deep insight to run my life that they never seemed to have before they were elected? And here is the proof that Article 1, section 8 and the 10th Amendment need to aggressively and fully regained and the Federal Register reduced to 20% of its current size.
Read and shake your head in disgust. Then find another Ron Paul (R-Tex) to vote for in your state.
I offer for your entertainment and disgust: Why We Are In REAL Trouble-

A Washington, D.C., airport ticket agent offers some examples of why our country is in trouble!

1. I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn’t get messed up by being near the window.
2. I got a call from a candidate’s staffer, who wanted to go to Capetown. I started to explain the length of the flight, and the passport information, then she interrupted me with, “I’m not trying to make you look stupid, but Capetown is in Massachusetts.”

   Without trying to make her look stupid, I calmly explained, “Cape Cod is in Massachusetts; Capetown is in Africa,” Her response – click.

3. A senior Vermont Congressman called, furious about a Florida package we did. I asked what was wrong with the vacation in Orlando. He said he was expecting an ocean-view room.

   I tried to explain that’s not possible, since Orlando is in the middle of the state. He replied, “Don’t lie to me, I looked on the map, and Florida is a very thin state!”

4. I got a call from a lawmaker’s wife who asked, “Is it possible to see England from Canada?”

   I said, “No.”

   She said, “But they look so close on the map.”

5. An aide for a cabinet member once called, and asked if he could rent a car in Dallas. When I pulled up the reservation, I noticed he had only a one hour layover in Dallas.

   When I asked him why he wanted to rent a car, he said, “I heard Dallas was a big airport, and we will need a car to drive between gates to save time.”

6. An Illinois Congresswoman called last week. She needed to know how it was possible that her flight from Detroit left at 8:30 am, and got to Chicago at 8:33 am.

   I explained that Michigan was an hour ahead of Illinois, but she couldn’t understand the concept of time zones.

   Finally, I told her the plane went fast, and she bought that.

7. A New York lawmaker called, and asked, “Do airlines put your physical description on your bag so they know whose luggage belongs to whom?”

   I said, “No, why do you ask?”

   She replied, “Well, when I checked in with the airline, they put a tag on my luggage that said (FAT), and I’m overweight. I think that’s very rude!”

   After putting her on hold for a minute while I looked into it (I was laughing), I came back and explained the city code for Fresno, California, is (FAT), and the airline was just putting a destination tag on her luggage.

8. A Senator’s aide called to inquire about a trip package to Hawaii.

   After going over all the cost info, she asked, “Would it be cheaper to fly to California, and then take the train to Hawaii?”

9. I just got off the phone with a freshman Congressman who asked, “How do I know which plane to get on?”

   I asked him what exactly he meant, to which he replied, “I was told my flight number is 823, but none of these planes have numbers on them.”

10. A lady Senator called, and said, “I need to fly to Pepsi-Cola, Florida. Do I have to get on one of those little computer planes?”

    I asked if she meant fly to Pensacola, Florida, on a commuter plane.

    She said, “Yeah, whatever, smarty!”

11. A senior Senator called, and had a question about the documents he needed in order to fly to China. After a lengthy discussion about passports, I reminded him that he needed a visa. “Oh, no I don’t. I’ve been to China many times, and never had to have one of those.”

    I double-checked and sure enough, his stay required a visa.

    When I told him this, he said, “Look, I’ve been to China four times, and every time they have accepted my American Express!”

12. A New Mexico Congresswoman called to make reservations, “I want to go from Chicago to Rhino, New York.”

    I was at a loss for words. Finally, I said, “Are you sure that’s the name of the town?”

    “Yes, what flights do you have?” replied the lady.

    After some searching, I came back with, “I’m sorry, ma’am, I’ve looked up every airport code in the country, and can’t find a Rhino anywhere.”

    The lady retorted, “Oh, don’t be silly! Everyone knows where it is. Check your map!”

    So, I scoured a map of the state of New York, and finally offered, “You don’t mean Buffalo, do you?”

    The reply? “Whatever! I knew it was a big animal.”

I wouldn’t trust these people to plan a good, well, anything. Let alone try to run any aspect of my life. Let alone with ten cents of my money.
I agree with Barack Obama: we absolutely need change. Radical change.

The NYT had a front page, above the fold story on the Repubs spending $150k on Sarah Palin’s wardrobe. However:
Listening to Glenn Beck- when Hillary’s 3 pantsuits , 3 pantsuits that is, that were being held up to see which of Hillary’s 3 pantsuits looked best with the background in Denver, those 3 pantsuits were worth a total of $18,000-that’s $6,000 per pantsuit.
Never heard that in the MSM.
The MSM is demanding Sarah Palin’s medical records.I suggest she reveal them: just after we get the medical records from: John Kerry, Hillary Clinton,Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Katie Couric, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg.

No matter who wins on 4 November, I’ve been thinking about the 2012 race. Here are my picks as who should run on the Republican side along with a few Cabinet picks:
President: Sarah Palin
Vice President: Michelle “Give ‘Em Hell with the Truth” Bachmann
Secretary of State:Ted Nugent
Secretary of Defense: Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (aka Joe the Plumber)
Attorney General: Janice Rogers Brown (on her way to being appointed to SCOTUS)
Press Secretary: Megyn Kelly of Fox News
Secretary Treasury: Steve Forbes
Chair JCOS: General David Petraeus
SECDEF and SOS candidates are interchangeable.

I came across the site Never Find Out yesterday from Freedom Dogs.
These are the ads McCain/Palin should be running.
Three examples:

The only exception I’d take is in the second ad: it’s not big corporations, it is those Americans who make more than $250,000 a year-the small business owner, who employees the majority of Americans. They will be hit, and hit hard. But the concept Never Find Out brings out is correct: to maintain profit margins,in the face of higher taxes, corporations either increase prices (not the best solution) or cut expenses or a combination of the two. Either way, the middle class takes it in the shorts: higher prices or lower salaries, lay-offs, no new jobs created.

I’m looking for the over under on Code Pink or some other lefty fringe group disrupting the debate this evening with McCain speaking. I’ll put the wager point at 39 minutes.

An intelligent rapper is what it took for me to listen to this from beginning to end:

After this exchange:

We have this from The People’s Cube (be sure to go to the first link and read the entire article):

Quick- somebody put this on the back of a T-shirt!

Today hundreds of people observed the murder of Matthew Shepard.
Will these same people observe the anniversary of the torture death of Jesse Dirkhising?
Never heard of him have you? He was thirteen and was raped and tortured by two homosexuals.
From the article:

News of the Dirkhising case was surprisingly muted throughout the country, perhaps because it involved a homosexual crime, said WND readers, who voted it one of the most spiked stories of 1999.

At one point, Farah took the Washington Post to task over it, and most major newspaper’s, lack of coverage of the case. In response the Post’s ombudsman, E.R. Shipp, blasted Farah and WND in a column she penned defending her paper’s decision to focus more attention on the death of Matthew Shepard, a homosexual student who was murdered in Wyoming in Oct. 1998.

The men who murdered Shepard didn’t know that he was a homosexual. But, you would never know that by the Prairie Pravda article. They robbed him because he was flashing money and his assailants needed drug money. It was a robeery that went bad. Real bad. But it was not motivated by homosexual intolerance. No matter, again, what the propagandists would say.
Another example of the SOS radical left taking a tragedy and exploiting it. No shame. None.