Change We Can Believe In!
By Patty On July 30th, 2012Yes, we can!
Yes, we can fire ineffective Washington insiders and RINOs and we can replace them with solid, principled Conservatives, politicians who will stand up for the Constitution and make the case for limited government.
Yes, we can – one race at a time.
Tea Party and Sarah Palin endorsed, Ted Cruz is the Conservative candidate running for Senate in Texas and he is set for victory in tomorrow’s run-off election against establishment Republican candidate, Dewirst.
One battle does not a war make. True conservatives will never have a majority but your kind of faux conservative might……for a very short time
why “faux?”
Showbiz is what politics is and this guy is simply its latest wannabee.
Because Palin is the very defintion of a faux conservative
She was very much in favour of big government when it won her elections, now that she has been identified with the tea baggers she is supposedly for small government. But there still is that bridge to no where and a town with a mountain of debt to say different
Actually, Allan, showbiz is showbiz and for the most part, easy to ignore.
But politics is power and for this reason, politics matters and cannot be ignored. Cynicism and know-it-all posturing cannot change this.
She supported the Bridge to Nowhere until the issue became radioactive.
And anyone who took that position was not just a big spender, but an egregious supporter of completely useless projects
This guy looks like a metrosexual for all the ages.
Your 9:55 is ignorant, Emerald. Do more research and get back to me.
Phantom, perhaps he looks “metrosexual” but he sure doesn’t sound metrosexual! did you watch the youtube?
I’ll listen to it later on today.
My 9:55 is dead bang on, she sunk Wassila under a mountain of debt when she was mayor. And the bridge to nowhere is a well known skeleton in her closset
The thing is that they may as well have built the stupid bridge.
Alaska ( already stuffed with federal pork ) was paid off when the bridge project was cancelled. The feds gave them the money that was allotted for the bridge to spend on other stuff.
Alaska, as noted before has a negative income tax – the state sends the residents checks, not the other way around. Financed by oil revenues. It is a very special situation, and Alaskans have nothing to complain about re state or federal taxes.
Yes, we can replace them with solid, principled Conservatives, politicians who will stand up for the Constitution and make the case for limited government
What, did I miss something, has Ron Paul changed his mind and is he now still standing as a candidate after all?
-Uh, er, oops, no.
Sorry, “no you can’t”, Patty. All that you can do is vote for another bought GOP candidate whose policies may be slightly to the right of Obama’s policies, but who is in league up to his armpits with the bankers and the whole damned “too big to fail” philosophy. You had your chance to actually endorse a real conservative who stood for sound, gold-backed money and closing down the Federal Reserve Bank, but that chance has passed.
Go ahead, elect Romney or some other bank-owned puppet, and rejoice because his name isn’t Obama. See what difference it makes.
Let’s do a little comparison shopping, shall we?
Patty’s pick – Princeton A.B., Harvard law degree, editor of Harvard Law Review, law professor, bureaucrat, Bush lackey, trial lawyer. Zero governing, private business or military experience. Campaign funded primarily by out-of-state tea party interests (Koch brothers and Dick Armey’s PAC’s) and trial lawyers.
David Dewhurst – Officer in the Air Force, Bachelor’s from University of Arizona, CIA officer, owner of Falcon Seaboard (energy & investment company), Land Commissioner, Lieutenant Governor (10 years), rancher, worth $200M (self-made), staunch conservative record. Campaign primarily self-funded.
This is all about race. The tea party wants an Hispanic face in their win column to refute charges of incipient racism.
PS, on reflection, I’m sorry to be so verbally ‘rough’ on you, Patty, as you’re a true American patriot and conservative, I know that. …It’s just that you haven’t quite got it yet, you’re still fawning over the mainstream GOP candidates, as if Romney will make a blind bit of difference. You haven’t yet stepped out of that box and realised that Paul (as drastic and as unpalatable as his ideas may have come across), was the only candidate talking real economic sense.
Ironic and amusing that Patty picked the consummate GOP beltway insider and ivy league lawyer as the tea party rogue candidate.
Makes you wonder about how brainwashed and manipulated the average tea party enthusiast might be…
Rage on, mes amis, rage on….
The EP might like this little factoid: Cruz was born in Calgary.
His Cuban father fought with Fidel Castro to overthrow the Batista regime after he’d been jailed and tortured by the American supported dictator.
His wife, Heidi, was a member of the CFR (Council of Foreign Relations) and served on a task force that wrote “Building a North American Community,” a report from CFR on relations between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
No insider Washington guy, this Ted Cruz.
He’s a maverick!
He’s a Trojan horse.
Daphne are you going to vote?
Haven’t really followed the race in Texas, but I know Cruz got a standing ovation from 65,000 people in Dallas Stadium over the weekend. So I guess we shall see tomorrow night who Texans besides the non voting know it all who has an opinion on everything, but can’t drag her ass off the coach to actually put her opinion down at the only place it truly matters.
I also love watching the people who support Obama who stated that every successful business in America owes it’s success to government paid for bridges and roads bash Palin for supporting a bridge,
If we follow what Obama said and that bridge had been built 100s of successful businesses would now be thriving at either end, so I guess what? your either against those businesses that Palins bridge would have magically created or you know that Obama was full of shit and bridges don’t create businesses.
It has to be one or the other but you clowns are actually arguing both, do you know how stupid you sound? or is it only Democrat bridges create jobs republican ones are just pork?
maroons
Do you think that there was any justification at all for using federal funds to build that bridge?
Troll is such a kool-aid drinker.
oh and Tom saying Patty doesn’t get it when you support a fraud like Paul is the icing on the cake
Daphne,
“He’s a Trojan horse.”
More like a Trojan donkey
Petr back from burying all the dead that communism put in mass graves?
Says the man who wishes Sinn Féin members’ children be killed in car bombs.
*facepalm*
Yes, I vote in local and state races. I’m quite active in Texas GOP politics, mostly financial contributions, but I’ve been known to host a fundraiser or two and have contributed personal time to a few candidate’s campaigns.
I’ve not at all been involved in this senate race other than as an interested observer and found it bizarre that tea party stalwarts like Palin would tap longtime, insider Cruz.
Neither candidate floats my particular boat, but if I had to choose a new Texas senator most likely to put my state’s conservative best interests above federal and republican party concerns, Dewhurst would be the better pick based on experience, resume and financial backing.
Jim Demint endorses Cruz.
Interesting you won’t vote for President but you HOST fundraisers.
So your vote doesn’t count but your money does. You talk bad of insider politics yet you buy influence. So your guilty of what you accuse the Koch brothers of doing.
So what is it, are you jealous that they can buy more influence than you?
Who have you hosted a fundraiser for? Whose pocket have you lined, and why?
Jim Demint endorses Cruz.
No shit.
Checked Demint’s campaign contributions, deep-end vote record and extra-curricular associations lately?
Another tea party piñata, juking the constitutional faithful.
Do you sincere, simple people enjoyed being lied to? The facts are so easy to obtain, go find the truth before shilling the exact opposite of what you claim to want straight into a federal office of lifetime sinecure and grift.
Troll, don’t be stupid. A difficult task, but give it a try.
Daphne
your quite the hypocrite. You admit that you buy influence buy hosting fundraisers, yet you decry others for doing the same. Typical Paulbot, right down to refusing to vote for President because it’s not the person who you wanted.
So what is it Dewhurst favors the special interests you support, but Cruz doesn’t?
I oppose money in politics, but comparing Daphne’s fundraising activities with the massive financial interventions of the Koch Gang is a bit of a stretch.
and the much maligned Rick Perry endorse Dewhurst, Daphne’s pick..
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when we insist on purity in politics and we have no principles….
Why Phantom
We don’t know whether Daphne is rich or not, she could be sitting on a ton of texas oil money. Anyone who organizes fundraisers is both well connected and an influence peddler, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Money is speech, but your defending her while your saying you oppose money in politics.
This is probably the most biased hypocritical thread I’ve ever seen here.
First you Obama supporters and Palin haters are using a bridge to bash Palin while according to your guy all business success in this country is due to those bridges and roads.
And second you have a woman that refuses to vote for President complaining that a guy running for Senator is an insider and funded by the Koch Brothers while in the same breath she brags about how much of an insider she is and that she money bundles for the party. That’s what the host of a fundraiser is, a money bundler.
Pure hypocrisy.
Not one of you even has the guts to try and defend your position.
You support Obama, so explain to me why, Obama stated the other day that infrastructure created business. The Bridge to nowhere was infrastructure to an Island that had no businesses on it. If what Obama said was true then the bridge to nowhere would have created businesses.
So if that’s the case how can you then condemn someone for supporting the building of a bridge in an economically depressed area?
If you people take a position you need to be consistent about it.
I await your explanation, but somehow I think it will be like your debate about why the NRA are a bunch of extremists and in the light of truth will never manifest itself.
Troll I seem to remember you claimed to be a party drone more than once on here.
in a manner I am, I have served as a committeeman and I have worked on several campaigns.
I make no bones about it. I also have never complained about money being a problem in politics, I support it I called John McCain a traitor to the Constitution for making laws restricting it. I have also said that the bridge to nowhere was a disgrace and a debacle.
I have not changed any of my positions. What I ask of others is to explain their hypocrisy. If money is a problem when it comes from the Koch Brothers and taking it makes you an insider than Hosting fundraisers for candidates is also a problem and makes that person an insider.
If building bridges is good for Obama, than building bridges is good for Palin.
You people need to be consistent, show me where I am not.
Who supports Obama here? I don’t and I certainly don’t think that D does either. Who are you talking to?
Say what you like about O’blimey but he delivered.
Hope you all don’t mind being changed into poor people.
So as the blessed Sarah said…”How’s that Hopey Changey thing working for you”?
This is for Phantom, but others may be interested..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16K6m3Ua2nw&feature=youtu.be
PS this is a spoof surely?!
But even if it is, the points raised are valid I think.
And I don’t know how valid this one on your Presidentis…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HqHSkYG-Y&feature=related
Regardless – it doesn’t matter what cynical and oh-so-world -weary ATW commentators think – or even what hypocritical. illogical and ignorant Obama supporters on ATW think – the American Conservative movement is making change we can believe in, one election at a time….
reminds me of a song:
“oops, there goes another rubber tree plant…”
//American Conservative movement is making change we can believe in, one election at a time//
What change does it have in store for us at the next election in November?
Patty, the polls have Obama now pulling further ahead of Romsky, you’re going to get Four More Years!
Troll -
“I called John McCain a traitor to the Constitution for making laws restricting it [...] What I ask of others is to explain their hypocrisy [...] You people need to be consistent, show me where I am not.”
At the risk of dipping my toe into this pool, you’ve got some front.
I doubt anyone on the face of the planet can so idolise the Constitution while demanding that government tears it up. Putting aside endless Wilsonian wars and communist space programmes, both of which you strongly support, one of the recent examples was your support for the NDAA. When Obamses gave himself the power to have anyone snatched and held in an unknown location, without end, while denying the accused the right to even know why he has been taken, you said it was a damn good thing.
So that’s habeas corpus and the Fifth Amendment both trashed with your blessing, you hypocrite.
Listen, if you had the slightest respect for the Constitution, one ounce of self-respect and at least half a brain cell, you’d have been campaiging for Ron Paul. Instead you’ve jumped aboard with candidates who couldn’t give a damn about the Constitution and American liberties and who despise the people.
Let’s vote for the best option available, which is not Mr. Paul.
We can all hope for another Lincoln or Roosevelt, but I see none on the horizon.
Pete – Ron Paul had enough ammunition from the proven and recorded voting frauds in the primaries to have taken the Establishment of the GOP to court and win, yet nothing. Why is this? Was Ron Paul a deliberate dead end?
Allan@Aberdeen -
I suspect for two reasons. It would probably have thrown away money which comes mainly from small donors and not GlobalMegaCorp Inc. A Romney/Goldman Sachs front could win a case, but I doubt that Ron Paul would be able to recruit the insider army and call in the favours from Beltway corruptocrats required to swing that kind of result in a courtroom.
Second, I think he was looking out for Rand Paul. Vote fraud was clear, but fighting an action might have blackened the Paul name in GOP circles instead of just his own.
“We can all hope for another Lincoln or Roosevelt, but I see none on the horizon.”
What, men who killed thousands of Americans and sunk the economy? Your last two presidents fit the bill there.
No, it wasn’t deliberate.
Oh so Phantom your voting Romney?
Pete I wouldn’t campaign for ron paul if he was the last politician on earth he is a fraud that has recieved more earmark money than any other member of congress in history, he would also leave us vulnerable to attack due to his head up his ass foreign policy. he had one issue worth anything the fed and that was it, he is a 30year political hack who has run for President mare times than ralph nader. He is supported by and encourages truthers and neo nazis, only idiots in this country ever supported him and goofy forigners that think they understand the US, it’s constitution and it’s people when they can’t keep their own government from locking grandma in a room and starving her to death to save money for the nhs.
During times of war special exceptions in the law have always been adopted no one here has been abused by those adjustments, your delusional and clueless, you believe propagandist lunatic theories that only wackos in this country subscribe to.
Sit back and watch as we reorganize our country back to a fraction of what we are capable of but that fraction dwarfs every other nation at it’s peak.
In November we will completely restructure the seats of power in our country, there will be no riots, no bombs planted in pubs, no revolutions.
Every 4 years we prove how dysfunctional the rest of you really are.
I laugh at your statements on both our system and our society your analysis is both amusing and sad, sad that there are actually people like you that can believe the fantasies that you claim as gospel
I intend to force myself to vote for Romney, as the less bad option.
I would anyne in the phone book before I’d vote for Ron Paul.
Cruz won!
good for you Phantom.
Now where is our miss know it all Fundraising Hostess money bundler from Texas,
So I can’t wait to hear her explanation of about how all the TEA Party People are stupid and don’t have a chance,
This race has fired a shot across the Party insiders bow, because in spite of what Daphne was claiming the party insiders and Washington beltway Republicans were backing Dewhurst
I also want to point out that you have two people from opposite coasts that correctly called a race in Little miss I’m very big in the Texas GOPs own state.
How could that have happened? The TEA Party is dead, a fluke, the 2010 elections meant nothing.
Come on Daphne what do you have to say?
Daphne talked down Rick Perry when he was Presidential nominee and now she goes towards Perry’s choice, Dewhurst, in this Senate election.
Politically, Daphne makes no sense.
We need to have a Republican President, and Republican majorities in the House and Senate. We need to pack the House and Senate with as many Conservative limited government Tea Party types as possible and then – come January 2013, we go to work and try to restore America – shrink the breaucracies in Washington DC, reform entitlements and put us on track to balance the budget – even if Republicans win in November, it is going to be a long, long road back to fiscal sanity and our constitutional republic.
Texas is important, but it’s hardly representative of the rest of the country, any more than NY or MA is
Sadly, California is not Texas – but the fiscal conservative/small govt. wins are piling up…Wisconsin, anyone?
curious which state do you consider representative of the country.
and if none, would you say the massive vote of the off year elections of 2010 are representative of what is coming, or a fluke?
Im hoping the Progressive Dems in positions of power stay asleep as long as possible….their policies do not work, will never work and they must be replaced.
doing this nonsense they tried with bullets today will help them….lol
Ohio, a true swing state, is politically representative. But the US is so complex that no state is entirely represntative of the nation.
Thr 2010 by election may only say so much. Obama could atill win, though it will be harder this time for him?
Troll -
Fail.
Someone who idolises the Constitution ought to know it gives no exeptions or exemptions. This is just so typical of the GOP: the Constitution is sacred and inviolable, but only when it doesn’t stop us from doing what we like.
I called you out on your hypocrisy, and what I get back is more hypocrisy. I challenge you to explain how you can idolise the Constitution while cheering for all those things which diminish it such as those I mention above.
By holding elections? Do you think you’re the only country which does this? Scores of countries hold regular local and national elections. Alot of them are less corrupt than yours too. And where do you think the British colonists got the idea from? Strewth. Strewth, all this limited government and liberties of the people stuff is what we bequeathed to the world.
Thank us on the way out.
You folk get all excited about what this one said, that one did etc. For myself it’s the bottom line issues and values that matter. All else is irrelevant froth.
If Mitt Romney can bring reform and re-invigoration to American free enterprise, plus make American society more fair, provide better value healthcare, more real employment (not government sponsored work programmes),and encourage people to work/get education, not freeload, not play the race/discrimination card -right across the board, not just with blacks in mind, but greedy white business people, then he should be your next President.
Oh yes, and NO favours for the Mormon community!
Obama is such an enigma -as those video clips (which NONE of you looked at!) that I cannot see where he is taking America, or even if he really likes America.
Romney is distrusted by all sides.
I am disappointed in him as he has to pretend to be a dope to appeal to the Tea Party when he is far from being a dope. He pretends to oppose Obamacare for example, when he not so long ago implemented the same damned thing in Massachusetts.
He is morally compromised and cannot show his real self, while Obama is similarly concealed, barely.
Hell of a choice we have.
Phantom,
I thought we both agreed that a debate on American political loyalty was due?
Non Americans like myself do not understand the nuances or significance of the utterances of individual Senators or commentators; only the bottom line, guiding principles.
What you have yet to explain to dopey old me is why the Tea Partyists are wrong in their desire to see big government scaled back (oh Yeah, oh Yeah!) and why BIG government is better for America.
That’s a big subject, and the TP doesn’t stand for anything of substance
They want big government that they disagree with scaled down, while the stuff that the particular individual likes ( the war machine, the war on drugs machine, farm aid, Medicare ) they want to keep and expand.
They are the biggest pack of morons that ever fell off a turnip wagon. No offense, but let’s get real.
Let’s get real indeed.
So what you are saying is that you believe the Tea Partyists want less government in some areas, but they want government to continue the war against drugs, a strong military, and aid for farming?
Explain to me then why all of those things couldn’t be resolved by democratic debate??
Let the various strands of opinion present their pov to the people, and the people then decide what is best for America??
They’re just as bad as Obama, part of the same rancid stew.
I didn’t call the race and I didn’t endorse Dewhurst. But of course, that’s glaringly apparent to sensible people with the capacity to read.
I simply pointed out that Ted Cruz is an elite Washington insider who happens to possess all of the traits the you tea party folks claim to despise and Dewhurst more closely hewed to tea party ideals.
Of course I didn’t support Perry for president, I didn’t support him in the last governor’s race either.
I’m perfectly consistent in my civil libertarian mindset. It’s you two who seem permanently confused, rashly supporting candidates and policies that are the complete antithesis of the opinions you espouse on these very pages day in and out.
Either you’re hopelessly pig ignorant, willfully blind or so warped by partisan cant that you’re truly unable see the bald truth when it’s been held up right in front of your face.
Can either of you, P & T, speak in anything other than approved party line sound bites?
You two sound like little robots, so reminiscent of first wave Obama supporters. Those gullible, gee wiz, hope and changers, spouting the strident chants written by professional wordsmiths, slick admen and fork-tongued political hacks.
And Troll, if you think raising a few thousand dollars to cover mailing costs for local school board, sheriff or city council candidates is the hypocritical equivalent to corporate and private PAC’s shoveling billions of dollars to corrupt and purchase our federal political system, then you and I will never see eye to eye on anything.
Daphne: We are not “pig ignorant” nor are we “little robots” nor are we “warped by cant.”
Im not really into name calling so Ill cut to the chase – speaking for myself, I dont take your political views seriously. Why? .because:
you are against establishment Republicans supposedly because at one time you supported the party – or something – and now you are deeply disappointed.
BUT…. you are also against the Tea Party and anything to do with Sarah Palin – claiming that the Constitutional limited government movement is as establishment as the establishment in Washington DC.
AND…. you claim not to support Obama and you claim to be a “civil libertarian” and yet you say you will not vote for a Republican – thereby helping to elect Obama and Big Government, by default
Conclusion: you don’t want to be a member of any club that will have you so you stand outside throwing random stones at the windows. (metaphor, people)
That’s junior high stuff and that’s why I don’t take you seriously.
Patty,
and Daphne,
keep on blogging!
We need to hear the female take on things, and we don’t expect them to be all the same, pink and cuddly.
Just try and avoid what the men do, and get personal about things…
I mean it. There’s you two and Mairin2, and Eileen..
We need to hear what women think about politics, and your povs are as valid as anyone else’s.