Thanks for your inspiration, Tim!

Timothy Donovan has a great post on his Smart Girl Politics page, http://smartgirlpolitics.ning.com/profiles/blogs/minority-report. I responded on Tim's page, but thought the discussion should be trumpeted far and wide. This is my response to Tim's blog:

Timothy, I'm with you! If we don't start standing up, we'll fall for anything! :D Seriously, the "unalienable rights" we are giving away each and every day...to watch it makes me "creeped out." I see this [Alleged] President, who not only creeps me out but makes me want to puke, dismantling our country without a single peep from our so-called "watch dog media." Even the quasi conservative media (Fox News) fails to get the big picture. Glenn Beck sort of gets it, but he is only one amongst thousands who don't get it.

The other thing that really creeps me out is the Republican Party. I've stood back and really taken a long, hard look. Folks, this isn't the same party that your grandparents had. It isn't even the same party that we had 30 years ago when Ronald Reagen became president. I've seen some of the GOP preparations for the 2010 elections (there are at least two senate seats up for grabs due to retirement of the incumbent R). One of those seats is in Florida. A very conservative R announced his intention to run about 2 weeks before a RINO announced his intention to run. Guess which one the GOP is backing to the hilt? The RINO!

It just gags me! Oh, they want to listen to the conservatives (NOT)--they just want to know what they have to say to win you over! Mind you, they're not going to take any of your advice, but they want to know what to "parrot back" to you to get you to vote republican. It is like Charlie Brown and Lucy and the football. She pulls it away every time, and poor Charlie is so gullible he keeps trying because maybe next time she really will hold it for him.

Argh!!! People, when are you going to understand that the Democrat and Republican parties are two wings on the same bird of prey?!

At the risk of sounding like a broken record...

Most of you already know that I think the GOP is broken down beyond repair. I don't think there is anything left to fix...the leadership are all spineless cowards who don't know how to stand for anything right, and who the heck cares if it is politically correct or not?! We know in our heart of hearts what is right and wrong. Right now the Reps and Dems have a duopoly on the political system in this country, but that is about to change. I have affiliated with a burgeoning 3rd party called America's Independent Party (AIP). Thanks to our California chapter, we are the 3rd LARGEST political party in the nation, and growing by leaps and bounds. Why such growth? Because AIP represents the true conservative's core values better than anyone else.

AIP is uniquely structured to retain the grassroots passion of "we the people" while at the same time providing enough structure to get as many TRUE conservatives elected as possible. Though I am still a registered republican on my voter registration, I affiliated with AIP a few months ago because I realized they were the party that best represented the values and beliefs that I hold dear.

I think that Rush Limbaugh and all the other radio talk show hosts are wrong about the 3rd party this year. I'm tired of spineless republicans who can't stand up for what is right. I'm tired of spineless republican leadership who also don't have the capacity to stand for what is right. I believe within a couple of months that AIP will surpass the membership of the GOP, and that we will be the force to be reckoned with in 2010.

AIP will support any true conservative, regardless of party affiliation. That's what makes us unique. Please check us out at http://www.AIPnews.com/. You'll be glad you did. :)

Let Us Not Be Weary In Well Doing

Once again, I've been inspired by the words of Dr. Alan Keyes. I'm almost jealous that God gave Dr. Keyes a more astute mind than he gave me, lol. ALMOST. Just remember that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, each time expecting a different result. My sweetie still hasn't turned loose of his belief that 3rd parties spoil elections. That wouldn't be true if all the true conservatives would make a clean break with the party that keeps enslaving them (be it republican or democrat).

Just like Pavlov's dog, we've been conditioned to accept the candidates proffered by the GOP (no matter how distasteful their record on the issues), because "we don't want the democrats to win." Many Christians have stopped voting their conscience, and I am as guilty as the next person. BUT the debauchery of the last election has "cleared my sinuses" so that the stench of the GOP now matches the stench of the DNC. Heaven help us if we cannot stop the Wizard, the Wicked Witch of the West, and the Flying Monkeys from putting their agenda into place (we're not in Kansas any more, Toto). Sometimes I even wonder whether we will have elections in 2010.

To those who think we can't do anything because this is "end times" playing out like prophecy predicts, I say this: Jesus said no man knows the hour of the Lord's return. But we're to keep working until His return. So, it matters not whether I think that end times prophecy is being played out before my very eyes. I am to work until I can work no more. We're to keep working on the Great Commission, and we're to be salt and light in a dark, evil world. Let's not be weary of well doing.

Dr. Keyes' most recent blog post is awesome, read it here.

Ambassador Alan Keyes...

I don't know how many of you are regular readers of former Ambassador Alan Keyes, but he is always "spot on" when it comes to moral, spiritual and Constitutional issues. Among other things, Dr. Keyes writes a blog at http://www.loyaltoliberty.com/.

Loyal to Liberty's latest post (if it isn't the latest, then seek it out) "Fifth Column Conservatives" is an intriguing piece. Dr. Keyes begins by defining the term fifth column: "Webster's online dictionary defines the phrase "fifth column" as "a group of secret sympathizers of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or in national borders." Keyes continues:

This phrase has been much on my mind of late as I consider the bloodless coup d'état that is currently underway in the United States. In speech and deed the Obama faction has displayed its intention to overthrow the Constitution of the United States.

My intent in quoting from this article is to make you curious enough to go and read it for yourself. You won't be sorry. Later in the article, Keyes identifies those he believes are fifth column conservatives:

As it turns out the greatest threat to the effort to dispel complacency before it's too late doesn't come from the Obama faction. They have moved with alacrity to implement their agenda. Like a brake impaired double truck trailer hurtling down a steep incline, their excessive speed stirs up a gust hefty enough to shake the unwary from their stupor, provided no one explains it away as a harmless passing breeze. But some folks stamped with a phony imprimatur of "conservatism" are doing just that. At first people like this resisted the idea that we should call Obama a socialist, as I did during my campaign against him in Illinois in 2004. Now they themselves admit his socialism, but claim that it's a benign variety, well known in Western Europe to have caused no more than a mild epidemic of productivity-stifling bureaucracy, with no jackboots in sight. The smug epithets and ridicule once reserved for anyone who wouldn't call a socialist a "liberal" is now heaped upon anyone who calls Obamacytes by their right names. They are advocates of cult-of-personality fueled submission to pervasive government control (complete with Hitler Jugend style reeducation of the young as uniformed "mandatory volunteers" programmed for loyal subservience to "the leaders" will). But the Devil take anyone who identifies them by the labels historically associated with the strikingly similar Nazi, Fascist, Stalin- and Maoist models of totalitarian socialism that wrecked havoc in the twentieth century.

Again and again Dr. Keyes correctly analyzes and labels the problem. I, as reckless as I am, would have went one step further to say that "centrists," "moderates," and "middle-of-the-roaders" are the largest group of "fifth column conservatives" that I know. They cringe whenever political policy moves off center in either direction. They despise what they consider "far right republicans," as well as "far left liberals." They want to be comfortable, but not too passionate. The problem with people who spend all their time in the middle of the road is that they get hit by traffic from both directions. Moreover, "moderate republicans" are really anathema to the the Grand Old Party, as they retain only the fiscal principles and none of the social and moral principles.

No doubt I'll be soundly corrected for saying so, but I believe moderate republicans bare a lion's share of guilt for why the country has shifted so far to the left as to allow an enemy like Barack Hussein Obama to be elected president. They do not see the need to oppose abortion, nor do they see the need to return to the moral values of our founding fathers. As I said before, all moderates, regardless of party, who stand in the middle politically are going to be hit with traffic from both directions. Their wishy-washy "let's just get along" views are worthless in the fight to secure our country and our Constitution, and are worthless against the far-left liberals fight to socialize our country.

I can hear them all whining even now..."can't we all just get along?"