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The "American Idiot" Show -- The Republicant Team
by Mike Blessing[gunssavelives@comcast.net]

As I've explained in my coverage of the Demoncrap candidates, I have little to no patience with TV talent shows. The same goes for the unscripted group-mind-fucks that are labeled "reality TV" (what a lie for a genre name, considering the convoluted situations that the producers put their charges through) and game shows (I despise them most of all).

Much more interesting and entertaining is the political scene. Before radio and TV took off, many more Americans looked to politics as their diversion. As a result, they paid attention more to what their elected and appointed "representatives" were doing.

For the polite reviews of each of these candidates, see the article titled "Presidential Scouting Reports" in the June issue of Reason magazine. At present, Gingrich, Hagel and Pataki haven't declared any intention to run, but since they're mentioned as potential candidates, I included them to cover all the bases.

The Republicant offerings --

Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas -- Sammy here sponsored the Constitution Restoration Act as a statutory remedy against the Supreme Court requiring state-level government buildings to be "religion-free" facilities. The most famous case was that of Alabama Judge Roy Moore, with his pre-session prayers, Ten Commandments plaque on the courtroom walls, and the 5,280-pound Ten Commandments monument that he sneaked into the courthouse on the night of 31 July 2001.

Now I don't have a problem per se with Moore's choice of courthouse decor (I try to avoid the places when at all possible, and not because of religious statuary), but he should have at least made room for statuary from the other religions -- Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Wicca, etc. That way everyone can find a reason to be offended. But back to Brownback --

Sammy sponsored the "Broadcast Decency Act of 2005," which increases the fines that the FCC can levy in response to violations of its arbitrarily-defined "decency standards" tenfold (from 32,500 FRN to 325,000 FRN) and he's got a hard-on for same-sex marriages.

Sammy might make a decent Baptist minister, but he's a lousy senator, and would make a worse president.

John H. Cox of Illinios -- I was getting ready to slam Cox, but the Wikipedia entry on his is sparse at best, so I went to his campaign site. After examining his issues page, well, he's kind of a "Ron Paul Jr." in that he espouses the same kinds of positions. If the GOP had more like him and Paul, then the Libertarian Party would lose a good bit of whatever vote share it currently gets and fade away.

Former Governor Jim Gilmore of Virginia -- Gilmore wants to be kind of a Paul Lite, as while he's not a gun-owner hater, he's also not a firebrand supporter of the right to own and carry weapons. He created Virginia Exile, a state-level version of the federally-pushed Project Exile. Gilmore is just . . . bland. Blah.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia -- It seems as though the author of the 1994 con-job known as the Contract with America is back to give us more of the same BS and blue sky. Those remember the original Contract were under the impression that the various planks would be passed and sent to the White House for presidential signature by the Republican majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, where all Gingrich and his buddies promised was that they would bring the legislation covered in the planks would be brought to the floor for up-or-down votes. That's a whopper of a difference, and many people (including myself, I'm ashamed to admit) fell for it.

A prime example of this electoral and legislative bait-and-switch was term limits. They promised to bring Constitutional amendments for term limits for Representatives and Senators to the House and Senate floors for up-or-down votes. See this Wikipedia page or Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders, by Senator Tom Coburn. While I'm not keen on Coburn's views supporting the Falwell Followers, Coburn gets it on the limited-government issues (taxes, spending), term limits, and the Second Amendment. Anyway, Breach of Trust is a decent read (I picked up from the remainder area at Barnes & Noble for 4.98 a few years ago).

And that's exactly what they did -- they brought several amendment bills to the floor, each one different enough to require a two-thirds supermajority on each side, etc.

By doing this, they set it up so they could all "vote for term limits" without any of the one amendments hitting that two-thirds threshold.

Now Newt (rather appropriate for him, as he's been under his wet rock since resigning from House Speaker in 1998) is back, with a 21st Century Contract with America for Republican candidates to sign.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York -- Jeez, where to start with this one?

OK, well, Il Duce Rudy-poo is definitely NO friend of the Second Amendment -- back when he was Mayor of New York City in 1994, he was asked which Demoncrap victim disarmament proposal(s) he favored -- he replied, "I don't think we should try just one -- I think we should try them all." (Emphasis mine) Then in June 2000, he had the City of New York join the going trend of filing third-party lawsuits against gun manufacturers -- that lawsuit is still pending. Since then, he's made a few statements that he "was misunderstood" -- I don't think so. His current site is proud of his record in getting rid of "illegal" handguns -- handguns that were only illegal because of the Sullivan Act, passed in 1911:

Rudy Giuliani is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. When he was Mayor of a city suffering an average of almost 2000 murders a year, he protected people by getting illegal handguns out of the hands of criminals. As a result, shootings fell by 72% and the murder rate was cut by two-thirds. But Rudy understands that what works in New York doesn't necessarily work in Mississippi or Montana.

Prior to being Mayor of New York City, Rudy-poo was a federal prosecutor, and made his bones pushing cases involving violations of malum prohibitum statutes -- no actual person was demonstrably harmed, but someone broke some arbitrary, asinine rule (for example, the Boesky/Milken trials). Look to see him signing many, many more such statutes as president.

As for foreign policy -- he's clueless, but supports the Iraq Occupation anyway, because the "terrorists would be here in America if we weren't fighting them overseas." This BS is part of why Eric Dondero is in love with him as a candidate -- Dondero buys off on this BS, too.

First, that indicates he couldn't be bothered to read the "9-11" Commission report, concerning an incident where foreign terrorists killed 3,000+ people in New York City during his term as Mayor there. The report cites numerous instances, such as Bin Laden's 1996 fatwa, where Bin Laden cited American troops occupying parts of Saudi Arabia after the 1991 "Gulf War" firepower demonstration as a major reason to attack Americans.

His outburst after Ron Paul explained this in the 15 May debate on Fox News brought out the fact that he's ignorant and proud of it.

Or maybe not ignorant -- it could be that he just doesn't care about individual rights -- which jibes with this quote from 1994:

"Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it."

Source: New York Times, 20 March 1994

Senator Chuck Hagel -- Chuck doesn't look too bad (OK, he's no Ron Paul):

1. He actually went to the war of the day (for him, Vietnam) instead of hiding out in the States under a chickenshit deferment, as both George W. Bush and Waco Willie Clinton did. I've noticed that politicians who've actually been in a war zone as combatants seem to be more reticent about sending other people's kids off to war.

2. He's spoke out about "the Patriot Act" (actually the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001), and seems to be critical of the Busheviks concerning domestic wiretapping by No Such Agency.

Former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas -- Huckabee won a special election to Arkansas' lieutenant-governorship after Wac Willie Clinton was elected to the White House in 1992 -- then-Lieutenant Governor Jim Guy Tucker ascended to the Governor's slot, leaving the second string spot open. Huckabee then became governor after Tucker was sent to prison as a result of the Whitewater fiasco. What did Huckabee do while he was governor of Arkansas?

He led a public relations campaign for a bond program to pay for road reconstruction, and funneled other money (already taxed from the voters) to the state's parks. Huckabee also led a campaign to funnel 100 percent of the state's tobacco settlement revenues into the state's health care system, instead of turning down the cash (Emphasis mine), threw some verbal support to the Falwell Followers (on abortion and creationism), and well . . .

On to the next one.

Representative Duncan Hunter of California -- Hunter, while a supporter of the Second Amendment (NRA gives him an "A+") and limiting spending, is also a Bushevik war pig and a Falwell Follower -- he supported the "Broadcast Decency Act of 2005," supports federal control over stem cell research, favors Constitutional amendments to outlaw abortion and define marriage, etc., etc.

Senator John McCain of Arizona -- If you're looking for convoluted, hair-brained socialism, there's no need to search through the latest conspiracy theories when the Manchurian Senator is on the prowl --

He's the war pig's war pig and makes George Bush look like a piker, with his "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" schtick -- see the article from Reason magazine titled Be Afraid of President McCain. As if the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan aren't bad enough -- what's next? Iran? Venezuela? Cuba? North Korea? Somewhere in Africa?

McCain co-wrote the "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002", more properly known as the McCain-Feingold Incumbency Protection Act of 2002, apparently as a way to absolve his guilt at being caught in the Keating Five scandal. (If he could've gotten away with it scot-free, he would have.)

So much for his committment to supporting and upholding the First Amendment to the Constitution. And if that wasn't bad enough, he sponsored the "Broadcast Decency Act of 2005."

See the pages from Gun Owners of America (GOA) about McCain's campaign to infringe Americans' individual right to own and carry weapons for self-defense -- John McCain's Gun Control Problem and GOA On John McCain's Record -- McCain has been a bigot against gun owners for a while now.

So much for his committment to supporting and upholding the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

However, McCain provides us with lots of entertainment, with comments like "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." He won't do nearly as much harm on talk radio or late-night TV as he does in the Senate and would do in the White House.

Representative Ron Paul of Texas -- The Republican Party simply is NOT going to put up anyone better than "Dr. No" Ron Paul. (Neither will the Democrats, for that matter.)

Check out Paul's site and the Ron Paul 2008 YouTube Channel

Libertarians will object to Paul's stands on immigration (he wants to close the border, like that's really possible -- see this article from Reason) and same-sex marriages (he's personally opposed, but says "Leave it to the states."). Still, Paul inspired libertarian science-fiction writer and columnist L. Neil Smith to advocate that the Libertarian Party nominate "None of the Above" at the 2008 National Convention in Denver and cross-endorsing "Dr. No" for president. (See Instead of a Speech)

Former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts -- Romney is another brain-surgeon-wannabe, having all the Romney is another bigot against gun owners -- while campaigning for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, he was a supporter of the federal "assault weapons" ban. But despite that, he had the balls to have his staff state, "Romney also believes in the rights of those who hunt to responsibly own and use firearms." On July 1, 2002, Romney signed a permanent ban on "assault weapons." "Deadly 'assault weapons' have no place in Massachusetts . . . . These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people."

Other "bright spots" on this clown's track record are his opposition to same-sex marriage (like it's any of his business if consenting adults choose to get married in ways he doesn't approve of!) and his signing of Massachusetts' "mandatory health insurance" plan. Way to go, Mitt -- we all know how well mandatory car insurance works out here in New Mexico -- we can be sure that mandatory health coverage will work just as well. Or won't work in the same manner.

Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado -- Tancredo is another immigrant-hater and has managed to beat the others to the head of that parade. Beyond that, well . . . he is a rather colorful character when speaking, causing the occasional riot when making an appearance. Beyond that, he's a typical Republican -- Bushevik war pig and Falwell Follower theocrat.

Former Senator and actor Fred Thompson of Tennessee -- Fred seems OK -- Political positions of Fred Thompson -- but still, he'd probably do better by staying in Hollywood and making movies. But then again, he hasn't officially declared his candidacy.

Former Governor Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin -- Blah. Maybe his brother Ed Thompson can run in his stead?
Actuellement j'écoute:
Blizzard of Ozz
Par Ozzy Osbourne
Date de publication : 02 April, 2002
 
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