We need someone with GUTS to be the Republican party's Conservative leader. That is what is so infuriating, so frustrating, so deep down disturbing about the Party at this point. Look, we can see liberals all the time boldly standing up for the things they believe, regardless of how illogical they are..., but where is the boldness among Republicans? Where is that energy and drive and absolute commitment to purpose in a Conservative leader among Republicans? The liberal Democrats have the GUTS to do and say what they want. The Republicans lack GUTS, they lack COURAGE. Compared to the Democrats they're a bunch of flitting ballerinas tiptoeing and pirouetting around every controversial issue. And they're not even good at that. They're uncoordinated disjointed ballerinas. Maybe I'm just getting tired. Maybe it's just a fantasy and I'm being foolish to believe our country can produce another great thinker like Jefferson or Adams who knows what it takes to be an inspirational ideological leader among men. It seems like we throw opportunities away when they come to us. I was inspired about the possibility of a Palin VP possibly becoming a Palin presidency, but maybe..., maybe it was doomed to fail regardless. The longer we let liberalism seep into the fabric of our culture the harder it's going to be to find the Conservative who will take it all on and prove that our country's government can be restored to it's proper place and role as our founders intended.

We seem to have lost some former Conservative advocates like Gingrich, who want to take a moderate approach now... not be critical of Obama... etc..., and I think we should not try to pull them back in thier current state... because if they will throw away standing firm for Conservatism for the sake of appearing malleable and polite and gently concerned... basically be the New Tone Republicans ..., then we can't trust thier approach or thier dedication to Conservative ideology. We need someone with the GUTS to be a Conservative leader in political office. It's become plain that Conservatism is on par with the stance the Whigs of the Revolutionary War took against the Loyalists... a bunch of colonists who didn't want to upset the status, who felt that things would be better under the Monarchy. The colonial era Loyalists are like the Moderates of the Republican party today. This is a Revolutionary War of sorts, but instead of military battles we are fighting decay and rot within the Party leadership. Just like it took a General Washington to keep the fight going, to never give it up even under the harshest conditions, we need someone with that same grit to carry the Conservative banner high and be proud to do so. Conservatives... genuine Conservatives should be proud to defend the things we believe. We should be energized and motivated to bring the positive values of freedom and life to the table and have no fear of declaring those ideals openly and with strength. We can't fight a battle like this from a position of cowardice and soft tones. We can't rally people by expressing moderate views.

There are generally two schools of thought regarding bullies. The first approach is to take them head-on and show them you will not tolerate being abused. The other approach is to ignore them, don't feed thier ego, and eventually they give up. It's been soundly proven that the second approach is almost always an abysmal failure. Ignoring the bully either entices him to be even more brazen in his attacks, or it appears to give the bully credibility since you won't defend yourself..., or both. So why bring this up? Sarah Palin has been bullied by the press, by Hollywood, by every Democrat pundit, from nearly the very first day that McCain announced her as his choice for a running mate. Her children, her husband, her stature as a mother, her intelligence, have been ridiculed in the way a mindless bully attempts to ridicule who he perceives to be the most defenseless target on the playground. As a politician a certain amount of this comes with the job, and you have to allow it to roll off your back..., to a degree. But there comes a time when it's reached its limit and the bullies need to be taught a lesson. When people who were on your side are turned against you launching the most petty, snide, cowardly, immature attacks from deep in the shadows, helping your enemies to tear you down, it's time to go after those traitors. Senator McCain proves again he is an absolutely bitter ingrate and a waste of time, as he sits idly by allowing lies from his own campaign staffers to be tossed at Governor Palin. Why? Because he never liked Conservatives and thinks they are the problem with the Republican Party. Sarah Palin worked harder than McCain himself in the last nine weeks of the campaign, to try to get him elected. And everyone I know thinks it's also disgraceful that Fox News drools this garbage all over it's network without first waiting for a response from governor Palin so that it can be presented as a fair and balanced report. Cameron should be fired for his hack journalism in aiding this spreading of innuendo and lies and violating the credo of his own network's slogan of fair and balanced.

Also have you heard of Obama's plan to force all public school students to perform community service? This is the sort of thing courts punish criminals with. Obama wants to do this to students. Obama said... "So when I'm President, I will set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year. This means that by the time you graduate college, you'll have done 17 weeks of service.". So what is this supposed to be, Obama's forced labor camps? Will the students have to wear t-shirts with Obama's image on them while they perform thier forced labor? What's next? Every school room must have a portrait of Obama on the wall that the students have to salute? Looks like we better hold on tight. The Obama presidency is going to be a very bumpy ride for those who cherish freedom.

 - Mike Silverman

 I think character is an imperative part of leadership, and I think it speaks ill of the citizens in general when the press suggests that it doesn't matter to us who Obama allies himself with personally. I recall Bill Clinton's first run at the White House. All the "bimbo eruptions" as they were termed, and how many on the opposing side tried to point out that this is a character flaw that shows he will be an untrustworthy leader.  His supporters told us, "hey it's his personal life, and it's completely separate from professional life, so leave him alone".  Of course we know what happened in the oval office, that we all pay to maintain with our tax money. I think Bill clearly proved if you do it to your wife ( affairs, infidelity), you'll probably do it to the country as well. But that's just one example. How many times has an infidelity , or ( use of call girls as a certain governor is now famous for) ended a political career on the spot?  Quite a lot. While adultery is certainly very bad, associating with people who want to see our government and our allies destroyed, who hate the united states, is even worse.  It's wrong to take the question of morality out of leadership ability. It's key. And I think if a strong enough case can be made, then it definitely should be one of the determining factors in who you will give your vote of trust to. I wrote a little poem here about my views on Obama, and his policies.  I call it The Obama Blues...,
 
Obama and his friends
have a plan of attack,
My money's going down,
They say it's not coming back...,
Now I've learned it hard,
What they believe,
They're draining the blood
From those who achieve.
 
I worked and I scraped
To make a good living,
I do my share of
Helping and giving,
But it's never enough
For the left wing vote,
They want what I earn
To keep others afloat.
 
Joe found out
You can't say a thing
If freedom of speech
means dissing the king,
You'll be run on a rail
Straight out of town
If you don't bow your head
To the Democrat crown.

Pulling it back,
And washing it out,
Fighting for freedom
Is truly in doubt,
When the plan is to stop
As the war's being won,
And meeting our foe
Like a petulant son.

So for goodness sake DON'T VOTE OBAMA!
 
- Mike Silverman,

They're getting bold. The liberals are slipping and letting thier real plans surface because they sense an Obama victory and they think that means socialism is the wave of the future. This may be even more dangerous than suspected. An Obama presidency will be used by liberals as an excuse to claim a national mandate to socialize healthcare, energy companies, home ownership, ban fatty foods, extend the waiting period for gun ownership to 90 days.., and it goes on and on. It seems like, once Obama slipped and let the cat out of the bag with Joe The Plumber, liberals got all excited about hoping on the bandwagon. This can't be a good trend. An Obama win could realistically signal the start of a disasterous social experiment via a liberal congress taking advantage of dislike for Bush as a mandate for the extreme opposite. I have an inherent trust in the goodness of... and generally the wisdom of... the vast majority of our country's population. Yet there is no doubt that an aging baby boom generation with significant segments raised without the sorts of ethics thier parents or grandparents had been raised with is so focused on "themselves" that they may not be looking very far down the road.  It will take those of us who are focused on the future to bring those of us who are focused only on the present to thier senses, and we may have to drag "them" metaphorically into the controlling seats of government. It boggles the mind in astounding ways to conceive of the notion that anyone familiar with Obama's fiscal record and stated goals would look to him as the answer for a struggling economy. Everyone has been told, by the Republicans and Conservatives, from every venue, of the dangers of an Obama presidency, but if we are to believe the opinion polls, a large enough segment simply don't care. They are trained to know only one thing, whatever party is in Power during a presidential election must be tossed out if the economy has problems. It's like an inbred DNA program. It doesn't matter that the "other" party might be worse, it's all about decades of political programming. So, what can "we" the people do..., in these remaining days to bring the light of knowledge shining down on the less intuitive members of the population. That "may" be an impossible task. To overcome decades of programming in a matter of days is a tall order. We bring out evidence of the truth for those whose senses have been dulled by decades of liberal exposure, but they've been trained by the media, colleges, whatever.. to be skeptical of anything that smacks of Conservative values. The problem is leadership. There are no universally respected national figures who are decrying an Obama presidency. The icons of our society are mostly trash. When you have Oprah and The View setting the tone for daytime talk, when you have sports figures and whole teams tied up in scandals, when you have the hollywood left producing trash that trashes the US, when you have a political party with a moderate tone that seeks compromise and bi-partisanship at the expense of foundational principle.., "where" is a powerful national figure who can grab the attention of the country who will set the record straight on Obama, national defense and socialism? Changing minds at the grass roots is a long process. The NEW media is pouring out the truth every day, we are all desperately trying to make it understood that we face a seminal moment in our history as to how we approach governance of the country. I'm not sure that there is much more we can do. It may be a generational change that is the only way to really fix this. Kids growing up and seeing the self destructive behavior of the irrational ideals of liberalism and of living only for the moment. AND ONE MORE THING... You know that outrageous Halloween display showing an effigy of Sarah Palin hanging by a noose? Where is the same outrage in the press who were all upset over the "false" accusations that McCain/Palin rallies where fomenting hate? Why aren't they harping on a real display of genuine hate with the same eagerness? And where is the rabid investigation into this guy's past who put up the display, any outstanding taxes, any personal problems, what he does for a living and where he works, his political affiliations.... just like those dirt sniffing pigs did to Joe the Plumber? Where is it? We know press outrage simply is not there when the Republican candidate is the target of hate because of the same old double standard the press has held for decades. When liberals engage in open displays of hate it's never called "hate" it's simply lauded and defended by the press as free speech.
 
 - Mike Silverman.

Newspapers, such as the New York Times, are agenda driven and they attempt to shape opinion with thier choice of stories, they do not let events determine what is news worthy. The constantly declining circulation proves that they are sinking to feeding an ever tightening niche audience of radicals who expect partisan attacks on any political issue rather than fair and balanced and truthful reporting. They print for thier spoon fed audiences and not for the wide open masses. The new media, the blogosphere, talk radio, XM, newsletters that cater to individual tastes, and networks like Fox News that are not driven by an inside agenda but rather by delivering a factual accounting of the  events of the day or the week..., have served to cut down once giant news media machines like the NY Times to the point where they only appeal to thier own rigidly ideological readership.  The Audit Bureau of Circulations reports that the daily version of the NY Times is at a current circulation of 1,077,256 which is down from the previous year, and they continue to sink.
 
Now, on to the latest attacks on Sarah Palin. At a recent fund raising event she said the following ;

"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom."

For this innocent statement she has been ridiculed, derided, and in general attacked as she always is by the politically motivated left wing press for every statement she makes on anything at all.  The mistake Sarah made here, and always makes,  is that she forgets she's not allowed to express her own opinion.  Her opinion of what makes America great must  match the views of the left wing press, or she's ridiculed as a rube from an outland of snowblind posers. Well, Sarah said it herself back at her convention speech, she's not going to DC to please the media.  And we love that attitude in her. We love it when the liberal press is flummoxed and angry and panicked and flabergasted at Sarah, because it exposes them for the hyper-partisan yellow dog Democrats they are, as they attempt to hide behind a window dressing of impartiality and fairness. Sarah is absolutely correct to point out that some areas of our country produce a higher ratio of openly displayed genuine patriotism than others. We all know, even the liberal press knows..., that there are rabid anti-American hate mongers foaming at the mouth in all sorts of places around our country.  Barack Obama could introduce you to several of the more prominent ones since he has allied himself with some of the most vicious examples. We have been long exposed to the inbred hatered of middle America by the liberals of this country who think that the average American is a racist, redneck ingnoramus... as that fumble-mouthed idiot congressman John Murtha recently expressed. The entire Democrat leadership on Captiol Hill could easily be declared a gaggle of facist anti-American anti-patriotic narcissists. They held our troops in Iraq hostage time after time by fighting against success, against funding, and deriding the effort at every turn.  It's about time we have some courageous political figure like Governor Palin to point out that this country does have a distinct lack of patriotism in some circles. We already know this is the truth, but it takes a real leader to state fearlessly that fact in an open forum in front of a hostile media. Sarah has what it takes to do that. Frankly we'd all be much better off with  a President Palin than a President Obama or a President Biden.
 
- Mike Silverman

I've noticed that almost every topic and subject matter now has an "Awareness Month". So, I thought , why not have an "Obama" awareness month?  Therefore, I am declaring that this month is "National Obama Is An Empty Suit Awareness Month". If you are someone who wears a suit regularly please be sure to carry an extra "empty" suit around with you this month in order to focus awareness on this important subject matter. Communities are encouraged to organize "Empty" rallies where you can donate an empty suit to your local ACORN chapter manager to be distributed to all the empty spaces occupied by the voters they have registered who don't exist. A spokesperson for the New York City branch of ACORN which is called the "Volunteer Organization for Mobilizing Indigent Turnout" (VOMIT) said today they have registered 500 homeless street vagrants as Democrats and urged them to the polls for Obama. ACORN executive Ahma Lyre, the Senior Manager in charge of hiding Obama's connections with ACORN said they would be happy to donate any empty "Obama suits" they receive to VOMIT as an incentive for thier indigent voter drive. In a statement released this morning, Lyre said the following;

"We need to work together as fraud inciters and scheming liars to insure that Barack Obama has a massive support network of stupefied homeless drunks,burned out drug addicts, corpses, convicts, cartoon characters and unverifiable polling data to prop him up all the way to the White House. He promised us that we would be setting the agenda for his administration and we intend to carry him there no matter how much fraud we need to commit. We will work with "President" Obama on reshaping this country into a social playground for our liberal indoctrination agenda."

So let's make sure everyone is "aware" this month that Obama's real record is one of radical social activism, alliance with fraud-manipulating community organizations and terror sympathizers, with a real congressional track of vote avoidance and lack of leadership.

By the way... Where oh where has Senator Biden gone? We've been hearing a lot lately from the media about Sarah and the allegedly hate-filled rallies full of rabble rousing peasants with torches and pitchforks..., but an ominous emptiness from the Biden front. Could he have been proving to be a bit of a liability to THE ONE? Have Obama's poll numbers been rattled by the nonsense from Biden's mouth? McCain should have asked him about that at the Debate.  I suspect Obama daily regrets having selected Biden as his running mate.
 
- Mike Silverman