I wasn’t fond of the McCain & Steele support, I am dubious over the rumors of a reality show, I was dismayed over her support of politically correct whitewashing of our language, I am REALLY dumbfounded over why Sarah Palin would go on Canadian television and talk about her families use of the Canadian socialist healthcare system. It is bad enough Mitt Romney basically created and implimented Obamacare, now we have another potential candidate who was using socialist medicine before (or while) being against it.

I dig Palin but this is the latest in a line of things that have really eroded my support for any future political run. Seriously now, the admission was unnecessary in general but asinine when we are trying to put an end to the socialist system here. I don’t care if it happened in the 1960’s or six days ago, what a silly thing to go on about now. Did she help any illegal immigrants across the border while she was getting care? If so, maybe we can hear about it while debating amnesty.

If I haven’t spelled it out enough in the last few days of posting, let me be blunt, if the current crop of candidates represent what the Party will be left with in 2012, we have little hope. Oh and you can add Tim Pawlenty to the list of people endorsing McCain. That is all.

Yesterday I lamented the lack of faith I have in the current class of clowns we have headlining the Republican Party. If you thought I was in any way harsh or just being down, check out the latest from our worthless leader Michael Steele. Not only is he using his time to promote his book, he and the RNC are taking donations and living large!

From Politico::

Just last week, RNC officials touted a January fundraising haul of more than $10 million. But after hosting the sun-filled winter meeting in Hawaii, paying for the holiday party and taking care of other bills, the committee spent almost all of it. Consequently, the RNC added only $1 million to the committee’s $8.4 million in cash, the reports show…

The RNC’s fundraising problems could have real consequences in the fall, since the RNC typically acts as a bank in midterms, swooping in to help cash-strapped candidates. It also is responsible for running the party’s vaunted 72-hour get-out-the-vote program…

The 2005 committee spent $1.35 million on lodging, compared with $1.5 million last year. The locations also improved. There were overnights at Ritz-Carlton hotels in Chicago, Denver, Marina del Rey, Westchester and Boston. The committee dropped $8,000 for two stays at Hotel Vitale, which boasts panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay.

RNC meal costs are among the categories that saw the biggest increases under Steele’s leadership. In Beverly Hills, Calif., the RNC spent $10,600 on food and lodging for a fundraiser featuring former Speaker Newt Gingrich at Spago, the flagship restaurant of the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group. In total, the Wolfgang Puck enterprise has collected more than $94,000 from the RNC for catering services, compared with zero dollars in 2005.

“It’s symbolic of the way they are looking at the building and the way they are spending money,” said one donor. “It’s a culture. During the Bush administration, Karl Rove would bitch if there were flowers on the tables.”

Nothing makes the conservative fiscal message sparkle more than a private jet and fresh flowers!

So far 2010 has seen Sarah Palin, newly elected Scott Brown and Mitt Romney endorsed John McCain a man who now claims he was duped into voting for the massively corrupt bailout of financial institutions. Perhaps he and Hillary Clinton, who like many other Democrats claimed she was duped into voting for the Iraq War, can gather together and whine about it over wine. Yesterday Scott Brown voted for a “Jobs Bill” loaded with the same terrible spending and useless solutions as the stimulus he campaigned against. What is different? This bill has “Jobs” in the title, so you can undoubtedly cue the “I was duped” argument for Brown sometime later this year. “It had jobs in the title, what was I to do?”

If all that isn’t enough for you, this weekend Mike Huckabee attacked the Conservative Political Action Conference and the big government hating libertarians who gathered there. Meanwhile Newt Gingrich declared Republicans need to work with Democrats to pass The Health Care reform that was basically created, loved, and now awkwardly distanced from by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts just a few short years ago. How exactly do you spot a RINO? I just gave you a nice list of examples.

The media and pundits routinely pontificate over the question of how the Republican Party can join together for electoral victory. The answer? They can not do what they have been doing.

RNC Chairman Michael Steele is a bit too busy to pay much attention to the mood of the country, he has a book to promote afterall. Still, at least one leading Republican should get it, the public doesn’t want what they have been selling. I fear 2012 could be a John Kerry year for the Republican Party. A time when a small band of party elites decides to pick a “consensus” candidate without consulting with the consensus. It would be a massive blow, especially considering we already did that in 2008.

In a time when every Republican, conservative, and independent is screaming for something different, we keep getting handed the same. I know some call me a stick in the middle over Brown and Palin endorsing McCain, but we should all be outraged. Yes McCain did them a political favor, most of us agree though that repaying favors over principal is a major part of the problem. Brown and Palin’s appeal was that they were two candidates without a long history of favors to repay. How quickly that has and will change!

The Republican Party gave McCain, a progressive who has failed said Party in almost everything but defense, the nomination as almost a return of favor. He put in his time, he sacrificed large for his country and did the bare minimum for the Party. Then he almost seemed to give up for awhile there in 2008, he even suspended his campaign in a confusing and embarrassing moment of supposed national crisis. How did he spend that suspended time? He sat in an office and went along with every bad choice handed to him then passed it off as leadership. Now he seems like he wants to run again. Cannot wait for that!

Sorry, but courtesy or not, McCain owes more to Republicans than we owe to him. Yes he chose Palin as a running mate and launched her career, but without her he would have been crushed by an even larger loss. His staff repaid her by doing all they could to tarnish her name in tabloids and ruin her credibility with an already demented media. Where is the need to lend what seem like conservative credentials to a man who is still fighting for a progressive cause?

So far our list of realistic candidates are Romney, Huckabee, Palin and Newt. Then we have a bush league of governors that has been almost destroyed by personal scandal. Those who haven’t been rocked by adultery seem absent. Has anyone even heard from Bobby Jindal lately? Does anyone care what he is up to? The few actual “leaders” in our Party left are busy spending stimulus money and shrugging their shoulders.

I like many still hold out hope for some of these people but I have been let down too often by too many politicians on both sides to really believe. We have a class full of clowns but sadly, none of them are even funny or interesting. I long ago gave up on expecting to find the next Ronald Reagan in our current crop, sadly I am just hoping for a candidate capable of reaching Walter Mondale heights of glory. We need a better class of clowns and we need it fast.

Glenn Beck closes out CPAC 2010

h/t Hot Air

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It occurred to me our nation has a bad habit of electing lawyers to public office. While our Congress is a legislature, it is one that should be informed by all members of society. Our government should be creating legal language that is accessible and understandable, unshackled and simplistic.

How have we gone from a nation where the entire federal government is created in just a few pages, to a thousand pages plus unread document that is supposed to manage our health care or build a few roads? The answer is that we have filled our government with lawyers and career politicians who emulate them. In short, elect lawyers and you end up with more laws.

If Health Care is truly an issue that needs immediate attention, why have we not elected doctors and nurses to seats in the House and Senate? Why have they not flooded our state legislatures and been elected to positions of authority in our communities?

What does a lawyer or career politician know about medicine? So far the solutions they have presented suggest, not much. Government mandates, incomprehensible systems of oversight, where in the thousands of pages is an understanding of what makes our system right and what makes it wrong? Oddly the one thing a lawyer can provide insight on, what makes new solutions compatible with the Constitution, seems absent from current debate.

Our private sector has been decimated in recent years leaving citizens without work and new ventures without funding. In the wake of Enron, our lawyer class presented more laws. These laws have crippled our economy and destroyed our workers livelihood.

Where in any of the legislation already passed or presented, is an understanding of the mechanics of business, the balance between labor and management, the need for a bottom line or the price of failure? We simply have more laws, not better ideas or informed solutions.

We face War, but where are the soldiers, the Generals, those who have been in battle, those to guide us forward? In a time of multiple fronts and ever increasing threats, what do lawyers know about the true cost of our struggle? They have met our challenges with new mandates for other nations, the slow and useless path of global governance and a razor thin resolve. We have elected lawyers almost exclusively to oversee the work of soldiers. No wonder we have turned our discussion from what it takes to win to what is legally allowed to get by.

As we move to 2010 and 2012, I find myself desiring true change. I seek an end to the legal and career politician dominance of our government. I seek farmers, builders, soldiers, managers, anyone and everyone who holds a perspective different from those currently in power.

This comes with a warning and understanding. The current class has defined what a candidate should look and sound like. All who do not speak in bites of sound, dress in well cut suits and slick back their hundred dollar plus haircuts, are considered the weak ones. Those who are unpolished, those who speak out of turn, those who show moments of true emotion, those who dare defy the frame the media and the lawyers have hung for them, they are considered too stupid to represent us.

The lawyers and the career politicians are the easiest to spot. They speak on cue and fight over the definition of terms rather than the simplicity of solutions. They are, what I often call, beseeched by supercilious intoxication, a drunken arrogance that prizes ridicule as an ultimate weapon.

Like a well-honed radio voice, these members have shed their uniqueness under a blandness that we now accept as the calling card of an everyman. Lost are the accents, the ethnic and cultural colloquialisms that exist in homes across America. These voices are ridiculed on Saturday Night Live, the Daily Show and by pundits. Lost are simple solutions and true debate over ideas because they are considered too stupid to matter. All have been replaced with fights over language, the definition of terms, silly points about obscure legal battles and character attacks that treat public figures as if they are on a witness stand 24/7.

We must change our own expectations and desires because for too long we have sought and supported the wrong kind of candidate. Government has become exclusive to those who govern. We now define leadership as experience, good or bad, in government.

Leadership is not exclusive to one or two fields of labor. Leaders exist all around us and should be informing us on our direction forward. We must look not at the polish or for a paper degree but instead seek leadership and solutions that are beautiful in sound simplicity.

Lawyers have a place in government but government is not a place exclusive for lawyers. Let us seek those from the outside, those who have experience dealing with the problems and pitfalls our nation faces and will face again. Death to the lawyer class as it currently exists. Life to a government of, by and for the people of all occupations.

I was just sitting here thinking, if John McCain had NOT picked Sarah Palin, one of these two other women may have been his candidates.

First, Carly Fiorina who was forced out of HP, enjoys the company of Jesse Jackson, loves Tarp, and sees demonsheep.

Second we have Meg Whitman, RINO personified who absolutely LOVES Van Jones

The other day I warned conservatives not to “build thing” and this is exactly why:

Three former allies of the National Tea Party Convention are planning a guerrilla press conference near the convention hall Saturday afternoon to highlight what they contend are the organizers’ efforts to hijack the tea party movement.

The three men, Anthony Shreeve, Robert Kilmarx and Mark Herr, are Tennessee tea party activists who were involved in the early stages of planning the convention and say they resigned in protest after disputes with lead convention organizers Judson and Sherry Phillips, who contend that the ex-allies were banned from the group planning the event for incivility or indiscretion.

Seriously people, you are not cool and nobody cares about your infighting nonsense. This, plus all the other noise around the convention is just a lot of noise that keeps our collected eye off the prize. Just take your balls, go home and be morons alone.

California RINO Carly Fiorini fears one thing more than any other, Demon Sheep! Their eyes, their eyes!

Found via Hot Air & Twitter where #demonsheep roam.