Rob Peter – Pay Paul.

In the world of politics this has turned into the method of making a budget – at least in the state of New Jersey. Some other things which, while not typical of only NJ, is typical of the way that politics is practiced. You have three powerful figures, from the same party who sit down and discuss the “DEAL”. Now regardless of who the figures are, or what the “DEAL” is – you walk away with that dirty feeling from sitting on the subway for several hours in the darkest times of night. Granted you have the feeling of surviving the night, but it doesn't really alleviate the feeling of dirtiness that pervades you.

Now, I am one of those subway riders – I feel the filth collecting around me, not because I actually road the subway, but because the elected legislature – or should I say the Governor, the Heads of the Assembly and State Senate sat down and 'cut a DEAL'. Not really bothersome in itself except for that this is typical politics.

Here's the scenario. The democratic leadership has been winning and winning state wide for decades, but the problem is they are still getting hammered and do not control – all the vote – in the more rural areas. The Democratic machine has been able to blind the urban areas into taking and needing the dole of the government buck. Consequently, they are the proverbial fish on the line – the hook is so stuck into them that it would gut the urban areas if the state binstitutions and money were pulled from these urban areas. So, the state hook easily explains how much better life is now that the government is fixing things and taking care of them – and treating the citizen as if a nanny was taking care of them – thus the name: Nanny State.

So the government has the people in those areas so convinced that the public dole is better than standing on your two feet that they have managed to corner the vote by controlling the city areas of the state – which they have done quite well – with the help of poor republican candidates who had little or no chance of capturing the statewide position – nor of having coattails large enough to bring any conservative colleagues along to sit in the state legislature.

So the problem with the NJ State GOP is two fold. First they have to overcome numerical superiority and second they have to actually have a candidate who is worthy of the conservative title and the GOP name. Well, first off the first problem is really a misnomer. I stated that the republicans were out numbered – but not by democrats, instead they are outnumbered by INDEPENDENTS! Yes, the state of NJ is mostly INDEPENDENT!. There maybe pockets in which they do NOT dominate, but these are few and far in between. This unaffiliated independents are the swing vote that often decides an election.

So how do you get the conservatives back in power – and more importantly keep them there? Well, this is an easy answer. The answer sits with the the ancient strategist – SUN-TZU. He called for you to prey on your opponents most weakest points – and exploit their greatest weakness. In this case the greatest weakness of the democratic party is NOT corruption. This has been sold to often as a bi-partisan problem that it will not effectively sell as a good point for republican – in fact it can hurt if the democrat running points out the number of republicans who have had problems.

The achillies heel of the Democratic Party is their policies. For example:

The Democrats have to make a choice every election cycle – WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THE FAILING SCHOOLS OF NJ? The Teachers Union pushes for more money and better working conditions for teachers – which is hogwash. It's no more the answer then is me walking about in a bikini bathing suit.

The answer is charter schools and voucher schools. Not to get too deep in to this – it's important that you understand that both of these – charter and voucher schools are schools of choice. Parents can choose to send their child there or keep them in their regular school. The Democrats don't support Charter Schools or the Voucher program because it would crush their largest constituents – the TEACHERS UNION. The Teachers Union is one of the largest lobby groups in NJ. They lobby \everywhere to get more control of money and funding into the Abbott school districts. So, it didn't stop the Democrats from increasing the amount of money that goes to school – while decreasing the amount of money that goes to the towns.

Where does this leave us – back to why the budget “DEAL” has made me feel filthy. Simply put – the reason why the Dems cut the funding for the Towns is simple. They are trying to force the towns to consolidate and turn those hard working – efficient and versatile small towns into larger unresponsive and troublesome towns that have high crime and difficult lifestyles for the individuals – forcing many middle income, middle class individuals out the door.

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McCain's GRAND Strategy

The strategy of McCain suddenly struck me Saturday night as I was starring dumbfounded at the news. As I listened to the commentators all harp up and proclaim the wonders and greatness that Tim Russert has done in the last decade + at Meet the Press, and then move onto the other political news of the day I realized exactly what McCain’s strategy is.

He’s going for the two-fore vote. There is a clear division within the Democratic ranks. Those who are Hillarities are wondering if they should vote for McCain as a protest vote against Obama, for the way that he unfairly treated Hillary. And the rest of the democrats are concerned that the Hillarities will actually go through with this – or I should say the democrats who are trying to make the news – cause the reality is different.

So, McCain, believing this bit of intelligence from the intelligentsia of the media has swallowed the bait hook line and sinker. His approach is ‘moderate’ and ‘progressive’ (two words guaranteed to end with your gun taken away and your liberty a thing for the history books) and he is ‘wooing’ the Hillarities away from Obama. This is why we hear all those crazy whacko statements – like he doesn’t want to drill anywhere in the US. And why he speaks like a lib (and because he really is part lib – which in the lib media the part that they call ‘Maverick’). He’s thinking that if he can take away one of Obama’s supporters in the form of a Hillaritie, then he will be not only gaining a vote for himself, but lessening Obama’s support. A two for one deal! While my wife would be proud of him because of his consumer sense, no one else is.

So the truth is completely different. And there is a terrible flaw in this grand strategy. The truth is that those Hillarities are faced with the same decision all us Thomsonites, Hucabeeians, Romnities, Guilianians, and Paulistas – we either vote for the COMPLETELY unacceptable choice of the other party, or we vote for our own sometime liberty stealer and sometime lib sympathizer. Finally at last I found I have something in common with a Hillary Supporter – I feel like I need to take a couple of showers in an acid bath to clean my skin – as I’m sure they are think right now (or would that not be ‘progressive’ enough)

A Conservative Resurgence

Let’s consider this a two for one sale. I am posting both on Thursday and Friday.

Topic: How the Liberal’s just shot themselves in the foot.

Well, the liberal judges at the Supreme Court, supported and bolstered by the liberal establishment has demonstrated that they can’t be trusted with making decisions that help America. We all know this – you’ve read this plenty of places. But you know what. It’s not the end of the story.

THE LIBERALS HAVE SHOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT! And the reason why is because when these murders to make it to trial, they will be demonstrating to the world that they are Anti-American, Anti-Freedom, and Anti- Bush – murdering criminal thugs bent on the destruction of western society. The truth will come out, because the lawyers on the prosecution side will produce the number of recordings and other bits of information which are public use and cannot be ignored.

These trials will point out not only just how horrible these terrorists are – but by looking at these terrorists they will see the horrors that the Left has supported all the years. After all, it was the demagogues on the Left who have been pushing for this – giving rights to murders who are bent on the destruction of America. And eventually real Americans will have the chance to see just what types of people on the LEFT really are – the HATE AMERICA crowd.

I am confident – that in doing what the liberals have done today (and make no mistake that the Liberals have indeed crossed into politics and their argument shows it) the liberals have assured a CONSERVATIVE resurgence.

Unfortunately, this will be also based on the caskets of our dead soldiers from the criminals that will be released because of habeas corpus issues. When these criminals come back and attack American GI’s again, and our soldiers kill the bad guys – the liberals will be covered in shame.

It takes a GI to do what a Liberal couldn’t – Kill a Terrorist!

Why did Saddam have to go - why did we have to stay?

Let’s Learn Today!

These questions have been asked for a good long time and while some may feel this is a dead issue, I think it is very much alive when I hear Obama and his ilk claiming the invasion of Iraq was an illegal war and a wrong war. Stepping around the facts that Obama has a tendency to suck up to our enemies and ignore our allies – we need to address WHY in fact Iraq was a ‘good war’ on par with Korea and WWII.

I mentioned how we saw the horrors of Saddam years before we actually invade, and we saw those struggling for Democracy crushed under his brutal heel, at the allowance of our own country – but that is beside the point. What is the point is that while in WWII we had only an inkling of an idea of the horrors, we did know what Saddam was doing.

We also know that he was buying off the terrorists who were blowing up Israel. I can understand the argument – well they didn’t seem to be blowing up American cities. My response – and Hitler didn’t get the chance to start killing American Jews – just the ones he could get his hands on then. Where do we stop evil? This is the real question.

Do we stop evil at the border, or do we go out and stamp it out where we find it. A brief lesson in history – President Washington cautioned us against getting entangled in foreign wars. Well, Washington was also a president of a country that had struggled to survive for the previous ten years, and would still face a century + of turmoil and tribulations.

The America of today is a vibrant, mature member of the world, and is in fact the leader of the world. We are threatened by various members of our world, and in fact the argument could be successfully made that other countries such as China and the former Soviet Union are more ‘clear and present’ dangers to our way of life. But they’re not up at bat yet. The bad guys we’re facing are the terrorists who wish to plant suitcase nukes in our cities and deadly spores in our malls.

Saddam supported these terrorists and therefore he had to go. Notice that when President Bush started to point out the terrorists regimes out there, how they became wobbly kneed and were started pumping out rhetoric because of their fear of an American Smartbomb. And so they should be afraid, because the only thing deadlier then an American Smartbomb is the AMERICAN SOLDIER!

As for why are we still in Iraq – we are still in Germany – we are still maintaining bases there. Are you really so naïve to think that we would be leaving Iraq in a couple of months? Yeah – let’s change the government and – then we’ll just leave them to their own devices. This is the Democrats argument – walk away and leave the mess to be cleaned up by someone else.

Hope you learned something – if not – too bad. Leave the light on for the next person who wants to learn.