Rockin’ with Rudy at Republican H.Q.
I had to drive up to McCain’s St. Louis office to pick up my Poll Watcher credentials this morning and in doing so, I also got the chance to meet Hizzoner, Rudy Guiliani. Rudy was there with Mo. Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond and they came out the back of the building to the loading dock, you know, where all the really important speeches are delivered.
There was a small but very enthusiastic and vocal crowd of Republican activists present and the group erupted when America’s Mayor and Kit Bond came through the doors. Both men talked about the importance of the election and the national security stakes involved. Both men talked about the coming middle class tax increase, but Rudy was particularly funny the way he presented it. First he held his right hand as high as it would go and started out at the first figure the Obama campaign gave us, $250,000, then he lowered his hand as he said $200,000, lowered it again at $150,000 and so on. Neither Obama, Biden and now New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson can agree on a figure, so I’m just going to take a wild guess and say, for now, I’ll go with the lowest figure of $120,000. ( subject to revision without prior notice )
We were chanting USA, USA at times throughout the speeches and shouting out some things we wanted a McCain administration to pursue. I asked Rudy to accept the Attorney General slot, if offered. He just grinned and thanked me for coming out. That’s whats so cool about these small gatherings. You get, even if for all of five seconds, to tell the Party’s leadership what you want. This crowd wanted several things: No military budget cuts, no “tax refunds” for people who don’t pay taxes, ( BTW, I called out at that point and said, “That’s not a tax cut, that’s WELFARE” and the crowd starting chanting, WELFARE, WELFARE, WELFARE and Kit and Rudy were beaming back at us and giving us the “thumbs up sign” ) and finally, no “spreading the wealth around.”
It was fun and well worth the trip. Now I have to get my packet of materials out and start studying.
~~John Cronin~~
November 1st, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Thanks for sharing John. How exciting for you!!
November 1st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
This morning Mitt spoke at farmington New mexico before he went to Colorado. How does he continue to work so hard for the republican party and then turn the other cheek when he is stabbed in the back and accused of trying to sabatoge it. Mitt’s speech was a floodgate of great political points packaged in brevity. He was comfortable and spontaneous with the crowd. With facts and humor he endorsed John McCain/Sarah Pallin, and local candidates.
Listening to Romney articulate why we should vote For McCain. Was like having a high performance Ferrari sincerely try to help you overcome buyer remorse for choosing a beat up station wagon instead. I will vote McCain But it is with great reservations.
November 1st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
John, Yea for you, what fun. Don’t you just get so much satisfaction knowing you are helping to landscape our future in this wonderful country. We know we are swallowing the bitter pill, we all adored and thought Mitt was the absolute best candidate for President. However, we did what Mitt is doing , being true to our core beliefs. It’s our love of freedom, it’s our patriotism, and the salvation of this country that will prevail, I pray. Thank you for your service to this country, every effort is a great deed to keep us strong and true to our Founding Fathers.
November 1st, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Paulee,
Many thanks for your gracious comments. As Pat Buchanan said: “You can’t have more fun than a Presidential election.”
November 1st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
John, loved reading first-hand details of your brush with some of the St. Louis political fervor out there. Your actions show that you are a dedicated American patriot!
Benjamin Franklin: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Samuel Adams: The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
Long live our democracy and capitalism!
November 1st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
That’s really cool that you got to meet Rudy! I wish someone had said something about illegal immigration during the wish list though.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Video of Romney interview while campaigning yesterday in Nevada:
http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9275701&nav=menu113_2
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:05 am
Mitt is a good and loyal foot solider. An excellent example. Andthat said, I still can’t support this ticket. I have found very little in this campaign to actually want to ride on. I’m not enthused, and voted for the other guy just to help my party to regroup and realize the direction they are heading in, has lost too many of us. The ‘middle’ of both parties - the purple part - is wandering about wondering how they will be represented, and by whom. And right now, we are feeling pretty left out and voted not for Mac and cheesewiz, but for the other guy. And yes, the veep pick for a 72 yr old was too important to gamble on. He gambled, and will lose because of it.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:53 am
Here is an interesting read.
Who Really Wrote Obama’s Book [Dreams From My Father]?
By Jack Cashill
*Jack Cashill is a writer, producer, and executive editor of Ingram’s, a midwestern business magazine. He has a Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue. Among his seven books is ‘Hoodwinked’ a study of intellectual and literary fraud.
http://netrightnation.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/who-really-wrote-obamas-book/
When historians tell the story of the 2008 election a century hence, they will tell how the ABETTTO factor-a blind eye to the obvious-finally undid America’s once proud journalism establishment. The following untold tale will be Exhibit A.
In 1995, Barack Obama published his first book, Dreams From My Father, a book that Time Magazine has called “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”
The very quality of the book piqued the curiosity of at least two Ph.D. literary detectives, myself included. Our writing, in turn, attracted the attention of several sets of technical analysts, three of those university-based.
After exhaustive research and analysis, we have independently reached the conclusion that William Ayers played a significant role in the authorship of Dreams. We do not come to this conclusion lightly. We know what is at stake, but the evidence is compelling.
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:56 am
In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind. - Edward L. Bernays
Video proof of Obama’s “understanding the mental processes and social patterns of the masses”:
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2008/10/obama-supporter-says-no-worries-about.html
For a patriotic pick up, click on the “God Bless America” and national anthem videos on the right and left columns of above link.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:46 am
Ego and Mouth
By Thomas Sowell
Realclearpolitics.com
November 02, 2008
After the big gamble on subprime mortgages that led to the current financial crisis, is there going to be an even bigger gamble, by putting the fate of a nation in the hands of a man whose only qualifications are ego and mouth?
Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.
Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise– whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team– is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.
The kind of self-righteous self-confidence that has become Obama’s trademark is usually found in sophomores in Ivy League colleges– very bright and articulate students, utterly untempered by experience in real world.
The signs of Barack Obama’s self-centered immaturity are painfully obvious, though ignored by true believers who have poured their hopes into him, and by the media who just want the symbolism and the ideology that Obama represents.
The triumphal tour of world capitals and photo-op meetings with world leaders by someone who, after all, was still merely a candidate, is just one sign of this self-centered immaturity.
“This is our time!” he proclaimed. And “I will change the world.” But ultimately this election is not about him, but about the fate of this nation, at a time of both domestic and international peril, with a major financial crisis still unresolved and a nuclear Iran looming on the horizon.
For someone who has actually accomplished nothing to blithely talk about taking away what has been earned by those who have accomplished something, and give it to whomever he chooses in the name of “spreading the wealth,” is the kind of casual arrogance that has led to many economic catastrophes in many countries.
The equally casual ease with which Barack Obama has talked about appointing judges on the basis of their empathies with various segments of the population makes a mockery of the very concept of law.
After this man has wrecked the economy and destroyed constitutional law with his judicial appointments, what can he do for an encore? He can cripple the military and gamble America’s future on his ability to sit down with enemy nations and talk them out of causing trouble.
Senator Obama’s running mate, Senator Joe Biden, has for years shown the same easy-way-out mindset. Senator Biden has for decades opposed strengthening our military forces. In 1991, Biden urged relying on sanctions to get Saddam Hussein’s troops out of Kuwait, instead of military force, despite the demonstrated futility of sanctions as a means of undoing an invasion.
People who think Governor Sarah Palin didn’t handle some “gotcha” questions well in a couple of interviews show no interest in how she compares to the Democrats’ Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Biden.
Joe Biden is much more of the kind of politician the mainstream media like. Not only is he a liberal’s liberal, he answers questions far more glibly than Governor Palin– grossly inaccurately in many cases, but glibly.
Moreover, this is a long-standing pattern with Biden. When he was running for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination back in 1987, someone in the audience asked him what law school he attended and how well he did.
Flashing his special phony smile, Biden said, “I think I have a much higher IQ than you do.” He added, “I went to law school on a full academic scholarship” and “ended up in the top half” of the class.
But Biden did not have a full academic scholarship. Newsweek reported: “He went on a half scholarship based on need. He didn’t finish in the ‘top half’ of his class. He was 76th out of 85.”
Add to Obama and Biden House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and you have all the ingredients for a historic meltdown.