Dear Callista:

For several years, I’ve been a fan and admirer of your husband.  You also, but my letter is to, not about you.

I’ve met and spoken to you both at remarkable past events. I made a point of attending every one I knew of, to educate myself and demonstrate my support for your husband’s superb ideas, including practical applications to rescue, conserve and restore our liberally degraded country. 

During Newt’s top-notch speeches, I always seemed to be cheering louder than anyone in roomsful of enthusiastic fans.

I wish I could say I’m cheering now, the day of 2012′s Florida Primary. Instead, I find myself wondering what part of Corinthians your beloved husband does not understand.

I know Speaker Gingrich converted to Catholicism recently enough to remember the part about sounding brass. Who among us could forget the clanging cymbal? Knowing in part or rejoicing in inquity? Seeing in a mirror dimly?

Sure the Speaker’s waging a major battle, the fight of his life.  As in any such life or death competition, Newt’s no uncertain trumpet…and rightfully so. If he or Mitt Romney were, they’d be atomized by an armed and dangerous enemy pretending to be America’s friend. 

But unlike other great generals, Newt’s rearing an ugly, selfish side now, a front that never wins in the longest run of any campaign. By behaving as a bitter, resentful soldier, so unlike those most Americans admire, your otherwise excellent warrior has inadvertently harmed his party and the country he loves. Newt’s not fighting the good fight anymore, he’s self-destructing and taking us with him.

Forget about what Jesus would do, this is not remotely what  Washington, Lincoln or the other Douglass would do.

Unlike a tiger, a great man…perhaps helped by a wise mate and both daughters…would recognize his strengths and weaknesses at this stage of the war and act accordingly.

Forget about Christian soldiers, a true patriot would say a prayer, suck it up, and bow out gracefully. He’d re-join and re-fortify his team, not tear it to shreds.

Speaker Gingrich has already admitted past mistakes to God. Tomorrow, for the good of his party and America, he should re-admit and make peace with the man who would and will be our next President, Governor Mitt Romney.

Your great husband would make an outstanding Secretary of State, if he wishes, and if Romney practices forgiveness as well as he does other Christian tenets. 

But the former Speaker cannot be elected President of the United States anymore than Moses.

Please do not allow the great Newt Gingrich to become another American tragedy. We have enough of those already, and he has accomplished too much to ruin his name.

As his gracious, long-sought and hoped-for match, please counsel your otherwise brilliant husband to focus more on Ike than Patton, and to have another go at Corinthians. 

For the good of our country as we wage the crucial war to conserve it, please implore Newt to behave now as a courageous patriot and a freshly annointed Catholic: with amazing grace. 

Thank you both for your wonderful work to try to restore America. Here’s hoping she never fades away.

With admiration and more than hope,

A Practical Tea Party Patriot

The BlueMedia man and I met at last year’s AMERICANS for PROSPERITY Conference. A good reporter from SLATE, he was astonished to find a TeaPartyPatriot supporting Mitt Romney.

I figured it would be too much to add that I’d been a Romney fan since 2007. It seemed excessive to confide that I admired the ideas and dedication of Newt Gingrich, that I hoped to see Herman Cain as our next VicePresident, that Michele Bachmann was smart, articulate and effective, and had he noticed Liberal fear and loathing of aforementioned?

But, off the bat, the Liberal reporter was right: the majority of Conservatives weren’t going with Romney and it’s surprising to find a TeaPartyPatriot who is.  

Per current expression, most of these church-going Conservatives just couldn’t “get their arms around” this made-in-and-for-America guy. They didn’t “like” him. 

Bright, careful, honest, earnest, loving, measured, practiced, dedicated, loyal, strong, faithful, brave, Mitt Romney reeks of integrity, embodying at least 12  qualities Conservatives profess to revere. 

That Romney’s rare integrity isn’t enough for most Conservatives is almost as frightening as Obama’s predicted and disastrous term in office. 

It’s as if Clark Gable knocked on the Producer’s door, offered to play the role of Rhett Butler, and David O. Selznick turned him down for Joseph Cotton. It’s not that Cotton wasn’t a great actor. He wasn’t the right man for that role. 

Already envisioning hate-mail from the engaged & enraged, I’m hoping  more American Conservatives will stop acting like spoiled, ungrateful children, and start rejoicing that ”someone” has handed them a strong, capable leader on a solid platter.

Of a few good RedTeam candidates, only Romney can get every job done well, starting with the most crucial for America’s future: defeating Barack Obama.

Call it what you will, leaders like Washington, Adams, Tubman, Stowe, Lincoln and Douglass et al called that ”someone” Divine Providence, the Force Conservatives have always said was with them.

If ever there’s a time to look for signs of Divine Providence and absorb the teachings of our wisest leaders, it’s now and beyond, while tomorrow is still another day.

And as for today, 3 January 2012, as increasing numbers of Iowans wake up: 

*Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts Governor, barely tops the polls. 

*Rep. Ron Paul, anachronistic embarrassment to the RedTeam Republican Party, tugs at Romney’s heels like the anti-Toto. 

*Rick Santorum, former Senator, valiant Conservative and a far, far righter man, assumes the position, as he prepares to Place or Show.

Will Iowa Conservatives do the right thing, join forces, and help put the RedTeam over the top where it belongs? 

Will they go back to basics and show the rest of America that, after all their productive protesting, Conservatives know how to do their homework?

Or, as America fights for her life in a most uncivil war, will they stay stubborn in the corner, acting more like Liberals than people who are supposed to know better?

This week America learned the only thing not in Obama’s bag of tricks is a pair of slippers. And we shouldn’t be surprised. 

Obama’s self-centered white mother told him he’d go far by looking as slick as Harry Belafonte. The first thing young Barry did was roll up his sleeves and throw out his slippers. 

Now, in Barack Obama’s 3rd year as president, the mother in him is out there chiding black audiences to toss their bedroom slippers too.  

Still dressing the part, Obama’s also singing the same old song  to as many knee-jerk Whites, Blacks, Youth, Hispanics, Jews, Gays, Media, Government Workers and Public Unionites as he can find.  

It’s bad enough when Obama rolls up his sleeves, but you’re really in trouble when he starts dropping his g‘s.

On the other hand, he’s happiest when his audience is starstruck, dependent and tone-deaf. Like Jim Jones and other tyrants, Obama derives power, money and satisfaction from his followers, most of whom are so confused, they’ve lost their wits and their will in the land of freedom to use them.  

Of course, like most American presidents, Obama chooses his audiences carefully. Unlike most, he hopes they are extremely uninformed. He can’t win the soft war without hoodwinking millions of citizens, people who have no clue Obama’s wearing combat boots, poisoning America and, while he has the chance, Israel too.  

For all Americans in his latest CBC audience, I’ve got more news for you. If you think your president’s talkin to you, think again. He’s talkin down to you. He’s hopin you’ll think he’s chillin with the rest of you, knowin you’re too engrossed to see he’s playin you like Ray’s piano. 

Obama knows his balkanized base does Kool-Aid or he wouldn’t be wasting time on them. More rational citizens stopped looking up to him 2-4 years ago, and if his current followers were serious about connecting dots, they wouldn’t be caught dead in Obama’s 2011 crowd.    

Real, wise, unselfish men like Frederick Douglass, Herman Cain, Thomas Sowell, Allen West—real, wise, unselfish women like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and Maxine-Waters-Not, would find Obama’s political ”songs” off-key and as insulting as they are.  

Hispanic males, solid, smart men like Marco Rubio do too. Ditto wise Jews, et cetera, et cetera. Clear-headed, self-respecting citizens find tyrants like Obama downright disgusting…. and dangerous.

As the first president to deliberately hoodwink and bankrupt America, Obama’s steeped in Leftist-Liberalism and then some. Besides further degrading the Democrat Party, he doesn’t do well with people who say no to him. 

In 17th century Massachusetts, annoying little naysayers and TeaParty types were burned at the stake. Today’s professors can still give C’s to A+ Conservative students. But the only thing President Obama can do is strut, pound and lie to anyone still Jonesed enough to listen. The rest of us get taxed and regulated.  

Ironically, only unenlightened 21st century Liberals said yes to Obama’s soft war against America and Israel. But in the Providential lining of Obama’s election, some Liberals are finally starting to learn the right notes.  

Besides polls, you know this is true by the numbers of Americans suddenly self-labeling as ”Independents.” If what Liberal Democrats offer them is progress, most citizens now want the freedom to choose another path…if it’s not too late.

Many of us know someone not Carville stated: “The majority of Americans voted for Obama in 2008 to prove they weren’t racists. In 2012, they’ll vote against him to prove they aren’t stupid.”

As in the Economy, Israel, ObamaCare, F&F, EPA, SolarGates, CronyGates, Gitmo, Biden, Holder, Geithner, Czars, Defense Errors, Michellextravagences, DoddFrank, Regulations, Taxes, Lies, Lies and Video Tapes…add your own to this Liberal Democrat president’s vast slippery slope. 

FWIW, I’d say to American Blacks, Whites, Youth, Hispanics, Jews, all voters who still refuse to arm themselves with the facts, stop letting Obama, BlueMedia, Sharpton, Krugman, Jackson, Waters, Pelosi, Reid and dangerous egos like Jim Jones play you. 

Find your freedom and educate yourself! Check out American cities, states and government institutions for proof-in-the-pudding of what policies work and which ones destroy our country and her allies.

As much as we all despise war, America’s in one. As always, it’s about freedom, and once again, ours. With that in mind, pretend you’re Lincoln, Douglass and Truth for a month…what would these clear-headed, unselfish American heroes do and think?

Forget the damn slippers. The smartest thing is for all Americans to put on serious thinking caps, study up and become as truly independent as we are.

Like Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and most of us, Mark Twain had to learn what it meant to be an actual grown-up. No businessman, Twain matured through real-life experiences, best expressed by his literary sons, Tom, Huck and Jim.

Twain used to ”poke fun” at his own father for reminding him how much he had to learn. When he did progress, little Sammy Clemens marveled at how much his “old man” had advanced.

It’s occurred to me that Barack Obama was never blessed in this way. Like Huck Finn, he was raised without decent parents. Yet, unlike Huck, no one ever taught Obama how much he had to learn. 

Sure, young Barry grew up with versions of Aunt Polly and the Widow Douglas. But in his formative years, he never had the guidance of a wise man like Jim, the pivotal player in Twain’s masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 

Now that Barack Obama’s president, it’s much harder to tell him what Conservatives have long known: he’s another inexperienced professor with a lot to learn.  

Within Obama’s Democrat party, someone with the stature of  Jim is nowhere to be seen. Most of his Liberal staff and media minions are as green as Obama himself.  As clever and industrious as they are, none has the wisdom that comes with age and experience.

Moreover, for him and others not grounded in common sense, today’s Ivy League colleges didn’t bridge the gap, they made it worse. They led most of their students inward, not outward.

Unfortunately for him, Obama’s wife is no source of sagacity either. Instead, ”Michelle Nouvelle”  is as hopeless as her mate, another pseudo-patriot and Democrat diva feeling fully entitled to decimate our hard-earned taxpayer dollars.

At “the new 40,” Obama’s a man-child who sincerely believes he’s “the grown-up in the room.” He’s convinced he knows what he’s doing in the face of rational, incontrovertible proof he’s wrong.

Obama’s not likely to learn or admit how much he doesn’t know. But the majority of Americans are. All those voters who married their idol in 2008, grew up and learned the meaning of  “ill-advisedly and lightly.” They’re already promising to do better in 2012.  

Out front ahead of them are millions of other citizens who knew it was past time for a real grown-up in the White House. And while America’s getting serious, let’s put one in the West Wing too.

Of course we need experienced leaders and accomplished job creators. We need to elect more sensible, mature adults who have at least raised adolescents, lived through it and other life-and-death struggles. Most important, we need honest men who grew up in solid, loving households…unless America wants more degraded, dysfunctional males debasing the presidency and wreaking havoc at every turn.

During Obama’s 3 years in office, America’s more debilitated than ever. Protesting from behind, a few noted Libs are getting the gist. Others, who think like Mark Twain and mostly dead Democrats, wait for young Barry to grow up and get it. 

In fact, many Conservatives wonder about Liberals in general. Can they ever really grow up and get it without having served, helped run a business, supported themselves, lived on a budget or hand-to-mouth on the Mississippi with Jim?

Still, I’m betting Americans in both parties, broke and unbroke, want  presidents and vice-presidents they can truly be proud of. Since self-described Liberals weigh-in at 20%, 2012′s the year clear-headed thinkers can and should elect 2 wise, well-grounded, well-adjusted males to represent the Republican RedTeam.

As Providence would have it, we have 3 wise men in next year’s race. Newt Gingrich could hold 2 Cabinet jobs at once. But Romney and Cain are the candidates who can be elected in 2012.  Above all, they are the great grandfathers in this race who got there the old-fashioned way. Poised and prepared to win a lot more than one for America, they earned it.

In 2009, I wrote a blog called ”Solving a Problem Like a Palin.” It compared Sarah Palin to Maria von Trapp, that troublesome wave who kept coming back and couldn’t be caught.

5 days later, the title of my blog was on the cover of Newsweek, with a few words changed. When questioned about the coincidence, a magazine rep. replied “I guess great minds must think alike.”

If this were true, Barack Obama would never have been elected. If Liberals, Independents and many Republicans had ”great minds,” they would have used them to produce great results for our nation, where “great” is defined by unequivocally correct thinkers like Lincoln and Douglass as solid, honest leadership; strong economic and national security; liberty, true justice, free markets and constitutionally limited government.

But Conservatives know it takes a no-good, very bad ”bomb” to awaken certain kinds of thinkers…if only for a brief unwrinkled moment in time.

To effective minds blessed with common sense and knowledge of metaphors, Obama’s that no-good, very bad ”bomb,” purposefully planted, leaving America in tatters and still ticking. 

And, as with most dangers…like the financial meltdown…Liberals won’t discern this until horrific damage has been done.

Meanwhile, Palin’s become more of a problem than Maria. Not for Conservatives, but for most political media and people who despise rebels at odds with powerful, protected institutions.

Two years have passed, great damage has been done, and it’s the eve of more destruction. Tomorrow is 911′s 10th anniversary and 61 days later, 11/11/11.  

I’m blogging about Palin again, this time comparing her to Paul Revere in an unoriginal analogy. Of course, other Conservatives like Reagan, Limbaugh, Hannity, Bolton, Rumsfeld, Kagan, Bush, Cheney, et al share this honor. For decades, they’ve warned us of various clear, ever-present dangers. 

Problematic Palin’s still out there, behaving like braveheart, annoying almost everyone until she proves her point. She’s still not running for president and is still riding a bus, on her shout-out-and educate-America-tour, cautioning late-bloomers to wake-up to dangers that are no longer coming but here.

A highly annoyed press still can’t corral, define or pin this moonbeam down. To Palin and most rebels, today’s media are immortal mosquitoes, buzzing around, drinking lots of our blood and producing ugly results. Come to think, they sound a lot like empowered Liberals. 

Riding onward, rallying  fiscal conservatives, Palin lists Liberal horrors and why common sense Americans need to defeat them. Because millions of citizens are alarmed and listening, she’s serving her country in the most effective way possible. 

Despite serious bites from a mostly hostile press, Palin will have done her best  to spread the word that Liberalism and Obama have failed our nation. She may even succeed in alerting the inattentive that no American Government can care for Liberals and illegal immigrants when it has depleted taxpayer funds and push has come to shove.

Despite Obama’s systematic and insidious degradation of America, her citizens and laws, next November, all kinds of voters will race to the polls.  Thanks in large part to Sarah Palin, they will push RedTeam buttons, where RED is for Republican and STOP.  

Like Paul Revere, Palin’s greatest role is premier Freedom Rider, not President. There’s no point in running when you can ride and be remembered as the ”little lady” who helped win the war.

You know you’re a Conservative when Vice President Cheney’s at the top of your list. 

Not a knee-jerk enemies list or catalogue of  successful Alpha males you’ve determined to despise. Not a list of Yale flunk-outs or Powell-nemeses. 

But a list of political rock stars on par with Elvis and other great leaders who never die.

If there were a mountain for Vice Presidents, you’d want Jefferson, Adams and Cheney carved on it by great American artists, across the valley from musical giants Elvis, Satchmo and Frank.

If you went to a Conservative Political Conference, you’d pay scarce funds to see another kind of King who can’t sing but for all the fanfare could easily be Elvis.

You know you’re a Conservative in the Land of the Free when, regardless of your age, you’d start cheering before Cheney’s on stage and no one would haul you to jail for your preferences. 

At places like C-PAC, you’d see Americans aged 16-28 rooting for Cheney because he tells it like it is to fans smart enough to care.

You’d hear 29-49 year-old screamers, frantic about freedom and funds,  swooning over his wise-man lyrics and hound-dog refrains.

You’d watch the 50-80 set, desperately searching solvency and heroes off the field, going nuts over this fearless, hard-boiled composite of Sam & John Adams.

You know you’re a Conservative if you headed to Costco on 8/30 to buy Dick Cheney’s book and came home with nothing else. 

You know you’re a Liberal when you wouldn’t be caught dead reading In My Time unless your job required it. If water-boarded and forced to read the book, you still wouldn’t believe it. 

But for rare genius converts like David Mamet, Conservative Groupies have plenty of  proof there’s no hope for most Liberals to change. Disliking America as they do, the best solution is for them to move elsewhere.  

Short of miracles, the only way to restore our nation is to effect the Cheney Doctrine: defeat Liberal politicians who have seriously harmed America and anyone else seeking to destroy our home.

You know you’re a Conservative if you do.

Ever since the Anthony verdict, I’m melting faster than Alabama teacakes. The center can’t hold and neither can I.

Apparently I’m not alone. This month in America, millions following Casey Anthony’s trial saw unshining proof that a young sociopath murdered her 2 year-old daughter.

Within 10 undecorous hours, her sequestered jury reached a verdict of
“Not Guilty.” Assorted TVisionaries agreed. Those of us who disagreed were appalled by evidence of gross jury inanity.

We’re as angry as we were when OJ got away with murder and Thomas died in To Kill A Mockingbird. On top of high unemployment, gas prices, “Fast and Furious,” something’s rotten in more states than Florida.

Besides Tom Robinson, OJ Simpson and past miscarriages of justice, Casey’s verdict isn’t the last time some will see haze where others discern proof.   But more than just another judicial travesty, the liberation of Casey Anthony represents the “poster-child” indictment of America in crisis.

We can agree that Harper Lee expressed it best, but here’s my shot: Jurors who voted to acquit Anthony of all serious charges have brains that aren’t working right. Instead of dots which need to be connected, they see bubbles ordained to burst. Whether it’s a child, a Congressman, an airport or an economy, their brains are skewed to reach faulty, baseless conclusions. Their gauzy, goofy assessments continue to cause grave damage to America and the world.

And beyond not-so-fictional realms, this week’s twisted verdict reminds me of November 2008, when heads also reared in ugly, opposite ways. Despite boatloads of evidence that Barack Obama was guilty of being at the very least unqualified, the majority of American minds were quick to close. As hastily as a jury in July, they sided with the “Not Guilty” set and elected him president.

Forewarned by Conservatives…Democrats, Independents and RINO’s forged ahead with all undeliberate thought. When America needed the Admiral, they gave us an ensign. Ignoring facts, the common sense of “extremist minds,” they elected a president who has killed our economy and harmed American security.

Wherever they are, whatever they do, their kind of proof actually is pudding, and there lies much more than a rub. It’s the rot consuming America.

Shakespeare used unsubtle terms, including “pigeon-liver’d” and “muddy-mettled.” Perceptually correct, he knew “men who thought too much” were “dangerous.”

I call these thinkers BlueBrains. You can meet them in trains and in planes and at sea, in GOV, on the Hill, most schools and TV. Their minds tend to be muddled and all over the map. 9 times in 10, they belong to Liberals and it’s not how the rest of Americans think.

Contrary to a Jane Velasquez-Mitchell blurtation, all human beings are not “irrational.” Of course millions of us analyze, think and conclude with rational minds. Like many Liberals, Jane paints everyone with the brush in her brain.

Whatever else they think of us, RedBrains are wired differently. In most cases, we see, deduce, act, judge and vote differently than BlueBrains. Both sides have their valuable place, but things fall apart with life and death issues on the table.

Sure our jury system works well. It’s the people who don’t. Swamped in amorality, wrapped in sub-par tape, hordes of Americans remain dumb and clueless.

“D&C” isn’t necessarily connected to IQ. It’s mostly a syndrome produced  by our dumbed-down liberal culture, and almost anyone can catch it. Instead of taking moral-clarity-cues from giants like Adams, Lincoln and Douglass, BlueBrains tow lines from people like Stewart, Rivera, Hilton, Goldberg, and a slew of et ceteras.

And if there’s one thing professors prove, it’s the inverse relationship between high IQs and robust CommonSense Quotients. Plenty of intellectuals can’t function in crisis. Plenty of 8th grade grads have learned how to recognize forests, trees and fire.

Also, some of the people on juries can’t get out of service. In my voirdires, if you know a policeman or attorney, you’re dismissed. If they find evidence you read the Wall Street Journal, you’re relieved.

Less likely to be chosen for jury service, Americans who think “one way” wouldn’t be caught dead declaring Anthony “not guilty,” anymore than they’d vote for Barack Obama in 2008. Neither passes the common sense test.

Americans who think the “other way” ignore evidence that’s plain to the rest of us. They see bubbles where we see dots.

Forget the party and philosophy. Forget the faith and friends. Unless you’re under 40, what’s the excuse for electing a callow person for president of anything?

Like Anthony’s jurors, where proof bursts like bubbles on the brain, it’s like insisting 1+1 = 9. In minds where anything goes, nothing adds up. How can it?

Forget chloroform. Forget tatoos. No rational mind excuses 31 post-loss days of celebrate and obfuscate. Nothing excuses duct tape on the nose and mouth of the child who stole her mother’s limelight and got in her way.

But the ”Not Guilty” group is quick to exonerate people like Anthony and Simpson. Unless their version of villain is involved, people who used to be called numbskulls believe everything that happens is one big accident or no big deal. While they perceive facts as possbilities, bubbles waiting to explode, Innocents drown in dots that beg to be connected. With matters of life and death, most of these minds can’t be trusted to do the right thing because they don’t know what it is.

Their lamebrain, laissez-faire thinking is rising geometrically in families, schools, colleges, media, government bureaucracies, and of course, on “anything goes” juries. Mocking her bird by bird, they’re killing America, where politicians, tyrants, lawyers and criminals depend on them to get the facts wrong.

A question for the ages, “to be or not to be” has re-bumped to the top of inquiring minds. How unanimous does evil have to be for BlueBrains to get it?

How can clearer heads prevail? We can start by connecting to Harper Lee’s unamibguous title, after we’ve learned to think like Atticus, Calpurnia and Boo.

After Butler beat VCU last night, I went back to ruminating about 2012. 

As a TeaPartyPatriot, I’ll speak for myself, but I suspect millions of people who favor fiscal responsibility, smaller government, free markets, and Constitutional fidelity, are as devoted to Winning America as Butler is to winning all its games.

Whatever happens in tomorrow night’s Men’s NCAA Championship Game, I think most Americans finally realize we need a president who leads like Butler plays: smart, tough, honest and off-the-charts.

With bulldogs on the brain, I remembered that the British Prime Minister who saved the world from Nazi tyranny had the hefty mascot as his pet.

And who can forget one of Obama’s first presidential orders: the removal of Churchill’s bust from America’s White House? As if we needed more, that single act of scorn revealed as much about Obama as his so far, uncertified American birth.

Then I bumped up to 2010, when Rush Limbaugh declared that “sports loyalty usually overrides everything else.”  

Suddenly it occurred to me: what if millions of citizens started thinking of America as they do their favorite sports team?

What if national loyalty rose to par with America’s devotion to March Madness?

What if Country Club Republicans, Independents, and Senators got off the bench and learned the critical importance of teamwork and loyalty?

With sports in the air, can assorted Liberals be that far behind?

At the very least, learning from Butler’s superior examples, these quixotic players could VOTE BULLDOG, no matter who the Republican candidate is, within Lincoln and Douglass standards.

They could and should vote for THE BULLDOG PHILOSOPHY…not the mug, the clothes, the hairstyle and color, the tastes, the rhetoric, not the human errors we all make, not any of the failed, stupid, selfish, superficial ”things” Liberal DEMS value even more than they admire people like Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Dodd, Schumer…and God help us, Dennis Kucinich.

With record wins in the House, state legislatures, governorships, the Republican Party has already blitzed the Semi-Finals….thanks almost entirely to the Brad Stevens effect of TeaPartyBulldogs.

If only the GOP (another anachronism that has to go) could find the wisdom to choose the presidential equivalent of Butler Bulldogs, REDS could wipe the floor with LIBERAL BLUES.

(And by this, I intend no offense whatsoever to the outstanding players and play of Virginia Commonwealth University.)

Besides honoring Butler’s courage, class and skill, it’s way past time for Americans to wake up and smell the Bulldogs. 

It’s long past time to again pay homage to Winston Churchill and his pet, a possibility President Obama moved rapidly to quash. 

I don’t blame Obama for wanting to be Top Dog, in a class of his own. I blame voters,  especially Republicans and Independents who voted casually and light-headedly for a pooch without courage and credentials, as far from Butler Bulldogs as you can get.

Whatever happens in Aprils’ college championships, if the days of electing poodle presidents aren’t “done” (as Americans are fond of saying), America is. 

Clearly, most of us value integrity, skill, leadership, loyalty, strength and honesty in our college athletes.

What happens to the value of these all-American winning qualities when citizens have the hard-won freedom to vote for Head Coach?

By now, most Americans know it’s not in Obama’s nature to lead or take action. He’d rather mull things over, organize, pontificate, play golf and make sure his suits are pressed within an inch of their life.  

It’s not Obama’s fault he’s a follower. It’s the fault of Americans who elected him to lead because they were too blind to see what he was. 

It’s also not Obama’s fault that he feels about America as the stepmothers felt about Cinderella and Snow White. 

First, it’s not in his Liberal blood to be devoted to America, her uniqueness, her strength and preservation. Basically, if not perpetually peeved, Obama treats America like the third-class entity he believes she is, should be, or will be, once he’s finished with her. 

If there’s anything worse, he wants to ensure the rest of the world sees America that way too.

Obama was raised that way, and no matter where he was born, he’s a die-hard Leftist-Lib. He married a woman and surrounds himself with people who feel that way. Skirting the inconvenient faith of his father and stepfather, Obama then chose to immerse himself in another man-centered, America-hating religion.

Obviously, I’m no fan of Obama, another dangerous, dishonest Democrat who can’t help it, yet has no business being in America’s Oval Office. But like other Conservatives, I desperately want Obama to do some things right. Out of his depth and a Liberal to boot, Obama has done so many things wrong, it’s tragic for our country. 

No one but our enemies could be happy about that.

That being said, I was grateful for French leadership and anxiously awaited news that our elected follower might choose the right course in Libya. 

I was borderline ecstatic to learn that, after weeks of requisite Liberal hand-wringing, replete with rebel deaths and Gaddafi re-groups, Obama found the guts to listen to those in his administration who advised him to ”act now.”

I know nothing about what finally caused our president to follow the leaders. Word has it several women added their voices to Hamlet’s stew. I’m just glad that one of those women had already written a book on genocide, a subject about which, like most of us, she cares deeply enough to have learned the only way to prevent it is to act sooner, not later.

No one can predict the fate of Libya, but more of us can agree that Obama, albeit reluctantly, did the right thing in this freedom-fight. Sure his reactions were late, muddled, contradictory, and expensive….hallmarks of today’s Liberal approach, and what did all those Independents expect?

But this time, by acting as he did in Libya, Obama may have inadvertently achieved the best of both worlds. By insisting on a multi-lateral military response, where America became just another member of the gang, he has spotlighted what only she does best: lead, defend, succeed, and empower Libyan rebels to do what they must and I believe will: rid the world of another strategically dangerous, savage tyrant.

After all, more than one nation helped America win our revolution. Besides extraordinarily brave American and Polish soldiers, Lafayette had it right then and France has it right now: long-live the ”fraternity” of freedom-fighters, untainted by tyrants.

Now I wake up every morning hoping to hear that the Libyan rebels have offed Gaddafi in swift and certain justice, which in no way resembles the barbarous behavior of the despot himself.

Before heading to work, I realize something else America’s last 2 presidents have in common: both have the hutzpah to listen to strong, smart women; both will be praised for learning from history for a change, by ridding our world of mass murderers sooner, not later.

Barone the Brilliant’s been wondering what’s in the Washington water cooler at NPR.

And, as usual, he’s right. With or without additives, something’s flooded today’s Liberal brain, destroying much in its path. What’s worse, NPR employees who drink DC tap risk earlier dementia and drowning.

Regardless of political philosophy, all decent citizens mourn such a fate. Yet like Noah, New Orleans (and as Barone wrote, the National Trust for Historic Preservation), NPR, PBS and CBC have a chance to rebuild after the deluge; and perhaps, be stronger for it.

Sooner or later, most of us get zapped by a flood, even sad swimmers like Charlie Sheen. Stunned, newly washed and glad to be alive, the really smart ones become Conservatives, determined to conserve their families, futures, and country. And, where the code for today’s Conservative Party is SOS, to do a whole lot better next time. 

Like most Americans, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s now consigned to jump on the “Save America First” Ship or drown. 

The majority of real, regular American families already know what limited budgets are. Somehow we’ve learned what the meaning of finite is without completely sinking. 

Most grasp the true value of budgets because they’ve been forced to. They’re out of money, running out of money, and/or wise enough to know they need to be careful with it.    

Running out of money and being careful with it is something that happens less often to today’s union members, to Americans supported by our tax dollars, to Government employees, Hollywood stars, lottery winners, athletes, many students, tenured teachers and professors.  

It’s no coincidence that 9 in 10 people not worried about running out of money are Liberals. Like the first 2 little pigs, when most people don’t have to worry, they don’t. 

Of course, running out of money is also something that happens less often to very rich families, those F. Scott Fitzgerald described as ”careless” and “different from you and me.” There’s much about the real world they can’t grasp because they don’t have to.

It’s also no coincidence that several of the very rich aim to be Senators, anxious to apply their different, not-applicable policies to you and me. But they’re not just different from regular, common sense Americans. Their careless, destructive ways have failed so long and so miserably that America’s entire ship is sinking. 

Word has it America has to worry now.  As always, only a few good men and a multitude of good women have the guts to stand up to pigs run wild.

Still, we can always stretch and look at the bright side. Beyond the fact that America has no choice, running out of money can build character, something boatloads of Liberals now lack. 

Besides character, adversity can also build endowments, and it’s liberating for everyone when Liberals come out of the closet, no matter where they work. Liberals can now pool all their money, fund their own corporation and sail forth. While oceans are filled with sharks, some dolphins remain.

And ever faithful to Elmo, most of us, regardless of political philosophy, will continue to support and watch the CPC’s best.

Thanks to the Schillers, more people have proof they speak a language that’s different from SOS. And regardless of them, America’s realized she can’t afford to have CBC at the public trough. It’s a fact of life above all others that strong swimmers and survivors call the bottom line.