For the apparently increasing majority of people who are convinced that Obama is in way over his head, the only real alternative we will have to replace him will be the GOP Nominee. Period.  There is no other choice.  A third-party candidate cannot win.

That means we registered Republicans had better a) Nominate a man who can win and b) Hope the man is going to be equal to the task.  The United States of America is going to have to re-invent itself or flounder into an economic malaise that will eventually provide fuel to the most radical elements of the totalitarian left and right. We need to make sure the man we elect is equal to the task.

Mitt Romney is the official “Next-in-Line” GOP heir. He has, with brutal efficiency, managed to front load the GOP primary season so that whomever wins most of the votes in the first 45 days of 2012, is the odds-on favorite to take on Obama.  He was aided in this “Front Loading” by Rick Perry’s Florida operatives, who were apparently under the mistaken impression that their man was capable of speaking English in a cogent manner. Make no mistake, The Florida GOP politicians quickly declared for Romney or Perry, and then they joined together to push the Florida Primary forward, under the very correct assumption that it would ensure that the front-runner in January will be the winner of the GOP Prize. It was a gamble that Mitt won and Perry lost. Big time.

Perry has proven himself to be an inept speaker. Bachmann has justly faded into obscurity, a victim of her own clichés and the fact she has no executive experience. Santorum is running for President because he was once a senator, and he has nothing else to do that he thinks is worthy of his out-sized and self-centered political ego.

Huntsman is also running for no apparent reason. His naiveté  when it comes to China is truly disturbing. I can only explain it as “Stockholm Syndrome” or he is being blackmailed by the Chinese Politburo. In any event, we cannot elect a man so subservient to the needs of the Chinese economy.

Ron Paul is a dangerous kook when it comes to foreign policy and his rabid supporters even more so.

As for Herman Cain, I present the YouTube clip of his total lack of knowledge on the subject of the “Right of Return” as espoused by the Palestinians. Skip to the 10:12 mark.

It’s Sunday, so let’s put it in NFL football terms. If you’re looking to draft a quarterback for your team, you must insist the guy you draft is physically qualified. So, you have a list of basic requirements your quarterback must meet. First of these is that whomever you draft must have both his legs and arms. If he is missing one or more of his legs/arms, you can safely assume the guy is not qualified to play quarterback.

Going on national TV as a Presidential candidate, and then demonstrating a total lack of knowledge on one the premier foreign policy issues of the 20th and 21st century pretty much the equivalent of trying to claim you are qualified to be a NFL Quarterback, even though you are missing an arm and a leg. (I, of course, exclude my beloved Washington Redskins from this analogy, as an one-armed QB might be an improvement…but I digress).

Bottom Line: Herman Cain is not qualified to be President.

That leaves Newt. Here was my opinion of Newt back in 2009. Not very pretty. However, we live in dangerous times that require truly “Outside-the-Box” thinking. Newt, for all his personal and political faults, is capable of innovative solutions to what ails our nation. His command of the English language and his ability to communicate ideas is without peer in the world of Republican politics.

Newt’s flawless performance in the GOP debates to date proves that there is still a segment of the American Public that will respond positively to passionate, and I emphasize this, informed rhetoric.

Whether Newt’s rising in the polls is too little too late, we shall see. Unfortunately, we will probably know by the time Florida votes in February. Mitt might not have rhetorical chops of Newt, but Newt doesn’t have the discipline and organizational chops of Mitt. (In the marathon that is US Presidential politics, organization beats rhetoric 9 times out of 10. Let’s hope that if Mitt wins the nomination, he hires Newt as his debate coach.)

Whomever we republicans nominate to take on Obama, let us hope he can win and then let us hope he can rise to the challenge of re-inventing the American Dream.

Finally, I leave you with two recordings of Edward R. Murrow. The first is his description of Chamberlain’s fall from power in May of 1940. The second is his assessment of Chamberlain’s successor, Winston Churchill. I’ll leave to you to draw your own conclusions as to how it relates to today.

Living dangerously, indeed.

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George LeMieux is a man of formidable talents and intellect.  He is acknowledged, by friend and foe alike, as an excellent lawyer, public speaker and debater.  That said, if he is nominated as the Republican Candidate for the Florida U.S. Senate seat in 2012 you can bet your bottom dollar Senator Bill Nelson WILL win re-election.

Why?  Four words: “L’affaire Greer” and “Charlie Crist”.  George LeMieux is in up to his neck in one of the most tawdry and destructive political scandals to hit the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) in recent memory and was, for lack of a better word, the doppelgänger of that most notorious of political turncoats, Charlie Crist.

First, let’s talk the “Charlie Crist” problem.  Can anyone forget the picture taken on 11 February 2009 of Charlie Crist embracing President Obama and his subsequent  endorsement of the Porkulus bill?  It was the beginning of one the most spectacular political suicides in American history.  Charlie Crist lost all of his Republican base, literally,  in a matter of minutes on that day.  Grassroots and local Republican leaders were screaming bloody murder over this betrayal.  From George Lemieux, not one word of criticism. He was Charlie’s man.

Just how much he was Charlie’s man became apparent when Mel Martinez resigned his Senate Seat in August 2009.  I was still active in my local county party and during a meeting during that timeframe,  our county chairman announced that Charlie Crist had called her and asked her to canvas the local Republican Executive Committee for suggestions as to who should replace Martinez.  A lot of names were mentioned in the meeting, but I assure you, not once did George LeMieux’s name come up.  When Crist then announced that LeMieux was to replace Martinez in the U.S. Senate, it quickly became apparent that Charlie’s phoning all the Florida County Republican Chairman for advice was so much crap.  Crist’s “Political Coffin” got a lot more nails driven into it that day, and not with hammers, but with nail guns.  George LeMieux was openly acknowledged as a Crist “Crony”  by practically everyone and he was expected to be a loyal place holder until Charlie won in 2010.  And LeMieux WAS loyal all the way up to the day that Crist abandoned the GOP in 2010 when it became apparent he couldn’t beat Marco Rubio in the GOP primary.

Bottom Line” from this:  It is a very plausible argument that George LeMieux is a man whose values are based not on principle, but on personal aggrandizement. And before you argue with me otherwise, consider his actions during the RPOF/Greer money scandal.

The Republican Party of Florida elites are about to be raked over the coals next year when former RPOF Chairman Jim Greer goes on trial.  Here is some background on the issue from a post I wrote back in 2010: Who do You Believe: “Sammy the Bull” Gravano or Jim Greer?…Answer: Both

Note that Jim Greer has explicitly stated Lemieux was intimately involved in the possible criminal misuse of party funds.  Indeed, Greer claims that LeMieux was the guy that came up with the scheme to allow Jim Greer and Delmar Johnson to set up their political consulting firm in order to siphon off RPOF funds and get around campaign finance law in order to support Crist’s run for the U.S. Senate.  George LeMieux insists he was a simple private citizen at the time, but that is simply so much BS.

Fact: George LeMieux (who recommended Greer for the RPOF Chair) was getting TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH in “consultation fees”  from the RPOF starting in 2008.  (Not a bad payday for a part time job during one of the most difficult economic downturns since 1929). Make no mistake, Jim Greer and Charlie Crist approved and made possible this lucrative arrangement for LeMieux.

Both LeMieux and Crist use the same words when addressing the charges by Greer.  Here is a link to how LeMieux addresses Greer’s charges.  And here is a link to how Crist denied Greer’s accusations. Both men use eerily similar language.  If someone was accusing me of major crimes, I’d be much more emphatic than just saying “It’s sad…”.

Emmett Kelly is “sad”.  What Jim Greer is doing is accusing both Crist and LeMieux of  committing full blown felonies that can send both men to the “Big House” if proven in court.

So, let’s summarize: George LeMieux picked Jim Greer to be RPOF chairman; It is alleged that George LeMieux was the guy who came up with the idea for Greer to set up a scheme to siphon funds from the RPOF; George LeMieux was getting paid more for a part time job at the RPOF than a U.S. Navy Captain is paid FULL TIME to command a Cruiser or Aircraft Carrier.

Now, I ask anyone reading this:  Does anyone REALLY believe that George LeMieux was totally out of the RPOF loop while Jim Greer was in charge and had NO IDEA about the actions of Jim Greer that resulted in Greer being indicted for six felonies ?

If a person is of the opinion that George LeMieux was armpit deep in the RPOF quagmire and is still going to vote for him, I say that person is implicitly endorsing the corrupt, “good ole boy” politics that Florida is famous for.

If one feels that George LeMieux had absolutely no knowledge of Greer’s GOP shenanigans (while at the same time getting paid TEN GRAND A MONTH to advise the RPOF) and is worthy of one’s vote, then I say that one is voting for a man who must be a complete simpleton.

Now I readily admit being a “simpleton” does not disqualify a citizen from being a U.S. Senator (indeed, from some of the current crop, it seems to be a requirement…I’m talking to you Barbara Boxer). However, in these trying times, I would hope one would vote for someone who has some sense of personal honor, would work to do the right thing for the people and be somewhat smarter than Barbara Boxer.

Jim Greer is now fighting for his freedom.  He faces prison and complete personal ruin. He has been cast adrift by the RPOF elite, but if the newspaper reports are true (and if conservative news sites are to be believed),  Jim Greer is going to go down fighting.

And I will be honest with you, I hope he does.  Jim Greer DID NOT act alone and there is hard evidence that points towards Charlie Crist and George LeMieux as being intimately involved.  Rest assured Greer will be provided an ample megaphone from the local MSM press when this scandal/trial comes to a head on 2012, just in time for the election.

It stuns me that many of the Republican Establishment are backing LeMieux.  It is as if all sins are forgiven for the hell Charlie Crist, George LeMieux and Jim Greer put our party through and it’s time to support for a candidate that the “good ole boys” of the RPOF can depend on.

Remember, if LeMieux gets called in to testify at Greer’s trail, then it will be very hard for him to explain all the inevitable “I don’t recall” answers he may have to give so he doesn’t place himself into real legal jeopardy.  Bottom Line: Bill Nelson will hammer LeMieux bloody over  “L’affaire Greer” and rightly so.  Floridians do not hesitate to split their vote between parties during general elections and Bill Nelson will benefit from this fact.

When “L’affaire Greer” takes center stage in 2012,  It will be a no-win situation for LeMieux.  He can only claim that he was completely clueless as to the inner workings of the RPOF, while at the same time he was getting a TEN GRAND a month stipend from the RPOF coffers while all this was happening.  Couple this with the “Prima Facia” fact of his close, intimate relationship with both Jim Greer and Charlie Crist and what you have is a situation that simply doesn’t pass the smell test.

I have voted Republican since 1980 (I voted for Carter in my first Election, but in my defense I was a sophomore in college and had sobered up by 1980). I never missed voting in an election during my time in the Navy nor in the time since I got out.   I have voted for the likes of Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms(!!), Charlie Crist (He was the Republican nominee for Governor) and Marco Rubio.  I’m one of the guys Republicans could always count on to show up at the polls and vote the party line.

If George LeMieux is the GOP Candidate for the Florida U.S. Senate race in 2012, that will change. I will not vote for Bill Nelson but nor shall I vote for George LeMieux.

You see, I know that George LeMieux is not a stupid man.  However, in my opinion, he is a profoundly sleazy, if not corrupt, political hack.  If he wins the GOP Nomination, I assure you,  Bill Nelson’s political machine will make sure a large majority of registered voters between Pensacola and Key West have the same opinion as well.

Here is my first Post on the “Colonel”: On Whales, Satan Worshiping, Bordellos and US Senate Candidate Colonel Mike McCalister

Here is my second post on the “Colonel”: On “End of The Rainbow” and “Colonel Mike McCalister Has No Clothes!!”

And here is the last post I did on the Subject: Of Popinjays and “Colonel” Mike McCalister

It turns out that the good Colonel’s former campaign manager (who plays an integral part in my first two posts) has decided to re-enter the political arena and has sent out a campaign letter on behalf of his former candidate. Here is a link to the full letter. It is quite long, but to true Connoisseurs of Florida Panhandle Politics, well worth the read. Here is a short excerpt of this truly remarkable political “cri de coeur”:

…..Most of the people trying to hurt the Colonel are Hasner supporters. In fact one critic stated he trashed the Colonel (and me) in a blog then gave Hasner $100.00 donation. I was even called the bastard son of the grim reaper by a so called retired Naval Officer. Get real. My parents were married. What a sorry excuse for a Naval Officer to call a retired Senior Chief names lol. Thank God his ass is retired and not in charge of anything.

Let me tell you something folks, these liberal left wing communist, ass kissing Obama brown nose reporters at the Tampa Tribune and the Saint Petersburg Times and the like are scared of Colonel McCalister. They fear that he has the ability to toss Senator Nelson out on his ear and start returning this nation back to a Republic form of government. This is the plan ladies and gentleman. Take a look at the alternatives who are running. Tree hugging RINO’s or a Communist named Nelson who supported Obama Care…..

Geoff Ross
Senior Chief Petty Officer USN (Ret.)
Signing off from the Bunker
Latitude: 30-22’46” N
Longitude: 086-51’44” W

First Geoff, and let me make this perfectly clear, I never said you were the actual “bastard son of the grim reaper”.  My exact words were you “gave the impression of being the bastard son of the ‘Grim Reaper’”.  In addition, I never meant to imply that your parents were not married when you were born.  However, I cannot help but observe that procreation between even the most upstanding of Homo Sapiens is, at best, a crap shoot.

As for your descriptions of the staff of the Tampa Tribune and St. Pete Times, I assume it also applies to the Staff of the Miami Herald.  All I can add is that thank God there are no Right Wing Communists on the staffs of these fine newspapers.

For all my readers, please feel free to judge the merits of a candidate by the people he surrounds himself with.

Finally, Geoff, a word of caution. One of the key features one wants in one’s “Bunker” is that it’s location remains secret so that when the Left and Right Wing Communists take over the nation, they can’t find you.

Your Pal,
Royce

Now let us discuss Mayor Bloomberg’s decision not to have allow prayer at the 10^th anniversary of 9/11 ceremony to be held at “Ground Zero”.  Instead, as in the past, there will be “moments of silence” to reflect on those lost in the terrorist attack.  Apparently Mayor Bloomberg is afraid of insulting a religion by excluding any one clergy during the prayers.  There is a solution to this quandary.  Let a prominent lay person (hint, maybe you Mr. Mayor?) lead all at the ceremony and those watching it on television in a non-denominational prayer.  There is a precedence.

On June 6^th, 1944, when it became obvious to the American People that the Normandy landings were underway and the need for operational silence was now over, Franklyn Delano Roosevelt LED THE PEOPLE UNITED STATES IN PRAYER OVER THE RADIO.  And not just any prayer.  He wrote the prayer and had the Mass communication outlets (radio and Newspapers) publish it or read it BEFORE he read the prayer the evening of 6 June 1944 so that all Americans could copy it down and join him in prayer that night.

Want Proof?  Here is the radio broadcast made by NBC where the announcer reads the prayer very slowly so citizens could write it down in anticipation of FDR’s actual public reading of his prayer.

And just to prove he did it, here is FDR leading the Nation in prayer for the safety and success of our troops in harm’s way.

While I have my issues with FDR as far as his economic policies went, he was, after Lincoln, our greatest “War Time” President (he made the big picture decisions and left the rest to George Marshal).  FDR knew that as Commander-in-Chief, he was personally responsible for sending many men to their death in order to achieve a greater good.  While the next few days would bring martial glory to a nation at war, it would also bring unimaginable pain and loss to mothers, fathers, wives and children across this truly blessed nation of ours.  FDR was aware that while the sacrifices that were being made were necessary and right, he also aware that the best he could do for those about to suffer terrible loss was to give them the only gift possible to help alleviate this loss.  A simple, heartfelt prayer.

Mayor  Bloomberg:  Why is it right for you to ban a simple prayer at  the 10^th anniversary of an event that is every bit as historic as 6 June 1944?  FDR knew prayer was called for.  Is it your opinion FDR was wrong to lead a nation in prayer on D-Day?

A simple, eloquent non-denominational prayer would give those who lost loved ones on 9/11 a sense of peace and would give a nation a sense of hope for better days to come.

To deny this simple gift to our nation is just not a wrong decision made by you.  It is a disservice to the people who died, to those that survived and to people of our nation as a whole that, 10 years later, still remembers that earth shattering day that did not destroy us, but rather, united us for an all too brief, transcendent moment.

After a surprisingly strong showing In the 2010 GOP Primary for Florida Governor, followed by a surprising strong ranking in local polls for the GOP Florida U.S. Senate nomination up for grabs in 2012, “Colonel” Mike McCalister has come crashing down to earth, because he was living (and spewing) a lie.

Here is the brutal takedown by Marc Caputo published in the Miami Herald on 26 August. Part of McCalister’s  stump speech was about he had been the “go to” man for testifying in front of Congress for USSOCOM and that he was involved in black ops that , darn it, he just couldn’t tell details about because they were so highly classified (I have firsthand knowledge of his speech…I witnessed it back in March at Fort Walton Beach.)  It turns out he not did not testify before  Congress and the General Officers who did don’t even remember this popinjay being there during the period McCalister was claiming he was setting Congress straight on matters of great importance.

From what we know now, It can be argued that the potted plants scattered around the room where Congress took testimony had more impact on the discussions that Mike McCalister did.

You can read my reaction to his stump speech harangue (back in March) here and here.  Also, here is the infamous “I gotta go to the Bathroom” video Marc Caputo took after the recent GOP  Florida Senate Debate.  (Hat tip:  Sunshine State Sarah.)

From McCalister’s  wearing of the uniform for political gain, to his flagrant and incredibly irresponsible lies he has made in his innumerable stump speeches, to his unbelievingly stupid denial of making these false statements despite there being  video of him making these lies, this man has proved himself totally unfit for any job that involves the public trust or tax dollars.

My opinion in a nutshell back in March was that this guy was a Bull***t artist.  My opinion since then has changed.  In my opinion, he is not only a Bull***t artist, he is also an insult to the uniform he used to wear.

What Mike McCalister has been caught doing is one of the biggest sins a retired military person can do:  Lie about his record for political gain.  He owes every person who wore the uniform of this nation an apology, especially those men and women in the Reserves and National Guard.  Make no mistake, we could not have fought this 10 year war on terror without our reserves.  They have died on the field of battle, have had their bodies shattered, their souls seared and their families have endured the massive stress and havoc that occurs by having loved ones placed in harm’s way.

For example, there is a young man who works for me and is in the Air Force Reserve.  He has a wife and three young children.  In the last three years he has been to “the Sandbox” four times.  He is a gunship navigator.  He has lost count the number of times he has been shot at.  He is just one of many.

This man is a warrior.  Mike McCalister is not.  He is a total and complete fraud.

I cannot prevent this jerk from running for the Senate.  Any U.S. Citizen over the age of 30 has that right.  What I can do is ask all GOP organizations in Florida shun this bastard.  Do not invite him to your meetings, do not invite him to your rallies, do not invite him to your formal debates and events.  Above all, now that we know the truth about this man, do not come to his aid.

For George LeMieux: What you need to do is withdraw your defense of this oaf.  You and your huge staff didn’t do your homework on this man.  This act does not inspire confidence about your management and decision skills. (Truth In Advertising:  I support and gave 100 smackers to the Hasner Campaign. He will get a lot more if I hit the lottery.)

For all the different flavors of Tea Parties that exist in Florida.  You need to make Mike McCalister “Persona-Non-Grata”  at all your events.

To Marc Caputo, Adam Smith and all your team members and staff at the St. Pete Times and Miami Herald: you did your job…very well.  Credit where credit is due. (Just remember, I called it in March!)

Finally, to the RPOF: Are you going to stand up to this fraud or are you going to roll over and play dead?

Holen Sie sich Ihr Link zu Google Translate hier genau richtig!

Die einzig richtige Sprache zu diskutieren, die Anthony Weiner “Weiner” Skandal ist natürlich in deutscher Sprache. Warum? Nehmen Sie das deutsche Wort für Staubsauger. Ich meine, wie kann Staubauger bedeuten Staubsauger? Was ist der Plural für Staubsauger? Staubsauger? Nicht in deutscher Sprache. Zumindest in der deutschen Google übersetzen. Aber zurück zum Wiener Schnitzel Weiner Rätsel.

Wir als Nation brauchen, um unsere Hände, um dieses Problem gewickelt. Wir müssen unsere Schlaganfall Kinn, denken über die Auswirkungen dieses Problems und muss für sich selbst entscheiden. Haben Weiner Weiner seine Blitz??

Ich weiß nicht wie es euch geht, aber diese ganze Situation riecht nach Sauerkraut. Es ist eine faule, stinkende, Problem, wenn man sie auslaufen und eitern, könnte in jemandes Hand zu den unpassendsten Zeit ausbrechen. Sprechen Sie über die Weiner mit einem Chaos auf den Händen.

Das einzige, was sicher ist, dass Weiner ein großes Problem auf seinem Teller hat, wenn nicht auf seine eigentliche Händen. Er hat keine andere Wahl nun aber für eine offizielle Untersuchung der L’Affaire Baumwolle Covered Weiner Foto Skandal fragen.

Unnötig zu sagen, wenn die große Weiner schickte seinem winzigen Weiner durch eine nubile, gestapelt, um zu sehen, schwüle 21 Jahre alte Universität Mädchen … naja, sagen wir einfach, Bill Clinton weiß, wie er sich fühlt.

Geben Sie diese auf, um einige Ihrer treuesten Kameraden, die immer mit Ihnen, dick oder dünn, und wenn ich sage dick auf Englisch, ich meine in der deutschen dick, nicht dick in englischer Sprache.

Hier ist ein Link zu einer PDF-Datei von der ursprünglichen englischen Blog, der inGoogle Translate geworfen wurde herunterladen. (Für die Leute bei Google … nettes Spielzeug .. braucht etwas Arbeit):

I responded (misspellings corrected –Damn Dyslexia)

Mr. Woodward…thinking Mr. Koch’s funding of scholarships somehow makes up for all the indirect and direct funding (including my taxes)of left wing loons that inhabit our education system is what is laughable. I assure you the increasingly out of touch (and now openly advocating violence: http://bit.ly/ladVQ1) academics that lurk under the guise of “free Speech” are soon to have an economic reality check that will essentially reduce them to digging ditches. I remember a college professor calling me a Nazi once for daring to point out that Chairman Mao was a mass murderer. Secondly, there comes a time when we, as taxpayers, stop funding the study and granting PH D.s to truly ridiculous studies such as European Cinema… My Tax dollars at work no doubt…(I’ll call your French and German and raise it with Mandarin and Japanese) Please tell me, for what purpose does one major in European Cinema and why should my tax dollars go towards funding such a truly unimpressive and silly field of study? Next thing you know my taxes will towards the funding the Turner Classic Movies Chair at Florida State… Sooner than later we as society will come to the conclusion that we cannot fund and support with our tax dollars such educational follies… Try again…

Mr. Woodward did “Try Again”

Now I direct everyone to go to Mr. Woodward’s Facebook page, where he openly and proudly says that he is “Chief Spy of the KGB“.  If Mr. Woodward has changed it since reading this post, here is a screen capture.

I know, I know..he is just being left wing “cool”…Because, he is young and truly ignorant of how truly evil the KGB was. As ANYONE with a passing knowledge of 20th Century history can tell you, when you talk of organizations who used murder, torture and unspeakable acts of horror on their fellow human beings, the KGB ranks right up there with the Gestapo. The walls and floors of Lubyanka prison are slick with the blood of our fellow man… And this profoundly silly man thinks it’s “cool” to identify with them

(I’ll be honest, I went after him to begin with because a) My tax dollars went towards his getting a Ph.D in “European Cinema” and two, only a truly STUPID PERSON would cheerfully identify with one of the most horrific state sanctioned murder machines in mankind’s history.)

Imagine the grief a conservative would get if he claimed to be “Chief Gestapo Torturer” or “Imperial Wizard of the KKK”..in jest…Do you think the Left would allow tax dollars go towards his education or, even worse, his employment? I think not.

That’s why I am personally sending this post to my State Rep, My State Senator and asking them, point blank, will they EVER allow this cretin to make his living on our Tax dollars again?  If he is currently employed by the State, I want it terminated.  If a private college wants to waste their funds on this fool, so be it, but not one of our tax dollars should go to this man again.

Free Speech does not mean “Carte Blanche” to be immune from truly stupid sentiments or writings.  I would not want my child to be exposed to a person who claims, even in jest, a member or leader of the German Gestapo OR the KGB. There are lines that one doesn’t cross.  Mr Woodward is free to claim to be sympathetic to the organization that gave the world Lavrentiy Beria.  However, I am free, indeed obligated, that my and my fellow citizens never again go towards supporting such  a) Horrible Human Being or b) Profoundly Stupid member of academia.

I suspect Mr. Woodward is not truly horrible…just profoundly stupid.  Either way, enough of my tax dollars have gone towards his education and I openly question why my tax dollars are being used to grant Ph.D’s in “European Cinema” by Florida State University.  We, as a country and a state, simply cannot afford spending on such trite and trivial degrees.

I am also going to send this to State Senator Haridopolis, Former Senator George LeMieux and Former majority Leader Adam Hasner and ask them if they support spending of our tax dollars to support people getting degree’s in “European Cinema” from our State Colleges. Specifically I will also ask them if they support the concept of  making sure that our taxpayer funded schools don’t employ personnel openly and cheerfully identify with an organization that has the blood of millions on their hands.

Have a Nice Day “Dr” Woodward….

In 2010, the Florida Republicans struck one of the most compelling counter blows to the election of Barack Obama to President in 2008.  The rank and file openly revolted against the embedded Republican party elite and held a sitting REPUBLICAN Governor and his cohorts to account for their support for the economic mismanagement of Team Obama. The result was the meteoric rise and triumph of Marco Rubio.  With his election, Floridians put the political class on notice: We will no longer suffer fools gladly.

In 2012, Florida can hammer this point home, again, by electing Adam Hasner to replace Bill Nelson as Senator from Florida.  This post is about why this must happen.

First, the bad news.  No matter how much we want to reverse the orgy of excess of the Obama administration, there is a limit on how much can be done between now and January of 2013. I can understand the frustration of the Republican base, tea party members and everyone who helped depose Pelosi and the Democrats in 2010. However the founding fathers devised the system of checks and balances in our system and, unlike any country before, put the ground rules of political mechanics and structure in writing.  If you believe in the Constitution of the United States (as I do), then you must be willing to abide by the concepts of checks and balances and separation of powers that exist in our American Civil Society. D’em da rules, folks.

So any of you who think that the House alone can completely reverse the left wing policies of Democrats and Obama, then you are simply not being realistic.  Yes, the House can play hardball and force a shutdown, or selectively fund the government using the established budget process, but you will have the Senate and the White House fighting them the whole way.  At best, you can expect a stalemate or a compromise that reverses some of the spending excesses, but really not enough to avert the inevitable inflation caused by the Federal Reserve monetizing the debt or the eventual bankrupting of the Nation due to lack of meaningful entitlement reform. We can only hope that there is no catastrophic depression or economic collapse before we can elect a fiscally sane Congress and President in 2012.

(This is the best case scenario folks, I don’t know about you, but I feel times now seem just like 2007: a soaring stock market, housing prices tanking and rapidly rising fuel prices which overnight turns into a financial crisis of the first order. The difference is the Fed and the Government have no more economic arrows in its quiver to paper over this disaster)

If we are going to fix this mess, we are going to have to first elect a Republican as President and make sure he has at his disposal huge Republican majorities in both the Senate and the House in 2013. If history is any judge, the new President will have at best only a couple years to make serious structural change to the policies of Roosevelt and Johnson that have led us down this insane, unsustainable economic path.

Look at the Presidencies of FDR and LBJ.  These two men made fundamental changes to the role of the federal government in our lives and, for all intents and purposes, they made it in the first two years of their Presidency.  Then the backlash began and the natural state of compromise that our founding fathers envisioned our government to be in reasserted itself. So it will be with the newly elected Republican President in 2013 (if we elect one, that is).

That is why Florida must replace Senator Bill Nelson with a Republican who is not afraid to stand up to and challenge status quo and do it immediately upon taking office.  The ONLY Republican that can beat Bill Nelson is Adam Hasner.  Both Mike Haridopolos and George LeMieux are too ethically challenged to take on Nelson.  Bill Nelson, aided and abetted by the huge amount of money Team Obama is going to pour into Florida, will reveal these two men for what they truly are: One is a political opportunist who has made his living ripping off the Florida taxpayer and the other is a political parasite who owes his political existence to a totally discredited politician who committed one of the most spectacular self-inflicted political implosions in modern American politics.

There are many issues on which Adam Hasner and I disagree.  He is Pro-life. I say it’s the woman’s choice, but don’t ask for my tax dollars to fund her birth control method of final resort.  He is for marriage only between a man and woman.  I say you are what nature made you and the government has no business telling you who you can marry. The list could probably go on.  But on the two key issues of our time: The reform of the entitlement culture that has been in place since 1933 and the clash between western civilization and the truly abhorrent culture of death and intolerance that infuses the Muslim world, there is no daylight between us.

Adam Hasner, unlike Haridopolos and LeMieux, CAN beat Bill Nelson.  Adam Hasner, once seated in the Senate will not hesitate to take on the needed reforms of how we as a nation collect and spend tax dollars. He was and is a consistent social and fiscal conservative in that most liberal bastion of areas, Palm Beach!

I’ve talked to the man and he understands that the Muslim Fascists pose an existential threat to our American way of life and knows that the quickest way to defang the Muslim world is to bankrupt it through true American energy independence.

Bill Nelson, despite his support of the Obama agenda, is a serious man.  Neither Mike Haridopolos or George LeMieux have the intellectual firepower or ethical backbone to take on Nelson.  I will tell you now, if the GOP nominates either one of these men, not only will Bill Nelson get re-elected, we will also make it easier for Obama to carry Florida, AGAIN.  It’s real hard to go after Nelson about the ethical and economic crimes of the Obama Administration when you have been caught ripping off the public with a shady book deal or abusing RPOF funds and/or supporting Charlie Crist until the day he decided to go rogue.

So, for the sake of the country and for the good of the Republican Party both in Florida and nationally, we Florida Republicans had better make sure we can vote for Adam Hasner in November 2012.

We need to support Mr. Hasner with our  money and our vote.  For those of you who do not live in Florida…I ask you also to donate to Mr. Hasner.  Doing so not only goes toward having a Republican majority in the Senate in 2013, it also goes toward keeping Barack Obama from winning in Florida.

I can guarantee you that if Adam Hasner beats Bill Nelson, then Obama will also lose in Florida, regardless of who the Republican presidential nominee is.   And remember, if Obama loses Florida, he loses the election. That’s why the Florida senatorial race is probably the most important U.S. Senate race in 2012.  That is why Adam Hasner MUST be our party’s nominee.

Click here to donate to Adam’s campaign.

Dear George:

We have been doing some political “gaming” at PracticalState and we have decided that we would let you know we have developed some sophisticated political tactics you could take to ease your way to the Florida GOP Nomination for Senator.

We first had to establish a ground truth assumption in order to come up with our eventual strategies. The ground truth assumption was that you, along with Charlie Crist and Jim Greer, were in on the funneling of funds to Greer’s political consulting firm from the start and you were aware of the continuous rape of Republican Party Of Florida (RPOF) funds during the Governorship of Charlie Crist and RPOF Chairmanship of Jim Greer.  We also took the liberty of assuming that when Jim Greer is tried in Federal Court, you are going to subpoenaed as a hostile witness on behalf of the defense and might have to plead the Fifth when you take the stand.

I like to refer you to this early post of ours that pretty much sums up the pickle you and Charlie Crist are going to find yourselves in:   Who do You Believe: “Sammy the Bull” Gravano or Jim Greer?…Answer: Both

So, We started with this “Hypothetical” fundamental issue that stands in your way to the Florida GOP Senate nomination. We presented the assumption to our PracticalState “think tank” as follows:

Resolved: It is painfully obvious that George LeMieux was up to his neck in probable illegal and definitely corrupt actions with his Boss, then Governor Charlie “Talking Head” Crist and then RPOF Chairman Jim Greer.  What strategies can best be utilized to fool enough Republicans to still vote for an obviously compromised and probably very corrupt George LeMieux in his, frankly, absurd quest to be elected the GOP Senate Candidate to run against Senator Bill “I’ve Never Heard of This Obama Fellow” Nelson.

After intense brainstorming and not some little effort on our part, we think we have come up three possible strategies that might help you get the 2012 Senate GOP nomination (we can’t guarantee anything except that if you ARE elected to run against Bill Nelson, you WILL lose).

Strategy Number One: You have been drunk since 2005.

For most of mankind’s history and specifically American history up until 1919, being drunk was a socially acceptable state of existence for men to be in and most definitely for all politicians of all ideologies.  U.S. Grant kicked Robert E. Lee’s ass while drunk and went on to be one of the more celebrated drunk presidents in our nation’s history. Admittedly ever since Prohibition this has, at least publically, been an unacceptable state for our political class to be in, but as the stellar career of Ted Kennedy proves, it does not disqualify you to be a member of the Senate.  To be honest, the only reason that being continuously drunk fell into disfavor in our society was the really stupid decision (for men) to let women have an increasingly active role in our nations politics and eventually giving them the vote.  Carrie Nation anyone? Yes ladies, your gender is responsible for the Mafia, Al Capone and Murder, Inc.

However, George, it has been a hundred years since Ms. Nation (thankfully) met her maker and since then women have increasingly been a) Drinking like men; b) Smoking like men; b) Screwing around like men; and d) Dying of cancer and psoriasis of the liver like men.  So we at the PracticalState political think tank have come to the conclusion that if you step forward and disclose that you have been a “hog swilling drunk” since at least since 2005 and have openly embraced this as an acceptable lifestyle for yourself, then there is damn good chance a good percentage of the electorate (especially amongst the College Crowd) will respond positively to your announcement and might be willing to believe that because you have been drunk since 2005 so therefore had no idea what Jim Greer and Charlie Crist were doing (or at least don’t remember).

Strategy Number Two: You were victim of the “Silver Tongue” of Charlie Crist

Like a majority of Florida’s voters in 2006, you fell under the spell of the Charlie Crist.  Yep, just tell folks that like a lot of men, you were seduced by seductive, sinuous solicitations by that master of oral ministrations, Charles Joseph “Charlie” Crist Jr.

You probably not the first (nor the last) man to come under that voodoo that Charlie do so well. Just tell folks that Charlie kept you in the closet about what he and Greer were doing and that, like a young Schoolboy, you were totally infatuated with the then Governor and believed everything he told you. But, since then, you have gone to the political equivalent of aversion therapy to Charlie Crist and men like him and/or became a Scientologist.

However, we at the PracticalState think that this is the weakest of the three strategies due the increasing scientific evidence that people are hardwired from birth as to their true nature (in your case, our lawyers at PracticalState are telling us to state in no uncertain terms that we are talking about being “gullible” in order to avoid any lawsuits) and no amount of therapy or purging of Thetans is going to change that. Which leads us to what we at PracticalState think is the best solution to your problems:

Strategy Number Three: “The Weasel Gambit”

This is, in our humble opinion, has the best chance of success because most folks will believe this and like a lot of political tactics, it has a kernel of truth to it. You claim that due to your French ancestry, you are by nature and by culture, a natural born “weasel” and that by electing you, you will prove to be the much sought after GOP counter-weight to Chuck Schumer of New York.

If someone brings up the fact that Republicans already have Lindsay Graham, you counter that there is no way anyone of Scot-Irish ancestry can be a “weasel” and with that one proclamation you will secure 95% of the Republican vote in the primary from Pensacola to Jacksonville. If Mike Haridopolos brings up the fact that the current French President, Nicolas Sarkozy doesn’t seem like a weasel (especially when compared to the current U.S. President) immediately counter that Sarkozy is really Hungarian and not a true Frenchman.

When the press and your primary opponents bring up the obvious fact that there is NO WAY Jim Greer did what he did without you personally knowing about it, you go into full weasel mode and deny, deny, deny. You then bring up Haridopolos’s book deal and that if you had been in Haridopolos’s shoes, you would have figured out a way not to have gotten caught misreporting income and would have had absolutely no problem weaseling your way out of getting admonished by your fellow Senators.

By embracing the concept of being a “natural born weasel”, it also gives the option of denying actually being a weasel when people remind you that you admitted to being one.

The permutations and possible political conundrums presented by using this method are endless so we at PracticalState formally endorse this tactic for you to use.

You will be getting a bill from PracticalState for this political “think tank” work on behalf of your campaign, but, if you adopt “The Weasel Gambit”, you will of course, figure out a way to “weasel out” of paying us.

We understand.

Make no mistake.  I am defense contractor who works on a military base.  I am retired Navy.  This past Friday, I attended the conference that was given by the CO of the Command I work at and it was made clear to all Military members that pay would be impacted (i.e., After next week, the military would work without regular paychecks).  He had already assembled a list of places (primarily for the enlisted) to go to for emergency loans and said for ANYONE who was put in dire straits (financially)  to personally come to him and he would take action.

If this shutdown would have happened over what is, percentage wise, a trivial part of the budget, rest assured the MSM would have made service members in financial trouble front page news 24/7 (and yes, we have junior married enlisted that already have to use food stamps on a regular basis…this is a disgrace, but a true statement). Folks would blame Republicans as much as Democrats.  The President, with a sympathetic MSM (Make no mistake that’s where most Americans get their news) would be falling over themselves to make him “Horatio at the Bridge“.

The political war for our Nation’s future officially started Friday night.  The first skirmish will be raising the debt ceiling.  The first major engagement will be the “Battle of the Budget” For 2012.  The turning point in the War will come November 2012 and that means holding the House and winning the Senate and Presidency for the Republicans.  Then, and only then, will we make the much needed radical policy changes this nation must adopt.

I am following the Florida 2012 Senate race and so far, the best response I have read was written by Adam Hasner.  He and I don’t see eye to eye on social issues (I was a Westpac Sailor and personally arranged one of the most memorable 0-3 “Wetting Down” (promotion) parties in U.S. Naval History at the “Caligula Club” in Pattaya Beach, Thailand…nuff said..) but he put on his Facebook page a post that truly expresses what I feel and does it much more eloquently than I can:

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But make no mistake; these cuts are nowhere near what’s needed to save our country.

Republicans and Democrats have agreed to cut around $38 billion, which when added to cuts made earlier this year amount to about 2% of our $1.5 trillion budget. Our country will borrow more money than was cut today in just the next nine days. Our government will continue to waste money on the pet projects of the left, like Planned Parenthood and National Public Radio. We’ll also continue to fund costly job-killing programs like Obamacare and over-reaching EPA mandates.

And the real, tough, leadership decisions needed to cut spending, balance the budget, and attack the debt, have been kicked down the road yet again.

This is no time for a victory lap by either party.

The fact of the matter is that there is more work to be done. Democrats have shown that they do not take our financial crisis seriously. President Obama has proven that he has no interest in showing leadership on the biggest issues facing our country.  And too many Republicans still don’t understand that if we can’t stand on principle to make the small cuts, we’ll never build the credibility needed to convince Americans of the real spending cuts that are desperately needed. The only thing outpacing the growth of our fiscal deficit is the leadership deficit in Washington.

The outcome of this week’s debate, and the preview it has given us of the coming debate over the debt limit and next year’s budget, makes it clear that our current Congress does not have what it takes to confront our country’s challenges. So long as Democrats still control the Senate, true fiscal reforms will never be possible.

That’s what makes this election perhaps the most important of our generation.

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Stone Cold Truth.

Click here to see Hasner’s complete post on his Facebook page.