“We were elected because Americans did NOT want a radical change in the relationship between the citizen and its government. We were elected because they did NOT want this European-styled government rationing of care. We were elected to reverse the damage this wealth-redistributing, job-destroying administration did in its first two years in office. And now that we’re here, this is what we are going to do:

For now, Kill Obamacare DEAD. DEAD!

I like the sound of this much better than “Let’s repeal the law and then put half of it back.” which is how I see repeal and replace.

Just food for thought.

The ever-broadening and growing conservative base had some long and contentious conversations during the last few months.  Those conversations became a bit louder and more contentious in the fortnight leading up to the Delaware Senate Primary. Conservative publications like the Weekly Standard and National Review backed Mike Castle, while the American Spectator and the Tea Party Express, Mark Levin (and, later, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh) backed Christine O’Donnell.

Tempers tended to flare, and the attacks were at times pretty vicious. But the conversations we were having were necessary. To put it plainly (and a bit obviously) that’s what primaries are for.

But that’s over. We conservatives who supported Christine should resist the impulse of dancing over Mike Castle’s political grave (no matter how sore a loser he might be.) Conservatives who, mostly thinking pragmatically, backed Castle should be saluted as patriots and welcomed into the fold as we focus on defeating the Democrats in just a few short weeks.

Because we need conservatives on both sides of the battle to get every single conservative vote to the polls come November 2.

It’s time for our party and our movement to unite behind the winners and tirelessly work toward the goal of winning the general election. We must do this.

Our country and our children’s futures depend on it.

“Conservative in the primary. Republican in the general.”

It’s time to unite.

I disagreed with Senator Byrd way more often than I agreed with him. He was a former Klansman and one of the undisputed kings of all pork in his years in the Senate. He used vulgar language on camera and I never, not once, thought he had the country’s best interests at heart.

But insulting the dead is for other places. So I thank Senator Byrd for his service and will be praying for him and those who love him.

The health care debate has been going on in America for over a year. Both houses of Congress (led by the most liberal of Democrats) have been haggling and twisting arms and shutting out the opposition for 12 long, arduous, mostly depressing months.

In this endless process, they have spent virtually all of their political capital on one single issue.

Unfortunately, that issue involves the federal government taking control of 1/6 of the entire United States economy. The current plan (and it IS now Barack Obama’s plan) extends the tentacles of the ever-increasing federal bureaucracy and, if passed, will forever change the relationship between the American citizen and its government.

Why? Because if the government controls people’s access to medicine, how can citizens ever speak out against it without fearing medicinal retaliation? (“Are you SURE you want to protest this new law? I’d HATE for your mom to lose her chance at a lung transplant, so maybe you better just stay quiet…”)

Because of the fundamental change I just described and many other reasons (including abortion funding and the unconstitutional requirement that every American purchase a government-approved health insurance policy) most Americans (between 60 percent and 75 percent, depending on the poll) oppose this measure.

But Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are still trying to force this plan through. (And, according to Brian Darling’s post, they are trying to do it without a final vote.

Why would politicians who serve at the public’s pleasure do something the public so loudly opposes? Because Obama cares more about his ideology than he does about the future of his Presidency.

As he stated in January of 2009, he’d rather be a one term President who transformed the nation than a two term President who had a Clintonian deal-making legacy. (I’m paraphrasing.)

He and his minions care more about extending the tentacles of government, of regulating every aspect of our lives, than anything else. In order to have this belief system, I believe he must despise us and despise our society.

And I’m sick of him and his party. Because even if we gave him EVERYTHING he wanted, even if we went to a single payer system, even if we regulated energy to the point where we all either froze or melted, even if we gave him and his PIGLIKE, EVER EXPANDING SOW OF A BUREAUCRACY everything their (small) hearts desired, in a few weeks they’d come back for more.

WHERE is this going to end, liberals? At what point are people still going to be free? When will you jackasses leave us alone?

And while you’re pondering the answer to that question, we are going to vote you out in November in a landslide of BIBLICAL proportions.

I’m not angry. I’m motivated. And I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that these anti-freedom statists lose power.

We freedom-loving people have no choice but to fight.

(cross-posted to Today’s Asbestos.

Whatever will it be?  That Jon is getting hair plugs?  That Kate is going to Control Freak school?

I don’t know, but is it the world’s healthiest thing for your marriage to raise your eight children in front of a national television audience?

Don’t get me wrong.  I blame most of the craziness involving these folks on the suckerfish of the news media, the exploiters in the paparazzi and the corporate nitwits who pay them.  (I’m looking at YOU, US Weekly, People, and all your cheap facsimiles we see at the grocery store.)  From what I’ve observed, the Gosselins are good people who took an opportunity from CBS and ran with it.  As a result, all eight of their delightful children will be able to go to college and have opportunities 99 percent of kids don’t get.  That’s fantastic for them.

I’m sure the parents, looking back, probably would have done a few things differently.  Unfortunately, both of them are now under the halogen lamps of the 24 hour news cycle, so the simple act of spanking one of their kids for being disobedient has now become national news.  (And come on, people…the very fact that the spanking of one’s child has become a story covered by ABC News is illustrative of how seriously MESSED UP we have become as a society, but that’s another blog.)

So what is a right-thinking person to do?  By watching tonight, are we feeding the beast that is media exploitation of a family?  Are the Gosselins part of the problem, or is this just the unforeseen backlash that can occur when one puts their family in the public eye?

I don’t have an answer, but I thought it would be good to ask the questions.  We’ll watch.  We always watch.

But I think we should pray for everyone involved before we do.

I’m not saying that McCain’s is perfect. McCain’s plan just isn’t Marxist. His child credit doubling is fine, but it doesn’t come close to what I’d do, which is replace all IRS computers with 1981 TRS-80s that only play hangman.

At any rate, Obama’s distorting the picture. For MANY people who currently pay no federal income taxes, Barack’s going to send them free money paid for by someone else.

In my neighborhood, we call that income redistribution. Taking it a step further, it’s socialism.

I know many of you don’t love John McCain, and he frustrates me too. Even so, we must drag him across the finish line (like Rush and Levin have been saying) to prevent an Obama presidency.

Here in North Carolina, we’re finally seeing the state GOP hit Walter Dalton hard in the Lieutenant Governor race (Bob Pittenger is our candidate in that one, and he seems to be fighting hard), and Pat McCrory is putting up a strong challenge against the heavily-favored incumbent Lieutenant Governor, Bev Perdue, who’s running for the top spot with Mike Easley term limited.

Rasmussen has McCrory up by 5.”>