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Posted at 11:02am on Jun. 22, 2008 I'm in it to win it-in Hinzsight, is courting the disaffected Clintons the way to go for the Party?
By BlackRepub
Lately, we're all supposed to be courting these supposed "moderate" Clinton voters, who are allegedly soooooo disgusted with Barry O that they are willing to do the unthinkable and instead of pulling the lever for their liberal candidate, they are going to go ahead and pull the lever for our liber...er the Republican. But in Hinzsight are these the people that we want on our side to win?
One of the common things that is being floated by the Clintons is that Hillary is the final victim of the Democratic Party gone to far to the left, a combination of sexism and the anti-war factions taking over the party and delivering the nomination to someone far left of sweet, centrist Hillary. On top of that, she is the Goldwater Girl victim, and the true victor for rural America, while Obama is the academic elite. If that's not the worse, she had regular folks voting for her, while Obama had this messianic movement behind him. To be quaint, Victoria, bull.
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Posted at 12:06pm on Jun. 18, 2008 Standing Athwart Hope and Change yelling Stop-Stomping the Liberals, Goldwater style with a brand spanking new, shiny, Contract
By BlackRepub
Allow me to preface this diary by saying that moderates are welcome to comment as long as you are not snotty and snarky. This is meant as a diary to further the discussion of conservatism, and moving the conservative movement forward. If you are going to shill for McCain or tell me why he's a conservative, please just move on. I've heard the arguments, I don't buy them, and I'm voting for him anyway. Thanks. (ps-absentee, this does not pertain to you as you are not a shill and I heart you in a Brad Paisley I'm still a guy kind of way)
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Posted at 5:34pm on Jun. 10, 2008 Where have you gone Mr. Goldwater, our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you? The rebirth of conservatism with President McCain
By BlackRepub
Allow me to preface this by saying that this is a conversation with conservatives, and if you have nothing to add but McCain is a conservative! Get over it! Get in line! , this diary is not for you. The purpose of this is not McCain, but how to properly move the Conservative movement forward in American politics. I mean conservatives of the Thompson, Reagan, Goldwater variety. If you are not interested in having this discussion but fighting about conservatism than please move on. Thank you.
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Posted at 12:28am on May 28, 2008 The Married Man Cometh-American exceptionalism and the long awaited return of BlackRepub (ok so maybe not the last part )
By BlackRepub
This week, I experienced the second best moment in my life, after the first birth of my son. On Friday May 23, the lovely Caitlin Whitehead became the even lovelier Caitlin Donnella, and two souls became one. We have become so much closer in this first week of marriage, and the feeling of love and beauty is irreplaceable. I enjoy my youthful idealism right now more than anything in my life. My wife gives me the extra strength that I already have to continue to push and to persevere through anything. It is her and my unshakable belief in each other that drives us, motivates us, and causes unselfish love and sacrifice that will allow us to take our marriage and our relationship to previously immeasurable heights.
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Posted at 1:55am on May 13, 2008 This is my stop Johnny Mac, y'all go on without me...Rebuilding the Movement and the New Contract for America (updated)
By BlackRepub
So today, we learned that John McCain does not intend to pander to full blooded conservatives; rather he intends to continue to harness his Maverick, BiPartisan, NewTone image to convince his friends in the media that he's really not one of "those" Republicans. The effect of this of course may be that he does indeed get elected to the White House, but by distancing himself from mainstream Republicans as he intends to do, he is going to kill the GOP's prospects downticket. Where has he strayed off of the reservation this time, you ask? What has he done to warrant an entire blog? What he has done today is saw off another leg of the already shaky stool he was one. Today McCain's violations were threefold. The first two go hand in hand: McCain decided to bury his credentials as a conservative, by supporting signing the Kyoto treaty as well as supporting a carbon cap and trade deal. Now here's the problem with this, other than the fact that it is taking money out of American's pockets and allowing Europe to police the American economy. We know McCain is not a full blooded conservative, but unlike Rudy Giuliani, who sought to downplay his differences with full spectrum conservatives, McCain seems anxious to run to his friends in the New York Times and give them more evidence of how he's not such a bad guy, after all, he worships at Al Gore's church of Global Warming, which has about as much credibility as Ron L Hubbard's Church of Scientology. This decision by the McCain campaign to once again run to the media to beef up his Maverick credentials is another move by McCain to show off his great BiPartisan power, because this of course is legislation that he sponsored with the only sensible Democrat, Joe Lieberman, the last of the Scoop Jackson Democrats who is right on the GWOT and wrong on everything else. Unfortunately, Joe isn't running for President, McCain is, and this was another middle finger to the base and to the American people who in a time of economic distress, don't need politicians making up more regulations and taxes to hit them in the pocketbook. However, it did bolster McCain's earlier statement that he doesn't really know anything about the economy. Further boosting that claim was McCain's third faux pas in today's NewTone trio, that sources have leaked America's Snake Oil Pastor, Mike Huckabee is in line to hitch his trailer onto the back of the Straight Talk Express. I don't need to go into every single reason why Mike Huckabee is bad for this job, I think I've been pretty clear in the past. Suffice it to say that McCain achieved the one two knockout punch for flushing his economic credentials down the toilet as well as his pledge to pick someone who knows national security. Huckabee wouldn't know national security if it appeared personified, sat down in his double wide and ate a plate of fried squirrel with him. The vice President is poised to be the future leader of the party, a heartbeat away from the Presidency. McCain was supposed to assure his party and the American people that they can trust that America will survive if something happens-with his Huckalove, the only thing that we can be assured of is that there will be plenty of class warfare and Kool-Aid to go around. And this is only the beginning-if you liked McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman, and McCain-Kennedy, wait until you see what he gets going when he has an even weaker GOP minority in the fall. Thusly, I have decided to get off the Straight Talk Express, and I am no longer voting for John McCain, nor will I treat him with the kid gloves I had been as a good little Republican, getting in line no matter how I had to grit me teeth through the knives he put in the heart of every conservative.
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Posted at 9:03pm on May 10, 2008 Where is my party going and why are we all in this handbasket? Towards a modern conservatism pt 2.
By BlackRepub
Someone posed the question on RedState today, what is it that we want from the Republican Party? Enough with the complaining about McCain, we need to work on giving people something to vote for rather than the liberal bogeyman to vote against. Frankly, I'd rather have the Left take the rap for gross insufferable spending, corruption and unethical politicians, and a growing cynicism by the majority of Americans towards their politicians. As we move towards an election featuring two guys that most people are shocked made it this far, I have elected to no longer discuss John McCain. His crush on Hillary Clinton I find disgusting, and I fear he will be nothing more than an extension of the NewToning we have seen from the past 8 years. In light of that, my objective is to move the Party towards the right, by rolling out a new modern conservatism that will refuel the rise and excitement of conservatism in the 21st century. So what is the solution than?
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Posted at 1:12am on May 6, 2008 The Beauty of Unconditional Love
By BlackRepub
I hadn't realized that I haven't blogged in an insanely long time until people that I know started to publicly wonder whether I had taken a leave of absence from politics until after November. Well the truth is, I have been busy lately with something much much bigger than the political scene, as bleak as it looks. In just 3 weeks now, I'm going to be going from the role of boyfriend to husband, and officially being one with my lovely wife, and hopefully having ourselves a baby girl soon to go along with our son. I have been exhausted with marriage and planning, and moving up to our new apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan that I haven' really had time to look into presidential politics. But what I have been able to do that is actually related to politics is to ponder this idea of unconditional love.
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Posted at 11:56am on Apr. 16, 2008 It's all identity politics now-fighting back by rolling out a new conservatism
By BlackRepub
Cross posted at modernconservative.com and http://youngblackprouddad.blogspot.com/
I quietly had taken a couple weeks off of blogging to recharge, and sort of fade into being part of the MTV generation which has all in all, been quite enjoyable, though I know the mention of MTV makes some of you old folks around these parts cringe a little bit. I watched my first place White Sox smack around the Tigers, watched the Cubs in their infinite tragicomedy lose Alfonso Soriano, and listened to my Britney Spears cds several times while watching a really inappropriate amount of trashy reality television. I've been lurking on my favorite blog, but not commenting, because, well, I haven't really wanted much to do with politics because now that the primaries over, I felt like I had time to take my much needed hiatus and look at my party and the direction we are going. And I have to say, I have been gravely disappointed with the party.
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Posted at 10:35am on Mar. 20, 2008 Quiz:Which Republican Presidential candidate likes and understands Reverend Wright? (Hint:Not Mitt, Rudy, Johnny, Fred or Paul)
By BlackRepub
Because we have had such a fine array of diaries smacking around the Black version of the Grand Wizard on RS, I previously had no desire to write a diary on the subject. Until of course, I saw this yesterday.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Huck_defends_Wright.html
Once again, reminding me all over again why Slick Huckster needs to be nowhere near the leadership of the GOP; not only does America's Pastor not get it on the issues that matter, he alos does not get it on race. This is of course something I thought about extensively when I withdrew my two day support from Slick Huckabee, having been drawn in by his snake oil tongue, and ability to lie and spin one liners with the best of them.
This is not the first time Huckabee has been off the deep end on race. As I wrote some months ago on Huckabee, that the main reason I withdrew my support was the original reason for supporting him. I was impressed with a Republican that could draw 55 percent of the Black vote, and I thought that he was someone who could really be used to break the stranglehold. Then I listened to him at the Black college debate, and I realized he gets so much of the Black Democratic vote because he talks and sounds just like a Democrat on race, just like he does on every other issue. Except of course when he's talking about putting gay HIV patients in a dark room and locking them away forever, that just makes him an idiot past the wings of any party. Allow me to quote from the Slickster
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Posted at 3:01pm on Mar. 10, 2008 My conservative argument for gay marriage
By BlackRepub
Some people like to do crack all night, some people drink, when I get into a mode, I tend to want to blog...continuously. This has been in the works for a couple of weeks now, to the point where I am able to stop writing on all sorts of campaign stuff, though I just did my vote McCain blog for the week, and talk about an issue. Allow me to play maverick on this one and go out on a limb that not too many of the social conservatives whose company I keep will agree with me on.