Conservative Musings

What's The Liberal Press Doing?

Lady Colonel and I spent part of the evening toggling back and forth between several news channels.  Some were more conservative (read: Fox News) and others were liberal and more liberal (read: CNN and MSNBC). 

After watching each of their coverages of Sarah Palin, I am seriously wondering what the liberal press is trying to accomplish.  Both Lady Colonel and I reeled from the venom being thrown at Governor Palin.  Both of us believe this will backfire tremendously, against the very candidate they wish to help.  To paraphrase The Anchoress, who puts it well, Sarah and Bristol are causing the left to publicly meltdown.

This is sad to watch unfold.  Women, like Lady Colonel, are seeing this as demeaning to females like themselves...and it is very demeaning.  As more and more see this repulsive behavior, it's going to turn them away from the liberal ticket.

Keep it up liberal press.  When it's all over, you may turn out to be the best folks on the conservative side.

-Colonel Steve

McCain/Palin - A Great Ticket

John McCain made a brilliant move on so many fronts by picking Sarah Palin for V.P.  I had heard about her some time ago because of her bold moves in Alaska, but I did not think about her as a VP candidate, because I was concentrating on all the traditional candidates that everyone was talking about.  I have read a great deal about Sarah today and AM I IMPRESSED!  There has been a lot said today and her accomplishments have certainly been discussed but no one has touched on the some of these accomplishments and the character that America has been looking for for quite some time. 

From wikipedia:

1) She ran for City Council in 1992 and served two terms from 1992 to 1996.  She made a campaign promise to reduce the salary of her position and followed through with it and reduced property taxes by 60%. 

2) She also served as president of Alaska Conference of Mayors.

3) She was appointed Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004 and resigned over a lack of ethics of fellow Republican leaders. 

4) In 2006, she ran against the Republican incumbent Governor and won the primary for Governor.  Later, winning the election. 

5) She promoted and successfully got an ethics bill and did away with pork barrel spending that had gone on by other Republicans. 

6) While she initially supported the Gravina Island Bridge project, once it became a source of wasteful spending involving large sums of federal money, she opposed and stopped the project. 

7)  In Alaska, she has won the public support with ratings of 76% to 90% approval. 

I can not believe the things I have heard today especially the comment from John Roberts from CNN on Friday's "Newsroom" program.  We used to call CNN, "the Clinton News Network", because they are so liberal.  However, when this man makes the comment, "There's also this issue that on April 18th, she gave birth to a baby with Down's Syndrome...Children with Down's syndrome require an awful lot of attention.  The role of Vice President, it seems to me, would take up an awful lot of her time, and it raises the issue of how much time will she have to dedicate to her newborn child?" 

Now, let's be truthful here - If someone like McCain, McConnell, Bush or Cheney had made that comment or even Sean Hannity, or Rush Limbaugh, the NOW gang would be in an uproar.  Even Obama and Biden would be in on the lynching.  That is a very sexist thing to say.  How she handles her home life is none of John Robert's business.  That is up to her and her husband.  What if her husband had been the pick for V.P., this comment wouldn't have entered into the conversation. 

Great job McCain!  I'm very excited about this Presidential ticket.

-Lady Colonel

A Little Humor For The DNC

Today's political correctness has never been know to have a funnybone.  There sure has been worse out there than this video:

For those who don't like the above, what part don't you like?  Praying according to your political beliefs?  Praying for your political leaders? Recognizing that God's will prevails, no matter what?

Take it for what it's worth...it's humor, remember.

-Colonel Steve

Partisanship In Kentucky's Capital

Lady Colonel and I spent this past Saturday visiting her old hometown of Frankfort.  Yes, amazingly enough, she admits hailing from there.  We took our granddaughters down there to see all the old haunts of their grandmother.

While hanging around the State Capitol, I got to thinking about all the comments concerning the Fletcher administration.  About how partisan those darn republicans are.  Particularly Ernie Fletcher.  The same stories mentioned how great it would be to get a non-partisan democrat back into the governor's mansion.

We should be oh so glad, now that we have Steve Beshear in office.  No partisanship anywhere on the capitol grounds.

Like this shot to the left?  Found on the first floor of the capitol building, below the senate chambers.  Some historic poster, asking to vote the straight democratic ticket, including Noble J. Gregory, 1st District Representative of Kentucky.  Gee, must have missed this one, cleaning out all that partisan stuff left by Ernie Fletcher's group.

Glad there is no partisanship in the capitol parking lot either.  Very few cars there on a Saturday.  Someone must have come through and slapped this one on an employee's car.  Shame on whoever slapped those bumper stickers on!

Seriously....this stuff doesn't bother me in the least.  It's to be expected.  What's not to be expected...and bothers me...is when one side whines about the other side being partisan.  Of course they are!  The only way not to have partisanship is not to have sides.  There's always at least 3 sides to every issue, counting those who don't care.

So the next time we have a republican in office, start getting over it now.  Get prepared now...they will be partisan.

-Colonel Steve

Men and Women Really are Different

As noted by The Independent, New Scientist Magazine is publicizing a review of neurological research that men and women are truly different at the brain level.  Like they have two different organs between their ears.

Most of us already knew the concept that we had more differences than just unique plumbing.  It went much deeper than that.  It's nice to see science catching up with what common sense has been telling us for eons.

-Colonel Steve

People's Republic of California At It -- Again

Twice, once two years ago then again recently, a tour group in the California Capitol in Sacramento was stopped for singing the Star Spangled Banner and God Bless America.

Having patriotism in a state capitol?  How dare they.  Particularly in California. 

Ironically, 2 students had a father who was held in a communist Romanian prison.  Another student was a Russian immigrant.  Sad for them, they probably felt like they had not left their home countries.

-Colonel Steve

Afraid of Letting the People Decide

The upcoming California ballot initiative is being challenged in court.  The challenge is based on technical issues of how it was drafted.

The Alliance Defense Fund, one of the groups backing the ballot measure, said the groups are "desperate to evade democracy."

"The opponents of marriage are willing to use any means necessary to impose their will,"said ADF attorney Glen Lavy.

I agree with Glen.  California is moving away from a democracy, towards a monarchy.  In their case, the members of the monarchy happen to sit on judicial benches.

-Colonel Steve

Latest From Al Gore

Speaking of hypocrites, have you heard the latest about Al Gore's mansion?  He's made his home more environmentally friendly.  I'm sure that really cost him some green stuff....money that is.

It's continuing to cost him more money as well, since he's using 1,638 kilowatt hours (kWh) MORE per month in electricity than before the improvement.  His home is now using, in the past year, 213,210 kWh of electricity.  Enough to power about 232 average homes per month.

I just went and did a little math.  If the numbers above are correct, an average home uses 919 kWh per month.  I figured from my past bills that I use almost twice that average myself.  People like Al Gore would label me an eeeevil polluter.  Yet it's OK for him.

I've been taught by the media that hypocrite = conservative.  Wrongo!  My dictionary says hypocrite = environmental wacko = Al Gore.

-Colonel Steve

Conflicted Black Conservatives

A lot of comments are being made today concerning the AP story by Fredrick J. Frommer entitled "Black Conservatives Conflicted On Obama Campaign."

I go back to the Martin Luther King, Jr. quote: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

The story linked to above mentions Armstrong Williams and J.C. Watts in particular who "might" change their votes not on the basis of shared beliefs or shared principles, but purely on shared skin color.  Is this true to the dream of King?  Which do we place more importance on: principles, or skin color?

If a Michael Steele or a Herman Cain ran for president, I'd vote for them in a heartbeat.  I would due to sharing beliefs in the same principles with these two.  Until now I thought I shared the same principles with J.C. Watts.  Now I'm not so sure.

-Colonel Steve

"Save the Males"

I heard part of the Kathleen Parker interview this morning on Bill Bennett's Morning in America radio show.  The interview is about her book Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care. 

Sounded very interesting, but of course I'm biased.  One interesting thing I heard from the interview was that Kathleen Parker considered herself a feminist until she had a baby that was a boy.  That changed everything (as having babies usually does).  A rather radical thought, considering that today's society is so anti-male.

What ever happened to that motto of the Rodney King era: "Why can't we get along?"  A great society would be one that truly values diversity, both in it's masculine and feminine shades.  But today's society says we've all got to be "equal", without differences.

What a loss.

-Colonel Steve