Author: Rory B. Bellows

In a sad testament to the state of the Party after George Bush’s 8 years in office, sometime Republican John McCain is running ads touting his support among Hillary Clinton supporters.

ugh!

It is rather foolish to roll this ad out when the dems could find much nastier footage of McCain and Romney in the primary campaign.

so the messiah has chosen his running mate and it is Delaware Senator Joe Biden.  One interesting thing is that Obama is following in the foot steps of George W Bush in selecting a running mate because of his experience, gravitas, attack dog mentality and the fact that, because of his age, will not be running for President again.

Does he bring anything to the table outside of boredom and plagiarism?

I was watching Rick Warren’s candidate forum last night, nice of them to get that off the air before Phelps went for his record, and I was struck by Barry Obama’s dissembling on social issues.  Barry believes gay marriage should be left up to the states because our constitution does not address the issue of marriage.  Fine.  I agree with that.  But where does Barry find our constitution addresses the issue of abortion?

The D’s and R’s can never have a VP or POTUS nominee that cuts against the party ortodoxy on the issue. If social issues in national politics upsets you, you have no one to blame but Liberals.

Thank the Liberal Justices who handed down the Roe decision. Without Roe, none of these social issues come into play because they would have remained in their rightful domain: The states.

Just another reason Liberals have ruined our politics.

Author: Rory B Bellows

55% of New Jerseyeans think Frank Lautenberg is too old for another term as Senator. This is the best news Republican Challenger Dick Zimmer has received this campaign season. Age is the one issue Zimmer has going in his favor and he needs to exploit it. While Zimmer may not have the campaign funds that Lautenberg has, he can run an active, energetic campaign that highlights the fact that Lautenberg is a grumpy old man without actually coming out and saying so. Zimmer is a moderate enough Republican that he can portray himself as an acceptable default alternative while making the campaign’s sole issue Lautenberg’s fitness to serve.

God forbid kids learn about individualism and not sacrificing yourself at the alter of collectivism. If one was being cynical, one might think the statists did not want any counter programming.

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Now I know how Ben Stein felt in that famous scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when no one would respond to his inquiries into Ferris Bueller’s whereabouts. When Ben Stein discusses the issue of taxes, no one is home. In an op-ed piece in Saturday’s New York Times, Stein expresses his dismay about John McCain hewing to Republican orthodoxy on the matter of taxes. While it is certainly up in the air if John McCain is a die hard supply-sider, the smart bet is no, he is promising the extend the Bush tax cuts. All of the Bush tax cuts.

Ben Stein comes from a different era of Republicanism. Before Ronald Reagan, Republicans viewed a balanced budget as the be all, end all of government policy. While a balanced budget is important, the manner in which it is achieved is even more so. If a balanced budget could only be achieved by raising taxes then so be it.

While the idea of government spending no more than it takes in is admirable and should be the goal of any administration, the amount government takes in is the issue. Buying into the belief that balancing the budget is the most important goal of government and that raising taxes is necessary to do so, one must accept several flawed assumptions. Accepting that balancing the budget through tax increases is good public policy, one must accept that the money people make is not theirs but the government. People can do with less because their pay check really the product of their labor, but an allowance that government decides they get. That view is akin to saying government is king and the people are nothing but serfs. When the King wants more he says “Give me”. In reality, that is exactly what government does. Government is best defined as force. It uses coercive force to get what it wants. If you do not believe me, try not paying your taxes for a few years and see what happens.

A balanced budget is important. But what is more important is the philosophy that is behind it. Any individual who spent more than they earned would be forced to cut spending until revenues were in line with expenses. For some reason we do not believe that simple line of thinking applies to government. It’s offensive to me that pundits and politicians often ask the American public to make sacrifices and to do with out so Government can maintain it’s bloated, oppressive and failed bureaucracies and programs. It’s high time someone asked the government to make sacrifices because after all, it supposedly works for us, we do not work for it.

Author: Rory B. Bellows

In recent days there has been a spate of articles from esteemed members of the Mainstream Media bemoaning the fact that John McCain has gone negative and is taking the “low road”.

The fact of the matter is McCain has always been a nasty campaigner, but it was ignored because his campaigns have always been against other Republicans. The nation was first introduced to Senator McCain in the 2000 campaign, and to the media he was their new crush because he did not campaign as much of a Republican. He espoused class warfare rhetoric in opposing Bush’s tax plan. His so-called campaign finance reform was a proposal to gut the first amendment, but the media loves do gooder plans where individual rights are sacrificed to whatever common good big government advocates so that was okay too. He railed against social conservatives and the media hates nothing more than people who go to church and vote Republican so that was a-ok.

In this primary campaign McCain shamelessly stated that people on Wall Street should go to jail over the sub prime lending crisis. The media cheered this because they despise corporations. Well, they only despise the corporations that do not sign their paychecks. McCain drank the global warming kool-aide and advocated a cap and trade proposal that is nothing short of socialism and will redistribute our jobs and wealth to other nations. Again, more big government, more media accolades.

Now that Senator McCain is in a campaign against a Democrat he no longer has George W. Bush or Mitt Romney to kick around anymore so he has set his sights on Barack Obama. The media will have none of this. Their complaint is not that McCain has gone negative; they gave full support to all of his other attacks, but that he has gone negative against a Democrat.