Calling All Black Republicans

In the immortal words of Ice Cube "Here's what they think about you"

Shorter Byron York, "If only there weren't any black people in America..."

Definitely check out the comments section where we have such gems as this

Uncle Joe's Patriotic Taxpayer

Apr 29, 2009

The majority of blacks pay no income tax. Why wouldn't they favor Obama's tax and spend policies? For them it is only spending.

Stay classy GOP.

Conservative Vs Wingnut: The PWNING

I have been hearing a lot lately about the difference between a true conservative and a neocon (aka wingnut). From my understanding basically they both vote Republican but the former has actual princples while the later is more of a cheerleader in all situations. Well evidently the "real" conservatives have just about had enough of the neocons and its about to be all out war. Paul Mulshine, one or the "real" conservatives", evidently has no time for posers like Glenn Reynolds.

The more I look at what passes punditry on the Internet, the more I realize that a great number of the self-appointed pundits are mere parasites. Their relationship to real journalists is that of a tick to a dog.

The fattest, most engorged tick of them all is Glenn Reynolds, the self-proclaimed "Instapundit."

As the name implies, Reynolds endorses the theory that in the era of the Internet anyone can provide political commentary instantly, i.e. without benefit of reflection, experience or knowledge.

OUCH. But wait it gets better!

The other day Reynolds had a post in which he blasted media outlets for cutting back coverage of the Iraq War. I first learned of it on Instaputz, a site devoted to documenting the idiocies of Instapundit.

Here's what Reynolds wrote in its entirety: "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: TV News Winds Down Operations on Iraq War. Hey, they got Obama elected. Why stick around and maybe report stuff that doesn't fit the narrative?"

The pose Reynolds adopts is that of the conservative commentator taking shots at the liberal media. Unfortunately, he's not a conservative. He has not the slightest idea of how we conservatives view the Iraq War. And we view it as a misguided exercise in liberal do-gooder, internationalism.

Body blow, body blow but wait here comes the haymaker...

But that's not what really ticks me off about this particular parasite. Reynolds has made a career of criticizing real journalists who risk their lives reporting from the Mideast. And he has also made a career of arguing that amateurs like himself can perform the job of journalists.

To which I say: Get off your fat ass, Glenn, and go cover the war. If you think you can make a better war correspondent than, say, Tom Ricks of the Washington Post, well just hop on a plane and prove it.

Man and here I thought liberals and progressives were the masters of flame wars. Now Glenn Reynolds is truly an asshole and the Instaputz site does a great job of documenting some of the more wingnutty statements of his but it just has so much more effect when you know he is getting PWNED by someone he would normally call a comrade. I can only hope that Reynolds responds so that we can keep this flame war going indefinitely.

More Cow Bell From The GOP

Everyone meet prospective Republican Presidential candidate for 2012 Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina and newly elected head of the Republican Governors Association. Many in the Republican party are excited at the thought that Sandford might run for President some time in the near future because of his conservative governing style. You see as I have said before, the Republicans don't think conservatism was the problem in the last two election cycles. In their minds it was actually the LACK of "real" conservatism that doomed them. So lets take a look at some of the fruits of Sandford's conservative labors.

From the New York Times:

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Just hours before the unemployment benefits fund was to run out in South Carolina, the state with the nation’s third-highest jobless rate, Gov. Mark Sanford relented Wednesday and agreed to apply for a $146 million federal loan to shore it up, after weeks of refusing to do so.

The governor’s position had drawn rebukes even from fellow Republicans in the Legislature, one of whom denounced Mr. Sanford as “heartless,” and from newspaper editorial pages. On Wednesday, The State, the daily newspaper here in Columbia, accused the governor of playing “chicken with the lives of the 77,000” who are unemployed in South Carolina.

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The back-and-forth dueling between the conservative governor and the unemployment agency has gone on for weeks, and its executive director, Roosevelt T. Halley, warned that he would have to stop issuing benefit checks to the jobless beginning Jan. 1 if Mr. Sanford did not back down and ask the federal government for the loan.

“It’s absolutely unheard of, it’s insane, for a governor of any state not to request those funds,” State Senator Hugh K. Leatherman, a Republican who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said last week. “I can’t believe anybody would be this heartless, and create such a heartless act on these people.”

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Mr. Sanford, a wealthy real estate investor, is often mentioned as a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2012, in part because he is seen as an exemplary adherent of the party’s low-government, antispending philosophy. He recently wrote an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal saying he was opposed to a “bailout” for states.

His stand on unemployment benefits was consistent with his contentious six-year tenure as governor and his philosophy, which is described as “basically libertarian” by William V. Moore, a political scientist at the College of Charleston. He has continuously sparred with members of his own party in the Legislature over spending, limiting his record of accomplishment.

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Mr. Sanford once carried two piglets onto the floor of the House chamber to symbolize his opposition to what he considered wasteful spending. One of the piglets promptly defecated; lawmakers were not amused. Indeed, though Republicans dominate both chambers, they have overriden hundreds of his vetoes on spending over the years, including, in one recent session, money to expand children’s health insurance, indigent defense, and to provide cost-of-living adjustments for retired state employees.

After one special session last year, the legislators overrode 228 out of 243 of the governor’s vetoes, restoring money Mr. Sanford had rejected for H.I.V. prevention and health programs, and for state parks and beach reconstruction.

Notice that the although Republicans in his own state can't stand the guy and presumably they would know what kind of leader he would make, the National Republican Party folk think he is golden. That he gets his vetoes overridden on the regular and the fact that his state is in dire economic straits means nothing to these people. "But he is a Conservative damn it" I would imagine is their retort.

Try to think about something really really hard for a moment, have you seen ANY Republican in recent years that you would describe as a "thinker"? I mean a smart person who still takes the time to think through there actions without always falling back on party orthodoxy?

Me either.

But I salute the Republicans for maniacally sticking to their ideals, may they comfort them the many nights they spend out in the abyss.