MORT’s Meanderings

Hello, Tea Party:

It has been my observation that very few of the folks I’ve met ‘On the Corner’ with the Ft. Lauderdale TeaParty or at other gatherings of TeaParty folks, are political junkies.

For the most part, they are just plain patriotic American citizens who began to feel uneasy with the policies and direction of Obama & Co. and finally arrived at a point when they realized that our beloved nation and the traditional freedoms we’ve enjoyed since the founding of this country, were being stolen from us. Stolen by our very own elected administration and by our Government, at all levels. These citizens became ‘itchy’, looked around and found that they were not itching alone. They discovered their closest Tea Party group, became active – and began to open their eyes and ears to some of the painful facts of political life. They came alive; they became involved.

Fast forward to the 2010 election and the stunning achievement of Conservatism taking
over the U.S. House of Representatives and replacing some Democrats with of all things - Republicans. We were all flushed with this signal victory over one half the Legislative Branch. Score a big one for the Tea Party. And so many folks, having sent their candidate to Wash, DC, curtailed their activism or slowed their involvement. They sat back to await their victory to bear fruit.

Fast forward again, to the results of several controversial bills voted-on in the House by recently-elected ‘Tea Party’ freshmen. Supporters began to question the votes cast by ‘our’ Reps in Congress. Their votes differed from the gut feelings and unyielding positions of many of the Tea Partiers who voted them into office. Some expressed dismay and wondered aloud, “What the hell is going on, here?”

What was and is going on here, is that the Tea Party freshman are feeling the pressure from the ‘old boy network’ and the boiling cauldron that is, Washington politics. While it is perfectly true that we have every right to expect that each and every one of them will locate his or her backbone and core principles - and act accordingly, it up to each and every one of us as their constituents, to demonstrate to them our faith and support. It is up to us to back them up and to contact them directly to let them know in clear, concise, straight-forward language without rancor, that we are seriously interested in what they are doing. It is called, ‘interaction’. We have that obligation as voting citizens.

We are not privy to all the information they receive, either public or classified. We are not always aware of the pressures they are confronted with on a daily basis. We have no clue as to what other influences might be pressing them. They need to know that we are right behind them. Still, the same Team that voting them into office to represent us. We cannot expect them to perform with honor as our representatives, unless we stay in close touch with them and keep them aware of how we are feeling about the issues they are dealing with. And, we must let them know clearly, what we expect of them. We might not always see them vote as we would like but, there can be no space between we who elected them and those whom we’ve sent to Washington. We owe them that. We owe that to our nation. We owe that to ourselves.

So, I say to my Tea Party brothers and sisters: Stay involved. Stay with our Tea Party ‘freshmen’ and do what it takes to make those men and women, our Tea Party ‘sophomores’.

Steady. Steady.

Conservative Commentary by MORT KUFF © 2012

Grabbing Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

In an election for Republicans that should be a no-brainer, here we have a situation that fellow Republicans are trying to self-immolate by fighting amongst themselves.

In our quest for anointing a “pure” Conservative as our candidate, we have embarked on a campaign of self-destruction. President Obama, with his pitiful record of failure and poor choices, is licking his chops as the Republican candidates trash each other. The election in November should be a shoo-in for a Republican candidate. But, is it now?

All the Republican candidates, with maybe the exception of Ron Paul, would be better than what we have in the White House now. With Obama's massive campaign war chest, you can bet that his smear machine will be geared to trash whoever ends up as the nominee. Obama cannot use his record of “successes” during his first term, so he will have to use the “politics of personal destruction” as his modus operandi.

So who is most prone to be most hurt by these expected attacks? It would seem to be Newt Gingrich as he's had many more years of being in elected office and has many more votes to be vetted by the Democrats in a negative light. This will be an “anal exam” like no other. The biggest problem with Newt Gingrich is that other than his stellar debate performances and his political knowledge, he does not have the personal charm or lack of “personal baggage” that Mitt Romney seems to have in order to attract the Independents who generally decide elections. Could Gingrich motivate the conservative Democrats (referred to as Reagan Democrats) or will he be viewed negatively by voters who do not have a party affiliation or party loyalty? Nobody knows for sure, but all we can do is imagine what the Democrats will focus on in the general election.

There is no question that Newt Gingrich has hit a responsive chord in the Republican electorate and it has propelled him to the top or near the top. Once that “brashness” toward the media (which is well deserved) wears off, will Newt be able to fend off the quirks of his personality and his political missteps from his past? In other words, is he the most electable candidate we can put up?

In our opinion, either Gingrich, Romney, and Santorum are better for our country than what we have now disgracing our country, but the candidate we feel less likely to be demonized by the Obama smear machine and therefore be more electable, is Mitt Romney, therefore we urge you to support Romney for the Republican nomination as the one most likely to beat Obama in November.

If that will not be the case, we will support either Gingrich or Santorum, with gusto, as the better alternative to Obama. We cannot afford 4 more years of the Obama Marxist/Socialist policies.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann

Who Are the New Scapegoats?

For the Nazi's, the scapegoats were the Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and priests. For the liberals it is the Tea Party - white, straight, working class men and women who proclaim they are “taxed enough already”.

The vile, untruthful adjectives used to denigrate the Tea Party sympathizers include the following - fascists, racists, gun-toting, red-neck, homophobes etc. all without merit or cognitive evidence to support those slurs. It seems the liberals are so frustrated by the fact that the Tea Party people were so successful in the 2010 elections, that they must now be brought down, come hell or high water. The truth has nothing to do with it - it has everything to do with the Democrats trying to regain power in both the executive and legislative branches of government. The “end does justify the means” is their modus operandi.

In order to try to combat the excitement that the Tea Party brought to the political process, the far-left liberals, which include most unions and radical political groups (ex: Communist Party U.S.A., Democratic Socialists of America, S.E.I.U., and ACORN (which has changed its name), organized a counter to the Tea Party called, “Occupy Wall Street”. All the negative descriptions that were attached to the Tea Party by the liberals, could've and should've been attached to the “occupy” protesters, but the media never equated the excesses of decorum and civil disruption to them as they did, falsely, to the Tea Party. The double-standard used by the media was quite obvious.

The leaders of the Democrat Party, President Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi etc., all heaped glowing praise for the rag-tag, Marxist/Socialist group of “Occupy” protesters, but ignored the violence, the anti-Semitism, the anti-American rhetoric and destructive actions that permeated most all the “Occupy” protests across the country.

The Tea Party and its adherents were chosen by the liberal left (and the Obama political machine) as scapegoats because they represented a threat to the chance of the Democrats holding on to the White House and the Senate come this November.

The Democrats cannot run on the “accomplishments” of the Obama presidency, so they must divert attention away from the obvious (Obama's failures), and concentrate on destroying, personally, the Tea Party and the Republican nominee. This is right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook as he wrote in his book, “Rules for Radicals” back in the 1970's.

Make no mistake, this presidential election will be the “dirtiest” in modern history. With the enormous amount of campaign funds available to the Democrats, they will use a great portion of those funds in the “politics of personal destruction”, by putting up “straw men” and scapegoats to try to confuse and distract us from the real issues facing all of us, and that is a stagnant economy and the complicity of Obama in it.

Turn around is fair play, so I would hope that the Republicans will turn the tables on the loony liberals and make them the scapegoats for what is happening to our once great country.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann

MORT’s Meanderings

Commander-in-Chief Obama: Too busy; no time

At his recent retirement ceremony, four-star General David Petraeus, wearing ten rows
of ribbons that attest to his long and distinguished Army career in the service of the United States, couldn’t help but notice that neither the President and Commander-in-Chief or the Secretary of Defense were in attendance.

Now, would someone please tell me precisely what in the Hell Barack Hussein Obama
and Leon Panetta were doing at that time, that was so important to the state of the
nation that they couldn’t find the time to attend this signal event in the life of arguably the most accomplished, most revered U. S. Military leader since World War II?

Say what you will about President Obama, for all his inexperience in every aspect of the Presidency, the man knows how to hurl an insult. He is a classic narcissist who exists only to garner attention to himself; he is stunningly incapable of recognizing any event or any one who might be deserving of a moment in the spotlight. And in the case of General Patraeus, who pulled Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire in the Middle East, not once but, twice - - this snub is doubly insulting. Obama is a devout coward and his anti-military bias is nothing less than a deep-seated hatred for all branches of our armed forces - hardly a positive trait for someone who holds the title and power of, ‘President and Commander-in-Chief ’.

This example of the callous disregard for our military exemplifies the unconscionable
ignorance and arrogance of Obama and his like-minded enablers when it comes to our
national security. Is any further proof needed of the corrosive ideology of this man and his traitorous followers who despise our traditional American way of life?

Sadly, the greatest threat to our Constitution and to the freedoms we’ve known
since the Founding Fathers conceived this unique form of government, is the current
occupant of the Oval Office in the White House - in the Nation’s Capital.

We’ll have one, and only one chance to correct this blasphemy. It is the November
2012 Presidential election. My fellow Americans: Let’s not blow it.

Conservative Commentary by MORT KUFF © 2012

Why Some Animals Eat their Young!

We know, in the animal kingdom, that some animals do eat their young, but in politics, especially among politicians from the same party, it is self-defeating as it could tend to help the opposition in the upcoming campaign.

The situation that is occurring in the Republican primaries presently, is an exercise in self-flagellation whereby some candidates, because of pique and supposed anger at their opponent, use inflammatory language which could be used as fodder by the other political party (the Democrats) in the general election.

Politics has been defined as a “full contact sport” and participants should realize that things will be said and done that will not be flattering to a candidate. “Negative ads” are used by all candidates, when one candidate tries to put his opponent in an unfavorable light in order to create doubt in the mind of a potential voter so that the voter would think twice about voting for that opposition candidate. These ads tend to work very well.

The Republican Party infighting, as the nominating primaries have begun, is getting out of hand. Newt Gingrich was riding a tide of favorable poll numbers in Iowa when unflattering ads by Mitt Romney and Ron Paul appeared showing past positions that Gingrich took on certain issues, these ads caused a deflating of those poll numbers and the loss of eventual support for his candidacy. He has since become livid and extremely angry at the outcome and has lashed out angrily at the front runner, Mitt Romney. It seems that revenge is the motivation behind the scathing ads (by a group supporting his candidacy) that he's running against Romney, questioning his tenure at Bain Capital.

These ads by Gingrich are not comparison ads whereby one candidate compares his record on issues against the other candidate, but an indictment of Romney's business ethics and personal character in the running of his venture capital company. The rhetoric being used by this Gingrich PAC is rhetoric that would normally be used by Democrats in accusing Republicans of taking advantage of the average worker by laying them off while reaping big cash rewards or benefits. It is a blatant attack on capitalism, pure and simple, and in my estimation, is unfair to candidate Romney.

A venture capital firm is a company that invests in new start-up companies, companies needing an infusion of capital to expand its business, and companies headed for bankruptcy that needs some expertise and cash to turn it around. As with any business, there are successes and some failures. But, in the case of Bain Capital, the successes far outweighed the failures and to just magnify the failures is to do a disservice to the truth. On balance, the number of jobs created by Romney and Bain Capital far out weigh the job losses, because some company failed or went out of business.

The scorched earth policy, as being used by both Gingrich and Perry, is just what the Democrats wanted. An intramural fight between Republicans as they trash each other, is a gift the Democrats hope keeps up until November.

So Republicans, “don't eat your young”, agree to disagree without being disagreeable and let's keep our eye on the primary goal of making Obama a one-term president.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann