One of the most annoying things to be subjected to besides the inane dribbling and shameless plugging of books that have been recently launched... is the added humiliation by little snot-nosed, punk azzed phone jockeys parading as gatekeepers for Mr. Hewitt when he stumbles on to subject that lines him up in well deserved cross-hairs!  Like today for instance... I called, was very polite -- and stated my business and question, now I was driving. The girl [who was probably well meaning... but a bit over zealous] stated that she wasn't going to put the call through for some stupid reason i was never clear of.. because the rude little hussy hung up.  So I was not quick to wrath... and decided to call back because my sunroof was open as I was venting a very fine Punch Robusto, vacillating a moment at a rather long traffic light so it really wasn't a thing about road noise... as there really wasn't any.


So, I call back and try to understand her reason for cutting my call off...  That little so-and-so... hung up. So I never really got my question answered -- It wasn't a rude or agressive issue, so...  I never got to find out why Hugh Hewitt  nose is so ergonomically planted between the posterior crevices of both Giuliani and Romney camps, and why he blatantly ignores Duncan Hunter from his own backyard chasing middle-minded political neo-phytes, and clear thinking, yet nonethemore eloquent, posturing hacks. The race is way to early to be tried in the minds of would-be voters this soon... but you know, he is  Buckeye... nothing they do makes sense, right away.  don't these hosts realize that these pestilent phone locusts are ambassadors for their show... and in fact reflect the manner in which people view you, secondly... and more importantly. These people don't act from instructions on their own initiative. Having spent many years in the entertainment industry... I know this -- Interns are lucky to be sitting in their chairs. So... Hugh, you need to work on the etiquette of your phone hacks! You've lost me as a listener... I barely put you on as it is... I had to nix Prager for the same thing. Don't have a call in show if you are afraid of who or what may be said -- after all Mr. Ratings chaser.. .isn't that  the drama? ... and not what comes out of your mouth.



-That Darn Republican

As a young and energetic teen back in the suburban college town of Ann Arbor, MI. I was not of an age where I was willing to mentally entertain the full economic impact of the import assault on America by Japanese auto makers. Now that I am socially, economically and politically eyeswide... well, one cannot ignore certain factors that have come hoe to roost in our nations local economic picture. But, is it America's fault or is it the fault of American big business? The thought begs deeper consideration. How did it become the electorates responsibility to consider how competitive our companies are here within the pandemic explosion of this trans-global business throng we seem to be visiting? Isn't that what they are in business to compete with, not the government? Isn't that what the B-School graduate draft pick is supposed to weigh in on?  You know they're the big-brained, corporate Einsteins that are supposed to break new ground, not bring us down to it. We here have to lower our guard and allow other countries to bring their products to a truly free market, even though we don't get the same export equality; Japan particularly. However, that I suppose isn't the deepest issue to contend with. The deeper question is why is it public companies get to ruin our local economy because those highly evolved life forms tucked deep behind boardroom walls exert undue influence through the lobby process for legislation or tax dollars that allow for an open contravention of the basic sensibilities of free market economics to work for our economy without internal or external mitigation? This goes on regardless of what side of the political isle you are on.

I am a true free market capitalist, I believe in what I understand clearly to be the purpose of a free people, and a well educated population is somehow a  more entrepreneurial population. They take risks, and they are rewarded for taking that risj by a higher standard of living without an overdose of governmental meddling. They use their God given talents to bring them to bear on a waiting marketplace that can utilize any good product or service based on the strength therein of that product or service... we call that supply and demand.  We don't profess a free market of ideals or lucid machinations, though it clearly exists on the left, well [actually] our Colleges and Universities, which are as diverse as they perverse. But that is a whole other subject. Keeping on point here, that is never what it was designed to be... but it [supremely] was never designed to benefit the export market before the inherent benefit of the domestic populous as it undermines the sovereignty of the American free market exchange and as a CEO or Chairman of a mid-cap to rather large publicly held firm, one would presume their first duty is here... the land of the companies origin. Tt seems the trend to not be able to think for yourself and just go lean on a legislator to handle what they cannot do for themselves and shareholders [and that is] think and gain market share by earning it though novation and skill, instead of buying it at taxpayer expense though the continual and pervasive distraction of our legislators. 

What the latter produces is a culture of inbred corruption that sets precedents and each incoming generation that sees this in action exhibits a certain attitude that they actually have a right to expect the government to open access to tax dollars by distracting our legislators with an unneeded lobby diverting our tax dollars into unnecessary expenditures, or legalistic rigamorole. Both are unwanted byproducts of a greed oriented mentality in the corporate ranks of publicly owned companies. They are publican transportation vehicles for individual wealth accumilation, it's OPM at its worst. They didn't' found the company but they take investors money and [mostly] squander it producing mediocre returns and offering a cornucopia of excuses when the stock is down and the market has shrunk... and etc. etc. blah, blah and such and forth. That or keep sucking up smaller companies buying up competition [basically the oil in our free market machine] and we end up  stuck with stagnant giants like GM, Ford, AT&T [oops... Cingular again, then reemerged a more dominant AT&T, go figure?] and that just tops the list. There are are many, many more... which is even further disturbing.

When is a public company too large? I'd say when has it stopped being a fish in a pond? or a big fish in a big sea? Not even content to be a big fish in a small pond... they aspire to be whales in a bathtub. You can't see water.. or anything else surviving such catastrophic reality.  These CEO's don't own the company, they crawled up the corporate ladder just like everyone else. Who gave the company to them? Whose resources are they anyway? Where is the shareholder in this wayward game of "Your money = my retirement hedge fund"? or "the golden parachute to avariceville[subtitled: How I used your money to make me ultra rich... and you're still not". A notable epilogue to this depressing reality is it would seem to me that our middle class is too large to maintain any break up of such large companies that are so well entrenched in the American economic superstructure, one might add that it was so well choreographed it may seem conspiratorial, but alas.. the big do get bigger, granted I won't say it's not the case.

Our system was designed to generate entrepreneurial wealth... not a OPM paradise to and for lazy azz, cubbyhole politicians. We should be focused on generating greater volumes of individual wealth... true wealth -- a system that generates true wealth spurs generosity, not socialism. With a bloated middle-class, well -- here, let's put it this way... they human body and the body politic are not too much different. Fat guys can't run a forty yard dash in a reasonable time that would impress anyone. A nation with a bloated middle class cannot stand for long either. Only with strong shoulders and a trim midriff can an individual move quickly... the same with a wider gamut of truly wealthy citizens in th body politic can it stand and preserve its wealth generation dynamic for future generations... and be highly charitable at the same time.Such a system openly defies the rhetoric of socialism, makes a mockery of Marxism [to which I must admit it does that well all on its own] I know this goes against every Ayn Rand reading, coffeehouse philosophizing, social engineer out there... but the truth hurts don't it? Most outsourced labor is middle-class labor that could have provided an upwardly mobile class shifts for people illegally crossing our borders to get work... in other words ustilizine the one's who crapt through andhave been living here, a more pragmatic form of amnesty in English. Welfare ranks could get gutted for real jobs and those who are living at or below the poverty line can see themselves movign up. That is how our system is supposed to work. But to the contrary, we are sending those jobs away. But the architects of this corparate misapropriation of a sovereign American resource call it being thrifty and cutting costs. All that and it doesn't hide the reality that their markets are still shrinking anyhow because they're not entrepreneurial enough to know how to go get the money and end up resorting to the status quo boardroom xerox machine and copy everyone else's success and then turn out not being [truly] successful... after all , go figure? We call that market "trend".

It is a maddening blind lead the blind right of the cliff of reason over into broke middle class with no hope. With a burgeoning middle class with no growth potential and very needy... spells the inevitability of them voting DEMOCRAT to cure their social "ills" becomes an apparent coup ripped right out of the pages of the Vive' La Revolucion Edition of Burning Man Weekly! All because they don't' have a choice. When have American's never truly had a choice? You want to know why "conservative" legislators can't seem to win common sense straight forward socio-economic debates with their comrades in the nutter ranks over the same issue? It's because they are one of them. You either belong to one "collective" or the other, but you cannot look down the road and truly be visionary and think on behalf of the people what is going to preserve order, stability and a sense of our heritage for future generations. That is their first goal, not go get twisted up by the first lobbyist they find down on Gucci Row in DC!

With the stability of our free market being challenged by multinational interests begging for the same audience as domestic ones, that and our GDP is down [tethered to our dollar], our dollar is worth only what we claim it is. That ain't value.. that, well.. a branded "faith". If you want a faith based economy, just keep it the way it is and you'll prove the atheist righ in the end. With a 3.6 Trillion dollar budget annually our actual gold reserves are less than the .6 ahhh... I'd say we are ripe for a financial disaster that will destroy us all. Oops or make us a socialist nation faster in a pen stroke.  We are failing to pressure to our lawmakers enough to start doing what their actual job descriptions and oath dictate... Protecting us from enemies both foreign and domestic, and I see unchecked capitalism as the biggest threat, yes you heard a conservative say that unchecked capitalism is one of the biggest potholes in the road to America's recovery. We need to not let the left inflame us with disaffection because the own the media venues that control the MSM and have them tell us what they want instead of what is.  Or the dollar bill atheists on the right call the whole ball. It all starts with us, we need to start now. Our economic freedom is for us first -- the benefit is for us... first, the blessing is for us first... that or there won't be an us. There will be... the Collective States of America in Union with European Values, all that and believe it or not Europe is frantically conforming their business laws to reflect more of what it is we have here... how strange is that. Truth sometimes is stranger that fiction.

-That Darn Republican

 

Like the box of cereal you may have opened this morning from the last reluctant trek to the grocery store, upon examining the contents... you may noticed some "settling" having occured.   Thus is the current reality withint he camp of the Clintonista's, you know the one's those die-hard dyed-in-the-wool no-gooder's.  The one's who single handedly dug a new basement for how low the nutter crowd will go to make themselves look good -- or even worse someone they don't like [which easy enough,  is anyone but them... so you could be next?]. An ever widening rift is opening within the nutter ranks between which nut better represents their political granola bowl.  First shot across the bow was Hillary's comments on Obama's blackness as not being black enough, which in itself prpagates long understood realities in how deep liberal "compassions" lie until you become a problem for them... them you are, well... you get the picture.   In come's "Big Papa" Joe Biden's "discovery" option being played as if they didn't have enough on their plate, he resorted to the same ethnic "evaluation" as Clinton, and we havent' heard anythign form him since.  Then just his past weekend, in comes the spoiler -- in a way the role he was always destined to play... David Geffen.  Hillary got mad because Geffen took his money elsewhere when hubby Ole' Bill failed to parole a nutty Native American convict who killed two FBI officers back in 1977. Well two wrongs don't make thing right, or do they?  Inthe cae of Obama spoiling Hillary's money train, perhaps. Simply because Geffen not so casually missed the Hildabeast for President offering plate.  What makes this a laugh for all times is she had the unmitigated gall to ask Obama to give the money back? How arrogant and self possesed. That's right Hillary needs Barack to take the money back to Mr. Geffen so she gets the benefit.... that would be the elementary basics of it. This much is sure... the lights are growing dim on the Hildabeast for three reasons:

1.  America is not ready for a woman in the Oval Office, if and when the day ever comes... it won't be her.
2. Her husband's derilect behavior in the office defiled it... and the fact is still fresh in people memories.
3. A third intrinsic value more than a actual value...  A win by her would be entirely symbolistic but nothing would get done of any long standing value for America. She's be a walking filibuster waiting to happen.

As for Obama, what hurts him is his Muslim name, even though it is his father's name it may seem multicultralistic and all open-minded for a Senate run and stuff... but in the Whitehouse. Nope...  we are still at war, and would seen counter intuitive to our progress overseas to let this happen. Obama is a social liberal, darn near neo-socialist by all accounts, right up there with Senator Iron Drawz  form New York. He is just six and of half of the DNC dozen. Now, what is going on in the conservative side show? This is even funnier...  Mit Romney is the barometer for how comfortable American is with forgetting is Christian heritage. A win for Romney is a win for alternative anything.... he [actually] would be a far more devastating individual on other social fronts. Mormanism is a cult, and in that come their social sensitivities -- which may aid and abet liberalism in strange bit definative ways.  As for Rudiani... he spells conservative with a D.  He is what I would term social liberal, and a fiscal liberal with a big fat R on your chest, it must stand for Rudy, because it sure as heck doesn't stand for Republican.  You cannot be:

• Soft on homosexuality and be conservative.
• Soft on pork... true, I cannot say there aren't pigs on the right who aren't just as bad.
• Confused on immigration
• A spend--holic

This just isn't going to to do... for the conservative movement in America, they already see he really just a post 9/11 flash in the pan.  He is nothing more than a career political opportunist.. and this is a great opportunity. He has never held a job outside of politics... now he has a "consulting" firm obsconding dollars form other politcal arenas.  Nah.. I'll pass... howver, the nutters like him. Because they have been trying to craft a third American political voice... the limp wristed, morally arrested intelligentsia of the center.  They are the fair weather conservatives... then minute the heat of the reality the there are invariably consequences for all types of actions.. good and bad. They get all flipity-flopity... the far left can use them.. niether can the right... I guess the water has to be just right for the baby bears of the poltical arena to come out and play... If Jesus can't use anyone middle-minded... meaning, if your yes cannot be yes, and your no be no. Render unto Ceasar that to which is his... and God that which is His, without wayfaring. Why should we settle for it? We can clearly see what not taking a firm stand for clearly socially destructive behavior is netting us... why would we settle for less. It is the liberal idiots that think their constituents are so stupid the created [no joke] the red state blue state nonsense we get into now.  Sam Brownback is a bid dissapointment of some legislative issues of late. Though his is a Christian, and I have no right to question his faith, that doesn't erase the his actions... and it can call his loyalties into play better than words I can muster.  I thought he was pretty rock steady but I dont' have to worrk about that... he doesn't have a chance anyway. 


John Mc Cain, to the left is the spoiler, the quentessintial Ross Perot of the conservative party.  He has been the fly in the ointment of many common sense conservative positions on the Hill.  He is the only pundit [conservative] that regularly appears on liberal talk shows... go figure?  You can't get Hillary on a show unless you sign to make her look good no matter what happens before she walks on, or at least that if there are questions asked, they are one's she can answer... she will never walk into an unscripted venue... how dull. Where is her Joie D' Vivre? However, none of this doen't mean Mc Cain still won't end up getting the nomination...  Now enter a Congressman from the 52nd District of Califonia. Mr. Duncan Hunter a conservative voice appears as a chot from the dark into the national Presidential area, and seems a darkhorse hopeful for Americans looking for true conservative leadership in their Presidential hopefuls may have this in some large degree in Congressman Hunter, I cannot for the life of me get used to President Mc Cain... you drop the Mc, and you'e got what he really is.  It would seem after a South Carolina Straw Poll that even on the eastern seaboard what Hunter stands for is driving a wedge between in the hopes of the backroom boys in the conservative ranks.  We dont' need any more smoke filled backroom antics... we want a strong, morally clear constitutionally correct man in the Whitehouse.  It will be interesting to see if Hunter obscures Romney, and Giuliani, I thing he has the moxey to do it. If you need PR man let me know... lol!


-That Darn Republican

 

 


Yes... it has been in the making for some time... Centerswitch was founded on Modblog.com which had a most unfortunate demise... it was in my opinion bit bit more even-slated playing field for non journalists who wished to enter the world of blogging on an even slate. But my kindred bretheren here on Townhall, are ok with me... We have made the trek from socially center/right to full blown right. The philosophy was based on there not quite being a moral dimmer switch between left and right, we have a two-party syste, for the same reason. They fact that we even discuss things from the center is a tactic from the left... things still are based on what we actually do, not kinda consider. You are either on or off, right or wrong... good or evil, there is no moral dimmer switch.  So I officially transfer the flag to Conserv-A -Rant... nutters beware! because I'll always be That Darn Republican.





-That Darn Republican

Nothing in recent history has touched off more spirited debate than the position of the Ten Commandments as the moral barometer our laws were created to reflect and the liberal angst in not having them or any Christian symbology in public display period. Mike Medved had posted a blog several days ago on this very same topic. His Blog touched of a firestorm of commentary [ mine included ] from the complete spectrum politically. From liberal sycophants to conservative neophytes, and just about everything in between, everyone chimed in with chat. Besides the typically deep, brooding , counter-intuitive intelligentsia and their rhetoric we hear [also] from many female bloggers that had some pretty interesting defenses for keeping the 10 Commandments up, and then they usual for having them down.  One blogger cited an interesting straight forward revelation into the left's aversion to absolutes. I thought is was pretty interesting. Then you had others who simply were vying for some multicultural acceptance of their religion from the State point of view, and I cited that was simply nonsense for our nation to acknowledge religions that were not cited as the cornerstone of its inception. But alas, that wa snot enough for some... the appearance of the 10 Commandments is much simpler than, God is a logical God... and hasn't done anything that dosen't make sense yet. Listed above are the 10 Commandments, translated in simpler English for you rebel cats out there formal English abstentia. The 10 Commandments as a public affirmation of cultural and spiritual heritage presents  no problem to any sector of our society with the ominous exception of the the deluxe reprobate mind which somehow feel entitled to a stay of execution on the moral ajudication of our legal statutes.  They are deceived if they thing the moral majority will risk this nations future stability for a alternative sexual wanderlust.


All they are worried about is the rule of moral authority. Clear governance through moral absolutes.  Public conviction and judgement of their sexual behavior as something less than socially acceptable. Remember, the word judgement is not the condemnation, they use the word PC to incite the rhetoric of tolerance, but the word means to weigh or to consider... and this what people do every day. Weigh or consider they value of their groceries, they car they are about to buy... the man or woman they are about to marry. They employee they are about to hire, judgement is a part of everyday life. The moral ajudication of common sense judgement keeps us healthy, safe and pro-active. They left violently want no ne proactive against their social conditioning and engineering that would clearly pit a citizen to choose wrong over right, evil over good, why... because the left wants to have fun. To them the Constitution guarantees their "happiness" and happiness to a liberal is the environment to have fun all the time. Fun and happiness are too very different paradigms. One is wholly dependant on nothing interrupting the or convicting the sensibilities or sensual environment of the individual engaged in the elect debauchery of the moment, because it lets the air out of their little party balloons... as opposed to one which clearly realizes fun is a component, not the reality.  Barbecues are fun... but can we have a barbecue all day every day? No, clearly not... But liberal can, we call it the bonfire of the vanities [yes, I've read the book and saw the movie.. the movie sucked], from Burning Man to Fire One Up... the nutter crowd has to be angry... that is why they choose to invade our schools, attacking children when they are at their most socially vulnerable.
 

Confusing them with choices as "liberties" when in reality they a) don't' even have diploma's yet b) can't even legally sign a contract, yet we allow their senses to be bombarded by issues of clear distraction. If they are for adults... they are certain for children.  We put up with this... the signals are clear what these nutters are not about, we are slowly waking to fight these social insurgents [proper use of the word] who are openly defiant, have no real answers for truth, clarity and social adhesion, just lies and revolution. Anger... they will say anything, do just about anything... lie right in your face [because remember they are moral relativists... things are true when they need them to be] just to walk down the street carousing sexually with a minor, or same sex minor... remember NAMBLA, sick as they are. hey want no outside reminders of anything that reminds the public of good basic morally correct behavior. They means their behavior has to go back in the closet, and they they feel uncomfortable about their deviance,and may have to tuck it somewhere... somewhere it should have never been, like in a school, where math scores are hitting new lows, but sexually deviant, alternative options hare being offered to America's inheritance in staggering new high's... NO! enough of this BS, they want this change all in their lifetime. I really  wish theis was my opinion, but the revelation is glaring... they want to leave this life knowing the F'd America up... permanently.  I am here to tell you, not on my watch... not on my life.



-That Darn Republican