"But just as importantly, what Americans need now is leadership to get moving again -- rather than more platitudes about hope, squabbling about race and gender, and endless rhetoric about who is really a maverick or a true conservative or the most liberal. What we need to know from our two presidential candidates are specifics about how to jumpstart America." -- Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
McCain Hammers on Republicans, Throws Gramm Under the Bus
There shouldn't be any further question that there still and again two democrats on the campaign trail. John McCain is finding new things every day to hammer fellow republicans over. He has consistently voiced his disapproval of current administration policies.
I'm as anti-Bush as anybody this side of the Daily Kos, but fortunately for us, Bush is different from McCain when it comes to Campaign Finance, Immigration, and pesky matters like Stem Cells. McCain is closer to Obama on most of the issues that really count.
The latest Republican to be cut off at the knees is Phil Gramm.
Phil Gramm is one of the best economic thinkers of our time. And McCain has publicly admitted he doesn't understand the economy. So, McCain needs guys like Gramm. and needs them desperately and thoroughly. Still, he tosses the good ones aside. Phil Gramm is as republican as they come, and McCain (maverick that he is) can't wait to attack republicans, especially those that are on the correct side of any issue.
I voted for Phil Gramm (even though he's a republican, and even though votes don't count much in a May primary). I still think he would make a great president. I'd vote for him today over anybody else out there running.
So, I think it is a disservice to all of us that McCain pushes away yet another person who would have saved his candidacy. Instead of Bush III (which would be about the best we could expect this time around) , we are going to get Carter II, and we'll all be glad when that's over.
Maybe Phil Gramm could be elected president of Belarus, and show us how an economy is supposed to work.
I'm as anti-Bush as anybody this side of the Daily Kos, but fortunately for us, Bush is different from McCain when it comes to Campaign Finance, Immigration, and pesky matters like Stem Cells. McCain is closer to Obama on most of the issues that really count.
The latest Republican to be cut off at the knees is Phil Gramm.
Phil Gramm is one of the best economic thinkers of our time. And McCain has publicly admitted he doesn't understand the economy. So, McCain needs guys like Gramm. and needs them desperately and thoroughly. Still, he tosses the good ones aside. Phil Gramm is as republican as they come, and McCain (maverick that he is) can't wait to attack republicans, especially those that are on the correct side of any issue.
I voted for Phil Gramm (even though he's a republican, and even though votes don't count much in a May primary). I still think he would make a great president. I'd vote for him today over anybody else out there running.
So, I think it is a disservice to all of us that McCain pushes away yet another person who would have saved his candidacy. Instead of Bush III (which would be about the best we could expect this time around) , we are going to get Carter II, and we'll all be glad when that's over.
Maybe Phil Gramm could be elected president of Belarus, and show us how an economy is supposed to work.
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Economy Stupid
We still have nightmares about 2000 and what happened in that election — it was wrong. Many of us believe that the candidate who got fewer votes was inaugurated president. -- Hillary Clinton, Florida, May 22, 2008
So I want to say to my supporters, when you hear people saying – or think to yourself – “if only” or “what if,” I say, “please don’t go there.” Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward. Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. -- Hillary Clinton, June 7, 2008
What a difference two weeks makes, huh? Let's hope it is Hillary's last hypocrisy for a while.
So we are down to McCain and Obama. One is a Democrat, always thumbing his nose at our traditions and what we hold as important. Wishing to out-do Bush in the compassionate part without being conservative. And the other guy is Obama. The worst voting record in each of his three years in the Senate.
I'm thinking that it won't take much of a third party effort to disrupt and impact this election. Consider that Ross Perot was chosen by over 19% of the electorate, running solely on economic issues.
Even though Bill was the lucky recipient of the welfare vote, he realized that ending welfare (as we know it) was necessary, because, after all, it was "the economy stupid". The best way to improve the economy was to get more productivity out of the people. Putting them to work did that.
George, on the other hand is putting a lot more people to work, but unfortunately he is doing it on foreign soil, to the benefit of someone else's country. It's not hard to see why the dollar continues to tumble. We're throwing dollars around in Iraq, instead of in ANWR, where they are really needed.
So, George doesn't understand all this. He grew government and shrank the economy. McCain by his own admission doesn't get it. Obama? I doubt it, because he voted for every liberal hobby horse trotted out in front of the senate. Unless he will all of a sudden be his own man, instead of being a Harry Reid puppet; chances are he will only make things worse.
So, the situation is very ripe for someone to come along and mount a reasonable third party campaign. It will fall short, of course, but we might, in the process, accidentally elect someone who learns the lesson like Bill did.
Managing our resources does not mean retiring our military, which was the other part of Clinton's legacy. Our enemies would love us to take our eye off the ball the same way Clinton did. Certainly if we train effective fighting units, we ought to preserve their use for fighting. The rest of us should be doing things that benefit us and our own economy, and not that of a country we are trying to prop up.
So I want to say to my supporters, when you hear people saying – or think to yourself – “if only” or “what if,” I say, “please don’t go there.” Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward. Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. -- Hillary Clinton, June 7, 2008
What a difference two weeks makes, huh? Let's hope it is Hillary's last hypocrisy for a while.
So we are down to McCain and Obama. One is a Democrat, always thumbing his nose at our traditions and what we hold as important. Wishing to out-do Bush in the compassionate part without being conservative. And the other guy is Obama. The worst voting record in each of his three years in the Senate.
I'm thinking that it won't take much of a third party effort to disrupt and impact this election. Consider that Ross Perot was chosen by over 19% of the electorate, running solely on economic issues.
Even though Bill was the lucky recipient of the welfare vote, he realized that ending welfare (as we know it) was necessary, because, after all, it was "the economy stupid". The best way to improve the economy was to get more productivity out of the people. Putting them to work did that.
George, on the other hand is putting a lot more people to work, but unfortunately he is doing it on foreign soil, to the benefit of someone else's country. It's not hard to see why the dollar continues to tumble. We're throwing dollars around in Iraq, instead of in ANWR, where they are really needed.
So, George doesn't understand all this. He grew government and shrank the economy. McCain by his own admission doesn't get it. Obama? I doubt it, because he voted for every liberal hobby horse trotted out in front of the senate. Unless he will all of a sudden be his own man, instead of being a Harry Reid puppet; chances are he will only make things worse.
So, the situation is very ripe for someone to come along and mount a reasonable third party campaign. It will fall short, of course, but we might, in the process, accidentally elect someone who learns the lesson like Bill did.
Managing our resources does not mean retiring our military, which was the other part of Clinton's legacy. Our enemies would love us to take our eye off the ball the same way Clinton did. Certainly if we train effective fighting units, we ought to preserve their use for fighting. The rest of us should be doing things that benefit us and our own economy, and not that of a country we are trying to prop up.
Wizer One-Liner #19
As if taking pot-shots at GWB was even necessary, let alone sporting; we have to hear it from a press secretary bad enough to be fired by Bush.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Monday, May 05, 2008
An Unexpected Choice to Make
Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had capitalism. A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. It’s not capitalism when the system is plagued with incomprehensible rules regarding mergers, acquisitions, and stock sales, along with wage controls, price controls, protectionism, corporate subsidies, international management of trade, complex and punishing corporate taxes, privileged government contracts to the military-industrial complex, and a foreign policy controlled by corporate interests and overseas investments. Add to this centralized federal mismanagement of farming, education, medicine, insurance, banking and welfare. This is not capitalism!
-- Ron Paul, "Has Capitalism Failed?", July 9, 2002
John McCain demonizes Big Pharma — i.e., the private pharmaceutical companies that create, develop and manufacture the drugs that all these socialized health care systems in every corner of the planet are utterly dependent on. He voted for Sarbanes-Oxley, a quintessential Congressional overreaction (to Enron) that buries American companies in wasteful paperwork and hands huge advantages to stock exchanges in London, Hong Kong and elsewhere. But why stop there? McCain is also gung ho for all the most economically disruptive Big Government solutions to "climate change." Apparently, that's the only change these candidates aren't in favor of. When it comes to the climate, McCain and Hillary are agents of non-change. John McCain has an almost Edwardsian contempt for capitalism, for the people whose wit and innovation generate the revenues that pay for your average small-state Senator's Gulf Emir-sized retinue of staffers. -- Mark Steyn
The Wizer was planning on sitting this one out. By reading the newspapers here in Indiana and watching the news, you would think that an important decision was about to be made, and that it involved one of only two candidates. Yet, the simple truth is there's no practical difference between the two that they are talking about. Yet Hoosiers (at least, Hoosier media) seem enthralled with the fact that we are cause célèbre this week.
In fact, there is a more important race, and one which the choices are far more meaningful and dramatic. The media has not mentioned this one (I found out myself by perusing the ballot sample), but hey, Ron Paul is on the Indiana ballot!
I guess there is a choice after all, if only a symbolic one, but at least it means my vote won't be wasted. And yes, you can call this a wizersblog endorsement of Congressman Paul in this election. Can't wait to see how the media will report on the election results of the Republican primary in Indiana.
-- Ron Paul, "Has Capitalism Failed?", July 9, 2002
John McCain demonizes Big Pharma — i.e., the private pharmaceutical companies that create, develop and manufacture the drugs that all these socialized health care systems in every corner of the planet are utterly dependent on. He voted for Sarbanes-Oxley, a quintessential Congressional overreaction (to Enron) that buries American companies in wasteful paperwork and hands huge advantages to stock exchanges in London, Hong Kong and elsewhere. But why stop there? McCain is also gung ho for all the most economically disruptive Big Government solutions to "climate change." Apparently, that's the only change these candidates aren't in favor of. When it comes to the climate, McCain and Hillary are agents of non-change. John McCain has an almost Edwardsian contempt for capitalism, for the people whose wit and innovation generate the revenues that pay for your average small-state Senator's Gulf Emir-sized retinue of staffers. -- Mark Steyn
The Wizer was planning on sitting this one out. By reading the newspapers here in Indiana and watching the news, you would think that an important decision was about to be made, and that it involved one of only two candidates. Yet, the simple truth is there's no practical difference between the two that they are talking about. Yet Hoosiers (at least, Hoosier media) seem enthralled with the fact that we are cause célèbre this week.
In fact, there is a more important race, and one which the choices are far more meaningful and dramatic. The media has not mentioned this one (I found out myself by perusing the ballot sample), but hey, Ron Paul is on the Indiana ballot!
I guess there is a choice after all, if only a symbolic one, but at least it means my vote won't be wasted. And yes, you can call this a wizersblog endorsement of Congressman Paul in this election. Can't wait to see how the media will report on the election results of the Republican primary in Indiana.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Charlton Heston, RIP
Political correctness is simply tyranny with manners. -- Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston was always known to me as one of the good guys. So I was taken aback when the news media (and I heard it at least three times) recounted his days as a civil rights messenger. And then they all said something very curious. They said Heston had turned conservative as he got older. I darn near dropped my rifle cleaning kit when I heard that.
You see, civil rights is nothing if not a conservative issue. Conservatives have been trying since day one to preserve a land where all men are created equal.
Like Reagan, Heston knew he would be unpopular with a lot of folks, but conservatives as a whole are a very principled group, and when they say that people ought to have equal rights, they mean it. And so it is with Heston. He continued as a principled conservative, and won the admiration of many because of it.
Meanwhile, the media just doesn't get it. They try to paint conservatives as racists, when it is those of the liberal bent that show their racist stripes. People like Jeremiah Wright; Geraldine Ferraro; Al Sharpton. People who think that religion causes people to live in small towns, and cling to guns.
If I wasn't an anarcho-libertarian, I would want to be a steady conservative in the mold of Charlton Heston. At least I could sleep at night.
Charlton Heston was always known to me as one of the good guys. So I was taken aback when the news media (and I heard it at least three times) recounted his days as a civil rights messenger. And then they all said something very curious. They said Heston had turned conservative as he got older. I darn near dropped my rifle cleaning kit when I heard that.
You see, civil rights is nothing if not a conservative issue. Conservatives have been trying since day one to preserve a land where all men are created equal.
Like Reagan, Heston knew he would be unpopular with a lot of folks, but conservatives as a whole are a very principled group, and when they say that people ought to have equal rights, they mean it. And so it is with Heston. He continued as a principled conservative, and won the admiration of many because of it.
Meanwhile, the media just doesn't get it. They try to paint conservatives as racists, when it is those of the liberal bent that show their racist stripes. People like Jeremiah Wright; Geraldine Ferraro; Al Sharpton. People who think that religion causes people to live in small towns, and cling to guns.
If I wasn't an anarcho-libertarian, I would want to be a steady conservative in the mold of Charlton Heston. At least I could sleep at night.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Wizer One-Liner #18
Memo to Hillary: It's Bill's party. You knew he was going to put a lampshade on his head sooner or later.
Wizer One-Liner #17
Memo to Barry: It was about race only because your pastor is a racist. Throwing everybody else (including Grandma) under the bus doesn't explain why this man was your pastor for over 20 years.
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