A Wave of Sanity Across America!

"Progressive" politics don't work, if your goal is prosperity, individual freedom and efficient, effective government.  Poverty, joblessness, and the deterioration of our military is its chief results.

The 2014 midterm elections are a wave of sanity after six years of ruinous, terrible policies.  Today I will savor the victory.

Here in California, the insane are still in control, and doing all they can to make the state job-free and keep prosperity in retreat.  Governor Moonbeam was reelected by a large majority.  Here in San Benito County the Neo-Luddites passed a law banning fracking in the county.  Gotta keep those gas prices as high as possible.  Energy is the enemy.

If I were a younger man, I'd move out of here, probably relocate to Texas.  However, due to family ties, I'm stuck.  Nevertheless, I rejoice in the greatest Republican victory in my life time.  Suffer, you leftist bastards!

I Find Myself Defending the Democratic Party. What's Up With That??

Lately I have had to defend the Democratic Party against brazen falsehood by some folks on the right.  Ann Coulter, PaganTemple, and some guy at Human Events have decided to push a big lie in order to make the Republican Party seem enlightened and virtuous, and the Democratic Party "the Party of Slavery."

Today, in the here and now, the Republican Party supports individual freedom to a much greater extent than the modern Democratic Party.  But casting the Democrats as "the Party of Slavery" is unethical, inaccurate and unfair.  Slavery was an American institution, not a Southern one, one in which the North was both foundational and highly responsible.  The Republican Party was a sectional party, representing the interests of the North; as such, they were highly antagonistic to the South and anxious to keep their high tariffs in place, which fell most heavily on the South, for the benefit of the North.

The early Republican Party was against allowing slavery to enter the new territories, those areas that had not yet become states.  They did so because (1) they did not want to compete with slave labor for jobs (a reasonable position) and (2) they hated blacks.  The early Republicans called themselves "the White Peoples' Party."  They were not the eternally virtuous and enlightened society that Ann Coulter pretends.

After their totalitarian crushing of the independence of the Southern people, the Republicans then got busy mass-murdering American Indians, appropriating Hawaii by deposing its queen, and acting like the gun-boat thugs they were in fact.

I am a Republican today because it is the best choice among two evils.  However, I resolve to be a friend of the truth before I am a friend to the Republicans.

Hoffman Concedes in NY-23

Doug Hoffman, the conservative candidate, has lost to the Democrat Bill Owens in New York's 23rd District.  This was rather unexpected as polls showed him the likely winner.  Nevertheless, the only poll that counts is held on election day.  Owens will occupy the congressional seat for only a year, then will have to defend it in 2010.  This was a special election to complete the term of a congressman who became part of Obama's administration.

This is disappointing, not because of the election of another Neo-Marxist Democrat, but because it would have sent a clear message to the RNC that the base will not easily accept RINO candidates.  Oh well, politics ain't beanbag, as the old saying goes.

The unusual GOP win was the election of a Republican governor in Blue State New Jersey.  It was a good night for Republicans but not a great night.  We won 2 out of 3 and we will try harder in the races to come next year.

GOP Sweep in Virginia; Republican Christie Projected Winner in New Jersey

Republicans won handily in Virginia; McDonnel wins by 60% - 40%; Chris Christie projected winner of New Jersey governor's race by both AP and Fox.

Early returns in New York 23 show Bill Owens ahead of Doug Hoffman by 51% - 44%; however, that could change as more precincts report.

Will Corzine Steal the Election in New Jersey?

Democrats steal elections in a number of ways.  They "find" ballot boxes stuffed with votes for Democrats, as they did in Washington State a few years back when their gubernatorial candidate came up a few votes short.  (The "found" ballot boxes were more than enough to push the Democrat into the winning column.)

In the Presidential election of 1960, voter fraud occurred in certain states and Kennedy was elected in a close vote.  A lot of the votes were from dead Democrats.  Nixon did not demand a recount.

In 2000, Al Gore tried desperately to transmogrify his electoral defeat into a victory with various vote recount and "reinterpretation" schemes involving hanging chads and perceived voter intent.  He failed.

Recently Al Franken was able to turn his electoral defeat in Minnesota into a win through the same recounting and reinterpretation of the ballots cast.

ACORN is a Democrat group of community organizers who are famous for registering voters...and reregistering the same voters, under different names, again and again.

The election Tuesday (between New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine and Republican challenger Chris Christie) is going to be close.  If so, you can count on the same Democrat election stealing techniques to be used to turn the result on its head.

That's what Big Government thinks, and I agree.  Read it all here.