Gingrich called for a “conservative declaration of independence” from the Republican party. He stopped short of calling for the formation of a 3^rd party calling that a “dumb idea”.   I tend to think that, as brilliant as he is, Newt is a bit naïve about this. Not only Newt but others within the true conservative movement are simply not able to confront the reality as of yet that the GOP has been hijacked by the wide open free trader, open borders globalists. The WSJ/U.S. Chamber of Commerce crowd. These scoundrels are highly resistant to change and they have a strangle hold on our GOP.   Additionally, they have a dim view of Middle America and deep inside their wicked, dark, greed filled hearts they are convinced that the U.S. economy can no longer sustain a middle class.  

We have to remember that these corporate pirates are part of the “entitlement generation”. They believe that they are entitled to retire wealthy at age 50.   And within the companies that they manage and invest in, they only see the bottom line. The spreadsheets keep telling them that their largest expenditure is the cost of employee payroll.   By suppressing that cost is how they propose to plunder and funnel millions into their quarterly and annual bonus programs.  Whether by outsourcing or keeping the flow of cheap illegal labor coming, who cares? And that also includes having their lobbyists keep the pressure on elected officials to keep the pressure off of them when it comes to their questionable “hiring practices”.  

We must also remember that many of these corporate managers, just a short time ago, were one of those rioting and burning American flags on the University campus’ throughout the U.S.   When they finally graduated with a 2.5 GPA (that Mom/Dad paid for) and six months later started having trouble paying their bills, they remembered, “hey! I have a Business Degree!”.   So they had their piercing’s removed, covered up their tat’s with a long sleeve Van Hussen and became part of the club. Corporate America! And the sooner they get “their’s” the better.   

Therefore Newt and others must realize that it is almost hopeless in trying to take back the GOP without some form of leveraging.   Right now “we” can threaten to withhold our votes. That doesn’t matter to them. Winning is way down on their list of priorities! They can function just as well, if not better, under a democrat administration. And life is so much easier for them when they’re in the minority. Not nearly as much to be responsible for. Much less work. In their minds they’ve really got the best of both worlds. The only thing they really fear is to be totally minimized. Their stature and importance almost completely diminished.   If the GOP becomes some obscure 3^rd party that’s what’ll happen. 

And that is why we must keep that 3^rd Party option on the bargaining table, Mr. Newt!   Like a loaded pistol.   With a round in the chamber.   You can’t simply proclaim a “conservative declaration of independence from the GOP” without a stern warning of very negative consequences if true conservatives continue to be ignored, dis’d and insulted. And those negative consequences can’t simply be losing the election. Because those in the GOP Hierarchy really don’t care if they win the election or not. Simply not a priority to them.    Believe it.   Darvin Dowdy

Today we were treated to an obviously staged event at the 2008 Cpac (Conservative Political Action Conference) in, of all places, Washington D.C.   The location ought to tell us all we need to know as we all know what happens to conservatives when they wander into that sector.   Something mysterious.  A thick, semi-transparent membrane forms over them.  They can see light coming from the other side and can hear us normal folk but they can’t decipher what we’re saying.  Sometimes they hear a scream or shouting, but not to worry, nothing intelligible.   Anyway they’re too busy doing the work of the people.  Right!   Anyway back to the Cpac meeting in DC.  This was an attempt by the party hierarchy, the elites, to “unify” the party again.  Even poor Gov. Romney decided to step aside for the good of the party.  To heck with standing up for conservative principles and hanging tough all the way to a brokered convention.  And then demanding that certain conservative planks be nailed firmly in place with the threat of running as an independent if ignored.  No we simply don’t have candidates with that sort of brash courage.  Its all about not upsetting “the party”.   To heck with the voters and the nation.

I listened today to the raucous applause from the obvious plants within the Cpac audience during McCain’s speech - disgusting.   Staged.  Choreographed .  Hand picked gallery members chosen for their vocal abilities and always right on cue.  Do they really think we’re that stupid?  Apparently so.  And lets not forget the last inspirational speech Sen. McCain gave at the 2004 convention.  After which he went right back to his divisive RINO  ways. 

What was absent today in the news?  The silence was deafening.  Huckabee!   I’ve said from the beginning that there is some sort of strange momentum in/around/about the Huckabee campaign pushed along, despite itself,  by some unmoved mover.  So what about Huckabee, as McCain is proclaiming victory behind the Cpac podium?  Prematurely in my opinion.      And what about all of Romney’s delegates?  Who gets them?  Where do they go?  Do they simply disappear?   Well its certainly unwise to assume that all of those delegates would/should go to McCain.   Who knows?  But its going to be fascinating to watch what happens over the next week or so.  I simply can not envision Mike Huckabee laying down like a doormat for John McCain.  Not as long as there is even the most remote smell of victory in the air.   Watch Huck stiffen up his backbone and head back out onto the canvas for another bloody round.

There is, however, one very happy fellow  today.  Already having decided that the election is over!  Who?  This guy is El Presidente Felipe Calderon.    He came out with a statement today saying he was very pleased with the outcome of the election.  He thinks its all over with, too!   He stated, “It seems to me that the most radical and anti-immigrant candidates have been left behind and have been put in their place by their own electorate”.  It appears that El Presidente is correct, sadly.  Yet there is one candidate left that is yet sticking to his guns on illegal immigration.  And claims he’ll deport most illegals within 120 days after being elected.  And will also implement the fair tax.   Yep:  Huckabee

Darvin Dowdy 

…has favored us by allowing a few, miniscule drops of his superior wisdom to mingle  down amongst us common folk.  Crumbs swept from his banquet table for us scrambling masses to devour.   In this past Thursdays WSJ the good Rev. Rove has proclaimed “The New Rules for Politics”.   This is the same K. Rove that, prior to 11/7/06, must’ve sat at a green felt table in a dimly lit, smoke filled back room and confidently pushed the entire stack of GOP chips to the middle of the table and said, “I call”.  Then on that fateful day in November, when the opponent slammed down a full house across the table,  Karl presented his hand – a pair of 2’s.   That pair of 2’s representing the way over rated Hispanic vote.  The Hispanic vote that Karl and “W” were  certain would save the Republican Party.  After all they had sat together, mesmerized on May Day 2006 watching the tube together.  “There they are!”,  they said.  The throngs marching through the streets of U.S. cities  waving Mexican flags and burning U.S. flags!  Both Karl and “W” jumping to their feet proclaiming, “that’s our future!”.    As the Teletubbies would say, “UH  OOOHH!”.   Karl, the boy genius,  forgot something very important.  Probably 90% of those street marchers were in the country illegally and were not eligible to vote! Unlike the Minutemen who Karl and “W”  slandered as vigilantes who were eligible.  And the remainder of the former GOP voting base of which both Karl and “W” have not spared  insults and a disrespectful tone towards, starting on 1/21/05.

So now the sanctimonious Mr. Rove wants to tell us “how it will be” after he, President Bush and a few others in the GOP Hierarchy have all but destroyed  “our” GOP!   Ok.  Lets give him the respect that he would not give us in the GOP voting base.  Lets hear him out. 

(you might want to open up the above link to Karl’s WSJ article so you can follow along)

First on Karl’s list:

1)  “The Big Bounce = Gone”  Meaning, as I understand it, the significance of the Iowa/NH/S.Carolina  primaries is not what it used to be.  And might as well throw in Florida now.   I wish that were true but I don’t fully accept that.  And I believe it has to do with the Independent voters being allowed to vote for either party in these states.  And one would be naïve if they didn’t know that many democrats will cross over and vote as independents for the weakest GOP candidate.  They are urged to do so.  Don’t believe me?  Check this out.  I don’t believe that Mr. Rove is acknowledging the manipulation factor.  It is a significant factor and difficult to know what, exactly, to do about it.  If you couple this Independent voter factor along with the Main Stream Media’s Most-Favored-Candidate status (obviously John McCain for the GOP side) and the fact that Iowa, NH are traditionally “Blue” states and Florida being a “Purple” borderline state, one could almost conclude that the whole process is, well, almost rigged.    Most definitely these factors played a roll in pushing out Thompson, Tancredo and Hunter.  Had these 3 been able to hang in there until after the Texas primary  on 3/4/08 the dynamic of the entire campaign would have changed.  Come convention time there would have been a true “climate change” at the brokering tables.  I feel Mr.Rove’s  claim here is too simplistic. 

2) “Television Ads Don’t Matter As Much as They Used To”:   In your dreams Mr. Rove.  In your dreams.  The reason that they “don’t matter” is because they are so pathetically produced.  Nothing but a bunch of Rah! Rah! Wave the Flag!,  pep-rally crap topped off with a few generalities.  Nothing hard hitting or meaningful.  That’s why they’re ignored.  The one exception during this campaign was Mike Huckabee’s floating cross.   And he claims that was an unplanned accident.   Mr. Rove, the number of households with a TV is almost 112 million.  To get your message to the people, one must go where these people are.  Where are they?  At a political rally?   No!  You’ll find a whole lot of folks sitting on their couch with a remote in their hand.  Mostly because that’s all they can afford to do anymore.  So that is where you must take your message.  To them.   And, yes, it costs money but there are ways to “ease into it” without it costing an arm/leg.  Get over it, Mr. Rove.  A good candidate had best learn that the most important person on his staff is an effective fundraiser.  Effective fundraisers need to be sought out by political campaigns wherever they can be found.    This shortfall is what also contributed to the demise of the Thompson, Hunter and Tancredo campaigns.  These gents thought they could simply stand behind a lectern and speak profundities and that’s all that was needed.  Such a pity. 

3) “Technology Allows a Candidate to Raise Money Quickly and Inexpensively”:    I’ve was suspect of this internet fundraising when Howard Dean was pioneering this concept back in ’04 and, now especially, with the Ron Paul campaign.  Something simply doesn’t smell right about it.  Its too easy for a candidate, campaigns or donors to bend or break election fundraising rules.  One day someone will figure out how to investigate this “process”  and I believe the lid will be blown off.  We’ll find all sorts of  donors that are not eligible to donate.  We’ll see money and/or support coming in from foreign donors (like the Ukraine, Dr. Paul!) trying to influence our nations elections.

However, I have to concede that Mr. Rove may have a point here.  But I don’t see it as so significant.  More important that a candidate be able to receive donations from any or all of the avenues that they may travel in upon. 

4) “Debates are a Great Way to Come on Late and Make Up for Lack of Endorsements or Resources”:   What a load of crap, Mr. Rove.  These, too numerous, debates have been controlled and manipulated by the democrat/left leaning Main Stream Media from the start.  I’d be willing to bet that forces within the DNC have been working behind the scenes  along with their cohorts in the MSM to disrupt and negatively influence the GOP debates.  And its worked, in my humble opinion.  The GOP candidates have appeared like bulls being lead around with a rings in their noses.   Some of the good, lower tier candidates were purposely minimized and diminished from the very beginning.  And when the moderators were forced to ask them a question, it was something trivial or boring.  And that affected these candidates entire campaign in a negative way.  In the future I hope the GOP has enough backbone to make certain demands regarding the debate process.   Fewer debates, for one.  And the left leaning MSM must be taken out of the process. Or if not the GOP maybe some of the individual candidates.  Fred Thompson came close when refusing to raise his hand in Iowa.   Hot dogs like Chris Matthews are trying for another notch on their pistol grip and to make a name for themselves.  They have no sense of  fairness or of the importance of the event.   They’re dirt bags!  Such an important event shouldn’t be turned over to such. 

Ok. Something just went off in my brain.  Oh. I see.  I’m up to about or just over 1200 words.  I’ll have to finish this under “Part 2:  The Revered K. Rove….”  See ya’ next week!   Darvin Dowdy