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Joe the Plumber and Rodney King for President.

This is a serendipity entry.  But I was thinking these thoughts, so I decided to share them.  We all remember these two guys, Rodney and Joe.  What ever happened to them when they no longer served the media interest? Rodney was beaten by the cops and his famous statement was, “…Can’t we all just get along?”  A worthy sentiment and one which I have considered often.  Rodney is not a Poet nor the son of a Poet, but his words ring true today as much as they did as he lay stricken and smitten on the pavement of that city.  Joe was a celebrity for a while because the conservatives found him a darling until , well until what?  Actually, I can only remember that he was an unemployed plumber who spoke candidly to candidate Barrrack Obama.  Where is he now?

Actually, like the media at the time, I too, am using them as symbols of something greater than themselves.  The symbol, I will pose in a question.  “Is it necessary for someone to raise one billion dollars in order to become the President of the USA?”

I do not mean that Joe or Rodney have the “right stuff” (whatever that is) in order to be President.  But I do mean to ask the question, “Are the American people smart enough to elect one of their own to be President?”  I infer by this that  all of our Presidents, let’s say from Franklin Roosevelt to Barrack Obama have been “groomed” to be President.  But I do not think that those who did the grooming were “ordinary citizens who went to work for a living, raised a family and attended the local church.”  Rather, they were and still are, the “big” people at corporate headquarters, or media headquarters, or news headquarters.  The pickers and the groomers of our Presidential candidates are the “big boys.  Yes, I do think that they are mostly men, although today there is a smattering of women.”

So what about the Joes and the Rodneys?  They are you.  They are us.  And they will never be President.  But there is one thing.  OUR VOTE.  At least for now, our elections are honest.  Therefore, the “would be’s” need us.  Can they count on you no matter what?  Are you a Teachers Union member or an AFL CIO member who the Democrats consider “safe”?  Are you black and therefore since 95% of you voted for Obama in 2008, the President considers you “safe.”  Are you a far left Liberal who supports Maoist political philosophy and quasi Communist social policy?  You too are taken for granted by the Incumbent.

But that still leaves the rest of us.  The pundits like to call us the “Independents.”  But they are wrong.  Most of us are either Democrats or Republicans, although we may not be declared.  Our difference from the safe people is that we actually do listen, we actually do ponder the various positions and we actually do have a personal political philosophy that is not defined by the Union, or the University, or the current political effete.

As we enter the presidential race, are we up to the task?  Will the independent Republicans allow themselves to be stereotyped and ghettoized by the libelous label of “tea baggers”? Will the independent thinking Democrats allow themselves to be taken for granted and goaded into a “plague on both houses” attitude which allows them to mechanically pull the lever for the President?  It all waits to be seen.  But can you imagine a real dark horse, who has a good heart and a good mind and a good soul and who has the innate ability to use the apparatus of government in order to make the right decisons?  Could such a one ever be President.  Many will answer,”No.”  But in fact, it is possible, because America is for now, a free land and the people really do decide.  So, let’s see what happens.  Maybe it IS the only thing that we can do.

Paul Ryan for President -But.

From the very first day I encountered Congressman Paul Ryan on TV I thought that he was definitely Presidential material.  Ever since, my estimation has grown stronger and deeper.  Representative Ryan is a leader that America needs.  I have written extensively in the previous posts to this article, so I will not repeat the reasons for my wholehearted endorsement.  However, I will add a warning.  Mr. Paul Ryan is not seeking the presidency and as the article cited stated, in my opinion, he will have to be dragged by an insistent public into the contest for President.  Why?  Because Congressman Ryan is a breed of steadfast Americans who regards public office as a privilege.  He serves at the will of the voters of his district and his loyalty to them and his deep respect for them as fellow citizens has sent him back to Congress term after term.  Yes, there are many congressman who are good but I believe that Representative Ryan has shown himself to be a notch above.  How?  Firstly, he is willing to listen to the needs, opinions and political philosophy of his constituents.  He may be a Republican but he considers himself a Congressman.  (Not the same as a Scott Brown Republican who puts Scott Brown in front of Republican.  Although I DO believe that Senator Brown is a good man and is representing Massachusetts very well.) Paul Ryan does not hedge on his political philosophy, his world view, his creeds or his values.  He holds them dear and fast.  But he holds them personally as the North Star navigating his life.  He may try to present his view to others but in no way does Paul Ryan believe that his way is the only way. (Unlike Obama who thinks of his political philosophy and methods of governing as the only TRUE way. Which Obama believes is apparent to all who are of the truth!!)  The rest of us are still clinging to our guns and our religion and believing in our police who act foolishly when they try to defend a citizen.

There is a lot more I will be saying in the coming months. However, in the title I intentionally placed the word “but”.  I did that because there is no way that a Congressman who is not seeking the Presidency for his own glory can effectively compete against a glory seeking incumbent President unless we who support Paul are there for him every painful inch of the way.  Obama says that he can raise one billion dollars (an obscene figure) to keep himself in the oval office.  Can we promise to Paul Ryan that we will do everything, and that includes our own money, to help him meet that challenge?  Obama has already shown how he can use tax payer dollars to fly himself around on Air Force One so he can campaign and raise money.  He was in NJ five times last year and this year twice in NYC.  Can we give Paul Ryan the logistical support he needs?  By logistical support I primarily refer to getting out the crowds to see him, “press the flesh” and listen to his message.  Obama does not need to pay for his daily exposure on TV.  All he needs to do is talk and he will have five minutes on every news program several times a day, plus front page photos of himself in every national and local newspaper plus extensive Internet blogging.  How are we going to help Congressman Ryan fight against that kind of automatic publicity?  Will even Fox new and the venerable Mr. Bill O Reilly promise that every minute given to Obama’s publicity will be equalled with coverage of Paul Ryan’s speech or stop over in (let’s say) Great Falls?

Paul Ryan is a man for American.  He loves America and he respects its people.  He will not bow to Saudi Kings and Japanese Emperors, (not matter what the ettique is).  He will act in the office of President with deep American values, a strong work ethic, a driving effort to set us on a financial foundation that will guarantee for current and for future seniors that the promise of a socially secure American will not be spent away during his Presidency.  But will he let us elect him?  That’s a big question.

Paul Ryan for President- Yes!

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/DickArmey-PaulRyan-2012PresidentialElection/2011/05/22/id/397244?s=al&promo_code=C517-1

I published this endorsement several days ago and reprint it here. 

Paul Ryan is my endorsed candidate for the President of the USA.  Huckabee is out.  Trump is out.  Gingrich made a huge error is his refusal to change his mind on mandatory health care.  Romney refuses to acknowledge that his health care proposals bankrupt Massachusetts.  So the old boys are falling fast.  And the second tier?  Santori is a nice guy but he lost his Senate seat and maybe like Nixon he can be the comeback kid, but not for me.  Michelle Bachmann.  Nice lady.  A good conservative.  Not afraid to stand out there and get battered while many of  the men hide;  a tea party endorser good for me.  And then there is Congressman Paul Ryan.  He went head to head with his party in  order to get out the Ryan Plan.  Not perfect but a hell of a lot better than no plan at all. ( Yes, Obama is trying to steal the major thrusts of the plan, but Obama is a perpetual copycat!) Give me the original. Congressman  Ryan has held out in a State which is predominately Democrat.  Why?  I believe because his inner core of true Pro America values and his clearly obvious integrity, honesty and grit have been there for all to see.  I think that his values are important because I want a President who loves American hands down and no questions asked!  We do not need another President who is not proud of America, does not like the people of America, including police, firefighters, and military-all of whom President Obama has disdained in one forum or another. Ryan has also gone head to head with those who claim that entitlements cannot be creatively handled.  His Ryan Plan shows that if we have the “guts” to do it, we can protect those who are currently entitled, fund for future entitlements and give to future generations a better, more generous and healthier America.  How?  By simple math and gutsy, good old American grit, which faces reality, analyzes the problem, generates creative and rock solid solutions and then applies the one thing that has always made America great COURAGE.    Yeah, Obama can dismiss Congressman Ryan as a “Nice guy” and a “…man who wants to make himself America’s accountant…”  But such mocking derision on the part of the President is itself demeaning to the office of President, shows the President to be more politician than statesman, and actually highlights a fact that is the reason why we need Ryan.  He knows economics, he understands government, he is good with numbers and therefore he will be able to handled the 14 trillion-dollar Obama deficit.  Ryan will be able to deal forcefully with our Chinese creditors.  He will be able to curb our insatiable Federal workforce, while dealing with them fairly and as a fellow American.  As a Congressman for many terms, Representative Ryan understands the spend and tax ways of the Executive Branch and the Congressional branch.  Since, he was never a Governor, he will not be swayed by Executive privileges and therefore higher taxes.  As a Congressman, he will not be swayed by spend and tax congressional profligacy. Representative Paul Ryan is not seeking the Presidency.  He is thinking about the US Senate.  GOOD.  We really don’t need another former Senator with stars in his eyes to match his pearly white teeth. We need someone who will become President only when we drag him kicking and protesting.  Paul Ryan would be honored to be our President but I don’t believe that he seeks it.  He most certainly does not seek it for his glory, a refreshing wind in light of our current President and too many of the wantabe candidates.  So crowd, take a look at Congressman Paul Ryan.  And if you want a very qualified “accountant”  Yes- we should never be ashamed to seek “professional” advice! and if we want a reasonable, center of the road, full blooded Pro America candidate, well, lets get him and drag him kicking and protesting into the White House.  You know, history shows that in times of peril, those who most want the job are not the ones we need.

IMF Guy, Political Brutality in the Public Square

IMF chief is arrested and this really important guy goes to an ordinary jail cell at the precinct. Wow!  And he is a leading contender against Sarkozy for President of France and no body knows who he is and nobody cares, including the French, American, German, and British embassies.  I guess they just thought to let the guy rot in jail.  Then he is arraigned before a magistrate and denied bail!  An amazing judgement when so many other “hollywood types” get bail?  So they cart his @!@ off to Riker’s Island and keep him under very close scrutiny for ever minute so that the guy cannot take a dump without somebody watching.  They said it was for fear of suicide or was it because they didn’t want him talking to anybody, calling anybody or the like?  Then we read repeated statements (even from the US Government) that the accused, (who under our law is innocent until PROVEN guilty) – that he absolutely must resign his high power, prestigious, and internationally important job.  So, as he languishes in Riker’s with the pimps, the perps, the bashers, bunglers and other bums, this guy is informed that maybe he will still be denied bail.  He pleads for release and offers very stringent rules for himself.  Still not enough.  Then he finally agrees to resign his job and suddenly, like magic, he is granted bail.  Meanwhile the NYC detectives are scouring the hotel room, cutting up pieces of the carpet in search of semen samples and otherwise spending an enormous amount of our Tax dollars in order to PROVE that they are right and this guy is a rapist?  (I don’t think the LA police did that much for Nicole Simson) while her husband was riding his car all along the Freeway?  And how quaint it is that at the exact same time that all this is happening, his rival for the Presidency of France announces that he and his lovely domesticated wife are having a baby and so they pose for photos as the perfect humble domestic French citizens while this guy is photographed as a thug, a rapist, and a criminal who forces himself on the poorest of the poor and the most helpless of the helpless.  As a novelist, I could never have thought this stuff up but I wholeheartedly believe that politicians can!!  Folks, I don’t care about this guy.  But I watch out for myself and my children and grandchildren.  And since all of them are part of the USA system, I am very vigilant about what that system does and is allowed to do.  Now, I must wonder that if I am right and this is a political murder carried out in the public square using the forces of the system to destroy a political enemy– well, if the system can so easily be abused against the powerful, then I fear of what it is capable of being used to do against me and mine.  Therefore, unlike the mob of pundits in the news who want this guy’s head on a spike, I want every single effort made to defend him, protect him from political murder and to prove him innocent (if he is innocent).  Why?  Because I thereby protect myself when my enemy accuses me of a crime that is very hard to disprove.  I mean they were smart enough not to have the maid raped only attempted rape.  At least in a rape you have the brutality to the body that is easily proved in such a short time.  No, this is only attempted rape, one person’s word against another’s, with the police scouring the carpet for semen!!  As a juror, such proof only indicates that he spilled himself onto the carpet!  (forgive the bluntness of the statement but this is serious stuff.)  So what now?  Well, we spend a lot of time and a lot of money to prove to ourselves, (by the way is it clear that we little people are the victims in all of this as our rights are limited, our civil security forces used for political purposes and our taxes spent on a trial to prove to us we were right.)  All the while, the perpetrators of this travesty are satisfied and have already moved on because their goal has been accomplished.  This man is disgraced, he has resigned and his enormous power destroyed.  Could it happen to us?  Yes, it can and that is the only reason I am writing an approach to all of this that is plausible and must be considered.

Is the NYC IMF Affair a Political Murder?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/imf_head_assault

This scene is beginning to look like a political murder attempt.  Maybe his French friends want him out.  This whole thing is so reminiscent of the political hack job done in the California political campaign against Meg Whitmann.  The so-called victim there was also from the “poorest of South American countries..” who served the rich and powerful and then suddenly the maid got ethical and all of that.  She went public with the alleged abuse of her (what was it) ten years of illegal alien “servitude” in the Whitmann household.  Hey, this guy could buy a thousand high priced call girls.  He could have customized sex with anybody he could pay.  In France such paid sexual favors are honored.  So one must ask why this guy would attempt to rape a “poor illegal immigrant maid in a NYC hotel.”  Sure he is rich.  Maybe he is also arrogant.  Most definitely he is powerful.  But is there not someone who dares to question the “setup” aspects of this affair.  Where are the investigative reporters who are willing to be politically incorrect and delve very deeply into this poor innocent downtrodden abused woman”… from the poorest of South American countries…” who had absolutely no one idea at all as to the type of people at that hotel and of the power and importance they welded in the world in which she worked.  Hey, I am the last to claim that the raped are guilty and the rapists are innocent.  But like the California case this is just too convenient a scene.  Add to it the French President’s “innocence”  now that he is going to have baby.  How sweet and family oriented while he is architect of massive bombing of Libya and the destruction of the Arab Muslim government there…a war that he claims is for civil rights and not for oil.  Amazing!

Dems try the Divide and Conquer Ploy.

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/JackDavis-teaparty-Boehner-JaneCorwin/2011/05/17/id/396738

The Republican party is a small party which is being made smaller by the independence of the Tea Party Movement.  Many of the Congressmen and a few Senators won their election by getting backing from members of the Tea Party Movement.  Now we read that this fellow Davis is able to have a “Line” at the ballot for the Tea Party.  Now, this writer does not know how he can get that since there is no political party called the Tea Party?!  What this trio seems to be is a classic political ploy by Democrats to divide the electorate and thereby guarantee the election of the Democrat.  In such a situation the voter’s of this heavily Republican area are either going to allow themselves to be fools by his cynical ploy and thereby revealing their foolishness or they will reject Davis and deal with the two legitimate candidates on the issues.  And the guy who indulged himself in silly affairs, well,  he was just a plain idiot.  But it is sad when leaders, like him and this IMF guy, think that they can have private lives while serving in a public position.  One of the perks of public jobs is that you are not allowed such a luxury.  Too bad that people who want to be private go public.  There must be others who can do a better job.  By the way, does anyone share my thought that Trump was a Democrat phony who took to the stage in order to dump Huckabee.  I find it absolutely unbelievable that Obama showed his Birth Certificate because Donald Trump (ARE YOU KIDDING) demanded it!!  I find it equally disturbing that Trump left the race for President as soon as he was sure that Huckabee was out?  It is all too staged for me.  It happened before with Ross Perrot and GHW Bush (41). Sad for America that this sort of thing is becoming the norm.

Obama on Obama

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110517/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_clinton;_ylt=Auvkk8RCnJSgwhOHq2_hc_1H2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTJ1M2U5cmw0BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwNTE3L3VzX29iYW1hX2NsaW50b24EY2NvZGUDZ21wZQRjcG9zAzEEcG9zAzEEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNjbGludG9uc2F5c28–  The audience may have laughed but I didn’t.  I was amazed that the President should even say such a thing.  Was he perhaps thinking of how nice it would be for him to be President forever.  Or did he think that maybe he could convince the gullible people not only twice but three times?  This guy never ceases to amaze in unpleasant ways!

Limbaugh On Gingrich

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/rushlimbaugh-newtgingrich/2011/05/16/id/396556?s=al&promo_code=C460-1

Newt Gingrich speaks his mind.  There is a sense of sincere integrity when he talks to a topic.  It is often professorial and therefore intends to inform and be informed.  Good teachers, and I think that Speaker Gingrich is a good teacher intend to have an exchange of ideas concerning the topic at hand.  I think that is what Newt does and in a perfect world of reasonable people he would get a fair exchange of reason based discussion on any given topic.  However, in the world of politics, a professorial approach is quickly turned into a “them and us” approach.  Politics in the USA, at least under this Democrat administration, is not about finding the best way for America to govern itself.  Instead, as with ObamaCare, it is Obama’s way only.  All fair-minded Americans and I believe Speaker Gingrich to be fair minded, are required by Obama and his regime to first enact into law the Obama agenda BEFORE there can be civil discussion about the meaning and purpose of the Obama agenda.  So, it is not unexpected that when Newt Gingrich is consistent with his 1993 position on healthcare insurance, people react with surprise and dismay.  They are surprised because it is rare that a political figure is honest and honestly seeking discussion as to what is best for America and its self-government.  They are dismayed because they conclude that such honesty will be rewarded with the standard political answers of stereotyping, labeling and name calling.  In this blog May 16th, I called for Representative Paul Ryan to be drafted by the Republican party as its Presidential candidate in 2012.  That was my feeling before Huckabee and Trump decided not to run.  That is still my opinion, because Representative Ryan has the “right stuff” for America.  What is the “right stuff”?  Simply put, Representative Ryan loves America.  Yes, “loves” is the word.  He has the highest possible regard for the USA, its people, military, firefighters, and police.  He serves honorably in the federal structure but he has a strong and healthy respect for the state and local governments. He is a man of ideas without being an ideologue.  We have an ideologue in the White House now, and as is true of ideologues, Obama regards his own positions and agendas as the only TRUTH which must be enacted and enforced. Newt Gingrich is good for America.  His intellect is highly regarded because he is an intellectual.   His ideas for America are well thought out and consequential, although they may not be perfect.  His perception of what needs fixing and what can remain is usually accurate, and his willingness to stand up and therefore stand out in the public square is a tribute to his conviction that American is a nation of ideas.  In previous elections the citizens were presented with the idea that the Candidate’s “vision” for what America should be was most important.  That “vision” concept was okay as long as the holder believed wholeheartedly in the country he sought to lead.  Sadly, we learned from 2008, that the candidate we elected does not even like the America he inherited, (and not just the Bush years), that President Obama feels that the USA is fundamentally flawed, unfair, racist and in need of fundamental transformation.  Many today now understand that the change was not from Republican to Democrat, nor from GW Bush to BH Obama but a change of regard for America.  Now we understand that President Obama is not merely polite when he bows to sheiks and kings and emperors.  He sincerely believes that America should bow to others.  He sees us not as a “shining beacon of freedom” but merely as one of many nations, all of which are equally qualified to lead the world!  And now that we understand that a “vision” can be the wrong vision, we are confronted with different criteria for Presidents.  The primary criterion of 2012 will be honesty.  Is the Candidate telling us the truth?  Or does the advertisement mask a different reality?  Is the glib speech of the President merely a carnival trick to entertain us while the truth is hidden behind the curtain?  This writer believes that Newt Gingrich and Paul Ryan can be believed.  So, as citizens we can be confident that what they tell us is their idea accurately reflects their intention.  Now we will need to encourage them to lay out the details, (Ryan already has) and explain the meaning and implications of what they propose.

Is Paul Ryan In?

Paul Ryan is my endorsed candidate for the President of the USA.  Huckabee is out.  Trump is out.  Gingrich made a huge error is his refusal to change his mind on mandatory health care.  Romney refuses to acknowledge that his health care proposals bankrupt Massachusetts.  So the old boys are falling fast.  And the second tier?  Santori is a nice guy but he lost his Senate seat and maybe like Nixon he can be the comeback kid, but not for me.  Michelle Bachmann.  Nice lady.  A good conservative.  Not afraid to stand out there and get battered while many of  the men hide;  a tea party endorser good for me.  And then there is Congressman Paul Ryan.  He went head to head with his party in  order to get out the Ryan Plan.  Not perfect but a hell of a lot better than no plan at all. ( Yes, Obama is trying to steal the major thrusts of the plan, but Obama is a perpetual copycat!) Give me the original. Congressman  Ryan has held out in a State which is predominately Democrat.  Why?  I believe because his inner core of true Pro America values and his clearly obvious integrity, honesty and grit have been there for all to see.  I think that his values are important because I want a President who loves American hands down and no questions asked!  We do not need another President who is not proud of America, does not like the people of America, including police, firefighters, and military-all of whom President Obama has disdained in one forum or another. Ryan has also gone head to head with those who claim that entitlements cannot be creatively handled.  His Ryan Plan shows that if we have the “guts” to do it, we can protect those who are currently entitled, fund for future entitlements and give to future generations a better, more generous and healthier America.  How?  By simple math and gutsy, good old American grit, which faces reality, analyzes the problem, generates creative and rock solid solutions and then applies the one thing that has always made America great COURAGE.    Yeah, Obama can dismiss Congressman Ryan as a “Nice guy” and a “…man who wants to make himself America’s accountant…”  But such mocking derision on the part of the President is itself demeaning to the office of President, shows the President to be more politician than statesman, and actually highlights a fact that is the reason why we need Ryan.  He knows economics, he understands government, he is good with numbers and therefore he will be able to handled the 14 trillion-dollar Obama deficit.  Ryan will be able to deal forcefully with our Chinese creditors.  He will be able to curb our insatiable Federal workforce, while dealing with them fairly and as a fellow American.  As a Congressman for many terms, Representative Ryan understands the spend and tax ways of the Executive Branch and the Congressional branch.  Since, he was never a Governor, he will not be swayed by Executive privileges and therefore higher taxes.  As a Congressman, he will not be swayed by spend and tax congressional profligacy. Representative Paul Ryan is not seeking the Presidency.  He is thinking about the US Senate.  GOOD.  We really don’t need another former Senator with stars in his eyes to match his pearly white teeth. We need someone who will become President only when we drag him kicking and protesting.  Paul Ryan would be honored to be our President but I don’t believe that he seeks it.  He most certainly does not seek it for his glory, a refreshing wind in light of our current President and too many of the wantabe candidates.  So crowd, take a look at Congressman Paul Ryan.  And if you want a very qualified “accountant”  Yes- we should never be ashamed to seek “professional” advice! and if we want a reasonable, center of the road, full blooded Pro America candidate, well, lets get him and drag him kicking and protesting into the White House.  You know, history shows that in times of peril, those who most want the job are not the ones we need.