I'm a libertarian, and I'm voting for Romney

Despite the chnting hordes extolling the fantasy that there is another choice, there is not. My three reasons I am not voting for the Libertarian candidate but rather the Republican.

1. SCOTUS: if Obama is reelected he will likely have the opportunity to replace Ginsberg. And the Reagan appointees will be 80 in 2016.
   
2. Economy: It sucks. It will get worse if Obama is reelected.
   
3. Libertarian Party: isn't a party. It has a national platform but each state organization is so frakked up there is no cohesion or common vision. Plus at the state level they are more concerned about legalizing drugs than fiscal. constitutional conservatism.

Hey, I get it about the two choices sucking. But the TEA Parties have made great strides at wresting away control of the GOP from the establishment. Unllike Ronald Reagan and the way he envisioned a strong party, meaning good congresssional whips to keep RINOs in line, the TEA Party is just taking over. Just as the Socialist Party took over the Democrats... of course they also took over the media so it made the changes easier and appear much more subtle than they were.

Voting for Gary Johnson would be great, if he were running under the GOP ticket, but he is Libertarian. He will not win. Even if he gets 5%, 10%, or even 15% of the vote... heck, make it 25%... he loses. And Obama wins a second term.

"But," I can hear people saying, "we'll be sending a statement." Good for you. That statement is that you want Obama to continue destroying our economy, to allow Obama to appoint another radical to replace Ginsberg and perhaps replace two conservative Justices with judicial activists ensuring a 6-3 liberal majority on the SCOTUS for another 30 years.

As bad as the economy is it can servive another Obama term, but the country we all profess to love will cease to exists as we know it if the economy continues to grind to a halt AND Obama can appoint a judicial activist majority.

If you don't want to vote for Romney because who he is or because of your principles I can understand... don't vote for Romney, vote against Obama. But a vote for Johnson, or not voting at all is the same for a half vote for Obama.

Because your choice is simple, vote for Romney or risk losing America. I do not like Romney as the candidate, he would not have been in my list of top three candiates, but make no mistake, we had this discussion four years ago about not wasting votes for Barr/Root, but now more people are clamoring for the Libertarian party more than ever.

I used to be one of the token Libertarians and now more consitutional conservatives are stepping forward. But this is not the time, this is not the year.

Release the blind sheik

from 37,000 feet.

And the want Guantanamo closed too? There is enough room to get them all on the one plane.

Lets engage in a fun post hoc ergo propter hoc exercise

This started as a reply to one of Debbie's posts, but I added a few links to "make" the case...

September 4th: Egyptian military alerts it's security forces of possible planned attacks on the US and Israeli embassies.

September 5th: Obama begins a week long hiatus from his daily security briefing.

September 11th: prior to the scheduled briefing the Egyptian embassy was overrun.

Therefore, Obama could have prevented the attacks had he attended the security briefings.

August employment number in... and they suck

No doubt people who just read headlines will notice the unemployment rate dipping to 8.1% from 8.3% and believe it as a sign of economic progress. They may even pick up on the creation of 96,000 jobs.

However, the drop in unemployment is not due to the creation of 96,000 jobs it is due to approximately 364,000 people dropping out of the workforce.

How does one "drop out" of the workforce? Two methods; the most common is people report that they did not look for any jobs that week, the other is they run out of unemployment benefits.

So where are the jobs?

• Foodservice and drink establishments: 28,000
• Professional and technical servies: 27,000
• Healthcare: 17,000
• Financial Services: 11,000
• Manufacturing: -15,000

And average salaries? They dropped also.

Added to the mix is the bad news that the previous job creation figures were adjusted -19,000 for June and -22,000 for a total of 41,000 less than anticipated this summer.

Job growth failed to hit the rather modest estimate of 125,000 despite the average monthly job growth YTD being 139,000.

[edited to add link to BLS data]

Democrats just demonstrated on live TV that they don't care about fairness or the will of the people

On national TV, the Democrats showed to God and everyone that they do not care about fairness, or the will of the people, and that they are willing to break their own rules to get what they want.

On Tuesday the Democrats unveiled their 2012 platform, omitting references to God or the long standing plank that identified Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

On Wednesday, Antonio Villaraigosa called three times for a vote on Ted Stricklands proposal to reinstate God and Jerusalem back into the platform statement before declaring it passed. Three votes were necessary because it was painfully obvious that 2/3s of the audience did not agree with the DNC. Unfortunately for the committee chair those viewing, heard that it was obvious the 2/3's majority needed was never reached, if anything the nay's had a slight edge on each vote. But being a good foot soldier Villaraigosa flushed his integrity down the toilet and declared the amendment to the platform passed.

In order to avoid the obvious, that these changes were made because talk radio and Fox News bullied them into it, they spun it that they were merely affirming Obama's long held beliefs on those issues.

So, if you accept that version of the story, what we all witnessed was the DNC, tossing their own members under the bus to get Obama what he wanted, in violation of their own rules, and it can be argued, contrary to the democratic process.

Watch "the Chicago way" in action:

and never the twain shall meet

When people talk about the polarization in politics getting unbearably uncomfortable it usually ends up with liberals blaming the Republicans for their rigid right wing ideology and conservatives blaming liberals for their far left moonbat ideology.

They are both wrong. This video sums up the difference between the dichotomy.

You see liberals believe we, the people, belong to the government. Whereas conservatives know that government, at least the government established by the US Constitution, exists to serve the people.

Now most Americans understand our government is not, by any stretch of the imagination, similar to that envisioned by our forefathers, historically some of the most brilliant statesmen to ever gather at one time. However, most Americans do not envision themselves being vassals devoid of real freedom either.

Yet the Democrat National Party, at the Democrat National Convention, informs us how we all belong to the government. Dependent upon this government to bestow permissions, privileges and licenses to them in the guise of rights. The trap being that the government does not grant rights, as the government can take away things as quickly as they can grant them.

However, I digress, the point I intended to make is that the way most people misunderstand the schizm in modern American politics as a right wing ideology vs. left wing ideology. But it is much more than that, it is defending freedom and liberty vs. being a subject to a government, which while not omnipotent, is on the way to being made so by the choices of we, the people... or at least 50% + 1 of the people... make mostly in the name of partisan politics and afte receiving government bribes in the way of the bestowing of rights, the granting of entitlements, or the giving privileges that offer preferences (biases) to one group over another..