Bain of Our Existence – A Conservative Cartoon

from hopenchangecartoons:
   Occupy Wall Street claimed a stunning victory this week when it was revealed that they have successfully established tent cities in the vacant spaces inside a number of Republican's heads.
   Specifically, while Barack Obama is nonchalantly asking to borrow yet another $1.2 trillion, quite a few alleged conservatives are ignoring the issue entirely while attacking Mitt Romney for heartlessly making money and creating jobs (but not saving every worker's job) when he was affiliated with Bain Capital.
   In a nutshell, Bain Capital looked for companies which were struggling and bought them at bargain rates. They would then try to determine what was dragging a company down and eliminate those factors in order to make the company profitable (thereby saving and creating jobs). Sometimes, a company couldn't be saved and went out of business, or workforces needed to be downsized - meaning that people lost jobs. That's capitalism...and it is heartless or it couldn't create the prosperity that eventually does create jobs. More …

Generational Follies > What a Difference Several Generations Make!

Conservative on Target! Mythical Middle, EPA, Judges & More

The Mythical Middle in American Politics:
   The middle in American politics is not where the liberal media or establishment Republicans want you to think it is…
   Every four years, the establishment media and members of the Republican establishment try to convince conservatives they need to support a moderate -- that is, a social liberal -- for president, so they can reach out to voters in the middle of the political spectrum.
   But the middle of the American political spectrum is not with the liberals on cultural issues. It is with the conservatives.

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Obama EPA Fines Companies For Using Biofuel That Doesn’t Exist: When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law. But there was none to be had. Outside a handful of laboratories and workshops, the ingredient, cellulosic biofuel, does not exist. In 2012, the oil companies expect to pay even higher penalties for failing to blend in the fuel.

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"You seem ... to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.... Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves." -- Thomas Jefferson

God’s quarterbacks: What Tebow and Roethlisberger reveal about evangelical politics

[Evangelism and redemption, along with football and politics! This kind of story will do a lot for Christianity. It’s almost hard to believe it comes from the Washington Post. – JS]

From The Washington Post:

The political world is once again buzzing about evangelical Christians. Former senator Rick Santorum’s near-victory in the Iowa caucuses and his ascent in the ranks of Republican presidential contenders have fueled this new fervor, which is leading to the same tired debates and conversations that we’ve heard about evangelicals for a generation now.

Santorum’s rise in Iowa supposedly occurred because he talked about “social issues” — abortion, same-sex marriage and the breakdown of the nuclear family. But so did virtually all the other candidates. So what is it that resonates with this influential voting bloc, that propels evangelical support for one conservative candidate over another?

If you really want to understand evangelicals in America today, fix your eyes on Mile High Stadium in Denver this Sunday afternoon, when the Denver Broncos and the Pittsburgh Steelers will meet in the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs. The game will feature two star quarterbacks whose contrasting stories — one of zeal, one of redemption — reveal more about the nature, power and persistence of American evangelicalism than a caucus or primary ever could

Please read it all …

Don’t Worry! These cuts will just make you leaner …

from creators.com

Buck Up > A challenge to frightened conservatives

[This is truly a must-read for any wishy-washy conservatives who will settle for a holding action rather than a fight! – JS]

From TownHall.com’s Complacent Conservatism Is Allowing America To Slide Into The Abyss:

Conservatism is more relevant than ever to American life, but much of the conservative movement has grown complacent, lazy, rigid, and out-of-touch. Too many conservatives went to D.C. to make a difference and hung around to make a few bucks. Too many conservatives have given up on moving America to the right and are now content to just hold the line so we don't move any further backwards. That's one of the dirty little secrets on the Right; real grassroots Tea Party conservatism FRIGHTENS a lot of conservatives, especially the ones in D.C. It's not so much because they disagree with the sentiment, but because they've become so demoralized that they instinctively recoil from any meaningful effort to move the country to the right, rather than just stopping the movement to the left…

It's much better to be right than wrong, but there are a lot of conservatives who still haven't learned that being right is not enough. You can be right and lose an argument, a movement, and even your country. As Buddha once said, "Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good." That's why conservatism is the harder road. We have to be the adults. We have to be the ones who stand up for capitalism, Christianity, and country while liberals are telling everyone to go enjoy yourself, someone else will pay for it, and anyone who says there's more to life than that just wants to ruin your good time. That's what we're fighting against and there are a lot of conservatives who need to remember that not only is this a fight, it's a fight to move the ball forward, not a delaying action before a defeatist retreat into oblivion.

You really must read all of this here …

Just Sayin’ – A Conservative Quotes Cornucopia

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.” Alexis de Tocqueville

“It’s not the government’s job to educate you, it’s your parents’ job,”
Ron Paul

"The best way to understand this whole issue is to look at what the government does: it takes money from some people, keeps a bunch of it,
and gives the rest to other people." Dave Barry

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion." Alexander the Great

"In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a
Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously
interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection
against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those
purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of
substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the
language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and
enforcing that Bill of Rights." -- Justice Hugo L. Black