CyberWiz Beezer said:

Mike…. Noble as your list is, it points up the very reason we lose. As I wrote over @ FAX’s “Jews” blog, the blacks, Jews and Hispanics are for whatever reasons willing to suffer serial abuse from the D’s and come back ticking. You hate to call that stupidity, but when WE expect to find that “perfect” candidate who fits ALL the items on your list, or when we stubbornly vote single-issue (ex: guns, abortion, religion, no new taxes) we’ll lose every time. I’m not saying I wouldn’t love to find and vote for that candidate, but it’s impractical…. Jesus ain’t running.

Every human has his/her foibles. And if they didn’t have skeletons in their closets, what the heck would we have to gossip about, right Mr. English? Let’s be practical and pick candidates who can fulfill 80% of our desires. They do better than that, great. They fall short-we ride them. That’s what the TEA Party is for. We go for a 100% candidate–we got nobody..empty ballot spot. Socialists really win.

Bill English is my 80 percent candidate, as there are some issues where he and I will disagree vehemently.

Heather Wilson, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani would have trouble getting to 50 percent.

If no one insisted on better candidates, then Heather, Mitt, Newt and Rudy would be the best you would get.

As for being a “single issue” voter where guns are concerned, it’s more of a litmus test that pokes into the liquid creamy center of a candidate and gets to what they’re really about as a candidate.

Tea Bagger said:

None of those brutes, except perhaps Mao had intellectual pretensions. But those that think critical theory, “social justice” and advocacy have a place in our universities, do have intellectual pretensions. They need to be whittled down to their “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” level, so they can be shown to be intellectually naked, and their divisive racist and class warfare rhetoric exposed.

The quote attributed to Mao – “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” – is correct. As soon as Mao and the Long Marchers consolidated political power over China in 1949, one of the first things that they did was require anyone who wasn’t either a member of the Chinese Communist Party or employed by the state security apparatus (military, police, etc.) to hand in any firearms that they possessed.

I suspect that the Founders realized it at some level, hence the Second Amendment, and writings like these:

“No Freeman shall be debarred the use of arms in his own lands or tenements”
– Thomas Jefferson

“. . . Arms in the hands of citizens to be used at individual descretion . . . in private self defense”
– John Adams

“Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who don’t.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The great object is that every man be armed . . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun.”
– Patrick Henry, Elliot Debates

“Mr. Madison has introduced his long expected amendments . . . The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.”
– Fisher Ames of Massachusetts

“. . . to disarm the people; that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them . . .”
– George Mason, Elliot Debates

“No Freeman shall be debarred the use of arms in his own lands or tenements”
– Thomas Jefferson

“. . . that the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up . . . .”
– Pennsylvania Declaration 1776

“The people are confirmed by the next article of their right to keep and bear their private arms”
– Tench Coxe (at the ratification of the 2nd Amendment)

“. . . the Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.”
– Samuel Adams, 1789 (Bill of Rights ratification)

Even some 20th-century big-spending Democrats realized what the Founders intended, and approved (or at least professed to approve):

“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.”
– Vice-President Hubert Humphrey

(I’ve got a 1.2 MB text file of these sort of quotes.)

Daniel Metcalf said:

……Think….what you will…….say…….what you feel you must………But…… Vote…… for those that are trying……..STOP……..The Liberal Left Wing Lunatic Progressive …….types

I’ve been waiting since 1998 for someone to provide evidence that Heather Wilson is anything but that. Haven’t seen it yet.

………its a whole new ball game………Are there RINO’s…..wondering around……….sure………is it easier to get a RINO……to vote Conservatively………or a Liberal Democrat

Is it now? I cite Heather’s voting record in the Congress from 1998 until 2008 as evidence to the contrary.

And here I was thinking that the whole point of the Tea Party movement was to hold these idiots’ feet to the fire. Was I wrong? Is the Tea Party and this “Conservative” movement now just another GOP schtick to get another crop of crypto-Trots elected?

PROVE ME WRONG HERE by not falling for whatever idiots Monty’s Coggie cliques puke up to run as candidates. Insist on some sort of principles where policies are concerned from the candidates instead of this vague notion of “electability” above all else.

If that’s too much to ask, then what’s the point of continuing on in this dog-and-pony show?

This one was too “good” for me to avoid getting a screenshot of it.

What a twit.

Here it is – got a screenshot of that one, too.

Maybe we could take up a donation for Brad and others of like mind.

I can chip in a few plastic bags, so he can lead by example and reduce his exhaled CO₂.

Since it’s obvious for the past month or so that He’s declared Himself the Final Arbiter Of What’s Appropriate To Post On NMPolitics.org, why hasn’t He blocked all of us that post the things He doesn’t approve of? Why haven’t our accounts been suspended or deleted?

Let’s see . . .

Waterfall TALF appears to have been a front corporation set up in the Caymans for the specific purpose of raking in corporate welfare from the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, a program set up by the Federal Reserve to motivate consumers to spend – basically, Ben Bernanke’s version of the Obama “stimulus package”.

So I ran a search for Waterfall TALF Koch, and could not find any articles pointing to any sort of connection between TALF and the Koch brothers.