Current mood: amused

Subject: Working for Republicans?
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:57:54
From: Mike Blessing
To: LPNM-discuss, My public email archive, KCUF-Y, SWP-Y, TWS-Y, Ron Paul Albuquerque

Let us work our tails off for Republicans.

You do as you see fit.

My efforts are for those Republicans that actually MERIT such work.

The schtick about supporting any old socialist with a pile of other people’s cash just because that person has an “R” after his or her name just doesn’t cut it any more.

I’ve contacted the RNC for a Romney yard sign.

Slick Willard doesn’t fit the above category.

But I guess it’s my fault that the GOP seems to put its worst foot forward in the presidential race, just like they did in 2008.

This is what you get when you let the talking-head pundits run your candidate-selection process.

And it quite often trickles down to the down-ticket races – I cite Heather Wilson as an example.

There are two candidates that do merit support

Gary Johnson for President – http://garyjohnson2012.com

Jon Barrie for U.S. Senate – jonbarrieforsenate.com

NOTES

1. Reposted
   1. Personal blogs – WordPress / Yahoo!

   2. KCUF Media – Yahoo!
   3. LPUSA / LPNM – [lpnm-discuss] Yahoo! Group
   4. Partisans of the American Southwest Yahoo!
   5. The Weekly Sedition WordPress / Yahoo!
   6. Duke City Fix / NMPolitics.org / New Mexico Liberty / Ron Paul Albuquerque

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Comments I’ve posted

1. Posted to Facebook –

   “Tuskens are not meant to be cute.”

   Tuskens might find cause to disagree. Just sayin’ is all . . .

2. NMPolitics.org status posting –

   Where’s all the love for conservative Republicans like Heather Wilson and Mitt Romney?

3. Re: Gene’s Nickle – Vote Like we Live –

   So, a legitimate question is: why does the Republican Party continually champion moderate candidates.

   For the simple reason that “Conservatives” allow themselves to be taken for granted when they continue to support those same lousy candidates just because those candidates have an “(R)” after their names.

   Do I see “Conservatives” becoming vertebrates en masse during this election season by withholding votes from lousy (read socialist) Republican candidates like Wilson and Romney?

   No way.

   There’s a reason that libertarians refer to the GOP as the Star-Spangled Jellyfish.

Current mood: excited

If nothing else, please forward this on to someone who can use this information.

Sylvia Bokor [ http://sylviabokorcomments.blogspot.com/ ] wrote:

The word “accomplishment” refers to an action that results in a value, offers a benefit or enhances the enjoyment of life. It is an accomplishment to learn to play the piano. It is an accomplishment to be able to provide for one’s family by earning a living. It is an accomplishment to create a lovely garden.

It is not an accomplishment to take from those who earn their living and give it to others. That’s called looting.

It is not an accomplishment to force men to waste their time filling out paperwork, or to force them to take actions over which they have no say and with which they do not agree. That’s called enslavement.

It is not an accomplishment to pretend you have done work you have not done, to make false statements, or to make claims to property that is not yours. That’s dishonest. It’s called cheating.

If the Left’s intention in publicizing Obama’s “accomplishments” was to show how wonderful Obama is, they miscalculated. The lists actually show the extent to which his Administration has violated individual rights, throttled businesses, straight-jacket banking operations, interfered with overseas investment, intruded upon private enterprise compensation practices, established offices of soviet-style czars to harass and control hundreds of business activities.

In short, they constitute a clear picture of what the Left is after: statism.

Statism is the most corrupt of political ideas because it holds that might makes right, that men are slaves born only to serve and enrich their rulers, without benefit to themselves, without recognition of their rights, without recourse to law or justice.

The Left’s ideas are destructive. But come November they could win if those who can fight them and should fight them refuse to fight them.

If you are in a leadership position in a political party and you withhold money from deserving candidates who have major grassroots support, who champion de-regulation, free markets and individual rights, you are refusing to fight the Left’s destructive ideas, statism.

If you are a voter that deplores Obama’s policies but do nothing to support those who oppose those policies, you are refusing to fight the Left’s destructive ideas, statism.

I agree one hundred percent.

So I take it you’ll be supporting the true Tea Party candidates in the general election:

Gary Johnson for president – http://garyjohnson2012.com

Jon Barrie for U.S. Senate – http://jonbarrieforsenate.com

Anything else really is a wasted vote.

I’ve been “Tea Party” since 1996, when I started publicly stumping for individual rights, Constitutionally-limited government and fiscal restraint in the public sector.

Gary Johnson has been “Tea Party” in the same sense since 1994.

Johnson spent eight years as Governor of New Mexico supporting “Tea Party” values – he kept the state in the black for all of that time, while managing to get re-elected in a state that’s 2-to-1 of the opposing party.

During those eight years, Johnson never treated gun owners (or any other group, that I could tell) as a political soccer ball, to be kicked around from the bully pulpit at a whim.

There’s a reason they call it the bully pulpit.

This stands in stark contrast to any other of the candidates for the presidency that I’ve seen. Most of them like to rhetorically stomp on one group or another for political brownie points. Not so with Gary Johnson. None are as . . . presidential as Johnson.

As for the other “big two” – both are anti-gun-owner bigots at heart, and the one who was a governor signed off on a plan to take over health care that was plagiarized on the national scene by the staff of the one who was a senator.

The big differences between them don’t seem to be of philosophy or ethics, but of severity and priorities.

Concerning the U.S. Senate seat from New Mexico that’s up for grabs – New Mexicans can play eenie-weenie-mighty-mo with the two socialist candidates who won the primaries last night. Or they can vote “Tea Party” by supporting Jon Barrie.

I’ve never met Jon, but I’d like to. He’s campaigning as a Christian conservative, yet was recommended to me by a long-time libertarian who’s an enthusiastic pot smoker and atheist.

Jon appears to be running his campaign the way a campaign should be run – by volunteers on a shoestring budget. Thus he needs all the help we can give him.

To start, Jon needs signatures on nominating petitions to get on the ballot. For those inclined to help, he’s got the paperwork all ready to go on his site.

That will be all for now. Thank you for reading.

Mike Blessing / http://mikewb1971.xanga.com / Phone – 505-515-7015

Who owns you? Who runs your life? Who should – you or someone else?
Freedom is the answer – what’s the question?

“If you wanna live long on your own terms
You gotta be willing to crash and burn”
– Motley Crue, “Primal Scream”

NOTES

1. Reposted –
   1. Personal blogs – Blogspot / LiveJournal / Tumblr / WordPress / Yahoo!

   2. KCUF Media – Blogspot / Xanga / Yahoo!
   3. LPUSA / LPNM – [lpnm-discuss] Yahoo! Group
   4. Partisans of the American Southwest – WordPress / Yahoo!
   5. Duke City Fix / NMPolitics.org / New Mexico Liberty

Today in history

Comments I’ve posted

1. Posted to Facebook –

   The gripe that I have about Johnson was the Adela Martinez case from 1995 to about 1999, when Johnson’s Tourism Secretary, Alex Garcia, pressed the case forward so the State could take Martinez’s house using eminent domain in order to build the Elephante Blanco Cultural Center at Bridge and 4th St SW in Albuquerque. They ended up building the place *around* her house, making her and her home a de facto exhibit. The least that they could have done was named it after her after she died.

   The lawsuit that Martinez’s family filed in response to Garcia’s BS ended up costing them 200K, if I recall correctly.

   Anyway, I’m not sure that I’ll run for re-election as State Chair. Right now, my main goal is to raise 10K to pay off Steve Curtis for the Woodruff lawsuit.

   Joseph, you may be right that the organization is developing a life and mind of its own, regardless of founding principles.

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Comments I’ve posted

1. Posted to Facebook –

   Remember that a tax on corporate income always ends up as a de facto “gross receipts tax,” as that tax is a cost of doing business, and thus the corporate officers find ways to tack that tax onto the end consumers’ bill.

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