J.D. HAYWORTH vs. JOHN McCAIN
Is this really a question conservatives have to spend much time answering?

People seem to be in a quandry because Sarah Palin is making some campaign appearances for Senator John McCain. Joe the Plumber is merely the most visible.

The question seems to be: “I like Sarah, but don’t like McCain. What ever am I to do?”

Surprisingly enough, that was the same question that millions of voters asked themselves in 2008. In that case, a great many held their noses for McCain while pulling the lever for Sarah.

What’s so hard about repeating that same strategy in 2010?

The only difference, it’s voters in Arizona who will make that decision while voters in the other 49 states cheer them on.

Adam Graham, Pajamas Media, sums it up nicely:

Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth (R-Arizona) is preparing to run against Senator John McCain for the U.S. Senate in this year’s Republican primary in Arizona. Some on the right, such as Glenn Beck, don’t agree with the decision of Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to campaign for McCain in Arizona.

Conservative angst over what Sarah Palin does or doesn’t do in Arizona does little good. Palin will go there out of a sense of personal loyalty to a man who brought her to national attention. Personal loyalty can run deeper than political ideology. And while personal loyalty can be to a fault, leadership is impossible without it.

The question isn’t: “What should Sarah do?” The question is: “What should conservatives do?” Whether it’s the tea party movement or the March for Life, conservatives can move from the grassroots, and the smart conservative move is for conservatives to support J.D. Hayworth.

Sarah or McCain?

If you like neither but are conservative, this is a no-brainer: you vote Hayworth and go back to what you were doing. If you like neither and are a Progressive, you most likely won’t be voting for Hayworth, anyway.

Sarah or McCain?

The Progressives in the Mainstream Media may think that this is such a puzzle that conservatives will not be able to answer the question without Progressive assistance.

It’s really no question at all. Unless you happen to think that 1-there is no difference between Sarah Palin and John McCain; 2-you place no value upon personal loyalty; or, 3-you have the same level of intellect that you’ll find at the highest levels of the Progressive Media complex.

IN the case of 1 and 3, you wouldn’t be voting for John McCain, Sarah Palin or J.D. Haysworth to begin with, so it doesn’t really matter what you think.

In the case of 2, you probably are a career politician, so the only thing you’ll consider is personal gain, so it doesn’t matter who endorses who: it’s all a personal calculus.

See? All of those incredibly hard questions posed by the elites in the MSM prove to be easily-answered after all.

And for Progressive readers, we’ll spell it out: Conservatives should vote for J.D. Hayworth.

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DECONSTRUCTING “PIG-IGNORANT”

Apparently, a Firedoglake poster got his panties in a wad when the Utah House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution urging the EPA to ditch its man-made CO2 regulations.

In this case, “pig ignorant” equals “I disagree with you, but have a hard time stating why my opinion is more settled than yours.”

From Late Night: Utah House of Representatives Declares Itself Gang of Pig-Ignorant (go to link if you want to see their links in the paragraph):

The biggest problem with 21st Century Conservatism isn’t so much that so many 21st Century are running around like absolute morons. No, the problem is that they are proud to be running around like absolute morons. Examples, of course, abound. But few spectacles illustrate the point more luridly than the Utah House of Representatives deciding to, essentially, stick an ostrich feather up its collective ass and wiggle it around in what it fondly imagines to be an insulting manner at Science.

What is it about the Left’s inability to disagree without dragging sexual visuals into it? First, it was “teabagger” for the Tea Party movement, now it’s substituting an ostrich feather for use in some sort of political colonoscopy fantasy.

The author, “thers”, even takes poor Don Surber to task because the prolific Poca-ite has the cojones to disagree with the Mighty thers?

thers’ bio states that he is “A community college professor from upstate NY. My wife & I have 347 children, all of them rotten.”

No word if thers and his wife have a stock of ostrich feathers handy.

Here’s an ass reference for the prof: If I’m one of those “347 children” and thers’ piece is a sample of what I’m getting in the classroom, I’m suing his ass for educational malpractice.

This is, unfortunately, thers’ unlucky day. Phil Jones is admitting that, gee, the science is not so settled after all–to say the least.

Leaving thers and the rest of the warming cultists hanging out to dry.

No word if their “collective ass” is covered yet or not.

NOTE: Surber replies:

“I’m so old, I remember when the watermelons (green on the outside, red in the middle) were mocking me for not believing in global cooling when it was 20 below in Cleveland.”

I remember that too.

Old cult, same as the new cult.

UPDATE: Hot Air highlights a story by the Times of London in Was there any actual warming to begin with?

The Times of London delivers a separate blow to the AGW movement today in a report on scientific review of the data used to claim man-made warming of the planet over the last few decades. Several researchers have found that the measurements of temperatures in the AGW record that showed temperature increases mainly came from land development and urbanization, not from actual temperature increases. They have made their findings public through peer-reviewed studies that come at a very bad time for the IPCC and AGW advocates:

Waiting for a response from thers that doesn’t include the hurling of invective. This may be an impossible handicap for the good professor: from looking at his FDL piece, he no doubt teaches rhetoric instead of science.

And poorly, at that.

UPDATE: Mark Steyn was even more astonished at CRU’s Phil Jones’ AGW about-face: Decline and Phil, and cites the following, revealing story from the UK Daily Mail.

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.
[...]
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.

We’ll have the good manners not to tell ‘thers’ where to put that information so it tickles.

PAY ATTENTION, YOU BASTARDS,
ETIQUETTE AHEAD!

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A PUBLIC SERVICE

There are times when someone provides a public service to others less fortunate. One such service was stumbled upon a few days ago.

Little Miss Attila (Break a rule? No need to call for back-up–her name itself provides the necessary authority) provides help for the blogging-challenged among us.

Blogging Guidelines: Ethical Concerns, and Advice—DRAFT 1

The need is great.

LMA is nothing if not versatile. Sometimes, her advice is gentle, providing etiquette tips for the unknowing.

Keep all of your block quotations to a reasonable length; try not to quote at great length unless the publication you are quoting is subscribtion-only, or out-of-print. Never quote an entire blog entry (unless it is exceedingly short, and part of a series).

Do not duplicate a picture of another blogger from their own site without their permission. Do not copy a photo or image of any kind from their site without proper credit and a link. Give a credit (and linkage, where appropriate) to any mainstream/legacy material you are using.

At other times, she’s positively Emily Post-al. About her own commenting policy:

I allow misogyny in my comments section, because it is generally directed at me, and I feel it shows the true colors of the woman-hating commenters. Any anti-male, anti-Asian, anti-gay, anti-tranny, anti-black, anti-American Indian, and anti-Jewish comments, though (or ones that look like they might be indicative of biases in that direction) generally get a warning, and a reminder that repeated offenses are subject to redaction, and banning. (Yeah, I have a little Native American in me, but most people don’t know that, and it doesn’t show in my picture, fair as I am. My half-sister is half-Syrian, though, so anti-Arab posters get cussed at. And my niece? Half-Polish, so don’t even fucking try that, either.)

And if you continue to ignore good Internet manners?

“Now go away, because I don’t want you as a reader. Thanks.”

Which is all as it should be.

NOTE: The commentariat at the LMA site provide a variety of helpful tips in the comments section.

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THE BASIC ILLOGIC THAT DEFINES PROGRESSIVISM

There’s are several basic disconnects that define Progressive thought. The following passage shines some light one of the most basic.

From DANIEL HENNINGER’s The Scalia v. Stevens Smackdown:

In the universe inhabited by Justice Stevens and President Obama, corporations—the private sector—are a suspect abstraction, ever tending toward “the worst urges” which have to be “comprehensively regulated.” The saints regulate the sinners.

If you think this way, what one does to the private sector, such as the proposed $90 billion bank tax, can never be wrong in any serious way, so long as the rationale offered is the “public good.” Private-sector players are seen as barely more than paid galley slaves on the ship of state. So it is with the health-care bill’s mammoth, comprehensive regulation of American medicine and insurance.

The basic disconnect is this: a collection of flawed men, acting out of self-interest, ambition and profit in the private sector is inherently evil and needs the strong foot of government on its neck. That same government that is composed of a collection of flawed men who act out of their own self-interest, ambition and profit.

In other words:

Private Companies = bad
Government = good

A corollary might be:

Private decisions = evil
Government decision = Good

And if you’re a Progressive, that’s about all you need to know to defend your positions on just about anything.

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RED ALERT, COMRADES!

This comes from infamous subversive IMaksim: Best Picture: Nonexistent Congressional District 9? .

By pointing out the dangers of investing in nonexistent Congressional districts using a nonexistent poster from a nonexistent movie, this IMaksim has proven himself intent on sowing discontent among the laboring masses who toil for the greater good of Proud Progressives everywhere.

This Imaksim convicts himself:

Nonexistent Congressional District 9 is a dark comedy about an incompetent liberal progressive government that claims to have funneled $6.4 billion in stimulus money to 440 congressional districts, which creates or saves 30,000 jobs. Hi-jinks ensue when it is discovered that the districts don’t exist.

Bah!

If captured, IMaksim is to be tried by a nonexistent jury of his nonexistent peers and imprisoned in a nonexistent prison for an indeterminate amount of time.

Failing that, we’ll content ourselves with awarding him this nearly nonexistent recognition.

Closely examine more of this renegade’s work and see if you don’t agree that this is truly a dangerous subversive we’re dealing with here: IMaksim.com.

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WE LIKE A GOOD RANT AS WELL AS THE NEXT GUY

We have to recognize a good job wherever we see it.

While surfing the web, we discovered a repository of the most varied anti-Obama invective imagined. It is located at No Left Turnz.

If you’re unhappy with the current president–and face it, who isn’t? At least if you work for a living–NLT is the place. We collected a sampling. Bon appetit!

John Brennan is upset. Using the most confusing of visual analogies, Brennan complained of a “500 mile screwdriver from Washington to Detroit”. I concur. I am upset over the ludicrous legal logistics and the cunning cartwheels of the Obama hacks relative to the Christmas Day Mooselim mambo.. After reading what he said about the situation, it would appear that Brennan is annoyed for a different reason. Relative to the “500 mile screwdriver”, I have visual analogies that are more appropriate and applicable to the Obama caliphate and I will reveal them a bit later on..
–The Victory

“My how the worm turns.. Just a few months after the Bolshevik beatification in Denver, the Demokratic deity who used to walk on water in the eyes of his liberal contemporaries, is now being called “Typhoid Barry” by those liberals who still wish to keep their seats at the tax trough in Washington..”
–Political Liability

It would appear that Barack O-bow-ma has plans in place to begin the systematic sequestering of the necessary revenues in order to pay for his historic “hope and change”. For the Red Staters, this is translated from the liberal obfuscation to “the stealth mode targeted tax increases on the middle class are being arranged as the money is needed to reward the liberal base of unproductive siphons and limousine liberals who donated to his campaign”..
–Too Little with Too Much

“Neil Barofsky has probably been taken off of the Obama Kwanzaa card list for 2010 and beyond. Barofsky, who has been tasked with overseeing the TARP “bailout” funds, of late has been as invisible as Boozer Biden who was left in charge of the “stimulus” and Rodham who was left in charge of buckets and mops.. This unexcused absence came to an abrupt end as Barofsky has released a quarterly report that paints the Obama progressive pogroms in a curt black and white with only a few shades of gray..”
–A Deeper Crisis

The above are just from the month of February. There’s more and much of it is amusing if you’re frustrated with the daily doublespeak that masquerades as policy statements from this White House.

Burp!

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Nothing says leadership like focusing on a non-existent problem while the Sword of Damocles hangs over Americans, Europeans, Israel and much of the Middle East; i.e., a nuclear Iran.

And nothing points out the absurdity of the entire situation like the above graphic by I Own the World’s Irony Curtain. See the original at Iran…… like a sissy from the REAL crisis for loads of colorful commentary by the IOTW commentariat.

Obama’s “smart power” response to Iran’s close to a nuke?

Let it snow, brother!

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