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"Staying Vigilant"
The tea party movement is the embodiment of what normal every day working people SHOULD HAVE BEEN doing all along. Vigilance is demanding and tiring but it IS necessary.
Joe Wilson has gotten a lot of attention from the Tea Party folks due to his "You lie!" outburst a while back. When they heard of his testimonial supporting the traitor Lindsey Graham, many of them went ballistic. They don't know Joe like I know Joe.
Joe Wilson has always been milquetoast on about every issue he supports and, like his good buddy, Graham, voted for the TARP bail out of rich, elitist bankers and more.
Being in his district, I have, on multiple occasions asked Wilson to take the lead on many important issues promoted now by the tea party movement. He has always been the reluctant conservative. For example, he was afraid to speak up too much on illegal aliens because, as he told me once in person, he didn't want to appear "racist."
SCREW THAT! The press will always vilify true conservatives. Wilson should have never run for office if he can't take the heat.
Until his "you lie!" comment, Wilson has done a great impression of the Invisible Man. (Even there, I really think Wilson did not expect his comment to be heard as he was probably expecting a general hub-bub from his section as had occurred on the two previous statements by Obama.)
Wilson has been the recipient of a LOT of campaign cash directly from Graham's surplus. There's more than friendship involved there. Graham has funneled cash to as many potential rivals in the primaries as possible. He also had $305 million worth of earmarks in FY2007 to buy off as many Dems as he could for the 2008 elections. It worked.
Now Graham and McCain are prancing all over the country to find neo-con candidates and funnel cash to them for the Republican primaries next year. They're taking the true conservatives' backlash and attempting political jujitsu to transform it into a neo-con victory at the polls.
I would say that, in doing so--as he has openly bragged about--Graham, along with McCain, have continued their personal vendetta against conservatives with principles in the party.
If there is infighting, especially given Graham's vicious ad hominem rhetoric (that I have personally witnessed on several occasions) it is Graham and McCain--along with enablers like Wilson--that are trying to make the party a permanent minority.
What we need are MORE attacks on these corrupt politicians and MORE vigilance by the citizens. Their outcries against Wilson's support of Graham are a welcome sound to those who have watched the creeping socialism aided and abetted by gutless wonders in the Republican party.
Contrary to many people's intuition, a basic reality in dealing with politicians is that they only respond to pain. We need to make it as painful as possible for them. It has worked for the left for a long time and, yes, even at the risk of looking like them on the surface, we need to get JUST AS ACTIVIST in our politics if we want to save this country.
For those who might still be hesitant, I submit that we might as well try this since McCain and Graham's big tent HAS NOT WORKED! (Part of the problem is that the tent is inclusive of Dems and liberal Republicans but NOT libertarian/Constitutional conservatives.)
We need FIGHTERS in D.C. and at home. We need folks who will be willing to go down in flames vs. "staying in the game" with their own Dem-Lite Constitutionally illegal programs. More often than not, we may be surprised to find ourselves making real progress in returning our country to a true federal republican form of government.
We need the politicians to always keep the argument on the Constitutionality of each and every submitted bill. If the politicians idiotically complaining about reading long bills don't want to read them, they can stop at the FIRST Constitutionally questionable item and vote AGAINST passage of the bill.
It's really that simple.
We need it that simple. Complexity (fascism/socialism) breeds gray areas that in turn breed corruption. The Constitution is all about keeping it simple. If we were to return to it, we'd find most issues settled at the state levels rather than the leviathan, omnipotent central government solutions that moderate and liberal Republicans frequently complain about but never DO anything about.
If a politician is soft on socialism/fascism, he's a huge part of the problem. At the very least, he should be criticized until he comes around or is replaced with someone more conservative. If we don't recognize the necessity for this strategy and actually implement it, we'll keep getting outmaneuvered by the liberals.
wtc
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