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Item:  So this is why libertarians never win elections…

Well, Sarah Palin can celebrate now:  the leftwing news media has discovered a new boogeyman to hound, and his name is Rand Paul, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky.  Though nominally a Republican, Mr. Paul is in fact a libertarian, as is his father, Texas Congressman Ron Paul.  While libertarian views tend to be technically correct about what the Constitution actually says, those GOP voters in Kentucky who nominated Mr. Paul for this senate seat are about to find out exactly why it is that the Libertarian Party seldom fields candidates who can actually win elections.

Libertarianism is all about telling people what the government cannot do for them.  Like it or not, the truth about America is that most voters want to know what the government can do for them, and base their voting decisions accordingly.  In a poll released just after last Tuesday's primary vote, Mr. Paul led his Democrat opponent by more than 20%.  You can bet that the leftist news media will make sure that gap closes quickly – helped along by the foot-in-mouth disease that Mr. Paul inherited from his father – and that what ought to be an easy Republican win in November will instead become a nail-biter at best, and possibly even a Democrat win.

Item:  Blumenthal is the left's latest gold medalist.

So a Democrat politician is revealed to be a bald-faced liar, and liberals rally around him in support.  What else is new?  From Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to Al Gore to John Kerry to Barack Obama, American liberals have made it obvious for a long, long time that bald-faced liars have real political potential as far as they're concerned.

The latest winner of the liberal gold medal for creative prevarication is Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who has now been starkly revealed to have repeatedly lied throughout his political career about having served in Vietnam.  Were he a Republican, Mr. Blumenthal would not only be removed as the Party's nominee for higher office, he would be hounded from the AG's job by the leftwing news media.

But because he's a Democrat, the reaction from the news media has been a round of perfunctory reporting on the matter that will soon die away, and a statement from the Obama Administration that its support for Blumenthal has not changed.  Knowing this would be the case, Blumenthal last week responded to the revelation of his serial lying with a statement that he would not allow his record to be attacked.

His "record" is that of a bald-faced liar, which makes him the perfect liberal candidate for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut.

Item:  The Great Climate Fraud Morphs into the Great Species Fraud.

If you thought that the death of Global Warming as a viable driver of government policy means you can relax a little bit, think again.  As is always the case with the world socialist movement – the driver behind Al Gore's Great Climate Fraud - the death of one political fraud only gives birth to the next.  As of Friday, May 21, we know what that next fraud will be.

On Friday, the United Nations leaked excerpts from its soon-to-be-published fake study on endangered species, and in the process made it obvious that this will be the next great cause of world socialism.  For those who closely followed the political drivers of the Great Climate Fraud, it will come as no surprise that this Great Species Fraud will advocate that the UN report will advocate:

• "...a whole sale revolution in the way humans do business, consume, and think about their lives." And
• "…massive changes to the way the global economy is run."

In other words, like the Great Climate Fraud, the Great Species Fraud will be little more than a concerted attack on the free market industrial economies of Western Europe, and more importantly, the United States of America.  The devolution of market-based economies to the socialist model – with ever-increasing influence of the UN and other world government organizations – has been the singular focus of socialists around the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989.

The collapse of the Great Climate Fraud changes nothing in that regard, and the frightening fact of the matter is that this kind of thinking completely dominates the Democrat Party at the national level, and pervades the senior leadership of the Obama Administration.

So while we should all celebrate the death of fake climate "science" as a driver of government policy, we mustn't kid ourselves that the world socialist movement has died along with it.   These people are like zombies – they just keep coming back from the grave to try to strangle us.

The Tea Party Demonization Campaign Continues

The single most consistent truism in American political life is this:  If you see a liberal/leftist/progressive/ socialist/neo-fascist accusing conservatives of engaging in some unseemly behavior, you can be absolutely, positively certain that said liberal/leftist/progressive/socialist/neo-fascist is either currently engaging in the exact same behavior or has done so in the past.  This absolute truism has never been more starkly on display than in the ongoing effort by the Democrat Party and its propaganda arm in the old, tired, dying leftist news media to demonize the millions of ordinary Americans who participate in the Tea Party rallies all over the country.

A couple of weeks ago we detailed how several members of congress leveled obviously false charges that Tea Party participants in Washington hurled racial and homophobic epithets at them as they filed into the capital building.  That effort having been exposed as a fraud and failing to move the public opinion needle away from the Tea Partiers, the Democrats and their media agents redoubled their efforts last week, desperate to find some traction as the November elections grow ever more near.

The fun started with Chris Matthews, who believe it or not is still on MSNBC, hosting a show viewed by literally dozens of people late each afternoon.  Mr. Matthews went into a literal hissy fit – the kind only smarmy leftwingers can throw – after hearing Rush Limbaugh refer to the current administration as the Obama "Regime" on his radio program.  Matthews went on and on about how the use of that specific word is simply unacceptable in American public discourse, contending Limbaugh should be shunned for having used it to refer to any duly-elected American president, because in so doing he might incite those evil Tea Partiers to violent behavior.

One problem:  a cursory Google search on the term "Bush Regime" returned 1.4 million hits, including hundreds of examples of its use by Democrat members of congress, and several instances when Matthews himself used the term to refer to the George W. Bush Administration. 

Oops.

Next we had NY Times columnist Frank Rich, in his Saturday column, trotting out the tired and disgusting canard that the only reason why the Tea Partiers oppose the current President's policies is due to their inherent racism.  He went on to contend that race is in fact the sole motivating factor of the Tea Parties, and that Republican politicians who encourage the Tea Parties are in fact inciting violence and risking creating another Timothy McVeigh.  This from a guy who never had word one to say about the hundreds of real violent protests conducted by those on the far left during the Bush years, and who has never had a word to say about real race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and the criminal behavior their acts have provoked over the years.

Not content to merely use media tools to drumbeat this "Tea Partiers = Violent Racists" message into the public consciousness, the Democrats trotted out the big gun over the weekend in the form of former President and Oval Office Fornicator Bill Clinton.  At an event recognizing the 15^th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing, the former Prevaricator in Chief built upon Rich's comparison of the Tea Partiers as one big Timothy McVeigh waiting to happen, stating that the rhetoric he is hearing from the Tea Parties today is reminiscent of the rhetoric he heard from the right prior to McVeigh's atrocity.  Those of us with long memories will remember that Clinton, on the advice of pollster Dick Morris, disgracefully used the tragic deaths of almost 200 Americans as a tool for attacking his political enemies, attempting to blame the event on conservative talk radio hosts like Limbaugh, instead of the abuses of the FBI under his own watch at Mount Carmel and the earlier incident at Ruby Ridge, as McVeigh himself attested to.

Not content with merely labeling millions of ordinary Americans as hateful, violent, racist terrorists, the Democrat demonization campaign continued onto the Sunday morning talk shows, where Time Magazine leftist nitwit Joe Klein accused Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin – and by extension, the Tea Partiers – of making statements that border on "sedition".  To quote Klein:  " I looked up the definition of sedition which is conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of the state. And a lot of these statements… rub right up close to being seditious."

Oh, ok, so now those on the radical political left would have you all believe that statements criticizing the taxing and spending excesses of this Administration and congress are somehow seditious in nature.   This is life in the liberal zoo carried to its logical conclusion:  any idea contrary to those held by the poobahs of American leftism must be criminalized in order to be shut down, because those on the left have no means of making any fact-based argument to refute them.

At long last, it has come to this.  November cannot get here soon enough.

Tuesday Morning Roundup

Interesting stuff out there this morning, especially if you want more insight into the President's thought process regarding his policy priorities.  I've told you for a year now that this guy is a true believer radical leftist, and unlike Bill Clinton, getting re-elected is not his first priority.

If you need confirmation of that from the horse's mouth check out this video.  "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president."  To a Saul Alinsky (the real spiritual head of today's Democrat Party, pictured at left) disciple, that  means he'd rather keep trying to institutionalize as much neo-fascist policy as he possibly can over the next three years, whether via legislation or regulation (like the EPA's move to regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act), than worry about moderating himself in order to improve his public standing and increase his chances for re-election.

This is a very, very dangerous man.