Lefty infiltrators

We recently volunteered our services during the local Republican preference poll. A poor mans primary of sorts.   Out of the 375 voters that we personally assisted, we noted that about 115 of them registered as Instant Republicans on the spot.   UNFORTUNATELY, many of them then quickly requested another form so they could run back down the street and attend the Democratic Parties shin-dig. (Their parking lot was full of Subarus, that seemed to be held together by twenty or so bumper stickers each)   Since we had no choice but to overhear many of their conversations, it became more than obvious that many were there only to throw the vote within the Republican Party. While we had previously considered this to be a possibility, we did not expect to see it on such a large scale.

We would also note that many of them were quite confused by Ron Paul being on the Republican ballot. It would seem that this particular herd of pot-smokers thought he was going to appear on the list being fronted by the good comrades down the street…

A bemused Sourdough

While listening to various radio talk shows, we noted that several callers called to find out if they could register as a member one political party during the Alaska Caucus and then change back to their previous party immediately after the voting takes place.

Obviously this type of mischief is geared towards throwing an election.  For instance, if numerous Democrats changed their registration to the Republican party during the primary voting, they could insure that a conservative candidate was knocked out of the running by either splitting the votes or by momentarily supporting a liberal or Libertarian candidate.  McCain may have done something close to this during today's primary in West Virginia.  Thus Huckabee won, while he has no chance of a national endorsement.   Basically a McCain win. Which may turn itself into a Democrat win.
 

Republican Party gives conservatives the heave-ho….

Why did all the real conservatives find themselves cut from the Republican primary ticket before most of the country was able to vote?   Because many of the first primaries were open for anyone to vote.  Thus liberals were able to upset the apple cart and trim the conservatives from the Republican ticket before the majority of the voters could voice their opinions.    

Thus the conservatives no longer have a true conservative candidate running under the Republican party banner.  This will more than likely result in a last minute third party conservative candidate, Like Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party. 

 This will split the vote and ensure a liberal victory.

The second attack will come in the form of conservative voter apathy.  Many people simply will not vote.  Thus, another sure thing for the liberal socialist who now call themselves Democrats.

Of course there is always the liberal fall back position, just in case their Democratic Party liberal socialist candidates become irritating to the point that they fail to win as Democrats.   John McCain wins the office and the liberals still have a partial win. 

A boxed-in

We managed to endure a few minutes of prime time TV late night shows to watch former Senator Fred Thompson almost throw his hat into the ring.

We have reviewed his remarks concerning various subjects and find him to be fairly level headed in his writings.
We do not yet know how he will be able to react to non-scripted retorts, insults and remarks from the socialist.

We were rather happy with the way he moderated his answers on regular (lefty) TV.
While it is true that we personally like a deep-water conservative firebrand, we also need someone who can be elected.

You always drive much further in the car you can afford, compared to the one at the showroom that is out of your price range.

While gazing at a historical program (well at least one version of history) on PBS, we here at the homestead were amazed to hear the following broadcast schedule.

Jun. 28, 2007: PBS hosts a debate of the 2008 Democratic presidential candidates at Howard University in Washington, DC

We often question the place of taxpayer dollars in broadcasting television.

In this case we certainly question the use of our taxpayer dollars to beam political debates into our homes.

While we expected the democrats to jump on the “spending somebody else’s money” bandwagon, we are somewhat ashamed that the Republicans did not take to high road on this issue.

Setting aside the fact that PBS has no history of being neutral in political matters,,,, did we give them permission to squander our funds in this manner?

Let me get this straight;
Tax money for Troops in the field of battle, bad.
Our tax dollars for illegal aliens, bad art, failed social programs and now polical promotion, good.. 

A tightwad Sourdough.

Thirty years after Jimmy Carter

Back in 1977, (that is thirty years ago for you modern public school folks) we found ourselves serving in a military commanded by Jimmy Carter.

Military units did not have enough money for cleaning supplies, much less combat.
Within months there were gas lines leading away from every fueling station as folks attempted to buy the fuel required for their work commute.

As his administration continued, Central America fell into the hands of various communist juntas, Iran was overrun with Islamic radicals and Americans were taken hostage.

Here in the U.S. we had run-away inflation, big government land grabs and a new Federally imposed 55 mile per hour speed limit.

Had it not been for the release of the movie “Star Wars”, many a teenager from the late 1970s would not have known that there really were good guys and bad guys.

We still remember the immense relief during the hours following the election of Ronald Reagan, (four years later), particularly for those of us who were serving overseas. One minute our troops were not fit to frequent the streets of most third world of countries, as we were then considered cowards on the world stage. The next minute, there was a total realignment of world opinion, followed buy a couple months of anticipation.

As we all know, there then followed eight years of US national growth and the collapse of the Soviet empire.  Plus a good butt-kicking for a couple tin-pot dictators!

Now thirty years after the country embarrassed itself by placing Jimmy Carter in the White House, we have a new patch of voters who are not old enough to remember the havoc that a liberal Democratic party inflicted on the county three decades ago.

Unfortunately we also have a fair share of voters who are old enough to remember, but seem hell-bent on racking the country over the coals one more time. Some of those folks claim to belong to our party.

When you have elected officials who want to cut the food and anmo off from troops in the field, while at the same time throw our tax dollars to thousands of law breakers who have illegally invaded our country,,,,,
well,,,, we have big problems.....


A steamed Sourdough

We here on the homestead took a break from our annual break-up cleaning (the spring thaw for you non-Alaskans), just in time to hear former President Carter insulting the current White House administration.

We had the displeasure of serving on active duty under Jimmy Carter during the dark days of his administration. One would wonder how anyone could forget gas lines, runaway inflation, poor military wages, lack of equipment and no indication of a national policy.

While we will admit that the only true genius in the current administration is Condi Rice, we wonder just where Mr. Carter came upon the idea that he had some sort of moral high ground.

Of course one could consider the source;  being called incompetent by Jimmy Carter is somewhat like being called stupid by Mike Tyson. We are not sure it really counts.

While fortifying our defensive perimeter here on the homestead, we caught sight of more national news. It would appear that various political numbskulls think we need to fast track citizenship to the masses of illegal aliens now who now squat in our country.

We here on the Alaskan homestead are not opposed to immigrants in any way, in fact our lovely Mrs Sourdough came here LEGALLY some 25 years ago and earned her citizenship, served in the US military for 13 years and has earned a PHd. The difference being the words LEGAL and American.

In the most recent case, we are faced with hundreds of thousands of individuals who violated our laws and our borders. They have drained our tax base while avoiding responsibility for carrying their fair share of the load. They also hold themselves in contempt for our way of life, preferring to maintain the culture of the country from which they fled.

We are indeed a nation built by immigrants. However, those old world immigrants came here to be Americans, not to continue life as a colonial outpost representing some third world nation. They may have come from Poland, Germany, Ireland, China or Italy, but their kids all spoke US English, they built new towns and cities across the west and they all rallied around Old Glory when it came time to put things right in the countries of their birth.

This current situation circling the toilet bowl of congress is a slap in the face to all those legal immigrants still waiting to EARN their citizenship. What we have here are two groups wanting to buy a house. The first group finds a job, builds up credit and applies to the bank. The second group, lies, steals and breaks into the house. The flaming idiots in our congress think that the second group should get the green light to not only stay there, but give them the title free and clear as well.!!!

As we grunts used to say in nasty situations involving confusing orders, Whiskey- Tango-Foxtrot???

Republican Paladin is loosing it!

Here in the Last Frontier many of us hang our hat on the fence-post of aviation.

Many a homestead is supplied mail, food, building supplies, appliances and even returning college-age offspring through the wonders of commercial and Bush aviation.

Of course there are those who would love to over-tax this frail thread that tethers us last true Americans to the outside world.

So the politicians dreamed up a $25-per-flight air traffic control user fee—disguised as a "surcharge" in the Senate's latest FAA funding bill.   Although at the same time they cut a fuel tax for the major heavy airlines, (we wonder who greased who on this account?)

Of course the general aviation community rose up in protest, but apparently not quite enough, (or maybe the airlines have a larger wallet) because the amendment that would have deleted the $25 per- flight tax was defeated by ONE VOTE, A vote which came from the least expected place, TED STEVENS.

From the AOPA web site.

“Even Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who cast the tie-breaking vote to keep user fees in the bill, did so with hesitation. Referring to the effect of user fees on aircraft flying in Alaska, he said he thought there was "a bit of unfairness" in the bill, but he wanted to send it to the Senate floor……”

We here on the homestead noted that the only other Republican who voted to tax every flight was none other than John McCann, who is really much more of a Democrat than most registered Democrats.

So how did our Alaskan Paladin, a former WWII fighter Pilot, decide to vote against the interest of Alaskan Airmen?  Is he finally loosing his grip?  We here on the homestead certainly hope not.  Of course the recent allegations concerning his State Senator son have us wondering about that old adage concerning the apple tree and just how far the apple falls.

All in all, a dark day for those of us who are considered conservative Republicans here in the Last Frontier.

We are a more Cranky Sourdough today.

Here on the homestead we found ourselves compelled to watch a computer re-run of the last Republican debate, hoping that a conservative would float to the top. We are still somewhat confused as to just what was being debated.

While we Alaskans may appear to be somewhat “back-woodsy” we do know what a debate is supposed to be. Basically a civilized argument dreamed up by those folks in the lower 48 States. Something along the lines of Moose Meat versus Caribou or a Winchester rifle versus a Remington.

We had previously thought that such a debate would require the same question being asked of the various contestants. Apparently the word “debate” is now being used as a replacement for the term popularity contest. Here on the homestead we find that most of those who performed their acts during that debate, are now much less popular.

Some elections ago we found ourselves initially caught up with the Senator from Arizona, until we discovered that he was very far from a conservative and not that far from being unbalanced.

The former Mayor of New York seems to be the darling of the Foreign Press (anything outside Alaska, which now includes the Anchorage newspaper), but he has no base in conservative life whatsoever. Although we were impressed with his large ego which seems to rival that of the Arizona Senator.

The current third amongst those anointed by the press, the former Governor of that State which gave us the likes of John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, seemed to really enjoy his time on camera. But his obvious disregard for the Second Amendment leaves a taste in our mouths somewhat akin to stale porcupine tail. We do applaud him for supposedly being one of the few candidates who is still married to his first spouse. Although the generally personality of politicians makes us think of an old adage once told to us by a brother Peace Officer, “It is better to hire a Cop who has been thrown out of every bar in town, rather than a man who has never seen the inside of one” ...

Had there been any meaningful questions, we conservatives could have weeded out a few more of these semi-republicans. As it was, Fox News danced around asking questions about the Second Amendment like it was a pile of old bear scat. Had they really hammered that subject we suspect the Senator Duncan Hunter would have shined like a rainbow trout on a sunny afternoon. Since he appears to be a long term conservative we doubt that he will ever achieve much in the way of media support. Should he obtain popular support, we suspect that the media would turn on him like a pack of coyotes on a three legged rabbit.

Of course we did note the conspicuous absence of Fred Thompson and Newt. Both of whom either have the common sense not to get caught up in an early race which was prompted by the liberals and Sunday Socialist or perhaps neither has the overwhelming desire to bare themselves to the vulgar press and a rather uneducated voter base.

As things stand now, we are not impressed by the three leading Republican candidates, nor will we toss our vote out with the bathwater with some third party. We will hold onto our poles and hope for a better fish, but in the meantime we are stocking up for darker days ahead. 

The Cranky Alaskan Sourdough