Shellings from the Peanut Gallery

There are times when one can no longer remain confined.
It matters not that one agrees or disagrees.
It matters only that the shell that binds be cracked and thrown off.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Fred Thompson in Trouble: Are All Other Republicans as Well?

Dissection and comment on this article by JB Williams from Jan 21, 2008 is certainly warranted, as he continues to perpetuate the lies on the mystical Fred Thompson candidacy. Mr. Williams wastes no time in getting straight to the point, however, he may have inadvertently pronounced the truth in his opening lines, albeit by crafty word placement.


-- Fred Thompson was drafted by the conservative base of the Republican Party for two very simple reasons. One, the Republican National Committee offered no other viable conservative choice and two, only a true traditional conservative can challenge today's Democratic Socialists. --


First let's address the second sentence with its carefully placed modifiers.
1. ...the Republican National Committee offered no other viable conservative choice...


Translation: The RNC would not support an actual conservative so they concocted the "viable" meme to feed the sheep, by force if necessary.
To whom are we obliged for this definition of viable. I recall reading articles in early December 2006 about Congressman Hunter and his intention to run for the presidency and the adjectives being used were dark horse, long shot, and of course, viable, preceded by not, remained firmly in place and part of the equation until he ended the campaign a few days ago. It was tiresome two years prior to the election and became downright annoying as time went by.


To continue --
2. …only a “true traditional conservative” can challenge today's Democratic Socialists.


Translation: We are so dizzy with the spinning we have been doing that we are fresh out of arguments, so we will now simply dazzle you with bullshit.


How can one possibly argue with that sentence? The original definition of conservative has been bastardized to the point where a simple conservative could not find their way out of a paper bag. Therefore, they must be not only a “conservative“, but a “true” one at that. But wait, there is more…they are now required to be “traditional” in their “true” act of being a “conservative” all the while continuing to remain “viable.”


Now for the first sentence of this literary masterpiece:
-- Fred Thompson was drafted by the conservative base of the Republican Party for two very simple reasons. --


No Mr. Williams, it was not the “conservative base” that “drafted old Fred, it was the jack booted thugs of the Republican party, aka the Party Faithful Squadron.


The RNC intends to merge the United States with Mexico and Canada, forming the North American Union, and the ignorant masses are not about to stop them. After the crushing defeat of the Amnesty Shamnesty bill last summer, the conservative base wanted an actual bona fide conservative, who values his country and its sovereignty. This simply could not be permitted!


With that, the party faithful jumped into action with the farcical draft plan for the great conciliator, Fred Thompson. With his minimal experience and miniscule senate record, Fred was a likely choice with his "aw shucks" demeanor and great acting skills. Who would dare cross the originator of the most egregious anti-free speech laws in our country? Add the fact he spent his entire senate career in the Senate Centrist Coalition, and he was the perfect candidate to derail those that were undesirable to the "party" and their ultimate goals.


While conservative Congressmen Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo and Senator Sam Brownback were legitimately in the race beating the campaign trail, these dark forces were working in the shadows to "draft" a so-called "conservative" to dispose of them. They spent more months promoting and campaigning for "their" candidate than said candidate actually spent in the race. Hopefully this small band of party faithful are still trying to make the room slow down from all the spinning they took part in the past 10 or so months.


Wow, you have got to love this one:
-- He was asked to put his personal life on hold, and answer the call to serve his fellow conservatives in desperate need of real conservative leadership. --


Using “real conservative leadership” in the same sentence with Fred Thompson is an oxymoron. It would appear no one was interested in scrutinizing Fred’s actual senate record. I must admit it is quite tedious scrolling through all the nonsense at the Library of Congress website and highly recommend it for insomnia. However, Fred’s record does not inspire thoughts of leadership and certainly not that of a “real conservative.”


No where in this article does JB, I hope I can call him that after all the time I have spent on his article, show his abject ignorance more than in this little quip:


-- No conservative including Thompson, had any chance of winning in Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan or Nevada, all heavily liberal, which delivered three different winners in four primaries. --


If Iowa and Nevada are heavily liberal, then New Hampshire must be heavily conservative and Michigan must be conservative leaning. Do these so-called journalists do any research? Do they think the sheeple will simply drink their bilge with no thought or research into the subject? JB, may also take note of the fact that 2 of those 3 winners are the religion candidates, which many equate with conservative principles.


Yes, there is more:
-- NO Republican can win in November without the support of the Republican base of the party. And none of the new front-runners, McCain, Romney, or Huckabee will enter November with the base of their party intact. --


I guess this all depends to which base JB is referring. It would now seem likely the Republican base and the Conservative base are two different bases situated at opposite ends of the spectrum.


-- Thompson is the only Republican candidate who can bring all Republicans into the voting booth in November, yet too many Republicans choose to ignore this reality. --


(From here on I will be writing in the past tense, after learning Fred has quit the race.)


I could not disagree with this statement more if I tried. Fred was the establishment candidate. He was their compromise candidate. He was their stealth candidate. He was the spoiler candidate for the actual “true traditional conservative” candidates. His reputation was a myth and few fell for his unconvincing performance despite the rave reviews you and those like you continued to give him. Organizations like the Right to Life and NumbersUSA, to name but two, the so-called conservative alternative media sources and pundits prostituted themselves, losing all credibility, for this whimsical, faux candidate.


-- Conservatives understand that America has exactly the government it deserves at all times, as it always has the government it elected. Before the government can change, the people who elect it must change. --


Before any further comment on this, let me just quote our old buddy, Uncle Joe Stalin:

“It is enough that the people know there was an election.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
The people who count the votes decide everything.”


-- If Republicans are not yet ready to nominate a conservative, then the nation can not elect a conservative. --


Approximately 1.6 million people have voted thus far in only 6 states. To be calling the primary election now and surrendering the general election over 9 months out, is a bit more defeatism than I can take at this stage of the game. Stop repeating the lie.


-- Republicans are well on their way to plotting their own defeat in November and there is nothing anyone can do to stop them. Thompson has been telling it exactly as it is, but only core conservatives are listening. --


There is no arguing the first part, albeit the Kennedy Wing of globalist elite from the Republican Party. I will take great exception with the latter.

Fred has said nothing of great value and talked in circles more than anything else. There was a voice calling out from the wilderness however, and he was completely blacked out.


Pravda-USA and the rest of the Enemedia have taken over the primary election cycle with the complicity of the Party and no resistance from the people. I suspect the Party is behind a great deal of the repeated misinformation. As Lenin said;

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

Where lies would not be tolerated, with respect to Duncan Hunter, the communist playbook called for ignore-ignore-ignore, followed by deny-deny-deny. Worked like a charm. Another great quote from Uncle Joe is apropos:

"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."


-- There’s nothing left to do, but to allow all other Republican learn the hard way. The Republican Party is either America’s conservative party, or it is an obsolete unnecessary evil. Republican voters are choosing to make it the latter. --


Me thinks thou doest surrender too quickly and with no fight whatsoever! That is disturbing and I pray the American people, if they ever wake the heck up, will not lay down as quickly and quietly as you did.


I do believe the verdict is in on the Republican Party…it is no longer America’s conservative party, therefore it is an obsolete unnecessary evil.


However, Republican voters have chosen nothing as of yet. Only 5 states have actually allowed the people to vote and at least 2 of them, as I recall, have open primaries where cross-over voters may have had a huge effect on the outcome. Far too early to give up.


This election cycle has reached a new juncture that will hopefully take a new direction…to the RIGHT!





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