Archive for February 6th, 2010
Sarah Open Thread: Palin speaking at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville
UPDATE: Behold the State of the Union Address, circa 2013
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What did you think of Palin’s speech?
In short, Sarah Heath Palin is the defacto Shadow President of the United States right now. We hope very much she runs for President in 2012. She could change the world. She can save this country. We listen to her and are awed.
And not a TelePrompTer in site.
Imagine that.
Go, Sarah, Go!
You say the word, and we’ll be your ground team. GLADLY. And we bet more than a few of our regulars on this site will join you too.
Buzz Teams: February 6th, 2010
Since it’s Saturday, this is more a thought exercise than anything. But, use this as a brainstorming exercise to start thinking about what you want to do to get involved in the political process.
Think of it as exercise. Just like you go to the gym, and it takes a while to see the results you want, for us to defeat the Leftists in November, we need to start exercising our political muscles and honing our skills now.
2010 is the immediate goal at hand, but we also want to do things that get us ready for 2012 as well. If we want to prevent Leftists from rigging the Iowa Caucus, in particular, we need to organize a ground team there…and that takes time. We also need to prep to airlift as many people as possible to thwart the ACORN and SEIU thugs that will be bused in from Chicago in January 2012. It happened in 2008. We were there. We refuse to let Organizing for America, the DNC, and the Obama campaign do it again.
So, every day we want to suggest Action Items, for those of you who want to do something, but might not know exactly what to do. If we focus our energies, we can do what moderates, conservatives, and independents have never been able to do…deliver a counterpunch to Moveon.org and the other Soros-funded entities who are so good at collectivizing and organizing astroturfing operations.
It’s time to fight back. It’s our sincere hope other sites in the moderate/conservative/independent alliance start doing this too. Just think of what we can accomplish together.
Here are the Teams, and what impact we think they can have going forward:
Red Team: Calls, emails, writes letters, faxes, and focuses energy on elected officials. Can be converted to addressing corporations, networks, and other entities when needed.
Blue Team: Does research into issues, mysteries, and other questions of the moment.
Green Team: Fundraising experts. On some days, raising funds for good candidates. On other days, researching the big donors to bad Democrats. The Green Team cooperates with the Red Team and overlaps in areas relating to contacting the big Dem donors and asking them to stop supporting Leftists in office.
Gold Team: Using creativity to show Americans exactly what the Left is, how the Left is destroying this country, and how important it is to vote the Leftists out in 2010 and beyond.
Pink Team: Putting links to HillBuzz everywhere you can think of, increasing our profile, and sharing articles you like of ours with a wider audience. If you like what we do and agree with us, getting us to the attention of people in the national media means the Action Items we run can have a bigger impact, with a larger readership.
If you have other things you like to do every day, chime in and we can fold those into a Team too. Teams are informal, so you can pick one and hit those items daily, or you can do every Action Item that day, or pick and choose what things to do and not do.
We’re just trying to give you options, if you are in a place in your life where you are so concerned by what the Left is doing that you want to get involved and fight back, in a small way. These are the things we as private individuals do every day in some way…and we figured if we get more people involved in doing them, instead of the four of us at Buzzquarters making an impact, we could potentially have thousands of people across the country laser-directed and focused on winnable goals and productive, grassroots efforts.
REAL grassroots too, not paid Axelrod astroturfing trolls.
For whatever reason, the Left considers this little site a threat — hence the recent attacks on us and the harassment intended to make us stop what we are doing. Instead, we think we’ll just ramp up our efforts and fully commit ourselves to taking the Left down. These people are bullies of the worst order, and it’s high time Americans of all stripes joined together in shutting them down for a generation or two.
Not just because of what they do to us and people we care about, but because this is the Left’s game plan for 2010 and 2012: to beat down all opposition using brown shirt tactics, hoping the individuals they target never band together and hit back.
Well, they messed with the wrong people this time. They should have never brought the battle to Boystown. Because we intend to share everything we know about how Democrats operate with you, in a combined effort to dismantle the DNC and boot the Leftists from power.
Every day, if we just do one or two things each, we’ll get stronger and stronger, and much more effective in what we call can do.
The Left will never know what hit it.
Gone With the Wind…With Vampires
The mash-up craze of taking an old movie or novel and adding zombies, werewolves, sea monsters, and vampires is close to reaching its xenith.
We’re enjoying every minute of it…and are quite looking forward to Natalie Portman in the upcoming “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”.
What famous work would you mash-up with mummies?
Mummies never get any good play.
Something with Joan Crawford in it would be a little too on the nose, n’est pas? Unless it also involved herds of deer in some way, too. Then it would be such an enormous pun we’d just HAVE to love it.
Oh, and FYI, you are SO ready for some Pilsners at Sidetracks if you in any way got that joke.
Follow us on Twitter
Thanks to a great friend, we now have a Twitter feed setup, which will automatically import our posts. This Twitter stuff is beyond our technical understanding, but many of you have asked for it, so here it is.
We appreciate all the help we can get in spreading the Action Items, in particular, to as wide a receptive audience as possible. Anything we can do to help take down the Leftists and give people new tools they can use to bring the DNC to its knees and defeat the current president in 2012 is something we’d always love your help in making more effective and reachable to as many people as possible.
Our strength is writing original content and giving you our strategy advice. What we always need help with is spreading links, marketing, and getting our voice heard by a wider audience.
Anything you can ever do to help with that is always appreciated. The recent upsurge in attacks on us this last month means we are hitting a nerve. We hope there are many more nerves, and several major arteries, we can hit in the DNC between now and 2012.
That’s for damn sure.
One Year From Today, Sarah Palin Will Officially Declare Her Candidacy For President
Today is Ronald Reagan’s 99th birthday.
Next year is his centennial.
We believe one year from today Sarah Palin will officially declare her bid for the presidency, with the Reagan family at her side.
There’s a chance she’ll do this in Tampica, Illinois and not Wasilla, Alaska.
Governor Palin, if you ever read this, we hope you know you’ve got a ground team ready and willing to start hitting Iowa for you. You need to start early and not wait too long to get on top of the Caucus. Learn from the mistakes we all made on the Clinton ’08 campaign.
You can and will be the 45th president if you want it, Governor. We will do everything we can to help you.
One year from today, when you announce, we hope to be there in person to cheer you on.
Go, Sarah, Go!
Multi-piece Photoshop Challenge: Hera's List
H/t seapea
UPDATE: Thanks to seapea for the Hera pic. It is just what we wanted. It’s stunning. And it will form the heart of the “Hera’s List Project”
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Here’s something we’ve wanted to pull together, visually, for a while but have just not had the time. Perhaps you can help work on this multi-piece photoshop project. Here’s a rundown of the idea, and then the pieces we need.
Idea: We want to visually represent all the Democrats who backstabbed Hillary Clinton in 2008, and what’s happened to them since. We’ve done a few threads on this already, listing the comeuppance these backstabbers have received. John Edwards, the Kennedys, Bill Richardson, Howard Dean, the MSM, etc.
Our running joke, that at times doesn’t even seem like a joke anymore, is that Hera on Mount Olympus is systematically taking these people out…or that Hillary Clinton has a yellow, Uma Thurman-esque, yellow track suit and is, one-by-one, taking down all those who colluded to attack her 2008 presidential bid. We’d love to visually illustrate the sheer scope of what’s been going on with these backstabbers…and reveal how it’s all connected to some weird, rarely seen, sense of political karma.
What we envision is a very large chart, which shows Hera on Olympus, borrowing Zeus’s lightning bolts, or dispatching winged Furies to settle these scores. We’re also including all the bad things done by these same backstabbers, but to Sarah Palin too, since the MSM misogyny and sexism machine was cranked up to 11 against her after Clinton left the race. It’s really very impressive, how far most of these people have fallen.
We’d like a little graphic for each one of these people (Edwards, the Kennedys, Tim Russert, etc.) that we could add to a chart we can keep updating as more and more of these people fall victim to karma.
It’s obvious we’ll get much use of this over time.
We’d also like to make a nice chart, with three columns:
(1) Name of backstabber and photo
(2) What they did to Hillary or Sarah
(3) What bad things have happened to him/her/them since
SOMETHING certainly is at work against these people. If it’s not Hera, Fate, karma, or magic, it’s something else, more human, but nonetheless delicious.
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Here’s a photo of Hera we’ve been running:
But, it’s not how we really picture her. Instead, we see her as Nicole Kidman, like in this photo from The Golden Compass:
But, instead of a monkey on her shoulder, we’d love to see a peacock (symbol of Hera).
On her hand, we’d love to see a bee instead of that wasp (the bee’s our symbol).
In the background, instead of the city, we’d love to see Mount Olympus added behind the buildings already there.
Get rid of the “Mrs. Coulter Golden Monkey” wording and add something about Hera keeping a list of those who employ sexism and misogyny against Hillary and Palin.
Perhaps on the coffee table in the photo there could be magazines with Hillary and Palin on them, and in the chair there can be other souvenirs from the 2008 campaign.
There’s a lot of fun we can have with this image.
We see it as the central shot in that chart….and all around it we can have the lightning bolts and furies dispatched to take down all the many people who’ve had bad things happen to them since 2008…the year they backstabbed and attacked Hillary and Palin.
More thoughts on Evan Bayh
Working against Evan Bayh is difficult for us.
We’re still engaged in a process we’re sure, at this point, will ultimately lead to us campaigning against him, on the ground in Indiana this fall.
This is a process because we genuinely like Evan Bayh. Right here on the wall, a few feet from where we’re typing this, there’s a big photo of Bayh with three of us, at the reception before the Hillary Clinton campaign rally in Indianapolis where John Mellencamp performed. We got to talk to Bayh for a good ten minutes at that event, and it was one of the best chats we’ve ever had with a politician. He is a nice man. He worked hard for Hillary Clinton in 2008. Until Christmas 2008, we thought we would have done anything for Bayh. Never in our lives did we think we’d want to see him booted from the Senate. In an alternate universe where the nomination went to Clinton in 2008, Bayh would probably be Vice President today, and a future President down the road.
The ramifications of what the 60 Democrats in the Senate did the week before Christmas are still being felt…and understood by us.
We have told you that the behavior of the DNC’s Rules & Bylaws Committee on May 31st, 2008 was the permanent break we experienced with our loyalty to the Democrat Party. We have never looked at the DNC the same way again, and will never be blindly loyal to Democrats so long as we live. What they did at that meeting was so reprehensible and misguided that the DNC lost us for keeps.
All 60 Democrats in the Senate committed an error on that same magnitude on Christmas Eve 2008, when they voted on a Healthcare Rationing bill few of them read, and none of them fully understood. The week before Christmas, the hubris on display from these people was sickening. They worked in the dead of night, against the public will, on a piece of legislation written so poorly, with such contempt for the American people, in such a sloppy and amateur way, it might as well have been Michelle Obama’s Princeton thesis.
Disgusting.
It’s hard for us to ever turn against someone we like. Politics tends to get really personal with us. People who show us respect, and who work hard for people we support, tend to earn our respect and loyalty in return. We don’t turn on a dime, and we don’t abandon people we care about.
We cared about Evan Bayh. Very much. We really, really liked the man.
Until Christmas Eve.
Just as the Rules & Bylaws Committee Meeting in May of 2008 made us reevaluate the DNC permanently, Bayh’s behavior on Christmas Eve made us realize that there currently is no such thing as a moderate Democrat in the Senate. If there was such an animal, a moderate Democrat would never have voted YES on that Rationing bill. A moderate would have never supported a bill that partisan, that poorly written, which had to be forced through committees and voting procedures in the dead of night the week before a holiday because it was so detested by the American people. A moderate Democrat would have put the brakes on that madness.
No Democrat stood up against Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the current president.
Hence, there are no moderate Democrats in the Senate anymore.
They are all Leftists.
We do not support Leftists.
We only support moderate Democrats, Independents, and good Republicans. We will never support far-right religious zealots, and we won’t support far-left socialist hacks.
Evan Bayh, we hate to say, proved himself to be a far-left socialist hack on Christmas Eve.
And the people of Indiana should boot him from office because of that. All this time, he’s been lying to voters, assuring them that he’d be a voice of reason in Washington, a moderate in the thick of Liberal ranks who would stand tall and firm whenever the Democrats stampeded towards something crazy and un-American. Well, Bayh had his chance Christmas Eve. He did not stand up to his party. He did not sound the voice of reason. He voted as a partisan hack with no regard for what his constituents wanted.
He deserves to be retired.
No matter how nice he was to us at a cocktail party. No matter how kind he always was to us at political rallies. No matter how hard he worked for Hillary Clinton in 2008.
Bayh, it seems, lost our support permanently on Christmas Eve 2008…and we’re approaching the point, very quickly, where we’ll be comfortable enough with this reality to hit the ground in Indiana and tell everyone we can that we’re former Bayh supporters who would have done anything for this man, who now want him removed from office because of his behavior on Christmas Eve.
We guarantee you that if Bayh and others like him are taken out of “safe” Democrat seats, there will be a major coup at the DNC that could very well result in Dr. Utopia himself being taken off the ballot for 2012. Democrats are feckless and self-serving. The Liberal coup that took over the party in 2008 has only the staying power inherent in major donors sticking with them. If the big Democrat donors see Bayh and his peers fall, hard, in 2010, the people funding the DNC will know their ship has hit one massive, Liberal iceberg. They will throw those Liberal loons overboard, lickety-split. Starting with the captain of the current ship, Dr. Utopia himself.
Bayh is in real trouble, folks.
And with him, the entire DNC and the White House too.
