Archive for August, 2010
Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman comes out — he needs to bring Aaron Schock and Mark Kirk with him
Aaron Schock and Mark Kirk are two Republican men in elected office who are gay.
Very much gay, though not quite fabulous.
They’re a sort of Kevin Spacey level of gay, with Schock getting a light sprinkling of Neil Patrick Harris cuteness.
We’ve personally seen Aaron Schock hanging out in a gay bar here in Boystown called MiniBar, over the extended Pride weekend last year, being very cozy and chummy with several hotties the Chicago Young Republicans set him up with around the time of their big membership event that year. It was most definitely Schock, as he was still wearing the white polo and khakis he wore to an event a few hours before, thinking no one in Boystown would know who he was.
We know of several young Republicans here in Chicago who fooled around with Schock, during other visits he made to the city. It’s as easy to find these guys as it is to find young professionals working in the Loop who got their first jobs after messing around with Rahm Emanuel for a while. We wouldn’t even call this sort of thing an open secret, because there’s nothing “secret” about it. Closeted gay Democrats do it. Gay Republicans do it. Gay movie stars, actors, writers, producers, and, yes, presidents, do it.
Everyone in the GOP here in Illinois knows about Schock, just as they know about Mark Kirk being gay as well. Though, in Kirk’s case, anyone possessing a functioning pair of eyes can tell he is gay, just by looking at him. He has the most clear and extreme case of gay face we’ve seen since Liberace.
Kirk’s ex-wife was recently interviewed by Gay Chicago Magazine for something and went on record saying that Kirk told her, point blank, that he’s lying about his stance on DADT during his campaign because he wants to win election, and that his plan is to support the repeal of DADT after he’s in office. “I’m tricking them,” he apparently giggled, “cause I’m such a good trickster. I fool everybody!”.
The wife, when pressed about whether Kirk was gay or not himself, took a very Byzantine, and lawyerly, path around answering that question directly. She said something to the fact of, “Well, look at him, look at his face, the way he talks and acts, the fact he wasn’t married until his late 40s, that he has no children, so those are the kinds of things that people associate with a gay man”. Then she just stared blankly at the reporter and waited for the interview to be finished. She may have pretended to fall asleep, or die, so no one would ask her any more questions.
It was hilarious reading, because if Kirk was straight, his ex-wife would have answered the question by saying: “My ex-husband, Mark Kirk, is straight. He is not a gay man. He is a heterosexual”.
She could have then inserted affirmations of his He-Man, Woman-Loving, Cowboy-Meets-Caveman-By-Way-Of-NBA-Star Sexual Prowess, if she so chose, as the case may have been.
Instead, the gentle, lulling sound of crickets was evidently more appropriate.
Ex-Mrs. Kirk didn’t want to lie, so she didn’t say Kirk is straight (when he is not), and instead did what all of us do whenever anyone asks if we think they are fat:
“Well, I think you’re full of life, and your personality fills a room, and you have such pretty eyes, and the reason people might say you are fat is because your clothes are too tight and maybe you would be considered obese if you took one of those tests on the computer, with your weight and your height, so those are the kinds of things that people associate with someone they would call fat”.
If you weren’t fat, and you asked us directly, we’d say you weren’t fat, DIRECTLY. If you were fat, and we didn’t want to tell you that, we’d tapdance around the fat question and say a bunch of noncommittal nonsense you could take as you liked it.
Republicans just don’t understand how dangerous it is for them to keep putting closeted gay men into elected offices, when anyone who is paying the least bit of attention knows they are gay.
Schock and Kirk are known to be gay by both Democrats and Republicans. Democrats love gay Republicans because they can so easily be blackmailed. If you notice, the State Media never touches Kirk, so long as Kirk toes the line and does what the Left wants. During this campaign, however, Kirk started speaking out against DADT repeal and so a gay filmmaker came forward with his tales of Kirk going to gay cocktail parties in Washington, pinching young waiters on the butt, and generally ogling attractive males in the room like Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion chasing his bunnies. We’ve seen Kirk behave like this here in Chicago, at the cocktail parties the Romney Republican, cucumbers-and-mayonnaise crowd love so damn much. Literally, like in a bad movie, if a hot waiter or bartender walks by in his tuxedo shirt and tight black pants, Kirk’s tongue rolls out of his mouth, his eyes bug out, he loses his train of thought, and he watches the young man walk across the room. “Hate to see you go, but sure love to watch you walk away” is what he seems to be thinking.
It is as clear as day for anyone who wants to see this.
The problem here in Illinois is that the GOP establishment is very “it’s his turn”. The reason Mark Kirk is the GOP nominee for Senate is because:
(1) The GOP seems to believe that his being gay is not a big deal, because Democrats won’t out him unless he goes against a gay issue, so they’ll just have Kirk vote “present” on anything gay to not draw their ire. Kirk, they feel, can be controlled because he wants to keep pretending he is straight, so maybe the RNC blackmails guys like this as much as the DNC does. But, the man smells like lavender hand soap. He has the handshake of a dead fish. We’d be surprised if his ringtone WASN’T something from the Justin Beiber oeuvre. Republicans just don’t seem to understand that this is all a potential problem waiting to explode, because Kirk’s not just quietly gay, in a way that’s never going to lead to scandal. Mark Kirk is Larry Craig, Mark Foley, and Eric Massa gay. If you see him in action, the way he looks at guys, you see a yearning that’s inside of him, a volcanic need for his true self to burst out…and if indeed he does make it to the Senate, and gets to feel all that power, we can very easily see him doing something incredibly stupid at an all-male pool party, in a restroom, or at a bathhouse in DC or Chicago. Something Democrats will immediately know about, record, document, and save for their blackmail file…to be used in the leadup to 2012 just as the Foley and Craig scandals were used to help Democrats in 2006. For whatever reason, the GOP does not prevent these sorts of himbo eruptions from happening…even though they are telegraphed YEARS ahead.
(2) The GOP in Illinois, and possibly nationally, is riddled with gay staffers who are very high up. Here in Chicago, if you are gay and want to get into politics, you join the GOP, not the Democrats, because there are many more opportunities for advancement in the Republican ranks than the Democrat ones. Take the Log Cabin Republican organization here in Chicago (please). It’s chronically known as a disorganized, rudderless, collection of putzes. A smart gay man, with actual skills and talent, can join something like this, prove his competence, and within a year or two become president of the organization…because there is no one of any talent there to compete with or oppose him. Established in this regard, the guy can then climb the ranks in the GOP organization itself, gaining paid positions. Alternatively, if he wants to stay open-secret-in-the-glass-closet, he can rise through the GOP ranks by being a plaything of men like Kirk or Schock, or more revolting types, earning chits and favors and winning promotions he doesn’t really deserve based on his actual resume (but are dependent heavily on his prowess in other areas of his life…as performed in the dark, with as little clothing as possible). Because so many of these gay staffers comprise the GOP, and they are successfully pulling off their closet balancing acts, they don’t see a problem with guys like Schock and Kirk doing this too, though they are more public, and are actually lying to voters with their charades. More so than this, since these gay staffers were probably helped in their advancement by Kirk and Schock, they are then Kirk and Schock loyalists, and will do whatever they can to help those who got them to where they are.
It’s a pretty vicious cycle, this business, because you have Democrats actively helping men like Schock and Kirk advance in the Republican ranks because Democrats know they have a kill-switch built into them that Democrats can pull whenever they need to take them out or damage Republicans generally. At the same time, closeted gay Republicans at high levels in the GOP make sure Schock and Kirk keep advancing, and are pushed for things like this 2010 Senate run in Kirk’s case, because these staffers owe these men a lot for their promotions and internal connections.
A third thing that’s happening here is the GOP at large being afraid of muscling Schock or Kirk out because they don’t want to be seen as anti-gay, and are afraid of being called bigoted by the Left. So, gays, and blacks too, come to think of it, know that if they are in the GOP, no one will touch them because they do not want to set-off a culture war scandal involving sexuality or race. Republicans have been trained by the Left to run in terror from the words “bigot” and “racist”, so it’s no surprise they can’t seem to think clearly when it comes to the “it’s his turn” pushing of closeted gay men like Aaron Schock and Mark Kirk.
A few weeks ago, we actually had a brief meeting with Alexi Giannoulias, after being introduced to him by someone here in Boystown who had asked us to come out for an event. That was the first time we’d actually met Giannoulias, though we’re pretty sure he knew who we were, and knew we weren’t a fan of his. “So you think I’m a putz, huh? Well, I am a putz. Can’t help it. I’m funny-looking, too, and I can’t help who my family are”. He was actually a very nice guy, which surprised us.
We told him there was just no way we could ever support a man who was so connected to the mob and to so much corruption and garbage. He didn’t try to deny any of that, and he didn’t try to make any excuses for himself. All he really said was, “At least I am honest about who I am, and when I say I’m going to vote one way on something, I promise that I will actually do that. I’m a lot of things, but not a liar”.
He’s totally a putz. His family is mobbed up. He’d be an absolute embarrassment as a United States Senator.
But, to be honest, we didn’t DISLIKE the guy after meeting him. He’s greasy, sweaty, and gross, and we swear we can smell corruption OOZING out of the man (which is much like meeting Mayor Daley, actually), but we have to tell you that when you stand in front of him, you realize he is indeed who you think he is, who he projects himself to be. He’s got more dirty laundry than he could ever deal with, but it’s all out in the open. He is not hiding anything. Not even the fact that he’s a putz.
We hear from Republicans all the time that we should stop talking about Mark Kirk being gay because “no one wants Senator Giannoulias”. We’re told all the time that we need to just let Mark Kirk win, and that we need to stop talking about how crooked Mark Kirk’s people are in Illinois, and how Lee Roupas and the rest of Mark Kirk’s team in Cook County are involved in all sorts of nastiness. “It’s his turn” and “he can win this” if we all just shut up and look the other way and pretend Mark Kirk is something he is not, just so Democrats lose this seat in Illinois.
Personally, sometimes we think that if Giannoulias wins, he’ll be indicted for something in a year or two, or otherwise be forced to resign, so Governor Bill Brady will be able to appoint whomever he wants to the Senate (we’d hope for Cedra Crenshaw). Republicans would lose this one seat breifly, but we don’t see how a putz like Giannoulias, with so much dirt in his laundry, could last a full term in the Senate, or be re-elected in the future.
Sending Mark Kirk to Washington is sending a Larry Craig-grade scandal waiting to happen into the GOP’s future. Republicans in Illinois can pretend that’s not true all they want, and they can continue to attack us for speaking the truth about this, but we’ve seen how this man checks out guys’ butts, and it’s like something out of Tex Avery cartoon. That is not going to end well.
And there is going to be a massive buyers’ remorse amongst Republicans when Kirk becomes a Senator and starts voting the way Democrats tell him to vote — like FOR DADT repeal when he promises right now to vote against it — because Kirk would not Democrats to expose him for who he really is and end his time in the Senate.
ACTUALLY, come to think of it, this is a likely scenario a year or two from now as well, with Governor Bill Brady having to appoint Mark Kirk’s successor…after the Left decimates Kirk for going against them on something. We can see this happening easily in the leadup to 2012, with Kirk having to step down because the Democrats aimed the expose-o-ray at him and he was forced to jump squealing out of his closet.
So, really, our gut is that no matter if the putz or the closet-case wins, whichever of these fools Illinois is stuck with in the end will be only a temporary Senator until either an indictment or a sex scandal removes them, respectively.
We saw all of this coming a long time ago, as longtime readers will attest. Because we tried to warn Republicans about what was coming down the pipe, Mark Kirk’s people had Fran Eaton at Illinois Review publish one of our real names as punishment for talking about Kirk being gay (and actually claiming that we “started rumors” about Kirk being gay, when we heard Kirk was gay before we ever knew who he was…and those parties he was ogling boys at in Washington happened years before we ever stepped into politics, with this site, or our own private lives).
Instead of dealing with problems like Kirk (or the problem that Aaron Schock will become once Republicans run him as an “it’s his turn” candidate in 2014 against Dick Durbin), the GOP just attacks the truthtellers and anyone who dares to expose the establishment’s nonsense and self-inflicted upcoming disasters.
It’s a weird, backwards, group-thinking, boys’ club, this GOP here in Illinois…and nationally, it seems.
With Ken Mehlman coming out today, we just had to re-emphasize all of this because Mehlman, like Kirk and Schock, was one of the high-ranking Republicans we were always told is gay…but which the Republican Party always went to great lengths to deny. A former Republican governor here in Illinois is also gay. There are wealthy Republican male donors who are known cross-dressers. There’s a rabidly anti-gay, super-wealthy Republican who loves tossing around the word “faggot” at those cocktail parties who likes sleeping with young black men. We wonder if he shouts the word “n*****” when he’s with them, just to be consistent. It’s so very, very ridiculous.
And it’s a damn shame that conservatives don’t wise-up and clean up this establishment.
We are gay men here in Boystown TELLING YOU that closeted gay men in the Republican Party are a threat to this nation, because they are not only so ripe for blackmail, but they are so obsessed with keeping their secrets and doing favors for anyone helping to protect them that no effort at all is ever put into working for the needs of voters and fighting the latest craziness from the Left.
If only Republicans would start running men and women who openly stand in front of voters as the people they really are — with no secrets, no blackmail payments, no lies — then just imagine how much these conservatives could accomplish…with all that extra time they’d have not having to devote so much of their resources to closet protection.
Now, in comments, we’re sure there will be more of the usual “if someone’s gay, it’s nobody’s business” nonsense we always get when we write about Schock and Kirk. Please spare us that meme, because if you read anything in this essay, we want you to read this line, in bold: It matters that Mark Kirk and Aaron Schock are gay because being closeted gay males makes them blackmail candidates for the Left, and that means these men are in office with guns to their heads, doing what the Left wants, and not what voters sent them to do. These should not be men the GOP pushes for high office, because electing them to the Senate is no better than sending a putz of a Democrat there. They will vote the same, but at least having a Democrat in the seat means the GOP won’t have another Lindsey Graham on its hand, to embarrass the party whenever Democrats pull his own gay blackmail strings.
We don’t know how else to say this. The reason we keep talking about it is because these guys are Trojan Horses in GOP ranks and they are a clear and present problem for ALL AMERICANS that should be dealt with by dragging them out of their closets and forcing them to be honest about who they are SO THE LEFT CANNOT BLACKMAIL THEM INTO DOING HARMFUL THINGS TO THE COUNTRY.
PROJECT: Turn Governor Palin's best Facebook posts into business cards, then start leaving them everywhere you go
This is an idea that came up in another thread that we think is brilliant.
Governor Palin’s Facebook posts stab right at the heart of the Left, and often leave everyone currently living in the White House with inescapable nightmares. She eviscerates the Left’s position on any issue she weighs in on, and does it with memorable lines and facts that deserve repeating far beyond her current reach.
Here’s our idea:
* Take each of Governor Palin’s best, most-hard-hitting Facebook essays, and condense them into Cliff’s Note form
* This is something that’s done for debate prep as well: essentially, you are boiling her arguments down into bullet points so that what she’s saying, and how she stands on the issue, can be conveniently kept on a small card
* Take all of this information and put it onto business cards, printed front and back, that can be cheaply printed and left in all the places you go in a day
Religious people do this all the time, with cards and pamphlets left around town, on buses, in restrooms, on library tables, wherever people happen to be walking, resting, eating, or reading.
If some Lefty finds the card and tosses it, so what? You’ve got 12,000 more that you’ve left around town.
Before they throw it away, they’ll stop to read it, and more likely than not if they are person inclined to throw the card away, just reading it will infuriate them on some level. So, you can have the satisfaction that you royally pissed off a Leftist without witnessing it. If this happens enough, who knows, maybe the Leftist will develop high blood pressure and have some sort of stroke. That would be terrible, of course, like how Tim Russert had that heart attack and Ted Kennedy got that brain tumor. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Who knows why those things happened, but maybe it had something to do with them being upset about the world not loving Obama enough.
If that’s true, then maybe Leftists around you can have similar experiences by reading enough of those cards.
You may feel free to send people to us, here at www.HillBuzz.org, via these cards, and to our good friends at Conservatives4Palin and SarahPAC too.
This way, the people who find the cards and want more information can get what they seek, and those who hate Palin, hate America, and are Obama cultists can find unlimited sources of more things that will upset them and raise their blood pressure.
Everybody wins!
Please use this thread to identify a Palin Facebook post that is particularly excellent — like one about the Ground Zero Victory Mosque.
Then, let’s work together to cut the Facebook posting down to the most important lines, best information, and most useable material.
We can then make this into a printable, business-card sized file that we could then start having printed for anyone who wants them…and we can then start our mission to leave these all around town.
Here in Chicago, whenever people are paid to go out and leave flyers laying around, they have to take pictures of all the places they left them. Maybe we could do this with this project, and take snaps of all the places these cards are being left.
We’ll happily leave them inside the Chicago Diner here in Boystown, because the owner hates Governor Palin and uses any opportunity presented to him to take a smack at her. It will be a pleasure to walk through his establishment at every possible juncture and leave these cards all sorts of places for his customers and staff to find.
What fun!
Whenever you go out to eat, or do anything in public, talk about the Death Panels, how Democrats are destroying the country, and the Ground Zero Victory Mosque…because people listen
Today at lunch, we realized we were seated three tables away from someone very important here in Boystown, who was talking about all sorts of very interesting things regarding the community. So, we were super-quiet and listened to everything he said, and everything the person he was eating with was saying (and THAT person turned out to be a city Alderman). It was just a cheap, little, hole-in-the-wall greasy spoon Mexican place. Nothing fancy. But look who was there…and just imagine all the great inside scoop we got that affects our thinking on a great many things that are going on in Chicago right now.
It immediately struck us that whenever we go anywhere, we listen to the people around us. Maybe those of you out there don’t do this, but it’s how we get 80% of what we write about. We hear their jokes. We get a glimpse into their lives, financial situations, relationships, and voting trends by absorbing these little snippets of conversation here and there.
Then, typically, we come back here and write about all of this and tell all of you out there, and you tell whomever you choose, and these conversations get relayed and replayed who knows how many times.
So, considering all of this, it hit us today that EVERYONE who opposes this administration should be vocal about it when in public. We don’t intend for you to come off crazy, and become soapbox prophets on the street corners hectoring people, but if you are out with like-minded friends, and you are somewhere that people can overhear you, then we heartily encourage you to go over all of your points of argument for why you believe Democrats are destroying this country and ruining the future for your children and grandchildren.
If you are in a restaurant, wait until you get your food before you start talking politics, in case the waiter is a Lefty and Obama cultist, to prevent anything gross from happening to your meal. But, after the food is served, talk, talk, talk away.
If you are in any crowded place, start talking about the Ground Zero Victory Mosque and how much it hurts you that Democrats are pushing to build this at Ground Zero…and how Ground Zero is VERY MUCH all the land that was directly impacted by the Muslim attacks that day.
Do this in elevators.
Do this in stores.
Do it anywhere that people can overhear you.
If they don’t like what you are saying, they can leave, or not listen. If they say anything nasty to you for having your opinion, you can challenge them by saying, “Excuse me. I was not speaking to you. I am talking to my friend and you have no right to interrupt. Quick eavesdropping and pay attention to your own meal and your own lunch companion, thank you. Pardon your rudeness”.
It’s a great win-win in this regard. Whether they agree with you or not, these people will hear what you are saying. Many of them probably have no idea what’s going on in New York. You might get them to think about something they’d never considered before. Maybe they will agree with you and you could make a new friend. Who knows what could happen.
Part of the Left’s Alinsky scheme to control this country is to make the Resistance afraid to speak up and talk about how insane Democrats have become.
You can counter this, in your own small way, just by talking about this stuff, with your friends, in public.
People are always, always listening even if you don’t realize it.
At least we are, anyway.
MISSION: Let's help RedState get all Democrats on video taking a position on the Ground Zero Victory Mosque
Here’s something RedState is advocating, that we’d love all of you to help with as well.
Every Democrat, coast to coast, should be on video taking a position on building the Ground Zero Victory Mosque.
Go to their offices, make appointments to see them, and get them on tape taking a position on the Ground Zero Victory Mosque.
RedState has a way of uploading these videos onto their Facebook page.
This is a step outside the comfort zone of many of you, we know. But if you read this site every day, you are already a political activist. You just don’t know it yet.
It’s a process coming to terms with the fact that you are no longer an average person. Because you are so invested in what’s happening to this country, and are so plugged in, you have reached a point where you need to put on your jacket, pick up any sort of video recording device you might have (even if it’s just your cell phone), and head down to your elected officials’ offices and confront them on this Ground Zero Victory Mosque.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a City Council member, a state representative, or a United States Senator. If they have a (D) after their name, they need to be on record either supporting the construction of this mosque at Ground Zero, or being against it.
It’s scary being confrontational. Most of us have a “default setting” that was taught to us in school, and that’s to be quiet, not challenge authority, and to not speak up, no matter how much we might want to.
We all need to accept the reality that elected officials are not “authority figures”. They are public servants. They work for YOU. You are THEIR boss. You pay for their staff, THEIR offices. You have every right in the world to go to see these people, speak to them face to face, and demand to know how they stand on building a symbol of Islamic conquest on the grave of our friend Jane, and the 3,000 other people who died in Muslim attacks against America on 9/11/01.
You can use whatever verbiage you want to when doing this, but you know by now how we feel on the subject. And you all know full well the real intent behind building this mosque. It is not about “building bridges”, or else it would have never been named “Cordoba House” and from the start planned for land that was hit by pieces of the aircraft used in the 9/11 attacks.
Democrats should not be allowed to hide on this issue.
You know full well the State Media will not expose and embarrass them.
The GOP is so inept, it cannot be counted on to do this either.
That leaves you. Us. Others out there like us. The guys at RedState. Momma Grizzlies and Tea Partiers.
Please, we ask you to move a little outside your comfort zone and take that scary step towards accepting your role as activist, patriot, defender of our nation.
We need you.
YOU, yes, YOU.
And we need every last Democrat on tape, on the record, for or against this Ground Zero Victory Mosque…with the little secret, just between us, that no matter HOW they come out on the issue, it can be used against them in some way, shape, or form.
It’s the perfect political storm of an issue against Democrats, and with your help, it could very well be a big part of decimating the DNC and crippling the Left for a generation.
You just need to get a video camera and leave the house and make a visit to an elected Democrat to help this process along.
QUESTION: How can you rev up grandmothers coast to coast to clobber Democrats in every race this November?
We’ve identified Democrats’ fatal Achilles’ heel in the upcoming elections: it’s Bubbies.
Nannas.
Gammas.
Irmas, Emmas, Constances, Heloises, Josephinas, Katherines, you name ‘em.
GRANDMOTHERS.
If grandmothers, coast to coast, many of whom have blind-voted Democrat for decades, can be convinced that the Democrat Party as it exists currently under Obama is a grave danger to the nation’s future…and the future of their beloved GRANDCHILDREN…we believe there will be no force on Heaven or this great Earth that can stop an army of motivated, sassy, ass-kicking blue hairs from decimating the Left in the elections to come.
Not just in November, but in 2012 as well…where we believe a grandmother from Wasilla will become our 45th president, with many a grandmother cheering her on to that win.
We’re not downplaying the importance of grandfathers. Or men in general. Heck, we’re all guys here ourselves. But, any man with any sense about him realizes the most powerful force in any family is its grandmothers. The lucky amongst us get two of these powerhouses to guide, mentor, smuther, and dote on us as we grow up.
Some are as sugary sweet as the cookies they bake. Others are more sass than molasses, and “tells it like it is”, whether you “wants to hears it or not”. Some grannies are ribald and saucy; others are quiet, frail, and kind.
All of these women raised children of their own, and now have the perspective to see their brood raise young of their own…and from that vantage point they realize all of their mistakes, and appreciate all of their successes, and have more wisdome and grace from that perch than we could ever hope to imagine.
In every family we’ve known, the grandmothers have held court. When they speak, the TV is turned down and people listen. They are unafraid to speak their minds, because just about every person in the room owes their very existence to them, in one way or another. Many of these women were single moms, or worked a few jobs to put kids through school, and now on limited incomes they still manage to spoil their grandchildren as much as they can.
We loved our grandmothers so very much, more than we could ever tell you here. It’s the greatest and most awesome compliment any of us ever receives when someone from our pasts tells us they see a little of those ladies in us…particularly when we refuse to back down when faced by bullies, or let the Left get away with sacking and pillaging this country.
Because our grandmothers, if alive today, would be raising Hell right now. Though they didn’t have access to the Internet, didn’t regularly appear on TV or the radio, and were rarely interviewed by anyone for anything, these ladies carried enormous sway in their communities.
* They were part of Ladies’ Guilds.
* They were church ladies in coffee clubs
* They walked up and down the streets of their neighborhoods talking to EVERYONE
* They chatted people up in supermarkets, laundromats, and craft stores
* They gave their opinions at bake sales and community centers
* They talked with other people’s families in their nursing homes, when they got too old to live alone
Very few of these grandmothers had direct control over anyone: they couldn’t ORDER people to do anything, of course. But, their grandmotherly influence was a power that was difficult for most people to resist.
If Grandma looked you directly in the face, with pain clear and present, and tears in her sparkling gray eyes and told you that Obama and Democrats were destroying the country, risking her health, costing her more of the little money she had, and making her sick to her stomach with worry about what would happen to your future…wouldn’t you listen to her?
Even if you were the most far-gone Obama cultist, wouldn’t grandma be able to get through, if even just for a moment?
We know grandmothers are America’s secret weapon, Lady Liberty’s handmaidens, and in many ways our last if not only hope.
Many of these women were riveters and homefront workers during WWII. They saved this nation from the evils of Germany’s Fuhrer and the Emperor of Japan. They helped crush the Soviet Union. Their love, hardwork, and guidance helped create the prosperous days those of us in our 30s and 40s were raised in. If not for grandmothers, none of this would be possible.
And though they are old now, and they should be enjoying their peaceful retirements, they need to be summoned into action and mobilized one last time.
To save us all.
An unprecedented, concerted effort needs to be mounted on a grassroots level to turn every grandmother in this country against the Democrats. And every one of these opinonated, familial powerhouses needs to be loosed upon their relatives horrified by what Obama has done to the country and terrified at just how at risk their grandchildren are at for losing access to the American dream.
Women who fought so hard, worked such long hours, and sacrificed so much to raise their families are not about to let all of that collapse, just when their grandchildren are on the cusp of, or entering, the workforce.
If we grassroots activists can activate grandmothers — and convince them that the Democrat Party has been taken over by Leftists, who want to tank our economy and rob their grandchildren of their futures — then we truly and firmly believe the spirt of these grandmothers will shake reason into many households.
Every grandmother needs to become a surrogate speaker for the Resistance.
Let MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, and the rest of the wishcasting State Media try to compete with that.
But the key here is HOW we activate all of these grandmothers. Some can be found online, or in message boards, but how do we reach the vast majority of them?
It feels like we’re going to need to get out into our communities as surrogate speakers and start doing talks in nursing homes, centers, church groups, and wherever else these women assemble. We’re going to have to get creative, and undertake an effort that, to our knowledge, has never been done.
But, if we can get grandmothres coast to coast on our side, and we can convince them to hector their families against the Democrats, there’s a damn good chance the upcoming elections will be “historic and unprecedented” in ways the current egomaniacal “historic and unprecedented” “president” can’t even imagine.
Start brainstorming.
Give us some ideas on how to reach the grandmothers and activate them.
How can we get these Grandma Grizzlies into the battle to save America, this one last time?
HISTORY LESSON: Help us find recent examples in the corporate and political worlds where the "C-Suite" was removed because it stopped listening to consumers and voters
We’d like your help to do some research and brainstorming today, on something we were talking about last night at Sidetracks during 80s Request Night.
For some reason, those old videos made us think of all the commercials that used to run on MTV, back when it played videos, for all sorts of products that came and went, along with the C-suite executives who sank everything into them.
Through the years, some companies have made very stupid moves that were diametrically opposed to what consumers wanted. Despite millions spent on advertising trying to convince these purchasers to buy things they did not want, or do feel good about buying something that was essentially garbage, many companies failed, lost the trust and confidence of the public, and their C-suite executives were booted from the board rooms.
Can you think of instances where the public, at large, came together to oust some of these people?
Can you help get an insight into the behind-the-scenes maneuverings inside the organizations that brought the C-suite down?
Obviously, we are thinking of what needs to be done in America to sweep Democrats from the White House, and remove Dr. Utopia from the Oval before he can do any more damage to the country.
We don’t think looking at past political campaigns will be enough, because Obama won in 2008 by being packaged as a BRAND…complete with a Pepsi-esque logo and HOPE/CHANGE marketing materials out of the pie-in-the-sky candy aisle.
We bet there is insight in the advertising and marketing worlds into products that tanked so badly all who were involved in bringing them to the market were kicked to the curb.
We also wonder if you can think of examples in recent politics — in America or beyond — where voters and local political operatives cleaned house and booted bad officials from office. This is what needs to be done to the GOP in many places, like right here in Cook County and Illinois at large. The establishment protects the C-suite, and the C-suite and the establishment are the problems.
When have regular, ordinary, consumers/voters caused such a stink that even the establishment had to listen, lest it implode upon itself?
Be creative.
We’ve found, in life, and in politics, that the best strategies come from the most oddball of places. An idea we had watching old 80s videos at Sidetracks, broadcast to you, might just uncover a new line of attack against the Left and GOP establishment that we never would have thought of otherwise…and that neither of these entities have planned to counter against.
What think you?
Alaska Senate Watch: Will Joe Miller pull it off?
We’re sitting here in Buzzquarters, looking out at a gorgeous, sunny, blue-sky of a day, smiling ear to ear knowing Governor Sarah Palin is out there, somewhere, terrorizing the GOP establishment as much as she scares the Left and State Media.
Thank God for her.
No matter what insane scheme the current administration launches against America each day, we never lose faith that in the end America will win, because we have women like Governor Palin on the front lines, holding our flag, and beckoning others to follow her and join the Resistance.
The go-along-to-get-along gang that’s ruled the Republican Party as cucumber-and-mayonnaise Romney Republicans for so long, always caving, forever siding with the Left against the best interests of this country, is exemplified in people like Lisa Murkowski.
She, Lindsey Graham, the Weird Sisters of Maine, Mark Kirk, Charlie Crist, and other terrible people who can and should never be trusted, wrapped themselves up as Republicans but are in fact Democrats at heart…with more Leftism in them than conservatism…and an overriding urge to aggrandize and enrich themselves instead of working as servants of the people, which is in fact what they are.
For whatever reason, the RNC decides to throw its weight behind these sorts of people, and attack actual conservatives who are running for office. That should show Republican voters there is something seriously wrong with the RNC, and a major house cleaning is needed of the establishment.
It might not be as big a deal as Scott Brown winning back “The Kennedy Seat” for the people of Massachusetts earlier this year, but if Joe Miller pulls off the upset and takes away “The Murkowski Seat” from the GOP establishment in Alaska, we think this is more proof that America really does have a fighting chance.
We’ve got a two-front battle on our hands, folks:
(1) Defeating the Left in its attempts to tank this country so it can create it’s theoretic “socialist utopia”
(2) Defeating the GOP establishment and ending the cucumber-and-mayonnaise, soggy sandwich, overindulged cocktail party Romney Republican mindset of “go-along-to-get-along”
This is a center-right nation currently governed by far-Leftists because Republicans have been convinced by State Media that they need to be quiet, timid, mousy, and as invisible as possible…lest they be called all sorts of names by the Left, and branded “the party of No”.
We say take immense pride in being the PARTY OF HELL NO.
Punch the Left in the face each and every day, Palin-style.
Punch the GOP establishment in the face too, Palin-style.
We’re telling you, as people who have always liked her, that Governor Palin has not even fully come into her own yet. We’ve only seen a small taste of what this woman has, in terms of potential, because we believe fully that she wakes up each day and operates with a servant’s heart. She is not in this for the money, the cocktail parties, the soggy sandwiches, or the plastic hair that drew people like Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty into politics.
Governor Palin is the real deal, and she is 100% in sync with not only what’s best for this country, but with where we think the mood of the electorate is heading. She’s going to surf this wave all the way to Washington, and we hope she gets to bring as many like-minded, America-loving, Left-fighting grizzlies with her.
Mamma, Pappa, you name it.
So, as the election results from Alaska continue to filter in, and the painstaking and slow task of counting absentee ballots proceeds, we wonder what you think of Joe Miller’s chances of pulling off an upset and defeating Dynastic Princess Lisa Murkowski, and thus removing another go-along-to-get-along Romney Republican from the Senate?
Specifically, we’d like answer to the following questions, from those who follow Alaska:
* What’s the likelihood of absentee voters desperately wanting to vote for Murkowski? IE, what chance is there that of the 7,000 unreturned absentee ballots that Murkowski would have a higher rate of return for her supporters than Miller would have for his?
* How many of the absentee ballots out there do you think are Democrat ballots? IE, if 7,000 ballots are outstanding, and 4,000 of them end up being Democrat (where Democrats CANNOT vote for a Republican candidate, and must only vote for the Democrat running), then it’s just 3,000 left for the Republican side. Since Miller is now leading by over 2,000 ballots, that would mean Murkowski would have to win upwards of 70% of those votes to take the nomination. We can’t imagine she has that sort of overwhelming support in absentees if that sort of support didn’t manifest in the in-person vote.
* How corrupt is the voting process in Alaska? We ask because in Illinois, if there is a close race, absentee ballots can be mysteriously found in cemetaries, abandoned tunnels, under Navy Pier, you name it, to stack the deck for whomever the machine wants to win. Does that happen in Alaska, and if so, does the Alaskan machine WANT Murkowski to continue being a dynastic princess?
* What do you think will ultimately happen? Will Joe Miller get the win, or will Murkowski somehow slither into a lead?
* Regardless of what happens, with Joe Miller coming this close to the nomination, what message do you think this sends for November, for the establishment at large?
In our opinion, Romney Republicans EVERYWHERE, coast to coast, need to be sweating, because the nation is sending a very loud message that it’s no longer in the mood for cucumber-and-mayonnaise soggy sandwiches.
America’s loving what Governor Palin’s dishing up instead, and they are voting for it with relish.
Massive, unreported TSA security breech at heart of "flight attendant freakout story"
Last night, we ran into a friend of ours who is a flight attendant, and of course our conversation drifted to the recent incident where JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater got into an altercation with a passenger, became upset, pulled the emergency hatch and slid down onto the tarmac with some beers.
Slater has become an anti-hero, because the image of him sliding off the plane in frustration is just too comical for most people to resist, in a mad-as-Hell-and-not-going-take-it-anymore at work moment that many wish they could have in their own jobs.
But, what’s NOT funny is what happened after Slater left the plane…and this is where the State Media conveniently stops reporting on the incident.
According to our friend, Slater is not going to face any serious recriminations for what he did because the TSA, the airport, JetBlue and other entities involved are hoping against hope no one notices a massive security breech that happened after Slater left the plane.
Slater was able to walk on the tarmac along security fencing to a supposedly guarded and sealed off employee parking lot. With absolutely no effort on his part, Slater was able to move from the tarmac to the parking lot, get into his car, and drive home. Without ever being stopped by TSA, airline employees, or anyone of any sort of authority.
Take a moment and appreciate the implications of this.
Do you see how this maneuver could be run in reverse?
What if terrorists parked their cars in that lot, followed Slater’s route in reverse, and thus gained access to the tarmac and any airplane parked there?
Apparently, this is so easy to do that Slater didn’t break a sweat and the beers he took off the plane were still Arctic-frosty when he made it into his car to drive away.
TSA, according to our flight attendant friend, is a colossal and scary joke. He told us that flight attendants just assume TSA lets people with bombs and weapons on board the planes, because they have zero confidence TSA is preventing these people from getting through. Flight crews need to assume that a screening procedure and weapons-check didn’t even happen…that’s how bad TSA really is. It’s left up to the people working a flight to do threat assessments of their own and size up the passengers to determine who might be a problem, and also pick out other passengers who could be potential allies if someone on board is going to try to bring the flight down.
This is absurd.
And it’s terrifying for anyone getting onto a plane, after having TSA remove your shoes, take your laptop out of your bag, and do all the other busy-work things it does to give people the false impression that security screening actually accomplishes something. All that time patting down Grandma Elaine and confiscating her 4oz of Pert shampoo is just to give the impression to 90% of the crazies out there that they are being searched, and thus discourage them from doing something stupid. It’s stage-craft, because the real pros, the Muslim terrorists sent on missions to strike the West, are not going to be caught or tripped up by these measures.
And don’t even get us started on the people who are hired by TSA to do the screenings. We’ve seen these folks riding the trains to and from O’Hare and Midway here in Chicago. We’ve seen how they behave, while in uniform, but off the clock, and it does not lend a great deal of confidence to the idea that these individuals are all that’s preventing disaster from unfolding at our airports.
Our flight attendant friend called them lazy, slow, stupid, and utterly clueless. Our encounters with them fall into the same general opinion. Maybe you’ve been lucky enough to meet the rock stars of the TSA, who are the best in the business. We have not had that pleasure. At least not here in Chicago.
Apparently, also according to our friend, JetBlue is doing everything it can to keep this security breech under wraps. Pulling that door and releasing that slide cost the airline $2,000 and violated all sorts of operating procedures, but Slater is not being charged with that (and actually can’t be charged for it, because of his union). The airline required him to attempt to get a passenger to sit back down and stiop rummaging through the overhead compartment, but she refused, and that led to the altercation that prompted the incident. Flight attendants are unsupervised and forced to work in a situation where, because of the TSA’s known ineptitude, they literally have to watch every person on the plane to determine if there are any would-be mass-murderers aboard. It’s one of the most high-stress situations we can imagine…and Slater actually had a long service record with the airline with no incidents prior to this.
But, because he removed beer from the plane, they’re going to attempt to fire him for stealing…though that’s been made more difficult by the fact that his story has gained such a following and he’s become this anti-hero.
No one wants him talking about being able to leave the tarmac, bypass all security, and make it to his car unchallenged though.
So, it’s a very interesting situation, where Slater holds the real cards.
It’s scary thinking about how lucky we all really are in this country, every day. With so much government incompetence, and so many terrible, unionized workers doing piss-poor jobs with impunity even in areas that require constant vigilence, the amount of catastrophes that actually happen is relatively small, all things considered.
Someone up there must really love us all.
Wednesday Open Thread: August 25th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Wednesday?
What is your take on the primary results last night?
Specifically, we’d like you to look at and chime in on the results in:
* Florida
* Arizona
* Alaska
Future Vice President (and future President) Allen West won his race, and thus begins a rise we believe might just take him to the Naval Observatory in 2013 when the Palins move to Washington. You betcha.
In Alaska, if things stand, the Governor Palin-endorsed candidate Joe Miller looks to have beaten Lisa Murkowski in the primary, potentially thus removing another milquetoast, cucumbers-and-mayonnaise, go-along-to-get-along Republican (in name only) from the Senate.
We hope this stands, because it’s another example of the Governor punching the media and Republican establishment square in the face and knocking them to the ground. She’s going to need to do a lot of this if she’s going to save America from these people. Though it’s hard to sometimes believe, but the Republican establishment, the Romney Republicans, are even more dangerous and important to deal with than the Media and the Left.
The Media and the Left wouldn’t be able to do the things they do if it wasn’t for the Romney Republicans allowing them.
Governor Palin is a major threat to this crowd, so every day you should say a pray that she has the strength to keep going, keep fighting, and keep building her organization to take them all down and clean house.
You betcha.
What think you?
Republicans needs to shrug off, then burn, their burquas
If you are a conservative who parrots the phrases “take the high road”, “just ignore them”, and “go-along to get-along”, then you are wearing a burqua.
If you are a longtime Republican voter who does not hold your party accountable when it comes to taking a stand and swinging back HARD — that’s H.A.R.D. folks — against the Left each and every day, at every presented opportunity, then you are wearing a burqua.
If you are an American who allows the Leftist-controlled, state media to rip to shreds anyone who stands in the way of this administration, while doing everything possible to aid and abet those who want to bring the country down, then you are wearing a burqua.
Over at AceofSpades today, they ran a post about a high school teacher who was fired for writing a song opposing the administration, and The Golden Age of Hope and Change in general.
The man wrote the song on his own time, using no school resources. But, the school board, the principal, his teachers’ union, and peers all believed he committed a terminable thought crime by daring to conjure folksy (and catchy) lyrics that ridiculed The Lightbringer and the immense folly his presidency reveals itself to be.
This man was fired by the Left for speaking out, on his own time, against this government.
THIS SHOULD NOT STAND UNCHALLENGED IN THIS COUNTRY.
One of the hardest things you will ever have to accept, and one of the most dangerous hydras of a problem we in the Resistance to this madness must contend with, is the fact that the Republican Party has been, on a genetic level, rendered about as effective as the Washington Generals — because so many Republicans in office, from the Weird Sisters of Maine to would-be Senators like Mark Kirk here in Illinois, subscribe to the “go-along to get-along” brigade…and they are too stupid to realize they are being played by the Left. HARD.
How it seems to work in the Republican Party is this: pin all your hopes on being elected as a non-Democrat in times when the public is mad at Democrats. While in office, you do pretty much whatever you can to keep the Left from focusing on you, because the personal skeletons you have in your closet keep you awake in terror at night, knowing your blackmailers at the DNC will bring you down the moment you ever cross them. Because you enjoy eating cucumber-and-mayonnaise sandwiches, drinking scotch, and attending cocktail parties where people call you “Senator” and almost curtsy in your presence, you go-along to get-along because rocking the boat may jeopardize your extravagant, farting-through-silk life.
Here in Illinois, we repeatedly attempt to show conservative voters that almost the entire Republican Party in this state attends daily cocktail parties like the above. They don’t really give a damn about this country. They could not care less about what voters want or need. They just want to keep winning elections, so they can maintain VIP status, and they will do as little as possible to make the Left upset because they are just so damn terrified of upsetting that particular hornets’ nest.
All of us here have taken heavy sticks, have knocked that nest down, and have kicked it up and down the street twelve times a day. We are not afraid of the Left. Yes, the Left will attack you on a personal level if you are seen as a threat. They will come at you from every angle, they will call you all sorts of names, they will ruin your business, get you fired, and alienate you from friends and family. They do this with a hive mentality, operating in shadows, living in their mothers’ basements munching on hot pockets as they work together to destroy the lives of anyone on the Daily Kos’ hit list.
We have personal experience with all of this. Not only are we still standing, after standing up to these bullies, but in a weird cosmic twist of fate by attacking us so vociferously and with such venom the Left actually transformed us from guys who just enjoyed snarking on politics into committed activists who are willing to dedicate the remainder of our lives, and all our personal resources, to bringing the Left down.
The Left dragged the Hobbits to Mordor, and instead of scurrying away squeaking the way so many Republicans have done before us, we fought back…and fight back each and every day, broadcasting into the dark hoping someone else out there, every day, decides to fight back too.
AceofSpades seems to get this.
In the post today, Ace asked his readers to start taking the fight back to the Left.
The Left, in its Cult of Liberalism derangement, targets anyone conservative for life-destroying attacks whenever political opinion in opposition to Leftist dogma is expressed. If you do not support this “president”, Dr. Utopia, you are a damn dirty RAAACIST and the Left will use its resources such as Daily Kos, Moveon.org, DemocraticUnderground, and other entities to fill the Internet with thousands of posts calling you a RAAACIST and asking anyone available to do you personal, physical harm.
Ace brought up the example of the fired teacher. We’ve had personal dealings with the Left in this regard that you know well about.
But, we want to share with Ace and his readers what happens when you take the fight back to these people: they almost instantly fold, cower, and run screaming to their mommies.
It’s like in an aquarium where the various blooming corals, anemones, and other critters shrink instantly when touched, or sense even the smallest change in their environment. They might look deadly and imposing from further afield, but up close, when challenged, these Moveon.organisms clam up back into the slime the birthed them if confronted and exposed to sunlight.
We’ve hit back at a number of trolls who’ve attacked us on personal levels, and the same thing has happened with each of them. Once we’ve identified them, and published THEIR REAL NAMES, and researched who they are, what they do, and where they live, they almost instantly delete every website they are associated with and security-protect all of their archives to make them secret (and limited just to fellow JournoList-style members).
Conservatives, for whatever reason, never invest the time and effort to do these sorts of things – defaulting to their base programming, which is to “just ignore it” and “don’t dignify them with a response”.
That mamby-pampy, Mitt Romney, milquetoast, cucumbers-and-mayonnaise, diaper-clad, wimpy thinking is why this country is currently at peril…and why the Left is allowed to run roughshod over the nation.
The Left must be resisted at every turn.
As Ace detailed in his post, the school board that persecuted this conservative for his off-school-hours personal views needs to be dragged into the open and exposed as the Leftist fascists that they are. They all need to be fired, every last one of them, WITHOUT any golden parachutes.
One of the greatest dreams any of us here have is taking back the school boards in this country for the American people.
We need Momma Grizzles (and the men who love and support them) to sit on those boards, and kick the Leftists out into the dark. We need to take back our schools, fire the Liberal indoctrinaires currently “teaching” in them, and replace them with people who love this country and know how to teach children to become decent, America-loving citizens who are prepared to succeed in life.
We need to, at the local political party level, boot mamby-pampy, Mitt Romney Republicans from positions of influence and replace them with Mamma Grizzlies who are not afraid to kick butt, take names, and crack skulls when they have to.
Our leaders should not be worried about whether or not they will get invited to the next cocktail party where they can drink too much and make asses of themselves.
Our leaders should lose sleep at night wondering if they are doing enough to ensure our children and grandchildren inherit an America that is stronger than the ones all of us here were charged with protecting.
And, folks, if you haven’t figured it out yet, if you read this site every day, and if you find yourself agreeing with a bunch of gay dude Hillary guys in Chicago and you wonder why that is, it’s because you are the Resistance. For whatever reason, God worked through us to create this site, and it evolved into what we hope is one of the seeds of the Great Resistance to the Left…a force that’s encompassed in the spirit of the Tea Party Movement, as the sleeping giant of Americanism awakens from the stupor it’s been in for too long and regular folk stand up and shout how mad as Hell they are.
So, you need to stop taking the Left’s garbage. You need to say you just won’t take it anymore.
If your elected Republican leaders are too afraid of upsetting the Left’s hornet’s nest, you need to personally put the fear of G-O-D into these fools and replace them with Momma Grizzlies who can get the job done.
America will be saved — and we know this in our hearts as sure as anything — by grandmas.
Grandmothers are almost all entirely angels. They’ve seen it all. They’ve raised their kids, and are watching their kids raise theirs. They are wise, and strong, and fearsome when need be. They are national treasures…a force that commands respect in every family. A force for good, because they do not want to venture soon into that dark void of the beyond without knowing for certain the world they live will be a good one for the grandsons and granddaughters they leave behind.
If we can somehow, collectively, form a swarm of busy bees and get the nation’s grandmothers on our side, and make these Bubbies and Nannas and Gammas on our side…these mighty saber-toothed polar bears…then we can render unto the Left a smackdown of damn near prehistoric proportions.
If indeed we are all on quests in this life, and everything that happens to all of us is a clue that leads us to the next level we’re supposed to be at, then perhaps the relentless assault the Left and its orcs have hit us with this last year, on a personal level, was meant to teach us a lesson.
Perhaps it was meant to give us personal, first-hand knowledge of what these monsters are capable of, how to fight back against them, and what happens when someone finally confronts them and does not consent to wearing their burqua.
The Left has been at war on this country for decades. For whatever reason, the Republicans have largely allowed themselves to politely enable this assault by serving as the go-along to get-along Vichy Generals in Washington, so enamored with their wealth and positions that they’d never dare rocking the boat and Resisting what’s being done to the country the rest of us love so much.
We need to bring in the big guns and take down the Left once and for all. We need to bring in the grandmas…and all the moms and daughters who are grandmas-in-waiting…so that there will always be an America as we know it for generations of grandchildren to inherit.
We’ll work hard every day here at Buzzquarters to do our part to make this happen…but we can’t do it without all of you…the Great Resistance when America needs it most.
