Mitt To Endorse McCain

Not surprising:

AP Video Republican campaign dropout Mitt Romney agreed Thursday to endorse Sen. John McCain for the party's presidential nomination and ask his national convention delegates to swing behind the party front-runner, according to officials familiar with the decision.

I have contended from the start that the gap between Romney and McCain was pretty narrow. I did vote for Mitt in the primary, simply because he was the only one left that could possibly convince me he was going to act like a conservative. He had not convinced me when he dropped out though. I think all the hoopla about him being the "most" conservative one was wishful thinking. When Thompson and Hunter left the race, so did conservative principals. Except for Paul who is scary as hell when it comes to foreign policy.

I still will not vote for McCain. I know the argument - Anyone is better than he Democrats. I am not so sure McCain would be that much better. Look, a lot of people are saying that we need McCain because of the war. I do not think any of the three candidates with a chance to win are going to be that quick to pull out. I know, I know; Obama says he will. That is pandering. None of them are going to want to be the one that surrenders to the terrorists. Especially when things are going as good as they are. They may use it to get votes, but things change when it is your presidency that takes the hits.

That being said, I am not under the impression that the Dems are not going to screw things up. But I will remind you, McCain wants to shut down Gitmo. He don't want water boarding. This is where I differ from most people. If torturing someone will save one innocent life I am all for it. Not just water boarding either. Pull out the good stuff. You know, he stuff you see on these crazy movies and TV shows. These people will do anything possible to hurt us. We need to use anything possible to ensure they are not given the chance.

Sorry, back to the main topic. Romney is endorsing McCain. McCain is not at all concerned with what conservatives hold dear. It has come out today that McCain is good on taxes. That is good. He wants to cut spending. That is great. I will give him credit where it is due. But he will pull the party further to the left and I can not support him.

Gun Owners Beware Of The Bush Administration

Robert A. Levy calls the brief filed by the Bush Administration a breached promise:

If you think the District of Columbia's ban on all functional firearms in all homes is a reasonable regulation under the Second Amendment, you'll love the friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Bush administration in D.C. v. Heller, now before the Supreme Court.

The Department of Justice's (DOJ) previously stated position is that the Second Amendment secures a right of individuals not restricted to militia service. But astonishingly, the Justice Department now recommends an elastic standard for determining whether a handgun ban is reasonable. According to the DOJ, the courts should consider the nature and functional adequacy of available alternatives. That may sound sensible at first blush, but it could be fatal to the Heller litigation.

Here's the rub: The Justice Department says the Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the D.C. ban might cast doubt on the constitutionality of existing federal legislation, including machine-gun regulations. So the administration urged that Heller be returned to the lower courts for appropriate fact-finding to determine whether rifles and shotguns in the home, as permitted by the D.C. Code, are an adequate substitute for handguns.

That came as quite a shock to those of us who believed the administration's professed fealty to gunowners' rights. What we got instead was a recommendation that could be the death knell for the only Second Amendment case to reach the Supreme Court in nearly 70 years.

Read the rest at the link, please.

This is serious business. If you are a gun owner living anywhere in the US you need to keep on top of this case. This could open the door to the very fear that most, if not all, gun owners have. This could mean the loss of our right to keep and bear arms. Should this not go our way it will, at the very least, be used to attack our gun rights for years to come.

Go here to check deeper into this. And while you are there, sign up.

Back Up And Running

I'm back online now. Thank goodness.

I have some catching up to do. Some interesting stuff I've found so far:

Michelle Malkin - FISA fight: No more band-aids

Moe Lane at Red State - Crunching the Democratic Numbers, 02/13/08.

Hillbilly White Trash - Another scumbag reports to Hell

Hot Air - Hillary’s chickens coming home to roost?

It's good to be back!

Computer Problems

I am having some problems with my computer. Sorry, and I'll be up and running as soon as possible.

Bush Wants $1.4 Billion To Help Secure MEXICO's Southern Border

Unbelievable:

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The plan is called “The Merida Initiative.” Seems that the White House has had this plan in the works for nearly a year with little congressional input on either side of the border.

We can’t finish our own border fence, properly supply our immigration agents and border patrol with all the equipment and resources they need, or get our house in order. Yet, the Bush administration wants to fork over $1.4 billion to Mexico and Central America–with much of it going into the hands of corrupt law enforcement officials and government bureaucrats who have worked tirelessly to undermine our immigration laws. The funding is tucked into the 2008 supplemental budget.

Read all of Michelle Malkin's post at the link above.

This is one of the craziest things I have heard of in quite some time. The Bush Administration needs to worry about the US, not MexAmeriCanada. This is an insult to the people of this great country. We spoke up and wanted OUR border secure.

Get this:

Naturally, the State Department has taken a lead role. They’ve held meetings in
secret and cut out members of Congress from discussion. You’ll love the explanation for the secrecy: Mexico is “sensitive,” you see. Also, according to one expert, “Mexico is very protective of its sovereignty and very worried about any incursion of U.S. security forces or private contractors—like Blackwater—coming in to train Mexicans.” Yeah, they’re worried about incursions and sovereignty.

So Mexico is very concerned with their sovereignty, but ours don't mean a damn thing.

Get in touch with your Representatives now and let them know this kind of stuff will not be tolerated.

Iran Is Still Trying To Develop Nuclear Weapons

According to this report from The New York Times they are:

Iran has reportedly begun to deploy a new generation of machinery to produce nuclear fuel, a development bound to intensify a debate in Washington about whether a recent National Intelligence Estimate accurately portrayed Tehran’s progress toward the ability to build a nuclear weapon.

The testing of the new machinery, centrifuges known as IR-2s, was disclosed by European diplomats and American officials and was reported over the past two days in Europe. The development is expected to be included in a report this month by the International Atomic Energy Agency about Iran’s nuclear progress, and whether it has finally resolved questions about activities that have led inspectors to suspect that it may be pursuing weapons.

Read the rest at the link.

Of course they are. The sanctions are not working because other countries (even some in the UN) are not following them. These reports should be taken seriously. Iran has been doing everything in it's power to establish itself as a world power. They are not going to stop on their own. It is that simple. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly told us that. He is going to do whatever he wants to do and will not stop until Israel and the US is destroyed. I am not just saying this, he said this.

It's McCain: Romney Bows Out

Mitt Romney has decided to suspend his campaign:

John McCain effectively sealed the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday as chief rival Mitt Romney suspended his faltering presidential
campaign.

It looks like the illegals are going to be happy.

Get involved in the local races for Congress and your State. We need as many people as we can to fight off what is coming.

It is a sad day for America.

Damn!

Good Advise From Michelle Malkin

Every Conservative needs to read Michelle's latest post:

“Quo vadis,” conservatives? It’s the ancient, apocryphal question the apostle Peter asked Jesus while fleeing persecution in Rome. Where are you going? Where do we go from here?

The contest for the GOP presidential nomination is over. The conservative movement is not. Sen. John McCain’s campaign resurrection and Super Tuesday victory leave a diverse group on the Right—from the libertarian Club for Growth to First Amendment defenders to immigration enforcement proponents—dispirited. But the failure to nominate a true Republican unifier does not spell ideological defeat.

On Wednesday, wielding his olive branch like a schoolmarm’s ruler, Sen. McCain told conservatives to “calm down.” My advice is exactly the opposite: Get fired up.

Read the rest at the link above.

She is right. You know I will not pull the lever for McCain. I also will not stay home, and nether should you. With a liberal open borders, Al Gore follower sure to be in the White House (be it McCain, Clinton, Obama) it is important to remember one thing - Congress is going to be extremely important the next four years.

We need to put more pressure than ever on our elected officials to stand up to the next administration. So get fired up and stay fired up.

Something Else to Make You Smile, And Maybe Cringe A Little

Terry Tate:

I think the RNC could use Terry around the office. Just tell him to be on the lookout for RINO's.

Bumper Stickers To Cheer You Up

See Dubya over at the Junk Yard Blog has some funny bumper stickers about the elections up. Check them out here. Just a little taste:

H/T: Ace of Spades

Super "Bad" Tuesday

By now you know the results from yesterday so I will not post them. I can't bring myself to write them. I will put up the delegate count though:

Republican Delegates (1,191 needed to win nomination)

Candidate Delegates

Mike Huckabee 190
John McCain 613
Ron Paul 14
Mitt Romney 269

Total 1,086


Democratic Delegates (2,026 needed to win nomination)

Candidate Delegates

Hillary Clinton 845
John Edwards 26
Mike Gravel 0
Barack Obama 765

Total 1,636

Those were last updated at 6:15 this morning.

McCain has 613 to Romney's 269. This is bad news for Romney, as well as America. Romney could still pull it off I guess, but that is very unlikely.

It will be interesting to see how many of the people that have said they will not vote for McCain will change their tune. I hope none of them do. It is true that McCain will not win without conservatives. What bothers me is how much the conservatives will lose if they support McCain. For the last 12 years the Republican party is slowly but surely moving away from conservatism. Till now they could count on the conservatives complaining about it, but falling back in line by election time. Eventually it will become neccesary for the conservatives to put a foot to these RINO's backside and let them know we will not follow along behind waiting on whatever scraps they decide to dish out to us. The Republican party gained control of Congress because of conservatism. The party lost control of Congress because they moved away from conservatism.

The thought of Clinton or Obama in the White House makes my skin crawl. But the thought of the Republican party becoming the clone to the Democratic party makes my skin crawl twice as bad. For the good of the party and the country, I will not vote for McCain!

Israeli Intelligence Agency Disputes Latest US Findings On Iran's Nuclear Program

From Breitbart:

Israel's Mossad spy agency estimates Iran will develop a nuclear weapon within three years and continue to provide rockets to regional armed groups, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Mossad director Meir Dagan, in an intelligence assessment presented to Israel's powerful foreign affairs and defence committee on Monday, said the Jewish state would face increased threats on all fronts, Maariv daily said.

Dagan's estimate of Iran's nuclear ambitions differs sharply from an assessment by the US intelligence community late last year that said Iran had mothballed its nuclear weapons programme in 2003.

This is a major problem for Israel. They have to keep a close watch on Iran, while dealing with the reluctance of the US in dealing with Iran's nuclear program. One thing is for sure; we will know when Iran gets a nuke. They will use them. Or they will supply a terrorist organization with one. My only hope is that one does not end up here.

Look people, we need to get our heads out of the sand on this. Iran is at war with us the same as Al-Qaeda is. Whether we want to accept it or not. I understand the desire to have peace over there. The only problem is we do not have a choice in the matter. I know that is hard for a lot of Americans to accept. We will have to deal with Iran in the future. The only question is how much pushing are we going to take before we wake up and deal with this issue.

I know, you are saying we have sanctions against them. The only problem is; the countries that are supposed to be with us on sanctions are still trading with Iran.

Stop Iran now!

Super Tuesday

It's here. The big day. This last couple of weeks have been hard on me. As you all know I do not support any of the candidates that are still in the race.

So I have to decide which one is going to do the least amount of damage to the party. That is the reason I will be voting for Romney today. I still am not excited about it, but at this moment I feel I have to try to help stop McCain.

That being said, I am still not sure I will vote for Romney in the general election. He still hasn't proven to me that he is what he says he is. There is time for him to prove this to me but he will have to convince me that he is not another RINO. Right now that is the impression I get. Why I will exept him over McCain is that McCain has left little doubt about the fact that he is a RINO.

More than likely I will be writing in a candidate in November. If the President of this country is going to lead like a Democrat, then let them BE a Democrat. That way I can raise cain about it and not feel bad because I voted for them.

Congressman Jeb Hensarling On Earmarks

Republican members of the House seem to be getting the message on pork barrel spending:

Two weeks ago, the Republican Conference – under the leadership of Congressman John Boehner – adopted several self-imposed guidelines to begin reforming the broken down earmark process. Though I believe that as Republicans we need to go even further by adopting a full year long earmarking moratorium while significantly changing the earmarking system as we know it today, our House Republican leaders deserve credit for making earmark reform a top priority.

Conservatives consistently make the case that the earmarking process has too often lent itself to the triumph of seniority over merit, secrecy over transparency, and the special interest over the national interest. And though I am disappointed by the refusal of Democrats to work with Republicans to fix the broken earmark system, I can’t say that I am shocked by it. Are you?

After getting smacked during the 2006 election the Republicans are finally coming around to our way of thinking. I hope they can get something done on this. Of course, they are in for a heck of a fight. The Democrats and several Republicans will fight this tooth and nail.

Do what you can. Contact your Representatives.

Mississippi Bill To Bar Restaurants From Serving Obese People?

Of course this will not pass, yet:

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You may laugh but this is how the whole deal with smoking got started. How long before we start paying unbelievable tax for a Big Mac? It took several years for the smoking issue. It looks like they are moving on to the next big problem.

The question I have is - how many of our freedoms are we willing to give up before we say enough? Chances are you enjoy at least one of the following; smoking, fatty foods, soft drinks, drinking, skoal, etc... You know, things that are "bad" for you. A lot of obese people have jumped on the bus to attack smokers. What happens when the shoe is on the other foot? What about drinkers?

Look out, it is coming. It may take a while to develop. But it is coming.