PAUL RYAN FOR PRESIDENT. MISTAKE OR PROPHECY?

For a quick second yesterday I thought the conservatives had performed a miracle and had seen the light when Romney introduced Paul Ryan by saying, “Join me in welcoming the next president of the United States, Paul Ryan!”  I got all warm, fuzzy and tingly believing that the GOP finally realized what fiscal responsibility means.  My heart skipped a beat thinking about tax reform, a possible flat tax, sound money policy, small business opportunities, decreasing regulation, fiscal responsibility, constitutionally smaller government, and bye-bye Obamacare.  And then Romney returned to the stage to correct his slight blooper.   Mr. Ryan is Romney’s choice for a vice presidential running mate.  And while I would have preferred Ryan heading the ticket, I will gladly accept him in second place. 

Listen up here, Friends.  You can tell a lot about a man's character by the people he hires.  A First Class Man will hire only other First Class Men.  And a Third Class Creep will hire Joe Biden. 

And the First Class Man Romney has made an outstanding choice in hiring a First Class Running Mate.  This selection tells the Conservative base in America that Romney is willing to talk about the enormous issues that are facing Americans in this election.  Unemployment over 8 percent for over 3 years, $16 trillion in debt and rising daily, regulations that are destroying jobs and companies, no Democrat budget passed in 4 years, massive fraud, waste, abuse and political patronage.  The only issue I have with Ryan is he voted for the Patriot Act, which I believe was enacted in response to 9/11 but has become the biggest threat to our freedom in the history of the country.  It keeps on expanding and growing and restricting our rights.  But since there is no “perfect” candidate, I will embrace Paul Ryan and hope he understands that The Patriot Act is a fundamental threat to the freedoms he espouses. 

The more immediate threat to America is fiscal bankruptcy, economic stagnation and a European-style entitlement country, which is where Obama is leading us.  And there is no team better prepared to bring us back from financial insolvency than Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney.  Ryan is a policy wonk who understands numbers, budgets and where we are headed if we don’t change direction.  He is an optimistic, pro-growth VP candidate who has a clear vision and sound solutions to save our country.  That fact that he can effectively communicate with Americans is a bonus. 

Now all we have to do is SHOW UP and support Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney in November.  We need to show up and defend our values.  We need to show up to make a loud and clear statement that we want our country back.  We need to show up because the next president will likely appoint 2-3 Supreme Court Justices.  We need to show up because we don’t want four more years of over 8% unemployment, $4 a gallon gas, trillion dollar growing deficits and widespread corruption Obama/Chicago style.  It’s up to us. 

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PAUL RYAN FOR PRESIDENT? REALLY?

Last week the pundits from both political parties were full speed ahead on the rumor that Republican Paul Ryan of WI was seriously thinking about running for President. And while I believe Ryan probably has a better working knowledge of budgeting, deficits and the mess America is in than anyone else in Washington, I'm not sure he's a candidate I could support for president. I am looking for a True Conservative, small government, cut spending and do-it-now candidate. Ryan may not qualify.

Ryan proposed a budget plan to return the government to fiscal sanity - Maybe. Ryan is a passionate advocate for Conservative principles - Sometimes. Ryan's "Path To Prosperity" budget plan that came out in April was seen as a plan to return the federal government to fiscal sanity - Or was it?

When the plan came out it was trashed by Conservatives because it provided for spending to increase $4 trillion over the next five years. It reduces deficits but does not eliminate them until 2040, 29 years from now. This analysis is from the CBO. Ryan's budget projects the public debt increasing every year from 2011 to 2021. It shows the debt increasing to $16.2 trillion in 2012 and rising every year after that, going to $23.1 trillion by 2021. The plan does not address interest on the national debt. No credible proposal can ignore such a huge obligation. Forget eliminating deficits by 2040. It is financial and economic suicide to wait that long to solve our fiscal mess. And the main thing the elite media focused on was, "Oh, my gosh, Ryan wants to take away Medicare," which is a total lie and distortion of his proposal.

The other problem Ryan has is that he supported TARP, supported the debt-ceiling deal, supported Bush's spending binge, supported the auto bailout, supported big AIG bonuses. He has shown by his votes that he may have a problem understanding what Americans really want - an end to the spending, deficits and debt that led to the need to raise the debt ceiling.

The real crisis hanging over the American economy and our way of life, is not whether the debt ceiling was raised, but rather that we are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend. Everyone knows this can't continue, yet no one in Washington has proposed a surefire way to end this slow national suicide. The deals being concocted in smoke-filled rooms and in the dead of night behind closed doors on Capital Hill are intended to get politicians past the 2012 election, and none of the deals solves the real crises. The so-called Super Panel as mandated in the "Debt Deal" is just another joke panel that will come up with nothing. Why isn't the House of Reps doing this work? That's THEIR job, not some hastily thrown together Super Panel. And our economy continues to BURN.

And while Ryan gets some points for proposing a plan to reform federal spending, which is way more than Obama and his henchmen have done (Dems haven't passed a budget in over 800 days), the Ryan plan doesn't cut it. It doesn't go far enough and it doesn't do it fast enough.

But I suppose it's better than nothing, "nothing" is what the Dems have proposed, and yet there it sits in the Senate. It was passed by the House and has languished in the Senate because the Democrat controlled Senate hasn't passed any of the 3 budgets the Republican controlled House passed. Ah, the nuances of politics.

The Republican establishment elites are making a colossal mistake if they think grass-roots conservatives don't understand the difference between a deal to raise the debt ceiling and a solution to the spending and deficit crisis. They are not one and the same. I'm not sure Paul Ryan gets it.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT?

OUT GO THE LIGHTS! That's what could happen to America if we fail to get our fiscal house in order. Consequences, there are surely dire consequences for not doing so and continuing along the spending path to certain ruin. And along comes the first big decision the new members of Congress will have to make: To raise the Debt Limit, or Not to raise the Debt Limit.


For those of you who are not into spending more than you earn, here's a short explanation of "The Debt Limit." Congress sets a dollar amount, called The Debt Limit, and the government cannot spend more than the Debt Limit amount set by Congress. When the government commits to MORE DEBT than the amount Congress has set, the President trots on over the Congress and asks, pretty please, will you raise the Debt Limit so we can continue to pay our bills and operate - in short, so we can continue to spend money we don't have.

A history lesson, the Debt Limit has been raised 11 times since 1996. Many of those raises were accompanied by promised spending cuts that never materialized. Same old government spenders, promise anything to get what they want. Same game, different players. Don't you believe one word of any promise to cut spending. It won't happen unless they are forced - and that means DON'T RAISE THE DEBT LIMIT, NO WAY, NO HOW.

And now here we are, Obama wants the Debt Limit raised so the government can continue to fund things like turtle tunnels, studying Chinese prostitutes, sidewalks to nowhere, the purchase of electric golf carts for rich golfers, funds for the National Endowment for the Arts so they can display more pornographic so-called art works, studying why Africans don't vote, money to develop a joke machine, studying how monkeys react to cocaine, the genetic makeup of ants; oh, doesn't it just give you warm fuzzies when you think of all the worthwhile things YOUR money goes for??? And Obama wants more of IT from YOU. He wants Congress to RAISE THE DEBT LIMIT so he can spend more.

But guess what? Obama was AGAINST raising the Debt Limit before he was FOR raising the Debt Limit. In 2006 Obama opposed any Debt Limit increase saying the following: "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt is a sign of leadership failure. Leadership means the 'the buck stops here.' Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit." These are Obama's exact words. Talk about two-faced hypocrisy, he's the King Cobra of the Washington snake pit. If America had a "debt problem" in 2006 what does he think the "debt problem" is now? Leadership failure?? Seems to be describing himself.

You will hear the Dems screaming about what will happen if the Debt Limit is not raised, Armageddon is on the horizon, America will be in default, blah, blah, blah. But you need to know that in 1995 a government shutdown did not cause a stock market crash, and it did not create widespread catastrophe and panic and the end of life as we know it, and the world won't spin off its axis in 2011 in spite of what Obama and his czars want us to believe. Everything is a panic with them. Do it or the world ends. Oh, my gosh!

So now I need to ask, is it wishful thinking to hope for the "change" that the Conservatives promised us in the last election? We spoke loudly and clearly and sent about 75 new people to Washington. We said QUIT SPENDING! AND WE MEANT IT. And now, Folks, they better listen to us. Or they too will be replaced. 2012 is almost here.

CONSERVATIVES, LISTEN UP!

Do you think the Republicans in Washington should support the compromise on the extension of Bush tax rates? Before you decide you should know a few things about the bill currently on the table.

First, it includes approximately $200 billion in NEW DEFICIT SPENDING AND STIMULUS SCHEMES. This is money that will be borrowed from other countries and repaid by our kids. Conservatives, we sent you to Washington for a reason! If you are going to spend more you have to CUT something of equal value.

Second, this bill only extends the current tax rates for two years. I don't know of any business who does "temporary two-year planning" for their business game plan. Businesses make decisions based on a long-term vision. Businesses will not create jobs without certainty regarding what their tax situation will be well into the future. A two-year extension is nothing more than a band aid on a hemorrhaging wound. And the current proposal does not extend all of the tax cuts. It creates for the first time in 10 years, a "death" tax of 35%. That means you work your entire life, pay taxes your entire life, and if you've worked hard enough to have an estate to leave your kin, the government will take 35% of it. For farmers and small businesses it means you may have to sell the assets to pay the tax. How ludicrous is this?

Third, this bill includes DOZENS OF EARMARKS FOR SPECIAL INTERESTS. This includes ethanol subsidies, tax breaks for the entertainment industry, tax breaks for Puerto Rican rum companies, favors for auto racing track owners, hand outs for businesses in America Samoa, and many, many more. WHAT THE HECK IS UP WITH THIS PROGRAM?

I believe the Republicans in Washington who can make or break this bill should NOT GO ALONG WITH IT. We elected new Conservative leaders to put a stop to the "earmark" agenda and deficit spending. I know many of them won't be in control until January, but those who are currently there need to know that any Washingtonites who vote for this will have to answer to the American public in 2012. It's the first big vote for the Conservatives. I hope they do what they promised us they would do. Or they too will be gone. After January, 2011 they can pass a bill extending the Bush tax rates forever, a bill that does ONLY THAT and is not LOADED WITH OTHER JUNK. Watch THAT stimulate the economy and create jobs.

SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI, SORE LOSER

Alaska Sen. Murkowski, handily defeated in the Republican primary by Joe Miller, is refusing to go away. She has attacked Conservatives and Tea Party Express participants as "racist," "extremist," has called us "outsiders," and said we "hijacked the Republican Party." But I say if "hijacking" means saving the party from corrupt, failed, establishment liberals like her and Mike Castle in Delaware, then good for us!

This sitting U.S. Senator can call us anything she wants. I call us "We The People." We are loud, we are passionate, we are not going away, and we are not going to sit down and shut up.

And now she has announced that even though she lost in the primary, she is running as an Independent Party write in candidate for the Senate. Gee, Lisa, nice way to try to destroy the Republican Party that you've claimed to represent. You are a RINO and you just proved it.

When liberal candidates lose their primaries many leave the party and join the opposition or run as Independents. When conservatives lose their primaries they usually accept defeat and support the winner. Marlin Stutzman (IN) endorsed Dan Coats. Chuck DeVore (CA) endorsed Carly Fiorina, and Ovide Lamontagne (NH) endorsed Kelly Ayotte.

But when Arlen Spector (PA) was defeated he left the party. When Charlie Crist (FL) faced defeat he got in a snit, left the party and is running as an Independent. And now after being defeated Murkowski is having a temper tantrum and is running as an Independent. After her primary loss she stated she would not run as an Independent but would "return home." So much for her "WORD" meaning anything!

Murkowski's betrayal proves the voters of Alaska did the right thing by "Firing Her" the first time. And now they're going to have to do it again because apparently she didn't get the "YOU'RE FIRED" message.

I am confident that they will send Joe Miller to Washington because the alternative, sending Murkowski or some other liberal loon, is asking for more of the same big-government-spending-spit-on-our-Constitution government that we currently are stuck with.

ALASKA, WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU!