*Interesting Items 7/06* <http://www.jiglu.com/discussion/messages/3272318> *Alex Gimarc* <http://www.jiglu.com/members/agimarc>* <**[email protected]*<[email protected]?subject=interesting Items 7/06> *>** *
*Monday, July 6, 2009* Interesting Items <http://www.jiglu.com/tags/interesting-items> 7/06 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Palin <http://www.jiglu.com/tags/palin> 2. Rules 3. Honduras ------------------------------ 1. Palin. Governor Sarah Palin announced Friday that she was going to be resigning as Governor of Alaska <http://www.jiglu.com/tags/alaska> as of July 26. Replacing her will be LtGov Sean Parnell. Replacing him will be current Alaska National Guard Commander and Commissioner of Veterans Affairs LtGen Craig Campbell. Both Parnell ad Campbell are superb individuals. The punditocracy went into instant overdrive with the announcement, with most of the leftists laughing their backsides off. Most of the GOP insiders immediately blasted the decision, with some referring to it a quitting (using the very worst connotation of the term). Like most recent Palin speeches, this one was a bit disjointed and jumped around. The reasons given for her stepping down were the toll that multiple ethics complaints took on her family, her pocketbook, and her ability to govern. Multiple ethics complaints became the chosen weapon against Palin by her opponents, with 13 of 15 being dismissed out of hand. Let this be a lesson to all prospective conservatives that run on a platform of ethics like Palin did. The left loves complex and wonderful ethics rules, legislation and laws, as they allow them to use their Alinsky tactics to hold conservatives up to a standard of behavior that is impossible to match. Up here, they took the newly minted ethics legislation that was triggered by the now bogus prosecution and conviction of a number of Republican state legislators and used it as a weapon to take down Governor Palin. Up here, 3 of the 5 primary local talk show hosts who have consistently blasted Palin are glad to see her go. Callers have been pretty evenly split. Now that she has gone on, what is she up to? Before I go there, I do want to remind the reader that Palin absolutely terrifies and infuriates those on the left. I believe she terrifies them because she is completely unpredictable and is not afraid of them. She thinks outside the box and is not afraid to take chances. She infuriates them because she is not part of the Washington – NYC, Harvard, Yale, Columbia axis. She didn’t go to all the right schools. She didn’t have all the right friends. She bounced around five different universities before finally finishing one. In other words, they despise her as much on class grounds as they do on ideological grounds. What do I think she will do next? I have no idea. I really don’t. What would I like her to do? That is a better discussion. I think she needs to take a page out of Nixon’s book and use her time out of office to educate herself, discipline herself, and get in front of the anti-Washington wave building out here in the rest of the country. In 1966, fresh from remaking himself, Nixon made the rounds of congressional campaigns, helping win a bunch of them. He took those green stamps and that congressional support as a foundation for his successful presidential run in 1968. What if Palin hits the campaign trail in 2010 and successfully helps elect enough conservatives to overturn democrat control of the House of Representatives (likely) or the Senate (unlikely)? She will be seen as the most powerful political figure on the right during the runup to 2012 where I expect her to slug it out with Mike Huckabee for the nomination. Huckabee does have some problems among movement conservatives who will not soon forget his apparent campaign coordination with the McCain campaign during the latter stage of the Republican primaries in 2008 when he successfully split conservative voters to the extent that Mitt Romney was denied any meaningful primary victories. The other thing that Palin needs to do from now until then is to read everything she can get her hand on about the basics of small government, federalism, Chicago School / Friedman economics, and Reagan – Thatcher – Bush 43 foreign policy. She also needs to get a thicker skin and not respond to the personal attacks in the same way she has. Governor Palin out of office may be able to do as much or more damage to the left as she would have been able to do while in office. These are going to be a very interesting few years. ------------------------------ 2. Rules. I came across a few things over the last couple weeks that got me scratching my head about current events. File this entire discussion under the heading of: What do you do when all the rules change? The rules for investment have most certainly changed, with most of our savings down 40-50% over the course of the last year. The rules in the political world appear to have changed with congress regularly passing legislation that nobody has read, spending trillions of dollars not yet printed, and demanding more to spend. Internationally, the rules of dealing with hostage situations have also changed. The government of Sri Lanka eliminated their long-term terrorist infestation, the Tamil Tigers a few weeks ago by slaughtering everything in sight, including the family of the leadership which had surrendered, and the hostages that the terrorists had hidden among. Nobody said a word about the action. If we are in a time of new rules, what do we conservatives do to make those times work to our advantage? I think the answer comes down to the age-old argument between the individual and the collective. As a free marketeer, I side with the individual, believing that the individual can make better, more efficient, and quicker choices than any collective can possibly make. 50 individual states, working in their own best interests can and will make better policy choices than a monolithic collective lorded over by the Ivy League gentry in Washington DC. Conservatives normally lean toward the individual rather than the collective, toward the moral rather than the immoral, and toward liberty rather than safety. Those are age-old basics that will serve us well in the turbulent times to come. This nation has held together over the last 200+ years because we managed to balance the notions of individual liberty, morality and responsibility against the notions of the collective. We are in a time that the collective is spinning (or has spun) completely out of control, destroying the financial system, the currency, and the rule of law. Our response to that will determine our future. When the collective destroys the financial system and the currency, expect the individual to move quickly to other ways to create and transfer wealth. When the collective removes property rights from the many states, expect some of them to start discussing secession, as this nation is a compact between the many states and the national government formed by those states. When the collective behaves in a completely immoral and corrupt manner, expect the moral to start defending themselves and their interests via other means. The Vigilance Committees of the 19th Century were one such example. I don’t think I am saying this very well, but our response to the current festivities as individuals will determine our future, and that reaction and that future may go in completely unexpected and new directions. Overreaching by the collective may or may not be the death knell for this great nation, as people will react in unexpected ways to changes and provocations by the collective. ------------------------------ 3. Honduras. The elected government of Honduras dumped its Chavista wannabee el Presidente a couple weeks ago because he was organizing an unconstitutional ballot referendum intended to give him an unlimited term in office. Last week, the Obama administration, the OAS and other dictator friendly organizations blasted Honduras, accused them of holding an undemocratic military coup, and demanded they reinstate el Presidente. From everything I have read of the situation, the Honduran government is acting in a constitutional manner. Chavez on the other hand is fomenting revolution throughout Central and South America, not unlike what the Castro brothers were doing 40 years ago. As of this writing, Chavez funded and supported thugs are stirring up riots in the streets, Venezuela is reportedly massing troops threatening invasion, and the Obama administration and his and Hillary’s State Department<http://www.jiglu.com/tags/state-department>is siding with the dictators. This is not going to end well. I hope the Hondurans are able to go it alone in their drive to liberty. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. 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