2008 John McCain – Uh no guess not, with all due respect to McCain’s service to our great country he is just not a leader that Republicans want.

2000 John McCain – See above.

1996 Bob Dole – Again another great man who has served his country well but is not viewed as a conservative.

1992 George HW Bush – Yes I include Bush 41 on this list and the reason being is that in 1988 he ran and was elected largely on Reagan’s coat tails and then spent the next four years as a moderate on domestic issues and was ousted for it in 1992 when he had to run on his own record.

1976 Gerald Ford – Its interesting to note that Ford never won even a statewide election in his political career.  He was elected to the House of Representatives thirteen times but passed up chances to run for the Senate or run for Governor in his native Michigan.  Interesting to note that the Republican establishment chose Ford over Reagan in 1976 leading to its doom and four years of Jimmy Carter.

Not exactly a track record to run on…

Why the history lesson you ask?  Well this year the mainstream media and the unions need to do more work than usual to get Obama re-elected.  Obama’s record is so bad it almost makes the Carter years look like the golden age, in addition to that you have clear and blatant corruption that makes Clinton and Nixon look honest.  Obama doesn’t have a single issue he can successfully run on so when that happens you have to marginalize your competition.  Obama needs to run against Mitt Romney because he knows that conservatives won’t support a Northeast Liberal like Romney, Romney is nothing more than the modern day Bob Dole or the 2012 version of John McCain.

Obama’s greatest fear is that he has to run against a conservative that is a solid debater and someone that can communicate effectively.  Insert Newt Gingrich, now we are aware of Newt’s baggage but you have to admit that he is a solid communicator that makes debates interesting and he would eat Obama for lunch in a debate.  This strikes fear in two groups of people, first the left.  Obama, the media, and the unions can’t afford to have a solid conservative running against Obama in November.  The second group is the blue blood republicans.  Those people that are supposedly the pillars of republican wisdom who don’t want the Reagan conservatives thinking they control this party. 

So while the establishment tries to ram Romney down our throats I remember something I learned from Rush Limbaugh a long time ago.  Conservatism works every time its tried…

On the other side Democrats have a traditional record of being hard core liberal for the primaries which is no real surprise, and they traditionally have hard core left wing views that the majority of the country has rejected time and again but then they run as an outsider, a moderate, and they often succeed in fooling the so called “independents” into believing they’re somehow enlightened which couldn’t be any further from the truth.

So this year the “front runner” Mitt Romney is the liberal candidate attempting to do what traditionally has been unsuccessful on the Republican side. Be liberal, move to the right for the primaries, and then move back center after the nomination is secure. The problem with this line of logic is that it hasn’t ever succeeded. It has failed every time it’s been tried. McCain in 2008, Dole in 1996, Ford in 1976 (even though he was the incumbent because of Nixon’s resignation..) And the list goes on.

So what do we take from history? If voters on the republican side are serious about replacing Obama then they will elect a conservative like Santorum or to a lessor degree Newt in the primaries because those candidates and now Romney will have the best chance to beat Obama in November…

This just further proves that we need some widespread reform of the nominating process. The fact that over 90% of the country won’t get to choose the candidate they want for President. The Northeast Liberal establishment tells us that Romney has the best chance to beat Obama. Unfortunately that’s just not true as Romney has more in common with Obama than different.

Unfortunately my friends it appears to be shaping up as another 2008, 1996, etc where we stand up a weak kneed non conservative to be a sacrificial lamb insuring the re-election of a hard core liberal…

Having a single election day works fine for the general election every four years, why not do the same for the primaries?  If you have say the second Tuesday in March as the primary, or June, etc.  Pick a month in the spring or early summer and set the primary election day.

Nothing against Iowa, New Hampshire, and others but there is absolutely no sense in having a couple of small states making decisions for the whole country, in the early days it made more sense because of travel and things like that where logistically it was difficult to learn about candidates before the primary election but in the modern age where most of the country knows more about these people than we’d ever like to know it seems like it would be fine to have the primary on one day nationwide…

We are heartened to see candidates like Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, and Michelle Bachmann who generally are perceived as closer to the conservative mainstream than Romney, Christie, Giuliani, and Pawlenty. The problem is that the last group seems to be drawing the most media attention. This really is disturbing. Personally I would like to see Rick Perry, John Bolton, and John Thune in this mix as well. This would more heavily weight the field in a conservative fashion.

I am not completely certain there is a perfect conservative candidate in this field, declared or otherwise. It is unfortunate because after four years of Obama this country will need solid conservative leadership to get us out of the mess we’re in both domestically and internationally.

We sincerely hope that the conservative media can begin to steer all the candidates into a national dialog on where they stand on the important issues. Issues such as taxes, spending, illegal immigration, security, over regulation, reducing the federal workforce, among many others being of primary concern. It is vitally important that these are addressed by all the candidates either in the field now or still contemplating getting into the field. The voters in all states but particularly the early primary states need to know who is willing to lead this nation out of this dark period and those who simply want to follow…

President Obama is somewhat infamous for his use of a teleprompter.  He seemingly can’t memorize speeches so his handlers feed him the words to say.  Now it seems he can’t sign his name either.  Congress recently passed a four year extension to the Patriot Act but because the current law was due to expire at midnight last Thursday and the President was in France it meant either the current law would expire temporarily or the President had to sign the bill into law with an autopen.

The autopen is typically used for signing letters and things of a less constitutional nature.  Now while I wholeheartedly support the Patriot Act I now believe the new law is not legally enforceable because it has not been legally signed into law.  For a bill to become law congress must pass it and the President must sign it, not his surrogates, not a machine, the President and the President alone.

We will now most likely be treated to ACLU running to court clamoring that the law isn’t legally in effect and they, as much as it pains me to say, have a legal point.  Now as tough as I am on Obama about the act itself (using the autopen) the circumstances that have led us here are squarely on the shoulders of congress’ inability to pass the extension in a reasonable amount of time that would allow the President to have legally signed it before he left for Europe.

How much longer will we continue to kick this can down the road?  When will congress make a commitment to our long term security and make this act and its early provisions that have since been stripped permanent?

Another item of concern is that our liberal government no longer seems concerned with the deficit.  When we’re needing to ramp up spending for defense of our country that’s bad for liberals and as such not acceptable.  Many of us can remember the eighties when liberals cried that all this deficit spending on defense was a horrible debt to pass to future generations.  Now we’re deficit spending on social programs, more unemployment benefits, hiring more government bureaucrats, etc, and that’s somehow ok.

We’re seeing unprecedented regulation from the FCC, EPA, FTC, etc.  These things all cost business money, not just big business, but small businesses as well.  Thus causing them to have to lay off workers, or refrain from hiring more workers.  Later this year most Americans are headed for big tax hike because the President and Congress seem determined to let current tax cuts expire.

Now it is rare when we find a European government to contrast this to since most of them are more socialist than ours however Germany has taken an approach that mirrors our previous recession management strategy.  They are cutting taxes, reducing regulation, and cutting the size of government.  As a result of this approach Germany’s unemployment is falling, their economy is expanding faster than the US, all other European countries, and China.

If more countries followed Germanys lead recovery would come faster, if the US followed Germany and our own previous experience we could likely grow our way out of this recession by the next Presidential election.  We won’t mind you, and that is likely why Obama will be discarded in 2012, relegated to scrap heap of worst Presidents next to Jimmy Carter…

Obama runs around looking for a BP executive to lynch and while there is certainly enough blame to go around, including officials within the Department of the Interior, that’s not fixing the problem.  Where has all this government regulation landed us?  Our tax dollars are funding departments like the Interior and we still get oil washing up on beaches?  This isn’t supposed to happen with all the government oversight, this isn’t supposed to happen while Obama is president.  He cares, remember?  These things are supposed to magically go away I thought.

Smelling blood in the water Mitt Romney goes around telling the media we need a leader not a politician.  We couldn’t agree more, but we also need a leader and not an ambulance chasing opportunist like Romney.

So the headline on Drudge read “DEMS FEAR VIOLENT BACKLASH”.  Really?  They weren’t fearing the backlash when they thought it would be contained to the ballot box…  Why, because they’ve stolen enough elections in the last 100 years that they have insulated themselves fairly well.  They have career cronies now running nearly every federal department.  Even when the voters wise up for a couple of years and vote them out of power the opposition never gets very far because the socialists run the government not the people…

But now things are changing, the people (or at least a vocal group of them) are standing up to the socialists in power and going with what may truly be the last patriotic stand in America.  From here forward the path will be set, we’ll either be on an ever faster path to full blown communism culminating in very violent revolution somewhere down the road.  Or we’ll listen to few patriots and begin to take back our government.

Liberals, Socialists, Communists, Democrats, only fear one thing and that is losing power.  Losing power is no longer defined as who controls congress or the white house.  They’ve seen that happen and have succeeded in losing that only temporarily.  Their true power is in the courts that they control, the education system that they control, the media they control, the various government agencies that they control.  These people secure socialism everyday.

The extreme far left leadership in congress and at the white house have only fear now.  They believed that they were doing what the people wanted in spite of the fact that every poll was against them.  Now they’ve rammed something down the throats of the people and they expect the people to just take it like they have for 80 years and just accept one more incremental step towards complete government control.  The people seem to be standing up this time, only time will tell if they have the strength to stand up to the rest of this agenda.