Some Thoughts on the Continuing Conservative Crisis (part 7)

the Current Crisis -

As of 2/24/2007 it looks like McCain and Obama are going to be representing the Republican and Democrat parties in November.

McCain had the good fortune to be the target of a sleazy attack from the New York Times.  
Even for the New York Times, this was  a poor job of "journalism" - and an even worse piece of propaganda since no one believes 
the NYT's "reporting."

McCain as clearly won this fight with the liberal media.  However, the battle may already be lost due to the fact that McCain's financing is in deep trouble and he may end up not having the resources to compete between now and the convention.


THE BOTTOM LINE -

George Bush and morons in the "conservative media" (Hewitt and Medved) have created an
opportunity for Obama to win in November.  Obama is a radical socialist who comes from
the far left school of Saul D. Alinsky.

Will the United States really throw it's future into the gabage by electing Obama?  Why
not just make Fidel Castro our new Prez?  Or Hugo Chavez?  Honestly, is there any difference?




IN THE MEDIA -

Good Reading:

The Death Of Free Speech: How Our Broken National Dialogue Has Killed The Truth And Divided America (Hardcover) - available at Amazon.  By John Ziegler


Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (Hardcover)  by Jonah Goldberg (Author)


ANOTHER RUN BY RALPH NADER  -

Yawn.  Boring.  No effect.  


CURRENT BLOGGING-

Many on the conservative side are beginning to follow the lead of The Conservative Crisis blog by discussing the reasons for the continuing conersvative crisis:

PajamasMedia offers this straight forward political analysis that demonstrates the problems 
for us conservatives -

Conservative Crisis: Is the GOP Lurching Left?


RenewAmerida.us has this long-winded and pointless article which shows complete denial
of the crisis -

Is conservatism in crisis?

Some Thoughts on the Continuing Conservative Crisis (part 6)

Talkradio Los Angeles: Good News!


John Ziegler is back on the air on KGIL! Ziegler is an honest and intelligent voice with a conservative/libertarian viewpoint. People in Los Angeles are still shocked that Ziegler was forced out of his evening timeslot by two of the most sleazey and deceitful frauds in radio: John and Ken.

You can read the entire story at THE REAL KFI:

(QUOTE FROM THE SITE)

On this website you read and hear compelling and exclusive evidence that:

• The John & Ken Show is fundamentally fraudulent and makes professional wrestling seem credible in comparison
• 
  John Kobylt is the main reason that John Ziegler is no longer at KFI
• 
  John Kobylt made one of the most racist statements ever made by a person in his position and, in the opinion of John Ziegler, is a racist.
• 
  Ken Chiampou is presumed to be a homosexual by nearly everyone at KFI and why that should matter to KFI listeners.
• 
  There is a lot that John & Ken don't want you to know about how they do their show and determine what they are going to say
  Bill Handel is a fair-weathered “friend” who hates John & Ken but who committed one of the most massive acts of hypocrisy imaginable after strangely going out of his way to defend John Kobylt
• 
  KFI management is utterly incompetent and corrupt
• 
  John Ziegler is hardly perfect and not talented enough to be a success doing KFI's brand of deceptive talk.
• 
  At the end of John Ziegler's tenure at KFI things got so absurd that they were absolutely comical
• 
  Ziegler's replacement is, according to industry observers who have worked with him, a boring, lazy, porn obsessed, phony who is "one of the worst people I have ever encountered in radio."

Written by John Ziegler

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Some thoughts on the current conservative crisis (part 1)

I think that we can all agree that things do not look good for conservatives in 2008. Here are some reasons why:

George Bush - By attacking the conservative base on "immigration reform" (amnesty), mishandling the Iraq war for far too long (until he put Patreaus in charge), and simply being the most inarticulate president in modern history, George Bush is the main reason that the conservative movement will suffer a huge setback in the upcoming general election.

Hugh Hewitt - It's becoming hard to listen to Hugh and his complete sellout for Mitt Romney.
Hugh's "interviews" with Mitt remind me of "The Simpons" episode (Season 2: Episode #17) where "Lisa" is forced to ask "Mr. Burns":
"Your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?" Replace "Lisa" with Hugh and "Mr. Burns" with Romney and you get the idea (Larry King would be embarrassed by Hugh's softballs tossed to Mitt!)

Michael Medved - Once again we have a "conservative" talkradio host who is a complete sellout. Medved will simply not concede how lackluster and shallow this current crop of Republican candidates is for real conservatives. But Medved's pro- "open borders" amnesty position is a complete slap in the face to the conservative base. Medved gave away his true feelings in a January 16th interview with author Robert Timberg when he defended McCain's support of "immigration reform" by saying,
"The truth is that you are not going to get 12 million AMERICANS to go back home..."
This was NOT a slip - Medved actually considers all the illegals who reside in the USA to be "AMERICANS" - with as much right to be here as native born citizens.


Laura Ingraham- I love and admire Laura for her courage and true conservative
principles. She was right on so many issues - most importantly her dissent from supporting the disastrous Harriet Myers nomination to the Supreme Court. However (insert a "butt-monkey" here), she is becoming a national scold trying to nanny us to death for not being moral
enough or "Christian" enough for her own taste. Memo to Laura - there are plenty of secular conservatives who are part of the conservative coalition who like "South Park" and who do not want to be lectured by you. And in terms of winning elections, the scolding nanny image is unattractive.

The Current Crop of Losers in the Republican Primary: Outside of Fred Thompson,
there is not a true conservative in the bunch. While I admire McCain's service in
Vietnam and Giuliani's record as Mayor of New York here is the breakdown:

Giuliani - not conservative (but likeable)
McCain - not conservative (but checkout his babe-0-licious daugher Mehgan!)
Thomson - a conservative (too little, too late)
Romney - not conservative (forget the National Review's endorsement and
look at the guy's record)
Huckleberry - I don't think he even knows (don't make me laugh)
(I'm not going to mention the last guy because I don't want to tick off his thuggish
cult-like goon squad)

A note on talkradio in Los Angeles - John Ziegler was a conservative/libertarian
host who lost his job at KFI (am640). John wrote about his experience
at THEREALFKI.COM (check it out!)
Ziegler was a voice of reason in LA and will be missed.

Finally, I'm picking up a copy of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Facism.
Think of Jonah as a less shrill and more reasonable and persuasive Ann Coulter.