Simple Man Politics

Welcome back to Simple Man Politics my friends I know it has been a while since I have written anything and I am sorry. However life has a habit of getting in the way sometimes and you have to take care of business so you can do what you like to do. That has definitely been true in my case recently, but I am well on my way to a full political rant recovery, so please bear with me.

Today I am going to write a little bit about a guy I have been listening to for quite a while on the radio and who has recently gotten himself his own show on Fox News. The guy I am talking about is none other than The Stormin Mormon Glenn Beck. To say the least this guy is a human lightning rod and fireplug that seems to thrive on political controversy, and I think both political parties are scared of him, but the left most of all.

However the thing I would like to talk about today is an interview that he gave to Katie Couric recently. In this interview he discusses the 2008 Presidential Election and makes a startling public statement that I think really floored the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party. He not only said that he would not have voted for Obama, but that he may have even supported Hillary Clinton over John McCain.

Now I will tell you that I was really surprised by this statement, but after hearing his explanation I understand why he said what he did. Yes Glenn Beck does agree with John McCain on foreign policy and national defense issues, but he seriously disagrees with McCain on some domestic policies. The most notable of these domestic policy issues are John McCain’s support of Cap and Trade, Amnesty for Illegal’s, and Campaign Finance Reform.

What Beck basically says is that we as a nation would be no better off and maybe even worse off with McCain than with Obama. He cites that with McCain supporting those domestic policies that our economy would be in just as bad a shape and that there would more than likely have been no opposition from conservative independents or Republicans. I think that Mr. Beck may be right about this.

While I am a conservative who had voted for John McCain in 2008 I am also an independent voter with no party affiliation. With hindsight being 20/20 I have to agree that John McCain would quite possibly have been a bad choice for America to make. Unfortunately I am not a great fan of Hillary Clinton either and I would have had a hard time to vote for her even though she is a hawk on defense and foreign policy as am I.

For now though it appears that Glenn Beck has the spotlight, the soapbox, and the microphone. He also has his own organization known as the 9/12 project, which is designed with getting the grass roots conservative movement motivated. While I don’t support all of Becks views I have to agree with him that we need to strictly adhere to our nation’s constitution if we are to get out of this economic mess and remain strong as well.

I for one will be keeping an eye on Glenn Beck to see if he winds up being just like all of the other media personalities out there who are floating their own agendas and telling the American people a bunch of lies. For now though it seems to appear that we are safe from this where he is concerned. I hope you all have a fantastic weekend and I will be back again soon my friends, CIAO4NOW!!!!!

I was watching Glenn Beck on Fox News on Friday and saw the most interesting video on his show. It was a video depicting Thomas Paine and the 2nd American Revolution, and he later interviewed the actor in the video as well. I found the man fascinating and insightful for so short an interview.

The man who portrays the 21st Century Thomas Paine is a man by the name of Bob Basso born in Hawaii but grew up in Brooklyn New York the son of the borough Fire Chief. He tells Glenn that he grew up during the best of times and the worst of times. He remembered the night before Pearl Harbor and how after Pearl Harbor America proved her strength by pulling together and putting differences aside to accomplish the nation’s recovery.

Now this concerned citizen and patriot is crusading against all of the corruption and greed that is coming out of Washington D.C. right now. He is obviously upset about all of this tax payer money going to bail out big business and to create big government without any regard for how we the tax payer feels about it.

He wants us and the politicians to remember that they serve us because we have elected them and if we don’t like the way they serve we can get rid of them with the same vote that elected them. Basically he wants everyone to know that the ultimate power lies with the voter. While I may not agree with everything in his video I do agree with his dissatisfaction over how all of this is being done without consulting the people.

Glenn told hi m that he first saw the video when someone posted it on his 9/12 project website and how he was amazed at the way the Thomas Paine character spoke He told Basso that those feelings were the same for him and that was why he started the 9/12 project. Glenn also didn’t agree with all of Basso’s ideas for dealing with Washington, but none the less agreed that something should be done.

The last thing that they discussed was all of these tea parties that are currently going on around the country regarding all of this taxation and wealth distribution. I think this is a good idea and I will be attending a tea party here in Phoenix next month. I will also be getting video of the event, which I will post on here for all of you to see. I highly recommend that you watch the Glenn Beck interview with Bob Basso, which I am including in this blog.

I hope you all enjoy the video and leave me a comment telling me what you thought about it. Have a great day, CIAO4NOW!!!!!

Well my friends I have to tell you that CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) 2009 was definitely off the chain and I for one was extremely pleased with. I was very impressed with Newt Gingrich and the way he ripped on Obama’s policies and backed it up with the truth supported by actual facts. However I don’t think that he was the star of CPAC this time, I think the star this year is conservative radio talk sow host Rush Limbaugh.

That’s right I said Rush Limbaugh and here is why. Not since Ronald Reagan have I seen a conservative public figure speak as passionately or eloquently about the philosophy and values that a true conservative holds true to. Whether you like the man or not, you cannot deny that he really believes in his idea of the conservative American and what it means to believe in the core values of a true conservative.

Unfortunately he pointed out one flaw within the conservative movement and the Republican Party. That flaw is the willingness to toss the Reagan era into the waste basket as gone in order to attempt to appeal to the American people as forward thinkers and change brokers within the movement.

The conservative movement does not need to change its philosophy it needs to change its leadership and find a candidate that will best represent them as the party of compassion that they actually are. It is not evil to reward success, nor is it fair to punish success either.

Let us be honest here. Ronald Reagan inherited a recession worse than the one we have now from Jimmy Carter. The funny thing about that is that of all the financial catastrophes that Obama likes to point to in our history this is the one that he doesn’t ever mention why because a Republican President was the one who saved the economy.

Reagan did this by applying if you will pardon the term liberal tax breaks and incentives to all tax payers as well as business. He also shrunk the size of government and promoted the private sector/capitalism where ever possible. The result of these efforts was the largest peacetime economic growth in modern American history.

The best part of this was that it wasn’t accomplished by outrageous government spending at the expense of the tax payer creating debt that the next three generations would be responsible for. We didn’t have to go into debt to foreign countries either. We also didn’t have to print more and more money than we had and devalue the dollar. What Reagan did was to empower the people to be productive and as a competitive people we answered the call, accepted the challenge, and kicked some serious economic butt.

What that tells me is that Rush got it right at CPAC on Friday. It also tells me that Obama is horribly wrong. I personally hope that if Obama’s plan would truly help the people and the economy that it would succeed, but knowing that it is destined for abject failure I will have to side with Rush and hope that it fails miserably and fast, so that we can set about the business of doing the job right.

That is all I have for this bright and cheerful Monday and I hope you all enjoy this post. I am also adding a couple of videos for you all to watch so enjoy them to. One is the Rush Limbaugh at CPAC there are 10 parts all together, and the other is a Glenn Beck video that you might find interesting, especially since we are bailing out AIG…..again. I will be back again very soon so have a marvelous Monday, CIAO4NOW!!!!!