Conservative Donnybrook

I have two things to say about this.

First, any subject that would volunteer for a study that required them to drink wine from a straw is probably suspect in the palate discernment department. Any of my friends who are especially good at wine tasting (not me - I much more of a beer and Irish whiskey sort of guy) would tell you that much of the tasting experience is done through the aroma and feel of a wine. It is unlikely that you get much of the bouquet when slurping wine through a straw.

Second, if someone tells you to drink wine through a straw AND you accept AND the only other information they give you is the price of the wine, don’t you think you might catch on to what they’re doing? Besides the simple fact that all wine does, in fact, taste the same to me (good), I think given the setup described above, I’m liable to tell whoever is running the study just about anything out of pure cussedness and contempt for those sorts of studies.

On the other hand, if we ever charge for content from this blog, we’ll charge A LOT!

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I thought I would share a local story because it is stunning in its depiction of the ineptness of local government and in its illustration of why local government is much more important to the lives of people than, say, a presidential election. And, frankly, because I need to vent.

A story this morning in the Indianapolis Star revealed that county and township assessors underassessed property values for business and commercial property in Indiana by $3.86 billion. In Marion County, Indianapolis’ county, commercial property was undervalued by 30.1%.

Last summer residential property taxes were increased for most homeowners. Some of the increases were on the scale of 300%. My personal increase was 62%. Marion County residents took to the streets in a massive protest in downtown Indianapolis and voiced their displeasure, marching on the Statehouse (of course, they marched on a Sunday and nobody was there, but it was still symbolic and garnered news coverage). During the last county election, the mayor was thrown out of office (the first time an incumbent mayor had lost a reelection bid in 40 years) in favor of a Republican candidate that the local party declined to support and almost every incumbent on the city-council was defeated (turning it over to Republican hands). Continue Reading »

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Over the last ten years or so there has been a concerted effort to “bring civility back into politics.” I don’t understand why. Politics has never been civil. Just look to the caning of Senator Charles Sumner by Senator Preston Brooks on the floor of the Senate in 1856. But with the Left’s push to put the filter of political correctness over society, political campaigns have fallen right in line. And the so-called “leaders” of the Right, the RNC, are buying into this nonsense.

Hussein is Senator Obama’s middle name is it not? There are some serious questions about his religious background, why Louis Farrakhan is so adamantly in is camp and why his wife has only recently begun to have a sense of pride for the United States. All these questions point to a more serious one. If Senator Obama is elected President which world leaders will he buddy up with (start planning your vacation to Cuba now)? Restraining avenues of campaigning only serves to help the Left attack the Right. The Left will not show our side the same courtesy of laying off sensitive issues. Look at the recent attacks on Senator McCain’s marital fidelity and whether he is a U.S. citizen or not. Why should we restrict our ability to campaign on the issues when the Left will never do any such thing? What happened to freedom of political speech?

The point being real politics requires candidates to get dirty. Especially when the truth about the opposing candidate is dirty. All too often you see critics opine that the American public does not care for attack ads and that they are sick of “dirty politics.” Well I am sick of p.c. politics. As much as I appreciate these critics wanting to protect me from “dirty politics,” I don’t need their help. I want to see candidates attack one another on real issues using facts. I want conservatives to question the backgrounds of their liberal opponents, even if it involves using their middle name. Why? Because liberals are wrong. Conservatives don’t have to work with them (sorry Senator McCain) or be nice to them, we need to defeat them at the polls because their policies will ruin this country. If that takes peeling back an appealing outer layer to expose the rotting core, so be it.

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