The Council Has Spoken!! This Week’s Watcher’s Council Results - 01.24.14

The Council Has Spoken!, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

 

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.” -Sir Walter Scott, Marmion

“People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.” ― Otto Von Bismark

“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.” - Walter Lippmann

 

This week’s winner, Joshuapundit’s Senate Intel Committee: Benghazi Was Preventable, Al Qaeda Was Involved, And The White House Knew It is my analysis of the long delayed Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the Benghazi debacle. Here’s a slice:

The bi-partisan Senate Intelligence Committee finally issued its long-delayed report on the Benghazi attack, and based on what it said, it’s pretty understandable why some of the Democrats on the committee strung things out as long as they could and fought over the wording. But some things simply give off too foul a stench for any perfume to make a difference.

The committee’s minority Republicans criticized the White House for obstructing the report, which the committee had wanted to complete much earlier, and openly accused Patrick Kennedy, U.S. undersecretary of State for Management of shielding the Obama administration from Congressional oversight.

Of course, Kennedy was also concentrating on covering his own behind. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) who normally votes with the Democrats an dis the very epitome of bi-partisanship angrily made a point of saying that Kennedy “failed to ensure that a facility he personally approved in December 2011 had the necessary security to match the heightened threat environment.”

The committee’s report said that Benghazi was entirely preventable, and that the State Department failed to increase security at the Benghazi consulate in spite numerous warnings. As I’ve mentioned on these pages before,even the Brits and the International Red Cross had pulled their people out because Benghazi, thanks to President Obama’s timely intervention had become a major headquarters for al-Qaeda and other Islamists. Anyone who knows anything about Ansar al Shariah and its connections to al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) understood that a long time ago.

The report states, unequivocally: “Individuals affiliated with terrorist groups, including AQIM, Ansar al-Sharia, AQAP, and the Mohammad Jamal Network, participated in the September 11, 2012, attacks.”

The very fact that mortars and other heavy weapons were used points to long time planning. A mortar isn’t like a Kalishnikov. It takes training, and it takes time to scope out ranges and angles of fire.

Georgia Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss summarized the report, saying,

“In spite of the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi and ample strategic warnings, the United States Government simply did not do enough to prevent these attacks and ensure the safety of those serving in Benghazi.”

Another thing that came out is that the entire ‘protest over a video’ narrative pushed by the president, Mrs. Clinton, Jay Carney, Susan Rice and goodness knows how many others was an outright lie…and just like ObamaCare, they lied knowingly, although the report doesn’t put it in such blunt terms.

What we were told – conveniently after the 2012 elections- is that the original fairy tales about the video and a spontaneous protest occurred because the situation ‘was developing.’

It wasn’t.

In fact, the FBI interviewed the Benghazi survivors over a three-day period right after the attack, when they were still being prevented from speaking to anyone. None of them reported a protest or a demonstration.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (SC) said that “The FBI confirmed to me that when they interviewed the survivors on the 15th the 16th and the 17th [of September], not one person ever mentioned anything other than a terrorist attack. No one mentioned a protest outside the consulate.”

“So, how could the Obama administration come up with a protest story if everybody on the ground during the attack said it was a terrorist attack and there was no protest?” he asked.

Trust me, the stench increases. Much more at the link.

In our non-Council category, we had a tie between Neo NeoCon with “Wendy Davis: ‘empowerment’ and the poor little woman; “struggle” and the man” submitted by The Glittering Eye,and Kevin Williamson/NRO for  The White Ghetto submitted by Joshuapundit, a beautiful and haunting portrait of Applachia.

I was torn on this one..I honestly like Wiliamson’s piece a lot more personally, but while the totals were the same Neo Neocon got more individual votes among the Council, and it’s a really nice piece, so I’m calling it that way,

Here are this week’s full results.

Council Winners

• *First place with 4 votes!-Joshuapundit - Senate Intel Committee: Benghazi Was Preventable,Al Qaeda Was Involved, And The White House Knew It
• Second place with 1 1/3 votes –Simply Jews – Bedouins of Negev
• Third Place *t* with 1 vote– The Right Planet – Hegelian Dialectics for Dummies
• Third place *t* with 1 vote –The Noisy Room – Bolstering the Marxist Vote
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote– Liberty’s Spirit – Not Surprisingly US State Department Agrees as UNESCO Cancels Jewish Cultural Exhibit…(Update) Oopsie Foggy Bottom Says “My Bad”
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Bookworm Room – Bleeding heart liberal misses football’s important lessons for our boys
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Razor – Facebook’€™s Culture of Like Breeds Conformity
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote –Nice Deb – Analysis of Rocket Used in Syria Chemical Attack Shows “Administration Narrative Not Even Close To Reality”
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – VA Right! –We Can Pay For an Unemployment Extension with a Day for a Day Delay in Obamacare Mandates
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Rhymes With Right – Does Barack Obama Seek To Reduce Americans To A State of Slavery?
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Castle Strat
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote –The Glittering Eye - Out Of Sight
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey – Arrow gets it right

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 3 votes! – Neo-Neocon – “Wendy Davis: ‘empowerment’ and the poor little woman; “struggle” and the man” submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Second place with 2 votes – Kevin Williamson/NRO – The White Ghetto submitted by Joshuapundit
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – White House Dossier -The Root of Obama’s Imperious Presidency submitted by Nice Deb
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes - Caroline Glick – The Truth Hurts submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote - Kimberley A. Strassel/WSJ – IRS Targeting and 2014 submitted by The Noisy Room
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -  Western Journalism – The Problems of Women in Combat – From a Female Combat Vet submitted by Watcher
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes - Mahmoud Salem ( AKA Sandmonkey) – Consequences submitted by Simply Jews
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Rebuilding Freedom – Part1 – Agenda 21, Born in America, Raised by the United Nations submitted by The Right Planet
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Ace of Spades HQ - Common Core is pretty dumb submitted by Bookworm Room
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - PJ Tattler – Has Wendy Davis’ Charmed Run for Governor Started to Implode? (Update: Meltdown) submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote - Douglas Ernst – ‘White Privilege’ artist: Does it exist, or do I simply lack critical thinking skills? submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote - Rick Moran/American Thinker – Think it’s hard signing up for Obamacare? Try getting out of it submitted by VA Right!

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Protecting Hillary…
• Blue Ridge Forum – NEW: Crucial WSJ Report! Tea-Party-Gag Rule: Will Appropriators Wolf & Harris Push Back?

See you next week! Don’t forget to tune in on Monday AM for this week’s Watcher’s Forum, as the Council and their invited guests take apart one of the provocative issues of the day and weigh in…don’t you dare miss it. And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

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The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results

‘Duck Dynasty’ Suspension Lifted to Resume Filming With Phil Robertson… No Response from Phil or Family Yet

Alea iacta est…The Council Has Spoken! has spoken, the votes have been cast, and we have the results  for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.- Proverbs 10:18

“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.” – George Orwell, 1984

Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed details of electronic surveillance by American and British spy services, warned of the dangers posed by a loss of privacy in a message broadcast to Britain on Christmas Day.

In a two-minute video recorded in Moscow, where Snowden has been granted temporary asylum, he spoke of concerns over surveillance and appeared to draw comparison with the dystopian tale “1984″ which described a fictional state which operates widespread surveillance of its citizens.

“Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information. The types of collection in the book – microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us are nothing compared to what we have available today.” “We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person,” he said.

“A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all,” said Snowden. “They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalysed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters, privacy

This week’s winner, The Noisy Room’s The Silencing of the Ducks is her sharp, well written examination of the recent A&E/Duck Dynasty controversy and what it reveals about the Angry Left’s attempt at thought control and the war on America’s culture…including traditional Christianity and the right to profess its values. Here’s a slice:

I did not start viewing Duck Dynasty until a few months ago. It has since become our favorite show and we can’t get enough of it. Christian values, real people, guns and hunting – what’s not to love? But it would seem that being a Christian and espousing your beliefs in America is now becoming ever more dangerous. As RedState pointed out, ultimately you will care and you will have to take a stand and take sides.

Phil Robertson, the patriarch of Duck Dynasty, just did a GQ interview where he stated his Christian beliefs, which included those concerning Gays. This whole blowup is not so much about the Gay issue, but far more about the Constitution and the First Amendment. In the interview, Phil was asked if he thought homosexuality was sinful:

“Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men,” he told GQ, before paraphrasing the Bible in Corinthians. “Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers — they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.”

For telling the truth and stating what he personally believed, A&E put him on indefinite hiatus. They fired him. I would be very surprised if the family did not tell A&E to stuff it. They managed to take THE most popular rated show ever and scuttle it. Phil had told A&E earlier that if they insisted he remove God or guns from his show, they were through:

On May 9, Greensboro, NC country station 93.1 The Wolf reported that after receiving complaints over prayers to God and the frequent use of guns on air, Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson said, “God and guns are part of our everyday lives [and] to remove either of them from the show is unacceptable.”

Sarah Palin came to Phil’s defense with the following quote:

Free speech is an endangered species. Those “intolerants” hatin’ and taking on the Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing his personal opinion are taking on all of us.

She’s right and this will backfire on A&E and all the others out there that are anti-Christian. Phil Robertson just became a warrior for God and the Constitution and I am sure he is up to the task. An attack on one Christian, is an attack on all of us. Time to draw our line in the Marxist sand.

Much more at the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was Victor Davis Hanson with  Pajama Boy Nation submitted by Joshuapundit. It’s an examination of the metrosexual Pajama Boy used as a shill fro ObamaCare and what it says about the Left and how they see the country.  This opening paragraphs are a nice taste:

Will Kane of High Noon Pajama Boy wasn’t. Somehow we as a nation went from the iconic Marlboro Man to Pajama Boy — from the noble individual with a bad habit to the ignoble without a good habit — without a blink in between.

There are lots of revolting things in the Pajama Boy ad. After all, how can you top all at once a nerdy-looking child-man dressed in infantile pajamas while cradling a cup of hot chocolate with the smug assurance that he is running your life more than you his?

Do read it.

OK, so here are this week’s full results. Both the Mellow Jihadi and VA Right were unable to vote this week,but neither was subject to the usual 2/3 vote penalty:

Council Winners

• *First place with 2 1/3 votes! - The Noisy Room – The Silencing of the Ducks
• Second place with 2  votes – Bookworm Room – The Obama Christmas card reveals the zero at the center of our government
• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – The Right Planet – U.S. Army Tells Soldiers Not to Say ‘Christmas’
• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – Joshuapundit - Crash And Burn – Obama Waives Individual Mandate On ObamaCare
• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – Liberty’s Spirit – Fat-Shaming, Body Image and a Culture of Dehumanization
• Fourth place  with 1 vote – Simply Jews – Sweden’s conflictual relationship with issues of tolerance
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Nice Deb – Young Invincibles Insulted By ObamaCare Ads (Video)
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Mellow Jihadi – Israel & Iran. Good against Evil…
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Political Commentator – US Navy and cancer: Fukushima has been extremely hazardous to their health!
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Killing Our Enemies On Christmas Day Since 1776
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Razor – Would a Different Software Methodology Have Saved Obamacare?
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Rhymes With Right – May I Point Out That Phil Robertson Was Indisputably Right About One Thing?

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 2/3 votes! – Victor Davis Hanson - Pajama Boy Nation submitted by Joshuapundit
• Second place *t* with 2 2/3 votes – Pressure Points – The Un-American Studies Association submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Second place *t* with 2 2/3 votes – Bret Stephens/WSJ – Of Jane Fonda and Pope Francis submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Second place *t* with 2 2/3 votes – Larry Correia/Monster Hunter Nation – Angsty Emo Outrage and Ducks submitted by The Noisy Room
• Third place with 1 vote – John O’Sullivan/NRO -  The New Blacklist submitted by Bookworm Room
• Fourth place with 2/3 vote-Nick Nipclose – Cyber-libertarians for Child Pornography submitted by Simply Jews
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes -Washington Free Beacon - A Year of Inspiring Democratic Quotes submitted by Nice Deb
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Big Jolly Politics – Christopher Busby, HCRP Precinct Chair submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Buckhorn Road – Freedom Died On This Day 100 Years Ago submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - The People’s Cube – Duck Dynasty’s Robertson Angers Alcoholics, Philanderers submitted by The Razor
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote - Arnold Kling – Obama Repeals Obamacare submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote - Cato@Liberty – It’s a Very Merry Christmas for Washington Insiders submitted by The Watcher

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Simpler Times, A Groetzmeier Christmas – WoC 2013
• The Independent Sentinel – Wow! Susan Rice Doesn’t Have Time For Benghazi, The False Controversy
• Right Truth – Lesbian Supervisor Allegedly Fired Male Gym Teacher Because He Was Heterosexual And Married
• The Pirate’s Cove – Here’s A Handy Dandy Warmist Survival Guide For Christmas Climate Change Discussions

See you next week! Don’t forget to tune in on Monday AM for this week’s Watcher’s Forum, as the Council and their invited special guests take apart one of the provocative issues of the day with short takes and weigh in…don’t you dare miss it. And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter…..’cause we’re cool like that!

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Watcher’s Council Nominations – Christmas Day Edition

Ah, Christmas…a time for warmth and family, as the Dropkick Murphys remind us:

Video: Dropkick Murphys - "The Season's Upon Us"

No worries Ken..we know you’re just funnin’…

But also, on more serous note, a time for faith:

At this time, our thoughts and prayers need to go out for Christians under siege in the Middle East and elsewhere, where, with the exception of Israel, the one country in the Middle East where the Christian population is actually growing, they are systematically being ethnically cleansed by Muslims.

This shares something with the Holocaust, because once again there is an obscene conspiracy of silence and cowardice by the West to avoid confronting the perpetrators and protecting or at least providing a haven to the victims.For instance, President Obama, who likes to remind us that he is a Christian just sent troops to the new country of South Sudan because of tribal unrest there between the government and a rival tribal faction. He never saw fit to do anything like that to protect these people from assault by the Arab Islamist government of the Sudan and the orgy of rape, torture and murder perpetrated on Black Christians by the Muslim Janjiweed militias in South Sudan and Darfur. Nothing.

At this time of year, I urge all of us to pray for these beleaguered Christians and to raise holy you-know-what to demand that our respective governments to put these Christians’ lives and well being ahead of appeasing Islam. I run a serious risk of operating outside my pay grade here, as our president would say, but I flatter myself in thinking that I think it’s what Jesus would expect… not only of Christians but of all of us.

OK, rant over. Sorry about that.

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and in our second decade the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

Today is not only Christmas Day, but additionally special in that it is the birthday of our friend and colleague Dave Schuler, of The Glittering Eye.

Ordinarily, I pick out a cake and some liquid libation for these celebrations, and this is no exception.

German chocolate, I think:

And perhaps chilled Veuve Cliquot to drink…brut, of course.

Dave and I have known each other for some time now. In fact, he predates me on the Council. When I first got the nod from the original Watcher, I replaced a blog called New Sisyphus, if memory serves me, and I remember he wrote something to the effect that he had enjoyed New Sisyphus but was going to wait and see on this Joshuapundit fella. I hope I’ve lived up to his expectations…certainly he’s lived up to mine. I have never ceased to appreciate his wide range of interests, his clarity of thought, his dry sense of humor or the friendship and collegiality we’ve shared.

Many, many happy returns Dave.

This week, Ask Marion , Right Truth, The Independent Sentinel, and The Pirate’s Cove earned honorable mention status.

So, let’s take a look at what we have this week….and our heartfelt wishes to all of you for a joyous and blessed Christmas from the Watcher’s Council:

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – The Silencing of the Ducks
• Liberty’s Spirit – Fat-Shaming, Body Image and a Culture of Dehumanization
• The Political Commentator – US Navy and cancer: Fukushima has been extremely hazardous to their health!
• Joshuapundit  -Crash And Burn – Obama Waives Individual Mandate On ObamaCare
• Simply Jews – Sweden’s conflictual relationship with issues of tolerance
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Killing Our Enemies On Christmas Day Since 1776
• The Right Planet – U.S. Army Tells Soldiers Not to Say ‘Christmas’
• Bookworm Room – The Obama Christmas card reveals the zero at the center of our government
• Nice Deb – Young Invincibles Insulted By ObamaCare Ads (Video)
• Rhymes With Right – May I Point Out That Phil Robertson Was Indisputably Right About One Thing?
• The Colossus of Rhodey – Comics & Sci-fi Friday
• The Razor – Would a Different Software Methodology Have Saved Obamacare?
• VA Right! - ‘It’s Christmas in Richmond Tonight’ – New Christmas Song by Tom White
• The Glittering Eye - The Too-Long-Deferred Topic of Controlling Healthcare Spending
• The Mellow Jihadi – Israel & Iran. Good against Evil…

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Simpler Times, A Groetzmeier Christmas – WoC 2013
• The Independent Sentinel – Wow! Susan Rice Doesn’t Have Time For Benghazi, The False Controversy
• Right Truth – Lesbian Supervisor Allegedly Fired Male Gym Teacher Because He Was Heterosexual And Married
• The Pirate’s Cove – Here’s A Handy Dandy Warmist Survival Guide For Christmas Climate Change Discussions

Non-Council Submissions

• Larry Correia/Monster Hunter Nation – Angsty Emo Outrage and Ducks submitted by The Noisy Room
• Bret Stephens/WSJ – Of Jane Fonda and Pope Francis submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Dollar Vigilante - Death, The New retirement For U.S. Citizens submitted by The Political Commentator
• Victor Davis Hanson – Pajama Boy Nation submitted by Joshuapundit
• Nick Nipclose – Cyber-libertarians for Child Pornography submitted by Simply Jews
• Pressure Points – The Un-American Studies Association submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• David J. Shestokas – Courageous NSA Ruling by Judge Leon Respects Privacy and Fourth Amendment submitted by The Right Planet
• John O’Sullivan/NRO-The New Blacklist submitted by Bookworm Room
• Washington Free Beacon - A Year of Inspiring Democratic Quotes submitted by Nice Deb
• Big Jolly Politics – Christopher Busby, HCRP Precinct Chair submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Buckhorn Road – Freedom Died On This Day 100 Years Ago submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• The People’s Cube – Duck Dynasty’s Robertson Angers Alcoholics, Philanderers submitted by The Razor
• Arnold Kling – Obama Repeals Obamacare submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Cato@Liberty – It’s a Very Merry Christmas for Washington Insiders submitted by The Watcher
• John Kass/ Chicago Tribune – A Very Kass Christmas Greeting submitted by The Watcher
• Adrienne Royer/The Federalist – Why Duck Dynasty Threatens The Left submitted by Watcher

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The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results 12.20.13

The right, guaranteed by the First Amendment in the U.S. Constitution is for everyone to express beliefs and ideas without unwarranted government restriction.  And tolerance goes both ways…

It is easy to stand-up and support freedom of speech when you agree with what is being said.  It is tough, but necessary when you disagree!!  Remember, every regulation on the freedom of speech makes each of us just a little less free!! 

h/t to the NoisyRoom

The Silencing of the Ducks 

Free Speech… Only for Progressives These Days?

Dedicated to the Robertson Family and Duck Dynasty

“Free speech is an endangered species;

those ‘intolerants’ hatin’ & taking on Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing personal opinion, take us all on,” …Sarah Palin Tweeted

The Council Has Spoken!, the votes have been cast, and another Watcher’s Council match up is engraved in the vast halls of cyberspace!

The winner this week, The Right Planet’s excellent I Don’t Believe In Defeat is aptly named, because it concerns the mindset and the tactics used in times of conflict. Here’s a slice:

A little while back I was on Twitter and started to express my frustration with something I’ve seen too much over my lifetime; and it’s only gotten worse, in my opinion. I’m referring to what I would call a “spirit of defeatism.”

I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve listened to people say they believe the whole game is rigged, so to speak. The “man” is in total control and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. In the end, according to the defeatists, we’re just cogs in a giant machine being controlled by mysterious dark forces that we have no control over; but they have total control over us, as the story goes; we are simply helpless victims who are powerless to do anything about it: “It’s just how it is.”

This sort of defeatism has never sat well with me, because at the end of the day–even if it were all true, and it may be, for all I know–it’s an excuse to do absolutely nothing about anything. Why should one waste any energy trying to change something for the better that cannot be changed?

But I can’t help, at times, to feel the frustration, anger, and even downright demoralization, of living in a world where so much evil does exist. I always agreed with Ephesians 6:10 in the Bible: “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

I don’t believe in defeat, even though defeat may be a part of life, even our own–which brings me to the ancient military philosopher Sun Tzu and his view of defeat. Years ago I read the book The Art of War by Sun Tzu. The book left a big impression on me. It is not a lengthy work. One might argue it’s not really a book per se.

Although Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War, it really is a collection of maxims from many sources throughout history that Sun Tzu collected and organized, along with his own maxims on war. I quickly discovered it’s not a book you read just once and put down; it’s really a reference you return to over and over again. People refer to the Bible regularly as a reference, and often see something new in it each time they read it. Sun Tzu’s treatise is much the same way; it could be thought of as the bible on warfare.

One day, not too long ago, following a day of frustration with certain individuals who I would say are seriously afflicted with the cancer of defeatism, I got on Twitter and sent out the following Tweet:

Brent Parrish ® ‏ @therightplanet1

Sun Tzu did not believe in DEFEAT. He just changed tactics when confronted w/ a superior or inferior force. ONE WORD: VICTORY! #USA

Thomas Huynh @SunTzuShine Follow

@therightplanet1 You got that right

What’s interesting is who replied. It wasn’t just anybody; it was Thomas Huyne. At first, I wasn’t sure who he was, but for some reason his name and face just rang a bell. And then I thought about it a little more and wondered if I had seen him interviewed somewhere, or if it was his name that I recognized. The only thing I could think of was a rare documentary on Sun Tzu and The Art of War I saw on the History Channel a while back. So I Tweeted Mr. Huyne and asked him if he had anything to do with the documentary. Huyne responded by saying, yes, indeed, he was one of the primary consultants for the History Channel’s documentary on The Art of War.

Much more at the link

In our Non-Council category,the winner was Council alumni David Gerstmanfrom Le.gal In.sur.rec.tion with Al Qaeda is on the Run …to Everywhere submitted by Liberty’s Spirit.

David took on President Obama’s famous statement about al-Qaeda being ‘on the run’ and gave it a pretty vicious going over..a great read.

OK, here are this weeks’ full results. Both The Razor and The Mellow Jihadi were unable to vote this week, but neither was subject to the usual 2/3 vote penalty:

Council Winners

• *First place with 3 2/3 votes! The Right Planet – I Don’t Believe In Defeat
• Second place with 3 1/3 votes – Joshuapundit - “American Betrayal”.. A Review
• Third place with 1 2/3 votes –The Noisy Room – Inside the Empire of Horror
• Fourth place with 1 vote – Bookworm Room – To sell their ideas, conservatives must first re-train Americans to recognize their humanity
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey – “Horrible person”
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Nice Deb – ObamaCare Whistleblower: I was Told IRS Harassment ‘Came From The Top’ (Audio)
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Rhymes With Right – A Dozen Candidates In Congressional District 36 GOP Primary
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – VA Right! - Snowden Revisited: Hero or Zero Now?
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Simply Jews – Obama’s handshake with Raul Castro: the alternatives
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Mellow Jihadi – Fargham, Iranian space monkey (& friends)
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Political Commentator – The Ghost of Obamacare Yet to Come: UK healthcare in shambles!

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 votes! – David Gerstman/Le.gal In.sur.rec.tion – Al Qaeda is on the Run …to Everywhere submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Second place with 1 2/3 votes – Martin In The Margins – Understanding the new Christian anti-Zionism: Part 1 submitted by Simply Jews
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Bob Tisdale/Watts Up With That? – Open Letter to the Executive Producers of YEARS of LIVING DANGEROUSLY submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Phyllis Chessler –Beneath the burqa — a bruised and badly beaten teenager submitted by The Razor
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote - David P. Goldman/ PJ Media – It’s About the Settlements, Stupid submitted by Joshuapundit
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote - David J. Shestokas – Natural Law and the Legitimate Authority of the United States submitted by The Right Planet
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -War Is Boring – ‘Ender’s Game’ and Maneuver Warfare submitted by Watcher
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes - House Of Marathon – Courting a Nemesis Out of Necessity: An Israeli-Saudi Alliance submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes -  David Bernstein/Volokh COnspiracy – Is Refusing to Provide Commercial Services for a Circumcision Discrimination against Jews? submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes - National Journal - Politics trumped policy, truth for Obama’s reelect submitted by Bookworm Room
• Sixth place with 1/3 vote - Allen West – Maybe we need Michelle “Death Stare” Obama to negotiate with Iran submitted by The Noisy Room
• Sixth place with 1/3 vote - Mises Institute - Starvation and Military Keynesianism: Lessons from Nazi Germany submitted by The Political Commentator
• Sixth place with 1/3 vote - Althouse – “National Security Agency officials are considering a controversial amnesty that would return Edward Snowden to the United States…” submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Sixth place with 1/3 vote - Cato @ Liberty – The Constitution Still Applies on College Campuses submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Sixth place with 1/3 vote - Truth Revolt - Unions Paid MSNBC’s Schultz $177,000 in 2012, $75,000 in 2013 submitted by Nice Deb

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Still Think There Is No War on Christmas – WoC 2013
• Maggie’s Notebook – IRS Targeting Now ‘Reverse-Engineered’ to Isolate, Shut Down TEA Party: Clintons See Limitless Future
• The Optimistic Conservative – Biofuels for defense: Cronyism and the banality of evil
• The Pirate’s Cove – The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug – My Take

See you next week! Don’t forget to tune in on Monday AM for this week’s Watcher’s Forum, as the Council and their invited guests take apart one of the provocative issues of the day and weigh in…don’t you dare miss it. And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

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Watcher’s Council Nominations – Snow In The Holy Land Edition

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Council News:

This week, AskMarion, The Optimistic Conservative, Maggie’s Notebook and The Pirate’s Cove earned honorable mention status with some excellent articles.

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• Liberty’s Spirit – 6-Year-old Suspended for Kissing a Girl: Too Much, Yet Not Enough
• The Noisy Room – Inside the Empire of Horror
• The Political Commentator – The Ghost of Obamacare Yet to Come: UK healthcare in shambles!
• The Razor – The Keys to the Kingdom Should Not Be Available to the Peasants
• Simply Jews – Obama’s handshake with Raul Castro: the alternatives
• Joshuapundit - “American Betrayal”.. A Review
• The Mellow Jihadi – Fargham, Iranian space monkey (& friends)
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – War Weary Myth
• The Colossus of Rhodey – “Horrible person”
• Rhymes With Right – A Dozen Candidates In Congressional District 36 GOP Primary
• Nice Deb – ObamaCare Whistleblower: I was Told IRS Harassment ‘Came From The Top’ (Audio)
• The Glittering Eye - The Reality Sinks In
• The Right Planet – I Don’t Believe In Defeat
• VA Right! - Snowden Revisited: Hero or Zero Now?
• Bookworm Room – To sell their ideas, conservatives must first re-train Americans to recognize their humanity

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Still Think There Is No War on Christmas - WoC 2013
• Maggie’s Notebook – IRS Targeting Now ‘Reverse-Engineered’ to Isolate, Shut Down TEA Party: Clintons See Limitless Future
• The Optimistic Conservative – Biofuels for defense: Cronyism and the banality of evil
• The Pirate’s Cove – The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug – My Take

Non-Council Submissions

• David Gerstman/Le.gal In.sur.rec.tion – Al Qaeda is on the Run …to Everywhere submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Allen West – Maybe we need Michelle “Death Stare” Obama to negotiate with Iran submitted by The Noisy Room
• Mises Institute - Starvation and Military Keynesianism: Lessons from Nazi Germany submitted by The Political Commentator
• Phyllis Chessler – Beneath the burqa — a bruised and badly beaten teenager submitted by The Razor
• Martin In The Margins – Understanding the new Christian anti-Zionism: Part 1 submitted by Simply Jews
• David P. Goldman/ PJ Media – It’s About the Settlements, Stupid submitted by Joshuapundit
• Althouse – “National Security Agency officials are considering a controversial amnesty that would return Edward Snowden to the United States…” submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• House Of Marathon – Courting a Nemesis Out of Necessity: An Israeli-Saudi Alliance submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Cato @ Liberty – The Constitution Still Applies on College Campuses submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• David Bernstein/Volokh COnspiracy – Is Refusing to Provide Commercial Services for a Circumcision Discrimination against Jews? submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Truth Revolt - Unions Paid MSNBC’s Schultz $177,000 in 2012, $75,000 in 2013 submitted by Nice Deb
• Bob Tisdale/Watts Up With That? – Open Letter to the Executive Producers of YEARS of LIVING DANGEROUSLY submitted by The Glittering Eye
• David J. Shestokas – Natural Law and the Legitimate Authority of the United States submitted by The Right Planet
• FOX News – Tax-exempt academic group’s boycott of Israel draws fire submitted by VA Right!
• National Journal - Politics trumped policy, truth for Obama’s reelect submitted by Bookworm Room
• Camille Paglia – It’s a Man’s World, and It Always Will Be submitted by The Watcher
• War Is Boring – ‘Ender’s Game’ and Maneuver Warfare submitted by Watcher

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The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results – 12/13/13

The House Passed the Ryan-Murray Budget, 332-94

The Budget Deal’s Sneaky Tax Increases

Boehner Attacks Conservative Groups

Boehner Declares War on the American People

It’s war! Senate gears up for epic battle as ZERO Republicans line up to support budget agreement (and Democrats need to find at least five) 

Breitbart Exclusive -- Palin: Read My Lipstick: No New Taxes

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match-up.

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” – Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”

“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.” – Adolf Hitler on media

“What difference does it make?” – Hillary Rodham Clinton, Benghazi hearings

This week’s winner, Joshuapundit’s The Mixed Legacy Of Nelson Mandela, is my obituary for South African leader Nelson Mandela, whose death literally sparked an orgy of amnesia as both media and politicians rushed to worship at his altar. However, as I point out, his legacy was extremely mixed and comparisons to men like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, were ludicrous. Here’s a slice:

Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has passed away at the age of 95, from complications resulting from a lung infection.

Since he was essentially a secular saint, the hagiographies, the emotional tributes and the kicky sound bites will be in abundance. His place in history is assured, because like other secular saints, burning incense and making offerings at his altar is seen to confer virtue on the worshiper, especially if they’re white.

Nelson Mandela was an important figure in contemporary history, no doubt. But who was Nelson Mandela really? What did he accomplish? What is his legacy?

That’s a more complicated and nuanced story that you’re unlikely to hear about much in the medias frenzy over the next week or so. Because it doesn’t quite fit the script for a secular saint. And the complexity can be imagined when you learn that Mandela was the proud recipient of both the U.S. Medal of Freedom awarded to him by President Obama and the Order of Lenin, given to him by the Soviet Union, hardly a bastion of freedom or even simple human decency.

Certainly, he looked and sounded like a secular saint. A member of a family of Xhosa royalty, his tall, dignified bearing and his measured speech could almost have been cooked up by a Hollywood casting agent.

Nelson Mandela was born in Mvezo, a small village in the eastern part of South Africa’s cape province. Coming from a prominent family , he received excellent schooling in South Africa’s best schools so he could work as a councilor for the the Xhosa’s Thembu royal house. He later attended University of Fort Hare, an elite black institution in Alice, Eastern Cape. There he first got his political indoctrination in anti-colonialism and his introduction to Marxism. Traveling to Johannesburg in 1941, he first ran into the African National Congress in the person of Walter Sisulu, then a member of the fledgling African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). In Johannesburg, Mandela was taken under the wing of Lazar Sidelsky, a Left wing Jewish lawyer sympathetic to the ANC and a partner in the law firm of Witkin, Sidelsky and Eidelman, who gave Nelson Mandela a job as a law clerk.

In those days,the ANC was essentially a non-violent social justice movement that lobbied for black rights and engaged in local politics. However, like many similar organizations in the West, it had been targeted by the Soviet Comintern and was already infiltrated by members of the CPSA as well as by actual Soviet agents.

While the evidence is mixed over whether Nelson Mandela ever joined the communist party, he frequently attended their meetings, and many of his closest associates, like Lionel ‘Rusty’ Bernstein, Joe Slovo, the long-time leader of the CPSA, his wife Ruth First, Gaur Redebe, Walter Sisulu and Nat Bregman definitely were, and some of them might have been actual Soviet agents. All of them were under ‘party discipline just as American communists were, which meant that their marching orders came directly from the Comintern and the Kremlin, no deviations allowed. Many members of CPSA became part of the ANC and the CPSA is still a part of the ANC’s political coalition today. Mandela’s openly expressed admiration and later friendship for communist dictators, his views on nationalization of South Africa’s major industries and government redistribution of wealth and his subsequently receiving the Order of Lenin from the Soviets shows that at best, he was a communist sympathizer.

After South Africa’s 1948 general election, the Afrikaner-led Herenigde Nasionale Party took power, uniting with the Afrikaner Party to form the National Party. They implemented the system of racial segregation known as apartheid. Mandela and his supporters were able to depose the existing ANC President Alfred Bitini Xuma at that time, who favored non-violence in seeking black civil rights and was an open anti-Communist. As Mandela wrote later in his memoirs, “We had now guided the ANC to a more radical and revolutionary path.”

In 1955, Mandela finally went fully over to the idea of using terrorism as as a political tool, or as he put it, the ANC “had no alternative to armed and violent resistance. ” In this, he was greatly influenced by his open admiration of the tactics of Mao Tse Tung and Fidel Castro.

In fact, the first ‘revolutionary’ act of Mandela’s was to send communist party apparatchnik and ANC member Walter Sisulu to the People’s Republic of China to obtain weapons. The PRC turned Mandela down, officially because they felt the ANC was not prepared for Mao-style guerilla warfare, but perhaps more likely because they were already deeply involved in arming and training the Viet Minh in their attempt to overthrow the Diem government in South Vietnam and similar operations with groups like the Pathet Lao elsewhere in South East Asia. They also likely underestimated Mandela and the ANC’s ability to win a war where resupply would be so difficult and no communist-controlled havens were nearby.

However, Mandela and the ANC began to collect whatever weapons and explosives they could get hold of and prepare for armed struggle on their own,while continuing to work on political agitation against the apartheid regime.

It was at this time that Mandela, inspired by Castro’s guerilla groups like 26th of July Movement and the Viet Minh founded his own terrorist elite, Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”, abbreviated as MK) with communists Walter Sisulu and Joe Slovo. The MK made their debut with 57 bombings on Dingane’s Day (16 December) 1961, followed by further attacks on New Year’s Eve.MK killed civilians and military alike, and two of their more famous operations were the Church Street bombing and the Magoo’s Bar bombing, both of which targeted civilians and were designed for maximum carnage..

The MK and an ANC group run by Mandela’s wife Winnie called the “Mandela United Football Club” were also responsible for the murder, torture and kidnapping of both whites and black political opponents and their families who opposed ‘armed struggle’. Much of this came out through Mandela’s own Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which investigated crimes committed under apartheid by both the government and the ANC. The 1998 findings of that investigation were suppressed by President Mandela.

Winnie Mandela is credited with introducing the practice of using necklacing (see video), forcing a gas or oil soaked tire over the head and shoulders to pin the arms of the victim and then lighting it on fire.Her quote? “With our matches and our necklaces we will liberate this country.” She has never served a day in jail, and still sits on the ANC executive committee.

Bob Simon says Mandela was a "normal human being?" Since I, too, want to be normal, will have to brush up on "Necklacing."

It’s worth recalling that the ANC was officially named a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department and many other western nations. That designation wasn’t rescinded officially by the State Department until 1990.

Much more at the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was The Babalu blog with Gone is Fidel’s greatest admirer, submitted by Joshuapundit. It’s a Cuban blogger’s view of Nelson Mandela and his love affair with Fidel Castor that is must reading.

Okay, here are this week’s full results:

Council Winners

• *First place with 5 2/3 votes! – Joshuapundit – The Mixed Legacy Of Nelson Mandela
• Second place *t* with 2 votes – Bookworm Room – Pope Francis’s Marxist economic analysis reflects the Left’’s long march through the Catholic Church
• Second place *t* with 2 votes – Liberty’s Spirit – Apparently Antisemitism Doesn’t Exist in Europe Anymore
• Third place with 1 2/3 vote – Nice Deb – Legal Expert At Today’s Judiciary Hearing: ‘The Check on Executive lawlessness is Impeachment’ (Video)
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – The Right Planet – Is the President a Malignant Narcissist?
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Noisy Room – About One of My Articles and Allen West
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Glittering Eye – What Should We Remember About December 7th?
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Simply Jews – Yousef Munayyer, Open Zion and Nelson Mandela
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – VA Right! – Calibrating the Extremist Meter
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey – A waste of time and money
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Razor – RIP Nelson Mandela

Non-Council Winners

• *First place with 3 votes! – Babalu Blog – Gone is Fidel’s greatest admirer. submitted by Joshuapundit
• Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes – Victor Davis Hanson/NRO – The World’s New Outlaws submitted by The Noisy Room
• Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes – Andrew McCarthy/NRO – Impeachment Lessons submitted by Nice Deb
• Third place with 2 votes – Mises Institute – The State Causes the Poverty It Later Claims to Solve submitted by The Political Commentator
• Fourth place with 1 1/3 votes – Alan Johnson – The slaughter and torture of Christians: not a priority for the Government, Labour or DfID submitted by Simply Jews
• Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – Ace of Spades – Almost Three Quarters of All US Military Deaths in Afghanistan Have Occurred During The Presidency of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama submitted by Bookworm Room
• Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – The Independent Sentinel – Obama Has Taken To Robbing Banks submitted by The Watcher
• Sixth place with 2/3 vote – Brad DeLong/The Equitablog – Is Growth Getting Harder? If so, Why, and What Can We Do About It?: The Honest Broker for the Week of December 1, 2013 submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion – Killer of British soldier Lee Rigby: “I am a soldier and this is war” submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Other McCain – Were Vassar Students Who Perpetrated Hate Hoax Linked to Another Injustice? submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – Daily Beast – Husain Haqqani – Pakistan’s Change of Guard and General Ashfaq Kayani’’s Legacy submitted by The Razor
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – Seymour M. Hersh – Who’s Sarin? submitted by The Right Planet
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – Bill Whittle – I can’t Believe They Let You Do That! submitted by The Watcher

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – RNC Chairman Says Hillary 2016 Candidacy is Set… And Female Presidency Will be the Carrot
• The Pirate’s Cove – Know What’s Perfect For Christmas? Carbon Offsets

See you next week! Don’t forget to tune in on Monday AM for this week’s Watcher’s Forum, as the Council and their invited special guests take apart one of the provocative issues of the day with short takes and weigh in… don’t you dare miss it. And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter… ’cause we’re cool like that!

RNC Chairman Says Hillary 2016 Candidacy is Set… And Female Presidency Will be the Carrot

 

We have a country to save!

What difference does it make?

America… if the elites on both sides fear you enough to create a whole syndrome about you, the average person should be on your side!  And if the media worships you… the average America should wary if not afraid!

By Marion Algier – Ask Marion

The 2016 shuffle is in full swing.  Seems Hillary is looking like the heir to the Democrat nomination. While on Friday,12.06.13 Rand Paul’s (R) wife, when asked, said ‘no’ to a 2016 run for her husband… leaving some wiggle room; Elizabeth Warren (D) said she would not be running; while Ben Carson (R) said God had a plan for him and indicated that he was closer to a decision to run.

Then when RNC Chairman Reince Preibus told Hugh Hewitt on air Wednesday, 12.04.13, that his team was getting ready for Hillary in 2016, the "news" went viral on the left in a hurry.  And of course this time around, instead of electing the first Black President, the Democrats’ carrot will be electing the first female President, even if she is recycled goods with unending baggage and scandals in her back background.

Hewitt:

(The complete transcript of my chat with the chairman is here, including my continuing pitch for Cleveland as the site of the 2016 RNC Convo.)

The Huffington Post story reporting on Preibus' matter-of-fact acknowledgment drew 3,000+ comments in 12 hours.

Talking Points Memo and Politico added coverage. Others will follow through the day.

There should be no surprise here though, of course it is great to be the first show on which the chairman acknowledged the obvious. Priebus and his team have learned from Team Obama that once you know whom the other side is going to nominate, hone and and define that candidate. Don't wait for Labor Day 2016 to run negative ads about Hillary. Run them now. Start as soon as you can. That means now.

That's what Axelrod, Stephanie Cutter et al did vis-a-vis Mitt Romney from early 2012 forward. And it worked, as Collision 2012 by the Washington Post's Dan Balz and The Center Holds Bloomberg's Jonathan Alter and others confirm. (My interview with Balz is here; with Alter here.)

So people (especially Mr. Preibus) what does common sense dictate…? We, Republicans, with the support of anyone who knows that Hillary will be Obama with brains and perhaps less puppet strings attached… as well as the final death nail for America, need to wake-up and run the toughest and strongest female Republican candidate that we have and start backing and promoting her now!!! 

And who would that female be, you ask?  Really???  Is there a question?  That would be Sarah Palin… who people she has helped get elected call the Kingmaker; who is asked by icons like Billy Graham to speak at their 95th Birthday Party; who draws throngs of people for book signings all over the country… including students after her speeches, and who has already survived every dirty, untruthful, and ugly attack the left can throw at her and her family.  The Journolistic attacks against Palin have all been proven to be a set-up and she has won every trumped-up battle in the courts.  Meaning:  Unless you are someone who loves Sarah and stuck with her or an honest thorough student of politics and current events… what you know or think you know about Sarah Palin is pretty much false!!  And in that same vain, what you know or think you know about Hillary Clinton is pretty much false!

And as for the GOP, Conservatives, Independents and fed up Democrats, there comes a time to realize that you have to stop running the same old moderates… McCain and Romney didn’t win, but Sarah Palin almost pulled out McCain’s bacon. And it is time to let the GOP establishment, who keep making the same bad decisions, ride into the sunset… and win with a winner. Or you can try to hang on and lose again and go the way of the Whigs.  The problem is that if the GOP loses again and we end up with Hillary… America is finished!

There shouldn’t even be a debate or do we want to beat ourselves to death again, like in the last primary?  But even in a fight like that, Palin is the best candidate because the mainstream media, the Democrats, and the GOP Establishment have already tried to beat her to a pulp and she came out the other end leaner, meaner, smarter and still standing. America… if the elites on both sides fear you enough to create a whole syndrome about you, the average person should be on your side!  And if the media worships you… the average America should wary if not afraid!

If they were dolls, the choice would be between Boring Benghazi Betty (Hillary) or Charismatic Constitutionalist Carol (Sarah).

We need to fight Hillary and the first female president scenario with Sarah and for once be ‘the first’ as well as on the side of the people.

The mainstream media was afraid of Sarah Palin because they knew she could win and would make a change in their Progressive world. But they love Progressive Hillary Clinton and are willing to overlook the truth, as they did with her hubby Bill and did again with Obama.  And even though Palin holds no office at this time, many in the mainstream media are obsessed with her and continue their unfounded attacks.

The question is… do you like where America is today: weak, jobless, controlled by Big Brother where soon the government will tell you who and when people get healthcare treatments?  Or do you love the Constitutional Republic America used to be: strong, working, where freedom and opportunity not Big Government ruled and our healthcare was the best in the world?  If you like option one… Hillary is your girl.  If you life option two… Sarah is your girl.  It is as simple as that. 

Countering the possibility of the first woman president along with the Clinton machine… the GOP is not going to win with a male candidate and there is not a stronger woman in the arena to fight Hillary than Sarah Palin.  A great and winning ticket would be:

Palin-Cruz, Palin-West, Palin-Carson, Palin-Paul, Palin-Bachmann, Palin-Martinez…

The Democrats are busy rebranding Hillary Clinton and GOP should be busy re-introducing Sarah Palin.

Here is a good start for everyone… Listen to Palin’s 2008 convention speech, when she was the over-night darling, before the Democrat media plotted to destroy her.  Then buy or rent the Undefeated.  Go out to one of her book signings for her new book Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas (Kindle) and meet her.  And then do your homework.  If you do, you will find that Palin is smart, patriotic, energetic, principled, honest, spiritual, nice but tough, charismatic, stands for and with the average American, really is and has what most feminists only talk about and is pretty to boot.  She made a difference in Alaska!!, whereas, to quote Charles Krauthammer, “Hillary is a Paper Tiger and won’t be remembered as an exemplary Secretary of State”.

 

Hillary is worn-out, a progressive elitist, thinks she knows better than the average American, is un-relatable, and if you do your homework had more dirt and scandals in her background than anyone being considered for the highest office in the land should ever have.  For your homework her you can start by renting or buying Primary Colors and reading The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Kindle).  Do your homework on Benghazi (not what the mainstream media has been feeding us).  Then look up Huma Abedin Weiner, and start digging and doing your research the Clintons.

Video: I prefer to call myself a progressive

As Americans, whatever your politics, or lack of political interest up to this point, we cannot afford to elect another president with vetting them, with really knowing who they are, and definitely on the word and guidance of a biased mainstream media.  We cannot afford another Obama and if you don’t like ObamaCare… you’ll hate HillaryCare!

And conservatives… stop buying into the Establishment line that a conservative or tea party type can’t win… or that Ronald Reagan or JFK couldn’t get elected by their parties today.  That is what those in power and their media minions want you to believe!!  If the American people get behind a true leader, they far out number those on the beltway of Washington D.C. as well as the ruling elite in the world!  So the people’s choice can win if the people get involved and stand-up! 

Charles Krauthammer says Hillary Clinton Is ‘Eminently Defeatable’ in 2016… as long as the GOP wakes up!!

If you agree… please get involved and send this to RNC Chairman Reince Preibus… Twitter: @Reince and @RNCPRBS

 

Unless you are someone who loves Sarah and stuck with her or are an honest thorough student of politics and current events… what you know or think you know about Sarah Palin is pretty much false!!  And in that same vain, what you know or think you know about Hillary Clinton is also pretty much false!

Research Resources 

2016 – The Election of the First Female President of the United States?

Re-Introducing Saray

Rebranding Hillary

Sarah:

Photo:  Sarah Palin with fellow speaker Dr. Alveda King at Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Event 

Why Are They So Afraid of Sarah Palin???

Why Sarah Palin Is Here To Stay

CNN: Palin Influence Far from Diminishing 

Noam Chomsky Shocker: Palin Was Right About Obama 

Sarah Palin on Politics and Religion • 11/10/13 With Susan Page [video]

Palin… One of 3 Speakers for Billy Graham’s 95th Birthday Celebration

Palin Derangement Syndrome Continues 

For Dick Cheney and His Ilk, John McCain’s Brilliant Choice of Sarah Palin was Bad News!

Long Lost Sarah Palin Emerges From Released Emails Victoriously…

Politico Palin Alert: Vast Left Wing Conspiracy’s Mission: Sarah Palin Must Be Destroyed Uncovered!

Journolists… The Truth of Media Fraud Confirmed

The Hate for Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Mythology Debunked

The Quayling of Sarah

Sarah Palin, Combat Veteran

Palin’s First Rally in Cali

Don’t Underestimate Palin

Full Palin vs Biden Debate

The Judas Media

Why Sarah Could Win

The Candidate… 

Greta: About Those People Claiming Sarah Palin Cost John McCain the Election 

The Lesson in the Betrayal of Sarah Palin 

Be a Mensch… Inform Yourself 

Why Sarah Palin is here to stay

Martin Bashir Finally Resigns From MSNBC After His Inexcusable Comment  

 Sarah Palin • Q & A at Liberty University for 10,000 Students - After Giving Convocation • 12/4/13

Photo: Hillary with her Chief of Staff, Huma Abudin Weiner (Mrs. Anthony Weiner) 

Huma Abedin Weiner Returns To Hillaryville… 

Hillary’s Ultimatum to Huma: Your Marriage or Your Job… As Flowers Speaks Out

Hillary Doesn’t Deserve Our Admiration or Another Shot at the Presidency

Lovefest on Syrupy Minutes to Manipulate You

Hillary Lets the Jihadist Cat Out of Bag

Colonel: Hillary Made Decision Not to Post Marines at Benghazi

Manifesto Puts Hillary’s Deputy Chief In Middle Of Muslim Plot

Final UN Arms Trade Treaty Disarms America With Clinton’s Signature

Clinton aide Huma Abedin tied directly to Muslim Brotherhood and the "Godfather" of Al Qaeda… post-9/11

Breaking Hillaryland News: New Evidence Shows Hillary a Mastermind Behind Gunwalker as Her Welcome in Egypt Not So Good

Global gun control law pushed by Clinton – Updated

What did Hillary know and when did she know it and why has she flown under the radar on “Operation Gun Walker? 

President Obama campaign manager says he would not run a Hillary Clinton 2016 Presidential campaign 

Bill Whittle – What Difference Does It Make? (Video) 

Judge Jeanine Pirro Calls Out Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama as Liars

NY Times Takes a Hard Look at the Clinton Foundation

Saudi Arabia Among Biggest Donors to Clinton Foundation

Related Book and Videos:

Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election—and How to Stop Them from Doing It in 2016 (Kindle)

Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas (Kindle) – Sarah’s New Book

The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know — and Men Can’t Say (Kindle)

America by Heart : Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag (Kindle)

Going Rogue: An American Life (Kindle)

Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys (Kindle)

Our Sarah: Made in Alaska (Kindle)

The Clinton Diaries (Kindle)

The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories

The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Kindle)

Hillary Clinton Nude: Naked Ambition, Hillary Clinton And America’s Demise (Kindle)

Video: Primary Colors

Video: Sarah Palin: The Undefeated 

Sarah Palin – The Undefeated with Going Rogue: An American Life mp3 Audiobook

And for the Spanish speakers out there: Going Rogue, Going Palin