Hillary or Bust

There are many things I am sure I disagree with Tea Party people with. For one, I am pro-choice. I have been a card-carrying member of the ACLU. I also regularly give money and volunteer for environmental organizations. I am by no stretch of the imagination a “wingnut.” I am not entirely certain that government healthcare is always a bad thing, but I do believe we can’t afford it right now.

I am very much anti-Obama, however, and I am pro-Palin. And I support the Tea Parties, even if I don’t agree with everything on their platform. How does that happen to a woman who (on multiple occasions, no less) marched on Washington to support a woman’s right to choose?

More than being pro-choice, I am pro-democracy. And I believe Obama is bad for our democracy. I opposed him during the primaries because of the caucus fraud. I oppose him now because I believe he is in the pockets of the moneyed elite and he is actively working to destroy America by putting us into debt to the point where the very fabric of our economy will be dismantled. Call me a conspiracy nut, but I do believe his purpose in this is to reconstruct America into a more fascist version of itself, ala the “New World Order.”

So I applaud the Tea Party protests and “wingnuts” who are standing up for what they believe in by protesting at health care town halls. They may be fighting what they call “socialism” – I call it fascism. Bottom line: We are in agreement that we don’t want our government to rule our lives.

I am absolutely stunned by the reaction of the left, which normally applauds people who stand up against “The Man.” Instead of vigorously defending the right of the American people to protest, some on the left are trying to paint Tea Partiers as “racists” and haters who need to be shut down at all costs.

Meanwhile, the Obama Propaganda Machine is busy trying to stop all debate on the health insurance reform by characterizing all criticism of the bill as “lies.” Even CNN is getting into the propaganda business by using their “CNN Truth Squad” to incorrectly characterize complaints against HR 3200 as “false rumors.” (Hey, CNN, there is something in the bill about access to personal bank accounts, which you so skillfully ignored in your propaganda piece.)

Mindless Obama supporters who haven’t read the bill or bothered to listen with open minds to the Tea Party protestors are busy on Twitter spreading lies and disinfo by stating all protestors are racists. “Period.” (See Twitter feed of tllanes for a good example of this.) These so-called “liberals” (fascists is what I’d call them) have lots of followers who will read one biased and distorted Tweet about white supremacists and characterize all Republicans as Nazis.

Such black and white thinking is very divisive and harmful to American democracy. Basically, the meme now goes: If you oppose Obama, or Obamacare, you are a racist. You must be silenced.

Nice work at creating an Orwellian dystopia, guys.

There are a lot of good reasons to oppose Obama that have nothing to do with his race. Informed liberals are thankfully starting to wake up now, because they will agree with me that Obama has betrayed them on the following:

1. Ending war – nope. We’re still in Iraq, and we’re further mired in Afghanistan.

2. Environment – Obama has betrayed environmentalists with his mountaintop removal permits and latest pledge of $1 billion to Brazil to support their off-shore drilling.

3. Corporate lobbyists – Obama is under fire from the left for his backdoor deal with Big Pharma that is basically locking in price gouging for the next 10 years. Obama gave tons of stimulus money to Wall Street, probably in pay off for all the Wall Street donations he got during the campaign (more than McCain, may I remind you).

4. Gays – Obama has betrayed gays by supporting Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and upholding the Defense of Marriage Act.

5. Freedom – Obama has upheld Bush’s policies when it comes to signing statements and was under fire from liberal Rachel Maddows for his “pre-crimes” plans to hold people without due cause.

I would hope that smart liberals would see that they have friends with the Tea Party people, who simply are fighting for liberty and the Constitution. Race has nothing to do with it! Tea Party people are awake and see Obama trying to grab even more power for the executive branch and federal government than Bush did. THIS is what they are fighting, not Obama’s skin color.

Smart liberals should ALSO be fighting Obama for his continuation of Bush’s policies and his corporate handouts.

We PUMAs have been saying for a long while now: Obama = Bush III. If you opposed Bush, you should also oppose Obama. They are two-sides of the same big money coin.

While the left and the right may disagree on certain things such as the desirability of government-run health care, I think we can all agree that we want to live in a free America that is run by the people, not by big corporations, elite money or a supressive government that dictates our lives.

Thus, if you are a leftie who is trashing Tea Party protestors as “racists,” all you are doing is playing into the hands of the elite powermongers, who would rather have Americans at each other’s throats than fighting the real enemy, which is them.

WAKE UP PEOPLE!

I have recently discovered Twitter…and it’s a good thing I wasn’t on it during the election or I would have never gotten any work done! Hillary or Bust now has a Twitter feed. New blog posts will be shared there, as well as links to other relevant articles off-site. I’ll be updating Twitter a lot more frequently than the blog…a lot of times I see an article and just want to make a quick comment or share, so I will do so on Twitter from now on:

http://twitter.com/hillaryorbust

The Huffington Post has devolved into a group of mean-spirited high schoolers who have nothing better to do but point their fingers and laugh at “stupid” conservative women. The latest? A video purportedly from a woman who was speaking at a Santa Cruz City Council meeting titled: Is This the Stupidest Person Ever? (I say “purportedly” because some think this is a viral video or made-up spoof.)

This woman (who is definitely inarticulate, mind you) is the target of slams over at HuffPo solely because she mentions (very briefly) that the Bush administration is doing a good job. If she were a stupid Obama supporter, would you find her video up on HuffPo? (Considering we have no idea who she voted for in 2008, it would be just desserts if it came out this woman was a flaming Obot. A lot of Bush supporters voted for Obama after all.)

In reading the comments, a lot of people are snickering that she’s just like Sarah Palin. So HuffPo needed to go one step further comparing Palin to the Santa Cruz woman in another bit of juvenile commentary titled: Sarah Palin Vs. That Crazy Santa Cruz Lady.

And of course, there’s always conservative beauty queens for holier-than-thou haters like Perez Hilton to trash mercilessly.

I am perpetually horrified at the rampant sexism and classism expressed by people on the left now. A lot of these folks are still my friends and I cannot understand why they are filled with such hatred, misogyny, and bigotry for conservative people who just happen to come from middle America. Where’s the tolerance? Where’s the love? Where the acceptance?

At least not everyone on HuffPo is a total frothing-at-the-mouth hater…one commenter posted on the original video:

I’m appalled at how snake-mean people are on the Internet.

No go ahead, really let me have it. Meh.

No kidding. How can we expect to come to any sort of real “change” in this country if all we do is paint people who disagree with us as stupid morons and then go out of our way to find examples of this?

I am college educated from a very good school, and I don’t see Palin as being stupid at all. I see her as being a normal person of average intelligence with a lot of heart, chutzpah and common sense. Would she be a rocket scientist? No, but I wouldn’t elect most rocket scientists to president either. I am reminded of the Simpsons episode where the elitist members of the town made themselves rulers and then ended up screwing everything up. “Book smart” does not mean the same thing as street smart or people smart or common sense smart. (Witness Obama’s stupid remarks in the wake of Gatesgate.)

I am deathly tired of the left’s elitism masking a deep hatred of women. When will women wake up and realize they are part and parcel to their own destruction by supporting the politics of personal destruction against women like Palin? Can you not see for your own eyes sexism there is in comments like this (on the Palin vs. Santa Cruz Lady page):

Comment:
Sad thing is: I would sleep with both of them.

Response:
Please do – they can’t do as much damage if they’re kept horizontal.

Where’s the outcry against these comments from the women at Huffington Post? Are you women asleep or something? WAKE UP WOMEN! You are being had!!

First, Sarah Palin announced she was interested in stumping for conservative Democrats. Today she has an article in the Washington Post voicing her opposition to cap-and-trade. While I don’t agree with all her positions, I am glad she is keeping to the fore-front and not backing down despite loads of opposition.

What’s infuriating to read as a feminist, however, are all the comments on her Washington Post article that she must not have written it. Some have even gone so far as to complain to the ombudsman! Then other deranged Palin haters are instead insulting the article, saying it’s really badly written. So which is it – is the article good and therefore she must not have written it, or is it awful, and therefore she must have written it?

This just goes to show you that people who insult Palin are just looking to jump on any thin excuse they can find. Meanwhile, are we entirely sure Obama wrote his own books? Do his fans even care? I am so tired of this double standard.

PS No Quarter has a new piece on being desperate for a new women’s movement.

Excellent article from the Christian Science Monitor on all the Palin bashing…it’s about time I see something like this on Yahoo News. THANK YOU!

Langhorne, Pa. – Let’s call it what it is: sexism in the media. No matter your political stripe, pundits are skewering Sarah Palin. Again. Back in the media spotlight for announcing her resignation as governor July 3, she’s become easy fodder for misogynistic bashing.

During the presidential campaign, the press bombarded her with stereotypes that already plague us as a gender – airhead, stupid, not qualified. And no, the media weren’t picking on her just because she was a former beauty contestant. If Governor Palin was crucified, Hillary Rodham Clinton was slaughtered. Here, a woman of substance, education, and strength was portrayed as weepy, dowdy, and shrewish.

Read the rest here…

I stumbled across an excellent blog post talking about the marginalization of Hillary Clinton in her role as Secretary of State:

Week-by-week, world event-by-world event, the public humiliation of Hillary Clinton is taking place right before our eyes. Actually, not before our eyes. Hillary has gone missing.

Barack Obama has not permitted Hillary to participate in a central manner in any of the major diplomatic events, including the upcoming Moscow summit from which Hillary will be notably absent. Obama doesn’t act alone in foreign affairs, but he certainly doesn’t act through Hillary.

You can read the rest over at Legal Insurrection.

The author asks how PUMAs feel about this. Well, as a “PUMA” (if the term still applies), I have to honestly say I am extremely disappointed in Hillary for accepting the role of Secretary of State in the first place. I think she should have remained a senator and stayed as far away from Obama has possible.

Now, some are speculating that Hillary is laying low so she can challenge Obama in the Democratic primaries for 2012. I would like to think that the Clintons are being that savvy, but alas, I just don’t know if they are equipped to deal with the Axelrod Machine at this point.

Obama would have to be the most unpopular president ever by the time these primaries roll around in order for Hillary to have a snowball’s chance in hell. If Obama’s overspending policies do give us hyperinflation and destroy the economy by then, they maybe, just maybe, the Democrats will boot him out. But I doubt it. The kool-aid drinkers will still be blaming Obama’s failures on Bush even three years from now. Hillary is not showing herself to be a leader at the moment, so how on earth will she take the reins from Obama considering she’s not making herself any more popular or respected by her absence?

Hillary – you screwed up. I wish you’d take a lesson from Sarah Palin and learn how to stand up for yourself better.

I know a lot of Sarah Palin supporters are actually excited about her resigning as Alaska governor by the end of July. I have mixed feelings.

On the one hand, with all the ridiculously frivolous lawsuits being filed against her by rabid partisans, maybe this is what she needs to do to step above the fray and finally start to lead on a national scale. On the other hand, she has also spent a lot of political capital by not finishing her term as governor. It will give her critics a valid reason to label her as a quitter. It will raise questions as to her ability to stay the course in tough times. And you can’t help but wonder, if she can’t do her job as governor because of attack dogs hounding her every step, will she be able to do her job as president, assuming those same people will continue to dog her?

I remember how hard it was for Bill Clinton to do his job during his second term when partisan interests kept slamming him on everything from Whitewater to Lewinsky. So I am deeply concerned Palin will never be able to fully share her talents with the world, due to the combined efforts of completely duped liberals who see her as the “enemy,” and the elite establishment, which apparently wants her gone because she doesn’t kowtow to big money.

Palin is at least not going away into that good night – I was very pleased to her that she’s threatening lawsuits against bloggers who print false reports about her as truth. The latest smear was that she was leaving because she was under federal investigation, which has been already debunked and dismissed in the LA Times by a federal representative.

I have to say, I was completely horrified by the treatment Hillary Clinton got by the media and men on the left during the election; the treatment of Sarah Palin now is one hundred times worse. I feel sick when I see men I know – men who claim to be enlightened liberals – slamming Palin as a beauty queen dropout on Facebook. I feel even more sick when I see women I know unwittingly play into the misogyny simply because it is “trendy” in my neck of the woods to be a Democrat.

If Palin does decide to run for president, she already faces a huge amount of opposition. I am not sure if her current actions will help her. However, the partisan people who dismiss her and call her a bimbo won’t be swayed no matter what she does, so perhaps it was right and fitting that she just gave them a big middle finger by resigning as governor. She won’t ever please them, and those crazy partisans would never in a million years step across the aisle and vote Republican anyway, so why bother with them?

It’s the moderates and independents she needs to convince. If Obama continues spending America into oblivion, she may find herself riding a backlash against Democrats all the way to the White House. Time will tell.

Yawn. Big surprise – Vanity Fair has published an unsubstantiated piece of journalistic garbage that portrays Sarah Palin in a bad light! Wow, what a surprise! (That’s sarcasm there.)

You have to wonder why Sarah Palin is continually being brought into national media attention when the election is OVER…it’s not like you’ll see Vanity Fair publishing hit pieces of Mitt Romney. But Palin is probably the best potential candidate to run against Obama in 2012, and it’s clear to me that people with an agenda are trying to take her out of the running now.

But what women should be up in arms about is the article’s speculation that Palin had “post-partum depression.” Nice. Criticize a woman candidate because she was just pregnant. Do you ever hear things like “He’s going through his mid-life crisis?” associated with male politicians (particularly those who are actually displaying it with their philandering)?

It used to be that journalists had some sort of integrity; that they believed in standards of fairness. They would not print negative quotes without trying to talk to someone with an opposing viewpoint and showing the other side.

The hit-and-run type of journalism expressed by Vanity Fair is nothing more than propaganda. You must remember, these were the guys who published a hit piece on Bill Clinton during the primaries, apparently in an effort to take Hillary down. (I’m actually surprised they didn’t just plaster a big headline across their cover: “HILLARY THE SHREW” – and then blame her for Bill’s sexcapades.)

Palin’s Vanity Fair piece tries to paint her as having narcissistic personality disorder – something that actually fits Obama better. Will Vanity Fair run a hit piece on Obama, talking about the now legendary Obama “Evil Eye”? Nope, because Vanity Fair is apparently in the pockets of people who want Obama and certain Democrats in power.

The mainstream media, which put Obama up on a pedestal and then smashed Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin down with unabashed misogyny during the 2008 election is something I no longer trust. The upshot of this is that they are starting to cry wolf – I am so immune to any Sarah Palin criticism right now that even if the worst were true I would not believe it.

Considering I am a 20-year registered Democrat who has for years been absolutely opposed to the “religious right,” the fact that the media has gotten me turned off of Democratic propaganda and now taking the side of a conservative woman is no small feat. If I am feeling this way, I can only imagine how middle America is feeling.

It’s so amazing to me that the right has turned out to be much more supportive of women in politics than the left. The left tried to run Hillary out on a rail – but the right has mostly embraced Sarah Palin and sticks up for her, rather than piling on more sexism like our liberal friends have done with Hillary.

Check out this amazing article on Palin in American Thinker. What blew me even more away was how many folks in the comments wanted an all-woman team for the 2012 Republican ticket: Sarah Palin and Liz Cheney. Can we imagine the Democrats doing the same anytime this century? Doubtful.

An excerpt:

The street fighting, world class, lifelong political experts of the left see “it” and it makes them crazy. They went crazy for Obama; they are going crazy for Palin, although in the other direction.

Whenever she chooses, she will take her first trip to Iowa to campaign for some obscure congressional candidate, and when she does, the liberal media cannot ignore the screaming crowds. And they will not be crowds manufactured by an advance team. They will be fired up mothers, working people who do not want to pay for deadbeats’ mortgages, people who are now going to grass roots tea parties.

A lot of people are disappointed that Obama did not come out stronger in support of Iranians who are protesting against what they feel is a rigged election. I will submit that he simply cannot – as much as I believe that man is a liar and will say whatever he needs to say to appease whomever at the moment – he has no moral authority to speak on election fraud.

After all, this is the man who “won” the Democratic primaries through caucus fraud. A lot of liberals are equating the current situation in Iraq to nine years ago, when many felt that Al Gore was cheated out of the presidency by Bush. I relate to feeling disenfranchised much more recently: 2008, when Hillary Clinton was denied her rightful place as the Democratic nominee due to bullying and other improprieties in the caucus states.

Sadly, we did not have 6 million determined Hillary supporters in one place able to stage a huge protest to get worldwide attention and sympathy. No, we were the forgotten ones…even made fun of sometimes by other Democrats who claimed we were making the caucus fraud up.

I hope that the caucus fraud story won’t be completely forgotten. It’s a good idea to bring it up once in a while so we will not forget.