One should always vote… yes by all means vote. However, when the Continental Congress ‘voted’ to declare our independence that was not the end of the struggle – it was still very much the beginning of the struggle.

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If two of your ‘neighbors’ vote to make you their slave then your one vote to not be their slave doesn’t count for much now does it? Don’t ever fool yourself into believing that your personal situation is so secure, your physical location so remote, that the growing tyranny looming on the horizon will somehow pass you by.

We now have a President who is, at the very least, a ‘true believer’ in Marxism. Aligned with him we have a One-(Socialist)-Party controlled Congress whose leaders (so far anyway) can compel almost complete blind obedience from nearly all of its members. And we have five Justices of the Supreme Court who think the Constitution is just a quaint piece of faded paper, with no relevance to their function as the self-proclaimed final arbiters of virtually everything.

This new ‘situation’ has moved far beyond the horse-swapping pork spending and influence-buying campaign bribery of previous governments.

If you have anything ‘they’ can use (and virtually all of us do) ‘they’ will find you. They will take whatever ‘they’ deem necessary “in the name of the people” and if you resist ‘they’ will imprison or kill you. That is the real lesson of history that too many of us, even now, are too damn self-deluded to see.

People who say things like “it could never happen here” are incredibly naive, to put it nicely. I, however, have a less gracious word for it.

“I think people out there across the country elected this president because he inspired the notion that we can change,” he said. “Not to be so trite as to invoke his campaign slogan, but I do think there was some substance behind it in terms of what people thought in voting for him.

“Banking off that mood of the country right now, I think it’s incumbent upon us to reach out to him and see if we can work together.”

This is precisely what we must not do. EVER. We need a “no retreat, no surrender, no quarter, no prisoners, scorched earth” policy. We need to take the bastards down using “whatever means necessary”.

I’m sick of Republican thumb sucking. Time to man up. We’ve been lobbing mud balls while the Dems use live ammo.

Mart, in spite of your defection, in this now socialist dominated political climate, a third party vote will be a vote for socialism. There never has been and, particularly now, ever will be a viable “Third” party. The Republican party has deep roots, is still well entrenched in the American political system, and definitely in need of major reformation, but this will never happen with defections to a new or old third party. Get a grip, man. “Yes, we can,” doncha know.

“It is up to US to attack the propaganda machine.”

“And I’m tired of hearing, or reading, how much alike the GOP and Democrats ’supposedly’ are.”

Not only the way to beat them but the way to stop beating ourselves. Pun intended.

Three cheers, and many :beer: :beer: to you for this one!

How does one fight a war of propaganda when almost all of your side’s avenues of information dissemination are controlled by your adversary’s propaganda machine? This NY Times’ article is a perfect example: they chose how to write this, who to quote or not quote, and what quotes to use (and what quotes not to use).

As much as many of us would like GOP leaders to rip Obama a new a**hole each and every day – because he deserves it – such a ‘public’ strategy as this will only serve the propaganda goals of the Networks, Newspapers, and Demo-Marxist Party.

It is up to US to attack the propaganda machine. We must be the ones who ultimately drive people like Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Katie Couric, and George Stephanopoulos off of this country’s networks. We must be the ones who kill off Fascist-Left rag newspapers like the New York Times. We must be the ones who crush the cyberspace organs of Fascist-Left financial/political power: e.g. MoveOn, Daily Kos, and Media Matters. We must be the ones who inform idiots like Reid, Schumer, Collins, and Specter that we despise their arrogance… and hate their guts. The Republican Party can’t do this for us; Conservative Talk Radio can’t do this for us either!

And I’m tired of hearing, or reading, how much alike the GOP and Democrats ‘supposedly’ are. The ‘bill’ for all of George’s ‘bi-partisanship’ – along with the ‘bill’ for the ENTIRE WAR on Islamic Fascism – is ‘kid-stuff’ compared to this “Spendulus” abomination Emperor Nero (Obama) will sign into law tomorrow.

And “Nero” is by no means done; he and the “wicked witch of the west” (Speaker No-nothing Pelosi) have only just begun!