Mitch Daniels? Sheesh, Republicans Are Stupid!

Mitch Daniels is what I call a Bush moderate. He’s just conservative enough not to stand out at a Washington cocktail party. He and Lindsey Graham make a handsome hors d’oeuvre pairing. But that is not why he will never be President.

Let’s face it, call us shallow, but we live in an aesthetical society, and the man just doesn’t have the hair. Jon Bon Jovi, now there’s hair. Wait, I think he’s a Democrat. Well anyway … And Daniels will have to stand on a footstool to shake Barack Obama’s hand during the debates.

Yet he is the darling the Washington conservative intelligentsia. Charles Krauthammer does wheelchair wheelies when anyone mentions his name. Even though Daniels did go to Princeton. Drat! Well, nobody’s perfect.

Okay, seriously, tee hee hee. No, but seriously, why now, when the Republicans are only about halfway through their November landslide victory lap, are they looking at someone like Daniels as their be all, end all to Barack Hussein al Obama’s Black Liberation theocracy? I mean, they have Mitt Romney. He has the height and the hair, and all but 31 of the 12 million Mormons in the U.S. will vote for him. (Those are the members of Jon Huntsman Jr’s family and Glenn Beck.)

Fact is, in 2012, the GOP will need a rock star to beat Barack Obama in a head-to-head race. Hillary probably will not run and that is what it will take for any generic Republican to win. Despite the Fox News 24-7 diatribe against Barry for Washington, his numbers are holding. This is only possible because Jersey Shore fans can vote, but true nonetheless.

Of course the GOP has a rock star. Actually a couple of them but who’s counting. I know, I know, Palin didn’t go to Bryn Mawr or Vassar or … where was it Tucker Carlson went to school? Anyway, even without Palin or Bachmann or Huckabee, in a pinch they have Donald Trump. Now there’s some hair for you.

Okay, now I’ll really be serious.

For 50 years—leaving out the eight glorious years when we had a president who actually knew what to do about Moammar Khadafy—the mainstream GOP has scattered to the wind whenever a true conservative has stepped to the plate. I know, I know, everyone’s a Reagan conservative these days, but the mainstreamers hated him when he was here.

The GOP is either the party of Lincoln and Coolidge and Reagan, or it is something else; they can no longer look to the mainstream rubber-stamp politicos of the past, or the Democrats will eat their lunch.

The Republican Party is loaded with talent who don’t have John Boehner as a FaceBook friend. Sarah Palin has a built-in voting block that can literally derail any candidate who captures the nomination without her blessing. Who knows, if she decides not to run maybe she’ll go with the Midget for Monongahela, but he will not win against Barack Obama. His Healthy Indiana is nothing more than warmed over Romney Care and his stint with the George W. Bush administration was rife with big spending.

And remember the hair.

Muslim Hearings Begin with Ellison’s Crocodile Tears

Here we go again. Once again the Democrats in Congress are playing to Jerry Springer fans and attempting to stem legitimate debate with theatrical exhibitions. Muslim U.S. Representative Keith Ellison broke down weeping (tearlessly) yesterday morning while pointing out that Muslims died in the World Trade Center attacks.

This is the same Keith Ellison who wrote that the Constitution is evidence of a racist conspiracy, by the way. The same Keith “Hakim” Ellison who defended Louis Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic statements. Good ol’ red-blooded American Muslim Keith Ellison.

For the record, 60 Muslims died in the WTC attacks. Which should be reason enough for Ellison or any Muslim American to wonder why a significant segment of their religion is trying to kill Americans.

Instead Muslim Americans are organizing protests, complaining of persecution, xenophobia, and racism by those who are trying to determine why their religion above all others in the world seeks to settle its disagreements with violence. Muslim groups are calling the hearings Islamophobic while disseminating anti-Semitic literature.

In 2009 and 2010, 76 U.S. Muslims were charged with domestic terrorism in 49 plots, nearly double the number since 2001. These defendants have been charged with conspiracy and other crimes for trying to wage war on their countrymen.

Currently Homeland Security identifies homegrown terrorism as the biggest threat to the United States from extremist Muslims. Does not Mr. Ellison want to know why?

American Muslims with few exceptions have either complained of nonexistent persecution or remained silent since the events of September 1, 2001. They have had a full decade to speak out against the extremists they claim are a small fraction of their religion and have not done so. Hundreds of terrorist plots have been exposed and not one has been hatched by members of any other faith in the United States, unless the Westboro Baptists can be considered terrorist for the protests of military funerals.

A terrorist is a person who uses terrorism in pursuit of political aims. That is a generalized definition of a combined number of online dictionaries. Despite PJ Crowley’s characterization to the contrary, Jerrod Loughner was not a terrorist, he was a garden variety psycho killer. A large number of Muslims world wide are engaged in terror against the United States, and it is time that we learn just exactly why they hate us so much.

The Left in this country are trying to shape the Muslim debate with politically correct rhetoric and charges of racism and xenophobia. If as a nation we allow them to succeed many more Americans will die. Islam is far more than a religion; it is a political philosophy honed from the twisted mind of a man who obsessed on the evils of women and violently promoted anti-Semitism.

No patriotic American would participate in the discrimination of others for any reason; diversity is what make this country the Seat of Liberty. But when a large segment of a religious sect seeks to destroy the nation that give it its religious freedom, it behooves our leaders to find out why. It is time for Americans to know if we have anything to fear from this religion.

Huckabee Isn’t the Only One Who’d Like to Know

As soon as Mike Huckabee is finished wiping the egg off his face, maybe we can get down to the questions all Americans should be asking their presidents.

“Where do you come from?” “How did you do in school?” “Have you ever been addicted to drugs?”

Huckabee’s statement this week that Obama grew up in Kenya was a potentially disastrous political faux pas, but otherwise much of what he said was perfectly reasonable; he asked questions any American should ask of anyone who aspires to the U.S. presidency. Unfortunately no one in the media asked these questions before he was elected.

“I would love to know more,” Huckabee told radio host Steve Malzberg. “What I know is troubling enough.”

It is remarkable that Huckabee would allow himself to be drawn into such hazardous waters for a potential presidential contender, especially since the left-wing media brands anyone who dares question Obama’s past as a wacko, but the former governor did draw attention to the proverbial $64 question.

The number one googled question in respect to the 44th President of the United States is: “Was Barack Obama born in the United States?” Even many who believe that Obama is a natural-born US citizen wonder what is so mysterious in the President’s background that would cause him to spend millions keeping his birth, education and health records from the public.

Of course Hillary Clinton did the same, even before she ran for office. And George W. Bush had his secrets in 2000; even after the release of his DUI records some still believed he had a drug problem. Rumors abounded that Bill Clinton spent time in rehab when his half-brother Roger infamously claimed, “Bill has a nose like a Hoover.”

If any these public servants were to apply for a civil service or private sector job with a Fortune 400, they would be obligated to make these records available. No ifs ands or buts, they would not be employed without signing a form allowing their employer complete access to their birth, education and health records. The President of the United States has his finger on the “nuclear football” and the ability to literally destroy the world, yet anyone who has had a minor drug violation cannot own a firearm in most states. Does that make sense?

Huckabee was busily rounding the circuit yesterday doing damage control for his bizarre interview with Malzberg; the former governor has a warm, self-depreciating sense of humor and his explanation came off well.

But should that be the end of it?

Just why is it wrong for Americans to know about their presidents what the government would demand to know about them, were they to seek employment in the public sector? It is a question that should transcend any single presidency.

We ask this question of virtually everyone in whom we place any degree of trust.

Who are you?