HOW DID WE GET HERE?

It's been yet another year of economic woes, foreign policy blunders and abysmal job reports. Yet, I doubt that too many Americans are surprised. After four straight years of failed policies from the Obama administration, what else could we expect? America's chance to make it right has come and past. How did that happen? Considering that Mitt Romney had throngs of standing-room-only rallies wherever he spoke and Obama could not fill a high school gym for his campaign speeches, logic was telling us that it's over for Obama. America voted - and he won anyway. As Wednesday, November 7, 2012 came, everyone (Republicans and Democrats) were in shock. Whether in celebration or in mourning, we were all equally surprised. Somehow, some way, Obama pulled it off.

More and more, the answer is becoming clear. Fraud. Leaving nothing to chance, The Obama campaign, including supporters across the country pulled an all out assault on the sanctity of the vote in America. Realizing they did not have to defraud the vote in every State in The Union, they simply centered on the key States he had to win to stay in office. In short, electoral criminality put Obama over the top.

Here's what we now know as fact. The son of Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va who was a Democratic Field Director was caught on tape training an undercover reporter on how they fraudulently cast ballots in the name of registered voters by forging utility bills and then using a list of Democrat lawyers to verify the votes. Court appointed Republican poll watchers were illegally expelled from 13 Philadelphia polling places in wards that then went 99 percent for Obama. That, by the way, is statistically impossible. Throughout Philly and The State of Pennsylvania, Democrats were recorded bragging that they were able to vote more than once. In fact, in many districts, Romney did not get one vote. The final tally was Obama 19,605 - Romney 0. Seems to me that at least one Democrat out of 19,000 would have accidentally voted for Romney.

In Ohio, it was determined that at least one out of five people who voted in the election were actually illegal voters. If you find that hard to believe, cut that number in half, Obama still wins Ohio. In two Democratic counties in Ohio, the number of votes were higher than the number of registered voters. It has also been determined that Democrats were able to "flip" that state in favor of Obama by illegally activating over 6 percent of the 1.6 million "inactive" voters to create a vote for Obama. An inactive voter is one who has moved out of the state or died.

And then there is Florida. It's difficult to write a piece on fraud, deception and deceit without including Eric Holder in the mix. So here's my contribution. Early in 2012, Florida realized that they had a huge number of ineligible, non-citizen voters on the rolls that could have been used illegally on election day. They were in the process of cleaning up that mess when Holder successfully sued Florida making it impossible for them to purge those illegal voters from the rolls.

Enough? Get the picture? We can't turn back the clock but we can look ahead. Republicans must toughen up! They need to get proactive ASAP and begin relentlessly exposing and suing districts, counties and States that commit voter fraud. At this point, Democrats are so unafraid of committing these atrocities that they were actually recorded bragging about it in the last election. This is third-world politics in America folks. Seems to me, the least we as citizens can ask for is a fair fight on election day.

ON BEING A SNOB

I am not a snob.  Nor do I play one on TV.  I will admit though, that I have known many in my life and even called them friends at times. I graduated from college with snobs, played golf with snobs and certainly had several experiences with business associates who, for whatever purpose, had their head so far up their ass . . . . . . no, I won't go there.

So here is my pet peeve when it comes to my friends, the snobs. They seem to have a problem with the use of proper English.  If anyone should keep up appearances by using "The King's English" with befitting aplomb, seems to me it would be snobs. I'll keep this brief with only two examples.  However, both of these examples may surprise you.  Especially if you are not a snob and simply want to continue reading to find out how you might catch your next snob in an English usage faux pas.

Beginning with my college buddies.  It is ironic to me to listen to a person with a PhD announce that they graduated college in 1972. A person simply cannot "graduate college".  Graduate is NOT a verb. One can graduate from college.  But if the snob says "I graduated college", that person is implying that they did something to the college.  I did many things to my college during my tenure there. However, I did not graduate college.

Most of the snobs I've known through life were golfers.  I played golf for nearly 5 decades and never really mastered the game. But one thing I did not do is "Golf".  Once again, golf is not a verb.  It is a noun.  You can play golf, hate golf, watch golf and suck at golf, but you cannot "golf".  No one baseballs or have you ever seen a person tennis?  I don't think so.

English was always my best subject in school and I loved writing things down to express thoughts or just piss people off.  But, even when I write notes to myself, I try to punctuate and spell things correctly.  That's why I tend to snicker inside when I hear one of my friends, the snob, sound more like the kid from the wrong side of the tracks when expressing their latest snobby ventures.  And yet, I have no problem justifying that snicker. Because as you now know, I am not a snob.

MELISSA AND THE NEWS

Melissa Harris-Perry, is a news commentator who has been given her own show at the bastion of deep thought called MSNBC.   Ms. Perry is a continuing line of snarky, liberal hosts there that feel there are no rules when it comes to ripping Conservatives a new one on the air.  Her latest is the strangely uncouth manner in which she and her guests laughed at a picture of the Romney family where Mitt Romney was holding his infant, adopted grandchild who happened to be black. She has since apologized on the air.  Apologies have been a regular part of their broadcast segments for several years now.  Apparently “no matter how vile we are, an apology always saves our dignity”.

So, let’s examine Melissa Harris-Perry’s dignity a little further.  As a professor of Political Science at Tulane University, we can understand and sympathize a bit that the profession alone qualifies her to be a Liberal hack. But it might be better to take a look at a couple of other instances where she has shown that she will likely have a warm, comfortable home on MSNBC.

Last July, Ms. Harris-Perry donned a pair of tampon earrings on her show to show support for abortion rights in this country.  She shared the fact that her producer had made them for her the week before.  I can just imagine the fun and hilarity that must take place at that network every day as a replacement for human rights and dignity.

Ready for another one?  Brace yourself.  Ms. Harris or Perry or . . .I’ll just call her Melissa, says that life begins when the parents say it does and that can be weeks or months or even years after they are born. That being the case, it’s up to the parents whether or not to let their child live even after they are born.  I have a question for Melissa.  At what point do we stop calling it abortion and call it murder?  Or do we need a new liberal catch phrase to identify that period of time between birth and when the parents decide to let their children live?  I’m just asking.

We all know that MSNBC is not a “news” organization.  But, I truly feel that they also do not represent the Liberal base in America today.  They have the lowest viewership on a regular basis of all cable news outlets.  My problem with them is not that they are radical Liberals.  It’s just that they are so over the top that they tend to damage any good that could come from Liberals that continue to strive hard to bring honesty and dignity to the Democratic Party.

Wow . . . I just included the words honesty, dignity and Liberals in the same sentence. Anything is possible.

Just a note: I am constantly asked why I capitalize the word Liberals sometimes and sometimes not. When referring to Liberals (the people) I capitalize and when I am referring to the word liberal as a dogma, I do not. And since I always capitalize the word Conservative, it’s the least I can do for our misguided brethren.