Ted West: The Naked Conservative

The Coulter Quotes of The Week

nobody@vox.com(TedWest) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:46:09 -0700

"Well, I guess we're all pretty relieved we didn't drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge back in 2002. What a disaster that would have been."

On centrists: "These are people who have no opinions because they know nothing about national issues. They're the ones who check the "not sure/no opinion" box on polls regarding the legalization of cannibalism... that's the downside of having chosen all your political positions by polling centrists: The moment they acquire any knowledge, they'll realize you're an idiot."

"The irony is the only people McCain can count on to vote for him are the very Republicans he despises – at least those of us who can get drunk enough on Election Day to pull the lever for him. In fact, we should organize parties around the country where Republicans can get drunk so they can vote for McCain. We can pass out clothespins with his name as a reminder and slogan-festooned vomit bags. The East Coast parties can post the number of drinks necessary for the task to help the West Coast parties. For more information, go to getdrunkandvote4mccain.com."

"Meanwhile, the centrists McCain spent years impressing with his outraged denunciations of conservatives, Swift Boat Veterans and Christians will be voting for Obama. They think he's cute."

"This year, moderate Republicans have hit the jackpot. John McCain is the Platonic ideal of a "moderate Republican"... Now we'll see what the country thinks."

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I'd Rather Be Here Than In Philadelphia

nobody@vox.com(TedWest) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:05:44 -0700

In the column I referenced in my last entry about July 4th according members of America's 4th Estate, pretend journalist for the Philadelphia inquirer and poor excuse for a human being, Chris Salutto, whose last name shall now forever be the expression one utters to toast defeat, made this despicable comment:

"And all for a scam. The waterboarding, the snarling dogs, the theft of sleep - all the diabolical tricks haven't made us safer. They may have averted this plot or that. But they've spawned new enemies by the thousands, made the jihadist rants ring true to so many ears."

Jack Kelly writes today with a slightly different, i.e. accurate, perspective:

"Doubtless much of our good fortune is due to increased vigilance by the FBI and other security agencies. And some of it is due simply to good luck. But the principal reason why we've been safe at home these last seven years has been the war in Iraq."

He goes on:

"Sen. Obama describes the war in Iraq as a "distraction' from the war on terror. But that's not how al Qaida saw it. In a 2005 letter to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, al Qaida's number two, Ayman al Zawahiri, described Iraq as 'the place for the greatest battle of Islam in this era,' (and) "Osama bin Laden himself said... 'The whole world is watching this war and the two adversaries; the Islamic nation on the one hand, and the United States and its allies on the other. It is either victory and glory or misery and humiliation.'"

Earlier today on Special Report with Brit Hume, the usually unremarkable Fred Barnes noted that Obama's "distraction" has rendered al Qaida unable to mount attacks elsewhere.

And the result according to Mr. Kelly...

"In 2003, Canadian columnist David Warren hypothesized Iraq would be the flypaper that would lure in al Qaida, and where it would be destroyed. While I doubt this was a deliberate Bush administration strategy, that's the way it's working out. Al Qaida was right that Iraq is the central front in the war on terror, but wrong about the outcome. America's Democrats have been wrong about both."

Perhaps instead of atoning on July 4th as he said he'd be doing, Chris could make it Take A Terrorist To Lunch Day? Or launch a telethon to raise money for victims of American torture?

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Independence Day - Liberal Style

nobody@vox.com(TedWest) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:44:09 -0700

Writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Chris Salutto (I felt nauseous writing his name) says this:

"Put the fireworks in storage. Cancel the parade. Tuck the soaring speeches in a drawer for another time. This year, America doesn't deserve to celebrate its birthday. This Fourth of July should be a day of quiet and atonement."

Why? The obvious lie upon lie...

"We took the coward's way. The world sees this, even if we are too dim to grasp it. We've lost respect. We've shamed the memory of Jefferson, Adams and Franklin. And all for a scam. The waterboarding, the snarling dogs, the theft of sleep - all the diabolical tricks haven't made us safer. They may have averted this plot or that. But they've spawned new enemies by the thousands, made the jihadist rants ring true to so many ears."

That's right -we- took the coward's way... you and I. And how did we do that?

"We left it to those in power to keep our precious selves from harm. Whatever it took."

I don't know about you, but I think he's got it just about right/ And I'm not going to atone for it. In fact, I'm thankful. I'm proud, and I'm pleased that it took so little to keep us safe for seven years.Sure mistakes were made. It was an enormous task. But in America, mistakes get addressed, and the input of critics is considered.

So Chris, proving he's no coward, has provided his email address in case you care to comment:

csatullo@phillynews.com.

And I, fancying myself no coward either, decided to avail myself of his invitation. I sent the following:

To quote Marlon Brando - "You remarkable pig."

I hope many are grilling various parts of Chris this Fourth.

Ted

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In Search Of A Decent Liberal

nobody@vox.com(TedWest) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:20:58 -0700

It occurred to me in light of the vicious, unprovoked and indecent attacks on John McCain today and yesterday by General Wesley Clark and Senator Jim Webb, that I haven't seen a single Democrat condemn these two indecent individuals, and that in such a case, silence constitutes complicity.

And as you know, in nearly fifteen years of searching, I have been absolutely unsuccessful in finding a single rational liberal, but I don't believe one needs to be rational to understand common decency, and so I've decided to lower the bar and launch a new search...

Very simply, are you disgusted with the antics of members of your party and other subscribers to your ideology? I'm not asking you to renounce your beliefs, I'm only asking if you recognize that the sort of tactics we've been seeing in your primary contests and now against McCain are not things that decent people do? I'm asking if you reject these evil people and their methods? If you do, you may be a decent liberal*.

I suspect that some will immediately want to engage in moral relativeness and cite past events in which they feel that someone on the right engaged in similar activities. I'll listen, but be advised that virtually all of the things liberals have screamed and whined about are allegations, fabrications, and exaggerations, and the biggest one from my perspective, the swift boat ads that sunk Kerry, were not demonstrably false, and did in fact contain elements of truth, and so if you think those ads rise to the level of depravity of the recent attacks on McCain, don't bother, you're not a decent liberal.

I wish you luck. You may soon be known as "The Decent Liberal." Of course I realize that even this bar may be too high, but as you know, I'm nothing if not hopeful and optimistic when it comes to the left. Just remember, a left turn requires more energy use, so consider turning right.

*Other criteria may apply, but you could still receive honorable mention even if you fail to meet them in their entiretly.

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Rottenest Man Shows How He Earned The Title

nobody@vox.com(TedWest) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:49:51 -0700

So this week, The Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran trots out Wesley Clark, himself the rottenest military man since Benedict Arnold... and John Kerry, to assail John McCain's military record. You might argue that Clark did it all on his own. Fair enough, that's not why Obo is so rotten, anyway.

What adds to Obama's "rotten quotient" is that the very next day, i.e. today, he has the nerve to give a speech in which he uses Clarks remarks to show his "appreciation" for McCain's service and... um... torture, and then he says he'll never criticize his opponent's patriotism and he won't allow anyone to criticize his.

I don't have to tell thinking people what's wrong with this picture, nor can I show the unthinking ones if I tried, so the rest of this I'm just writing to myself. What else is new?

Not for one second do I believe Clark acted on his own. Clark's an Obocop.

It was the same Clark who attempted to build a hero image for John Kerry in 2004, and who tried to transform Kerry and his pin-prick Purple Hearts into a Vietnam era Audie Murphy. So for saying what Clark said yesterday, death by firing squad is too good for him... and Kerry too, for that matter.

The New York Times framed Obama's appearance today thusly: "As he spoke, the senator stood on a flag-bedecked stage and, providing visible refutation to rumors, he wore a clearly visible American flag pin on his lapel."

Got that? Rumors.

Last week, Bobama, banana fanna fo fama created the Republican racist straw man, and this week, he felt the need to preemptively knock down a war hero and create the patriotism straw man. in other words, no Republican I know of has used race to attack Obo, and no one has attacked his patriotism... unless you think saying that he'd be disastrous for America is an attack? Besides, no Republican told Obama to abandon his flag pin and make a production of doing so. It was no rumor... then.

Nor were Mickey's "America is just plain mean," or "For the first time in my adult life I'm proud of my country" rumors... but they probably will be one day when the Times has had enough time to work their magic.

And it's not your eyes playing tricks on you now that Obama can't get enough flags to accompany him.

Everywhere you look, as far as the eye can see we're adrift in a sea of liberal scum.

In an amazing call to Rush Limbaugh this morning that shows both how far liberals will go and how twisted their thinking is, one liberal dismissed both McCain's war record and Clark's attack, but asked Limbaugh to consider how weak McCain was in responding to it. You can't make this stuff up... only liberals can.

McCain: "If that's the kind of campaign that Senator Obama and his surrogates and supporters want to engage in, I understand that," he said. "But it doesn't reduce the price of a gallon of gas by a penny" or do anything else to help Americans."

It's called "being a gentleman" and sticking to the issues, the former being entirely foreign to liberals, and the latter, not in their best interests.

Here's what the Rottenest Newspaper Ever Published had to say about it all:

"The U.S. presidential campaign turned angry Monday as supporters of John McCain rolled out a full-throated defense against attacks on the quality of his military experience and Senator Barack Obama attacked head-on the persistent rumors that his loyalties to the country were doubtful."

See, the campaign didn't turn angry until Monday... until the McCain camp responded. The Times apparently regards Clark's unprecedented assault as offhand comments, and Obo addressed "persistent rumors." you know, the kind that can't be attributable to a Republican version of Wesley Clark because there is none.

The Times continued... "The McCain campaign appeared incensed by comments Sunday by an Obama supporter, the retired General Wesley Clark, that even heroic service by the Arizona senator as a naval aviator in Vietnam did not prepare him for the presidency.

When Clark was pressed by an incredulous Bob Schieffer about Obama having no military experience, Clark said that Obo was running on other traits... one of them he named was - judgment. Apparently Clark thinks that smoking dope and schmoozing with the Chicago Machine and terrorists and "tolerating" a racist church of decades are much better qualifications.

Coincidentally, you might have seen the headline: City Vehicles Painted with Anti-Obama Sayings.

Did you think for a minute these were Republican vandals? Because one article goes on to say they were Hillary supporters. The article that bore the above headline leaves it to the reader to fill in his own blanks.

Dem on Dem racism - per usual.

And per usual, it appears to be Republicans who were the perpetrators, just as when the tires were slashed in Wisconsin on election day, 2004. And remember when Lenny tried to tell me that while the Democrats had all the racists back when, they migrated to the Republican Party in the sixties? One wonders what Lenny is thinking now? More to the point, one wonders how Lenny would spin this.

John McCain seems a perfect fit with the Teddy Roosevelt admonition to speak softly and carry a big stick. No serious person could think McCain would be weak when a situation called for strength, and most especially in comparison to his diminutive-in-the-credentials department opponent his incompetent team of advisors.

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The Greatest French Woman Since Bardot

nobody@vox.com(TedWest) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:07:15 -0700

Over the years, I've come to realize that all liberals and most conservatives are far more interested in adhering to their ideology than they are in getting and acknowledging the facts, and that even when either side does accept a fact something that contradicts some portion of their belief structure, they are virtually never willing to alter that structure to accommodate the new information. In other words, there are no amount of facts and no measure of importance that would get most people to abandon their long-held notions.

We've recently seen it here in the person of Snowy. Not only are his beliefs and allegiances 100% fact-free, but he actually thinks he argues his points well. We've seen if from Hen and Lenny and that poor hapless liberalite co-ed, who deservedly shall remain nameless, who happened to wander in recently and thought she was dealing with some overwhelmed conservative on her college campus.

Nationally, this dangerous adherence to ideology is the reason why Barack Obama can do no wrong and McCain can do no right in the eyes of so many. It does no good to point out that, for example, while Obama been thoroughly discredited to the very depths of his positions, experience and his being, yet he's still as popular as ever among his believers. Of course, McCain hasn't done anything to assuage the concerns of conservatives, so I can't say definitively how they'd react if he did, but I still feel it's safe to say that there's nothing McCain could do at this point to win over those who hold negative opinions of him. But in fact, the right's collective opinion of McCain is fully justified, the left's opinion of Obama is rooted in nothing but fantasy... which is where the left itself is rooted, of course.

So today I'd like to bring to your attention a column by Anne-Elisabeth Moutet. I found it riveting. Not only does she shed light on the world of mainstream "journalists," but she brings us the closing chapter in a long held lie. What I found most amazing, apart from the story itself, was her command of the English language and the rich novel-like texture of her piece. If I didn't know better, I might have thought she was Camus' daughter which, who knows, she may very well be...

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Snowy, The Right To Bear Arms, Barry Young, And Me

nobody@vox.com(TedWest) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:25:38 -0700

Let's begin with the Supreme Court's outrageous decision today that struck down the Washington D.C. gun ban. It's outrageous because the decision was 5-4. That of course means that D.C. residents should immediately use their new-found right to gun down the four scumbags who voted to continue to unconstitutionally keep them (and us) from bearing arms.

But what made this ruling even more interesting was my recent encounters with Snowy and some comments made by my favorite talk show host, Barry Young, today. For those unfamiliar with Barry, he's about the most intelligent and funny - and rational person I've even heard, and this morning, he tangentially mentioned one of my favorite subjects - stupid people.

Which brings me to Snowy.

I felt badly when I read he last comment about me in that other thread because I realized I was dealing with one of -them-. No, I don't mean a liberal, I knew he was that because he proudly proclaimed it, and I admit that should have led me to the overriding conclusion, but he's clearly a nice guy, and I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.

So here's how all the above ties together. When Barry brought up the Supreme Court gun decision, he stated that the Second Amendment is crystal clear, and that only stupid people misinterpret it (four of those being the dissenting justices). Then Barry said something that has been a theme of mine for as long as I've been doing this sort of thing on the Net: the stupid people don't know they're stupid.

If he know about it, he didn't mention the decade-old study on this matter where it was found that not only did stupid people not know they're stupid (thanks to political correctness, no doubt), but that they actually thought they were smarter than smart people.

So when Snowy said that I'd cut him off because he was getting the best of me, there was no more ignoring the fact that he was one of THEM.

I don't know if you realize the implications of that study, but it means that idiots firmly believe not just that they know what they're talking about, but that they will push very hard to implement their idiotic ideas because, well, they thought of them, and therefore they must be right.

That's where we are today. It explains liberalism, environmentalism, the one or two sincere warming wackos, Obama... and the Snowys floatin' around everywhere. I mean, if you thought your ideas and beliefs where exactly correct, you'd fight hard for them, and since you don't know you're stupid, the only way to disprove your views is by implementation and subsequent failure.

That's not, generally speaking, exactly the most efficacious course for society, but it's one tacitly advocated by the likes of Vox John who is probably the most intelligent idiot I've ever encountered. Never was someone who knew so much so incapable of logically applying his knowledge to real world situations. Snowy's not in John's league, but he's no less convinced he's right. The biggest difference between Snowy and John though is that Snowy doesn't even attempt to defend himself. He merely states his belief and then declares he's gotten the best of you. It's almost endearing. I went easier on him than I otherwise might because his "debating approach" is so amusing - no indication whatsoever that he's interested in arguing his positions, much less detailing how he arrived at them.

But like anything else, fun is fun, and repetition gets old. I'd already decided that I'd been too nice to liberals of late before I heard Barry talking about stupid people today, and how Stupid people can find out for themselves whether they're stupid or not - he said what I used to say early and often in my form, but before I get to that, there's now, thanks to the Supreme Court, a second way to tell if you're stupid - -

Read the Second Amendment - if you think it applies to militias - you're stupid.

And if you're still not sure, call Barry or come here and we'll tell you...

Now this good news for liberals:

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.

So what's next, monkey matadors?

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Party On!

nobody@vox.com(TedWest) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:40:23 -0700

Yesterday, James Taranto reported on the failure of the media to identify the party affiliation of a thoroughly despicable lawmaker. This, of course, is standard operating procedure when a Democrat is the villain. So what happens when a Republican strays from the straight and narrow...? Mr. Taranto reports today:

Party Animal
"A Republican activist from Aurora who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in connection with a larger fraud prosecution was sentenced Monday to a year's probation and a $3,450 fine," reports the Denver Post. That's the lead sentence. The headline is "GOP Activist Receives Probation in Tax Case."

This is an easy one, so we'll give you two guesses as to the subject's party.

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Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Exhale

nobody@vox.com(TedWest) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:35:20 -0700

In a dramatic lesson of how insane and dangerous liberals are, two prominent talking pigs have stepped forward recently and attempted to infuse new life and fear into an issue that you might otherwise have thought would at least be on a back burner now that everyone is concerned about how to heat their homes and run their cars.

I'm talking, of course, about the once funny, and always idiotic, idea that man is causing the planet to warm because there's too much emittin' goin' on. And when the jokes and ridicule didn't cause these chronologically adult jackasses to just... uh... evaporate, I thought that the worsening fuel crisis surely would. But I can't "think" like a liberal, nor can I be so hypocritical as Al Gore is to tell others they will have to suffer the controls and taxes he seeks to impose on them while using infinitely more energy than the average Filipino, and then following that up with infinite² this year.

We already knew that liberals lack the embarrassment gene, and as a result, it's nothing for them to continue to make pronouncements, to hold positions, to issue dire warnings, and to even attempt to continue to implement their failed ideas long after they've been absolutely discredited,. so maybe we shouldn't be surprised that the "global warming" cabal hasn't faded away despite the fact that their "models" have failed in every instance to duplicate real-world conditions. Their latest "adjustment?" "Global warming" is on hiatus. You didn't hear? Well, just try calling "global warming," you'll get a voice message that it's away from its desk and won't be back for a decade.

But now along comes the self-designated King of Warming, Jimmy "The Mule" Hansen, aka, "NASA scientist and Soros lackey, James Hansen, who wants to imprison those who "cast doubt" on -his- theory. I wish I was making that up, but that's exactly what he said before Congress on Monday. Meanwhile, Kofi Annan, aka the Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran the UN, has called for "climate justice," which I won't even attempt to explain here, but you can get a good idea of what Mr. Oil-For-Food meant just by letting your own mind run on the concept. Bottom line: you need to pay more for your prosperity, and he'll be more than happy to help distribute the funds.

Clearly, if anyone should be in jail, it's those who continue to advance as fact the idea that carbon dioxide is responsible for climate change and who then attempt to profit and gain power from their deception. Not that they themselves don't believe what they say, but then so did Hitler, my apologies to Hitler for the comparison.

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Ted West: The Naked Conservative

The Coulter Quotes of The Week

I'd Rather Be Here Than In Philadelphia

Independence Day - Liberal Style

In Search Of A Decent Liberal

More Obocops And Questions

Rottenest Man Shows How He Earned The Title

The Greatest French Woman Since Bardot

Snowy, The Right To Bear Arms, Barry Young, And Me

Party On!

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Exhale