Romney's Goldwater Problem with Donald Trump

Unless Mitt Romney issues a direct repudiation of Donald Trump and his doubling down of birtherism, it could hurt him politically. Could it be the 1964 Lyndon Johnson vs Barry Goldwater election in which Johnson won 90% of the vote? I'd say no regarding that big a margin of defeat. The reason I'm bring up the 1964 election is because there was a political decision during that election that the Republican Party and conservative leadership had to make. Today we have birthers. More than 45 years ago it was the it was the communist conspiracy promoting John Birch Society. William F. Buckley along with the Republican leadership banned the John Birch society from the mainstream of conservative politics.

Buckley republished a portion of his 5,000 word repudiation he gave of the John Birch Society in 1964:

How can the John Birch Society be an effective political instrument while it is led by a man whose views on current affairs are, at so many critical points . . . so far removed from common sense? That dilemma weighs on conservatives across America. . . . The underlying problem is whether conservatives can continue to acquiesce quietly in a rendition of the causes of the decline of the Republic and the entire Western world which is false, and, besides that, crucially different in practical emphasis from their own.

President Obama is wasting no time using this to slam Romney being so friendly to Trump.

What I Saw at a Florida Tea Party in Lakeland

These are pictures I took a couple months ago at a Tea Party group called "Lakeland 912" in Lakeland Florida where I live. The website is not available right now but I have a capture from the Internet Archive. I'll talk more about this group in later posts. It wasn't like a rally with signs. Instead it was Tea Party members meeting at a building. Their cars were parked outside and had colorful bumper stickers. I can't provide an accurate demographic of the kinds of stickers I saw, just the kinds. The kinds I saw were of course conservative leaning. You can say the bumper stickers say a lot about the person driving the car. While I was taking the pictures I ran into the first Libertarian Senate candidate for Florida Alexander Snitker. I told him was taking the pictures for my dad (he's a right winger) who couldn't attend. I told him I was on the left but was a supporter of Ron Paul. He told he was their to warm up these people with the real liberty message. I said it must be hard to win over the social conservatives. He said since there is an agreement about the economy it's easier to be listened to about the social issues. I told him it was good what he was doing. I even got a picture with him (last picture) and he gave me his card about his radio show "Liberty Underground"

Snitker was a nice guy. Here are the pictures.

Another WorldNetDaily Conspiracy Theory: This Time Between Muslims and Gays

Haj Amin al-Husseini (Islamic Fundamentalist) meeting with Adolf Hitler

The birther central website WorldNetDaily approved by presidential candidates Michelle Bachmann and Herman Cain is at it again. This time their owner Joseph Farah has decoded a long-term conspiracy between Muslims and gays. He's figured out that American Muslims are supporting gay marriage as part of a broader agenda. The long-term goal is to then open the door to one of scariest tenets of Islamic Law........

Which is Better? Media Research Center or Accuracy In Media?

In my last post I showed the difference between  Media Research Center and what could be considered it's liberal counterparts. "Media Matters For America" and "Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting" (FAIR) are the most infamous. The difference is simple: MRC is about bias not accuracy. The blog Left Hook explained this further. Is there a conservative media watchdog organization that cares about accuracy in journalism? Well... one has accuracy in it's name anyway: Accuracy in Media or (AIM). Is it a true counterpart to MMFA and FAIR unlike MRC? No, in fact its as far from them as MRC is.
AIM mainstreams and pushes a conspiratorial mindset engaging in speculation, distorted half-truths, and unproved assertions of fact. In their world facts are NOT irrefutable.

Since it's founding and especially in the election of Obama its legitimized the craziest conspiracy theories and has said the craziest things such as:.

John McCain is a Secret Communist

John McCain: the perfect Manchurian Candidate. A man who has spent more time with communists then any presidential candidate in United States history. McCain cannot deny his radical associations, he's got the wounds to show it. I'm of course talking about his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. All those years of torture, interrogation, and indoctrination could turned him into some sort of communist sleeper cell that would one day become our president. Brainwashing is not that hard to do.

Now why am I saying this and sounding like a John Birch Society crank? Because this ridiculous guilt by loose association crap was used against Obama. The Republican candidates have got their own connections with Bill Ayers they should worry about if they really think its even relevant.

The Annenbergs-- Republicans.  Bankrolled William Ayers with $50 million

As John Martin at Republicans For Obama pointed out:

The Annenbergs-- Republicans.  Bankrolled William Ayers with $50 million 
But Walter and Leonore weren't just giving money to educational foundations started by William Ayers.  They were also giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee and various other Republican groups, as well as to a whole host of Republican candidates, including the following:

• George W. Bush      $4000
• Mitt Romney            $5000
• Strom Thurmond      $1000
• Fred Thompson        $500
• Rick Santorum          $3000

Debunking Federal Reserve Conspiracy Theories from "The Creature From Jekyll Island"

If you're ever going to discuss the real concerns about the Federal Reserve, these are myths to avoid spewing otherwise you'll be seen as discredited or crazy. These particular myths come from book "The Creature From Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin an notable John Birch Society member.. Some myths are misleading distortions of history, others are down right fictional revisionist history.

BY: Edward Flaherty, Ph.D. Department of Economics College of Charleston, S.C. 

Posted on Public Eye

• Myth #1: The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was crafted by Wall Street bankers and a few senators in a secret meeting.  
• Myth #2: The Federal Reserve Act never actually passed Congress. The Senate voted on the bill without a quorum, so the Act is null and void.  
• Myth# 3: The Federal Reserve Act and paper money are unconstitutional.  
• Myth# 4: The Federal Reserve is a privately owned bank.  
• Myth #5: The Federal Reserve is owned and controlled by foreigners.  
• Myth #6: The Federal Reserve has never been audited.  
• Myth #7: The Federal Reserve charges interest on the currency we use.  
• Myth #8: If it were not for the Federal Reserve charging the government interest, the budget would be balanced and we would have no national debt.  
• Myth #9: President Kennedy was assassinated because he tried to usurp the Federal Reserve's power. Executive Order 11,110 proves it.  

• Myth #10. The Legendary Tirade of Louis T. McFadden      

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If you do want to know the real concerns, I'd suggest reading Secrets of the Temple by William Greider.