The Conservative Revolution

Dick Armey, chairman of FreedomWorks, slammed Senator Barack Obama for his lack of experience and his liberal voting record on CNBC’s Kudlow and Company last night.

Here is the full quote:

It’s very hard to predict what the future behavior would be of a person who’s had no past record of actually initiating anything. But what we do know about Senator Obama is he has the most liberal voting record of anybody in the Senate.

Therefore, we can observe that he will go along with any left-wing scheme that comes along. While he’s never had a policy initiative of his own, we could expect that if he were to win the White House, he would take the initiatives that came out of Congress – an increasingly more liberal and emboldened Congress – and you’d get many left-wing schemes coming out of the House and Senate to his desk, which he would sign, and embrace, and call his own.

[Obama] is a fascinating person. It’s so hard for me to understand how a person who is so wholly devoid of any on-the-job, policy accomplishment can take the job with these kinds of responsibilities, having demonstrated none in his life.

FreedomWorks’ project AngryRenter.com has been noticed by journalists over at CNN Money. Check out the article online about our opposition to the mortgage bailout. It quotes my co-worker Adam Brandon.

“A third of the American public rents. They’re saying I’ve been saving for a mortgage for years. I could have jumped in on a subprime loan too. Now I’m going to have to pay for a government bailout.”

Be sure to sign the petition over at AngryRenter.com!

This weekend I watched a good movie about the Estonian movement for independence from Soviet domination. The movie is called “The Singing Revolution” and is an inspirational chronicle of how the Estonians broke the chains of communist totalitarianism.

You can visit the website, type in your zip code to see if and when it is playing in your area. If enough folks request the movie be shown in their city, theaters will show it.

My fellow blogger David All at Tech Republican has the first of a series of posts about why the left is beating the right online. He offers some words of wisdom that conservative bloggers and activists should take to heart.

MoveOn has always been an organic effort which focuses on member initiatives. They branded MoveOn from the beginning as an inclusive, member-driven community of grassroots activists coordinated by a nimble team instead of being a staff-heavy, top-down operation. That’s important.

This is also the kind of thing that the Ron Paul and Barack Obama campaigns have mastered. Both of their campaigns have been organic, truly grassroots efforts. Then, there is this:

Their emails and online campaigns are thoughtful, interesting, and effective even to the outside observer like TechRepublican. Yeah, this point seems obvious, but it’s not obvious to everyone given the fact that I’m constantly barraged by email newsletters on a Friday at 7 PM that I never read.

David has a good point here, as well. Interesting and compelling content is a must. Admittedly, our side could be a lot better at this. Read the rest of this interesting post here.

John McCain brought up Barack Obama’s “friendly” relationship with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers on today’s edition of This Week with George Stephanopolous.

“He became friends with him and spent time with him while the guy was unrepentant over his activities as a member of a terrorist organization, the Weathermen,” said the Arizona senator.

“Does he condemn them? Would he condemn someone who that says they’re unrepentant and wished that they had bombed more?”

Finally, McCain has begun to bring up this potentially campaign-ending revelation that has mostly gotten play on Fox News’ Hannity and Colmes. While the mainstream media reported on the story for a few days, other stories about Obama’s questionable friends have gotten more attention. (See Reverend Jeremiah Wright.) When you combine the fact that Obama has refused to wear a flag lapel pin, with his wife’s disdain for America and the Bill Ayers ties, Obama could be facing a big problem when it comes to patriotism.

As news reports indicate, John McCain is planning to hit Obama hard on this topic in the general election. And well he should.

Former president and peace prize winner Jimmy Carter had a second meeting with Hamas yesterday. Hamas leaders have pointed out that Carter’s visit legitimized the terrorist organization. Great job, Jimmy!

With Obama wanting to meet with dictators and Carter negotiating with stateless extremists, the Democrats  have an almost coherent foreign policy of giving in to terrorism. While Senator John McCain was not my first choice for president, his strength on national security and his toughness when dealing with foreign bullies separates him as the adult in the presidential race between he and Obama. I doubt the American people will vote for a president who can’t stand up to Hillary Clinton, much less Hamas or Ahmadinejad.

It’s good to see the great tradition of The Young Conservatives of Texas at Texas A&M University continue. Tony Listi, a senior there, is re-launching the group that has had its ups and downs over the last year or two.

Look for great things from this organization in the year to come.

This is a great piece of editing by someone chronicling the rough and tumble nature of the Democrat primary. Clever work, and fun to watch.

Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse for Barack Obama, Hamas thug Ahmed Yousef made the following statement.

We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance.

Obama already has some explaining to do about his ties to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. And Jimmy Carter reminded everyone this week what the Democrats think about our Islamist enemies by literally embracing them.

This kind of terrorist coddling simply will not play in the general election among us God-fearing, gun-toting rural Americans. If the Democrats don’t want to fight our enemies then perhaps they should just submit to dhimmitude right now. As long as the liberals in San Francisco get to drive their hybrids they probably won’t even mind living in submission to Islam.

Thanks to my professor, Ambassador Thomas Melady, I was fortunate to receive an invitation to The White House to watch the Papal Arrival Ceremony today. It was quite an event with beautiful music, a huge crowd and various religious and political dignitaries.

Below is a picture from the South Lawn of The White House earlier today.