It's all free advertising for the party.

My campaign Billboard:
We heard what the RNC had to say. Lots of “America deserves better.” “Obama was bad for America.” And a truck load of Bla bla bla.
I can assure you next week at the DNC it will be more of the same. Bla bla bla as well. More platitudes and generalities. Empty words even a grade schooler would have doubts about.
Here’s your challenge. Decide what is important to you. What are your values? What’s important for your family and neighborhood. What will make America great? Jobs? Health? Schooling? Less taxes? Bigger or smaller government? What?
Decide this for yourself. Read. Watch. Decide. Ignore snarky and partisan talk. Turn off radio and TV and then read the newspapers. Avoid lock steppers and ditto heads. Don’t be afraid to ask difficult questions. Finally, don’t let anybody tell you how to vote. How you vote is your own private business.

What would happen if all talking heads stopped talking. Peace, love, and joy!

Where is our American sensibility? What has happened to our national collective morals and ethics? Where are our responsibilities to each other? Are we not a nation of one aspiration? Life Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Where did it all go?

Why are we so divided in ideology, class, and wealth? What is it that separates us from each other? Why are we no longer accepting of other’s philosophy or religion? Almost like being at war within our own borders. Something like Civil War. Which is not very civil at all.

How did all this happen? When did it become accepted to besmirch and demean each other? Only because we just can’t and won’t agree. Can’t compromise. Can’t come together and work out differences.

It’s more like if we can’t get a leg up on our neighbor and take complete control, we will then separate ourselves from those who don’t think or look like us. Resulting in segregation, disbanding, withdrawal, divorce, estrangement, discharging, breach of contract, and take our marbles and go home.

I blame it on the industry that makes huge amounts of money besmirching, blaming, demagoguing, and speaking ill of anybody who doesn’t think like them. I’m talking about Talk Radio and most political based TV or Radio talk show. And, I’m talking about both conservative and progressive. Both are to blame for the great divide. Both are guilty. Both should be ashamed and stop what they are doing.

We are one nation and it’s hard to remain so if talking heads continue the “Blame Game.” All just to sell advertising. All just to make a living off the hammering with outrageous fervor. Yelling, bloviating, and generally sacrificing some one or group just to make an easy buck. Scream and pound on the broadcast consol and the advertisers will surely come.

All I can say to the talk show TV, cable, and radio media is, SHUT! UP!

Do all politicians hire science fiction writers to write their speeches?

I am going to seriously soil my underwear if I hear one more bloviating political candidate say, “Our party is going to take back America.”  And, we are going to do it in 2012.  Oh, really?  Where abouts are you going to take our America to Bubba?  I thought they had outlawed science fiction in politics years ago.  Now you say Take it back from where and take it to where again?  Politicos from both sides of the political divide have been saying this for decades if not centuries.  And, you know what Garbonzo?  It never has happens.  America is still ere.  Rooted in the bedrock of the American Constitution.  Taking America anywhere is like pushing a tiger by the tail and trying to push it towards the mythical goal of “taking back America.  There are too many old folks like us that have heard it all and knowing taking back America will seldom if ever happen.  It never needs taking back.  We are where we want to be and have been there for decades.  Good luck.

Then there are these partisan wags whose sole purpose in life is to “rid America of Socialism.”  “I will vote down every attempt to socialize anything in America,” an ignorant politician recently retorted before a partisan TV audience.  I would be willing to bet he also has a library card.  A card to a socialized free service provided by county taxes.  And perhaps, maybe once in the past he called the police to an emergency and not paying a dime for the police officer’s services.  Services paid by the city sales tax.  And if it weren’t for tax subsidies, the political nare-do-well would have to haul his own trash to the subsidized city dump.  Need I go on?  From parks to airports in our town, all are paid mostly by sales or property taxes.  All social contracts with the citizens of our town.  Major socialism that I have ever seen.  What a totally stupid and ignorant thing for these political blockheads to say.  What jerks!  Get these guys off the TV and away from our sensibility.  They are an embarrassment and insult to us all.

Rick Perry!  Go back to Shallowhead, Texas.  Michele Bachmann!  Go back to BettyCrocker, Minnesota.  Mit Romney!  Go back to Bumperguard, Michigan.  Newt Gingrich!  Go back to Poisonwell, Georgia.

Get these whackos off the stage.  Or get me some TP fast!  I feel it coming down.

Rules of the road. Just stay to the right as far as possible.

How to deal with the media and prying questions.  Also, you can take charge of any negative oriented debate.  Stop revealing and embarrassing inquiries.  Control the “q and A” by simple in your face intimidation.  Bullying.  Threats.  Just take the upper hand by turning the tables on the inquirer, your opponent, or the hostile audience.

Plus, distraction is a good tool in your quiver to add to intimidation.  If shrill anger doesn’t work with the media then quickly point the arrow of blame at your opponent.  Any fabricated rumor or innuendo will work.  He’s a socialist!  She’s a tax and spend liberal!  Blame and Non-plus accusation often works as well. 

Or, take your cause to the online media.  Facebook or Twitter your opponent to death.  Have any supporter, contributor, or staffer place well scripted rumors or misquotes out on the World Wide Web.  It will go viral in seconds.  Boy!  Don’t you just love the Internet?  Right?

Another way to squelch besmirchment is to take your case to Fox News.  Just tell the Fox newsboys to only ask certain prescribed questions and nothing else.  Usually they will oblige you with little resistance.  Also, any half cracked quote sells advertisements.  You can say anything and they will love you.

If by some unfortunate predicament you are in a public debate on TV or cable, again bluster and fume every time your opponent starts to say anything.  Talk over him or her.  Do not allow he or she to complete a sentence.  This will quickly add confusion to his or her talking points.  Deny, rebuff, disclaim, and override, at any pause in their harangue.  Just say anything with any half-baked retort.  Even if it is unintelligible or gibberish.  No matter what it sounds like.  Just squall and bluster your opposition.

If you can do this with style and panache then you are a true far right conservative.  Go gettem boy!  Go gettem girl!

Away but not away.

The 1950s and 60s pop/rock singer Connie Francis had a hit called “We’re on Vacation.”  It started out, V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N, we’re on vacation in the summer time.  One of my favorite Connie Francis tunes.  Especially when it was played when high school was out for the summer.  Free at last!  I loved it.

Which brings me to this point.  President Obama and his family are on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Cod.  Certainly a lovely place to escape.  However, the entire world knows where the president is.  His staff knows where he is.  Every conceivable communication device is with him along with needed staff.  Which means he is really not on vacation.  He is absolutely linked to the Whitehouse and the Whitehouse is linked to him.  It’s like he never left.

So, what is the fuss about him being on vacation?  Would it be better if he went to a Motel Six in Arlington Virginia?  Or across the street in Blair House?  It’s all the same.  He is connected.  He is just seconds away from any crisis.  He’s wired.  He’s plugged in.  He’s got his Black Berry.  What else could he want?

Nonetheless, at the same time the entire Congress has left Washington as well.  All on vacation.  Some hosting Town hall meetings.  Some hosting conference calls to constituents.  Some fishing, hiking, camping, sailing, etc.  All on vacation.  All away from Washington DC.  And, away from our present economic turmoil.

George W Bush had more time off during his first term as President than Obama.  More than Clinton.  More than president Reagan.  So what’s the big deal?

Any complaint by detractors is just P-O-L-I-T-I-Cs.  In the summer time.  Woo Haw!