This made me laugh out loud!

After the Massachusetts victory the Tea Party has gotten a lot of attention. Locally infiltration and threatening lawsuits have occurred. Nationally the state organizations are splitting off into different directions. California is running several candidates including Clayton Thibodeau who is running for Mary Bono-Mack’s 45th Congressional District seat, California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore who is running for Barbara Boxer’s U.S. Senate seat, Lt. Colonel Ken Dickson (USAF Ret.) who is running for termed-out Dennis Hollingsworth’s California State Senate seat and Lydia Gutierrez who is running for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Here locally Cheryl of OTown (Orlando) is adamantly opposed to third parties. It’s fractionalized as it should be.

Tea Party Protest 9-12-09

Here in Florida we have a strong Republican Party that has been in control of state legislatures since Reagan. The problem is often times they don’t act like Republicans but even at their worst they are light years ahead of California’s progressive left politicians.

Eventually as the Tea Party gains strength they will form a national leadership and field candidates on a regular basis. What will precipitate this movement to the right is the horrible financial situation the United States is in. The house of cards will fall sooner or later. When the collapse comes there will be enough people who see clearly to topple the Republican Party on the right. On the left they will have to take care of their own. I can say one thing 2008 was the zenith of the Democratic Party. The only thing left for that party to do is consolidate the dictatorship and that ain’t happening. This is not Cuba or Venezuela. Too many informed people with money to fight back. Sorry Obots you will lose. Peacefully or violently. Your choice.

Republican Carly Fiorina

1. Win the general election.

2. Win the primary but lose the general election if that party has no acceptable candidate.

3. If both are good support your favorite in the primary and general. Doubt that will happen often.

The most effective use of the Tea Party vote would be as a voting BLOCK in the PRIMARIES to push for the candidate of choice. Same strategy the NRA uses very effectively. Both to get your guy in and to get the WEAKEST opponent for him in the general election. This means switching party affiliation on a dime.

My personal favorite in the Republican Primary is Todd Long. Why? He’s a federalist. Return the social engineering back to the states and local government. That’s all I need to know. So the strategy is simple.

Plan A. My guy is in a tight primary.

1. Follow the polls closely as primary day approaches. What is his lead? Comfortable or to close to call. If it’s to close to call I organize the Tea Party voters to get their butts out there and vote for him.

2. His opponent is Alan Grayson. Alan will win his primary easily if there is one. So I don’t waste time switching party affiliation.

Plan B. My guy is a shoe in to win. My guy is leading by 20 or 30 points. His opposition is disorganized and splitting the remaining vote. There is no candidate among the other contestants that can match his name recognition and they lack the resources to make a last minute media appeal. I get dirty.

Daisy W. Lynum the perfect polarizing candidate

Candidates that attract voting blocks based on race or ethnicity are best. Someone like Orlando City Councilwoman Daisy Lynum who would get maybe 30% of the vote in a general county wide election. She will attract enough of a voting block from her base to make the Tea Party vote that much more effective and push her to a primary victory. That is the type of candidate the Tea Party should be looking at to set up their favorite candidate in the general election.

The NRA raises all kinds of cash and votes as a block. It is a one issue organization. They don’t care if you are a Republican or Democrat. If you don’t support the Second Amendment they work against you. This is the mentality the Tea Party needs to adopt when they are not running a candidate. Vote as a block and set your candidate up for victory.

Plan C. There is not Republican or Democrat that is acceptable. Both are bad. John McCain and Barrack Obama. You get the idea. Run a candidate. Maybe you will win but most likely you will take votes from the Republican. So be it. Maybe next time they will field a candidate more to your liking. Make a statement and don’t be scared.

Eventually the two party system will end. The Tea Party needs to stay involved and disciplined. Don’t ignore the small stuff. Just because the congressional and senate races are more glamorous don’t ignore the local councilmen and state house races. The State of Florida spends the same money the federal government does. Find out about the candidates in these primaries and make sure everyone knows who the favorites are.

Finally organize, organize and organize. Find out who you have and where they vote. The more organized you are the better your chances. Delegate. Use state house districts and designate a leader to look at the local candidates. The more you delegate the more time you have too look at the overall view. Ronald Reagan was the best at this strategy. He delegated everything and he didn’t turn out so bad. Don’t get caught up and the pretenders and infiltrators that will come and go. People will always disappoint you no matter what you do. Business, education and politics. Stay focused and move on. Don’t be scared to fire or remove people from positions of trust. Be quick about it and move on. Finally win baby win.

It appears Barack Obama remains stuck in a deep trench of boring predictability.

He has talked bipartisanship from the jump … was it ever really intended? Looks like not until he hit the “LAME DUCK” wall and finally realized survival trumps charm. The pied piper apparently lost his flute while leading the people down the primrose path.

Just another horrid miscalculation of how smart “we the people” actually are here in the US. His global job rate remains high but those here in the States who ACTUALLY foot the bills are not so OKAY with his actions.

Barack Obama sat down with both Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday to spur cooperation on job creation, deficit reduction and health-care overhaul.

He promised to do his part.
Gee what do you suppose that might be?
Another 29 “snore boring” speeches to nowhere?

In about the same breath he warned the Republicans he would take them to task if they did not do the same. Noting how infinitly effective this President actually is … that should shake them all in their boots.

But holy smoke … no warning to the Democrats who with their solid majority are kicking up dust over the potential loss of their seats next election? Apparently Brown was the proverbial writing on the wall that at least sent those with a grain of common sense back to some degree of sanity. I guess he handles his own party the Chicago way. Gifts, bribes and any corrupt means at hand!

NEWS FLASH MR PRESIDENT!
Not all of your party is corrupt … especially when their ASS IS ON THE LINE.

Who said there was not survival of the fittest alive and well in Washington?

Apparently they did not teach that at Harvard while this President was boning up on constitutional law so he could more easily over ride and destroy it.

Gerrymandering. A word that draws contempt from the right and left. One of the few areas of agreement that everyone agrees should be changed and today that’s a rarity. Few issues are agreed upon these days by the far right and left, auditing the Federal Reserve, crime is bad, terrorism is bad and gerrymandering is bad. The two political parties jockey for control of state legislatures every ten years so as to draw up the most advantageous districts for their respective political parties. And we get dead elections as a result. We end up with Nancy Pelosi, the late John Murtha and 359 out of the 435 districts “safe” for the incumbent.

Florida 8th Congressional District

Florida 24th Congressional District

The average congressional district is made up of 700,000 constituents and the population of Orlando and neighboring Winter Park where these two reside is 258,602. I feel bad for Titusville, New Smyrna, Port Orange, Deltona, Deland, Eustis and rural Marion County but it sure is good for us city dwellers. To be fair I should point out these are two of the 76 congressional districts that are competitive.

So how do you make elections more competitive? One simple way would be to mandate whenever possible any urban with a population over 500,000 have one representative. Urban areas including the suburbs should have one representative if possible. Splitting large urban areas with completely rural areas means one side or the other will not have representation. Urban areas should include the ghetto and the suburbs competing against each other. The rural areas will be huge districts but they will be represented. Does anyone in rural Marion County think they are being represented well by the far left loon Alan Grayson?

Alan Grayson is a city boy and he belongs in Orlando competing with Todd Long for the suburban vote including neighboring Winter Park. Winter Park and Orlando have been best buddies for decades and it makes little sense having two congressional representatives representing each city. But like I said if Todd Long and Karen Diebel win I will not be complaining. Works for me.

What can I say but the devil makes me do it.
I had to laugh out loud when I saw the skirmish over crib notes on the hand of Sarah Palin during her speech this week end.

Sort of a HUGE DIFFERENCE I would say … “HI MOM” …
On one hand (pardon the pun) we have a rather consistently articulate woman who has a few words written on her palm and the President who can not seem to get a word out (other than ummm and ahhh) without a teleprompter.
(for those in Rio Linda who do not know the meaning of articulate … it is the ability to speak in meaningful, clear and effective language … probably without a teleprompter.)

The good news … at least the left does not have anything to grievous to bitch about on the Palin playing field right now … the bad news (for them) … it makes them continue to look petty, cheap and stupid not to mention hypocritical.

It seems to me that we have far to many people serving in the government who have legal backgrounds.

For any of you that follow this blog … you already know I think a law degree should DISQUALIFY someone from being in the Congress. If being a member of Congress requires legal training then somehow we have veered off the “path of basics”.

I have a novel idea … why don’t we simply apply the “see spot run” comprehension mode and all agree that “IT” is still “IT”?

Skewing words to somehow fit a bizarre personal agenda is not working for most of “we the people”.
Has anyone other than me noticed that?

It’s time “WE THE PEOPLE” start paying attention to the average man/woman who excels at “COMMON SENSE” over being bought, paid for and beholden to an elitist establishment.

FRANKLY I am tired to the teeth of people saying Sarah Palin or anyone else does not have enough education to serve as commander in chief.

The White House has been celebrating that the unemployment rate fell to 9.7% even though it was because 1.1 million Americans have quit looking for work. Every time I see the affirmative action dolt on television I just cringe at his stupidity. I mean if the dude is smart enough to figure out Bush set him up for failure with three bail outs why did he do the fourth and now a fifth? Of course the answer is his head doesn’t have an original thought in it unlike Bill Clinton who knew bull crap when he saw it. But anyway what is the real employment picture.

Non-Farm Payroll Not Seasonally Adjusted

Weekly hours worked is down 3.5% since Obama was inaugurated. The civilian participation rate is down from 65.7% to 64.7% and drastically down from its five year high of 66.2%. So we lose 4 millions workers permanently, hey its good new to the White House. The Fed won’t even release the tax receipts numbers for October.

The bottom like is Greenspan set up Bush for his economic collapse with the bogus 1% Fed Funds rate during the housing bubble and Bush set up Obama with three bail outs that ballooned the deficit. Obama being the Harvard educated economic illiterate that he is just continued the same stupid policies of Bush not even thinking about it. By the time that fourth bail out came the peasants were ready for a rumble. And Obama walked right into the ambush.

Okay as the cliché goes fool me once. I am willing to give Obama some slack on the first “stimulus” plan. We all make rookie mistakes. But the idiot is too stupid to figure it out. He is a walking advertisement of why we need to end affirmative action in this country. Bill Clinton made similar mistakes with health care and the economy. But he learned, cut capital gains taxes, signed welfare reform, signed NAFTA and balanced the budget. Obama only knows what he read in books and that is redistribute the wealth, tax, spend, America is bad. The tape recorder is on a loop and he can’t shut it off.

Here’s a clue. Really freeze all federal spending except defense. Cut corporate taxes to 25%. Cut capital gains taxes to 10%. Extend the Bush tax cuts to 2013. Set up a commission to eliminate departments like education and housing and let the states deal with it. Stop bailing out states with “stimulus” money. They made their bed let them lie in it. But the 95 IQ affirmative action dolt will march off the cliff taking us idiots who voted for him with him. Where is Rudy Giuliani when you need him?

The normally quit race for Florida House District 33 just erupted into a full blown civil war in the Libertarian Party. The seat is currently occupied by Sandra “Sandy” Adams, Republican. James Decocq has filed to run as a Republican for the 2010 election and is the early favorite to win against Alice Sterling (R), Scott Bland (R) and Leo Cruz (D). The Libertarians get at the most 20% of the vote in a great year so why all the intense infighting?

Florida House District 33 Candidate Franklin Perez

The first candidate on the scene who became involved with the Seminole County Libertarian Party (SCLP) was Franklin Perez around 2000. He ran as a non affiliated candidate in 2006 and 2008 because of infighting with the Seminole County Libertarian Party leadership citing “anti-Hispanic remarks”. As former Vice-Chairman Franklin and then LP Chairman Mark Clifford became estranged over issues of style and substance. The former chair allegedly objected to provocative and sometimes lewd post on the libertarian message board in defense of legalized prostitution and descriptive details of those encounters allegedly posted by Mr. Perez. The situation came to a boil in April 19, 2004 when then LP Chairman Mark Clifford sent the following e-mail to Mr. Perez:

Franklin;

You are a virgin to leadership so I appreciate you trying and I appreciate your work at it.

Your Hispanic nature appears to start by creating conflict. Being machismo does not serve you and it slows your progress. (It works when it serves to scare away your opponent but we are not your opponents.)

At the moment you do not seem to understand group dynamics. (I thought about asking the other members to consider removing you for cause as I see you not qualified to hold the office held). You are worried about Robert’s Rules paragraph [zz] but you not have the ‘common courtesy’ part at all. You HAVE a right to speak but you have one mouth and you have two ears -develop wisdom to listen wisely. Individual responsibility means acting responsibly. (What is going to happen when the LP offers Franklin Perez as an example to lead? You need to be ready to do it because those who wear the label with be prejudged by your performance.) I believe you have the individual part but individual responsibility is not related.

Florida House District 33 Candidate Ellen M. Paul

Before I post our reply, I need to get your input as a member of the team. (That means that the post stands by itself and it does not get responded to by someone who helped draft it. Your option to comment is now, not later.)

Your signature block says:

Franklin Perez
Vice-Chairman
Libertarian Party of Seminole County Florida

and you said “I do not understand why you even need approval from the “Executive Committee”. That is the difference between speaking for you and speaking for the organization. And yet you post apparently using the group to add credibility to your post rather than to help the reader to understand your message. You seem to understand the title and seem to like wearing it. It must be more than that or this group will fail to be effective. You appear driven by all about self and no humility. Each post indicates to me you do not understand teams. Every effective leader understands humility.

The Executive Committee speaks for the group and the chair speaks when the executive committee cannot be reached. The vice chair speaks when the chair cannot be reached – not hard to reach but cannot be reached. It also means that you remove the title from your signature until you are BOTH speaking for the party AND you are speaking in the capacity you show. It is for the reader – not the poster. (Period)

You also speak ill of you teammates before you have the facts to judge. This is why your original post offended me. You have an obligation to serve in a neutral capacity so that you can be given the gavel to resolve a dispute that originates outside of the executive committee. When anyone objects to the resolution of a dispute, you will be given the opportunity to resolve it. Point out oversights in private and save the cheap shots for your enemy, not your friends.

Bonus TIP: Drop the need to find fault; after that you can focus on finding liberty.

Bonus TIP2: Respect the time of your chair; it is not an endless commodity.

Franklin – my recommendation to you is to develop the ability to listen-or- resign the post as a leader of a group until you develop the skills and wisdom to lead. I am speaking only to you because I do not need to publicly humiliate you, I need you to get through to you and provide you some honest feedback.

If you do not want to develop leadership skills that is not a crime but you should just stop pretending.

Others have the same view of you but they think you are so hopeless that they don’t provide useful feedback that you can actualize since they do not believe you have the ability to learn. If you have no desire to learn, that is an option but if you need a mentor, I can help.

Thank you for your work and considering things outside of the box.

This email took more than 6 hours to draft edit and reconsider but it is the
readers digest version. If I have offended you then I have not successfully communicated.

You’re Friend,

Mark

Wm “Mark” Clifford
Oviedo FL 32765-6831

And the battle has continued. The Libertarian Party leadership currently headed up by Sean Concannon, Jennifer Concannon, Larry Lawver and Mike Barr reportedly did not approve of Mr. Franklin’s 2006 and 2008 bid to run as a Libertarian and Mr. Perez ran as a no party affiliation (NPA) candidate. For the latest election cycle it is not necessary to receive approval from the party leadership to run as a third party candidate. Mr. Franklin took advantage of the change in election law and registered for District 33 as a Libertarian.

The leadership disapproved but there was nothing they could do about until Ellen M. Paul agreed to run against Mr. Franklin as a Libertarian in District 33 setting up the first Libertarian Primary election ever in the state of Florida. And the war continues…

Mr. Franklin correctly points out Miss. Paul currently resides in District 37 but Florida law required residency prior to swearing in not during the campaign. Mr. Perez also points out the current house member for District 37 is Republican Scott Plakon who has supported such fiscally unpopular expenditures such as SunRail. Mr. Perez asks “Why does Ellen M. Paul run a Libertarian Party Candidate for Florida State House District 33 when she resides in Florida State House District 37? Florida State House District 37 seat is currently occupied by Scott Plakon and NOBODY has challenging him. On top of that, why does she run in a race where a Libertarian is already running when she could run in Florida State House District 37 against just ONE incumbent opponent in a House District she actually resides in?”

Good questions. The real answer may be in the following e-mail:

Libertarian Treasurer Larry Lawver wrote in July of 2004

It sucks that I have to spend time responding to this clueless shit while trying to handle the devastation of my property after Hurricane Charley. Beaucoup thanks to Mark Clifford and Carl Geiger for their brilliant and damned near heroic work on my roof Saturday 28 August 2004! Franklin remains an unimportant troll with no idea what’s actually going on.

Statement from the Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of Seminole County
1 July 2004

Seminole County Libertarian Party Chairman Sean Concannon

The Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of Seminole County hereby declares how it will handle the dispute between Franklin Perez and the rest of the Executive Committee for the remainder of Franklin’s term of office.

Franklin Perez has served our party as an officer, a candidate, a major contributor, and a friend for over five years. However, he has chosen to distance himself from the rest of the Executive Committee of the
Libertarian Party of Seminole County since February of this year. We have tried to repair the break, but have failed. We have no idea why Franklin decided to become an adversary, but as heartbroken friends, we deplore his action.

Franklin’s term as Vice Chair of the LPSC expires in November of 2004. Our intentionally simple Constitution and Bylaws make it easier to let his term expire than to remove him from office. Thus, we are subject to his postings to various websites and other entities without recourse. Although he is the elected Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party of Seminole County, he has none of the correct information that officer would normally have, because he has rejected contact from the rest of the LPSC officers.

In particular, Franklin Perez has no knowledge of the actual candidates that the Libertarian Party of Seminole County may field in the 2004 election. His previous privilege as a moderator of some Yahoo! Groups let him appear that he does, and we apologize for that.

Franklin Perez has no remaining support from the Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of Seminole County, but he retains the office for four more months. Our profound embarrassment will continue as long as he holds that position. Our official response to his communications will be silence or reference to this memo. We apologize to our membership for having to endure this conflict. Please plan to attend the November meeting and elect an Executive Committee slate that promotes liberty.

Yours, in Liberty, Mark Clifford, Chair, Libertarian Party of Seminole County Larry Lawver, Treasurer, Libertarian Party of Seminole County Mike Barr, Secretary, Libertarian Party of Seminole County Jennifer Concannon, Membership Committee Chair, Libertarian Party of Seminole County.

And nothing has changed in the last six years. So Ellen M. Paul comes into the feud to save the SCLP leadership from Mr. Perez and the war hopefully will reach its climax in August 24th 2010 when the primary is held. That is if Mr. Perez does not switch party affiliation to No Party Affiliation (NPS). Personally I think this should be fought to the end. The loose cannon against the party establishment candidate. Finish what you started.

How Arianna Huffington got to be a “blog queen” I will never know. Without being married to a wealthy man for a number of years which ended in divorce because he was gay … she probably would never have made it on her own. She has her own personal “loser story” of which is not important other than to note she is “the witless leading the even more witless”.

I am ever amazed at how easily this “witless wonder” can so easily skew reality and am equally amazed at those foolish enough to believe or follow her and those who post on her blog.

Apparently someone forgot to teach these people shame for being liars, cheats but most of all stupid.

Huffington head of Huffington Post is from California (my state) and only lends to the further belief that SOMEHOW she is an example of most Californians.
Trust me she is simply a “loud mouthed” MINORITY.

I watched Roger Ailes (President of Fox Channel and CEO of Fox News) skewer her royally on an interview done by Barbara Walters. (see below) Apparently Huffington is to narcissistic to realize she got an ASS WHIPPIN in front of millions of people.
Embarrassed? … probably not … not smart enough to get it? … PROBABLY NOT!