angle - ACTION - Command Center2024-03-28T23:13:54Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/angleWe Must Stop Surrendering to Leftist Evil Such as Black Lives Matterhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/we-must-stop-surrendering-to-leftist-evil-such-as-black-lives2016-07-15T12:16:52.000Z2016-07-15T12:16:52.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;">So I got a phone call from my 88-year-old black dad asking if I am familiar with “The View” TV show. I told dad the show is riddled with liberal bias. Dad said the show featured a horrific incident in which a young black male was unfairly shot by police. As best I could, I tried to explain to dad how irresponsible it was for the TV show to feature a rare “bad shoot” in the midst of cops being murdered nationwide. Despicably, the TV show wanted to do its part to further Black Lives Matter's evil lie that cops murder blacks at will.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/black-on-black.jpe"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5243" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/black-on-black-300x171.jpe" alt="black on black" height="171" width="300" /></a></span></p><p>I bombarded dad with facts and stats which prove that <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://http//bit.ly/1LFSb6D">blacks are the greatest threat</a> to black lives, not racist white cops. When I hung up the phone, I felt dad still leaned towards believing the lie promoted on “The View.” It is frustrating, folks.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">My fellow Americans we cannot continue allowing the Left to pull the same dirty trick on us to get their way. First, they launch a media blitz promoting a false reality about one of their agenda items. Then, the Left demands that we embrace their lie or suffer being branded divisive and haters.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">For example: Liberal media, the White House and Democrat talking heads are promoting Black Lives Matter's lie that cops are racist and routinely murder blacks. Nothing could be further from the truth. Cops have <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/29t0E1L">saved tens of thousands</a> of minority lives since the mid-1990s. Stats prove that <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://nws.mx/1yI09I8">93% of blacks</a> are killed by blacks. And yet, the Left is hell-bent on intimidating us into making the Black Lives Matter lie our reality.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I find this particular Leftist tactic insidious and repulsive. The Left tugs at heartstrings by saying that they only want “unity.” But here's the dirty little secret. Unity to Leftist means they demand that decent fair-minded Americans ignore truth, ignore common sense, abandon their convictions and embrace the Left's latest anti-God and anti-American evil agenda item.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Everyone who dares speak truth and refuses to surrender to the Left's bullying are targeted for total destruction; branded divisive and haters. Every time we pander and surrender, we embolden a small group of liberal activists to impose more of their iron-fist will on the majority of Americans.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://twt-thumbs.washtimes.com/media/image/2015/01/14/1_142015_protest48201_c0-0-3040-1771_s575x335.jpg?e453c21decacdb76c1380f49f1a2fc3396606dd8" height="335" width="575" alt="1_142015_protest48201_c0-0-3040-1771_s575x335.jpg?e453c21decacdb76c1380f49f1a2fc3396606dd8" /><br /> This has to stop folks. We must begin speaking the truth. Black Lives Matter is a <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/29Ob3I6">well-funded vile hate-generating terrorist group</a>. Their movement was founded on the lie that black criminal Michael Brown was shot with his hands up surrendering to a police officer. The truth is that Brown was shot <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1V2je6K">while attacking the police officer</a>, attempting to take his gun. These facts are public record, and yet are ignored by the Left. Black Lives Matter is pure evil, folks. Why in the world would we allow BLM to lord over us; sheepishly surrendering by making their evil lie our reality?</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I am black. It frustrates me hearing well-intentioned whites and duped blacks falling for Black Lives Matter, Obama, Hollywood and the mainstream media's lie about our brave men and women in blue.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Yes, bad shootings do happen. I am sure there are bad cops. Jesus had 12 disciples and even one of them was a bad apple. Studies confirm that <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/2a6dzIL">most cops are heroes</a>, committed to protecting all lives.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I am sick of it, folks. I am sick of Americans being bullied into embracing things that they know are wrong; sick of the promotion of blatant lies; sick of being told we must make absurd lies our reality; sick of evil triumphing. It is time we take a stand. It is time we just say, “No!”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">A scene from the western movie <em>Pale Rider</em> comes to mind. A group of humble miners asked the character played by Clint Eastwood to lead them in battle against a powerful group of bad guys. Eastwood told the miners that he would lead the charge, but some of them would die. Freedom ain't free, folks.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Standing up to the Left probably will not result in one's physical death. However, it could cost you everything else. I pray that God gives me his courage and strength to stand when I need it.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/blue-lives-matter.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5244" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/blue-lives-matter-300x169.jpg" alt="blue lives matter" height="169" width="300" /></a></span></p><p>I am in the process of organizing/producing a <a href="http://bit.ly/29MSqHg">Blue Lives Matter rally</a>. My goal is to spread the truth about our police and unify Americans. I envision a black choir singing; blacks on stage sharing their positive encounters with police. A woman I approached to be on my production team said she loves the idea, but feared Black Lives Matter will be angry and cause trouble; possibly violence.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">This is the intimidation that I am sick of. I told her we cannot allow evil people to stop us from doing what we know is the right thing to do. I assured her that we will invite lots of cops and hire security. After we select the venue, date, and acquire sponsors for the rally, I will promote it.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">For years, I have been quoting statistics to my black relatives and associates which prove that <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/">most of the problems</a> plaguing black communities are self-induced. But when my relative's beloved black president, democrats and mainstream media tells them all their problems are the fault of racist America, they believe it. They simply regard me as their weird Uncle Tom relative.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The Bible says be not weary in well doing. I must confess. I have been feeling weary, folks; very, very weary.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Norman-Vincent-Peale.jpe"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5245" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Norman-Vincent-Peale.jpe" alt="Norman Vincent Peale" height="181" width="240" /></a></span></p><p>Sitting on the beach the other day, I read a book I acquired over 20 years ago. The book is Norman Vincent Peale's <em>You Can If You Think You Can</em>.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Dr. Peale wrote: “When everything seems to be going wrong, that is the time to practice the positive mental belief that you can still achieve your objective provided you persist, trying everything. If you start thinking it's hopeless, your state of mind will actually attract further trouble to defeat you. Instead, hold the thought that conditions will shift in your favor -- and get going.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Dr. Peale also said it is always too soon to give up. It is crucially important that we stop pandering and surrendering to the Left's bullying tactics. It only empowers them to beat up on us more. It is time that we persist in our efforts to spread the truth in prayerful expectation of changing the hearts and minds of our fellow Americans. Brothers and sisters, <a href="http://bit.ly/29MSqHg">let’s get going</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong><a href="http://lloydmarcus.com">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American<br /> Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a><br /><a style="color:#000000;" href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/">http://www.lloydmarcus.com/</a></strong></em></span></p><p> </p></div></div>Leftist Nightmare: Black Conservatives Running for Officehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/leftist-nightmare-black-conservatives-running-for-office2016-07-02T12:25:33.000Z2016-07-02T12:25:33.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/alfonzo-macho-sauce-serious-300.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-5226" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/alfonzo-macho-sauce-serious-300.jpg" alt="alfonzo-macho-sauce-serious-300" height="418" width="300" /></a></span></p><p>Someone passed on to me the latest video commentary by <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/28WbjVI">black conservative AlfonZo Rachel</a>. Awesome! The brother boldly speaks the truth with humor, passion, and intelligence. I first met Zo about seven years ago.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">His video caused me to reminisce about how we black conservatives have been out there on the front lines for many years, trying to wake up fellow blacks, encouraging them to liberate themselves from government and Democrat party slavery.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Some blacks are just plain stuck on stupid. Sorry, folks, but that's the truth. I have an idiot relative in mind. No matter what facts I show him about how blacks continue to suffer greatly due to <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1OpoIk9">Obama and democrat policies</a>, his reply is I should be ashamed of myself for not supporting our black president.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Liberal mainstream media have done an excellent job keeping black conservatives off American's radar. Leftist's greatest fear is for the masses to hear blacks expressing love for their country; saying they don't hate or resent fellow Americans who are white; blacks who don't believe they are owed anything and believe they can succeed without democrats lowering standards or government intervention.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/LloydMarcus2-at-Black-Conservative-Press-Conference-cropped.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2104" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/LloydMarcus2-at-Black-Conservative-Press-Conference-cropped.jpg" alt="LloydMarcus2 at Black Conservative Press Conference cropped" height="305" width="357" /></a></span></p><p>When I toured on Tea Party Express, CNN was embedded, producing a documentary. They were with us for at least 35 tea party rallies. I spoke and opened each rally singing my “<a style="color:#000000;" href="https://youtu.be/q1byTDgu7iA">American Tea Party Anthem</a>.” Also traveling with us were various black conservative speakers, politicians, and authors. And yet, when CNN aired their documentary, not a single black participant was featured. CNN's sin of omission contributed to my dad believing the left's lie that the tea party movement is racist, a bunch of scary redneck white people.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">As I stated, the liberal mainstream media have done a great job keeping black conservative sightings almost as rare as Bigfoot sightings. Race exploitation profiteers Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are household names among blacks. Meanwhile, my dad and most blacks that I know never heard of black conservative national radio talk show host, entrepreneur and businessman extraordinaire <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://www.caintv.com/">Herman Cain</a> until his brief presidential campaign.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Lloyd-Marcus-Herman-Cain-cropped.png"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-5230" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Lloyd-Marcus-Herman-Cain-cropped-300x265.png" alt="Lloyd Marcus Herman Cain cropped" height="265" width="300" /></a></span></p><p>Leftists claim to be advocates for blacks. Given the epidemic of black school dropouts, fatherless households, unemployment, and crime plaguing urban blacks, one would assume Leftists would celebrate Herman Cain as a role model of what can be achieved via hard work and right choices. Instead, Leftists (liberal media, NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus and so-called civil rights advocates) despise Herman Cain. Cain contradicts Leftist's storyline that America is racist and only voting for Democrats and total dependency on government can save blacks.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">For years, the only black conservatives I knew of and heard on national media were <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://walterewilliams.com/">Walter Williams</a>, <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://www.tsowell.com/">Dr. Thomas Sowell</a>, and <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/28X7sqx">Mychal Massie</a> of <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/28VdSpV">Project 21</a>. I first met Mychal about six years ago and was pretty starstruck. Today, Mychal is a dear conservative friend, still fighting the good fight.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">There's a new crop of black conservatives entering the political arena. It does my heart good hearing about young blacks who rejected drinking the Left's America-sucks-and-you're-entitled-to-other-peoples'-hard-earned-stuff Kool-Aid.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/darryl_glenn-Colorado.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5228 size-medium" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/darryl_glenn-Colorado-300x207.jpg" height="207" width="300" alt="darryl_glenn-Colorado-300x207.jpg" /></a></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I am extremely excited to report that <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://eepurl.com/b7h3kv">black conservative/Republican Darryl Glenn</a> is running for the Colorado U.S. Senate seat. Glenn, endorsed by Ted Cruz, plans to knock off Democrat incumbent Senator Michael Bennet. Anything you can do to assist this rock-solid conservative is greatly appreciated.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">A black conservative whom I greatly respect told me he dislikes adding race into the equation. He dislikes saying we need more black conservatives. He thinks we should say we need more conservatives. Period. While I see his point, the reality is the Left has made race an issue. They say if you're black and conservative, you are stupid, mentally ill, and a betrayer of your people. We need more black conservatives in office, in the high-profile big arena, spreading truth.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Lloyd-Marcus-Alveda-King-Niger-Innis.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5225" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Lloyd-Marcus-Alveda-King-Niger-Innis-300x200.jpg" alt="Lloyd Marcus Alveda King Niger Innis" height="200" width="300" /></a>Another powerful black conservative still out there fighting the good fight is <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/290yLTG">Niger Innis</a>.</span></p><p>Niger's late dad was civil rights icon Roy Innis. Unlike the despicable race profiteers of today, Mr. Innis was a “for real” civil rights activist. I came across a debate on YouTube between Al Sharpton and Roy Innis on the Morton Downey Jr. TV show. It got so heated that Mr. Innis <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/28WCptZ">physically pushed Sharpton out of his chair</a>.</p><p>While I have never seen Niger get up into a liberal's grill, he is the Left's worse nightmare; an articulate black upbeat advocate for conservatism; a politician, tea party activist and spokesperson.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I met sister Dr. Alveda King years ago when we were panelist at a DC press conference. I was a bit starstruck meeting the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As a black conservative activist, Alveda's calling and passion is centered around <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1R0emg4">the issue of abortion</a>. Blacks are <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1oGRjVA">aborting themselves into extinction</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Years ago at an event, a hostess approached me with a black conservative she wanted to introduce to me. He planned to run for congress. It was <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://www.allenbwest.com/">Col. Allen West</a>. Wow, need I say more.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/296GlJZ">Black conservative powerhouse Star Parker</a> is a former welfare cheat. You can imagine how upsetting it is to liberal Democrats to have lost her. Using her personal story, Star exposes how welfare dependency <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/28X6zOJ">destroys black families</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">There are numerous other black conservatives out there that have been spreading the good news of conservatism for a long time; underfunded and underexposed due to liberal mainstream media bias.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">It took years, but I finally led my black brother to the light of conservatism. He had dinner with a group of black buddies. After one guy had a few adult beverages, he verbally attacked my brother for his conservative political views. “You're a white man! And I bet you're even a Republican!” My brother took out his voter registration card, held it up for them to see and proudly proclaimed, “You're right, I am a Republican.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Folks, we black conservatives still have much work to do, breaking down old stereotypes and Democrat/liberal media lies and deceptions.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong><a href="http://lloydmarcus.com">Lloyd Marcus,</a> The Unhyphenated American<br /> Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaigncommittee.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a><br /><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com">LloydMarcus.com</a></strong></em></span></p></div></div>The American Left is Evil: Orlando Shootinghttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/the-american-left-is-evil-orlando-shooting2016-06-23T12:51:08.000Z2016-06-23T12:51:08.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;"><br /> <a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/islamic-terrorism-jihad.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-5220" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/islamic-terrorism-jihad.jpg" alt="islamic-terrorism-jihad" height="215" width="320" /></a></span></p><p>The American Left is just plain evil. Not only do they not seek truth, they suppress it. Everything the Left does, including shamefully exploiting the slaughter of Americans in a nightclub, is to further their deception and their power to force their unpopular agenda down our throats.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Leftists are the minority. However, they own the federal government, social media, public education, Hollywood, and the Democratic party. They incite misdirected anger, hate and guilt to bully the public into embracing their anti-American and anti-God agenda. Because the Left controls the media, they get away with falsely portraying their opposition. The Left takes disapproval of them forcing their agenda on us to absurd extremes.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">For example: If you say “no” to men using girl's restrooms, Leftists in the media brand you an insane hatemonger who seeks the murder of all homosexuals. If you disagree with the Left's illogical obsession with disarming Americans, repealing the second amendment, Leftist media brands you a racist toothless idiot redneck that wants to shoot all people who do not look like you.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The Left used the same take-opposition-to-absurd-extremes tactic to brand the Tea Party racist. The good folks in the Tea Party simply disagreed with Obama's unlawful overreaching and ignoring of the Constitution. The Congressional Black caucus despicably took their opposition to the absurd extreme of claiming that the <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://fxn.ws/28JcQxm">Tea Party would “love”</a> to see black Americans “hanging on a tree.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Upon hearing about the Orlando nightclub shooting, I told my wife Mary, “You watch, the Left will say all who disapprove with men using girl's restrooms are just as bad as the Orlando shooter.” Sure enough, that was the Left's outrageous absurd storyline reported by numerous news outlets. Summarizing the Left's media blitz, they said if you do not affirm the LGBT community and the implementation of their agenda, you are equal to the Orlando shooter; a rabid hater, responsible for those killed in the nightclub. I wonder how many Americans are falling for it.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Do you see how the Left's insidious game is played? All who oppose the Left's relentless attacks on biblical principles and our constitutional rights are branded stupid, haters, and bigots by the media. Then the Left launches a shock and awe campaign to destroy the offender. More and more Americans know the drill. More and more are bullied into silence and compliance.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">It is sad how the Left has been able to pervert the word “love” into meaning we must embrace deviant and immoral behaviors.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The most annoying thing about the Left's bogus image of “caring more than the rest of us” is that their policies and ideas end up harming the people they claim to champion 99% of the time. Decades of blacks <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1TLhZWa">faithfully voting for Democrats</a> (Leftists) has resulted in urban areas becoming hellholes of black on black crime, fatherless households, epidemic school dropouts, poverty and government dependency. Leftists always make every situation they touch worse.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Obama's Leftist (politically correct) <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1rsH4eT">CVE policy</a> tied the hands of the FBI, blocked them from using intel they had on the Islamist terrorist Orlando shooter. Thus, Obama bears some responsibility for the deaths of the homosexuals in the Orlando nightclub. Pure and simple. And yet, Obama and his media buddies are relentlessly trying to blame the massacre on Christians and American gun owners.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Despicably, Obama and his media buddies are hell-bent on convincing Americans that the greatest source of evil and threat to Americans is not Islamist terrorists. It is <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1Ox4kDI">Christians and American gun owners</a>. Again, I wonder how many Americans are being duped by their deception and misdirection from the truth?</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Speaking of Obama's evil efforts to cover for Islam and blame Christians and American gun owners, his DOJ is <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://fxn.ws/28Ikfei">deleting all references</a> to radical Islamic beliefs from the transcripts of the Orlando shooter's 911 call.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">By the way, America has suffered a terrorist attack every year under Obama. Deaths from terrorism have <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1Nrfqsu">quadrupled under Obama</a>. And yet, thanks to his media buddies covering for him, Obama approval polling is over 50%.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">At times, the Left's seemingly successful steamrolling of our culture puts me in a bit of a funk. History chronicles that the path America has chosen has destroyed other civilizations; destruction of the traditional family (fatherless households and etc.); the graying of the line between right and wrong and rebellion against God's natural laws. Therefore, I mourn for my country.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">However, I do find encouragement to continue fighting the good fight by reminding myself that God is in control and America is worth it.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">As she tallied up my groceries, I asked the supermarket cashier, “Are you still working at the bank?” When I moved to Florida 16 years ago, this same Hispanic woman was working as a bank-teller and supermarket cashier. She relied, “Yes.” I said, “You're amazing.” The elderly woman chuckled and said, “Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. God is good.” Her cheerful demeanor and self-reliance blessed me. Obviously, she does not believe taxpayers owe her a living.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Folks, I realize this anecdotal example of character is not a big deal. And yet, it served as a cool sip of water in my desert of despair regarding the declining character of my country. God is good!</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American<br /> Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee<br /></a></strong></em></span><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/"><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>LloydMarcus.com<br /></strong></em></span></a></p></div></div>The Tea Party, Trump and the Loss of a Great Patriothttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/the-tea-party-trump-and-the-loss-of-a-great-patriot2016-06-17T12:38:24.000Z2016-06-17T12:38:24.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Trump-Truck-Deltona2-1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-5214" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Trump-Truck-Deltona2-1-1024x954.jpg" alt="Trump Truck Deltona2" height="522" width="560" /></a></span></p><p>I was in the paint department. I placed the color sample next to the vase I had brought from home. “Excuse me, ma'am. Do these colors match? My wife says I'm colorblind.” She replied, “Yes.” Then she said, “Lloyd? You are Lloyd, right?”</p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Lisa-Feroli.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1070" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Lisa-Feroli.jpg" alt="Lisa Feroli" height="207" width="152" /></a></span></p><p>It was Lisa Feroli, one of the originators of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0i-68E87bKc">Orlando Tea Party</a>. We had not seen each other since 2009. After catching up a bit, Lisa made a few interesting comments about the Tea Party movement. Not as active as she once was, Lisa feels that some of the passion is gone. She said the movement was started by and should have remained controlled by We the People. Lisa said that unfortunately, politicians were allowed to worm their way in, citing a rally at which RINO John Boehner spoke. Lisa feels, and I concur, that too many people made the movement about them. However, I do not think opportunists jumping on the Tea Party bandwagon did any serious damage to the movement.</p><p>Republican betrayals discouraged and harmed the movement. After we Tea Party activists worked our butts off to award the GOP the House and Senate, they broke their vow to repeal Obamacare and stop Obama's executive amnesty. Outrageously, the GOP even supported Obama's anti-American policies. Now arrogant GOP knuckleheads are puzzled why so many Tea Partiers have said screw you to professional politicians, we're backing Trump.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Sadly, Sen. Ted Cruz, a true warrior for the Constitution and We the People, became a casualty of conservatives'/Tea Partiers' frustration and anger with politicians. Still, I am confident that Cruz will be back, strengthened by his faith and his struggle.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">There is good news in Trump's remarkable popularity crossing all demographics. For decades, liberals have used their control of mainstream media and public education to drill into our heads that America is the greatest source of evil on the planet. Every day, liberal media bombards us with fabricated news stories designed to sell us their lie that a majority of Americans hate their country as much as liberals hate it. Liberal media's message is that America is sexist, racist, and mean and must be punished.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Liberals' mantra is, the world has too little because America has too much. They say this is why the world hates us (USA). It is only fair that we open our borders and welcome all the world in to share our misbegotten stuff.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Then, along comes presidential candidate Donald Trump, who vows to put America's best interest first. The American people respond with wildly overwhelming approval. This tells me that American patriotism has survived despite decades of liberals' attempts to cause Americans to hate their country. A majority of Americans still love their country and long to see it restored to A-number-one, top of the heap, top of the list, king of the hill – A-number-ooooonnnne! That feels good, folks.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">It is probably a bit much to declare that Trump won the general election with his response to the terrorist attack at the Orlando nightclub. However, I believe that millions, including me, cheered him on. In his speech void of political correctness, Trump told the truth while offering commonsense solutions to terrorism. Trump defined the bad guys who seek to kill as many Americans as possible. Trump called out Obama and Hillary for their typical ridiculous liberal blame-America-first response. He explained the dangerous consequences of Obama's and Hillary's weak mamsy-pamsy ways of dealing with terrorism. Trump was refreshing.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Listening to news feeds of Obama's and Hillary's responses vs. Trump's, I thought, “These guys [Obama, Hillary, and their media operatives] still don't get it – clueless regarding the hearts, minds and concerns of everyday Americans. Trump gets it. Trump may have just won the presidency.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Orlando Tea Party organizer Lisa and I agreed that we will vote for Trump.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">As for the Tea Party movement, it is alive and well and will never go away. We Tea Partiers have simply matured – become more politically savvy, more focused and specialized in our efforts to take back our country. No, Trump is not a conservative. However, for the moment, Trump is our best weapon against another Democrat president vomiting more vile anti-Americanism upon the American people.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Danita-Kilcullen-Fort-Lauderdale-Tea-Party.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-5212" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Danita-Kilcullen-Fort-Lauderdale-Tea-Party.jpg" alt="Danita Kilcullen Fort Lauderdale Tea Party" height="181" width="200" /></a></span></p><p>Speaking of the Tea Party, June 5, 2016, we lost a great patriot. Danita Kilcullen, founder of Tea Party Fort Lauderdale, America's longest running Tea Partier, went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ due to complications with multiple myeloma cancer.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I spoke and sang for Danita's Tea Party group <a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/2015/02/great-2016-tea-party-dilemma/">a year ago</a>. Danita and her group were as passionate and engaged as ever. Danita and her group loved America and are committed to saving her. A week before Danita passed, I thought she was on the road to recovery. Her email said something like she hoped to be back fighting for freedom at their next meeting. I was shocked to hear she had passed.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Wow, what a great patriot sister.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American</strong></em></span><br /> <span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>Chairman: The Conservative Campaign Committee</strong></em></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>LloydMarcus.com</strong></em></span></p></div></div>“Roots” Remake: Snoop Dogg Got It Right.https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/roots-remake-snoop-dogg-got-it-right2016-06-05T11:41:43.000Z2016-06-05T11:41:43.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;">Quoting the Pointer Sisters song, “I'm so excited!” Black pop icon Snoop Dogg's comments about the remake of the “Roots” TV series, in essence, is what I have been preaching to fellow blacks for decades (without his profanity).</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Snoop said, “I'm sick of this s---. They are going to just keep beating that s--- into our heads about how they did us, huh?” Snoop spoke against new shows and movies such as “12 Years a Slave” which “keep showing the abuse we took hundreds and hundreds of years ago.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1XkJURt">Snoop said</a>, “I ain't watching that s---, and I advise you motherf—ers as real n------ like myself; f--- them television shows. Snoop continued, “Let's create our own s--- based on today, how we live and how we inspire people today. Black is what's real. F--- that old s---.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/snoop_dogg1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5205" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/snoop_dogg1-300x300.jpg" alt="snoop_dogg1" height="300" width="300" /></a></span></p><p>I say, “Right-on bro! (in my 1970s lingo)” Folks, for decades, I have been frustrated; trying to get through to fellow blacks that continuing to view themselves as victims and using slavery as an excuse for bad and trifling behavior only weakens them. America is the greatest land of opportunity on the planet for all who choose to go for it. My reward has been to be trashed in black and liberal media; called a traitorous self-hating Uncle Tom.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I pray that the truth coming from a hip black celeb like Snoop Dogg will help to remove the scales from the eyes of black youths.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The last thing the Democratic Party wants is real black empowerment/independence. The Democratic Party's very existence is rooted in convincing as many voters as possible that they are forever victims of America in some way.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">This is why when Oprah came out with her movie, <em>Selma</em>, I said I hoped <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1RRAFPZ">the movie failed</a>.</span></p><p>I knew her movie was propaganda to convince blacks that not much has changed in America since the 1950s and that only their continued monolithic voting for Democrats will keep eternally evil and racist white America at bay. Sure enough, in a press conference promoting Selma, Oprah ranted about how in America, blacks still suffer the injustices portrayed in her movie on a daily basis. Meanwhile, Oprah is an American Ga-zillionaire with enormous power and influence due to her millions of white fans.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Upon seeing commercials for the upcoming “Roots” remake TV series, my reaction was pretty much the same as Snoop Dogg, “I'm not watching that crap.” Like everything Leftists produce today, I know the “Roots” remake is a political tool to promote Democratic Party narratives: America sucks, government must become bigger and more controlling, blacks should be paid reparations. I also wondered how the producers would include the LGBT agenda in the remake. Would the Kunta Kinte character in the “Roots” remake be transgender?</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">As a young black man in 1977, I remember the original “Roots” TV series viewed by 130 million Americans. I was elated because I thought “Roots” presented slavery in a human context that decent people of all races could relate to; bringing people together. The first <em>Rocky</em> movie achieved the same universal humanity. It was such an eye-opener hearing my radical black power, whitey sucks, fellow black college student buddies excitedly raving about their new “Italian Stallion” hero after seeing the movie, <em>Rocky</em>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">In 1977, some feared the “Roots” TV series would cause riots in the streets. The American Left/Democrats of today are so divisive and so crazy with hatred for their country that they probably hope the remake of “Roots” will spark riots.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Riots in the streets would equal a crisis. The Left's golden rule is “never let a crisis go to waste”; an opportunity to implement more government control and infringements on personal freedom.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Things Democrats label a crisis (typically fake) provide Democrats with ammo to propose more government control; more government handouts, which equals more government dependency, which equals more loyal Democrat voters. It is all a scam, folks. And Democrats/Leftists have been playin' blacks for decades.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">So, I agree with Snoop. Enough with the Left's relentless efforts to fill black heads with victimhoodism, constantly rehashing how America did us wrong.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I also refuse to watch the <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1Kzm6Uf">“Hate in America” TV mini-series</a>. The series focuses solely on white racism against blacks. If the TV series seriously sought to address hate, it would include the Black Panthers and Black Lives Matter declaring open season on killing whites and cops.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Again, the TV mini-series is another Leftist tool to sell blacks the message that America is eternally racist so vote for Democrats to watch your backs.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I learned years ago, that the Left does not view Black History Month as an occasion to showcase black contributions to our country. The Left uses it to instill guilt in white Americans; instill that America still sucks and still owes blacks reparations, big time. With the Left's true purpose in mind, <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1UjRe8M">I renamed February</a>, “Annual White America Sucks Month.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">When the movie, <em>The Pursuit of Happyness</em> starring leftist Will Smith came out, I thought, “Here we go again; another movie about how America sucks, is racist and blacks can't catch a break.” I am not going to watch that crap. Well folks, I was wrong. The movie was great. It featured the true inspiring life story of Chris Gardner, a highly successful black American entrepreneur.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Surprisingly, the movie even showed how white businessmen (typically portrayed as racist, greedy SOBs) helped Gardner to pursue his dream. I related to Gardner's story because throughout my careers, white businessmen helped me pursue my ambitions, as early as high school.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The movie, <em>The Pursuit of Happyness</em> was recently added to Netflix. Check it out. I think Snoop Dogg would approve.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American<br /> Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a><br /><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">LloydMarcus.com</a></strong></em></span></p></div></div>Regarding Sharron Angle: I Got Angry the Other Dayhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/regarding-sharron-angle-i-got-angry-the-other-day2016-06-01T13:11:31.000Z2016-06-01T13:11:31.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;">Folks, I got angry the other day. Mary and I were on the road most of this year campaigning for Ted Cruz. We're back home in Florida. My grass is over a foot tall, neighbors are still polite, and my lawnmower won't start. I dropped off the lawnmower for Darrell, our mechanic, to fix. But that is not what made me angry.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/the-movie-Network.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5192 size-full" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/the-movie-Network.jpg" alt="the movie Network" height="641" width="979" /></a></p><p>I got angry thinking about how insane policies mandated by government are becoming the norm in America. We are being forced to accept numerous insane things like allowing men, even dressed as men, to <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://fxn.ws/1T9GSb2">enter girls' restrooms</a>. All of us folks whose common sense tells us that these government mandates are insane had better keep our mouths shut or be branded bigoted, mean-spirited, intolerant, and haters, and even face prosecution and jail time.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I got angry thinking about how in the midst of surrendering more and more of our freedoms, conservatives are still being coached not to dare run true conservative candidates to stop the Democrats'/left's insanity. Folks, I feel like that guy in the movie <em>Network</em>. I want to run to my window, throw it open, and yell, “I'm mad as heck and not gonna take it anymore.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Our nation was founded upon patriots who were fed up. They said, “Screw it – we ain’t taking it anymore from the all-powerful British.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The American colonies were broken into two groups: the Loyalists and the Patriots. Patriots felt they were treated unfairly by British government, taxed without any say or representation. Patriots wanted to break free of British rule.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Loyalists behaved much like battered spouses. Though treated unfairly, loyalists saw benefits in remaining British citizens, fearful of being totally on their own. Loyalists were also extremely afraid to go up against the mighty, seemingly unbeatable British military.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Thank God there were courageous patriots – Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, Ethan Allen, Patrick Henry, and Ben Franklin – who refused to listen to cowardly gloom-and-doom loyalists.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">We have fearful GOP loyalists today cautioning us to be reasonable, don't make the left really angry by pushing back too hard, and don't dare run real conservatives. Thank God we have conservative patriot warrior candidates today like Sharron Angle, Rob Maness, and Kelli Ward, to name a few.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Sharron-Angle-3.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5191 size-large" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Sharron-Angle-3-977x1024.jpg" height="587" width="560" alt="Sharron-Angle-3-977x1024.jpg" /></a></p><p></p><p>True rock-solid conservative Sharron Angle is running for U.S. Senate, Nevada. Patriots, we must get behind this courageous, laser-focused-on-liberty patriot sister. If I hear another person on our side say a real-deal conservative can't win, I am going to slap him. Well, not really. But for crying out loud, folks, when do we start firmly supporting conservatives with proven records of loyalty, patriots with histories of putting it all on the line for us? When do we stand for what we believe to be right rather than surrendering to the left's seemingly unstoppable fundamental transformation of America?</p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Mark-Levin-Radio-Show.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5194" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Mark-Levin-Radio-Show-300x169.png" alt="Mark Levin Radio Show" height="169" width="300" /></a></span></p><p>Patriot and national conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin gets it and has endorsed Sharron Angle for U.S. Senate. Levin said he realizes that Angle faces an uphill battle against all the forces against her, but he is sick of it (mad as heck, not taking it anymore). Levin's and other endorsements are great, but they are not enough, folks. We need patriots across America to rally behind our patriot sister, calling family and friends in Nevada, telling them to vote for Angle in the fast approaching June 14 primary. Early voting starts May 28.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Sharron is seeking to defeat a RINO named Joe Heck who voted with Pelosi and the democrats 62% of the time. Heck, Nevada's so-called Republican senator, voted with Democrats for gun control, to fully fund Obamacare, and for amnesty. Well, what the “Heck” is the benefit of having a RINO, a Democrat in disguise, in that seat?</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Three items atop Sharron's list of Democrat insanity she will correct are to eliminate Nevada Obamacare exchange, require voter ID in Nevada, and protect student privacy.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">My fellow Americans, we find ourselves in a similar situation as did our Founding Fathers, choosing to side with fear-driven GOP loyalists or brave conservative patriots. Battered conservative GOP loyalists will go along with the status quo, allowing Heck, a RINO, to represent them in the general.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Taking a cue from our courageous Founding Fathers, brave patriots will back the true conservative in the race: patriot sister <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://www.angleforsenate.com">Sharron Angle</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American</strong></em></span><br /> <span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a></strong></em></span><br /><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/"><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>LloydMarcus.com</strong></em></span></a></p></div></div>Regarding Ted Cruz, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yethttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/regarding-ted-cruz-you-ain-t-seen-nothing-yet2016-05-10T13:19:45.000Z2016-05-10T13:19:45.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;">Rush Limbaugh said someone he thought was his friend texted the following during Cruz's speech suspending his campaign. “Thank God Cruz is done! I couldn't be happier. Listening to his sap makes me sick.” Rush said the text made him furious.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Here is <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1TMsEzZ">the line in Cruz's speech</a> that ticked off Rush's once assumed friend.</span></p><blockquote><span style="color:#000000;">There is no substitute for victory. There is no substitute for the America that each and every one of us loves with all our heart, that we believe in with all our heart, and that together we will restore as a shining city on the hill for every generation to come.</span></blockquote><br /> <span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Ted-Cruz-Smiling.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-5170" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Ted-Cruz-Smiling-1024x768.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz Smiling" height="420" width="560" /></a></span><p><span style="color:#000000;">Anyone repulsed by Cruz's statement is not my patriot brother or sister.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;">Political analysts and pundits are chiming in, criticizing “Ted Cruz” the person for not being enough of this or too much of that. Keeping silent, I roll my eyes and tune them out. Trying to change these super-smart political expert minds would be fruitless.</span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I will concede that the Cruz campaign may or may not have made a few missteps. But with Trump out there breaking every campaigning rule in the book and speaking off the top of his head, don't tell me Cruz blew it because he was not a perfect enough candidate, too this or not enough that.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">For crying out loud, Ted Cruz is an awesome human being. Period! The man walks tall. In debating issues vital to our country, Cruz is peerless. When called upon to stand up for We the People, he truly is “Lion Ted.” Therefore, I will not criticize Ted. Nor will I agree with those criticizing Ted for being who he is.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">This remarkable man deserves so much better.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">For years, I have lamented our side's pattern of trashing and throwing our heroes under the bus. Sharron Angle, Joe Miller, Chris McDaniel, and Sarah Palin to name a few. First we whine about the GOP establishment being complicit in furthering the Democrat/left's agenda. Courageous, sincere patriots, committed to breaking the GOP's pattern of betrayal, step up and enter into the extremely leftist-favored political arena.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">When our conservative gladiators enter the arena, Democrats, the left, the GOP establishment, and mainstream media team up to stop and destroy them forever. The evil coalition launches its standard 24/7 character assassination shock-and-awe attack. Phase two includes endless absurd lies and extremely well funded dirty tricks. Whenever one of our candidates falls short of winning due to the behemoth opposing them, our advisers and voters blame the candidate for being too this or not enough of that. Then we throw our courage warriors on the junk heap of tainted and forever unelectable conservatives. In other words, if only our candidate would have mastered politically walking on water, we could have won or retained the seat. The disloyalty sickens me.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">This political season, many voters threw social and moral issues out the window. For the most part, Cruz stood alone vowing to investigate Planned Parenthood's horrific dead-baby-body-parts-chop-shop business, apparently a non-issue with many voters. Cruz recognized and vowed to fight LGBT activists' aggressive assault on our religious liberty, silencing and jailing Christians. Apparently defending religious liberty is a non-issue with many evangelicals.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">In essence, many voters shouted, “No, not this man. Give us Barabbas!” This is the truth of how many voted.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I also reject conventional wisdom that says Cruz is done, too damaged to be the leader of a national resurgence of conservatism. Hogwash!</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Over sixty years of life experiences have taught me to trust God. I am telling you, folks – there is something truly unique and special about Ted Cruz, an anointing on his life. Ted is still a young man. At some point, Cruz will come back shining brighter, bigger, and better. Great leaders are always hated and despised because they are a threat to lesser men. Eagles really do fly alone. Thank God for giving Ted Heidi, his strong “helpmeet.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">My prayer is that despite unimaginable pressure to conform to the Washington cartel status quo, Ted will remain a peerless, fearless warrior for We the People and a defender of our Constitution. I am pretty confident that Ted will always be our Ted. Still, I call upon all believers to keep Ted and his family in their prayers.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Regarding Ted Cruz, you ain't seen nothing yet.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American</strong></em></span><br /> <span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a></strong></em></span><br /><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/"><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>LloydMarcus.com</strong></em></span></a></p></div></div>Thanks and May God Bless Ted Cruz.https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/thanks-and-may-god-bless-ted-cruz2016-05-04T15:26:37.000Z2016-05-04T15:26:37.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ted-Cruz-Nevada-Reno-Rally-and-Lloyd-Marcus.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-5022" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ted-Cruz-Nevada-Reno-Rally-and-Lloyd-Marcus-1024x1004.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz Nevada Reno Rally and Lloyd Marcus" height="549" width="560" /></a></span></p><p>On Election Day in Indiana, my wife Mary, our Conservative Campaign Committee and I did a final sign wave for Cruz.</p><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;">That evening a friend texted, “Ted Cruz dropped out of the Presidential race tonight.” I replied, “Okay.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Voters blew it. They allowed the best hope for America to get away. My first thought was to thank Ted and Heidi Cruz. Secondly, I wanted to thank and say something comforting to my fellow patriots who labored long and hard to save our country via Ted Cruz. Sadly, I could not think of anything hopeful or encouraging to say.</span></p><p><img class="wp-image-5156 size-medium" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Ted-Cruz-Heidi-Lloyd-in-Anderson-NC-300x282.jpg" alt="Heidi Cruz & Lloyd Marcus in Anderson IN" height="282" width="300" /> <br /> Heidi Cruz & Lloyd Marcus in Anderson IN</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">In our hotel room, Mary tearfully exchanged texts with family and friends supportive of Cruz. I decided to go for a walk. As I walked around the hotel grounds, an old <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/26RxGSR">hymn</a> came to mind.</span></p><blockquote><span style="color:#000000;">“<em>Where could I go where could I go Seeking a refuge for my soul Needing a friend to help me in the end Where could I go but to the Lord.</em>”</span></blockquote><br /> <span style="color:#000000;">That is the answer folks. I find refuge, peace and hope in trusting God.</span><p><span style="color:#000000;">It took a miracle for Cruz to become a US Senator. God did not bring Ted this far to leave him. While I would never presume to know God's plan, I know He is not done with Ted. Ted Cruz is a young man. Let's continue to pray that God strengthens and protects Ted and his family.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Keep the faith brother and sister patriots. As God gives me strength, I will continue fighting to save our country. I pray that you will do the same. God bless, Lloyd</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American;<br /> Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a>;<br /><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">LloydMarcus.com</a></strong></em></span></p></div></div>Good Morning Indiana and America!https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/good-morning-indiana-and-america2016-05-03T13:39:55.000Z2016-05-03T13:39:55.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Ted-Cruz-IN-Indianapolis-sign-wave-2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5162" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Ted-Cruz-IN-Indianapolis-sign-wave-2.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz IN Indianapolis sign wave 2" height="396" width="640" /></a></span></p><p>This is it, election day in Indiana; a huge day for all who love our great country and desire not to see it continue to be transformed into something evil and unrecognizable. Our Conservative Campaign Committee team is still in Indiana campaigning for Ted Cruz. We did another sign wave yesterday evening during drive time.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Remember The Pointer Sisters' hit song, “We Are Family”? That is the way I feel about my fellow patriots who have diligently worked so hard to make Ted Cruz our nominee. I just want to give a special shout-out to a few brother and sister patriots that I know have given it their all, leading the charge for Cruz.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Special thanks to Suzanne Price, Trevor Loudon, Morgan McComb, Laurie Hougham, Suzanne Guggenheim, Tony Piacente, Darla Dawald, Terresa Monroe-Hamilton, Judson Phillips and my homies at Conservative Campaign Committee. Love you guys! There are far too many of you to name or thank. So please forgive me.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">We are family folks. Now, let's “git-r-done” for Ted Cruz.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">P.S. Nobody makes my wife Mary laugh like Larry the Cable Guy.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://lloydmarcus.com">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American<br /> Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a><br /><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">LloydMarcus.com</a></span></p></div></div>Trump's Three Huge Lies About Cruzhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/trump-s-three-huge-lies-about-cruz2016-05-01T09:46:56.000Z2016-05-01T09:46:56.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ted-Cruz-and-his-Girls.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5152" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ted-Cruz-and-his-Girls.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz and his Girls" height="509" width="639" /></a></span></p><p>Joseph Goebbels said, “<em>If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it</em>.” While I realize that Goebbels was Hitler's propaganda minister, in no way am I comparing Trump's campaign to Hitler. Such comparisons are over-the-top nonsense. Trump is not Hitler.</p><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;">I refer only to Goebbels's quote because it is the disingenuous tactic Trump has used against Ted Cruz. Trump has relentlessly repeated his outrageous “huge” lies that Cruz is a cheater; liar; and Washington, D.C. insider. Folks, nothing could be farther from the truth. And yet sadly, Trump's unfounded lies have taken root in the minds of some voters.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Cruz did his homework, thoroughly studied the delegate rules. He “legally” maximized his opportunities to win delegates. Cruz's approach to securing delegates proves his presidential executive qualifications – his instincts to dive into an issue, study it inside and out, and implement the most effective strategy. Cruz's political history broadcasts that as president, he will apply the same laser-focus to tackling issues, implementing wise and informed solutions most beneficial to we the American people.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Amazingly, Trump has gotten away with his huge lie that Cruz is a cheater, despite Trump benefiting from <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://nbcnews.to/22nZaKE">the same delegate rules</a> as Cruz.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Trump's Cruz-is-a-liar huge lie is so unfounded that it can only resonate with the clueless. Please produce evidence of what Cruz has lied about.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Trumps' hugest lie about Cruz is that he is a Washington, D.C. insider. The truth is, Cruz's entire political career documents that he is the epitome of the ultimate Washington, D.C. outsider. Again, I respectfully say Trump's huge lie only works with the clueless.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">As for Trump's Cruz-is-a-politics-as-usual D.C. insider lie, Mr. Trump cannot have it both ways. Remember when Trump said both parties in Washington hate Cruz, citing Cruz's outsider status as a negative, making him unable to make deals? Cruz has been vilified by both parties for faithfully fighting to implement GOP broken promises such as stopping Obama's unlawful <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1NHrndX">amnesty for illegals</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Talk about cojones – Cruz infuriated the mainstream media and both parties when he shined the light of truth on D.C. insider corruption, calling it the “<a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1NLvTGd">Washington cartel</a>.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The truth is that D.C. insiders despise Cruz for being a strong and formidable warrior, committed to keeping his word to voters who sent him to Washington. Now Trump is trying to convince voters that Cruz is a homey of D.C. insiders. Hogwash!</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">In reality, <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://politi.co/1OdFUfu">Trump</a> is the D.C. insider, hiring lobbyists and paying politicians for decades. Trump admits being friendly and ready to make deals with <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://http//bit.ly/1qS14rf">extreme partisan Democrats</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">There is a huge elephant-size character flaw on display in the Trump campaign's living room. Trump's willingness to throw grenades of blatantly unfounded huge lies about Cruz and <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://http//politi.co/1VE4WcP">Trump's constant shifting</a> his positions from conservative to liberal then back to conservative are causes for great concern. This man will say whatever he believes is necessary to win. Thus, it is not unreasonable to question Trump's trustworthiness.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Folks, rather than instantly believing Trump's huge lies about Cruz, please do a little research. As they said on a popular TV show, “The truth is out there.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American</strong></em></span><br /> <span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a></strong></em></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">LloydMarcus.com</a></strong></em></span></p></div></div>Voting Cruz: Has God Abandoned America?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/voting-cruz-has-god-abandoned-america2016-04-21T13:32:23.000Z2016-04-21T13:32:23.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div class="article_body"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/GAY-PRIDE-1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5136" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/GAY-PRIDE-1.jpg" alt="GAY PRIDE 1" height="375" width="500" /></a>As Cruz-mania skyrockets <a href="http://bit.ly/1SHWzWW">exciting millions</a>, I still get emails from professed Christians ripping me to shreds for choosing Cruz over Trump. These anti-Cruz Christians dig deep, coming up with reasons so weak not to choose Cruz that they equal saying Cruz took another kid's candy when he was seven. Then, they fall back on <a href="http://bit.ly/22nhGD6">rehashing</a> Cruz's eligibility.Frankly, anti-Cruz Christians have me scratching my head. Clearly, these Christians are willing to overlook all of Mr. Trump's shortcomings, anti-Christian <a href="http://bit.ly/23mAGaI">political positions</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/1LUzCxd">liberal leanings</a>.Meanwhile, they “passionately” leave no stone unturned, relentless in their attempts to discredit and disqualify the only presidential candidate with a proven record of faithfully <a href="http://bit.ly/1fXRDRf">standing</a> up for Godly principles and values. What is up with that?A highly respected theologian used Romans 1:18-32 as the text for his sermon. The verses speak of people so stubborn and in love with their sin that God turned His back on them; giving them over to reprobate minds.The theologian asserts that our nation has become so evil that God has turned His back, <a href="http://bit.ly/1qFsnFL">abandoning America</a>. Unarguably, wickedness is reigning supreme, unchallenged everywhere you look in America. <a href="http://bit.ly/1VISTt4">Religious freedom</a> in America is under assault like never before; Christians jailed for not embracing behaviors which God calls abominations.Romans 1:18-32 not only condemns certain behaviors, it expresses God's wrath against those who <em>“approve of those who practice them.”</em> I thought, “Whoa, by demanding that believers speak approvingly of what God calls sin, government is mandating that Christians defy God, subjecting themselves to His wrath.” Could you imagine a day would come in America when Christians would be <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/many-more-u-s-christians-headed-to-jail-in-2016/">persecuted</a> for not placing government's authority above God's?God calls Christians to be salt; to make a difference in our world. Sadly, far too many churches are silent regarding sin, afraid of financial loss and federal government retaliation. Some churches <a href="http://bit.ly/1Q2kePM">tolerate everything</a> in the name of love. <em>“...if the salt loses its saltiness...it is no longer good for anything...”</em> Matthew 5:13.Then there are Christians who believe we have already lost America's culture war, causing them to concede social issues. They ignore their selected presidential candidate praising and supporting Planned Parenthood; exposed as a dead-baby-body-parts-chop-shop for profit; <a href="http://bit.ly/1nDAqAU">intact heads</a> selling at a premium. These Christians are willing to turn a blind eye to PP's horrors; put the issue of Americans killing over <a href="http://bit.ly/1zFY7YP">3,000 babies per day</a> on the back burner. Yeah, that's what Jesus would do.Cruz is the only GOP presidential contender who believes social issues are a priority; vital to who we are as a nation.Ted Cruz has a long history of defending religious liberty on numerous occasions including defeating atheists who sued to <a href="http://bit.ly/1SHafRW">tear down a cross</a> from a veterans' memorial.Decades of allowing the anti-Christian movement to go unchallenged has many Americans flat-out afraid of having a man of God in the Oval Office. Countless movies and TV shows portray Christians as over-the-top fanatics, haters and whackos.Ironically, America was founded upon a foundation of <a href="http://bit.ly/1MTAZOE">Christian principles and values</a>, which have made America great and exceptional. Flipping through TV channels confirms how far off-the-rails our nation has fallen folks.<a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gay-pride-Chicago.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5137" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gay-pride-Chicago-300x201.jpg" alt="gay pride Chicago" height="201" width="300" /></a>Anti-Christian zealots, typically liberals, love to point out the shortcomings of those professing Christianity. Liberals despise behavioral standards of morality, which explains their visceral hatred for Christianity. Liberals absurdly claim that unless you can walk-on-water, you have no right to espouse behavioral standards.Well, Christianity “ain't” about being perfect or doing enough good works to outweigh one's bad. Christianity is about repentance and totally trusting Jesus to get into heaven. Surrendering one's life to Christ gives them a heart for God. They desire and strive to do the right thing, though they fail repeatedly. <em>“The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”</em> Matthew 26:41Ted Cruz does not profess perfection. The man was wise enough to realize that he is a sinner in need of a savior, Jesus. He surrendered his life to Christ. <em>“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”</em> Proverbs 9:10History chronicles that people have suffered severely when ruled by leaders who believe there is no power above theirs. <em>“When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.”</em> Proverbs 29:2<p style="text-align:left;">Another liberal position has me scratching my head. Islamist believe their faith permits them to kill a disobedient wife and behead homosexuals. Islam advocates violence against non-believers (infidels).</p>“<em>Fight those who believe not in Allah...”</em> <a href="http://bit.ly/20sxeWI">Qur'an 9:29</a>And yet, liberals passionately defend and protect Muslims while throwing everything including the kitchen sink at Christians; claiming that Christianity is the archenemy of women and homosexuals. Christianity says, <em>“...with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.”</em> Jeremiah 31:3<a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/GAY-PRIDE-HILLARY.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-5138" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/GAY-PRIDE-HILLARY-1024x555.jpg" alt="" height="304" width="560" /></a>What is up with liberals' not seeing the obvious contrast between the religion they hate and the one they demand that Americans respect? Obama's DOJ <a href="http://bit.ly/1mxTG1G">vows to jail</a> anyone speaking badly about Islam.<p style="text-align:left;">I am voting for Ted Cruz, the only candidate I know will fight the Left's relentless insidious quest to turn our nation away from God. I pray that the theologian's scary sermon is wrong; that it is not too late – that God has not abandoned America.</p>“<em>If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”</em> <a href="http://bit.ly/1AIVqp6">2 Chronicles 7:14</a>God bless, Lloyd<strong><em><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated AmericanChairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">LloydMarcus.com</a></em></strong></div></div>Reflecting on Our Efforts Campaigning for Cruz Thus Far.https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/reflecting-on-our-efforts-campaigning-for-cruz-thus-far2016-04-08T14:03:59.000Z2016-04-08T14:03:59.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><p><span style="color:#000000;">Mary and I flew into Orlando, Florida this evening after ten intense days of campaigning for Ted Cruz in Wisconsin. A shuttle took us to our car at the park-and-go near the airport. We made the hour-long drive home to Deltona. The pet-/house-sitter had vacated earlier. I was greeted by Sammy, our greyhound, upon entering our front door. I loved on him a bit, petting him while talking to him; his tail wagged like crazy. It is good to be home.</span></p><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;">After settling in, I poured myself a diet soda, put on soft music, lit a candle, sat on the soda, propped my feet up on the coffee table, and reflected on the Cruz campaign and our efforts thus far to help him secure the GOP presidential nomination.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Our Conservative Campaign Committee team, of which I am chairman, have followed the Cruz campaign state to state, independently providing boots on the ground, implementing various get-out-the-vote-for-Cruz initiatives. We endorsed Cruz early in the campaign season. We had a banner made that reads, “Ted Cruz: Conservative Hero.” We have displayed that banner at Cruz rallies and on busy street corners in numerous cities in practically every state primary and caucus.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">For me to list all the spectacular moments on the campaign trail would make for a very long article. However, for some reason, a memory of Cruz's wife Heidi sticks out in my brain. It kind of epitomizes the tone/vibe of the Cruz campaign that our CCC team has witnessed state to state.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">It was a small event, about 150 people, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Ted was not there. Heidi was the keynote speaker. One of the points Heidi made is how Ted is so relaxed and unstressed on the campaign trail. At the end of the event, our team met Heidi. She thanked us for our efforts and posed for a picture in front of our banner.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><img class="alignright" src="http://admin.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2016-04/196343_5_.png" alt="" /></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Our team was piled in the SUV, leaving the event. I saw Heidi and her staffers casually walking to their cars. Heidi had a big smile on her face, chatting with people, seemingly without a care in the world. Her demeanor and body language spoke to me in a way I cannot explain. Ted and Heidi are “for real” folks. What you see is what you get. I believe and trust them.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Another incident that is not particularly political stands out. It was the “Women for Cruz” event in Madison, Wisconsin, which featured a panel discussion with Carly Fiorina, Heidi, Ted, and his mom, Eleanor. Eleanor was extremely frail. It took a couple of security personnel to help her onto the stage. Frankly, Eleanor reminded me of my late mom and most moms of her generation. Eleanor is said to have kept Ted out of trouble as a child; she nurtured his interests. Ted loved and memorized the Constitution. Eleanor drove Ted to numerous group meetings, where he recited the Constitution, impressing adults with his <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1VVc1nT">talent for public speaking</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Again, I felt a genuineness in the way Eleanor, Heidi, and Ted expressed their love and admiration for each other – inspiring and quite moving. I whispered to a CCC team member, “If their responses are scripted, Ted, Heidi and Eleanor deserve Academy Awards.” The Cruz family are plain old-fashioned good people-type folks.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Cruz winning Wisconsin was particularly thrilling. Our CCC team was boots on the ground, but it took grassroots support from patriots across America to propel Cruz to victory. Thanks, patriots. I love it when we work together to get-r-done!</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Three weeks before the Wisconsin election, pundits and the mainstream media counted Cruz out, claiming that Wisconsin was “a perfect state for Donald Trump.” Immediately on the heels of Cruz's huge win in Wisconsin, 1.3 million patriots across America made $10, $25, and $50 donations to Cruz's campaign, raising over <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1RXcDXb">$2 million in one day</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Clearly, a shift toward Cruz is underway. In keeping with the old saying, the cream really does rise to the top. I long suspected that Cruz would emerge as the obvious best GOP presidential candidate once the field narrowed down to a two-man race. Yes, I realize that what's-his-name, the third guy, is still in the race.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1IQYXvV">Recent polling</a> confirms that Cruz can beat Hillary in the general. The swiftly growing Cruz-mania has given me new hope regarding the character and soul of my country. Mainstream media, Democrats, and the left have convinced the GOP establishment and many Americans that we are now a leftist country. The left's bogus narrative is that a majority of Americans are repulsed by Cruz's brand of conservatism rooted in traditional principles and values that have made America great and exceptional.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The truth is that as more Americans have an opportunity to hear Cruz's commonsense, unfiltered, optimistic, and unifying articulation of conservatism, it connects with their inner spirit. They instinctively know that Cruz's conservatism is best for all Americans. Americans are also beginning to realize that Ted Cruz is the <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1QpOdqP">only candidate they can trust</a> to reverse Obama's messes.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">After a few days of R&R, Mary and I will rejoin our Conservative Campaign Committee team on the campaign trail for Cruz. Thanks again for all your hard work.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American</strong></em></span><br /> <span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a></strong></em></span><br /><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/"><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>LloydMarcus.com</strong></em></span></a></p></div></div>This is it Folks, Election Day in Wisconsinhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/this-is-it-folks-election-day-in-wisconsin2016-04-05T15:57:27.000Z2016-04-05T15:57:27.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ted-Cruz-Wisconsin-Snowing-Sign-Wave.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-5119" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ted-Cruz-Wisconsin-Snowing-Sign-Wave-1024x673.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz Wisconsin Snowing Sign Wave" height="368" width="560" /></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Our Conservative Campaign Committee team has been up here in Wisconsin campaigning for Ted Cruz; numerous boots-on-the-ground initiatives. Please volunteer with Miss Lulu to do last minute get-out-the-vote phone calls.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">To volunteer for our Phone From Home program, simply send an email (including your name) to: <a style="color:#000000;" href="mailto:PhoneFromHome@ConservativeCampaign.org">PhoneFromHome@ConservativeCampaign.org</a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Candidly, we have been freezing our butts off waving “Ted Cruz” signs on street corners in cities all over Wisconsin; in freezing rain and snow. Yesterday was the worse, 28 degrees. Mary, my beautiful, wonderful, true patriot Floridian wife of 38 years hates cold. She may never forgive me or Ted for subjecting her to Wisconsin weather.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Kidding aside, our entire CCC team is fully committed to expending every ounce of our energy for Cruz because we understand the seriousness of the situation in which we find our country. Ted Cruz is the only presidential candidate we can trust to begin turning Obama's and GOP betrayers' mess around; igniting a healing of America.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ted-Cruz-Wisconsin-Milwaukee-WarRoomFromAbove.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5120" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ted-Cruz-Wisconsin-Milwaukee-WarRoomFromAbove.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz Wisconsin Milwaukee WarRoomFromAbove" height="382" width="600" /></a></span></p><p>During yesterday's town hall hosted by Megyn Kelly, Ted once again proved we desperately need him running our country; extremely well-informed on every issue; wise, character-driven, the adult in the room. Megyn made numerous crafty attempts to get Cruz to focus on the soap opera aspects of the campaign. Cruz always turned Megyn's questions back to real substantive issues, exposing how Obama and the Democrats have damaged our country and how he plans to fix it.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">A powerful moment of the town hall was Cruz's response to the issue of religious liberty. Megyn asked about a poor atheist having to endure hearing Christians pray. Cruz said, “You have a right not to participate, but not to silence everyone.” Cruz's response brought down the house, the audience spontaneously erupted in enthusiastic applause. You could feel the audience's vibe and what they were thinking, “Finally, someone boldly standing up for the masses rather than <a href="http://bit.ly/229q9K4">wimpy political correct kowtowing to the few</a>.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Ted Cruz is “The One”, folks. Please vote and do whatever you can to get others to vote TODAY for Cruz. America is at stake.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Our Conservative Campaign Committee team will be pushing all day for Cruz. If you see our CCC team on a Wisconsin street corner waving “Ted Cruz” signs, please honk your horn. The smallest lady wrapped in multiple layers will be my Mary. Give her a honk as well.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">LloydMarcus.com</a></span></p></div></div>Calling Col. Rob Maness: America Desperately Needs You!https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/calling-col-rob-maness-america-desperately-needs-you2016-04-04T15:38:04.000Z2016-04-04T15:38:04.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ROB-MANESS.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5114" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ROB-MANESS.jpg" alt="ROB MANESS" height="493" width="648" /></a></span></p><p>With the extraordinary Cruz vs. Trump battle for the GOP presidential nomination sucking up all of the political oxygen, it is easy to miss the fact that awesome conservative and retired Air Force colonel Rob Maness is running for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana.</p><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;">Folks, please allow me to cut to the chase. Our country is going to hell in a handbasket, fueled by GOP cowardice and an entire Democratic Party hijacked by anti-American zealots. The only way we stop the horrific effects of Obama's insanity and corruption in both parties is to send rock-solid conservatives we can trust to Washington, candidates with backbones of steel who refuse to go along to get along.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Speaking of backbone, Maness's military awards and combat decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, and the Air Medal. I am pretty sure Maness will not be intimidated by RINOs, metrosexual Democrats, or Obama's bureaucratic henchmen in D.C. Maness is like an oak tree, firmly and deeply rooted in the rich, fertile soil of his Christian faith.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">When you cut through all the political deceptions, lies, and broken promises, it always comes down to sending character-driven representatives to Washington. Rob Maness's record proves he fits the bill. In plain language, Maness is one of us, folks – a real family, God, and country good guy.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I was extremely impressed when I met Rob during his 2014 run for the Senate – a strong conservative fighter, highly respected community leader, served 32 years in the military, husband, father of five, and grandpa of four.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">It is not surprising that national conservative heavyweights and organizations are united in endorsing Rob Maness for U.S. Senate. Those supporting Maness include Dr. Ben Carson, Sarah Palin, Dr. James Dobson, Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser, Conservative Campaign Committee, the Tea Party of Louisiana, Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Forward, the National Association for Gun Rights, and Special Operations Speaks.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Rather than listing all of Rob's leadership roles and achievements, I will say he has proven his competence at the local, state, and federal levels of government, an effective steward of citizens' tax dollars. Please visit <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://www.RobManess.com">his website</a> for details.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">As with any conservative Republican who faithfully advocates for We the People, the GOP establishment is often displeased with and threatened by Maness. Rob wears their discomfort with him as a badge of honor.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">There is a down-to-earth everyman quality about Rob, driving his pickup truck around Louisiana, spreading the good news of traditional American principles and values: God, family, country, and the Constitution. Please enjoy this entertaining <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/237F8qi">30-second TV ad</a> in which Rob promises to wrestle the gators in D.C.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Here is an example of Maness's strong, decisive leadership regarding our national security. In response to the jihadi attacks in Brussels, Maness advises Congress to fulfill its constitutional duty and finally declare war against the Islamic State. <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1VmL5Nl">Maness says</a>, “[U]ntil we formally declare war, our enemies and objectives will continue to be unclear, and the American people will continue to be divided.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">C'mon folks, admit it. Isn't Maness's manly stand for American leadership a refreshing contrast to Obama's and Kerry's apologize-for-our-very-existence and give-our-enemies-everything-they-want approach?</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">By the way, the Islamic terrorist attacks in Brussels hit a little too close to home for the Maness family. The night before the attacks, Rob's and Candy's son flew out of Europe on military leave on an American Airlines flight.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">According to a new Pew Research report, our country is undergoing a <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://pewrsr.ch/1RNzWzs">scary demographic shift</a>. Decades of allowing liberals to brainwash our kids and not encouraging immigrants to assimilate is taking America down a different path, far away from the country envisioned by our Founding Fathers.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The only way to ensure that the America we grew up with will be there for our grandkids and great-grandkids is to consistently send rock-solid conservatives who espouse traditional American principles and values to Washington. In that regard, America desperately needs Col. Rob Maness in the U.S. Senate. Please, let's help him folks. God bless.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">You can learn more about Rob Maness at <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://www.RobManess.com">his website</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Be sure to "like" Rob's <a style="color:#000000;" href="https://www.facebook.com/ColRobManess/">Facebook page</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">And you can follow Rob Maness <a style="color:#000000;" href="https://twitter.com/RobManess">on Twitter</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American</strong></em></span><br /> <span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>Chairman: <a href="http://www.conservativecampaign.org/">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a></strong></em></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">LloydMarcus.com</a></strong></em></span></p></div></div>Cruz's Brussels Response: What more do you need?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/cruz-s-brussels-response-what-more-do-you-need2016-03-29T15:44:35.000Z2016-03-29T15:44:35.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Ted-Cruz-Brussels-Fox-News.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5080" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Ted-Cruz-Brussels-Fox-News.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz Brussels Fox News" height="360" width="480" /></a></span></p><p>In response to the Islamic terrorist attack in Brussels, along with other commonsense solutions, Ted Cruz <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://read.bi/1MB57wM">cited the success</a> of the NYPD Muslim surveillance program.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Well, the mainstream media and Democrat talking heads went nuts, launching their usual shock-and-awe attack on anyone who refuses to bow their knee in worship to their god of political correctness. The left called Cruz an idiot and a racist, demanding his head on a platter.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">And yet Cruz has not wavered, not walked back his solutions or blinked in his resolve to protect Americans. That's what I am talkin' about, folks. Ted Cruz is a rock-solid, character-driven, backbone-of-steel conservative, sold out to defending and advocating for We the People.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The Islamic terrorist attack in Brussels happened in the middle of a highly contentious U.S. presidential campaign. This is a time when candidates are typically extremely cautious about what comes out of their mouths, careful not to P.O. any group of voters. Cruz's immediate instinct was to throw political correctness to the wind. Cruz immediately came out with solutions rooted in the best interest of the American people that infuriated the left. Again, that's what I am talkin' about, folks.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">There is an old parable about a man who was trapped on his roof during a flood. He prayed for God to reach down His hand and rescue him. He drowned. In Heaven, the man asked God why He did not answer his prayer. God said, I did. Before the water got too high, I sent a guy in a pickup truck. Then I sent people in a rowboat. Finally I sent a helicopter. You rejected them.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Folks, since 2008, alongside millions of patriots, I have been fighting Obama and his leftist associates' implementation of their fundamental transformation of America. Attending over 500 Tea Party rallies over the years, I have held patriots' hands and prayed for God to restore our great land.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">We prayed for God to raise up strong conservative leaders who will keep their word when we send them to our nation's political Sodom and Gomorrah (Washington, D.C.). Sen Ted Cruz is among a rare few we sent to Washington who has remained true-blue to We the People and our Constitution. Cruz has paid a huge price for courageously standing up for We the People – hated by Democrats, the GOP establishment, and the mainstream media.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">This is why, for the life of me, I cannot understand why anyone would not enthusiastically vote for Ted Cruz.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">When those patriots get to Heaven, they will ask God: Why did you allow our Founding Fathers' inspired vision of America to fade away? Why did you allow government to double down on forcing all Americans to embrace sodomy against their faith? Why did you allow government to force taxpayers to fund the <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1RzVYMn">selling of dead baby heads</a> for profit?</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Patriots in heaven will say, You promised to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who do not. Why did you allow government to betray our longtime ally, Israel?</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">God will say to those patriots, I answered your prayer, but you rejected it. I sent you Ted Cruz.</span></p><p><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American<br /> Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a></p></div></div>URGENT: Cruz For Such a Time as Thishttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/urgent-cruz-for-such-a-time-as-this2016-03-01T17:08:47.000Z2016-03-01T17:08:47.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Ted-Cruz-Texas-Houston-Rally-croud.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-5044" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Ted-Cruz-Texas-Houston-Rally-croud.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz Texas Houston Rally croud" height="479" width="247" /></a></span></p><p>Our Conservative Campaign Committee team attended the Ted Cruz rally in Houston, Texas last night. The scripture, “...for such a time as this...” came to mind. God has prepared Ted Cruz for this dark time in our nation's history after 8 years of Obama. God has also prepared me and you to usher Cruz into the White House.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Some evangelicals have chosen a man who says he has never asked God for forgiveness over Cruz who has asked God's forgiveness for his sins. These evangelicals are, in essence, saying God cannot use a washed-in-the-blood-of-Christ Christian to save America.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Believers rejecting such a clear obvious superior choice is a sad testimony of the state of the modern church. If Jesus came to America today and ran for office, how many Christians would deem Him extreme, polarizing and un-electable?</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I'll cut to the chase folks. Without Ted Cruz in the WH to nominate a constitutional conservative to the Supreme Court, our Bill of Rights is at extreme risk. Five liberals vs four conservatives on the court would have devastating consequences, changing America as we know it. As Ted Cruz has articulated, we are one liberal justice away from the court ordering abortion on demand, confiscating our guns and ending our religious liberty. <a href="http://bit.ly/1XXl4nu">This is real folks</a>!</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Mr Trump's fluid political positions have proven him untrustworthy to do the right thing regarding several issues; especially appointing a constitutional conservative to the Supreme Court. To all you folks angry at me, you know I speak the truth. To all my fellow Christians, you know in your spirit I am right.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Joseph de Maistre wrote, “Every nation gets the government it deserves.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ted-Cruz-Nevada-Reno-Rally-and-Lloyd-Marcus.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5022" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ted-Cruz-Nevada-Reno-Rally-and-Lloyd-Marcus-300x294.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz Nevada Reno Rally and Lloyd Marcus" height="294" width="300" /></a></span></p><p>If we pass on this extremely rare opportunity to put a Reagan conservative whom God has prepared for such a time as this into our White House, we will receive the government we deserve.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Please, please, please pull that lever for Ted Cruz, the last hope for America.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">In His Love, Lloyd</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American<br /> Chairman: <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee<br /></a><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">LloydMarcus.com</a></span></p></div>Dear Evangelical Trumpstershttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/dear-evangelical-trumpsters2016-02-28T15:01:43.000Z2016-02-28T15:01:43.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Donald-Trump.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4597 size-full" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Donald-Trump.jpg" alt="Donald Trump" height="210" width="300" /></a></span></p><p>My 87 year old black dad has been a Christian pastor for over 50 years. I phoned, <i>“Dad, what do I say to Christians who support Trump rather than Ted Cruz?”</i> Dad replied, <i>“Trump says he is a Christian.”</i></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Matthews 7:16 – “Ye shall know them by their fruits.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Ted Cruz is the only candidate who grasps the intensity of the Democrats', mainstream media's and homosexual activists' assault on religious liberty. Cruz has a peerless record of furiously fighting against it. When the Supreme Court, in essence, made it against the law to follow God's Word which disapproves of homosexuals changing God's definition of marriage, gay activist George Takei, said this is only the beginning. Because black Justice, Clarence Thomas ruled against twisting the Constitution to please homosexuals, Takei called Thomas “a clown in blackface who should not be on the Supreme Court.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Folks, imagine the mainstream media firestorm had a Republican called a black Supreme Court Justice a clown in blackface. Takei is allowed to <a href="http://nws.mx/1RqluQH">make such a racist comment</a> because his anti-Christian agenda is the same as today's Democratic party and mainstream media.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Christian clerk Kim Davis was thrown into jail for not issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples. Ted Cruz led the charge, “I Stand with Kim Davis!” Cruz said, “I call upon every believer, every Constitutionalist, every lover of liberty <a href="http://nws.mx/1EEMZmR">to stand with Kim Davis</a>.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Trump <a href="http://bit.ly/1VQrZOt">sided against Kim Davis</a>. Trump said, “You have to go with it. The decision has been made, and that is the law of the land.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">My fellow Christians, make no mistake about it. The Left is coming after us, determined to make us embrace all forms of anti-biblical behaviors. Noncompliance will result in ending your ability to earn a living and even jail time.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/phil-robertson-cover.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3765 size-medium" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/phil-robertson-cover-300x223.jpg" alt="phil-robertson-cover" height="223" width="300" /></a></span></p><p>Christian “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson said, “If you're homosexual, He'll take it away. If you're an adulterer, if you're a liar, what's the difference? If you break one sin, you may as well break them all.” Phil continued, “Why don't we just love each other enough that we wouldn't want to do these things to each other.” Robertson was stunned by the mainstream media firestorm. Robertson was suspended from his hit TV show, intensely hated and accused of spreading hate. Naive 67 year old Robertson said, “All I did was quote from scriptures.” Sorry Phil, quoting from the Bible is no longer permitted in today's America; <a href="http://abcn.ws/1csrruP">swiftly becoming criminal</a>. Public outcry got Phil back on his TV show.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Phil Robertson endorsed Ted Cruz and spoke at a Cruz rally. Robertson rocked the house, receiving long enthusiastic applause when he said Americans should spend more time being biblically-correct rather than politically-correct.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/KLEINS-FAMILY.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4609" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/KLEINS-FAMILY-300x200.jpg" alt="KLEINS FAMILY" height="200" width="300" /></a></span></p><p>Remember the attack on a bakery owned by a young Christian couple with five kids? A lesbian who the bakery had served for years, asked for a cake for her wedding to a woman. The bakers said doing so would betray their faith. The bakers, Aaron and Melissa Klein, were state ordered to pay the lesbian couple $135,000 in damages. The Kleins were also ordered not to speak publicly about their case; repealing their First Amendment rights.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Now get this folks, Christians around the country sent funds to a website to pay the Klein's fine. Homosexual activists successfully closed down the website. Another website picked up the baton to save the Klein family's livelihood. Clearly, the fine was not about paying the lesbian couple. It was about punishing the Kleins; sending a message to Christians and Christian business owners across America. Buck us and we will destroy you.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Aaron Klein posted, “We stand for God's truth, God's Word and freedom for ALL Americans... We are here to obey God, not man, and we will not conform to this world. <a href="http://bit.ly/1JI6cTn">If we were to lose everything</a>, it would be totally worth it for our Lord who gave His one and only son, Jesus, for us! God will win this fight!”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">If we know nothing else about Ted Cruz, we know he has proven himself to be a man of great faith and a man of his word. Ted Cruz vows that on his first day as president, he will direct the DOJ and IRS to put an end to the <a href="http://bit.ly/1Ta6kCT">persecution of religious liberty</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Cruz also vows to drop the Obama Administration's lawsuit against Little Sisters of the Poor who have been ministering to the elderly and dying for over 100 years. The nuns said their faith prevents them from funding contraception as mandated in Obamacare. The Obama Administration <a href="http://bit.ly/1WSlHNa">says screw your faith</a>, comply, or be disbanded.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ted-Cruz-headshot.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4941" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ted-Cruz-headshot-300x225.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz headshot" height="225" width="300" /></a></span></p><p>Cruz's first day in the White House, includes a promise to instruct the DOJ to investigate the videos exposing the reprehensible evil behind the walls of Planned Parenthood. The vile government funded baby killers have been proven to be nothing more than an abortion factory and <a href="http://bit.ly/1UgCEmv">dead-baby-body-parts chop shop</a>. Cruz wants the DOJ to prosecute PP for any criminal violations.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Fellow Christians, I pray that you let the spirit of the Lord lead you in your decision regarding our nation's leadership. In His Love, Lloyd</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American<br /> Chairman: <a href="http://www.conservativecampaign.org/">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a><br /><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">LloydMarcus.com</a></span></p></div></div>On The Road to Texas for Cruzhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/on-the-road-to-texas-for-cruz2016-02-27T16:21:28.000Z2016-02-27T16:21:28.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ARIZONA.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-5031" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ARIZONA-1024x768.jpg" alt="ARIZONA" height="420" width="560" /></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The lyric in the classic Eagles song says, “...standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona...” Thanks to our latest boots-on-the-ground political adventure, my wife Mary and I can say we have been there. Our Conservative Campaign Committee team campaigned all over Nevada for Ted Cruz. Now, we are driving to Texas to campaign for Cruz. We drove all day today and decided to spend the night in Winslow, Arizona.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Mary and I are east coast people. Driving through Arizona is pretty enjoyable; snow-caped blue mountains, breathtaking rock formations and beautiful massive scenic settings; scenes from countless cowboy movies. Big sky country, folks.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/TED-CRUZ-TEXAS.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-5032" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/TED-CRUZ-TEXAS-1024x1024.jpg" alt="TED CRUZ TEXAS" height="560" width="560" /></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">While riding, I thought about the sad state of our country. Everything that has made America great and exceptional is in the process of being dismantled; individual liberty, personal responsibility and biblical inspired traditional values. Our remarkably wise founders built America on the rock-solid foundation of Christian faith. And yet, God is being systematically banned from public conversation and consideration.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Some folks believe it is too late. They say give up trying to restore our country. Turn off the lights. The America envisioned by our founding fathers has left the building.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">But folks, we still have a chance, though possibly our last, to save our founders' America.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The recent GOP presidential debate was described as WWF (wrestling), kids fighting and a circus filled with clowns. Ted Cruz was the one and only man on that debate stage who clearly proved himself a true character-driven statesman, worthy of occupying We the Peoples' Oval Office.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Restoring religious liberty, freedom to choose your doctor and giving power back to the people are high on the list of changes Cruz promises to make on his <a href="http://bit.ly/1QpOdqP">first day as president</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">This is why we are going to Texas to help Cruz win his home state. Also, I hear Texans really know how to cook an American bison burger.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Buffalo-Herd.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-5033" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Buffalo-Herd-1024x681.jpg" alt="Buffalo-Herd" height="372" width="560" /></a></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American<br /> Chairman: <a href="http://www.conservativecampaign.org/">The Conservative Campaign Committee<br /></a><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">LloydMarcus.com</a></span></p></div></div>Patriots, Meet Chrishttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/patriots-meet-chris2016-02-24T17:37:20.000Z2016-02-24T17:37:20.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ted-Cruz-Nevada-Carson-City-Rally-CHRIS.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5027" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ted-Cruz-Nevada-Carson-City-Rally-CHRIS-844x1024.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz Nevada Carson City Rally CHRIS" height="454" width="377" /></a></span></p><p>Several young people were standing in line waiting to get into the Ted Cruz rally in Carson City, Nevada. I approached one of them. <i>“Excuse me. Sanders attracts millennials. What made you choose Cruz?”</i> Chris said he really likes Cruz's respect for the Constitution. Chris went on to say he disagrees with Sanders' free tuition proposal. Chris said he works and does not want government taking huge chunks of his money to pay for people who neither want or deserve to go to college. Chris has plans for college. He also said he is not looking for free stuff from the government.</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Folks, talk about refreshing. My mind was filled with questions. How did Chris escape liberal indoctrination? Where was he educated? What does his parents do for a living? However, the line began moving as people filed into the hall.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Allowing liberal indoctrination to dominate public education and our culture has really infected the thinking of many Americans. According to a recent poll, almost 60% of Democrats think <a href="http://bit.ly/1UlOYlx">Socialism would be great for America</a>. Socialism is horse hockey folks; mediocrity spread equally. Real fairness, prosperity, individual liberty and true compassion <a href="http://bit.ly/1oHgC0m">resides in Capitalism</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">This is yet another reason why America desperately needs Ted Cruz; a bold true believer and outspoken <a href="http://bit.ly/1WIRell">advocate of Conservatism</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Chris is a breath of fresh air; hope for our country's future.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American<br /> Chairman: <a href="http://www.conservativecampaign.org/">The Conservative Campaign Committee<br /></a><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">LloydMarcus.com</a></span></p></div>Cruz: His Momma is Natural Born. Thus, So is He.https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/cruz-his-momma-is-natural-born-thus-so-is-he2016-02-14T13:06:37.000Z2016-02-14T13:06:37.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><div class="article_box_ad"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ted-Cruz-wave.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5001" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ted-Cruz-wave.jpg" alt="" height="412" width="620" /></a><br /><p><span style="color:#000000;">Congrats to Ted Cruz, who stunned pundits who said a conservative could not score high in New Hampshire, for finishing strong in the primary.</span></p></div><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;">Okay, folks, here is why Ted Cruz is eligible to be president according to the Constitution. First, I wish to give a shout-out to my dear friend, Mike "Mr. Constitution" Holler, author of <em>The Constitution Made Easy</em>. Mike explained and confirmed Cruz's eligibility.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">In a nutshell, the first immigration law passed by Congress and signed by George Washington says, <em>"And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens[.]"</em> An additional qualification is that the father of such children must have lived at some time in the U.S. There you have it, folks.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The Congressional Research Service published a paper on this question.</span></p><blockquote><span style="color:#000000;">Considering the history of the constitutional provision, the clause's apparent intent, the English common law expressly applicable in the American colonies and in all of the original states, the common use and meaning of the phrase "natural born" subject in England and the American colonies in the 1700s, and the subsequent action of the first Congress in enacting the Naturalization Act of 1790 (expressly defining the term "natural born citizen" to include those born abroad to U.S. citizens), it appears that the most logical inferences would indicate that the phrase "natural born Citizen" would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "by birth" or "at birth." Such interpretation, as evidenced by over a century of American case law, would include as natural born citizens those born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction regardless of the citizenship status of one's parents, or those born abroad of one or more parents who are U.S. citizens (as recognized by statute), as opposed to a person who is not a citizen by birth and is thus an "alien" required to go through the legal process of naturalization to become U.S. Citizen.</span></blockquote><br /> <span style="color:#000000;">While some question Cruz's eligibility out of respect for the Constitution, I suspect that others have ulterior motives.</span><p><span style="color:#000000;">GOP establishment elites are exploiting ignorance regarding Cruz's eligibility because they despise Cruz. Who does this guy <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://1.usa.gov/1fptV01">think he is</a>, bucking the system, standing up for The People against the Washington Cartel, getting into the face of GOP Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell? By the way, McConnell announced that the GOP will not oppose Obama in any way this year, <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://bit.ly/1fZbK1q">fearful</a> it would anger voters and hurt the GOP's chances of winning the WH.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">McConnell's surrender gifted Obama free rein to continue regarding the U.S. Constitution as little more than toilet paper. Thus, our outlaw president will fast-track implementing as many anti-American and anti-God leftist dream initiatives as possible in his remaining time in office.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Ted Cruz has been and continues to be a rare voice sounding the alarm and pushing back against Obama repealing our God-given freedom and liberty.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Then there are those who simply do not believe that a true conservative can win the general election. They are using the bogus issue of Cruz's eligibility as cover for not supporting a fellow Christian and stand-up guy.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Voters who do not believe that a true conservative can win the presidency are, in essence, saying they believe we have lost our country. Righteousness, morals, and traditional values no longer rule the day. Thus, Cruz is too goody-two-shoes for the masses.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Well, I do not believe that, folks. I believe that if we rally behind Ted Cruz, a good man can still win the presidency in America.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Proverbs 29:2: <em>"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn."</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Let's put the "righteous in authority," folks. Ted Cruz.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">LLOYD MARCUS, <a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">The Unhyphenated American</a></span><br /> <span style="color:#000000;">CHAIRMAN, <a href="http://conservativecampaign.org">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a></span></p></div></div>Cruz Once Again Proves Himself Presidentialhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/cruz-once-again-proves-himself-presidential2016-02-08T16:53:42.000Z2016-02-08T16:53:42.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ted-Cruz-CCC-Banner.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4987" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ted-Cruz-CCC-Banner.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz CCC Banner" height="200" width="959" /></a></span></p><p>As the New Hampshire primary fast approaches, I wish to remind voters that our next commander-in-chief must be of the highest character, cut from the rare cloth of our founders.</p><div class="article_body"><p><span style="color:#000000;">Sometimes God gives us great gifts in ugly packages. Recent attacks on Ted Cruz from both the Trump and Dr. Carson campaigns gifted Cruz an opportunity to show his character and presidential instincts. Cruz was hit from all sides when a staffer used a CNN report that Dr. Carson might leave the race.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Cruz did not pull a Hillary, claiming ignorance while throwing the staffer under the bus. Cruz took full responsibility and apologized.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Do not take Cruz's apology lightly, folks. The MSM views GOP apologies as blood in the water, igniting a feeding frenzy of attempts to destroy the apologetic GOP politician. But Cruz walked tall, providing a window into how the man will respond in tough times in the W.H.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">In the thick of the campaign battle, desire and desperation to win can cause candidates to lose themselves, saying and doing things out of character. Pressure and deep desire also have a way of exposing who one really is inside. Unlike a few of his contenders, Cruz has remained true to who he is, refraining from grabbing onto trivial non-issues to slime his opponents.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Mary, my beautiful awesome wife of over 30 years, is my second. My first wife and I married at ages 19 and 21. Before we divorced, we sought marriage counseling. Unfortunately, my young bride and I had crossed a line. We said cutting painful things to each other that we could not un-hear, could not take back.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I caution our GOP presidential wannabes not to take their rhetoric too far. Do not start sounding like Democrats in your attacks on fellow GOP contenders. The stakes are far too high. The heart and soul of America as envisioned by our founding fathers is at risk.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">After the nomination process, we must all come together. We have a general election to win and a country to save. With levelheadedness, wisdom, and character, Ted Cruz is our guy.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a style="color:#000000;" href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>. The Unhyphenated American</span><br /> <span style="color:#000000;">Chairman: <a style="color:#000000;" href="http://www.conservativecampaign.org/">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a></span></p></div></div>Voter Fraud: We See Dead Peoplehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/voter-fraud-we-see-dead-people2016-02-04T13:19:01.000Z2016-02-04T13:19:01.000ZLloyd Marcushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LloydMarcus<div><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Sharron-Angle-2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4983" src="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Sharron-Angle-2-300x215.jpg" alt="Sharron Angle 2" height="215" width="300" /></a></span></p><p>It's true folks. Patriot sister Sharron “Braveheart” Angle has taken on battling voter fraud; sounding the alarm that it is running rampant in America. What good is winning the hearts and minds of voters if we allow Democrats to steal elections?</p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Sharron suffered the devastation of election corruption when she almost defeated Harry Reid in 2010. Illegals voted for <a href="http://bit.ly/20gXEOX">Harry Reid</a>. There is evidence that Reid possibly stole the election from Sharron Angle using <a href="http://bit.ly/1JT2jiM">dead voters, people in prison and illegals</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Romans 8:28 says “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.” I suspect Sharron's painful loss has made her a passionate crusader; committed to cleaning up the electoral process.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Remember the Black Panther Party thugs who stood outside the polls armed with clubs? Though charged with voter intimidation, Obama's DOJ arrogantly and without apology outrageously dropped the charges because the perpetrators were black. Can you believe that folks? Meanwhile, Obama looks down his morally superior nose at us, proclaiming himself a defender of equal justice.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">South Carolina's attorney general found evidence that at least 900 dead people voted in an election. Philadelphia flagged 50,000 duplicate registrations. Voting machines are changing peoples' votes. A voter was caught registering six times. Meanwhile, Democrats act outraged and seek to shackle and flog Republicans in the public square for suggesting that all Americans must show a photo ID to vote; claiming it is an evil racist Republican plot to disenfranchise black voters. Fearlessly, along with fighting voter fraud, Sharron has a <a href="http://www.sharronangle.com">Voter ID initiative</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">As an American who happens to be black, I am highly insulted. In essence, Democrats are saying it is too challenging for us poor inferior simpleminded blacks to find our way to the DMV or other places to acquire a photo ID. It frustrates me that fellow black Americans remain blind to the truth that Democrats consistently talk down to them. Presented as compassion and fairness, Democrats always seek to lower expectations and standards for blacks; inferring that we are inferior. But, I digress.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Sharron Angle is leading the charge to stop voter fraud, producing “<a href="http://www.electioncorruption.com/">Not On My Watch</a>”, a 90 minute documentary scheduled for nationwide release in theaters June 2016. The documentary will show undeniable evidence of voter fraud and smart ways to stop it. I'm excited folks.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Angle believes her documentary will be an integral part of a win for Constitutional Conservatism in 2016. She believes it will inspire voters to go to the polls and vote and volunteer to be eyes on the process.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><i>True-the-Vote</i> plans to have 1,000,000 trained citizens as poll watchers in place across America on Election Day 2016.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Sharron's documentary is a grassroots, We the People project folks. She needs your help to git-r-done. Please go to the website and do whatever you can. <span lang="zxx" xml:lang="zxx"><u><a style="color:#000000;" href="http://www.electioncorruption.com/" target="_blank">http://www.electioncorruption.com/</a></u></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Sharron has an LLC to take big donations that will fund the completion of the documentary with returns on those investments of $20,000 or more.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">2 out of 3 American voters are wisely concerned about the serious problem of voter fraud; Democrats stealing the 2016 presidential election. We simply cannot allow that to happen folks. Every America loving voter must proclaim, “Not on my watch!”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Freedom and the integrity of our electoral process are under siege, hanging in the balance. All-hands-on-deck folks. Please, please, please rally behind our brave sister Sharron Angle; leading an army of patriots on her white horse, her sword-of-faith held high in the air while yelling, <i>“Freedom-m-m-m!!!”</i></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">This presidential election is about changing the ungodly course that our country is on; crucial to the survival of our founding father's vision of America. We must not tolerant honest election vote counters saying, “<a href="http://www.sharronangle.com">We see dead people</a>.”</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com/">Lloyd Marcus</a>, The Unhyphenated American<br /> Chairman: <a href="http://www.conservativecampaign.org/">The Conservative Campaign Committee</a></span></p></div>Rajjpuut's Folly: Election Paybacks are a Behar** for Progressive Democratshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuuts-folly-election2010-11-04T03:30:00.000Z2010-11-04T03:30:00.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><div id="ctl00_cphCenter_ucPosts_rptPosts_ctl00_ucPost_Content"><div class="postbody"><p style="line-height:200%;color:#008000;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia;font-size:10pt;">** Is Rajjpuut actually suggesting that intelligent Americans start calling female dogs “Behars?” Or someone you disagree with a "son of a Behar?" Well, it does sound quite a bit more pleasant for polite conversation (or even on the "View") and, of course, it would just be a term of endearment reserved for only his very closest friends . . . .</span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16pt;"><span style="color:#800000;">Angle, Buck, Miller, O’Donnell Show</span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16pt;"><span style="color:#800000;">TEA Party Express Ineptness</span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Was that a thrilling and educational Election Eve, or what? Most importantly <em>and totally uncovered by the news media</em> was that the fiscal- and Constitutional-conservative cause picked up a net of ten governorships for an overall control of 34 statehouses . . . absolutely huge. And, naturally picking up six senate seats is no small deal, nor is picking up sixty house seats.</span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">So close and yet so very far . . . the greatest disappointment next to Obama’s obstinate refusal to “GET IT” (<span style="color:#008000;">Mr. President, understand this: your policies were REJECTED and efforts to pretend that the nightmare we lived through under you for almost two years wasn’t actually <em>your</em> agenda but just an “emergency response” to tough times is BOGUS! Stop messing with America and its people, grow up!</span>), of course, is that today Harry Reid is still the top dog in the United States Senate. Harry Reid survived in both roles (Senator and Majority Leader) for three closely-related reasons:</span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">1) He came back to win his own election in Nevada with a true fighting spirit.</span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">2) Sharon Angle, whom he defeated; Ken Buck in Colorado; and Delaware’s bewitched sweetie Christine O’Donnell all decided that the TEA Party’s <em>Contract from America</em> wasn’t worth the paper it and the U.S. Constitution are written on . . . and campaigned ridiculously.</span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">3) The Reid-inspired (he pretty much hand-picked Sharon Angle to be his opposition and still nearly lost) TEA Party Express (TPE) purportedly based in California deliberately fouled up every campaign involvement they could, for example, the only corruption of any appreciable level involving the TEA Party movements across the country came from the TPE’s former shock-jock leader guilty of at least three shocking racist gaffs.</span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">The main reason, of course, that Harry Reid prevailed was four very weak candidates running weak campaigns. Ignoring the TEA Party <em>Contract from America</em>, instead three of them decided that social issues had to be campaigned on repeatedly. Buck, to take a hideous example, actually <em>without even being asked</em> brazenly volunteered himself as a surrogate for almighty God saying that abortion in the case of rape, incest and danger to the life of the mother was a sin; and attacked “the pill” and other contraceptive methods; and fertility treatments as well -- offering that he thought they all should be made illegal. Where, within the wonderful and superbly conceived <em>Contract from America</em> does one find that particular set of abominable political-career-killing precepts? In case no one has read Rajjpuut before, get this: <span style="color:#800000;">Ultimately Independents choose the winners in politics.</span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;color:#008000;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#008000;"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Independents, by and</span></em></strong></span> <span style="color:#008000;"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Georgia;">large, are greatly impressed by fiscal- and Constitutional-conservativism as any thinking person should be . . . .</span></em></strong></span></span></span></em></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">That’s what it means when people say our nation is “center-right” or say 42% of people self-label as conservatives . . . certainly not that a 100% literal interpretation of Genesis will put you on common ground with anyone who calls himself a conservative; or that denying that dinosaurs lived 70 million years ago (as some fundamentalist sects try to) will make people think your branch of conservativism is intelligent.</span></span></strong></p><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;color:#800000;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#800000;"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Social and</span></em></strong></span> <span style="color:#800000;"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#800000;">religious conservativism is a guaranteed loser in all but the most provincial elections. On a personal level, you believe whatever you want when you “go into the closet” (Matthew 6:6) and talk to your God; but discretion is the better part of valor anytime you shoot off your mouth in public or try to influence lawmaking.</span></em></strong></span></span></span></em></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">To emphasize that point, take Christine O’Donnell, why in hell would anyone tell strangers and a TV audience that they’d practiced witchcraft however briefly. Learn from your youthful indiscretions and then for heaven’s sakes don’t broadcast them unless you can turn a lucrative book offer. As for Joe Miller in Alaska, he seems to have completely unraveled under the campaign pressure (like we mentioned, a <em>weak</em> candidate) and he likewise ignored the <em>Contract from America</em> using it more as a paper towel than as a Liberation Manifesto for the American people. Republicans, in Rajjpuut’s view, are better off with Lisa M. Besides, there’s that TEA Party Express contribution behind all four of those candidates to consider . . . it’s as if the hand of Harry Reid was pulling the strings to get the weakest possible opposition for Democrats . . . ah, me . . . and as for that slippery ol' son of a Behar, Harry Reid, hate him as you might, gotta like his ground game!</span></span></strong></div><p style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,</span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Rajjpuut</span></span></strong></p></div></div><div id="ctl00_cphCenter_ucPosts_rptPosts_ctl00_ucPost_pnlTags" class="tags"></div></div>Rajjpuut's Folly: Time Magazine Achievement of 2010? The TEA Party . . .https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuuts-folly-time-magazine2010-10-23T05:30:00.000Z2010-10-23T05:30:00.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><strong><br /></strong></span><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">“In truth, the TEA Party came that the Republican Party might save its soul. Not the ‘Party of No’ but the ‘Party of Whoa!’” Rajjpuut</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">“NEVERTHELESS, the TEA Party’s birth should have been recognized by <i>Time</i> magazine in 2009 as among the top ten events of 2009 (not even in their top 100) and <i>Time</i> notwithstanding, the TEA Party influence is the #1 story in America for 2010. The TEA Party “Contract from America” and House Minority Leader John Boehner’s and the G.O.P.’s “Pledge to America” are the two fundamental documents needed for an American Renaissance. Rajjpuut</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:16pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Historic Election Approaches -- Vote</span></b></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:16pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Your Constitutionally-Conservative Values</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Tuesday, November 2, 2010 marks the most important election in at least four decades. The nation and the world are in severe crisis and only the rebirth of America’s principles can save us all. The two most DEFINING DYNAMICS of this election are these:</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt .5in;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">#1 Barack Obama and the progressive agenda threatening to destroy America as we know and love her . . . .</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt .5in;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">#2 The aroused Conservatives-on-the-March movement known as the TEA Party which stands for both “Taxed Enough Already” and even more aptly “Taken Enough Abuse” . . . .</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt .5in;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The progressives’ rhetoric consistently maintains that the second item above is just another “reactionarism” by the “Party of NO,” that is, the TEA Party is just an “astroturf” G.O.P. feint at real populism. The TEA Party, of course, is an authentic conservative grassroots response that was clearly even more fed up with the “conservatives in name only” big-spending Republican Party which could have easily earned the title “Progressive-Lite” as they were with the radical-driven Democrats. In truth, the TEA Party came that the Republican Party might save its soul. Not the “Party of No” but the 'Party of Whoa!'”</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">With the exception of a few idiotic missteps, the TEA Party has wisely forgone the self-defeating narcissism of nominating its own candidates. Where the TEA Party has chosen to nominate candidates in the primaries rather than playing the more natural and powerful role of kingmaker once the candidates were set, the results have been poor. The perfect examples of this are Delaware, Nevada and Colorado. The political climate is so anti-incumbent and anti-Obama that a mental defective could be expected to win against the three horrific progressive-Democrats running for the U.S. Senate in those states . . . but thanks to the TEA Party’s pre-primary involvement not only are the results very much in doubt, the odds against stripping Obama of his senate control are now fairly high. And, of course, what do you have if you win despite the nonsense of O’Donnell, Angle and Buck? Three idiots in the U.S. Senate, ugh!</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;">Let's get the "cautionary tales" out of the way so we can go back to congratulating ourselves for a job well done, eh? In Nevada two strong conservative candidates were running in the Republican Primary to oppose Harry Reid. The eventual “winner"</span></strong> <b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">chosen by the TEA Party, however, was unqualified as far as communications skills, intelligence and understanding of political strategy (in this case the strategy is ultra-simple: concentrate on Reid’s record; Nevada’s problems; Obama’s record; America’s problems; and protecting our Constitution and our pocketbooks; nothing else) who is now embroiled in a needlessly close and expensive campaign that either of the other more qualified candidates would have put away long ago.</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">In particular, Angle has injected the infamously losing and suicidal social-conservativism into the equation. In case no one mentioned it to her, the TEA Party’s ten item “Contract from America” concentrated on fiscal and Constitutional issues and left social-conservativism unmentioned. The nation is and always has been fiscally and Constitutionally conservative . . . the reason that conservative clarity has been flooded over by progressive muddle-headedness so often in the last century is simply that Conservatives have been all too eager to push their social prohibitions (most infamously the notorious Volstead Act prohibiting liquor) upon everyone else. In Colorado, Ken Buck is just Sharon Angle on Super-Steroids. Rajjpuut who lives in Colorado is ashamed of the god-awful choices available to him . . . Buck or Bennet. And, as far as Delaware, the less said about the TEA Party nominee, the better. She makes Ken Buck look like a statesman. <font face="Arial">And the final piece of idiocy? Neither the TEA Party nor the Republicans are revealing their major weapons . . . how much talk have you heard about the TEA Party "Contract from America" or the Republican "Pledge to America. It's kind of like leaving your varsity at home and dressing only the freshmen team for the biggest game of the season. Thankfully, the frosh have been doing well.</font></span></b></p><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;">Those are the negatives and they are serious enough to presumably cost conservatives control of the Senate. NEVERTHELESS, the TEA Party is the story of the Obama years thus far</span></b></span></b> <b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">and the TEA Party’s birth should have been recognized by <i>Time</i> magazine in 2009 as among the top ten events of 2009 (not even in their top 100) and <i>Time</i> notwithstanding, the TEA Party influence is the #1 story in America for 2010. The TEA Party “Contract from America” and House Minority Leader John Boehner’s and the G.O.P.’s “Pledge to America” are the two fundamental documents necessary for an American Renaissance. Thank God for the TEA Party!</span></b></div><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">In case Rajjpuut’s message is not precisely clear to the reader: in its proper role as “KINGMAKER,” the TEA Party is no threat to the G.O.P. but rather is a dynamic coalescence of all good things conservative (fiscal and constitutional) and American. Democratic conservatives, Independent Conservatives and Republican Conservatives now, finally, have a home. Holding the feet of the two major parties to the fire as Kingmakers, rather than splitting Conservative votes, the TEA Party has it in its power to return America to her roots and a new greatness. Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal echoed these same thoughts that Rajjpuut has voiced on at least a dozen prior occasions at this blog site:</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:8pt;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023804575566503565327356.html?mod=rss_opinion_main&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wsj%2Fxml%2Frss%2F3_7041+%28WSJ.com%3A+Opinion%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span id="lw_1287804964_1">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023804575566503565327356.html?mod=rss_opinion_main&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wsj%2Fxml%2Frss%2F3_7041+%28WSJ.com%3A+Opinion%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo</span></span></span></a></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Noonan says, “The tea party is not a ‘threat’ to the Republican Party, the tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn't remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.” AMEN!!!!!</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 9.75pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;">As always, Ms. Noonan and the Wall Street Journal lead the way to understanding for intelligent Americans; and the cartoon in the article-linked above says it all, doesn’t it?</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Meanwhile, as in all things progressive, the ultra-left wing of the Democrats has refused to acknowledge reality . . . lost in their Marxist dreams and all . . . they persist in believing their own self-indulgent lies that the TEA Party is astroturf; unimportant; made up of unintelligent racists; and impotent to fight and win the battle of “dialectic materialism.” Thank God so many crooks and other criminals are cretins; and thank you, thank you, thank you, Lord – a million times over that the commies are cretins-cubed.</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Rajjpuut</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p></p></div>Rajjpuut's Folly: Pregnant Ken Buck Will Uphold Principleshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuuts-folly-pregnant-ken2010-09-17T01:30:00.000Z2010-09-17T01:30:00.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia;font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000">“I’m sure Colorado women are thrilled that if Buck gets pregnant from rape or incest he will deliver regardless of any threats to his health. No man under any circumstances can gain by supporting abortion repeal . . . .”</font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia;font-size:14pt;"><font color="#000000">3<sup>rd</sup> Party TEA Partyism</font></span></b></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia;font-size:14pt;"><font color="#000000">Works in Obama’s</font></span></b></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia;font-size:14pt;"><font color="#000000">and</font></span></b> <b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia;font-size:14pt;"><font color="#000000">Progressives’ Favor</font></span></b></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Since one of America’s two major parties, the Republicans, is ostensibly a conservative party fiscally and Constitutionally, it’s not at all surprising that since 1860, national 3<sup>rd</sup> parties throughout history have uniformly been unsuccessful and even counterproductively helpful** to liberals. Surprise, surprise some phases of today’s TEA Party movement seem to be stabbing conservativism in the back. The Obama administration is favorably impressed . . . .</font></font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">As Rajjpuut first warned some eight months back, except in highly unusual circumstances, extensive TEA Party involvement prior to the primaries is a very, very bad idea. Let the political process play out and then play kingmaker, that is the winning strategy. Rajjpuut has repeatedly suggested that the TEA Party spend its efforts helping voters learn about the party’s Contract from America and then (only <i>after</i> candidates are selected) picking the most conservative candidate if he/she displays the requisite integrity. The biggest single failing beside becoming a conservative-killing third party? Stunning and deafening silence on the Contract from America. In other words, Rajjpuut suggests the TEA Party is not only losing its way, it’s often blocking America’s way as well. Ah, me . . . . Let’s talk specifics . . . .</font></font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Here in Colorado we face two extraordinarily fouled up elections, for governor and senator, made extraordinarily favorable for liberal candidates and extraordinarily frustrating for conservative voters. The TEA Party Express (whom Rajjpuut suspects was created by Harry Reid initially to ensure he faced the weakest possible opposition in Nevada: Sharon Angle) has backed an ignoramus named Ken Buck. Buck rather than concentrating on fiscal and</font></font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><font size="3">Constitutional conservativism; his opponent’s pathetic record; and the Contract from America . . . has preferred to talk about abortion regardless of incest, rape, or threats to the health of the mother . . . I’m sure Colorado women are thrilled that if Buck gets pregnant from rape or incest he will deliver regardless of any threats to his health. Since no man can get pregnant, no man under any circumstances can gain by hypocritically supporting abortion repeal . . . .”</font></span></b> <b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><font size="3">Rajjpuut reminds all conservative politicians that abortion is, unfortunately, the law of the land and unnecessarily bringing up a losing argument (and, in Buck’s specifics, bringing up a questionable moral argument) is just plain stupid and an easy way to lose women voters in droves.</font></span></b></font></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Buck has also gone out of his way to unnecessarily give his opponent strong sound bites of “Buck threatening Social Security” and “Buck for changing the way Colorado Senators are selected” . . . regardless of the merits of those last two arguments, it never makes sense to step outside of a winning formula. This year the winning formula for conservatives is 1) Contract for America and fiscal and Constitutional conservativism 2) Obama 3) the record of the Democrats in Congress 4) specific weaknesses of their particular opponent . . . . Buck, unfortunately has a grand canyon for a mouth and just loves to hear himself talk. Mr. Buck could still win, but under any other circumstances than the anti-Obama revolt in place this year, Buck would be UNelectable. If somehow Buck is elected Colorado will boast a numbskull in the U.S. Senate. Needless to say, his big government, big taxes, big spending opponent Bennett is properly committed to Obama’s Marxist agenda . . . fine choice we have for senator in Colorado, eh?</font></font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Meanwhile, the TEA Party has twice gotten involved in the Colorado governor’s race and both involvements have been a mistake. A totally unvetted candidate, Dan Maes, who’d never held political office excited the TEA Party before he’d proven electable without them. Maes became the Republican candidate. Right there an ethical problem arises, why should Republicans then fund the campaign of someone basically nominated by another political party? In any case, Maes had a lot of baggage and it soon spilled out onto the sidewalk one lie and one scandal after another. So the TEA Party Express comes to town supporting one Tom Tancredo as an Independent running for guv. Tancredo is the eternal Colorado gadfly, who, like Buck, believes in the old out-dated Moral Majority litmus test. Just today, the Republican Party in Colorado removed its support for Maes which has to be demoralizing for Colorado conservatives. If Maes drops out, which he has vowed NOT to do, perhaps Tancredo can win. Since Tancredo, like Buck appears to be a cretin, that would be a mixed blessing at best.</font></font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">From Nevada where ditsy Sharron Angle who, with the TEA Party Express’ help, defeated two electable candidates and gives Harry Reid a good chance at re-election; to Connecticut where the TEA Party Express-supported candidacy of Christine O’Donnell appears to have dethroned a winning bet^^ for November. . . the ignorance of TEA Party pre-primary election involvement is well-documented and regrettable; and likely to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat for the progressive Dems.</font></font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,</font></font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Rajjpuut</font></font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia;font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000">**only in one instance, Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive (Bull Moose) Party in 1912, has any third party gotten as close as a losing 2<sup>nd</sup> place in a national election. In 1912 and in virtually all other instances, the presence of a vote-splitting conservative option has guaranteed victory for liberal candidates, specifically the Democrats involved. In Rajjpuut’s memory only the 1968 candidacy of George Wallace with the American Independent Party was not harmful to the conservative cause . . . why? because Richard Nixon was regarded as a moderate or even semi-progressive Republican in a race against further left-leaning Hubert Humphrey. The havoc created in state and local elections by third parties is not quite as predictable, but third party conservatives are a most welcome sight for Democrats.</font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia;font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000">^^ Castle, a progressive Republican, appeared to be a shoo-in in Connecticut and very popular. The winning strategy would have been to talk directly to Mr. Castle about the Contract from America. If he pledged to change his spots and support the Contract, then you support him until he proves unworthy of trust.</font></span></b></p></div>Rajjpuut's Folly: Ken Buck Casts Nevada’s Angle in Genius Rolehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuuts-folly-ken-buck-casts2010-08-28T19:00:00.000Z2010-08-28T19:00:00.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><br /><p><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:9pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#008000;"><a href="http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/08/02/angle%E2%80%99s,_tea_party_express%E2%80%99_stupidity_save_harry_reid%E2%80%99s_butt.thtml"></a><a href="http://blogtownhall.com/2010/08/02/angle%E2%80%99s,_tea_party_express%E2%80%99_stupidity_save_harry_reid%E2%80%99s_butt.thtmlrajjpuutsfolly">http://</a><a href="http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/08/02/angle%E2%80%99s,_tea_party_express%E2%80%99_stupidity_save_harry_reid%E2%80%99s_butt.thtml"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;color:#008000;">blogtownhall.com/2010/08/02/</span></a></span></span></span><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:9pt;"><a href="http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/08/02/angle%E2%80%99s,_tea_party_express%E2%80%99_stupidity_save_harry_reid%E2%80%99s_butt.thtml"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>angle’s,_</strong></span></span></a><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#008000;"><a style="color:#008000;" href="http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/08/02/angle%E2%80%99s,_tea_party_express%E2%80%99_stupidity_save_harry_reid%E2%80%99s_butt.thtml">tea_party_express’_stupidity_save_harry_reid’s_butt.thtml</a></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>rajjpuutsfolly</strong><strong>.</strong></span></p><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" align="center"></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" align="center"></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" align="center"></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" align="center"></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" align="center"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:14pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#800000;">Hateful Abortion Rhetoric Dooms</span></span></span></span></strong></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" align="center"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:14pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#800000;">Buck’s Candidacy as Tea Party Opts</span></span></span></span></strong></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" align="center"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:14pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#800000;">for Historic Losing Third-Party Role</span></span></span></span></strong></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" align="center"></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" align="center"></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" align="center"></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" align="center"></div><div style="line-height:200%;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Told you so, told you so, told you so. And now Ken Buck is proving it in spades. Cheer up, Ken, you can always serve as the perfect "RUBE," the quintessential "<u>R</u>adically <u>U</u>gly <u>B</u>ad <u>E</u>xample." Buck who's hijacked the good TEA Party name for the purpose of expressing his old-fashioned ultra-right-wing narrow-mindedness has given the progressive Dems all the ammunition needed to say not only, "Ken Buck, too extreme for Colorado" in their political ads . . . but to use him as the national poster boy for political incompetence. Nice job, idiot!<br /><br />Oh, how the principled have fallen . . . . Back in early March, 2009, this thing, this entity, this apparently blessed concept of the TEA Party came around and Rajjpuut was jumping in ecstasy. At last, something sensible conservatives could get behind! Something that once understood, the whole universe of logical people in the whole country could love and could use to put the country back on the right track, back in line with the Founding Fathers' noblest dreams -- a true haven for conservative Republicans, Democrats, Independents and Libertarians (like Rajjpuut himself). Then again the TEA (Taxed Enough Already or is it Taken Enough Abuse?) Party came up with this most marvellous of documents the “Contract from America” and 7<sup><font size="2">th</font></sup> Heaven was in view. Since its inception, Rajjpuut at Townhall and later at TEA Party sites has praised the good and great and warned about the utterly depraved potential of the TEA Party. It now appears thanks to “great candidates” like Ken Buck right here in Rajjpuut’s Colorado, that the TEA Party in 2010 is preparing to make the most radical and dangerous progressive Democrats in history and the Communist administration of Barack Obama look desirable to the American people out of sheer unmitigated stupidity. OUCH, OUCH, OUCH, OUCHity, OUCH!</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">For God sake’s, the mission is "save America" through fiscal conservativism, constitutional conservativism, just plain common sense, and high ideals. The mission is not to become just another losing third party asterick in history, split the conservative vote and doom the country to an Obama "dictatorship" as a result. Let’s look at the latest TEA Party idiot, Ken Buck . . . makes me shiver he’s so wrong. And let’s look at candidate Angle in Nevada, who has resurrected her candidacy but still faces an uphill battle. In an earlier blog, Rajjpuut lambasted Angle . . . .</span></span></span></strong><div><strong><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:9pt;"><a href="http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/08/02/angle%E2%80%99s,_tea_party_express%E2%80%99_stupidity_save_harry_reid%E2%80%99s_butt.thtml"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#008000;">http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/08/02/angle’s,_tea_party_express’_stupidity_save_harry_reid’s_butt.thtml</span></span></span></a></span></strong></strong></div></div><div style="line-height:200%;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">About six weeks back Sharon Angle became the TEA Party backed candidate against the most hated and evil congress<em>man</em> in America (Pelosi gets the congress<em>woman</em> honors), Harry Reid. It’s still NOT been settled whether the TEA Party Express who nominated her wasn’t a Harry Reid front aiming to select the worst possible candidate for Republican candidate so that Reid could almost NOT lose, but since that smacks of conspiracy theory and doesn’t help the discussion along, let’s forget that notion for now. Angle made enough mistakes that as soon as she was nominated in the primary she went from an 8% lead over Harry Reid to a 5% underdog. Rajjpuut’s earlier blog documented her amazing ability to “snatch defeat from the jaws of easy victory.” (In fairness to Angle, she's since adopted Rajjpuut's suggestions about 99% and is making a comeback, but what a waste of effort and money and the easy victory possibilities are gone.) And now comes Ken Buck right here in Colorado. If Angle proved stupid right after winning the primary, Buck is proving ultra-stupid and very hateful . . . Buck makes me sick that I’m a TEA Party member.</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">The TEA Party’s natural role is that of the overseer; as a group with unquestionable integrity standing up for real fiscal conservative and constitutional conservative values rather than becoming just another political party. Let’s review Angle’s and Buck’s shared mistakes before we get to the Ken Buck brilliancies that makes him, and by reflection, the TEA Party look like buffoons, nincompoops and hate mongers . . . . in the earlier blog on Angle</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:9pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#008000;"><a href="http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/08/02/angle">http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/08/02/angle</a>’s,_tea_party_express’_stupidity_save_harry_reid’s_butt.thtml</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Rajjpuut said that Angle did everything wrong, everything third-partyish that is destined to make Obama and the Democrats praise Allah for the creation of the TEA Party. To wit, the TEA Party getting heavily involved in the nominating process is a losing strategy. We have two parties, both have failed us, the TEA Party’s effective role is as Kingmakers as they proved in the November, 2009, special elections. In the early stages, since it is the Dems that have failed us the most that will about 90% of the time mean that the TEA Party will be benefitting Republican Candidates, but remember this . . . Republican in their own way failed the country more because knowing the wiser path, (fiscal and constitutional conservativism) the G.O.P. joined the Dems to become “Progressive Lite.”</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">If you’ll remember back to November, 2009, the TEA Party backed^^ the most fiscally and constitutionally conservative candidate in the four races, winning three and narrowly losing the fourth in an almost miraculous battle. That was the height of the TEA Party movement, and except for the Contract from America, it’s been largely downhill## since then.</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">So now Buck like Angle is more a TEA Party candidate than a G.O.P. one. Successful and honest candidacies require immense amounts of money and a lot of political expertise and experience, successful candidacies also require the candidate to get himself dirty, it’s the nature of the beast. Rather than getting dirty, the preferrred TEA Party role is to sit back and decide which candidate shows 1) fiscal conservativism 2) constitutional conservativism 3) common sense and 4) maintains the most integrity and high ideals in the heat of battle . . . the TEA Party’s natural and preferred WINNING role is, in short, not as a political party but as Kingmakers, WATCHDOGs and as a “party of ideas and ideals.”</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Besides basically generating into a loutish third-party-like candidate, Buck like Angle early on has been shooting his mouth off and giving his opponent all the most satisfying sound bite opportunities imaginable. Understand this regardless of ideals, WINNING is a matter of practical politics, it appears that with testosterone added to Angle’s highball, Buck is out to prove himself the stupidest possible candidate. Ken Buck aside, even if your ideas are the noblest and wisest governing ideas -- IF it, however, takes (unfortunately) a lot of effort to explain them -- they are NOT good <em>candidate ideas</em> because it gives the opposition strong sound bites which are easily distorted, why in heaven would a sensible person do such a thing (give his enemy ammunition and load his gun)??? It is, however, highly debatable that Ken Buck’s idea are noble and wise, the man seems to be an utter fool. You want sound bites, you idiot? You have been provided with sound bites . . . the greatest possible sound bites imaginable . . . the ten principles of the Contract from America. Shut your fool jaybird mouth (overloaded by your alligator and jacka_s brain) and speak only from the script (the Contract) and even you might still have a chance. Rajjpuut repeats:</span></span></span></strong> <strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">regardless of ideals, WINNING is a matter of practical politics.</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Again, Rajjpuut will say it clear . . . here’s the virtually failproof strategy for Conservative candidates supported by the TEA Party who’ve already proven themselves politically viable (they won their party’s nomination in the primary without TEA Party money and without TEA Party help) 1. Politics is a strategy game. You win strategy games by pounding away in areas where you have great advantage (Contract from America) and managing your problem areas (your big mouth and the tendency to talk out of turn, or about ‘outside areas’). You make your strengths into the most important issues in the battle. You win strategy games by making your opponents’ weaknesses the most important things about them (alignment with Obama, Pelosi and Reid and their own personal voting record that shows them as far from fiscal and constitutionally conservative) and you ignore your opponents’ strengths altogether. Politics is not about ego when done rightly, but about your ideals connecting with what’s best and smartest in the voters.</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Buck, as mentioned, has proven himself an incompetent and flawed politician rather than a man of ideals. Let’s talk about his abortion rant. For almost 40 years, this country has been a country where the high court of the land allowed abortion. The Democrats have succeeded in making it a country where in the average election 56% of the women vote for them because the Republican Party does NOT recognize abortion as the law of the land; and because the Republican Party has chosen to tell people how to live the most intimate areas of their life. Rajjpuut is NOT a pro-abortion or pro-choice per se supporter, but neither does Rajjpuut elect to enter into a woman's brain, spirit and body and tell her how to live her life. Rajjpuut does NOT believe in abortion of demand. She and God will have to figure the proper course out for her. So now, thanks to the right-wing Republican's holier than thou stand, we have made de facto abortion on demand in the country pretty much the going standard. What a wonderful thing we've done because of the Republican's stupid stance. Rajjpuut is a father. You’re telling him that if his little girl is a victim of rape that she can’t decide for herself, talking to God in her own way, what to do next, that she doesn’t have this right? What gives anybody BUT her and God that right?</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">By squandering their anti-abortion effort on untenable and uncompassionate stances against rape and incest victims and the very young and against women whose very lives were in danger . . . the ultra-right wing (they are not conservatives, they are devilish busy-bodies) of the Republican Party has made the Progressive Democrats by default “virtuous” and desirable to a lot of women, and men. Rajjpuut has said to mention abortion at all is a stupid strategy. What does Ken Buck do? He says, “I’m not only against abortion, I’m against abortion in cases of rape or incest or where the mother’s life is in danger.” Such a fool. Sure like to see him gangraped in an alley and then by a miracle, becoming pregnant . . . . <em>any man who enters the abortion debate</em> is a hideous and utter fool, that’s a matter for women and individual women to deal with between them and God.</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><em><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#008000;">The single most important issue is what Buck and Angle didn’t choose to do.</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></em> <strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#008000;">Here is the most nearly perfect little document ever created for this moment in history, the Contract from America, and Buck and Angle prefer to talk about abortion (a losing and unnecessary strategy) rather than pounding away at the fiscally and constitutionally conservative planks from the Contract. Now they have given the most depraved progressive congress in the history of America all the soundbites necessary to win and win easily. If I’m the Democratic National Committee what do I do? I run against TEA Party sound bites and nothing else. Featuring 50% Ken Buck, 35% Sharon Angle and 15% Rand** Paul’s unnecessary and foolish sound bite that makes him look like he’s anti-integration. I run on “Republican and TEA Party candidates are racists and dangerous demagogues” and I run on almost nothing else. Thanks Buck, thanks Angle . . . you’ve distorted the noble idea of the TEA Party into just another loony American third party.</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">What can every thinking principled America agree upon? Fiscal conservativism, Constitutional Conservativism, common sense and high ideals. Help unite people behind these four principles and comparatively without money, you control the political life in this country and save this country from 100+ years of PROGRESSIVE incremental Marxism. What could be more important? What could be more noble? What could be more practical? And why is no one using the Contract from America? Is throwing the Contract and the Declaration and the Constitution down the toilet and flushing them away . . . the logical and high-principled road to victory?</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,</span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">Rajjpuut</span></strong></span></span><div><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#008000;font-size:10pt;"><strong>## Among other things, it is morally repugnant to win a Republican primary running as a TEA Party candidate and then expect the G.O.P. to finance you because you won the Republican Primary, etc. If TEA Party "candidates" must run, they need to run as Republicans or Democrats period; and run with the TEA Party's Contract from America providing the strategic resources and touchstone but never <em>saying</em> the words "TEA Party" but rather <em>showing with actions and words</em> that the Contract from America lives inside of them. Any other path is disingenuous . . . running as a TEA Party candidate per se is expensive and unnecessary and doesn't serve the country well. <span style="background-color:#ffffff;"><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#008000;font-size:10pt;">Running as a TEA Party Republican means you're stealing their money. The only proper road is to win as a Republican because your ideals shine through; refer to those TEA Party ideals early and often, but run as a Republican (Or Democrat, or conservative, etc., whatever). Because if you take their money like Crist did in Florida, by God you need to represent them unequivocably and to put yourself forward with utter integrity. <font size="2"><font color="#008000">Crist has proven himself a lowlife and that's exactly what TEA Party Republicans, etc. do if they accept Republican money that way. The TEA Party is a set of ideals to emit from every pore of your body, not a label useful to help win a primary race in someone else's party.</font></font> <strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:10pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#008000;">^^ The winning strategy was shown and has been largely ignored since November, 2009. Back the most fiscally and Constutionally conservative candidate presented. In your ads for that candidate, show your principles (now we’ve got the Contract from America). The TEA Party got three victories and three turn-things-around winners. But the real lesson is what happened in the House election we lost. Here’s the situation. The idiot Republican Party gives $1 million in campaign money to a lady who makes Barack Obama look conservative. The Tea Party steps in and the far more conservative Democratic candidate wins easily with the lady Republican withdrawing a week before the election. In fact a very pleasant but “utterly-unshiny and otherwise unpolished” TEA Party candidate running under the banner of the Conservative Party nearly won the election. Why? How? He didn’t shoot off his mouth about losing issues and relatively unimportant issues but stayed tightly-glued to fiscal and Constitutional conservativism.</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></strong></span><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:10pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#008000;">**Unlike Buck and Angle, Rand Paul is NOT stupid, quite the contrary . . . but his gaffe on the Civil Rights Law was very stupid and unnecessary. It allowed the progressives to paint him and other candidates and the TEA Party as racists. It would behoove, TEA Party candidates running as Republicans to learn from Rand Paul’s candidacy both good and bad. <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">Avoid soundbite material at all costs.</span></span></span></span></span></strong> Crist has proven himself a lowlife and that's exactly what TEA Party Republicans, etc. do if they accept Republican money that way. The TEA Party is a set of ideals to emit from every pore of your body, not a label useful to help win a primary race.<div style="line-height:200%;"></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:10pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#008000;">^^ The winning strategy was shown and has been largely ignored since November, 2009. Back the most fiscally and Constutionally conservative candidate presented. In your ads for that candidate, show your principles (now we’ve got the Contract from America). We got three victories and three turn-things-around winners. But the real lesson is what happened in the House election we lost. Here’s the situation. The idiot Republican Party gives $1 million in campaign money to a lady who makes Barack Obama look conservative. The Tea Party steps in and the far more conservative Democratic candidate wins easily with the lady Republican withdrawing a week before the election. In fact a very pleasant but “utterly-unshiny” TEA Party candidate running under the banner of the Conservative Party nearly won the election. Why? How? He didn’t shoot off his mouth about losing issues and relatively unimportant issues but stayed upon fiscal and Constitutional conservativism. He proved himself a Harry S Truman type candidate and had he another ten days would have won the election.</span></span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:10pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#008000;">**Unlike Buck and Angle, Rand Paul is NOT stupid, quite the contrary . . . but his gaffe on the Civil Rights Law was very stupid and unnecessary. It allowed the progressives to paint him and other candidates and the TEA Party as racists. It would behoove, TEA Party candidates running as Republicans to learn from Rand Paul’s candidacy both good and bad.</span></span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;"></div><br /></div>Sharon Angle’s and TEA Party Express’ Stupidity Save Harry Reid’s Butthttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/sharon-angles-and-tea-party-12010-08-02T05:30:00.000Z2010-08-02T05:30:00.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"></p><p></p><div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="center"><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000" size="5"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000" size="5"><strong>"Cheer Up, Angle, You</strong></font></span></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="center"><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000" size="5"><strong>Can Always Serve as a Bad Example."</strong></font></span></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="center"></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>You’d think a Nevada conservative would understand the wisdom of “playing one’s cards close to the vest,” but Sharon Angle has shown herself the worst of all political fish, the “Large-Mouthed Loser.” Thanks to the endorsement of the presumably liberal-leaning TEA **Party Express, Angle emerged from the back of the pack of Republicans without any serious vetting and was left standing to take on Harry Reid, a wily old political veteran, and one of the most corrupt and evil men in America.</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>So now it comes down to corrupt, evil and politically saavy vs. stupid and loud-mouthed . . . Harry’s a shoo-in. Count on it, Reid will get at least 55% of the vote. You heard the deplorable news here first . . . . Rajjpuut has for a year now, warned of the utter inanity of TEA Party generated candidates taking on other Conservatives and Democrats.</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>Rajjpuut was most proud of the TEA Party when they came into a contest where the Republican lady candidate had received over $1 Million in G.O.P. funds although she was far to the left of her Democratic opponent in a conservative upper New York state race. The lady in question dropped out the weekend before the election and asked that all her supporters back the Democratic candidate (she had only 5% backing at that moment). The last-minute conservative candidate the TEA Party had backed against her not only denied her the easy win, he came within four percent of winning the election. This was the same night when they also played a key role in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts.</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>First of all, politics is all about money. The Republican Party and the Democratic Party are experts at pulling in political favors and political dollars, the TEA Party has no expertise. Secondly, the TEA Party showed its clout back in November, 2009, when it just stayed in the background and played the part of Kingmaker rather than running their own TEA Party candidates. That was the model to be followed, educating, arousing interest and fiscal and constitutional awareness, choosing the most suitable of the candidates from the major parties. And if NO suitable candidate was available, then running a TEA party candidate.</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>Thirdly, and most importantly, Rajjpuut has repeatedly bemoaned the surprising fact that having created the best news along freedom lines since the Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution . . . the TEA Party doesn’t know how to leverage their “Contract from America.” In fact the TEA Party has largely let the Contract from America lie fallow.</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>Let us use loud-mouthed, foolish and possibly criminally stupid Sharon Angle in Nevada as a bad example and see what we can learn from her . . .</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>Did Ms. Angle obey Rajjpuut’s dictates and concentrate on Barack Obama’s and Harry Reid’s attack upon our Constitution, our wallets, and our children’s future? NO, NO and more NO.</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>Did Ms. Angle educate and inform the Nevada citizenry about the Contract from America’s ten key points and mention that she'd signed it? Absolutely NOT.</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>Did Ms. Angle mention abortion? Yes, she did.</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>Did Ms. Angle shoot off her mouth about things that are easily distorted and destroyed in sound bites (her stance on Medicare, Social Security, etc.??? Yes, like a total idiot, she did while avoiding the mention of the Contract from America, planks which besides every other benefit, are all easily dealt with in sound-bite -sized bits.</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>Does Ms. Angle still have a chance? Probably not, she’s shown herself remarkably stupid and utterly ineffectual so far. However, IF she were to start over and do as Rajjpuut recommended all along and educate the populace about the Contract from America which she’s hopefully signed and to frame all questions as responses taken only from either the Contract from America or in reference to Harry Reid’s or Barack Obama’s record . . . it’s still possible for her to turn things around, but don’t count on it, Angle’s already snatched defeat from the jaws of easy victory (Nevada has the highest unemployment and highest drop in home prices in the country and Reid is easily the most hated politician other than Pelosi and Obama) and such stupidity as hers is almost always rewarded. So short of Harry dropping dead from glee a week before election day, Angle has screwed herself and Nevada and the country.</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong>Rajjpuut</strong></font></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="color:#008000;font-size:10pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">** The only bad press . . . along actually verifiable racist and perhaps "hate" lines . . . for the TEA Party was tied to one of the TEA Party Expresses leadership people a "shock jock," we're told whose blogs eschewed dealing with Obama's performance and attacked other things . . . talking about Islam, for example, as having "a monkey god." Wow, with friends like those who needs enemies? Rajjpuut will assume that they're really left-leaners trying to muddy the TEA.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></font></span></div></div></div>Rajjpuut's Folly: TEA Party, Tancredo Embarked upon Suicidal Pathhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuuts-folly-tea-party-22010-07-24T05:26:20.000Z2010-07-24T05:26:20.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong></strong></font></span><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14pt;"><font color="#000000"><strong><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14pt;">TEA Party, Tancredo Embarked upon Suicidal Path</span></b></strong></font></span></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;">Come November, if Barack Obama and his cretins still control the executive and both legislative branches of government as well as most of the statehouses and governorships, blame the TEA Party and a conservative cretin named Tom Tancredo. Rajjpuut has repeatedly said that A) the TEA Party was a great occurrence in American politics; B) that the TEA Party’s “Contract from America” ranked potentially with the Magna Carta and Bill of Rights; and however, if C) TEA Party candidates ran for office in 2010 or 2012, they could undermine the whole beneficial situation and by splitting conservative votes, guarantee Barack Obama and his Marxists control over American politics for the next 40-50 years. It now seems that Condition C is in effect. Meanwhile, in Colorado, an ultra-cretin named Tom Tancredo has decided to ensure a Hickenlooper governorship by running as an independent to again split conservative votes. When you have a formula that’s working, you don’t change it . . . if you’ve any brains at all.</span></b></span></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;">Kentucky, Nevada and Colorado . . . you guys, cheer up, you can always serve as a bad example. </span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;">Tell me what’s the logic of this? You sit on the sidelines, stirring people up righteously and giving Independent conservatives and Democratic conservatives and Republican conservatives an effective voice they haven’t had in years, so far so good, but then . . . you create a marvelous fiscal-conservative, constitutional-conservative and accountable governance conservative document (The Contract FROM America) but you hide it away and don’t use it and then you follow it up with candidates seeking election when you haven’t got a political apparatus in place and no political warchest . . . for the sole purpose of re-electing Harry Reid???? And Rajjpuut supposes you’d expect the Republican Party to fund you????? Barack Obama thanks you from the bottom of his heart. Instead of becoming the dominant force in American politics for the next 20 years, you small-minded boobs are working to make yourselves just another failed third party in the trash heap of history . . . .</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;">Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;">Rajjpuut</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p></p></div>