catch up

Ok. So it's been a long time since a posted...

A really long time.
Sue me. No. don't sue me.

Since I last posted, I became Mississippi's Deputy Director for Rick Santorum's Presidential campaign.
Then, was a National Field Director in Louisiana and Pennsylvania.

In March, Mississippi had its primary. The days leading up to the election, Santorum was third in the polls. HowEVER, he pulled through and won! Exciting? Yes. A few weeks later, Louisiana had its primary. Santorum won! Again.

April, Santorum suspended his campaign during the Pennsylvania primary. Sad, but he needed to stay home with his family.

Romney is the candidate.

So that was February through April.

May... got a job doing communications/pr/social media work for a company that works with DHS, NSA, etc.

Then Libya.

September 11- Benghazi. Response to a video? Right. Obama and his cronies (his staff and the liberal media) say it wasn't a terrorist attack. Because if that was the case, terrorists would be attacking under Obama's administration. And everything is going quite swimmingly under him. Right? False. It was a terrorist attack. Plain as day. To make matters worse, there was plenty of time to rescue our people there! But no. Wouldn't want to do that.

November... well, my family had our election party. Remember when I said it was like our Superbowl?

 

 

 




Yeah. Superbowl. Except Romney lost. which was terrible. Now look what we have. Again.

So I guess we're in for a treat for the next 4 years.

double standards

We all know the media have double standards when it comes to conservatives and liberals/Republicans and Democrats. The double standards are everywhere. And they always seem to favor the liberals. Here's just a few examples.

Double standard #1 - Religion and Politics

Obama can talk about how his Christian faith leads him to believe that the rich should be taxed more and the poor should be taxed less (besides the fact that he's completely twisting what the passage means).
Watch the video here.
If that's what he believes, that's fine. If he wants to base his tax plan on the Bible, go ahead (again, that's not what that passage is referring to, in the least). I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the Constitution that says he can't.

The problem here - the double standard - is when a Republican candidate (currently Gingrich, Paul, Romney and Santorum) bases his political views upon the Bible (or the Book of Mormon), he gets shut down.

So it's perfectly fine for Obama to talk about how his Christian faith affects the implementation of his tax laws. The problem - God forbid a Republican presidential nominee speak a word about how the Bible/religious affiliation affects their political decisions.  We would never want to usher a man into the White House with religious convictions - but wait! We already have one! So are we leaving religion at the gate of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or not?
 

Double standard #2 - The media's defending of the Left

We all know the media are liberal (besides FoxNews). We all know they're going to defend the Left - which is not what journalists are instructed to do. Journalists are instructed - from day one - to be objective. To not have an opinion. How do I know this? I have a degree in Journalism. For years I was told I couldn't have an opinion - that journalists only report the facts.

So let's look at a recent example. I'm sure most of you have seen it, but just to reiterate...

This is one of Santorum's biggest supporters (through a SuperPAC). The media have been alllll over, not really Friess, as much as they have been Santorum!
God forbid a supporter say something off color. Santorum can't keep tabs on every supporter and what they say. Nor should he have to. That's absurd to even expect he might be able to. He has hundreds and thousands of supporters.
So anyways. They liberal media begin to take shots at Santorum. Big shocker there.
They ask him how he could let something like this happen?

Santorum answers the question beautifully! You can watch the video here. His response is in the first 2 and 1/2 ish minutes.

In addition to answering the question as to why he should not be responsible for the true (but crude) remarks of Mr. Friess, he also points out the double standard - that the liberal media stand up for Obama!
They're disgusting.

Double Standard #3 - The race card

Recently Congressman Allen West (R) made a hugely controversial statement about how the Republicans favor the African American race more than the Democratic Party does in that the Republicans want to stop handouts. The Democratic Party, the party of handouts, will keep the poor enslaved to the government. West calls out the Democratic Party out in enabling the most insidious form of slavery in the world today.

So this was controversial, right?

Here's the double standard. Can you imagine if a White Republican said this?

cpac and the budget

Wow. I haven't posted in a long time.

My last few days have consisted of searching for jobs (since I'm one of Obama's 8.5% unemployed), writing a paper on why congressmen (no I'm not going to be pc) join caucuses and... watching CPAC!

For those of you who don't know what CPAC is, let me inform you.

CPAC is the Conservative Political Action Conference.

No, I was not able to fly to D.C, stay in a hotel for a weekend and attend one of the best events in the United States entire world. I just spent all my money going to South Carolina for two weeks to volunteer for this guy.

Only worthy candidate.

Question: Was it worth it volunteering and missing CPAC ;(?   Answer: YES!

Just ask this girl.

So I streamed CPAC online. The next best thing. Santorum did amazing! You can watch him here...

Rick Perry, Phyllis Schlafly, Momma Duggar, Herman Cain, Allen West, Tony Perkins, Mitch McConnell, Bobby Jindal, Laura Ingraham, Huckabee, Ann Coulter, Boehner, Paul Ryan, Bachmann, Marco Rubio, Palin, Romney, Gingrich... annnnnd Santorum!! (and some other ones I don't really care to hear)

I would have literally been as close to Heaven as you can get on earth.

Unfortunately, I didn't go.

But I did watch as much as I could. Especially Ann Coulter. My role model. Here are some of the highlights of her 20+ minute speech.

The budget.

$3.8 trillion? What does this mean?
Well, by the time he's out of office (if he stays in, God help us all), we will be at ehh... a mere 18, 19, 20 trillion (trillion with a t) dollars.
The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy will end, and they'll be taxed at a ridiculous rate.
Oh. And since we're not spending money on wars... that's referred to as savings now.
He's a genius. And by genius, I mean an absolute idiot when it comes to a budget (and many other things I don't have time for now).  My 11-year-old brother could do a better job.

It's not just Obama, though. It's all the liberals. Spending to get us into a better place, financially? That makes no sense. And taxing the rich because Obama's Christian faith in the Bible says that "To whom much is given much is required." That's not at all what that verse is referring to. And since when is Obama such a devout Christian? And if he were, wouldn't he be proud to call our nation a Christian one?

Back to spending and taxes: Jesus would also never be in favor of taxing the rich more. He was the one who told the parable of the servants who were given different amounts of money. One 5 talents, one 2, one 1. You can read the parable here.

Enough for one post.

the three R's

I realize I haven't written in close to a week. Shouldn't be writing right now, actually, since I came to the library intending on writing a paper (which I will get to, eventually). BUT as I sit beside my sister, I get slightly disgusted, not by her, but at how the people at The University of Southern Mississippi have begun to ooze their liberal ideology into her...

She's a elementary education/special education/Spanish endorsement major (overachiever).
They should be teaching her the basic three R's... Reading, writing, 'rithmatic.
Instead - what three R's are they teaching everybody at USM? Yep.

You guessed it.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

I remember when I lived on campus, each dorm room had a white trash can and a blue recycling can.


My room had two different colored trash cans.

I was conserving energy! I only had to take the trash out half as often!





Don't get me wrong. It's really not that I don't think we should protect the earth. I do. I believe God gave us dominion over the animals and the earth and we are to protect it and take care of it all.

Here's where I have a problem.

When the tree huggers and the hippies can fight for a mother's right to abort the life inside of her, but when we put the paper in the white trash can instead of the blue one... God forbid. An innocent tree might be chopped down. The world would end.

It's not like we're running out of trees. Drive I-20 from Atlanta to Charleston. There's plenty of trees. And nothing else.

The tree scarcity argument is a myth. I always knew it was. So I finally researched it.

Plenty of Trees

Don't get me started on why we shouldn't drill to save a few animals (drill, baby drill!) or farmers in California losing their livelihood over a tiny fish.

Liberals are out of control.

Additionally - is it just me, or is this country in a lot of debt? Isn't unemployment pretty high? I know the president seems to think everything's just fine and dandy, but I don't really trust much of what he says.

So, if recycling costs more than it does good, if farmers lost their jobs because of a fish?, and if we could drill on our own land, wouldn't we be a little (or a lot) better off?

If it were not such a huge deal and actually more good than it actually does, I might recycle. Is it blown way out of proportion? Absolutely. Am I a little rebellious and throw non recyclables in the recycle bins sometimes? Maybe.

Sorry I'm not sorry.

florida debate

So if you missed last night's debate like I did, you can watch it here. First of all, not to be negative, because we all know I'm the princess of positivity, but Romney and Gingrich were terrible. I mean, really.

Tax returns.
Private sector.
Career Politician.
Fannie Mae. Freddie Mac.

We get it. We got it 35 debates ago when they started all this nonsense.

Finally, somebody called them out on their petty drama. Who? None other than the vest man himself! About 35-36 minutes into the debate, Santorum confronted the two middle school girls... I mean... the speaker and the governor.

"Can we set aside that Newt was a member of Congress and used the skills that he developed as a member of Congress to go out and advise companies, and that's not the worst thing in the world, and that Mitt Romney is a wealthy guy because he worked hard, and he's going out and working hard. And can you guys leave that alone and focus on the issues?"

Good job, Rick! He did so well last night! Nailed every question. Responded to every comment. Nobody has any accusations against him - why? Because his record is clean! Definitely the winner. No doubt.

Now that we've crowned him the winner, can I just please say how completely and utterly terrible Newt's "my wife would be the best first lady" response was? (About an hour and 15 minutes into the debate) Honestly. I mean, he's told us the reason he divorced his second wife and ushered Callista into the Gingrich's Wives Club.

Why? Because it was going to help him become president. - because she was first lady material? Please. He could be her father. Then his response was so... unflattering. He's completely unelectable on the divorce reason alone.  None of our presidents have ever been divorced (apart from Reagan, which really nobody ever knew about - and she left him.). And it's not that America's never run a divorced candidate. Because we have. And they haven't made it. So if a man who's been divorced once can't make it to the White House, how in the world would we think that Gingrich, currently on wife #3 (no telling what will happen if Callista doesn't win him the White House), could ever make it?!

That's beyond me.

Statistically, electing a divorced candidate isn't going to happen. Newt fans, you need to rally behind Santorum. Your vote's going to be wasted!

As long as we're on the topic of supporting Santorum, all you Paulites need to realize your candidate is never going to win. He didn't in 1988. He didn't in 2008. He won't in 2012. You're also wasting your vote.

Let's all rally behind and support Rick Santorum! He's the stark contrast and change we need to defeat Barack Hussein Obama!

santorum president/obama lies

And this is why Santorum has to be the next president.
He, out of the only three real contenders left in the election (Paul is just a joke), is the only true conservative.

He's the only one who can give us something different than what we have now.
And we all know that man in the White House has got to go. Anybody who can outright lie to the American people and say, "Anyone who tells you otherwise, anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn't know what they're talking about."

One of Obama's lies to the United States

Noooo, we're not in decline. We haven't lost our AAA rating. Our unemployment rate isn't through the roof. Our debt... well, let's just look at our debt over the past 12ish years (somebody has to because our president sure isn't).

In 2000 when Bush was elected, he came into office with almost 6 trillion dollars of debt. He, like Obama had a mess to clean up. Whoever says that Clinton balanced the budget is just ignorant.

Bush left, having raised the debt less than 3 trillion - over the course of 8 years. Obama, however, has raised the debt 6 trillion dollars over 3 years. That's double what Bush did in his entire 8-year administration.

2000 Debt Clock

2008 Debt Clock

Current Debt Clock


Let's take a look at our current president, shall we?

When Obama came into office with 9+ trillion, we all know Bush gave him some stuff to clean up. (You forget, though, that Bush came into office with 6 trillion dollars of debt and no expectations of being attacked by terrorists - war=$ -)

I'll give Obama that much.
But Bush didn't give him a 2000+ page healthcare bill.
Bush didn't give him Libya.
Bush didn't give him so much more that he's done to this nation.

And how long is it the previous president's mess considered the previous president's mess?
When does it become the new president's problems and responsibilities?
Evidently this country doesn't have any problems. We're soaring!!  We're so influential everybody wants to be just like us!
Fifteen trillion dollars in debt.
Multiple wars.
A terrible relationship with Israel.
An extremely high unemployment rate (oh. I'm sorry. It's dropped to 8.5. How critical of me. Mind you, Bush kept it between 4.2 and 7.3, but Obama can't seem to keep it below 7.8. he sure can get it to 10%, though!)
And if you think that we're not soaring, if you think our country is in decline, your opinion is absolutely ridiculous and you "don't know what [you're] talking about."

I know it looks like I'm comparing Bush and Obama. I am. Bush wasn't my favorite president either. But don't give Bush the "he gave Obama so much debt" garbage when you should actually be looking at the current president who may or may not be creating jobs? That's still up for debate. When I see the unemployment rate drop more than .5 percent in 4 months, I'll reevaluate.

I'm sorry I'm not sorry. I obviously have no clue what I'm talking about.

back from the SC

After 10 days of phone calls and sign waving, I'm back! I literally had the absolute best time of my life. Seriously - and I'm so glad I got to spend it with my cousin!

Hali and me waving signs in downtown Charleston. Notice the official Santorum vest.

       

One day (and after being there almost two weeks, it's hard to tell which day) Hali and I made phone calls all day - and were basically competing with this eight year old. No joke. She was a little homeschooled girl from Pennsylvania making phone calls to hundreds of people a day to convince people to vote for Senator Santorum. She was absolutely inspiring.






Speaking of calls... I made the official Rick Santorum video!!

Game on in South Carolina!

My previous post talks about the presidential debate and the annoying Ron Paul campaigners (who were almost as bad as the protesters) and obnoxious protesters who were... I guess exercising their First Amendment rights?  One protester, though, was kind enough to take a picture for us. Thanks, random socialist! You're so kind!

This is that same night of the debate in Charleston.

Hali and me in the median of the highway. 

So we ended up not getting into the debate because our way cool security friend, Mike, couldn't get us in, although (as you'll see in a few minutes) he was able to get us in backstage at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference to meet Herman Cain. Score.

After waving signs all night, we decided to head back to the hotel and watch the end of the debate and comments on the news while we painted. (Hali's is to the left. Mine's to the right.)Yeah. we're cool like that. We even asked the people at the restaurant we went to one night to turn one of the tv's from football to Fox News with closed captions so we didn't miss our nightly Fox News. Don't judge.


People from the Boston Globe, some local papers, and some other media source that didn't really tell us who they were (I thought about afterwards how that was kinda sketchy) and other people interviewed me and took our picture (or in Hali's words - "we got our picture made"). Most people had driven from up north, but we were the only southern belles in Charleston.

Campaigning downtown. Again. Waiting for Santorum.

After waving signs for about two hours, Santorum "left the building" decked in his vest and all, and he and his wife thanked all the volunteers. Hali and I visited with a volunteer and his daughter from London.  He was a speechwriter in the House of Lords - he had read 9000 books. Impressive? Absolutely.

There he is! Probably one of the most humble men I've ever met in my life.

What happened when Santorum left? I thought you'd want to know. Our dear friend, Mike ran outside, grabbed us like the world was going to end, gave us backstage passes, and we were able to meet Herman Cain!

 Ok. So Mike wouldn't make a good living as a photographer, but he's good at getting backstage passes. That's all I really cared about in that moment.

How did we get a picture with Herman Cain? Glad you asked. Do you see that crowd of media behind Herman? Yes. Our dear friend Mike stopped them all in their tracks for us to get a picture. Did they hate us? Probably. Did we care? Absolutely not. We'll never see them again. Herman Cain acted happy as a lark to take a picture with us.

To finish off our trip, we attended the Santorum election party, and we made the official page! Whoop whoop!

Dustin, Hali and Me at the election party!

Absolutely the best trip ever. Period. The end.