I can't stand John Sununu, but I imagine I would have the same dislike for Karen Kwiatkowski.....
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > *"This convention convened nothing and decided nothing. Onerous > security, unhealthy and overpriced concession food in the Forum, the > moment-by-moment scripting of the convention speeches, and the pervasive > fear of the liberty and constitution segment of the crowd is what we will > remember. Ten fat men in a room built that. > "These devils dancing on the head of a pin ultimately amount to very > little. What these men built isn’t good, doesn’t work, and won’t sell. > Their so-called conservative message – saving welfare programs to be paid > for by unborn Americans, fighting wars on the other side of the world on > borrowed money, cutting imaginary out-year federal budgets and calling that > constitutional government – is falling flat." > > **What I Saw at the Convention > *by Karen Kwiatkowski > > I spent a day of my life at the 2012 Republican Convention. The plan was > to stay for full four days, but the choreographed and staged > "decision-making" made the 2,000 plus delegates irrelevant. Republican > Party members hoping to see democracy in action were left staring at a > fuzzy gray screen, listening to static, beating their heads against padded > white walls. No free man would subject himself to such idiocy. As Doug Wead > so delightfully put it, the party has been reduced to "ten fat men sitting > in a room." > > One of these fat men is John Sununu. Watching him on Tuesday afternoon > steamroll the wishes of half of the delegate floor, and destroy what was > left of the integrity of the GOP, I was strongly reminded of Nurse > Ratched<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_Ratched>running the floor at the > Salem State Hospital. In > *One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s > Nest*<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140043128?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0140043128&linkCode=xm2&tag=lewrockwell>, > Ratched dominates her fiefdom sternly, with her contempt for her charges > oozing with her every smirk, and every command. This evil queen saw > criminality in a raised eyebrow, revolution in a meek request for equality. > Punishment for dissenters would be quick, overwhelming, and comprehensive. > John Sununu’s totalitarianism was on display, and his goal seemed obvious: > the literal and figurative lobotomy of the constitutional and liberty > movement within the party. > > As with the Salem State Hospital, the world of the RNC convention, the > world of ten fat men, their sycophants and enablers, is a small place, > removed from natural law, and removed from the reality of America. This is > the real blessing – we can and are walking away. Millions of us are > literally and figuratively walking away from the kabuki theater of > neoconservative statism posing as a popular problem solving. We can do this! > > If our own party’s Nurse Ratched didn’t frighten from the stage, we have > Romney campaign lawyer and strategist Benjamin > Ginsburg<http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/110499/the-tea-partys-enemy-no-1>orchestrating > totalitarianism from behind the curtains. He has been called > a bête noire of the Tea Party, but he’s really just a lawyer – the very > kind of lawyer that Clint Eastwood was talking > about<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rnc-2012-clint-eastwoods-speech-to-the-republican-convention-in-tampa-full-text>. > > > Romney’s advisors include all manner of warfare-welfare statists. I’m not > naming all the names here, but I think the flat and poorly received speech > by head neoconservative statist John McCain said it all. The GOP media, > notably on talk radio, carefully avoided all mention of McCain after his > dismal and eye-darting display of war promotion as republicanism. If he > isn’t the original Manchurian Candidate, he’ll certainly do. > > The ten fat men in the room rarely get up in front of the people, and they > certainly don’t take questions. The convention speakers were instead front > men and women, and except for Clint Eastwood, all heavily scripted and > controlled. I have one thing to say about the presentations given by the > array of bright, handsome, pretty, clean and coiffed "conservative" > speakers paraded before the podium for four days. They didn’t build that! > The lack of passion in the speeches, and the restrained audience response > to them, indicated that they knew that none of them really owned the > message. That’s how democratic > centralism<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_centralism>works. > > Observers, attendees, and the media frequently noted that the convention > wasn’t all that fun. It certainly wasn’t entertaining. It lacked positive > energy, and the attempted decapitations of the liberty wing of the party > fostered a generalized anxiety, rather than loud cheering around the cage. > The "two will enter, one will leave" mentality engineered by the ten fat > men seemed instead to result in a ragged fracturing of the GOP, with too > many people recognizing that we can’t do this. > > The liveliest presentation of the four days was Eastwood’s own act on > stage, a dash of honesty and fearlessness that boldly slapped the GOP > establishment as evenhandedly as it slapped the Obama administration. He > had an RNC vetted speech – and he chucked it. This simple act of > nullification sent waves of fear and anger throughout the establishment > controllers. I don’t know if they lobotomize 82 year olds, but I imagine > the thought crossed Nurse Sununu’s mind. I’ve no doubt the Romney team > was assessing its medical options in real > time<http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/119579.html>as Clint > charmed and educated those watching. > > This convention convened nothing and decided nothing. Onerous security, > unhealthy and overpriced concession food in the Forum, the moment-by-moment > scripting of the convention speeches, and the pervasive fear of the liberty > and constitution segment of the crowd is what we will remember. Ten fat men > in a room built that. > > These devils dancing on the head of a pin ultimately amount to very > little. What these men built isn’t good, doesn’t work, and won’t sell. > Their so-called conservative message – saving welfare programs to be paid > for by unborn Americans, fighting wars on the other side of the world on > borrowed money, cutting imaginary out-year federal budgets and calling that > constitutional government – is falling flat. > > When in a rare moment over the four days we heard about a flawed monetary > policy, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution – cheers roared out. Oh, > wait. Flawed monetary policy, our shredded natural rights, a trashed > Constitution were not discussed from the stage – the best the ten fat men > could do was suggest we might be able to balance the budget in 27 years > (Ryan’s "plan") and point out that "everything was free but us" – and then > go on to the next topic before we could really think about what that means, > and what the GOP’s position really is on that lack of liberty. > > Real people are the majority – let’s start with the 23 million men and > women in this country who want to work and produce and currently cannot > because the government is in the way, or the 100 million who don’t vote > because Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumber offer no real change, or the 200 > million who deeply cherish their children and grandchildren. We matter, we > count, and ultimately we do rule. We built it, we can do it, and ten fat > men in a room better stay out of our way. The Democratic Party > establishment has their own ten fat men in a room, and we know they won’t > have Ron Paul on stage either. The GOP establishment clearly has no idea > how to restore the Republic, and these bureaucrats are not interested in > learning how. > > Happily, that’s our job and we started without them years ago. The > anachronistic statist party they built, like an old factory that would not > adapt to technological and market reality, will be boarded up and lights > out within a decade. If there is one thing I learned at the 2012 GOP > Convention, it is that the liberty movement is vibrant, fearless, and > unstoppable. > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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