Lower Than a Carpetbagger

We’ve all seen this movie. You and your friends spend six hours helping someone move and some guy shows up the last 15 minutes to load one small box and then joins everyone for pizza and beer. Fill in your own personal story and you'll be in the correct mood for the following.

The famous Rick Santelli Tea Party rant took place in February of 2009. That spawned thousands of groups across the nation. Weekly meetings were everywhere along with huge rallies. Centennial Park in Fort Myers was attended by 5,000 which the local press ignored. The Naples Tea Party experienced rallies of over 7,000 on numerous occasions. This experience was duplicated across the nation in hundreds of cities including a massive rally in Washington DC. Twenty two months from the genesis in 2009, the Republicans took back the House in record numbers primarily due to the Tea Party.

Where was Mitt Romney during this first and only grassroots conservative movement in the United States since 1776? Nowhere, because he doesn’t have a constitutional conservative bone in his body. If you had a nickel for every Tea Party function or favorable comment he made in the last three years, you would still have to borrow ninety five cents for a candy bar. The millions of Tea Party members who were responsible for the November 2011 midterm election did not have in mind another George Bush or John McCain for President no matter how good one’s hair looks. To be upfront, I have no horse in the race. In my opinion the four remaining candidates are all lacking what is needed to lead our country and I believe that a “Churchill” will appear in the next few months. Stop swallowing the nonsense from the media and leaders of both parties that someone must be chosen now.

At least the other three can point to conservative actions in their political career including Tea Party support. Romney however is a true believer in top down government intervention highlighted by Romney Care which he still defends. The only person he is more conservative than is Ted Kennedy and that’s only because he’s dead. How does this guy even feel he should be running? He had nothing to do with the 2010 mid-term annihilation of the Democrats and now he wants to collect the spoils. He’s lower than a carpetbagger during Reconstruction.

I ask again. Where was Mitt Romney during the first and only conservative grassroots movement since 1776? For those of you supporting him—where were you?

Jim Dooley
Fort Myers and Naples Tea Party
2/3/2012

Why Ron Paul is a Bad Choice

To be upfront, I have no horse in the race. In my opinion they are all lacking what is needed to lead our country and I actually believe that a “Churchill” will appear in the next several months. Stop swallowing the nonsense from the media and leaders of both parties that someone must be chosen now. I will let others articulate the concerns many voters have regarding his views on Foreign Policy. I believe Ron Paul’s major disqualification is alarming, obvious and has been consistent for several decades. Please let my comments soak in a few days before dismissing.

Ron Paul doesn’t want to be President; he wants to be a nuisance. He's like a ground hog that pops up occasionally for attention. His core desire is to prove that he's the most conservative member of Congress and point out the flaws of everyone else. The very DNA of this man is to ridicule and denigrate members of the Republican Party. This hatred goes back three decades and is driving another “attempt" at the White House instead of a desire to be the Commander in Chief of the United States. It's as if Ron Paul is the perennial curmudgeon at the toll bridge and woe to all who don't meet his standards. His vicious attacks on fellow candidates over the last several weeks have brought out his true personality.

What has the most Constitutional conservative member of Congress been doing the last three years to alert the country to the purposeful destruction of Capitalism, Individual Freedom and American Sovereignty (Insert Fundamental Transformation if still blind). Did he rise on the House floor week after week to specifically articulate what Obama did, the results of those actions and more importantly, the Marxist thinking behind it? Let’s take it up a notch. Has he called for Obama's impeachment? Did he not see enough significant red flags since January 08 to speak out like our Founding Fathers did against King George? The answer to all the above is no. The closet he came was stating that “assassinating" al Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen may be an impeachable offense. What a coincidence that all his Republican primary opponents felt exactly the opposite.

One more example of Ron Paul not wanting to be President. Remember the Trump “debate" that never took place. Ron Paul declined the invite, calling it “beneath the office of the presidency.” I'll tell you what's beneath the office--the current occupier of the Presidency. Ron Paul could have been in front of millions of voters unfamiliar with him and his views and he dismissed it. Ask yourself why.

Our goal is to nominate the person who will become the best President and we are starving for a true conservative with wisdom to lead us. Don’t let your hunger cloud your judgment. At least give it some more time and ask yourself why Ron Paul’s vicious attacks are always against Republicans and not Obama. Are you confusing someone who is a reliable consistent conservative vote in Congress with the person who has the right skill set for President of the United States? There is a huge difference between the shallow and deep ends of the pool.

Jim Dooley
Fort Myers1/19/2012

What Door to Choose

What criteria should one use in evaluating the Republican candidates? Let's start by not repeating the mistake made in 1988, 2000 and 2008 which gave us the Bush family and John McCain. I’m not enthusiastic about any of the current crop and have performed surgery to arrive at the anatomically correct candidate.
-Newt's brain, quick wit and knowledge of History.
- Ron Paul's Plan to eliminate specific Government Agencies.
- Rick Santorum’s public statements on Family Values
- Parts of Rick Perry's Tax plan
- Michelle Bachman's Cojones.
- Herman Cain's Practical Business Experience
- Mitt's Hair

On a more serious note,

Visualize a football field with a large sign in each end zone. The far left one reads Obama the Central Planner and the opposite end zone reads Founding Fathers - Maximum Individual Liberty. Now imagine all the candidates on the field. Do not compare them to each other or to Obama. Compare each one to the Founding Fathers. Comparisons to the likes of Dukakis, Gore, Kerry, Clinton and Obama will always give one the false security that your choice will lead to Constitutional conservatism.

The reason the United States is in this current mess is not because of far left socialist democrats that have been breeding since Woodrow Wilson, but due to Republicans masquerading as conservatives in all three branches of government.

Before you pencil in Ron Paul, let’s visualize another Football field. Everything is the same except the far right end zone reads only this—“Winston Churchill”. Which candidate most resembles the man who clearly understood the foreign and domestic evil that was destroying his beloved island? Who has the persistence, endurance, confidence and courage to do what Reagan said in 1964—“preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.” You may find that your choice from the first football field is different from the second.

Over the last several months, I’ve heard comments from fellow conservatives at Tea party functions regarding the Republican candidates like:

But he said this in 1998
She is a little weird for me
He supports legalization of drugs
He took a picture with so and so
He supported this policy six years ago.

If you are consumed with specific “sins” of the candidates, then please consider the big picture. The current president is purposely destroying Capitalism, Individual Freedom and American Sovereignty (please insert fundamental transformation if you’re still clueless). Wake up!!! This election is our Yorktown, Gettysburg and Normandy. Find the candidate who has the desire and talent to expose Obama and win the election.

Jim Dooley
Lee 912 Fort Myers
12/14/2011

PIMPLE ON THE ELEPHANT’S ASS

Well--I see another disaster has been averted. Let us count the ways: Tarp, More Fannie and Freddie Bailout, Health Care Bill, Stimulus, others I forgot, Debt Ceiling, The Renewal of Jersey Shore. All the above except one did the exact opposite of what a capitalistic society should be doing in a country that has our Constitution.

Let me focus on the schools of conservative thought that dominated the Debt Ceiling nonsense.
a. Get something passed and wait until you have control of the White House before making major changes- the prize is the White House.
b. Stand on pure Constitutional Principle. No way should we raise the limit. Do the right thing and make Obama prioritize our expenditures.

Both the above have some good logical points, but like most debates in Washington; it's the wrong argument to have. The debt ceiling is a pimple on the elephant's ass. It's another Washington Smoke Screen . And the elephant that's been in the room since 11/08 is Obama and the fact that he is:

Purposely destroying Capitalism, Individual Freedom and American Sovereignty. In other words, the fundamental destruction of the United States of America for those of you who are still blind. When will any conservative candidate lay out this obvious formula to awaken those Americans still in a coma?

1. This is Obama did.
2. These are the results
3. This is the thinking behind his actions.

Perfect example of nonsense is Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. He said the president should “demand” that Geithner resign “and immediately replace him with someone who will help Washington focus on balancing our budget and allowing the private sector to create jobs.”
Hey Senator--- Grow a pair and state the obvious. Geithner is just another pimple on the elephant's ass; another symptom of the cause. Obama is the problem and if he was white, you and the rest of your fellow “conservatives would have called for his impeachment 18 months ago. Oh no!! Did I mention the other elephant in the room?

You overpaid bureaucratic bunglers want to argue about whom is the most conservative by comparing the Debt Ceiling Debate to “Drawing a Line in the Sand” You cowards don’t even know where the beach is. The Democrats are out calling the S&P down grade, the “Tea Party Down Grade”

How about the “Obama Downgrade” of America?

Jim Dooley
8/9/2011

What is The Tea Party

I first wrote this in February of 2010 because of the misleading information from liberal and conservative media. Nothing has changed after 18 months. Here it is again with a few added statements. Please pass along to anyone still believing the media mantra.

THE TEA PARTY

One cannot understand the Tea Party until you realize what it is not. It is not a third political party or a wing of the Republican Party. There is no leader and the Tea Party is not tied to any specific candidate (ignore the media nonsense). It is not any specific organization. There are many different groups in the United States (Oath Keepers, Freedom Works, 912 Project, etc). The Tea Party is not a specific number of people that can be sent to hell. Please explain to Maxine Waters.

So what is it? The Tea Party is a way of thinking. It is the first nationwide conservative grassroots movement since the Founding Fathers. It believes the proper role of government in a free society consists of constitutional conservative principles and basic common sense. Those who believe in Tea Party Principles know it’s wrong to apologize for America, have legislation shoved down one’s throat, bail out failed companies and basically everything else the Obama administration has done since January of 2009.

Eighty per cent of Americas have some level of Tea Party Blood in them. The election of Scott Brown in January, 2010 proved that even entitlement loving Ted Kennedy Democrats will rise up and say no when they feel tyranny has replaced liberty. The November 2010 midterm election was a stunning victory for those who believe in Liberty over the Obama Socialist Agenda.

Tea Party anger had been brewing since the first Bush presidency. It accelerated with Clinton and George W, hitting a boiling point in October 08 with passing of the first Bailout. That was the single event that pushed many hard working Americans over the edge and into political activism. The Tea Party believes that excessive Government Intervention is destroying Individual Freedom and Capitalism. Both political parties have been guilty of this for decades at the local, state and most grievously at the Federal Level. Our citizens were being robbed by Bush just as the Obama administration is now doing. The name Congress gives the latest piece of legislation is irrelevant. It always means more government control and less individual freedom.

Why would any clear thinking American want the Federal Government to have more responsibility? Need I remind everyone about Amtrak, Fannie, Freddie, TSA, Post Office, etc? As Milton Friedman said “When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded.” Obama actually believes in the “Central Planner” concept and that Americans have too much individual freedom. Please consult your history books to see what happened to the people and economies of countries that adopted the central planner philosophy?

Memo to Republicans: There is no basic difference between many of the current Republicans and Democrats in Congress. If third base represents a Socialist agenda, the Democrats are already at home plate and the Republicans are rounding second in a full gallop.

Memo to Democrats: Your Democratic leadership is not the Party of JFK.  He would be aghast at the likes of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. Most of you are hardworking Americans with common sense and a belief in self reliance. The well being of your family is far more important than blindly following past voting patterns. There will be an emergence of good candidates from both parties. Please identify and vote for them in 2012.

Who’s welcome in the Tea Party Tent? Anyone who believes in self reliance and shuns the entitlement mentality that has infected so many of our citizens. Years of voting Republican doesn’t get you in, any more than voting Democratic since Roosevelt keeps you out. If you’ve come to the realization that excessive government is always the problem and never the solution, please join us.

The very words of our Founding Fathers cry out for all modern day patriots to come forward. This country is now in the “deep end of the pool” as it relates to our Republic’s survival. Citizens everywhere are waking up to the theft both parties have been inflicting for years. Every unnecessary government employee and program is another increase in the power of Government and a corresponding decrease in individual freedom. America’s strength is the private sector. Government is the drain. Every unnecessary government employee is a person on welfare. Effective and necessary government is a good thing. Anything else is theft.

There is a definite division between people in the United States. Those that want government to take care of them and those that find that thought repugnant. We may not be able to change the minds of the former but we can certainly reduce the machinery that caters to them. In conclusion, those of us in the Tea Party movement want American to stick with the original Hope & Change.

HOPE = DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
CHANGE= CONSTITUTION

Jim Dooley November, 2011

LEE 912 NAPLES/FORT MYERS TEA PARTYFort Myers, FL