Ken

Today the Republican party began it's real push to keep the power and control is hearts and minds that are ready and able to handle it. With the selection of Sarah Palin for Vice President, the Republican Presidential candidate John McCain is sending a clear message to the people of the United States. That is to keep our great country away from the Socialist and at time fascist leanings of the Democrats who support the Obama/Biden ticket being slammed down voters throats.

We the people have endured months and months of liberal fighting and bickering just so that we could be saddled with a choice that is far less than optimal. At least with Hillary Clinton there would have been some experience in the markets and scandal control. What Obama we find that he only needs to be on par with the Gods and he then feels like he is at home.

I applaud John McCain's choice in Sarah Palin for VP, we appreciate her honesty, fresh perspective, values and moral ground. Her background is one of principle and she takes a stand on those principles. That is seriously lacking in most candidates. She will help Americans to see Washington for what it should be and not what it is. A cesspool and a waste of a beautiful place that needs reform and a deep house cleaning. A step that will take place soon after John McCain and Sarah Palin are sworn in at the new President and Vice President of the United States.

Bush Says Drill, Drill, Drill â€' and Oil Drops $9! [Larry Kudlow]

In a dramatic move yesterday President Bush removed the executive-branch moratorium on offshore drilling. Today, at a news conference, Bush repeated his new position, and slammed the Democratic Congress for not removing the congressional moratorium on the Outer Continental Shelf and elsewhere. Crude-oil futures for August delivery plunged $9.26, or 6.3 percent, almost immediately as Bush was speaking, bringing the barrel price down to $136.

Now isn’t this interesting?

Democrats keep saying that it will take 10 years or longer to produce oil from the offshore areas. And they say that oil prices won’t decline for at least that long. And they, along with Obama and McCain, bash so-called oil speculators. And today we had a real-world example as to why they are wrong. All of them. Reid, Pelosi, Obama, McCain â€' all of them.

Traders took a look at a feisty and aggressive George Bush and started selling the market well before a single new drop of oil has been lifted. What does this tell us? Well, if Congress moves to seal the deal, oil prices will probably keep on falling. That’s the way traders work. They discount the future. Psychology and expectations can turn on a dime.

I swear I read that somewhere yesterday... Oh yeah, I wrote that!

The congressional ban on offshore drilling expires September 30, so that becomes a key date. A new report from Wall Street research house Sanford C. Bernstein says that California actually could start producing new oil within one year if the moratorium were lifted. The California oil is under shallow water and already has been explored. Drilling platforms have been in place since before the moratorium. They’re talking about 10 billion barrels worth off the coast of California.

So, who are you going to trust, guys on Wall Street that put real money behind their predictions, or some liberal enviro-asshole that hates capitalism, your way of life and America?

Drill here, Drill Now, Pay Less!

Either we start drilling ANWAR, and off the Atlantic & Pacific coasts or we continue to help Saudi Arabia rape the American people blind. Why can't this simple fact be understood by Americans? We hear daily about obscene profits by American oil companies when the real profits are being taken by the Middle East and OPEC. We get screwed every time we fill out tanks to drive to work and we have American's who think that $4 isn't high enough. They want $8 dollar gas. We have to drill, there is no doubt about that. So are we going to have foreign owned companies come in and drill our oil only to sell it back to us at prices we cannot sustain?

The companies like Exxon and the others have to make a profit, so they can pay share holders like Al Franken, they have to explore and buy oil leases, they have to do business and they do not set the market price for their product. That is set by the speculators who invest in Oil and want to make a profit. So when they make less profit as a percentage of income than most average US companies, how can we fault them for something that they didn't create? The real problem is OPEC who controls 90% of the oil that is drilled and distributed around the world. If everyone is so upset at their profits how much would you say that OPEC has raked in over the past 2 years in profit?

As the 2008 Presidential campaign moves forward, the Democrats are still slugging it out. With Obama looking like the winner and the Clinton's not backing down it looks to be an interesting summer. I still think that there will be something that will derail Obama that HRC will bring out just before the convention in Denver.

On the Republican side, most Conservative Republicans still don't have a candidate. With "The Straight Talk Express" we are seeing and hearing mostly Democrat talking points because McCain himself thinks he will win the undecided and Blue Dog Democrats over to him. He stands out in the swirling wind and hopes that something will whisper another fresh new idea that will make him look like a candidate the American people would vote for. He has not been reading the tea leaves that tell me he will lose with no solid core values and without defining himself as something other than a mushy Senator who kisses ass to get by.

McCain was duped into believing that Democrats liked him, that he could unite people and be a leader. He is not a leader and actually cares more about the Sierra Club and Global Warming than he doe principle and real science that is proving everyday that Global Warming as Al Gore describes it is a complete hoax junk science.

I for one will never cast my vote for a Republican candidate again unless they hold true to the principals set forth by Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, two Republicans who did not compromise their integrity or values when they ran for office. If we had people like either of these as a choice this year, they would win by a landslide and there isn't a politician with any balls to stnad up and tell it like it is to the American people and because of that the USA will continue to spiral down the toilet like it has been doing for the past several years.

We are being treated to the best political show in history and there are still so many who aren't listening to whats being said. How can the US remain a super power in anything if the people won't even take part in the process that is determining what their country takes an active role in? If you speak to people in any areana beyond a Blog, most of what is being said is inaccurate or outright wrong.

Is there someone to blame? Is the Big News so out of touch that only Bloggers can understand and will actually get something from what is being read to us from the teleprompter?

When I do talk to someone who is mis-informed politacally I am torn between my need to give them accurate information and my need for sanity. I cant argue with everyone who is spouting off when they clearly haven't heard an actual fact or they heard from a friend that told them something that is probably a lie. What is the answer? I really could use some ideas.

Maybe humor is the key since there are several comedy news satirists that are now the source for news. Jon Stewart and Colbet are both pretty successful, maybe if I use some form of satire it could help them and me.

In life we grow, learn and become individuals. From each of us we learn to be what we are and for very different reasons. These reasons can make the difference in how we see things politically and in general terms. Someone who grows us in a wealthy home where the parents are gone and the children are left to raise themselves tend to make different choices than people who have active and involved parents who may not have the money or power of some others.

Each and every one of us wants what is in our self interest and we seek to support that politically as well. If I am a working class factory worker I will tend to support people who are thinking and supporting people like myself. But if i work at the same company and I am in management I may look at politics in a totally different way. I might think that people who are educated like myself should be supported politically. They would understand my viewpoint and needs so I would support them.

Now a person who comes to the US as an immigrant from some other place in the world see things in a completly different way that both of these US born and raised voter. They see a system that wants to buy their vote, is willing to lie and tell them only what they want to hear. This person thinks in terms of good and evil so they become fooled inot believing that one party is good and they should support those candidates. Unfortunately for them, they learn that the good candidate has lied to them, fooled them into spening their vote and making a foolish decision. Now what can they do?

Now each and everyone of you who are reading this have your own personal political viewpoints. You are leaning either Liberal of Conservative. Let me ask you, who do you trust to govern the US? Why do you think what you do and if challenged, could you defent your position? Should you have to defend your political viewpoints and why?