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Was our captured soldier read his Miranda Rights?

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:22:13 PM
My prayers go out to the soldier who was captured in Afghanistan this week by the Taliban, and to his family.  Any chance that he was read his Miranda Rights?

While Democrats try to make sure that terrorists are mirandized when captured on the battle field and given the same rights that
U. S. citizens enjoy, our soldiers continue to fight for our rights and for our freedom.  And, they know the peril they face if captured by terrorists.  They will not be told "You have the right to remain silent..." and be given access to a lawyer.  Nor would water boarding, with an attending physician, be the worst case scenario.

 On this July 4th weekend, I say thank you to all of our brave soldiers who continue to protect us despite the actions of liberals, who are doing everything possible to make their jobs harder and through misguided policies, endangering their lives.

Sandra Lea Wise



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Al Gore worth $100 million. Global warming has been good for him.

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:04:19 PM
Remember the media's condemnation of Bush and Cheney for supposedly profiting from oil?  They were accused of starting a war for oil to enrich themselves.  Even though Cheney was no longer connected to Halliburton, there were investigations and endless accusations.

How about Democrats profiting from global warming?  I heard on the Mike Gallagher radio talk show, that Al Gore left office worth $2 million and due to his involvement in "Climate Change," the new terminology for global warming, is now worth a whopping $100 million!  An interesting tidbit is that the yearly energy bill on his home went up 10% after he installed environmentally friendly contraptions.  Now his bill is $16,000 per year.

According to a guest on Mike's show, Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat legislators have monetary interests in the Climate Change industry and will profit greatly from legislation that will affect all of us and make us much poorer.  Will they be accused of profiting from their actions in office like Bush and Cheney were?

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Proposed health care plan exempts Congress and Federal Employees

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Friday, June 19, 2009 2:41:45 PM
Betsy Mccaughey appeared on Fox News this morning. She has read the proposed health care plan and outlines it at the link below.

The irony is that Obama has said that everyone in America should have the same options that Congress has in terms of their health care coverage.

It turns out that in the proposed plan, members of our legislative body and federal employees are exempt from the plan that would be imposed on the rest of us!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124536864955329439.htm
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GOP upheaval

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Sunday, May 03, 2009 2:06:17 PM
How can we ever win again with the factions in the GOP all fighting each other?  Glen Beck is out having town hall meetings with other conservatives, and they are talking about third party runs all over the country to defeat Republicans. 

Meanwhile, Geb Bush, Mit Romney and others are having town hall meetings, and conservatives are outside protesting!

Give me a break.  We are handing the country over to the Democrat/Socialist Party for many years to come.  They had 40 years and now they'll get 40 more! 

Thanks, Townhall, Red State, Talk Radio, etc., etc, etc.!





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I can look at myself in the mirror

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Saturday, May 02, 2009 12:34:12 PM
But why do I feel sick to my stomach?  We finally got four conservative justices on the Bench.  Now Obama will probably get to nominate the next four or five.  The current middle to left leaning justices will look more like conservatives than liberals, once the Obama nominees are in place.

We know that Obama is pro-abortion and thinks that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided.  We know that Obama is one of the most liberal Presidents that we’ve ever had, and said yesterday that social justice is his main concern for a nominee.  Obama wants justices who will legislate from the bench.  Partial birth abortion will probably be overturned.  There is not much that can stop him, since the Democrats only added to their victory in 2006, by gaining many more seats in 2008.

Many conservatives sat out the last two elections because they wanted to look at themselves in the mirror and feel good about their principles.  I hope that when they look in the mirror they don’t have to think about the many babies that might not have been killed in the womb if they could have remembered that originally conservatism was about protecting those lives, not looking good in the mirror.

Sandra Lea Wise



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New brilliant strategy for the GOP

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Thursday, April 30, 2009 3:02:09 PM
Several conservative commentators, including Bill Kristol, have suggested that the defection of Arlin Specter to the Democrat Party is a good thing.  After all, he only voted with us about 40 to 50 percent of the time.  Furthermore, if the Democrats get to that magic 60% majority, then nothing can be blamed on the Republicans.

They can just sit tight, oppose everything, and remain in a permanent minority status waiting for some catastrophic event that will change the public's mind about the direction of the country. 

I think that is a brilliant strategy.  Others need to follow Specter's example and switch parties.  Snow and Collins definitely need to go.  And how about Giuliani, Tom Ridge, John McCain and all other Republicans that don't pass the 100% conservative test?

Even Newt is questionable at the moment.  He's going along with that global warming thing and recently made a statement, that infuriated our leader Rush Limbaugh, about the Reagan era being over.  Maybe Newt should think about switching parties too. 

I'm sure there are many other leaders in the GOP who should join the Democrats.  Do it now !!!..so the GOP can demonstrate how the smallest party on record can lead America out of the wilderness. 

About 35% of the public still identifies itself as Republican.  We need for that number to be much smaller so that our new strategy will work.

Sandra Lea Wise

     

 

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Conservative's 100 days.

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:10:21 PM
Conservatives have spent 100 days complaining about the Obama administration.  Before that they spent 1975 days complaining about the Bush administration. 

My first blog on Townhall was on August 15, 2006.  I wrote:  For the last two years conservative talk shows have blasted the President.  It started with the Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court.  They got their way and President Bush withdrew the nomination.  Feeling their power, the talking hosts moved on to the "Ports" issue and hit the President over the head again.  Once again, President Bush backed down.  Then the talk show hosts smelled blood... on to the immigration issue.  "No amnesty," they cried.  "Build a wall," they shouted!    

Finally they boasted that the President had lost his conservative base and that his polls were lower than ever.  "This was no conservative President," they claimed.  

Now the polls show that the public seems to prefer the Democrat party and everyone is nervous about the upcoming elections.  I heard the suggestion on one of the shows that we need "divided government" again.  The argument was made that "this would be the only way to hold down government spending."  Have they gone mad?  Don't they remember the 40 years of Democrat control?

Now we wonder.  How did we get here?  We have just completed the first 100 days of Obama/Pelosi/Reid.  If conservatives spent as much time trying to defeat Democrats as they spend trying to defeat Republicans, we might not be in this horrible mess.

I guess that many conservatives are celebrating the switch to the Democrat Party by the veteran Republican Senator Arlin Specter, and are looking forward to defeating Senator McCain in Arizona. 

Congratulations, the GOP is getting smaller and smaller.  Yes, I've heard all of the arguments... "We are Conservatives, not Republicans!!!!" 

Sandra Lea Wise

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We have lost the culture wars.

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Saturday, April 18, 2009 1:10:54 PM
Dr. James Dobson was widely criticized for recently making the statement that we have lost the culture wars.  I saw him on Hannity this past week and he backtracked a little.  He clarified himself by saying that we've lost the current battle, but not the war.  He talked specifically about abortion, and the fact that all of the progress that had been made is currently being rolled back by the Obama administration.  He believes that even partial birth abortion will be legalized again.

Dr. Larry Sabato has just published a book which explains the overwhelming Democrat gains in the last election.  He believes that any Democrat candidate would have won the Presidency and that it was not all about Obama as everyone thinks. 

Sabato explained, in an interview this morning on Fox News, how the changes in the demographics of the country affected the last election. One, the growth of the minority population which voted overwhelmingly Democrat, and the youth vote.  He pointed out that younger people tend to be fiscally conservative but socially liberal.     

These trends will continue and I don't see the country moving back to being conservative on social issues any time soon.  In the next few years, States will continue to legalize gay marriage, as the country moves more and more towards accepting gay marriage as a civil rights issue. 

I think that Dobson was right the first time.  We have lost the culture wars.  The battle lines were drawn in the last election and we lost big time.

Sandra Lea Wise 

   

 



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This was not the time to elect a rookie.

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Sunday, April 12, 2009 2:16:47 PM
Thomas Sowell wrote:

"Someone once said that, for every rookie you have on your starting team in the National Football League, you will lose a game. Somewhere, at some time during the season, a rookie will make a mistake that will cost you a game. We now have a rookie President of the United States and, in the dangerous world we live in, with terrorist nations going nuclear, just one rookie mistake can bring disaster down on this generation and generations yet to come."  http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/03/31/a_rookie_president

We had a seasoned player in John McCain but many conservatives just couldn't vote for him citing their principles.  Was this the time to take that stand and let a rookie win?

Sandra Lea Wise

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There Rush goes again...

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Saturday, April 11, 2009 4:54:48 PM
This past week Rush was discussing a new poll which reported that 53% of Americans now believe that socialism is better than capitalism.  Who did Rush blame for this? 

Liberals who have been running our schools for years?  No. 

Liberals who ran the country for 40 years?  No. 

Liberals who are now in complete control of our government?  No. 

The liberal media that promotes socialist ideas for our country?  No.

Our new President who is proposing socialized medicine, socialized banks, etc., etc.... No!

Rush blamed our Republican leaders for not being able to explain capitalism in an articulate way, like Reagan did.  There he goes again, blaming Republicans for everything...must I remind him of Reagan's 11th commandment? 

Reagan would not be proud of you, Rush.

Sandra Lea Wise

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They love us in Europe, they really really love us!

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Saturday, April 04, 2009 12:47:14 PM
Now we can be best friends with Europe again.  All we had to do was admit that we have been arrogant in the past and that we have not valued their leadership in the world.  Who knew that it would be so easy to become pals again? 

Now we must follow through and become more like Europe.  That way we can remain best friends.  We must share our wealth with our friends and have policies that unite us.  We must demonstrate that we too can have a health care system which denies medical care to the elderly because they are going to die anyway.  We must tax the rich because it's bad for some friends to be richer than others.

We must drive little teeny cars so we can be kind to the environment like they are.  We must get rid of our nuclear weapons because friends don't attack friends.  Europe, we love you too, you're hot!

Sandra Lea Wise 

    

 
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Obama and Pepsi, anyone?

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Friday, March 27, 2009 7:33:55 PM
I teach at a large state university, and this past month, all the coke machines that had been on campus for years, were replaced with Pepsi machines.  I personally have never liked Pepsi and usually bought a coke about mid morning, between classes.  Now you can't buy a coke on campus.

One of my students said that the Coke people had been on campus, giving away free drinks, as the Coke machines were leaving the premises and the Pepsi machines were being delivered.  I wonder if this is payback from the government, since Pepsi was a large supporter of Obama, and even changed it's company logo to look like the Obama logo.  I'm also wondering if this is happening nationwide at government run organizations.

Government picking winners and losers is a pretty scary thing.  Do we want the government deciding who makes it and who doesn't, and how much people should earn, etc.?  Will companies have to fork over money in campaign contributions to stay in business?  Will America be run like Chicago?  We should have seen this coming.

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I'm a born again American.

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Friday, March 27, 2009 4:34:41 PM
If you haven't seen this video, it will raise your spirits!  http://www.bornagainamerican.org/ 

I don't know about you, but I've been pretty depressed lately.  America is disappearing before our eyes, and there doesn't seem to be much that we can do about it.  We need to unite and fight against the "take over" of our great America. 

All born again Americans of whom there are millions must realize that we can't sit back any longer.  We can't let them take away everything that this country was founded upon.  We must put aside our differences and stop bickering over who's more conservative than the other, and realize that we are one nation under God and we must remain that way or we will be taken over by those who wish to remove God from everything and replace Him with the worship of Global Warming or Climate Change, or whatever the new terms are.

God will not continue to bless America if we hide our voices and let America be lost.  May God save America.

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How can the GOP appeal to minorities?

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:52:25 AM
There has been an ongoing debate between Jevica and Patrick Addison, here on my blog “Rush Limbaugh is out of control!”  http://sandraleawise.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/03/rush_limbaugh_is_out_of_control!.thtml

Patrick believes as do I, that if the Republican Party cannot appeal to minorities, that it will be impossible to win another election.  Rush and other conservative talk show hosts frame the debate much like Jevica does in the following statement:

“Seems the only way the GOP can get these minorities to their side [according to your idea] is to become more and more like the Democrats. While this great idea "may" bring the minorities to their side, what do you think it will do to the base of the party?  So should the Republicans change their philosophy, beliefs, etc. and change to get the minorities.  Wasn't this what was supposed to happen when McCain was nominated?”

To answer Jevica's question, I do not believe that the Republican Party has to change it’s philosophy and beliefs to get minorities into the Party.  Hispanics and Blacks are more conservative in many ways than the rest of the population.  What keeps them loyal to the Democrat Party is that the media portrays Republicans as being anti minority.  In my opinion, Rush and other conservative talk show hosts bolster that perception.  

My question is this:  What has the Democrat Party really done for minorities, other than keep them depending on the government, and thus poor?  We saw first hand during Katrina the results of the government “taking care” of the people.  That should have been the scandal portrayed by the media.  How the local Democrat government let their citizens down in every way, yet it was all Bush’s fault.  

Now with Bobby Gindal, a Republican as Governor, things are improving for the citizens of Louisiana.  It’s still a tough battle, because the Democrats continue to be the majority in government there.

As long as the MSM is allowed to define the GOP when it comes to minorities, we will never win them over.  As long as Rush dominates the debate on our side, by convincing the base that those who wish to attract minorities want Republicans to become like Democrats, we will never unite as a party.  If we can’t attract minorities to our Party, we will not win another election for a long time.

Sandra Lea Wise



       
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What a difference when a Democrat is President!

Posted by Sandra Lea Wise on Sunday, March 08, 2009 12:21:44 PM
When Bush began his term after inheriting the Clinton recession, the media started the countdown on jobs Bush had lost.  Even after the tragic events of  9/11, the MSM continued the reporting of lost jobs under Bush.  When Bush started creating jobs, that wasn't reported with the same vigor.

Now that a Democrat is President, the media is still counting down the jobs lost and attributing the loss to Bush, not to Obama and his policies of enormous deficit spending.  Didn't the media hammer Bush for his deficit spending while the country was trying to recover from 9/11 and fighting two wars?  Why is deficit spending now suddenly a good thing under the Democrats?

There are so many examples of media bias, but another one that really disgusts me is the media polling.  When Clinton was in office, and his job approval numbers went down, the media reported his personal approval numbers which remained high.  Only a Democrat could have adulterous sex in the White House, and become one of the most admired and famous Presidents in the world. 

Now the media is doing the same with Obama.  His job approval ratings have gone down, but his personal approval ratings are soaring and those are the numbers the media is reporting.  The economy can tank, the stock market can crater, but it doesn't matter because everyone loves Obama.  He is a celebrity and that is all that seems to matter in our culture that sees fame as a qualification for President.   

Did anyone ever hear any personal approval ratings for Bush?  I imagine that they would have been pretty high.  After all, he had no personal scandals and remained faithful to his wife.     

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