Mia Love's In - So Mormons Know We're People Now?

I met her - and despised every word out of her mouth

“Mia Love is a contradiction made flesh. Her own success disproves her own political views.”

Good Thing It's In Utah (Wooing Blacks Isn't A Problem)

Oh boy - here we go again with Hot Air's popular "tin ear" routine:

"If [Mia] Love wins the seat, she’d be the first black woman elected to Congress as a Republican. The GOP naturally wants to make that happen to help rebrand itself as a more racially diverse party, which is one reason why she got a speaking slot at the convention last year."

As usual, meaning just like last time, they're leaving out one very important - and quite obvious - fact, shared by blacks (including yours truly) about the very-Mormon, Mia Love:

That bitch is about as welcome as a case of ring worms,...

 

Did Merely Supporting A Cult Kill The Republican Party?

Glenn Reynolds - after the election:

I kept going on and on about the importance of showing up, and that seems to have been what mattered. Why didn’t people show up?

Yours Truly - before the election:

When is Glenn Reynolds going to stop settling for being popular and start to matter? 

 

At this point, I have much more interest in Glenn Beck - who speaks truth to power when we need it most - than the hey-look-at-this/it-could-be-this-way-it-could-be-that/I'll-wait-to-see-how-the-wrongs-play-out nonsense of Glenn Reynolds. I mean, he says he'll start acting like there's an environmental crisis when the green meanies do. Well, I feel the same way about Glenn Reynolds on a whole host of other issues, that are just as important - and, as he knows, are bleeding us dry as we speak. 

You guys make jokes about it but - seriously - you are professors, and some of us expect more of you. We need more of you. Right now, in my opinion, you're not too many steps above AGW scientists, insisting your critics are the crazy ones and we should just accept that you, as gatekeepers, dish out the best information we have. It's bullshit and anyone with a functioning brain - anyone who sees through conventional wisdom - can see it. 

I think many of our online gatekeepers are a big part of why this country is having such a hard time getting moving again.

You can't say I didn't try. And I should point out, here, that Glenn Reynolds (and Ann Althouse) backed Mitt Romney and Mia Love - who I rejected - and who both lost.

But - like moving your hands in the air to talk economics - that's really no measure of anything.

You'll also notice there's a word "at this point" for a Mormon, Glenn Beck - before he went over the deep end - which should reveal all the "bigot" talk from Reynolds, Althouse, and all the rest, for the bogus blather it always was.

The entire election was simply conducted wrong, from top to bottom, by everybody - starting with not vetting Romney - and you can't win elections that way.

Facing reality is all they've got,…but they can't do that. It's too horrifying even for Ann:

  

"In the realm of religious faith, and in that of political belief, sharp differences arise. 

In both fields the tenets of one man may seem the rankest error to his neighbor. To persuade others to his own point of view, the pleader, as we know, at times resorts to exaggeration, to vilification of men who have been, or are, prominent in church or state, and even to false statement. But the people of this nation have ordained, in the light of history, that, in spite of the probability of excesses and abuses, these liberties are, in the long view, essential to enlightened opinion and right conduct on the part of the citizens of a democracy." 

A paragraph from an old Supreme Court case that feels like something some people who ought to know better have forgotten. Boldface added.

I think "people who ought to know better" should check that suggestion of "sharp differences" - like there's nothing objective we can hold them against to see what's true. For instance, remember Mitt Romney getting weasle-y about those "revelations" his cult's prophets have?

No, Ann can't mean anything like that - because that's not an accusation, but Mitt getting caught red-handed - which SHE IGNORED for the sake of politics. So, no, it's got to be something else. It's gotta be! Something somebody else said - not the candidate she was backing.

Here's a recent comment from the propaganda minister about why I stopped participating on her blog:

The Crack flounce-off coincided with our lack of response to his attacks on Mormons.

Sure - she's now engaged in Benghazi conspiracy theories, and during the election couldn't even stand questions about Mormonism without her spidey sense tingling. Is that the "lack of response" to which she's referring? Ahh, such innocence,....

She also must've forgotten there's a record of when I left the Althouse blog, and I made my reasons pretty clear - it was over her applauding Glenn Reynolds' threatening of BuzzFeed and the accompanying suggestion I was envious for "linky-love" - but there was no mention of Mormonism:

Shit, watching this megalomaniac routine of threatening other bloggers is like watching the Kill Bill movies, and finding them big, bloated, soulless, and utterly without merit.

 

Here - I'll make the point clear:

 

Ann, I am formally requesting to be taken off of your blog roll.

 

If the world ends, I'll let you know.

So, the world hasn't ended, and it is Ann Althouse who's engaged in false statement.

I didn't leave because of her "lack of response," but because of she and Reynolds' very-enthusiastic (and I've always said Nazi-like) slide into unethical behavior. As one delusional Republican channeling Ann recently said: 

“Well, I guess that’s one lawyer… I post for people to see and think about things and reflect about things. I don’t know if it’s realistic.”

Unrealistic is Althouse (and Instapundit) in a nutshell. Is Ann even aware of what goes on over there?

Dude I left there too when I felt disrespected and I will not go back.

 

As Trooper York. 

 

So I respect you for your stand. 



But you have to realize that most people don't give a shit.

 

As a friend I have to tell you something brother.

 

Get over yourself.

Not a chance, Troop - Ann, this one's for you, baby. Repeat after me:

   

Black Michael Jackson knows all,...

Glenn Reynolds' Message: We Need To Get In The Black

I just looked over at Reynolds and he's got this link working - with the word "racists" in caps:

RACISTS: Back in Congress, Nancy Pelosi and Democrats applaud Rep. Allen West’s defeat….

Ooh, those damned Democrats are crowing at the political demise of an enemy - and that makes them racists! How dare they? It just makes Glenn so mad he'll say anything! He put all his support behind Allen West and Mia Love and they still lost. Boo-hoo. I've already told you what makes me mad:

With the exception of Colin and Condy, Republicans keep bringing up individual black people the rest can't stand.

But Glenn won't link to that. So his readers can't consider it. 

And then, maybe, get mad at Glenn - or even themselves - for being so insular.

No, they're fine - it's just those evil Democrats!

In other words, curses - foiled again...

 

Why The Republicans (Showing Off) Received Their Well-Deserved - And Self-Inflicted - Head Wound,...Pt. I

I promised not to laugh - and I won't - but a few words, now that these new political showboaters have stopped their cackling:

This was not a conservative loss. I'm a conservative and I stayed home. Mitt Romney is not a conservative. And many, if not all, of his supporters cannot claim to be conservatives either, because conservatives don't change with the wind - which is exactly what Romney's supporters did - I guess appropriately, considering the candidate. Still, to their eternal shame, I've watched, what I thought to be, staunch right-wing folks, sell out their every conviction for the chance to beat Obama (even hearing one former online ally/friend declaring himself a "whore" for Romney) and - simply put - no conservative would ever do that.

Conservatives know what we're about. We understand the difference between right and wrong, reality and fantasy, authentic and fake - and we stick to it. No temporary reframing can alter that. Only facts on the ground matter. And this is politics. Michelle Malkin calling Juan Williams a misogynist because Williams said Ann Romney's tale tales at the RNC sounded "phony"? It won't fly. Fact - Michelle Malkin will say any damned thing. Here's another such fact:

Mitt Romney was an awful candidate.

Everyone else will tip-toe around it, but TMR says the level of condescension that exudes from that man can only be measured in light years. He's weird.

And the fact so many were willing to overlook his weirdness is scary. Some conservatives. If Mitt Romney's your evidence America needs a dose of Mormonism, you're out of your fucking minds. On no drugs of any kind, the man was talking about "the perfect height" of trees. (Fuck whatever was wrong with him, what's wrong with you?) How did we go from that, and "Anybody But Mitt," to slobbering, desperate, petting in the backseat? I can't shake my head enough.

Another fact - Glenn Reynolds, Hot Air, Pajamas Media, Robert Stacey McCain, Ann Althouse, etc., were wrong and, even with most of their support, Mia Love lost, too - in Utah. It's a voodoo song.

And is this a good time to talk about R.A.P. - the Republican Affirmative-Action Program? I mean, I've heard Mia Love's stump speech live - in a more intimate setting - and I've met Mia Love and her husband. But I'm still wondering how and why her stratospheric rise is occurring. I've heard no brilliant ideas come out of her, no words of wisdom, or even much insight. Her career rivals Obama's, but with one major difference:

With the exception of Colin and Condy, Republicans keep bringing up individual black people the rest can't stand.

It's late for me - I'll be back:

"We carried you here to take care of Thomas, or to learn a trade when you're bigger - ain't no need for you to be reading, boy."

- a slave owner, from the film, Frederick Douglas: An American Life

[Emphasis mine,...]

 

Progress: If Da White Man Can't See It, It Don't Happen,...

So the fine folks at Hot Air don't believe an AP study that found an unconscious racism in America. And this is despite the fact they have spouted off, long and hard, about the travails of black conservatives when faced with liberals. Hmmm.

And on the flip side is the immediate rise of Mia Love - how'd that happen? A little conservative Affirmative-Action, maybe? Along with her immigrant story, she's done what - exactly - to afford her the prominent place she's got with the party? I'll wait.

No, Mia's good fortune couldn't be race-based, because we all know she's been struggling in the trenches, while regularly introducing one brilliant political idea after another, right? Right? Riiight. I'll wait to see those, too.

Long story-short, it seems to me Hot Air is guilty of seeing what they want to see - but only when and how they want to see it. Not surprising for a partisan hack site, led by a nut job. BTW - has anybody found Michelle's sister yet? Maybe they ought to check that Scientology concentration camp, in California, everyone seems so intent on ignoring. You never know.

So nope, sorry Guys, but - despite your denials - racial paradise hasn't been achieved yet. Hell, I couldn't even get the Hillbillies at Althouse to shut about it, and the Tea Party is always confessing they don't know what to do, so I don't hold out much hope you ninnies have escaped:

 You're all a bit sick in the head. 

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm getting back to composing some "nigger work songs" for all you "open-minded" types to deny you enjoy. You know how they go:

"Camptown Ladies, sing this song, doo-dah, doo-dah,…"

 

Chris Christie (Not Exactly Throwing His Weight Around)

This is funny. Right after Ann Romney - someone I don't trust - gave a speech about "Love," up jumps Chris Christie - someone I do trust - saying, "Tonight, we're going to choose 'Respect' over 'Love.'" Man, he didn't waste any time queering that deal, did he? (ADDED: Now I half-expect Mitt to emerge tomorrow night saying, "Screw 'Respect' - this is Joseph Smith's party now!")

Christie also emphasized a word I have a healthy respect for - one which even a lot of conservatives have little - and that word is "No."

I am finding conservatives hate "no." Like liberals, they don't want to hear what they don't want to hear, and if you're not agreeing with them, then too bad. And they act just as childish. Witness their response to Todd Aiken, the candidate who said no, he wasn't going to quit his race for saying something stupidly. The conservatives have come back with fine, we're not going to give you the money needed to win your race, even though we need you to win, to win the Senate. That's called biting your nose to spite your face. 

Back to Christie - I didn't like the speech. I prefer Christie off-the-cuff rather than scripted, and calling his father merely a passenger "in the automobile of life" must have stung the old man, considering he was the one who put gas in the car. Mostly what I heard is "War On Women" pandering, which I was a little taken back to hear from Christie, especially delivered with so little of the charisma I'm used to seeing from him. Even delivering lines like, "Our ideas are right for America and their ideas have failed America!" he just seemed to be phoning it in. This was One. Very. Long. Yawner.

Maybe it's because I've already been excluded from this election, but as I watched Christie's speech, it - and even he - seemed to be getting smaller and smaller, drifting further and further away. It's all becoming unreal now, just like in 2008, when I knew we were making a terrible mistake, but there was nothing to be done. There's nothing to be done again.

Now, instead of a good and bad choice, it's between "Dumb and Dumber," a movie I've seen waaay too many times before. Sorry, but even the big man can't convince me to watch it again:

I'm gone. 

 And oh, and oh yeah - Fuck. Mia. Love,…

 

ABC News Contributes To The Mormon Whitewash

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So this is how it'll go down from here on out: 

Joseph Smith will be rebranded as "a farm boy" instead of a multiply-convicted con man, and Mormons will be projected as victims of hysterical persecution - instead of a pushy (and gullible) people forcing Smith's pretty sick "beliefs" into other's lives.

There will be no talk of occult mysticism, unknown planets and stars, "reform Egyptian," or how men with daughters thought of polygamy coming into their communities. As a matter of fact, there will be no talk of delusional thinking what-so-ever, but more of an appeal to find acceptance in our hearts for those with wacky "beliefs."

That's all they are. You know, like when a "crazy" uncle comes over for Thanksgiving dinner, gets drunk in the corner, and starts rudely pontificating on the "niggers" or whatever. "Oh, that's just Uncle Charlie!" everyone says, knowing - well, hoping - no one will ever get hurt (or has ever gotten hurt) from his "ideas."

(Ever wonder why nobody ever brings up the plight of blacks who came into contact with Mormons - during all those 100+ years Mormons considered us "cursed" - except for the supposed-pain of not being able to join in this silliness? Whatever happened to them? You think that might have *something* to do with why Utah's historically been so white? And why there are so few black-owned businesses prospering here in the busy-as-a-beehive state? I guess it doesn't matter because they're supporting Mia Love now - who, I assume, is "teaching" her kids they'll get their own planet when they die, along with all this ahistorical BS about early Israelites coming to America - so "all's well that ends well," right? Riiight. Until it's YOUR kids,...)

But forget all that - PLEASE! No, you're to focus on (and feel pride for) how uniquely American this particular nonsense is, that is what's important. Ignore everything else those "imposing" temples represent and go with the flow, Dude, it's all chill - until you challenge what Mormons "think" they know, and they become unreasonable, and THEN you realize why they've been chased to what was an isolated part of the country where, at last, they were determined to call the shots. Come on:

Slap a smiley face button on the whole thing and let's call it a day. 

Whew. After watching this malarky, it's pretty easy for me to understand why ABC NEWS' Jake Tapper recently wrote a column on how the media is failing us.

But - considering this manipulative piece of "celestial" propaganda was produced by his own network - I have to wonder if even he truly "gets" how bad the problem is,...
 

I Miss Political Courage (And Have Rarely Seen It Online)

Here's a question from Glenn Reynolds:

Tea Party Tries to Sway GOP Platform. Well, yes. Otherwise, what’s the point?

Last I heard, when I attended (Reynold's favorite) David Kirkham's Tea Party gathering on New Years - also attended by Mia Love, conservatisms latest star - the "point" was to "create Heaven on Earth."

 Is that the kind of "thinking" Reynolds is in favor of? And, if not, why doesn't he challenge it? Expose it? Say something about it? I'll tell you:

Because he's a hack, that's why. 

I ask you: 

When have you last heard of this jack-off doing anything to rock politics in all his years as a blogger?