John McCain

Anybody heard from John McCain lately?

I think about 47% of American voters demanded he be president when last exercising their franchise. But he's gone into anonymous retirement, yet remaining on the taxpayer's payroll. It would be nice to see McCain working at a job sometime. Maybe he could be a messenger boy at his wife's beer company. Notice neither he nor his paternal ancestors ever did anything other than work for the government. For me, that's one good reason among a multitude for having kept him from the presidency.

In the sense that voters frequently make irrrational choices, voting for McCain because he was some people's idea of a war hero is equivalent to voting for Obama because he's a mulatto. In retrospect, McCain was the lesser evil but, nonetheless, evil.

McCain is still around though, voting as a mulatto conservative. Compassionate conservative Arizonans just couldn't say No to him. This is, however, his last hurrah.

Hurrah!

RICH OR POOR

I grew up essentially poor; Dad aways worked but there was zero extra money.  Mom saved pennies; my brother and I worked from age 11 forward and paid some "rent", keeping the rest.

When I was in my late 30s, I started a business.  It grew and went public.  Of a sudden, I was, literally, rich.

As sometimes happens, it all went to where Warren Buffet and Maxine Waters belong.  Ever since, I have been making a living.

Sophie Tucker is credited for the aphorism which I, and others, have lived.  "I've been rich; I've been poor.  Rich is better."

Thus, all the "tax the rich" and "pay your fair share" palaver is Pattonesque "horse-dung", class warfare of the worst kind.  The current President, the supposed healer, is nothing more than a rabble-rousing socialist.

Dear Mr. Buffet:

Dear Mr. Buffet:

As to your tax ideas, I offer you the immortal words of a fellow political philosopher, M. Waters; D-CA: "go straight to Hell".

Cordially,

Jim Sweeney

The Disgraceful Sarah Palin

A new book about Sarah Palin is published this week by a guy named Joe something. In it he alleges that, in the mid-1980s, Sarah Palin:

1. as a young, single woman slept with some men; and
2. that of the men she slept with some were alleged to be black.

Joe makes other "charges" but the above are those which titillate and will resound in the blogosphere and general media because they are "sensational". Good Old Joe has no proof of any of this but he doesn't care. Neither should Sarah. If true, what you learn about Mrs. Palin is that she is a straight, non-racist woman.

So...?

The Bushes of Texas

Based on his resume, I used to think the George Bush Senior would make a great president. Young fighter pilot in WW-2; entrepreneur in Texas; family guy; head of the CIA; UN Ambassador; Ambassador to China; vice-president and a good 1st baseman at Yale who still loved baseball. I was wrong; he was a weak, feckless, tongue-tied president without testosterone.

The latter-day George Bush turned out to be worse than his father if, for no other reason, that we had to suffer him twice as long. This incarnation was equally inarticulate but he did have the testosterone to send other people's kids off to fight his wars of honor and keep them at it for years more than needed. Worse, he permitted the wide-spread invasion of the United States by illiterate Mexican peasants he and his family so much admire. Neither he nor they ever cite reasons for such love, they just say it is compassionate to feel their way.

We now have the remaining Bush, Jeb, the former governor of the Sunshine State, who may well decide to enter the Republican primary contests as a counter to Rick Perry. It is an open secret the the Bushes do not like Perry who happily returns their disfavor. Alors, if it appears that Perry will become the candidate, it is now speculated that Jeb will come down from the mountain and run.

I hope he does.

I say that because I cannot be the only conservative who is sick unto death of the Bushes and the long-lasting damage they have done to our nation. The neo-cons - emphasis on the last syllable please - just love Jeb. Great executive; correct credentials; able politically; makes sense when he speak which makes him a rare Bush indeed, taking after his Mother.

Maybe; but few apples fall far from the rotten tree.

Answering the Call

After a more than brief hiatus and in response to the cries of my millions of readers, I have returned to National Spectrum. Blog essays and other snippets of good sense will be forthcoming regularly for your enjoyment and information.